Leadership and motivation Books

Overcome and Lead recounts the powerful stories and essential lessons learned from Anne Beiler's time as the founder of Auntie Anne's®, the world's largest pretzel franchise. As a former Amish girl with an eighth-grade education, Anne had many obstacles...

Today the Scottish electronics industry employs 40,000 people directly and a further 30,000 in the supply infrastructure. There are now more than 550 electronic manufacturing and supplier companies in ' Silicon Glen'. In terms...

Quality issues are occupying an increasingly prominent position in today's global business market, with firms seeking to compete on an international level on both price and quality. Consumers are demanding higher quality...

Enterprise integration and enterprise engineering has become a focal point of discussions during the past few years with active contribution of many disciplines... The evolution from the concept of CAD/CAM, through CIM to...

Although various factors contribute to failed change, one of the key reasons for change failure is the inability of leaders to gain the trust of employees, to understand the interaction between their subordinates, and to convince them to support change...

This book examines the impact of CEOs on firm performance and focuses on their role in science-based innovation to answer the question, is it possible to lead highly complex R&D projects and innovation that you do not understand?Today, science and...

This book presents on inclusive innovation: a form of innovation motivated by environmental and social aims that uplifts the benefits of innovation while reducing its harms. With research from policy, private sector, and grassroots perspectives, it will...

Fresh strategies to streamline development approvalsWHY: Real estate development approvals, a vital part of community planning and value-building, may be the most underrated and misunderstood part of the development process.HOW: New Pathways to Approvals...

After a forty-year career in eldercare, Grace Sweatman has stories to tell! From receptionist to CEO and nearly every role in between, Grace has a truly rare perspective on this growing service industry. In this book, Grace shares some of those...

Small is Big looks to the future and sees enormous potential in small to mid-size downtowns. To help realize that potential, it provides the tools to both develop and implement an action plan for change. Inside this visionary yet practical guide,...

"Rick Pitino knows a thing or two about comebacks--on the court and in life."--Louisville Courier-Journal Basketball legend Rick Pitino reveals his model of success built upon his experiences of failure and personal loss in Rebound Rules--a powerful,...

The Million Dollar Barber will enlighten and inspire all barbers, beauticians, entrepreneurs, and students entering the hair industry. This book gives you all of the essential information to open, establish, operate, and maintain a highly successful...

If you're a soulful, purpose-driven entrepreneur looking for tools to help you reach even greater heights, the Soulfluent® Leadership Business Guide is the resource you need to help you amplify your message, build your visibility and step into powerful...

At some point in our life, we are all faced with the difficulty of managing change. The implication of change in our personal life is challenging enough. Managing change as a leader can have even greater implications.In The Hostility of Change, Joe...

""Profitable Fruit-Growing For Cottagers And Small Holders Of Land"" is a comprehensive guidebook written by John Wright, aimed at individuals who own small plots of land and wish to cultivate fruit for personal consumption or commercial purposes. The...

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...

We live in a leadership-obsessed society. The result is that we assume nearly any social or economic ill can be mended through better leadership. Sometimes, this commitment to leadership is followed by hero worshipping, wishful thinking and misplaced...

As a new generation of leaders enters the workforce, what they have to say about leadership matters. Their values and ideas will soon drive innovation and progress in an increasingly competitive global climate. Here for the first time those thoughts are...

Using leadership to generate greater innovation, connectivity, and organizational transformation is crucial for success in this challenging era. The authors present here a new approach to leadership based on findings from complexity science. Integrating...

Bridging the divide between management theory and practice is an obstacle for many business school graduates. Management Theory in Action provides, in an easy-to-relate manner, real-life accounts of how actual people have used classroom-taught theories...

Rethinking Coaching offers a spirited challenge to the paradigms that have of late dominated organizational life, most notably in the banking sector. The vehicle the authors propose as being best suited to encourage a comprehensive reassessment of the...

We have recently seen stock-markets plunge and governments bail out banks. People have been made redundant, and many others are very worried. Some of the short essays in this collection are part musing and part reaction to the recent economic situation,...

Family businesses find many different paths to success. Some, like Wal-Mart become among the world s largest businesses. Others, happily serve a limited market. Whether a business remains small or grows large, every family business at some time or other...

Business is the language of numbers-but not everyone in businesses understands how to read the myriad of financial statements that are necessary.  Author Norb Schwarz provides readers with accessible information to understanding  financial statements...

One of the key factors in maintaining the legacy of your family business is a good program of family education. Inevitably, wise business-owning families see the necessity of launching some form of education for family members. It establishes an interest...

Statistics show that many family businesses fail by the third generation-- those that survive are able to navigate the transition from a sibling run business to an expanded family run business. Here Aronoff and Ward show siblings and cousins how to work...

What are the reasons that prevent women reaching higher level management positions in today's society? Life Cycle and Women in Management explores the elements that limit this process, such as those relating to social structure, family and professional...

Employing a discourse analytical approach, this book focuses on the under-researched strategy of humor to illustrate how discursive performances of leadership are influenced by gender and workplace culture. Far from being a superfluous strategy that...

The Adventure of Leadership is an incredibly exciting and fast paced book about leadership in business and in life. This book presents an irreverent and iconoclastic challenge to conventional ideas about leadership creating a wide-open, have-fun...

Improve your life and your career with some powerful mindset tips for success, positivity, and strong adaptation skills.You might be in a negative spiral, productively or psychologically, stuck thinking you're just not good enough, you'll never...

In The Best Leaders Don’t Shout, Bruce shares the lessons learned as he and his teams have defended businesses against the threats of the poor performance he inherited, and then, turned those same businesses around into highly profitable...

If you are interested in becoming a better leader, this book is a great place to start. Rather than using the familiar textbook approach, leadership expert Robert Denhardt offers practical lessons drawn from a lively year-long correspondence with two...