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In Mission-Driven Leadership, Mark Bertolini, the long-time chairman and CEO of Aetna, the Fortune 500 health insurance company, reveals that genuine leadership is not about dollars and market share, but about improving lives and communities.

In The Diary of a West Point Cadet, by Captain Preston Pysh, the author teaches essential West Point leadership through the most fun and unique reading of any book in its class. Each intriguing firsthand account of Preston's top 12 enthralling and hilarious stories from attending West Point, will capture your interest and imagination. The stories walk the reader down a personal journey many outsiders never see behind the thick stoney walls.

A trajetória de um gestor que esteve no leme de importantes instituições em períodos de grande turbulência da vida nacional. Nesta obra, Roberto Lobo descreve todo o percurso que trilhou para construir sua vitoriosa carreira. Ao lado de Maria Beatriz Lobo, sua esposa e companheira de trabalho, oferece ao leitor uma preciosa contribuição para os debates sobre a gestão universitária, a ciência e a tecnologia, provando-se uma inspiração para futuros líderes institucionais.

Marine Maxims is a collection of fifty principle-based leadership lessons that Thomas J. Gordon acquired commanding Marines over a career spanning three decades of service. Dealing with the complexities and challenges of the contemporary operating environment requires an internal moral compass fixed true. These maxims focus on developing inner citadels of character, moral courage, and the resilience to persevere in a contested domain where information is key. Its purpose is to provide future leaders with a professional development plan that will enable them to lead with honor.

“Leading Healthcare Transformation: Doctors, Nurses, and Managers at the Helm” is an exhaustive analysis of the modern dynamics in the healthcare sector, with a particular emphasis on middle management leadership. It provides a deep dive into the roles, responsibilities, and leadership abilities required by different professionals, including doctors, nurses, and managers.

John has been transforming ideas into reality for the world's leading individuals, organizations, and governments for over two decades. John has had consistent success with Fortune 100 corporations, entrepreneur-led organizations, and individuals at growing business and scaling secure.

Listen to the voices of a selected group of Latin American leaders share how they emerged and grew. Learn from their stories. Living in Latin America as a foreigner means you have experienced awkward moments and bewildering misunderstandings. All leaders are influenced by their culture.

The Substance of Leadership is a concise and practical guide that teaches you how to lead a high-performing team. Based on more than three decades of experience with high-performing teams operating in high-pressure environments from aircraft carriers to combat to TOPGUN to the business world, David Robinson takes you on an experiential journey distilling the complexities of leadership into a simple, enduring framework that will maximize your leadership effectiveness.

Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very problems it seeks to solve. Aging is not a disease to be cured; it is a life stage to be lived. Lazris argues that aggressive treatments cannot change that fact but only get in the way and decrease quality of life.

Are you considering headship? Are you looking for advice about whether that would be a good career move for you? Maybe you're applying for roles, or have secured one and are wondering how to manage the transition. Jill believes that the qualities that make you a good teacher are closely related to those which will serve you well in leadership.

Turning Around a Troubled School is the story of a very public leadership challenge in reversing the fortunes of a failing government school in the affluent eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. The school population had crashed from over 1,000 students to just over 250, and the school had been given only 12 months to turn around, otherwise it would be closed. Peter Hutton, a new principal with a bold vision, took on the task. Eight years later, the population had grown to over 1,000, and the school was recognized internationally as one of the most innovative in the world.

In this book, you'll find simple, actionable strategies for success in all areas of life. This book will show you how to master leadership growth by presenting you with the right strategies to boost your professional and leadership skills, cultivate ambition and drive, and spread your influence. With this knowledge, you'll be able to start conquering your goals and bring your dreams to life.

Discover the six ingredients to becoming a supreme leader, even if you are just starting out.

The work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource, or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for. The Public Professor offers scholars ways to use their ideas, research, and knowledge to change the world.

Voltado a gestores à frente de pequenas, médias e grandes empresas ou em início de carreira, este audiolivro apresenta as ferramentas e técnicas mais contemporâneas e funcionais da Administração de maneira fácil e coerente. A partir das metodologias Balanced Scorecard, Teoria das Restrições, Manufatura Enxuta, Seis Sigma, iTLS, Liderança Situacional, Disc, Motivadores, entre outras, o ouvinte aprende a gerenciar um projeto em organizações com fins lucrativos de modo a obter os melhores resultados em gestão e liderança.

Leadership: Elevate Yourself and Those Around You - Influence, Business Skills, Coaching, & Communication will help both aspiring and seasoned leaders prepare for the most challenging and noble task. By implementing the strategies taught, you will definitely maximize your potential as a leader by gaining the respect and trust of those around you. You will become more approachable and easy to work with. Your communication skills will become top-notch; people will find you irresistible, which will open the way for meaningful conversations at work.

Perfect for students, workers, and anyone interested in leadership. Do you want to become a leader? Do you want to know what’s involved in leadership? Do you want to improve your leadership? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, then this is the audiobook for you. We explore over 15 aspects to leadership and within each section together we will explore: What these aspects are, how they can help to make you a good leader, and a practical example so you can see your knowledge in a real-world setting.

You Know it's a Verb, Right? begins a new discussion with bold, yet simple and timeless concepts about leadership. It demonstrates how leadership must become a verb and positively develop individuals across the leadership spectrum who believe there is more to leadership than meets the eye. Taking you through the tenets of leadership and how a consistent practice that begins with an above reproach moral compass paves the way for leadership growth and development, You Know it's a Verb, Right? affirms you can become better leaders.

Just as your power bill continues to rise, the sun also rises. Why are we letting a renewable resource that beams down on us each day go to waste? Solar energy is no longer a distant dream of the future. It is a real, viable option for America’s power needs, and T.J. Kanczuzewski of Inovateus Solar is mapping out a path for energy independence for anyone looking for clean, renewable power.

Selecting the right team member consists of two primary phases: choosing the right candidate, and taking the appropriate steps to ensure they are successful. In this guide, we will help you through both phases. We wrote this guide as we felt there was a need for a condensed to-the-point aid in selecting new team members. However, we also felt there was a need to ensure the team and their new member start their journey together on the right foot.