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Antipatterns: Managing Software Organizations and People, Second Edition (Applied Software Engineering Series)

Auerbach Publications, 2011

Emphasizing leadership principles and practices, Antipatterns: Managing Software Organizations and People, Second Edition catalogs 49 business practices that are often precursors to failure. This updated edition of a bestseller not only illustrates bad management approaches, but also covers the bad work environments and...

The Techniques of Inner Leadership: Making Inner Leadership Work

Praeger Publishers, 2003

Leadership is fundamentally different from management, but traditional leadership skills were based on an ill-fitting, management-oriented model. When leadership is recognized as a discrete professional specialty, new techniques and methods are needed to operationalize the new values-based theories. In addition to distinguishing leadership from...

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

Harper Perennial, 2001

The Challenge:
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good...

Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades: Demystifying the Technology Puzzle

Digital Press, 2001

Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades is the perfect book for technology managers who want a rational guide to evaluating the business aspects of various possible technical solutions. Enterprises today are in the middle of the R&D race for technology leadership, with providers who increasingly need to create markets for new technologies...

Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The New Secret to Success

AMACOM, 2009

We are pleased to write the foreword to David Livermore’s latest book on cultural intelligence (CQ). We have known Dave professionally for many years and have followed his work with great interest. Dave has always had a passion for intercultural training and education and has spent several years training leaders to serve on short-term...

The Art of Creative Thinking: How to Be Innovative and Develop Great Ideas

Kogan Page, 2007

"The Art of Creative Thinking provides clear, practical guidelines for developing the reader's powers as a creative thinker." Voluntary Sector Magazine "The Art of Creative Thinking is an interesting and highly readable book." Management today "Will excite every intelligent reader and is thought-provoking and...

Moral Intelligence 2.0: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success in Turbulent Times

FT Press, 2011

The best-performing companies have leaders who actively apply moral values to achieve enduring personal and organizational success. Lennick and Kiel extensively identify the moral components at the heart of the recent financial crisis, and illuminate the monetary and human costs of failed moral leadership in global...

The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book examines the process of presidentialisation of political parties in the Western Balkans. The Western Balkan countries deserve to be analysed in a comparative perspective due to their distinctive features in terms of processes of democratization, forms of government and institutional assets, the presence of social cleavages (religious,...

Effective Succession Planning: Ensuring Leadership Continuity And Building Talent From Within

AMACOM, 2005

If you're looking for a quick, easy, and fun guide to constantly cultivating from within your organization the talent to move up and fill positions left behind by others, don't look here. Written by a human resources expert who teaches at Penn State, Effective Succession Planning must surely be one of the driest books ever written on this...

The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave: How to Recognize the Subtle Signs and Act Before It's Too Late

AMACOM, 2005

This book is about the hidden, elusive motivations that cause capable employees to start questioning their decision to join your company, start thinking of leaving, eventually disengage, and finally, leave.

The true root causes of voluntary employee turnover are hiding in plain sight. If we really think about it, we already know what...

Medical Response to Terrorism: Preparedness and Clinical Practice

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004

Even two decades ago, few would have imagined that terrorism would be planned and carried out on such an enormous scale as it is today. Terrorist attacks rely on horror and surprise, invoking different times, places, victims, and methods. Their purpose is to cause widespread confusion, fear, injury, and death. They disrupt security,...

High Commitment High Performance: How to Build A Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage

Jossey-Bass, 2009

"In these economic times this book is more important than ever. A must-read for the leaders of today and tomorrow."

Douglas R. Conant, president and chief executive officer, Campbell Soup Company

Praise for High Commitment, High Performance

"It is seldom that I read a book about leadership and...

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