A Guide for the Powerless ~ and those Who Don't Know Their Own Power
Samuel Halpern
A mini- manual of the american political process.
Assessing Student Learning And Development
T. Dary Erwin
Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, San Francisco, CA (1991)
Those in the developing field can benefit from this book . Experienced practitioners will find a summary of the basic references on assessment and will encounter a few new tricks. For those new to the field, this volume will prove indispensable.
Becoming A Manager: Mastery Of A New Identity
Linda A. Hill
This is an inside look at the journey from individual contributor to manager. It captures the challenge fear, mistakes and victories. This book will give new managers a crucial perspective on their experience.
Be The Leader, Make The Difference
Paul B. Thornton
Griffin Publishing Group, Torrance, CA (2000)
The good news is that everyone has untapped leadership abilities. Winning leaders do three things: They challenge the status quo, They build confidence in others, They coach people on what to do and how to do it.
Building Leaders
Jay A. Conger and Beth Benjamin
Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc. San Francisco, CA (1999)
This book identifies the three dominant approaches to leadership education and provides a blueprint for how organizations can use them to more effectively cultivate a continuous crop of talented leaders.
Change the World: How Ordinary People Can Accomplish Extraordinary Results
Robert E. Quinn
Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc. San Francisco, CA (2000)
In this book the author gives readers the courage to use personal transformation to positively impact their home life, work life, and communities - to be what he refers to as "inner-directed and outer-focused." We are all potential change agents, but most of us are trapped by the belief that we as individuals cannot make a difference. Informed by the teachings of Jesus, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. Jr. - three of the most successful change agents ever - the author outlines eight steps each of us can take to move ourselves and others to the highest levels of excellence. following his advice, each of us can access and apply the power that lies within us in ways that will change our world for the better.
Charismatic Leadership: The Elusive Factor In Organizational Effectiveness
Jay A. Conger, Rabindra N. Kanungo and Associates
Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, San Francisco, CA (1988)
The authors reveal how the major component of charismatic leadership strategic vision can be developed, and they suggest training approaches in key areas, showing how to understand the nature of the vision, how to communicate the vision in specific detail, and how to implement the vision throughout the organization.
Choosing To Lead
Kenneth E. & Miriam B. Clark
Iron Gate Press, Charlotte, NC (1994)
This book states that the world is undergoing dramatic change in its most basic institutions and practices. Changes in distributed power coupled with informed responsibility will be seen eventually as the solution to challenges in the political, social and commercial worlds.
Co-Leaders; The Power of Great Partnerships
David A. Heenan and Warren Bennis
John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY (1999)
This book shows how gifted leaders and gifted adjutants can work together to make their organizations stronger, more nimble, more equitable...and ultimately more successful.
College Students Talk Politics
The Harwood Group
Kettering Foundation, New York, NY (1993)
This study suggests college students will engage in politics, but only if it is a different kind of politics one that challenges them to learn new political skills and provides opportunities to put those skills to use. However, "politics as usual" will only deepen their sense of the irrelevance of the political process.
Creative Decision Making Using Positive Uncertainty
H.B. Gelatt, Ed. D
Crisp Publications, Los Altos, CA (1992) (5/93)
This book discusses the problems people face with career uncertainty, transition and change. Dr. Gelatt's book provides a road map to bypass the barriers of negative thinking and offers realistic solutions.
Developing The Leader Within You
John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, TN (1993)
By examining the differences between leadership styles, John Maxwell outlines principles for inspiring, motivating, and influencing others. These principles can be used in any organization to foster integrity and self-discipline an d bring about a positive change.
Effective Meeting Skills: A Practical Guide For More Productive Meetings
Marion E. Haynes
Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1988)
This book was designed to help you improve the quality of meetings you attend either as the leader, or as a participant. It begins with the premise that an effective meeting is one that achieves its objectives within a reasonable time. This book is divided into five sections which tell you how to participate in more effective meetings.
Finance for the Nonfianacial Manager
Herbert T. Spiro
John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY (1977)
If you have no professional training in finance but need a working knowledge of the subject to perform effectively in your job, here's a book that answers your most pressing questions.
First Things First
Stephen Covey
Fireside, New York, NY , (1995)
I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that I'm doing what matters most and doing it well? Does this nagging questions haunt you, even when you feel you are being your most efficient? If so, this book can help you understand why so often our first thins aren't first and will provide you with a compass, because where you're headed is more important than how fast you're going.
Get A Grip On Your Dreams: 12 Ways to Squeeze More Success Out of Your Goals
Peter Jeff
Possibility Press (2000)
Here's a four-step plan to help you get a solid grip on your dream - for your personal and business life. You'll be given four pitons (mountain climbing spikes), which will enable you to climb more courageously and effectively. They include: Goal - Setting, Risk - Making, Initiating, Persisting.
Groups in Context
Gerald Wilson
The McGraw-Hill Co., New York, NY (2002)
Learn how to become a productive, contributing member of a group. This book will teach you to prepare for, participate in, and analyze small group decision making.
Hard Questions, Heart Answers
The Rev. Bernice A. King
Broadway Books, New York, NY. (1996)
In this inspiring book, Rev. Bernice King addresses America's hard questions in words ringing with wisdom, compassion and hope.
Involving Colleges-Successful Approaches To Fostering Student Learning And Development Outside The Classroom
George D. Kuh, John H. Schuh, Elizabeth J. Whitt, & Associates.
Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, San Francisco, CA (1991)
Involving Colleges shows how every school-whether a small liberal arts college, a large public research university, or an institution with an urban or metropolitan mission-can implement practices that promote educationally purposeful out-of-class activities within the context of their campus communities and unleash faculty and student potential for creativity and initiative.
Leaders
Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus
Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1985)
This book was written in the belief that leadership is the pivotal force behind successful organizations and that to create vital and viable organizations, leadership is necessary to help organizations develop a new vision of what they can be then mobilize the organization change towards the new vision.
Leadership
James MacGregor Burns
Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., New York , NY (1978)
This is a book that combines an analysis of the past and a penetrating observation of the present with implications for the future stability of American democracy.
Leadership and Futuring, Making Visions Happen
John R. Hoyle
Corwin Press, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA (1995)
The author shows you how to develop three important leadership characteristics: the capacity to care deeply for others; the ability to communicate a clear message in simple, persuasive words; and the commitment to persist under the most difficult of circumstances.
Leadership For Higher Education: The Campus View
Roger W. Heyns
- American Council On Education, Washington, DC (1977)
- Higher education leaders must look to the campus in order to find solutions and answers to the critical problems and questions facing our nation's colleges and universities. Leadership For Higher Education: The Campus View is devoted to the exchange of ideas among campus leaders who share their practical experiences and their reflections about the role of leadership.
Leadership and the New Science
Margaret J. Wheatley
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. San Francisco, CA (1994)
Our understanding of the universe is being radically altered by the "new science" - the revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory and biology that are overturning the models of science that have dominated for centuries. Now the author shows how the new science provides equally powerful insights for transforming how we organize work, people and life.
Leadership Jazz
Max DePree
A Currency Book, New York, NY (1992)
The connection of voice and touch-reaching out spontaneously, joyously, to others-is the key to good leadership, as it is the key to inspired jazz. Leadership, like jazz, is "a public performance, dependent on so many things- the environment, the volunteers playing in the band, the need for everybody to perform as individuals and as a group, the absolute dependence of the leader on the members of the band...What a summary of an organization!" LEADERSHIP JAZZ throws you back on yourself, makes you reconsider every assumption you have about work. It's guaranteed to make your job brand-new to you, and to show you how immensely powerful and fulfilling the leader's role can be.
Leadership Papers
John Gardner
Independent Sector, (1986)
There are 3 books on leadership. The Nature of Leadership, The Tasks of Leadership, and Attributes and Context.
Leadership Skills for Women
Marilyn Manning, Ph.D. and Patricia Haddock
Crisp Publications, Los Altos, CA (1989)
This book shows women how to shape and nurture her leadership style by learning new skills, working to eliminate problem behaviors, and become more productive. It will also show you how to use your unique talents, plus your feminine strengths to become the best leader possible, both on the job and in your personal life.
Learning To Lead: An Action Plan For Success
Pat Heim, Ph.D., Elwood N. Chapman
Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1990)
This book is ideal for a supervisor/manager who is motivated to master the fundamentals of leadership. LEARNING TO LEAD is a confidence building book that stresses personality development, enhanced communication skills and visionary goal setting.
Learning To Lead; A Workbook on Becoming A Leader
Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith
Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA (1997)
Leading an organization is different from managing it. Managers want to be efficient. Leaders want to be effective. If you want to develop your leadership skills, the first step is Learning to Lead.
Leadership From The Inside Out
Kevin Cashman
Executive Excellence Publishing, Provo, UT (1998)
This book is a "wake-up call" to remind us that our ability to grow as a leader is based on our ability to grow as a person. We will not analyze the external act of leadership into a formula of ten easy-to-follow quick tips. Rather this book will show you how to take a reflective journey to foster the personal awakening needed to enhance our leadership effectiveness.
Managing For The Future: The 1990's And Beyond
Peter F. Drucker
The Penguin Group, New York, NY (1992)
This major new book brings together Mr. Drucker's latest views on the new world business order . He discusses the end of the era of the blue-collar worker; the ultimate bankruptcy of the Keynesian theory; the myths about the Japanese economy and what we can and must learn; the lessons that nonprofit enterprises offer big business; the formula for excellence in American exports, etc.
Managing Quality Customer Service
William B. Martin, Ph.D.
Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1989)
The premise of this book is threefold:
- by using specialized techniques, we can manage quality in a service operation just as we can in other enterprises that produce a more tangible product;
- to achieve quality in the delivery of customer service, a specific set of management strategies must be followed;
- what managers do in this area has more influence over the quality of customer service than any other single factor.
Managing the Dream
Warren Bennis
Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY (2000)
In dreams begin responsibilities, nowhere is this demonstrated more vividly than in the lives of effective leaders. All humans possess an overpowering desire to understand and predict the future; but a leader takes real responsibility for molding it by embracing the managing a tangible dream for the future. In essence, a leader incarnates a dream for that future.
Managing Upward Strategies for Succeeding with Your Boss
Patti Hathaway, Susan D. Schubert
Crisp Publications, Los Altos, CA (1992)
As professional speakers and trainers, we are constantly asked for suggestions on how to manage more effectively. Regardless of geographical region, industry or profession, people want to know how they can be more productive and enhance their careers, in spite of, or with the help of, their bosses. The ideas and strategies presented in this book come from the people who have attended our seminars and the organizations with which we have consulted. We have tested the concepts and exercises with employees who tried them. Compiled in this book are ideas that work.
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership
Donald T. PHillips
Warner Books, New York, NY (1999)
What does it mean to be a leader? How does an individual create an unstoppable organization, reshape a struggle, a competition, or even a society? Why do we listen to one man's voice an ignore another's? In the history of leadership in America, no one has galvanized a time, place and people more forcefully that Martin Luther King, Jr.
Measurers Of Leadership
A Center for Creative Leadership Book, edited by Kenneth E. Clark and Miriam B. Clark
Leadership Library of America, Inc., West Orange, NJ (1990)
This three-part book reveals more information about the qualities of managers and leaders than any other single source. Research conducted at the nation's military academies, naval academy, Exxon, AT&T, Sears, a nuclear power plant, a health care organization and many other companies reveals that leadership qualities are trainable and that the effects of this training can improve your business.
NUTS! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success
Kevin Freiberg and Jackie Freiberg
Bard Press, Inc., Austin, TX (1996)
"If you are looking for a way to make work more meaningful and life more passionate, read this inspirational book. Full of original insights, upbeat stories, and concrete suggestions, NUTS! shows how the power of principle-centered leadership inspires people to achieve incredible results. It provides a lively and penetrating analysis that invites you to become more purpose-driven, others-oriented, and fun loving."
On Becoming A Leader
Warren Bennis
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading,
Massachusetts; Menlo Park, California; New York, NY (1989) In his book, Warren Bennis writes about: understanding the basics; knowing yourself; knowing the world; operating on instinct; deploying yourself; moving through chaos; getting people on your side; dealing with organizations that can help or hinder; forging for the future.
On Becoming A Servant Leader
Robert K. Greenleaf
Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA (1996)
This book is a collection of previously unpublished work by Greenleaf, demonstrates his personal and professional philosophy, which postulates that true leaders are those who lead by serving others.
Practicing Servant Leadership
Larry C. Spears and Michele Lawrence
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA (2004)
Practicing Servant Leadership brings together a group of exceptional thinkers who offer a compendium of thought on the topic of bringing servant-leadership into the daily lives of leaders.
Principle-Centered Leadership
Stephen R. Covey
Summit Books, New York, NY (1990)
Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching and consulting, Covey writes about the key to managing expectations, the six conditions of effectiveness, and the patterns of organizational excellence. He explains how nothing fails like success, how to understand people's potential rather that just their behavior, and how to "manage form the left, leas from the right." With the integrity, sensitivity, and insights that demonstrate how lifelong learning can empower relationships at work and at home.
Spirit At Work, Discovering the Spirituality in Leadership
Jay A. Conger & Associates
Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA (1994)
In this insightful exploration, Jay Conger and his coauthors examine the role of spirituality in leadership. Can spirituality offer solutions to some the increasing demands being made on today's organizations? As traditional sources of support and connectedness - such as community, church, and extended family-continues to erode, can the workplace be expected to meet the needs of its participants? What can leaders do to draw on their organization's spiritual resources?
Super Leadership
Charles C. Manz, Henry P. Sims, Jr.
Berkley Publishing Group, New York, NY (1989).
This guide discusses specific strategies of self-leaders such as: qualities that make a self-leader; techniques for changing your current leadership patterns; profiles of exemplary super leaders in business and politics; systems of self-leadership that you can create to meet your needs; step-by-step programs that motivate and instruct.
Supervisor's Portable Answer Book
George Fuller
- Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1990)
- Coping with the daily dilemmas compels you to deal with problems you haven't confronted before, and/or new twists to age-old questions. Since it's impossible to predict the unpredictable, you can be bombarded with questions for which you don't have a ready answer. That's where the Answer book comes in. Its purpose is to provide ready answers for a vast array of questions that you have to tackle in your supervisory role. You'll find workable solutions for a wide variety of situations that aren't easily resolved, as well as straightforward answers that deal with the nuts and bolts of your daily endeavors.
Systematic Problem Solving And Decision Making
Sandy Pokras
Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1989)
This practical, logical book shows you how to rationally confront problems and develop clear solutions. Based on a six-step methodology, this book teaches readers to: recognize problems, define them, determine their root causes, explore options and alternative strategies, develop realistic solutions, and implement them intelligently
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
Simon & Schuster New York, NY (1990)
In this book, the author presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights he reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity principles that give us the security to adapt to change, and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson Publishers, Inc., Nashville, TN (1998)
What would happen if a top expert with more than thirty years of leadership experience were willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It would change your life. The author has done just that in this book. He has combined insights learned from his thirty-plus years of leadership successes and mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and military conflict. The result is a revealing study of leadership delivered as only a communicator like Maxwell can.
The Big Book of Leadership Games
Vasudha K. Deming
McGraw-Hill, New York, NY (2004)
A treasury of fun, simple games and activities to help you become a more effective leader and build a happier, more productive work environment.
The Center For Creative Leadership Handbook Of Leadership Development
Cynthia D. McCauley, Russ s. Moxley, Ellen Van Velsor
Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA (1998)
Since 1970, The Center For Creative Leadership has been dedicated to helping managers and executives develop their capacity to lead. In this handbook, the world's premier leadership development organization distills what it has learned into one comprehensive volume - it's the guide for everyone involved in helping individuals and organizations tap their leadership potential.
The Change Navigator
Kurt Hanks
Crisp Publications, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (1994)
This is a manual for those who believe we are headed into a very uncertain and unpredictable future and need to prepare for it in new ways today.
The Fifth Discipline
Peter M. Senge
Doubleday/Currency, New York, NY (1990)
This book draws on science, spiritual wisdom, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought, and on Senge's work with top corporations that employ fifth discipline methods. Reading it provides a searching personal experience and dramatic professional shift of mind.
The Genius Of Sitting Bull
13 Heroic Strategies For Today's Business Leaders
Emmett C. Murphy
- Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1993)
- The author recounts the epic struggle at the Little Bighorn to bring you: A thirteen-step blueprint for becoming a heroic leader - how to re energize your organization, renew employees' trust and loyalty, and regain global competitiveness; An inspiring exploration of the leadership techniques of Sitting bull and his special process of commitment, empowerment, and strategy; Stirring case studies of today's business executives who personify the heroic example.
The Leadership Challenge: How To Get Extraordinary Things Done In Organizations
James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, San Francisco, CA (1987)
In this book the authors show that leadership is not the private preserve of a few charismatic men and women, but a learnable set of practices that virtually anyone can master. The authors examine the experiences of 500 middle and senior level managers at their personal best - leading others to extraordinary accomplishments. They reveal that leadership involves five basic practices and ten specific behaviors - all of which can be learned and used by managers at all levels.
The New Student Politics
Sarah E. Long
Campus Compact, Providence, RI (2002)
This is a look into the March 2001 Wingspread Summit on Student Civic Engagement for Juniors and Seniors in College. It was held in Racine, Wisconsin where the students were immersed in strong group discussions about the world today and how the youth of America views the American Democracy system.
The One Minute Manager
Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D. and Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Berkley Books, New York, NY (1982)
This program show you three easy-to-master management techniques that are guaranteed to change your life.
The Other 90%
Robert K. Cooper
Three Rivers Press, New York, NY (2001)
The author shows you how to find an use the 90 percent of our capacity and brainpower that, for many of us, lies dormant. The book explores the four keystones: Trust, Energy, Farsightedness and Nerve.
The Power Principle
Blaine Lee
Fireside, New York, NY (1998)
This book teaches the core principles that dramatically affect our careers and our lives. It show how principle centered power is the ability to influence others' behavior, not to control, change or manipulate it.
Thinking For A Change
John C. Maxwell
Warner Books, New York, NY (2003)
To do well in life, we must first think well. But can we actually learn new mental habits? Drawing on the words and deeds of many of the world's greatest leaders and using interactive quizzes, this book answers that questions with a resounding "yes" and, step by step, shows you the mental strategies that can change your life
Today Matters
John C. Maxwell
Warner Books, New York, NY (2004)
In this hands-on and inspiring guide, he offers twelve daily practices to help you control your daily agenda, make time for people you love, and find success in your career.
Understanding Organizational Change: Converting Theory To Practice
Lynn Fossum
Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1989)
This book will help you develop an overview of the process of change. It will help you look at change-at all levels: personal, group, organizational, and environmental. It will teach you basic principals of change and enable you to help your employees through the stages of change. UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE contains idea, and activities you can use immediately with your employees.
Up Your Productivity
Kurt Hanks
Crisp Publications, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (1990)
A light-hearted and easy reading approach to a critical subject. With clear, forceful language and creative imagery. This book jolts you with hard-hitting ideas as it entertains. Learn how to measure your own effectiveness and make needed improvements. By exploiting a number of simple and easy-to-use principles, you can increase your productivity and job satisfaction, manage your time better, and help others around you to improve their productivity as well.
Why Leaders Can't Lead
Warren Bennis
Jossey Bass, San Francisco, CA (1989)
An Unconscious Conspiracy in our society and in our organizations prevents leaders from emerging and taking charge. Our foremost commentator on leadership exposes these hidden obstacles - isolation, cynicism, routine, inertia and turmoil - and offers advice and hope for the future.