Learn IT - Books tags leadership

Virtual Teams: Projects, Protocols and Processes

IGI Global, 2003

Virtual teams are a relatively new phenomenon and by definition work across time, distance, and organizations through the use of information and communications technology. Virtual Teams: Projects, Protocols and Processes gathers the best of academic research on real work-based virtual teams into one book. It offers a series of chapters...

Leading the Virtual Workforce: How Great Leaders Transform Organizations in the 21st Century

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

As it turns out Bennis underestimated the impact that bad leadership can have. A combination of greed, hubris, flawed judgment, and miscalculation has made the Enron debacle seem almost quaint by comparison to the global financial crisis that we now face. Although numerous pundits and scholars have advanced many reasons for the...

Success in Programming: How to Gain Recognition, Power, and Influence Through Personal Branding

Apress, 2014

Why should you, a competent software developer or programmer, care about your own brand? After all, it’s not like you're an actor or musician.

In fact, as Success in Programming: How to Gain Recognition, Power, and Influence Through Personal Branding demonstrates in...

Skip the Line: The 10,000 Experiments Rule and Other Surprising Advice for Reaching Your Goals

Harper Perennial, 2021

The entrepreneur, angel investor, and bestselling author of Choose Yourself busts the 10,000-hour rule of achieving mastery, offering a new mindset and dozens of techniques that will inspire any professional—no matter their age or managerial level—to pursue their passions and quickly acquire the skills...

Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words

McGraw-Hill, 2006

Should you sweat the small stuff?

Absolutely, says Stephen Young-especially when it comes to those critical behaviors that can make or break performance. The reason is simple: no matter what you think you're saying, your words, gestures, and tone of voice can actually communicate something entirely different.

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Becoming a Values-Based Leader

Information Age Publishing, 2012

What is Values-Based Leadership? How does one become a Values-Based Leader? Why Value-Based Leadership? Certainly these are critical questions. It is now widely recognized that effective leaders, from Martin Luther King through political leaders and corporate executives, have a foundation of values that guide their decision-making, and...

A Culture of Purpose: How to Choose the Right People and Make the Right People Choose You

Jossey-Bass, 2014

How innovative leaders create meaningful cultures that attract and retain top talent

Building a culture of purpose is one of the greatest challenges facing modern leaders, as today's best minds are looking for meaning, not just jobs. More than any other single factor, cultures of purpose power winning organizations,...

Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Turn back the clock to 1986. One of the authors had an audience with a then education editor of the New York Times as part of a larger effort to kindle media interest in a study this researcher had just launched on college boards of trustees. Less than five minutes into the presentation, the editor interrupted to proclaim,“Governance is a...

Variations in Economic Analysis: Essays in Honor of Eli Schwartz

Springer, 2009

For over fifty years, Eli Schwartz has inspired generations of economists through his prolific publications and dedicated in teaching. In 2008, the Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise at Lehigh University invited prominent academics and practitioners—including Nobel Prize recipients, Robert Solow and Harry Markowitz, and...

Adobe Creative Suite 2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies(r)

For Dummies, 2005

6 books in 1—your key to success with CS2!

Your one-stop guide to creating great graphics with all the cool CS2 tools

They all work together, and now you have one guide to help you work with each of them! First, you'll get the "big picture" tour of the suite. Then you'll be ready to create perfect pages with...

Building Engaged Team Performance: Align Your Processes and People to Achieve Game-Changing Business Results

McGraw-Hill, 2010

Harness the Power of Your Most Valuable Resource—Your Workforce!

Process improvement approaches like Six Sigma and Lean Enterprise have worked wonders for countless organizations, but in the drive for true excellence, these approaches are only one important part of the formula.

Building Engaged...

The Innovation Handbook: How to Profit from Your Ideas, Intellectual Property and Market Knowledge

Kogan Page, 2010

Unique features, distinctive capabilities and exclusive know-how are the surest way to stay ahead of the market for any length of time. But the way these points of difference are created and commercialized is changing. The difficulty for most organizations is not in generating ideas, but in pursuing the right one at the...

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