Work Leadership

This leadership manual is essential for any professional or businessperson seeking to improve his or her performance and develop leadership skills. Revealing hard-won leadership secrets from the US Marines and imparting related lessons from history, The Little Green Book—A Leadership Manual for Professionals will arm you with critical military skills and concepts to lead and win in your professional campaigns.

Within each of us lies the hero we’ve all been waiting for and want to become: our true self. Bringing this hero to work unleashes our greatest potential, resulting in higher earnings, increased satisfaction, and greater well-being. This book serves to help the struggling professional, executive, or entrepreneur in discovering their inner hero, which emerges with the convergence of heightened awareness, stronger boundaries, and improved communication.

Despite the progress we have made, women are still faced with discrimination and bias in the workplace every day. The only way to prove our capabilities is to be great leaders! Women have more challenges when it comes to leadership roles with gender bias being one of the biggest hurdles. Women are either seen as dainty, proper ladies who are too quiet to lead or as the other extreme: bossy, aggressive, and unladylike.

If you want to lead, quell the tempest inside. People look to the North Star - not the wind - for guidance. Power lies in the still, small, calm, and clear voice of God within you. Quietly, you will find your voice. It will be big enough. Loud, clanging gongs are for entertainment. Deep and quiet waters wash away the anxiety of the timid and scared. Be those waters. We need you.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM), and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. Learn about the behaviors required to sustain it long-term. Understand how leadership must walk the talk of True North. Find out how to actively engage in developing lean leader skills.

While most of us would like to think we generally behave in a positive way, especially at work, everyone has the potential to slip into negative behaviors that can have a damaging impact on our colleagues, morale, and the organization we are part of. This useful guide by Anna Eliatamby looks at the different types of positive and negative work behaviors people fall into and why. Your own toxic work behaviors will help you recognize and acknowledge your own problematic behaviors in the workplace.

A historic generational shift is underway that will lead to a crisis in American business leadership. This concise and practical book will help you understand this shift and take action to retain your senior leaders, attract the next level of top talent, and grow a new generation of leaders.

How many times have you seen two different people experience the exact same event and have a totally different outcome? One person might become incredibly upset, while the other person not only isn't bothered by the experience but actually thrives in it. Learn from numerous anecdotes, both from author's, Alves life and others, enliven the book. Here are some successful and highly regarded people in diverse fields, including Nelson Mandela, Richard Branson, Walt Disney, Michael Jordan and more. The best way to predict the future is to go out and create it.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM) and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. The teaching objectives for this section are to review the Lean Leadership Development Model; discuss the self-development learning cycles in more detail; and point out the triggers that tell you when you are ready for Hoshin Kanri.

Too often, we're told that to be successful we have to keep climbing the career ladder - whether we’re really geared toward leading people or not. In Succeeding Without Leading, you’ll learn that this may not be the best definition of success for you. You’ll discover what it means to be great outside of leadership - to be a great “follower”. This includes finding out how to use your own personality, skills, and abilities to find or create a good job fit.