"Visionary Leadership: How Association Leaders Embrace Disruption in the 21st Century" plays out what it takes to lead associations in a time of accelerating change. It is designed to be a tool for driving boards and executive teams to new levels of performance, and a powerful resource for CEOs seeking to raise their game.The book includes a self-assessment covering twelve competencies sorted into three categories: Market Acumen, Association Leadership, and Personal Power. You'll find stor...

An innovative communication method for making change happen in any organizationGetting Change Right presents a new view of leadership communication that says change doesn't flow top-down, bottom-up, or sideways, but inside-out. This is how change spreads through a complex system successfully-the other options are force or failure. Based on years of experience with organizations around the world, change expert Kahan presents a new model of communication, one that moves from...

Real-world strategies for uncovering potential and capitalizing on opportunityInnovation is worth little unless it generates lasting success, and gaining measurable results from new ideas requires more than creative risk-taking. Successful innovation demands a tactical approach, and Getting Innovation Right reveals how your company can secure real traction and growth in the marketplace. With Seth Kahan's outcome-based approach, based on his experience lead...

Getting Change Right presents a new view of leadership communication that says change doesn't flow top-down, bottom-up, or sideways, but inside-out. When the right people are having the right conversations and interactions, then they act in concert even though the situations they confront independently are impossible to predict or coordinate... this is how change spreads through a complex system. In this book, Kahan challenges readers with a new model of communication, one that moves from ...

Getting Innovation Right departs from the conventional wisdom of innovation, which encourages creativity, freewheeling experiments, tolerance for mistakes and failures, play, intuition, collaboration, curiosity, and so on. Play and curiosity are a wonderful part of everyday life and have their place in creating a culture of high performance, but they are not enough to drive results in the harsh realities of commerce. This book takes a hard-nosed stance and says, innovation is nothing if it...

The pressure surrounding the sales manager is intense. Given the task of recruiting, managing, and motivating a top team of high-performing sales professions, so much of the sales manager’s success is dependent on others. Or is it?Sales expert Brian Tracy has spent decades studying the most successful sales managers and professionals in every industry. In this indispensable pocket-sized resource, he has encapsulated 6 key characteristics of a winning sales team. In Sales Management, he dis...

These Are Some Of The Tips You Will Find In The Book :* What Is Lean Manufacturing?* Lean Manufacturing Tools* Questions, Diagnostics And Assesments* Areas In Business Where Lean Can Help* 5 Steps To Enable Lean Manufacturing Into Your Business* Lean Manufacturing And Consulting Firms In The UK* Definition Of Lean Manufacturing* Important Lean Manufacturing Terms : Definition* Lean Manufacturing Led Signs* Lean Manufact...

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 h...

Is your company spending too much time on strategy development—with too little to show for it?If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring “What Is Strategy?” by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will i...

Nothing is more crucial to landing your dream job than a stellar performance in the all-important interview, that nerve-wracking final step to every job search. Extensively updated and revised for today's highly competitive employment market, this compact, concise handbook will prepare you for the most challenging and frequently asked questions you can expect to encounter. Following each question is a list of savvy, can't-miss sample answers, which can be easily modified to reflect your ow...

An introduction to the most enduring ideas on management from Harvard Business ReviewChange is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. That's what makes this book "must read." These are the 10 seminal articles by management's most influential experts, on topics of perennial concern to ambitious managers and leaders hungry for inspiration--and ready to run with big ideas to accelerate their...

Harvard Business Essentials are comprehensive, solution-oriented paperbacks for business readers of all levels of experience. Managing through change and crisis is difficult in any business environment, let alone one as turbulent as managers face today. This timely guide offers authoritative advice on how to recognize the need for organizational change, communicate the vision, prepare for structural change such as M&A, and address emotional responses to downsizing. With tools for managing ...