Leadership and motivation Books

From America's leading authority on success comes a book that will help you redefine ambition so that you can use your drive to serve others while creating the fulfilling life you desire. In The Power of Ambition, Jim Rohn debunks the myths and...

Planning leadership rotation is a strategy that many business organizations adopt. The reasons for implementing this strategy can be diverse. Their primary goal is to make positive change and improvement, leading to greater effectiveness and higher...

Where have all the trustworthy, credible, accountable leaders gone? Leadership today has been tarnished by entitled, selfish, unaccountable, untrustworthy individuals whose only agenda is to seek power, titles and positions. No venue has gone untouched,...

Are you a Hellhound? A Super Alpha? A Hyena? Whatever your leadership style, this guide will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses to become even better. Written from the perspective of personalities in a pack of dogs, Hellhound: 7...

Learning to work effectively and efficiently in a group is an important part of learning to be a substantive contributor in today's business environment. Teams: A Competency Based Approach provides a solid coverage of the underlying theory of teamwork,...

In A Theory of Environmental Leadership, Mark Manolopoulos draws on his original model of leading outlined in his cutting-edge book Following Reason to derive and develop the first properly systematic model of eco-leadership.Suppose humanity's relation...

Providing essential guidance on how to survive and develop as an academic leader to achieve results and avoid common pitfalls, this highly practical and accessible book communicates the importance of learning to build trust and meaningful relationships...

The COVID-19 pandemic changed world dynamics, working scenarios, as well as professional and emotional dimensions. The virus has emerged as a significant threat for the continuity of business. Keeping the gravity of the problem in mind, companies must...

This book is part of the Human Centered Book Trilogy, the 2021 volumes of the Routledge Human Centered Management HCM Series. HCM books are pioneering transformation from the traditional humans-as-a-resource approach of the industrial past, to the humans...

Entrepreneurship in context has been described as the third wave in entrepreneurship research. Accordingly, specific socio-economic, political, market, and institutional contexts are key to fostering, enabling, and enacting entrepreneurial activity and...

Trade Unions and Regions: Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance is about the place of workers and their unions in the modern world. It addresses current challenges for unions working in regions and the experiments that may take place at...

An inspiring and informative guide for a new generation of leaders We've all heard of the bystander effect, where people see bad behaviour and do nothing. Award-winning thought leader Jessica Hickman experienced this firsthand when she was a victim of...

Building on the popular, breezy approach of the Knock Your Socks Off Service series, the authors provide managers with an upbeat primer on creating a first-class recovery system.

Work Better. Save the Planet is for business leaders with vision, who value employee happiness and the planet's future. With this practical research-driven book, you can create a healthy workplace for the post-pandemic world that won't cost the Earth...

This book shows readers how to rethink and reimagine leadership and charts a course towards a new vision of leadership. It outlines lessons to be learned for leadership - not only after the COVID pandemic but also in light of other ongoing...

This book examines leadership and management in natural resources, drawing on literature, principles, and the author's own experiences as a leader and activist. Developing a general framework summarizing the leadership and management cycle in natural...

Coaching has become a global business phenomenon, yet the way that coaching has evolved and spread across the globe is not unproblematic. Some of these challenges include: different types/genres of coaching; understanding and relevance of different...

Analyzing the lack of diversity among opera executives, this book examines the careers of executive opera managers of color in the U.S. By interrogating the impact of race on arts managers' careers, the author contemplates how opera might attract and...

Amidst the exponentially growing interest in "work as a calling," contemporary discussions have taken an individualistic turn away from the earlier prosocial character that once marked this orientation to work. Now, discussions about "work as a calling"...

Based on the author's 30 years experience of management development and a background in design and psychology, this book takes a fresh look at leadership as a systemic shared phenomenon. It is one aspect of the evolutionary principle of bringing people...

Based on a theoretical analysis and supported by both explorative qualitative and quantitative research, this book examines the many reasons why an initiative becomes an innovation and why some organizations are better at innovation than others...

Understanding experience at work, especially in toxic organizations, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include all senses. The use of applied poetry has its primary value as an evocative approach to sensing, knowing, and understanding workplace...

More than ever, today's rapidly changing global markets increase the risks and rewards for innovations. But amidst rising uncertainties and greater competition, can CEOs improve the chances for successful innovation? Innovating at the Top presents...

Motivated by a desire to improve the effectiveness of the development of strategic leaders, this book focuses on the individual charged with shaping strategy and leading change in organisations. It offers a new and insightful model of strategic leader...

Being the chairman of a company is the top job. Forget the hyperbole and hero-worship surrounding CEOs, it is the world's chairmen who call the real corporate shots. It is chairmen who hire and fire CEOs. Little wonder that some CEOs choose to neuter the...

According to Leadership as Identity, management has failed and its successor is leadership. Can leadership fulfill the promises that are made in its name? This book is written for those charged with being leaders, and uses poststructuralist theory to...

Taking it theme from the fifth annual Studying Leadership Conference held at Cranfield School of Management, Leadership Learning explores the challenge of learning and developing leadership in the 21st century. This is the second of two books to emerge...

A dynamic collaboration of nine experienced scholars, this timely work shares their rich blend of experiences and insights on emerging paradigms. They call for greater awareness through a holistic view, explore effects of change in education, and include...

Professions and Metaphors: Understanding Professions in Society explores the way that two traditions have contributed to our understanding of both theory and society over recent decades. In the first tradition, the growing literature on metaphors has...

Professionals are challenged each day by a changing landscape of technology and terminology. In recent history, especially the last 25 years, there has been an explosion of terms and methods born that automate and improve decision-making and operations...

It's estimated that U.S. companies spend over $14 billion annually on leadership development --Match that number to the abundant and growing research that finds most leadership development to be ineffective, and the conclusion is a phenomenal amount of...

Education is the single most important factor in determining anindividual's level of social, economic, and political autonomy,making it an indispensable tool in the process of establishing a societythat is equal and just. It not only teaches vital...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This book aims to develop four key challenges that remain unresolved in the boundary-spanning literature, which span from the conceptual, to the practice, to the translational. In doing so, it tackles the question of boundary-spanning from four different...