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Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire

AMACOM, 2012

Storytelling has come of age in the business world. Today, many of the most successful companies use storytelling as a leadership tool. At Nike, all senior executives are designated "corporate storytellers." 3M banned bullet points years ago and replaced them with a process of writing "strategic narratives." Procter &...

The Secret Language of Money: How to Make Smarter Financial Decisions and Live a Richer Life

McGraw-Hill, 2009

If money were about math, none of us would be carrying any debt.

The numbers are simple. What’s complicated is what we do with money. We use money to soothe our feelings and buy respect, to show how much we care or how little. We don’t simply earn, save, and spend money: we flirt with it, crave it,...

Test Driven Development for Embedded C (Pragmatic Programmers)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2011

TDD is a modern programming practice C developers need to know. It's a different way to program---unit tests are written in a tight feedback loop with the production code, assuring your code does what you think. You get valuable feedback every few minutes. You find mistakes before they become bugs. You get early warning of design...

Influence: Gaining Commitment, Getting Results (Center for Creative Leadership)

Pfeiffer, 2007

Influence is an essential component of leadership. Your position in an organization and the power it gives you aren’t always enough to motivate people to do what you ask. Developing your influence skills can help you gain commitment from people at all levels: direct reports, peers, and bosses.

This book includes an assessment tool...

Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations

FT Press, 2009

"Leading at a Higher Level makes clear that respect and integrity aren’t pleasant-sounding options; they are essential criteria for an organization’s survival. As inspiring as it is instructive, this book belongs in every leader’s core curriculum."

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Detail Process Charting: Speaking the Language of Process

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Praise for Detail Process Charting

"A must-read for any competitive organization, Detail Process Charting: Speaking the Language of Process provides a comprehensive, yet clear, explanation of how to utilize one of the most powerful tools available to improve work processes. [Graham] has successfully integrated the history, success stories,...

The Art of Agile Development

O'Reilly, 2007

The Art of Agile Development contains practical guidance for anyone considering or applying agile development for building valuable software. Plenty of books describe what agile development is or why it helps software projects succeed, but very few combine information for developers, managers, testers, and customers into a single...

NLP Coaching: An Evidence-Based Approach for Coaches, Leaders and Individuals

Kogan Page, 2010

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) has become a common approach in the coaching industry, but many are still skeptical about it being a substantive and coherent methodology.

This book is the first to look at NLP coaching as an...

Coaching at Work: Powering your Team with Awareness, Responsibility and Trust

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

"This book comes at a time when we are asking searching questions: How exactly do we earn the loyalty, trust and commitment of our people? How do we balance the needs of our organisations to do more with less with the need to create environments in which people can grow, develop and achieve their aspirations? The answers lie within each...

The Little Mac Book, Tiger Edition

Peachpit Press, 2005

Adopting a back-to-the-basics approach, this best-selling little Mac classic has been revised and overhauled to introduce users to Tiger, Apple's newest version of its revolutionary operating system. In the gentle, friendly, funny style that generations of computer users have come to know and love, author Robin Williams shows readers how to dive...

The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders (2nd Edition)

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

This updated edition of a modern classic on followership provides the keys to creating an environment in which leaders are vigorously supported in pursuing the organization’s mission and courageously confronted when their actions threaten the organization’s well-being.

For every leader there are dozens of followers who work...

The Coaching Secret: How to be an exceptional coach

FT Press, 2010

Coaching as a field has mushroomed in recent years. Thousands of new coaches enter the field after only completing short and superficial training programmes. The problem with this is that coaching is not i) something you can simply learn in a short programme ii) a superficial practice.

The books available on coaching tend to just...

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