leadership

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Leadership skills

2009
Discusses the importance of leadership skills at work, and explains how to work with others, organize and complete projects, and learn to be a leader.

The mentor leader

secrets to building people and teams that win consistently
2010
Former professional American football player and National Football League coach, Tony Dungy shares the seven keys of mentoring leadership and why they are so effective.

Delivering happiness

a path to profits, passion, and purpose
2010
Tony Hsieh reveals the secrets and strategies he used to find prosperity, wealth, and purpose at a young age and explains how others can use those same strategies to improve their own lives.

Presidential decisions

the burden of leadership in the 20th century
1997
Contains reports, photographs, and charts, drawn from the pages of "Time" magazine, that tell the stories of some of the most significant presidential decisions made since 1935, and includes a teaching guide, as well as a timeline banner that lists milestones of the presidency from 1896 to 1996.

Four legs bad, two legs good!

2007
While all of the other animals on a tumbledown farm wait on Farmer Orvie, a pig, who spends a great deal of time sleeping, an unhappy Duck decides that she would be a better farmer and sets out to convince Orvie.

Leadership

2002
Rudolph Giuliani, mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2002, discusses the events of September 11, 2001, as he experienced them, describes the principles of leadership he has developed or adopted over the course of his career as a lawyer and politician, and shows how he put those rules into action to help the city recover after the terrorist attack.

Leading change

1996
Author believes that most attempts to transform companies into stronger competitors fail because the implemented changes do not alter employee behavior. In this book he presents an eight-step process designed to provide the leadership and positive role models needed to accomplish positive, productive change.

Careers for born leaders & other decisive types

1998
Discusses career opportunities available for people with leadership skills, providing advice from managers, administrators, and leaders in a variety of fields, including government, education, and health services; and features a list of related professional associations.

Wooden on leadership

2005
UCLA basketball coach John Wooden presents guidance on leadership, covering such topics as teamwork, self-control, and dealing with defeat, and includes excerpts from his private notebooks and commentary on his leadership techniques by such figures as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Gail Goodrich.

The Powell principles

24 lessons from Colin Powell, battle-proven leader
2005

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