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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

Gary Hamel, world-renowned business thinker and coauthor of Competing for the Future, the book that set the management agenda for the 1990s, now delivers an agenda for the twenty-first century with the national bestseller, Leading the Revolution. Fully revised with a new introduction, this book provides an action plan for any company or individual intent on becoming and staying an industry revolutionary. Hamel argues that the fundamental challenge companies face is reinventing themselves and their industries, not just in times of crisis - but continually. More Info

Life Eyes is a powerful yet humorous look at how people see and deal with life issues on a daily basis. It motivates us to look past the things we see with our natural eyes and through our life eyes understand what is really happening in each situation. More Info

A practical, jargon-free and easily accessible book on making a difference as a leader Liquid Leadership draws on a diverse list of leaders in everyday life (Kim England, National Sales Training Manager at Unilever), to showbiz celebrities (John Lennon, Walt Disney), to renowned historical leaders (Shackleton, Eisenhower, Steve Jobs).

There are no stuffy theories here. Instead, the book jumps energetically between film references from the Wizard of Oz, Alfie and Superman to the leadership styles of World-Cup winning coaches Alf Ramsay and Clive Woodward. More Info

In his incredibly successful titles, The 80/20 Principle and The 80/20 Individual Koch demonstrates to the reader how to use the 80/20 principle, achieving more with less in a predominately business context. In this long awaited third book, Koch now helps the reader to succeed personally as well as professionally, to make a good life as well as a living. More Info

The president and CEO of Scandinavia Airlines (SAS) shows how to adapt to the new customer-driven economy. More Info

Schein shows how to identify, nurture, and shape the cultures of organisations in any stage of development, and presents critical new learnings and practices in the field, including additional work on subcultures. The result is a vital aid to understanding and practising organisational effectiveness. More Info

A new way to handle people differences at work, from the authors of Social Style/Management Style. More Info

Power Thinking is an invaluable resource for leaders. It contains profiles of twenty three outstanding leaders from a wide variety of organisations and describes the thinking strategies that they regulary use. More Info

Staying Sane in a Changing World is a handbook to help navigate our new world. Margot Cairnes, international futurist, author and keynote speaker, has compiled a series of inspirational essays, reflections and thought-starters from her work for national and international professional journals and magazines. These essays present new ways of looking at a range of issues - from work, to leadership, to spirituality and family life - and how they interconnect. More Info

Jack Canfield reveals the simple set of rules for success that led him to become the multi-million-copy bestselling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and shows how anyone can follow these principles to achieve their own dreams. More Info

Some people appear to be "natural born leaders." But are they literally born that way? Or have they been taught, coached, rewarded, and reinforced in ways that enable them to be leaders?
This book identifies the skill set that causes others to see people as natural born leaders, helps readers assess their current level of these skills, and coaches readers to master their weak areas. More Info

In the more than fifteen years since its publication, the classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has become an international phenomenon with over fifteen million copies sold. Tens of millions of people in business, government, schools, and families, and, most important, as individuals have dramatically improved their lives and organisations by applying the principles of Stephen R. Covey's classic book. The world, though, is a vastly changed place. The challenges and complexity we all face in our relationships, families, professional lives, and communities are of an entirely new order of magnitude. Being effective as individuals and organisations is no longer merely an option -- survival in today's world requires it. But in order to thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in what Covey calls the "New Knowledge Worker Age", we must build on and move beyond effectiveness.

The call of this new era in human history is for greatness; it's for fulfillment, passionate execution, and significant contribution. Accessing the higher levels of human genius and motivation in today's new reality requires a sea change in thinking: a new mind-set, a new skill-set, a new tool-set -- in short, a whole new habit. The crucial challenge of our world today is this: to find our voice and inspire others to find theirs. It is what Covey calls the 8th Habit. More Info

The Accidental Leader is for people who have recently been thrust into leadership roles and need to know what to do, right now. More Info

In this first new and totally revised edition of the 150,000-copy underground bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. More Info

The Effective Leader focuses on the total person and offers ideas and understandings to apply to all aspects of life. Vicki Bennett and Ian Mathieson explore nine key challenges facing leaders today and argue that balance in life can be achieved systematically and purposefully. If we can successfully balance our mind, body and spirit we can also balance our work, family life and recreational pursuits. More Info

Bestselling author Noel Tichy with top American leaders and faculty of UMBS candidly highlights the dilemmas business leaders are facing, the decisions some are making, and the reasoning that all must contemplate. Business leaders must win the renewed support of a sceptical public not through manipulation, like another new product or fad, but with foundations of ethical absolutes the world can trust. And, in so doing, they need help. More Info

Written in an engaging, conversational style, this classic skill-building book is more than ever an indispensible tool for anyone starting a career in management. More Info

A stellar cast of the world's foremost leadership gurus come together in one book to offer their thoughts on leadership in the new economy. No other book available includes the calibre of contributors and the range of thinking included here. More Info

In this powerful follow-up book--organized around Leading Change's revolutionary eight-step change process--Kotter and co-author Dan Cohen reveal the results of their research in over 100 organizations in the midst of large-scale change. What they found may surprise you. More Info

The Leader's Way takes leaders on a progressive path, first learning new techniques for themselves, then for their organisations, before applying them on a global scale to address such vital topics as poverty, sustainability, diversity, and environmental responsibility - all areas that are affected by the workings of the global marketplace. More Info

Bass publisher's bestselling leadership book has been completely revised to meet the challenges of today's business realities. The authors explore the evolving essence of quality leadership in public and private organisations. They demonstrate how visionary leaders accomplish extraordinary things, and they address current challenges such as the new cynicism, the electronic global village, and the shift to team-oriented work relationships. More Info

The Naked Leader is a distillation of David Taylor's ideas and inspiration - ideas that have made him Europe's most sought after speaker on leadership and personal growth. David is known as the "Naked Leader" because of his extraordinary ability to strip away the uncertainty and doubt, and conclusively show that everything we need to be successful, we already have. More Info

Unveiling sceintific evidence that links organisational success or failure to 'primal leadership', this groundbreaking book argues that a leader's emotions are contagious, and must resonate energy and enthusiasm if an organisation is to thrive. More Info

The leaders of American and Japanese industry have made this book compulsory reading for all their managers. You can't afford to miss out. More Info

This completely up-to-date Third Edition of the ultimate labour saving, stress busting, career boosting guide helps you take complete control of every challenge and chore you face at work. Completely retooled to address the evolving demands of the modern workplace. More Info

A global best-seller now in paperback, The Truth About Managing People offers real solutions for the make-or-break problems faced by every manager. You'll discover how to overcome the true obstacles to teamwork; why too much communication can be as dangerous as too little; how to improve your hiring and employee evaluations; how to heal "layoff survivor sickness"; even how to "learn charisma." More Info

This bookpack is a great way to get started with time management. Eat that Frog and the Personal Efficiency Program are two fantastic reads that will you teach you the skills for effectively managing your workload. The value of these two books is over $50.

For more hints and tips for Time Management take a look at our Time Management for Leaders workshop - https://www.proteuscentre.com/workshops-seminars/time-management More Info

In this new book, Lawler shows how organisations can treat people right by doing more than ensuring workers have good working conditions, fair supervision, good pay and benefits. More Info

Every company, indeed every organization, is a tribe, or if it's large enough, a network of tribes—groups of 20 to 150 people in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of everyone else. Tribes are more powerful than teams, companies, or even CEOs, and yet their key leverage points have not been mapped—until now. In Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright show leaders how to assess their organization's tribal culture on a scale from one to five and then implement specific tools to elevate the stage to the next. The result is unprecedented success. More Info

This book is for those who don t want to be sheep and instead have a desire to do fresh and exciting work. If you have a passion for what you want to do and the drive to make it happen, there is a tribe of fellow employees, or customers, or investors, or readers, just waiting for you to connect them with each other and lead them where they want to go. More Info

Carolyn Taylor provides a ground-breaking guide to all aspects of the crucial discipline of building an effective culture, showing readers how to lead, define, plan, analyse and capitalise on culture to transform themselves and their organisations. More Info

This series provides managers with a toolkit of simple, clear, practical actions that will help them successfully deal with the complex task of people management. More Info

Drawing on private records, letters, and long-lost documents of the Song dynasty (tenth to thirteenth centuries), this book consists of short excerpts written in language that is accessible to the reader without any background in Eastern philosophy. It serves as a study of the personal qualities and conduct necessary for the mastery of any position of power and authority, whether religious, social, political, or organizational. More Info