What does disruptive innovation really mean?How can the Eisenhower matrix help you manage your time?And when will you reach that all-important tipping point?By summarising and explaining the best business thinking, this book will help you to get to grips with - and apply - 50 key ideas, including:· Classics like Sun Tzu's Art of War and Dale Carnegie's rules of influence· Fundamentals like emotional intelligence, ps...

Innovation leaders promote and address the innovation agenda in their company. Through personal conviction or competitive necessity they are obsessed with providing superior value to customers through innovation. They know how to mobilize their staff behind concrete innovation initiatives and do not hesitate to personally coach innovation teams.For innovation to occur leadership has to be collective. To create a momentum for innovation in their company, leaders from different funct...

The business leader's guide to creating a great workplace from the Great Place to Work InstituteIn this follow-up guide to The Great Workplace, experts from Great Place to Work® Institute, Inc. reveal the most common excuses managers use for why they can't create a great workplace. Authors Jennifer Robin and Michael Burchell poke holes in every single excuse. Whether the reasons involve the organization's leadership, employees, environment, or any other fa...

Managing people just got easierThe book gives you a sound understanding of the concept of people management; the role of people managers; people motivational theories; the various people management styles and their appropriateness; the tools available to people managers to help them do their jobs effectively; techniques for managing performance; and an insight into how people managers candevelop their teams.Management, along with leadership, is one of the mo...

Creating a Coaching Culture will help coaches and coaching companies to be more effective in the market place, by using an approach that works to create a coaching culture and integrates coaching well into organisations

The Accountable Leader is centred around three themes - leadership, accountability and organizational structure, and explores what it means for managers to be held to account at all levels in an organization. It will show that most leadership related problems arise from the ineffectiveness of organisational structures that lack accountable jobs.Complete with case study material and international examples, ***The Accountable Leader***brings home the importa...

Clearly structured in 36 short sections, this practical book provides rapid, accessible advice on all the essential management challenges.Focusing on the managers key role - managing teams to get things done, this book looks at the essential parts of management from unusual perspectives and different angles.Structured with the busy manager in mind, you can dip into any section of the book and read it as an individual piece of advice or read it end-to-end to gain an overall...

Learn all you need to know about successful delegation from decidingwhich tasks to delegate and selecting an appropriate candidate toensuring the brief is clear and the task is carried out to yoursatisfaction. Managing Change not only shows you how to free your timeand motivate your staff but also provides practical techniques to trywhen delegating. Power tips help you handle real-life situations anddevelop first-class delegation skills that will d...

How can I develop an effective workplace learning culture to drive employee and business success? This new edition of Workplace Learning provides the knowledge and tools to create an outstanding learning culture in the new world of work.It's no longer enough for Learning and Development professionals to only offer a catalogue of workplace learning courses: competing effectively in today's business environment requires organizations and their employees to adapt and ...

The experts' guide to how to manage and work with the people and teams you are responsible for. Here are the checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to getting the most from those you have to manage and work with, on such topics as:Getting the right people and getting the people right; Team briefing; Effective verbal communication with groups; Facilitating; Developing trust; Empowerment; Successful delegation; Setting SMART objectives; Motivati...

All the tools you need for management success, this effective, compact guide will enable you to quickly grasp key management concepts and techniques. Contents include: Benchmarking, Branding, Core competition, Empowerment, Leadership, Mergers and acquisitions, Project management and the Supply chain.

Professional services firms - from the legal sector to accountancy, consulting and beyond - face increased disruption. Service delivery models are under pressure to adapt to changing client expectations. Technology offers new ways of working with clients, but changes the skills profile required of professionals, and threatens the traditional people-centred business model. The Professional Services Leadership Handbook equips leaders, and aspiring leaders, with tool...