The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

• • Authors: James M Kouzes, Barry Z Posner

  • Summary: The Leadership Challenge is the gold-standard manual for effective leadership, grounded in research and written by the premier authorities in the field. With deep insight into the complex interpersonal dynamics of the workplace, this book positions leadership both as a skill to be learned, and as a relationship that must be nurtured to reach its full potential. This new sixth edition has been revised to address current challenges, and includes more international examples and a laser focus on business issues; you'll learn how extraordinary leaders accomplish extraordinary things, and how to develop your leadership skills and style to deliver quality results every time. Engaging stories delve into the fundamental roles that great leaders fulfill, and simple frameworks provide a primer for those who seek continuous improvement; by internalizing key insights and putting concepts into action, you'll become a more effective, more impactful leader.

A good leader gets things done; a great leader aspires, inspires, and achieves more. This book highlights the differences between good and great, and shows you how to bridge the chasm between getting things done and making things happen.

• • • Gain deep insight into leadership's critical role in organizational health

    • Navigate the shift toward team-oriented work relationships

    • Motivate and inspire to break through the pervasive new cynicism

    • Leverage the electronic global village to deliver better results

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

• • Author:  Patrick M Lencioni 

  • Summary:  There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides.  Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified.  Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni’s first non-fiction book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health―complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from his experiences consulting to some of the nation’s leading organizations. 

Becoming a Great Leader: Lessons from Silicon Valley

• • Author: Gustavo Rabin Ph.D

  • Summary: In Becoming a Great Leader, leading Silicon Valley business psychologist and international corporate attorney Dr. Gustavo Rabin presents dynamic, transformative tools and strategies for today's business leaders. Through the compelling stories of eight executives who have sought out his assistance, Dr. Rabin presents insightful approaches to leadership change that he has utilized with executives at Google, Intel, Linkedin, Cisco, Yahoo!, Roche, Barclays, AMD and so many other companies.

The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company

• • Authors: Ram Charan, Stphen Drotter  

  • Summary:  An updated and revised version of the bestselling The Leadership Pipeline – the critical resource for how companies can grow leaders from the inside.  In business, leadership at every level is a requisite for company survival. Yet the leadership pipeline –the internal strategy to grow leaders – in many companies is dry or nonexistent. Drawing on their experiences at many Fortune 500 companies, the authors show how organizations can develop leadership at every level by identifying future leaders, assessing their corporate confidence, planning their development, and measuring their results. New to this edition is 65 pages of new material to update the model, share new stories and add new advice based on the ten more years of experience. The authors have also added a "Frequently Asked Questions" section to the end of each chapter.

It Worked For Me : In Life and Leadership

• • Author: Colin Powell  

  • Summary:  Colin Powell, one of America’s most admired public figures, reveals the principles that have shaped his life and career in this inspiring and engrossing memoir. A beautiful companion to his previous memoir, the #1 New York Times bestseller My American Journey, Powell’s It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership is a trove of wisdom for anyone hoping to achieve their goals and turn their dreams into reality. A message of strength and endurance from a man who has dedicated his life to public service, It Worked for Me is a book with the power to show readers everywhere how to achieve a more fulfilling life and career.

Extraordinary Results: Mastering the Art of Leading, Coaching & Influencing Other

• Authors: Joe Contrera

• Summary: Whether you have been leading others for twenty days or twenty years, your ability to lead is directly connected to your ability to influence. Leading, Coaching & Influencing others is an art, if you want to achieve Extraordinary Results, you must not only possess the tools needed to lead, coach, and influence others, you must master these skills. In his latest book, Extraordinary Results, leadership expert, Joe Contrera shares the concepts and ideas from his in-depth leadership program with you, so you can start Mastering the Art of Leading, Coaching, and Influencing others today!

You Will Learn How To:

• • Influence others instead of trying to control them so you can exponentially increase the productivity of your team.

  • Facilitate group discussions by leveraging the power of the team to work together and create their own solutions to their challenges and problems.

  • Handle one-on-one Coaching conversations in a way that reduces conflict and gives team members a greater sense of purpose and meaning from their work.

  • Mastering the Art of Asking Powerful Questions so that accountability and ownership for the work is on your team and not on you.

  • Leverage the skills professional speakers use to influence and engage their audience.

  • Remove the obstacles that are slowing your career advancement

  • And so much more...

Leadership Just Got Personal

• • Author: Steven Brian Fulmer  

  • Summary:  The quintessential question of the ages: Are leaders born or made? The answer? Yes! Each of us is born with the innate gifts of leadership. We're all naturally capable of inspiring ourselves and others to dream more, learn more and do more. But for many of us, we have come to believe that we have things to learn, that we need permission to step into this greatness known as leadership. In this powerful compilation of stories and essays, you'll learn new skills and profound lessons to draw out your innate leadership. Whether you are a leader today, an aspiring leader of tomorrow or simply ready to step up and take charge of your life, your way, today, this book is for you.

Unite!: The 4 Mindset Shifts for Senior Leaders

• • Author: Sal Silvester  

  • Summary:  For many senior leaders, promotion is just the start of a whole new set of unexpected challenges. There are executive leaders to please and junior leaders to lead. Many for the first time are asked to work on multiple teams with peers who have competing priorities. They might now be responsible for areas of the organization in which they don’t have technical expertise. Some senior leaders seem to have advanced through the sheer force of driving results, often at the cost of high employee compliance and burnout. Others appear to have attained senior roles through the influence of their charismatic personality, without producing much in the way of sustained business outcomes.  Unite! The 4 Mindset Shifts for Senior Leaders explores the four shifts in mindset that help a senior leader balance both results and relationships so they can ultimately unite the people around them. Audiences will walk away with new insights and distinctions of how to transition successfully into senior leadership roles. Senior leaders will learn to fine tune how they function with their team and other senior leaders and to build a strong succession framework.