Intelligent Leadership

In today’s business environment, leaders at all levels are facing enormous challenges when it comes to achieving and sustaining breakthrough operating results. Globalization, economic change, more stringent regulation, and tougher governance make realizing shareholder value increasingly difficult. Intelligent Leadership is written for leaders who want to become more effective, strategic, operationally focused, and balanced. It is for leaders who are striving to take control of their destiny and become the best they can be.

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership is a groundbreaking book that combines the concepts of emotional intelligence and leadership in one model - emotionally intelligent leadership (EIL). This important resource offers students a practical guide for developing their EIL capacities and emphasizes that leadership is a learnable skill that is based on developing healthy and effective relationships.

What is great leadership? What separates the merely competent leaders from those rare individuals who leave a lasting impression on everyone around them? As one of the world's most in-demand CEO coaches and top leadership gurus, John Mattone has worked with some of our brightest business minds - Apple's Steve Jobs, Pepsi's Roger Enrico, and Nielsen's Armando Uriegas - and he's identified the key qualities that, together, make up the mindset of great leadership.

Become a better leader by improving your emotional intelligence. Best-selling author Daniel Goleman first brought the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) to the forefront of business through his articles in Harvard Business Review, establishing EI as an indispensable trait for leaders. The Emotionally Intelligent Leader brings together three of Goleman's best-selling HBR articles.

Linda Kohanov, author of the bestselling The Tao of Equus, pioneered a deep understanding of "the way of the horse," including the extraordinary nonverbal communication of skilled riders and the collaborative power of "herding cultures" through the centuries. She has adapted this profound, time-tested approach to modern life and the organizations in which top-down management hierarchies have become obsolete.

Driven entrepreneurs seem to always be in search of their "unicorn" team - that match made in heaven that opens the door to freedom and endless possibility. Unfortunately, huge obstacles - the "elephants" - tend to get in the way. Bringing her expertise from HR to EQ, Caroline Stokes offers real-world solutions to the people management problems business owners like you face right now.

In 1998, three Harvard Business School graduates - two men and one woman - turned down six-figure salaries at big corporations, bet on themselves, and launched their own new companies. By their 10-year reunion, their audacity had paid huge dividends. They'd made many millions of dollars, created hundreds of jobs and left their mark on the world. The Intelligent Entrepreneur tells the compelling and instructive story of how these three young founders did it.

Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself.

The ability of businesses to survive and thrive often requires unconventional thinking and calculated risk taking. The key is to make the right decisions - even under the most risky, uncertain, and turbulent conditions. In the new book, Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise, authors Rick Funston and Steve Wagner suggest that effective risk taking is needed in order to innovate, stay competitive, and drive value creation.

More importantly, the world needs your humanized leadership. You must create trust, clearly communicate, coach powerfully, and customize every step of the way to the various types of people you are privileged to lead. This leader is ever aware that other humans execute the processes which drive the profits—people are always at the center.

Torture in Abu Ghraib prison. Corporate fraud. Falsified records at Veterans Administration hospitals. Teachers pressured to feed test answers to students. These scandals could have been prevented if, early on, people had said no to their higher-ups. In this timely new book, Ira Chaleff goes deeply into when and how to disobey inappropriate orders, reduce unacceptable risk, and find better ways to achieve legitimate goals.The inspiration for the book and its title came from a concept used in guide-dog training.

You have to know your team before you can motivate them, and you have to motivate them before you can manage them. In this book are foolproof techniques to make sure your team connects with you, each other, and everyone they need to get the job done. After all, a team should be more than the sum of its parts - and it’s up to the project manager to provide the glue that holds it all together.

Many of our coaching clientele at Change Masters fit what we call the Intelligent/Impatient Person profile (IIPP). You might be one of them, or you might be dealing with one of them yourself. It's a great tool to have in your arsenal, but it can also mow people down if you're not aware. We'll help give you awareness about IIPP that will help you greatly at work - and at home.

Two of the biggest obstacles to business success are poor communication and poor relationships between team members and leaders. Most don’t realize this, and even fewer have the tools to solve these problems. You don’t have to be most leaders. Intelligent Huddles shows you how to plan, implement, and run daily huddles to improve communication and effectiveness in any organization. Andrea Hemmer uses her in-depth knowledge of neuroscience and expert communication techniques to deliver a brilliant new framework for the daily huddle.

Apply The Emotional Intelligence Key to unlock the "door" to successful relationships, more effective leadership, a healthier work environment and enhanced personal development. This book will introduce you to emotional intelligence and provide practical examples and steps to enhance your application of emotional intelligence to help you unlock the four doors. 

In the same way that an engine in an automobile must be taken care of, a leader must receive the appropriate care and maintenance to function at the highest capacity. This book offers a dynamic and effective approach to boosting your octane for maximum leadership performance. It also offers additives that will keep you performing at your optimum level.

Intelligent influence is defined as "a learned competency that leads to extraordinary results driven by effective human interaction". This groundbreaking publication provides fascinating stories that prove that the strategic use of positive influence is the foundation of individual and organizational effectiveness in any endeavor that involves human interaction.

Written by three career experts, An Intelligent Career is a playbook for the modern knowledge worker, providing a complete guide that will allow workers to take a composite, dynamic view of a life's work in the 21st century.

Wie oft versuchen Führungskräfte die Einstellung ihrer Mitarbeiter zu verändern? Aber wie ändern wir die Einstellung eines Menschen? Alleinstellung der perfact training Hörbuch-Trainings: Anhand praktischer Dialog-Beispiele erkennen Sie die Wirksamkeit unserer Formulierungs-Empfehlungen. Diese werden in diesem Hörbuch-Training kritisch beurteilt und hinterfragt. Auf erfahrungsgemäß mögliche Einwände des Gesprächpartners wird eingegangen.Hören Sie zu, machen Sie mit und bewerten Sie selbst.

Die Einstellung bewirkt unser Urteil, wie wir über eine Sache denken, ob wir uns für oder gegen etwas entscheiden- oder uns gar nicht entscheiden können. Motive sind dafür verantwortlich, diese Entscheidungen treffen zu können. Wenn wir in der Situation sind, in der wir eine Entscheidung brauchen - von einem Kunden, von einem Mitarbeiter oder auch von Ihrem Chef - dann müssen wir argumentieren.