Leadership and motivation Books

Building and maintaining a successful team is no simple task. Even people who have taken their teams to the highest level in their field have difficulty recreating what accounted for their successes. Is it a strong work ethic? Is it "chemistry"? What...

This definitive volume explores diverse perspectives on heroism and heroic leadership by consolidating and synthesizing the field's growing scholarship, providing new insights, and building a foundation for further developments.

Successful change in the public sector can be supported or hindered by political and administrative leadership, individual and group motivation, and the public's perception of the effectiveness of public officials and government structures. But do the...

The Leadership of Organizational Change offers a critical review of the evolution of leadership and organizational change for the past thirty-five years, taking stock of what we know (and do not know), and establishing how the study of the leadership of...

Leadership and Wisdom: Narrating the Future Responsibly gives business students and practitioners the opportunity to re-read tales, poems, myths and fables that have been interpreted by leading management scholars in order to translate the world's folk...

Dr. Lengel offers a thought provoking twist on Aesop's Hare-Tortoise fable reframing it as a Human Race pitting our Hare-brained heads against our Tortoise-inspired hearts. As we run faster and faster in our Hare-like pursuits of wealth, power and...

Sometimes success isn't enough-discover how to achieve lasting, whole-life fulfillment through a simple five-stage plan that corresponds with the five key parts of ourselves.We're often told that the key to success in life involves advancing in our...

Practical leadership for difficult times, from a crisis management expert who has led response teams through the 9/11 Pentagon attack, NFL on-field medical emergencies, and the war in Ukraine. Dr. Thom Mayer knows first-hand that true leadership stems...

This unique book provides lessons on how to affect good leadership in turbulent times by taking a historical lens and examining the life and impact of Clovis I, King of the Franks. Through the exploration of how this individual managed the unstable times...

Leveraging academic research and case studies, knowledge as a business leader and diversity practitioner, and personal experience, Karen Loon examines how successful culturally diverse leaders at work resolve the contradictions and tensions of their...

Businesses must stay agile and be responsive to the complexities and disruptions brought about by digital transformation. The recent pandemic has also accelerated business digitization. Packed with insights and strategies, this book breaks down the...

Legends of the Security Services Industry: Profiles in Leadership presents the unique stories of fifteen industry legends, who transformed the industry from early private detective and small night watch companies, into large-scale contract security...

In Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People, Systems, and the Planet, the leading-edge innovators in digital health applications, global thought leaders, and multinational, cooperative research initiatives are woven together against...

Innovation, Technology, and Applied Informatics for Nurses explores informatics trends emerging over the next decade including personalized healthcare, telehealth, artificial intelligence, voice recognition, and predictive analytics. Emphasis is placed...

Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies explores the current state of health and healthcare education, as well as that of nursing informatics education. These topics include technologies-enabled education for all nurses and interprofessional...

With the COVID-19 pandemic, many business leaders question the need for strategy and the value of strategic planning and management in today's environment. This book will demonstrate that our approach to strategy development and implementation needs to...

Near the end of the 20th Century, the leadership concept radically evolved away from the traditional concept of accomplishing work through others. Unfortunately, too many professionals unconsciously still have faulty traditional assumptions that can get...

Leadership has gone through many changes in the last couple of decades. We have realized that outstanding leadership is not about being authoritarian and exercising control. It is not only about the intelligence quotient (IQ) but also about emotional...

Authentic Excellence for Organizations explores organizational culture from a values-based perspective and applies the psychological principles of values-based flourishing to organizations. Integrating the principles of Giving Voice to Values (GVV) and...

This book interweaves the postmodern approach to management studies and, based on its innovative research, reintroduces moral pragmatism in Business Ethics.

This unique volume offers novice and experienced researchers a brief, student-centric research methods text specifically devoted to the multiple case study design.

If you hate prospecting, think how much those prospects dread your cold calls! You need techniques that energize and motivate both you and your potential customers. Welcome to Knock Your Socks Off Prospecting.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of leadership, sales, and spirituality and their interconnectedness in creating a thriving and successful business. Readers will gain practical insights and strategies to enhance their leadership skills, excel...

International communication affects the way we think about other countries and their people and sets the agenda of issues that face the global community. This book introduces the functions of international communications.

"We aren't home yet," Major Paul Darling reminds his team at the end of a sixteen-hour day. "Two more miles and we are done. We have pissed off a lot of Taliban today, and they are going to want payback." Shortly, the major will find himself sitting on a...

The Tried and True Road to Success...Hard work and solid ethics may be old-fashioned...but they're indispensable to success in life. Succeeding While Black draws attention to and provides solutions for many of the issues facing African-Americans. Many...

Dave LaRue is an international businessman and entrepreneur who owns and leads more than a dozen thriving companies. He also spends a great deal of time coaching entrepreneurs on how to achieve the same level of success that he is enjoying in life...

How do leaders learn to lead? How do leaders set themselves up for success? This book explores the real-life experiences of a wide variety of leaders from different industries, sectors, and countries to bring to light new lessons on the importance of...

Many of today's books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project management. This book takes a completely different approach. It contests the...

This text is the first to bring complexity-based thinking together with management theory and practice, presenting some of the most influential writing in the field and showing how the subject has developed.

True Storytelling is a new method of studying, planning, facilitating, ensuring, implementing and evaluating ethical and sustainable changes in companies, organizations and societies. True Storytelling is both a method with seven principles and a mindset...

For any company, defining the most efficient marketing concept to create a competitive customer experience (CX) is vital for sustained development. The focus of this research is the creation of a comprehensible practical approach to the development of...

Since the onset of the Fourth Industrial Revolution numerous corporations have found that traditional 'strategic planning' is ineffectual in responding to, or capitalising on, unforeseen or unexpected change. In recognition of this and associated...

This book was written with one objective in mind: to start you on the path to generating a lot more money in your After-sales Department.The 'Stay In The Bay' system, as fully outlined in this book, is all about applying Lean Concepts to your dealership...

Millennials will be our next great generation of leaders. Today, however, as they move into management, they face difficult practical challenges. Millennials Who Manage is a complete, research-based guide to overcoming those challenges, delivering...

Why start with Likeable Leadership? As leaders, we must have followers. People naturally follow leaders they like and trust. Likeable Leadership addresses some of the fundamentals associated with all leadership and management theories. A week of...

Prepare For Purpose: Your Invitation to the Next Level is an inspiring and practical guide that seeks to help readers discover and nurture their individual paths to living meaningful lives. Written from the perspective of ten women leaders, this...

Interested in becoming the best leader you can be? Consider becoming more vulnerable. That's the message retired Major General Mike Milano proposes in this engaging book. Sharing real-life experiences, Milano examines how vulnerability is no longer a...

Who says money is not important in life? Of course, it's important, but if the making of it becomes an all-consuming passion, then it could result in the hollowing out of one's meaning and purpose in work and life. Leaders may seek to do good as an...

In Crisis as Catalyst: Building Teams Through Challenges, discover how adversity can become a powerful force for team unity and innovation. This book reveals the shortcomings of traditional team-building and offers a fresh approach, showing how crisis...

At 65, Michael W.G. Berman's life came crashing down. Suddenly homeless, jobless, and on the brink of financial ruin, he found himself sleeping in his car, a divorced man facing an uncertain future. But this was not the first time Michael had stared...

The book contains key definitions of the Companies Act; Rules framed thereunder and SEBI LODR, 2015. The book specifies punishments - including the criminal for defaulting Directors.The book covers the duties, responsibilities, obligations of directors,...

This book is a practical guide for entrepreneurs aiming to grow their digital or traditional businesses. It offers strategies, real-world examples, and actionable advice to propel your venture forward. Written in accessible language, it's suitable for...

Everyone has the capacity to lead-not just those who fit the mold of what we have historically come to expect leaders to look and act like. When we recognize and cultivate leadership potential in those who may have been overlooked or marginalized, we can...

"This clear-eyed vision for a more compassionate world will inspire you to take action in your own community." -Kelly McGonigal, PhD, author of The Willpower Instinct What would happen if the systems within our society focused on care and...

We all have dreams and ambitions. We want to be successful in our careers and personal lives. But what does success really mean? And how do we achieve it? These are the questions John Thompson III sets out to answer in his book Stack Your Deck...