Leadership by the 5 Practices – Enable Others to Act
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- The 3 Keys to Empowerment, Ken Blanchard, John Carlos, and Alan Randolph
"Empowerment" can be a mind-numbing topic, but in The 3 Keys to Empowerment, Ken Blanchard and his coauthors use concrete examples, a Q&A format, case histories, and entertaining sidebars to keep the discussion lively. The authors show that empowerment is not about giving people power, it's about releasing the power they already have. - Building Trust: How to Get! How to Keep It!, Hyler Bracey
The book will tell you: Practical steps to improve trust. What you may be doing that's not helpful and why. What you may have believed about trust-building that won't really produce trust in the long haul. Ways to clean up broken or fractured trust. - Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration, Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman
Uncovers the elements of creative collaboration by examining six of the century's most extraordinary groups and distill their successful practices into lessons that virtually any organization can learn and commit to in order to transform its own management into a collaborative and successful group of leaders. Paper. DLC: Organizational effectiveness - Case studies. - First, Break all the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
Great managers share one common trait: They do not hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom. They do not believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They do not try to help people overcome their weaknesses. They consistently disregard the golden rule. And, yes, they even play favorites. This amazing book explains why. There are vital performance and career lessons here for managers at every level, and, best of all, the book shows you how to apply them to your own situation. - The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace: How to Select for, Measure, and Improve Emotional Intelligence in Individuals, Groups, and Organizations, Cary Cherniss and Daniel Goleman
The book's contributing authors share fifteen models that have been field-tested and empirically validated in existing organizations. They also detail twenty-two guidelines for promoting emotional intelligence and outline a variety of measurement strategies for assessing emotional and social competence in organizations. - The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything, Steven M.R. Covey with Rebecca R. Merrill
For business leaders and public figures in any arena, this book offers an unprecedented and eminently practical look at exactly how trust functions in our every transaction and relationship—from the most personal to the broadest, most indirect interaction—and how to establish trust immediately so that you and your organization can forego the time–killing, bureaucratic check–and–balance processes so often deployed in lieu of actual trust. - Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ, Daniel Goleman
Through vivid examples, the author delineates the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence, and shows how they determine our success in relationships, work, and even our physical well-being. What emerges is an entirely new way to talk about being smart. - Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators, Patrick Lencioni
Written concisely and to the point, this guide gives leaders, line managers, and consultants alike the tools they need to get their teams up and running quickly and effectively. This book offers more specific, practical guidance for overcoming the Five Dysfunctions—using tools, exercises, assessments, and real-world examples. - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni
The book reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams, even the best ones, often struggle. The book outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team. - Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
"Crucial" conversations are interpersonal exchanges at work or at home that we dread having but know we cannot avoid. This book offers readers a proven seven-point strategy for achieving your goals in emotionally, psychologically, or legally charged situations that can arise in your professional and personal lives. - Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace: Building Effective Relationships in Your Organization, Dennis Reina and Michelle Reina
In today's competitive global economy, organizations sometimes must make difficult, even distressing changes. For them to be successful, trust is vital. After all, business is conducted via relationships, and trust is the foundation to effective relationships. This book is about trust; the power when it exists, the problems when it doesn't, the pain when it is betrayed, and how to restore it. This revised, expanded edition features new examples and practical tips, tools, quizzes, and exercises to help readers create work environments where trust grows so that people feel good about what they do, relationships are energized, and productivity and profits accelerate. - Rebuilding Trust in the Workplace: Seven Steps to Renew Confidence, Commitment, and Energy, Dennis Reina and Michelle Reina
This compassionate, practical approach will help you reframe the experience, take responsibility, forgive, let go and move on. Through healing, you will want to go to work again. You will feel safe to be more fully "who" you are and, once again give your organization your best thinking, highest intention, risk-taking and creativity. And in a place of self-discovery, self-trust and authenticity, you will connect more fully with others in your personal life as well - Building the High-Trust Organization: Strategies for Support Five Key Dimensions of Trust, Pamela S. Shockley-Zalabak, Sherwyn Morreale, and Michael Hackman
This guide provides an easy-to-administer model and instrument for measuring and managing trust in organizations. An explanation and practical applications accompany each of the model's five critical dimensions of trust: Competence, Openness and Honesty, Concern for Others, Reliability, and Identification. - The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki
This fascinating book explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. The book shows how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world.
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