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The key to effective church leadership is the ability to be a nonanxious presence. This is not a technique; it is a way of being. It is deceptively simple, but tremendously difficult. Yet, if you are willing to take the journey, you can lead change in even the most challenging contexts.

I wrote The Power of Writing Well to address everything managers, leaders, engineers, scientists, and others need to be better senders and receivers, not to cover everything they need to know about the language or to be the perfect sender or receiver; nobody is.

When Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, started his company, it was so small that he was able to be with his employees every step of the way. He was guiding them into following his leadership principles, monitoring every decision they had to make. In 2004, when the company had grown far beyond its initial size, Robin Andrulevich from human resources began compiling a list of Amazon’s most important leadership principles. She interviewed the most valuable and successful leaders the company had, and ended up compiling 14 principles.

This new audiobook teaches you how to form your trucking company, find loads, manage credit and expenses, set up your back office, scale, and much, much more.

The best way to prepare the next generation for the future is to emphasize the value of communication, cooperation, initiative, and unique, individual talent - for nothing undermines confidence more than comparison. Whether in the classroom or at home, it is never too early to start applying leadership skills to everyday life. Drawing on the many techniques and examples that have already seen incredible success around the world, The Leader in Me shows how easy it is to incorporate these skills into daily life.

From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale.

For the last decade, decorated Navy SEAL, accomplished athlete, and bestselling author Don Mann has been traveling across the country giving motivational talks and in the process inspiring hundreds with the secrets behind his awe-inspiring achievements. In Reaching beyond Boundaries, Mann brings his much sought-after wisdom to the audiobook. As an elite Navy SEAL, Mann performed seemingly impossible tasks on a regular basis. Here he details the lessons he learned from his training and shows how the rest of us can apply those teachings to our daily lives.

Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs That Don't Even Exist Yet offers listeners a fascinating glimpse into a near-future where careers last 100 years, and education lasts a lifetime. The book makes the case that learners of the future are going to repeatedly seek out educational opportunities throughout the course of their working lives—which will no longer have a beginning, middle, and end. Long Life Learning focuses on the disruptive and burgeoning innovations that are laying the foundation for a new learning model.

Narrated by Mark Burns, The Learning Imperative examines the key ingredients that ensure effective learning and offers leaders step-by-step guidance on how they can achieve it in their own teams and organizations. The audiobook maps out the key stages of the learning journey and provides a comprehensive guide for team leaders and managers who want to improve learning in their teams. It also shares essential advice on the design and delivery of effective training programs, as well as a range of illuminating case studies drawn from real-life contexts.

Higher Education's Road to Relevance illustrates why change is needed in post-secondary education and offers practical solutions to pressing concerns. The authors, internationally recognized experts in college-level teaching and learning innovation, draw heavily from contemporary research to provide an integrative approach for post-secondary faculty, staff, and administrators of all levels. This timely book helps listeners identify the need for leadership in developing new networks and ecosystems of learning and workforce development.

In Kids Deserve It!, Todd and Adam encourage you to think big and make learning fun and meaningful for students. While you're at it, you just might rediscover why you became an educator in the first place.

Drawing upon new theories about leadership and the long-term success of change initiatives, and based upon 25 years of experience building learning organizations, the authors of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook show how to accelerate success and avoid the obstacles that can stall momentum. The Dance of Change, written for managers and executives at every level of an organization, reveals how business leaders can work together to anticipate the challenges that profound change will ultimately forc

Preparation Breeds Professionalism is a consolidated guide to leadership in the United States Army. Leveraging over 50 years of military experience from a trio of first sergeants, Preparation Breeds Professionalism delivers a short and concise breakdown of the leadership attributes, competencies, and values of the United States Army and serves as a must-listen for the professional soldier and aspiring leader.

This newly revised edition demonstrates how action learning can be used to address today's increasingly complex organizational challenges. Packed with extensive enhancements, including new international case studies, and more strategies to introduce and maintain action-learning programs within an organization, Optimizing the Power of Action Learning delivers an innovative and fresh perspective - making it a must-have for any organization looking to heighten competitive advantage and sustain success.

The Mistakes That Make Us is a must-listen for those seeking to improve their organizations, with benefits such as lower turnover, more innovation, and better performance. Whether you're a startup founder or an aspiring leader, this book will inspire you to lead with kindness, humility, and the belief that learning from mistakes can make things right.

We live in a challenging, complex, inter-connected, and unpredictable world beset by a range of seemingly insoluble problems. But, says Michael Fullan—an internationally acclaimed authority on organizational change—we have an increasing understanding of how to tackle complex change. This involves developing a new kind of leader: one who recognizes what is needed to bring about deep and lasting changes in living systems at all levels.

Data has never been more important to your success than it is today, yet you are surrounded with data you can’t trust and the overwhelming burden of fixing it. Everyone deserves data that helps - not hurts - their organization. This book is a must-listen for anyone tasked with solving data problems...or anybody who needs their efforts to succeed. Inside, you will find a precise definition of data value and why you should always focus on maximizing it, how to build early momentum with the Simple Virtuous Cycle, and more.

In business and in life, handing over the reins to others is inevitable. Everyone will eventually leave their team, retire from being the CEO, or see their kids leave home and lead their own lives. Leading from the Jumpseat enables us to embrace this inevitability. Leading from the Jumpseat is a metaphor for how we can choose to lead.

This manual summarizes all of the lessons from the leadership workshop we have been conducting in the last 10 years. It is easily one of the most powerful manuals on leadership, influence, power and creation of reality available.

Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers. In examining how to lead and teach, renowned Harvard Business School professor Thomas J. DeLong takes the listener inside his own head and heart. He notes that, as teachers, we often focus more on our inadequacies and missteps than on our strengths and unique talents.