The Proteus Leadership Centres

This book offers a fascinating look into the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their first year in a managerial capacity. It reveals the complexity of the transition and analyzes the expectations of the managers, their subordinates, and their superiors. Through trial and error, observation and interpretation, the new managers learn what it takes to become effective business leaders... More Info

Practical and inspiring, Becoming a Resonant Leader is your hands-on guide to developing emotional intelligence, renewing and sustaining yourself and your relationships, and taking your leadership to a whole new level. This book is ideal for anyone seeking personal and professional development and for consultants, coaches, teachers, and faculty to use with their clients or students. More Info

The classic bestseller on performance management is updated to reflect changes in today's working environment. When an employer needs to know how to gain maximum performance from employees, renowned behavioral psychologist--Aubrey Daniels is the man to consult. What has made Daniels the man with the answers? His ability to apply scientifically based behavioral stimuli to the workplace while making it fun at the same time. More Info

The idea for this book grew out of an international conference organized by the National College for School Leadership, An International Future: learning from best practice worldwide, which explored innovative and significant aspects of educational leadership and brought together international colleagues to generate new understandings. The conference proved a dynamic forum for debate for researchers, academics, policy-makers and practitioners. It was clear at the conference that there was a consensus of understanding around certain key themes that crossed national boundaries. In Developing Leadership, well-known international contributors explore this consensus to promote the key themes which reflect our best present understanding of good school leadership, and to inform school leaders about leading edge thinking which bears on their role. More Info

James Spillane, the leading expert in Distributed Leadership, shows how leadership happens in everyday practices in schools, through formal routines and informal interactions. He examines the distribution of leadership among administrators, specialists, and teachers in the school, and explains the ways in which leadership practice is stretched over leaders, followers, and aspects of the situation, including routines and tools of various sorts in the organization such as memos, scheduling procedures, and evaluation protocols. This book is a volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education; a series designed to meet the demand for new ideas and insights about leadership in schools. More Info

More than ten years after his first bestselling book, The E-Myth, changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of small business owners, Michael Gerber - entrepreneur, author, and speaker extraordinaire - fires the next salvo in his highly successful E-Myth Revolution. More Info

Building on the phenomenal success of The E-Myth Revisited, bestselling author Michael Gerber presents the next step in his program, E-Myth Mastery. E-Myth Mastery is a business development program that helps you turn your company into a world-class operation...into a turn-key money machine! More Info

There's an old saying that if the first thing you do in the morning is to eat a live frog, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that it's probably the worst thing you'll do all day. EAT THAT FROG! takes this saying as a metaphor for learning how to focus on the most important things and make sure they get done. More Info

In Ethical Leadership, Robert Starrat - one of the leading thinkers on the topic of ethics and education - shows educational leaders how to move beyond more technical efficiency in the delivery and performance of learning. More Info

Addressing today's most pressing work issues with an engaging metaphor and an appealing message, Fish! offers wisdom that is easy to grasp, instantly applicable, and profound. More Info

The bestselling "Fish!" philosophy is now applied to keeping any company's vision alive and renewed, using the example of a fictional sushi bar that is always two steps ahead of the competition. The business parable employs the same kind of easy-to-read story that was used in "Fish!" to illustrate its three major principles of continued success: Commit, Be It, and Coach It. More Info

This inspiring follow up to FISH! offers exciting case-studies of how companies are applying the fish philosophy to meet their unique goals and needs. FISH TALES features four real-life stories of the fish principle in action - to help you 'reel' in new possibilities in the workplace - and four short chapters, also from actual organisations, on the four principles of the FISH! philosophy. More Info

How can companies recruit, retain, train, motivate, and reward great employees - especially in a tight labor market? How can they win new customers and boost sales? The secret is to lighten up and get a little weird! Creativity and productivity can go hand in hand, as this chock-full-of-ideas book amply shows. More Info

How To Build A Great Team is the guide to honing your people skills to create and get the best from your team. It examines the essential skills, identifies the best way to handle particular people or situations, and also shows how those techniques work. More Info

Even more relevant now than it was when it was published more than a decade ago, Influence Without Authority, Second Edition is the classic guide to getting things done with colleagues, customers, and management - any situation in which you are not in charge, but must get results. More Info

In Leadership On The Line, renowned leadership authorities Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky marshal a half century of combined teaching and consulting experience to show that it is possible to put ourselves on the line, respond effectively to the risks, and live to celebrate our efforts. More Info

Leadership Revelations - An Australian Perspective is an invaluable professional reference for any manager or team leader, and for anyone who aspires to become a leader. More Info

The world's foremost expert on business leadership distills twenty-five years of experience and wisdom based on lessons he has learned from scores of organisations and businesses to write this visionary guide. The result is a very personal book that is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future. More Info

Change is an inevitable part of today's organisational life. To survive as a leader you must develop the skills that will mobilize your constituents to do important work no matter how fast the world around you is changing. More Info

Leading Strategic Change systematically shows how to make the most important change of all: "redrawing" individuals' mental maps with new destinations and paths. Black and Gregersen identify the brain barriers that keep strategic change from success: failure to see, failure to move, and failure to finish. More Info