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Author: John R. Grubbs
Publisher:
Published: 2009-06-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781439237816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA hands-on, unique, and sometimes hilarious survival-skills guide to strengthen your leadership qualities and develop your ability to identify weak links-even idiots!-who negatively affect your team.
Author: Bob Lutz
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-06-04
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1101608080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Bob Lutz retired from General Motors in 2010, after an unparalleled forty-seven-year career in the auto industry, he was one of the most respected leaders in American business. He had survived all kinds of managers over those decades: tough and timid, analytical and irrational, charismatic and antisocial, and some who seemed to shift frequently among all those traits. His experiences made him an expert on leadership, every bit as much as he was an expert on cars and trucks. Now Lutz is revealing the leaders-good, bad, and ugly-who made the strongest impression on him throughout his career. Icons and Idiots is a collection of shocking and often hilarious true stories and the lessons Lutz drew from them. From enduring the sadism of a Marine Corps drill instructor, to working with a washed-up alcoholic, to taking over the reins from a convicted felon, he reflects on the complexities of all-too-human leaders. No textbook or business school course can fully capture their idiosyncrasies, foibles and weaknesses - which can make or break companies in the real world. Lutz shows that we can learn just as much from the most stubborn, stupid, and corrupt leaders as we can from the inspiring geniuses. The result is a powerful and entertaining guide for any aspiring leader.
Author: Thomas Erikson
Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
Published: 2019-07-30
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1250179955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo you ever think you’re the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague’s abrasive manner rub you the wrong way? You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was ‘surrounded by idiots’, communication expert and bestselling author, Thomas Erikson dedicated himself to understanding how people function and why we often struggle to connect with certain types of people. Surrounded by Idiots is an international phenomenon, selling over 1.5 million copies worldwide. It offers a simple, yet ground-breaking method for assessing the personalities of people we communicate with – in and out of the office – based on four personality types (Red, Blue, Green and Yellow), and provides insights into how we can adjust the way we speak and share information. Erikson will help you understand yourself better, hone communication and social skills, handle conflict with confidence, improve dynamics with your boss and team, and get the best out of the people you deal with and manage. He also shares simple tricks on body language, improving written communication, advice on when to back away or when to push on, and when to speak up or shut up. Packed with ‘aha!’ and ‘oh no!’ moments, Surrounded by Idiots will help you understand and communicate with those around you, even people you currently think are beyond all comprehension. And with a bit of luck you can also be confident that the idiot out there isn’t you!
Author: Scott Snair
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781592576791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou're no idiot. You know that motivating groups to work together is no easy task. This is true whether you're leading a group of Little Leaguers or a project team of professionals. Yet you're often left wondering what you could do to really show them how to blow away the competition or what others have that you don't. Never fear! While leadership may come easier to some than to others, it's definitely a skill that can be learned. And now The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motivational Leadership can show you how!
Author: Andrew J. DuBrin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780028639543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes how to project charisma, inspire confidence, develop the ability to read people, ask the right questions, and regroup after crises.
Author: Arthur R. Pell
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2003-02-05
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0786542268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Complete Idiot's Guide to Team-Building shows first-time managers and employees how to work together as a smooth, well-oiled machine. The book shows how to: -- Avoid and manage conflict. Inspire creativity. -- Coax employees to help team members who aren't performing. -- Get everyone to pitch in. -- Gain unprecedented results and make the team enjoy going to work.
Author: John Hoover
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1427095167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Hoover, an organizational leadership consultant, discusses how to deal with an "Idiot Boss" - or I-Boss - who does stupid things. Hoover distinguishes idiots from other tricky bosses, including those who think they are God, or who are paranoid, sadistic or Machiavellian. He leaves the reader with a couple of issues. First, you'll think no good, caring bosses still exist. Second, he doesn't tell you clearly where to set boundaries or when enough is finally enough. He often advocates appeasing bad bosses, although his other counsel on how to deal with them has some effective pointers. To his credit, Hoover is very candid about how he has learned from experience, including his mistakes. He offers personal examples from his experiences at Disney and elsewhere, and tries to write in a light-hearted or whimsical vein. getAbstract.com finds the book strongest when it is strategic and weakest when it tries to be funny, given that with bad bosses you only laugh to keep from crying.
Author: Jeb Blount
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-11-15
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 1118094018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the secrets to influencing the performance of the people you lead Managers don't get paid for what they do but rather for the performance of their people; therefore, a manager's most important job is coaching behaviors in order to improve performance. In People Follow You managers will learn five easily understood and implemented levers critical to influencing the performance of the people they lead. Ultimately, people follow people that they like, trust, and believe in. Understand how to build stronger relationships with direct and indirect reports that lead to loyalty, higher productivity, and long-term development. Relevant to middle and high level managers, People Follow You provides a foundation for managing people. Practical lessons help managers employ winning interpersonal skills to move others to take action. Learn how to leverage the basics of interpersonal relationships to inspire others to take action Get a simple and actionable formula for connecting with employees and indirect reports and gaining their buy-in through the use of personal power vs. the power of authority Discover the fundamental on-the-job coaching skills that deliver instant performance improvement Author Jeb Blount is the most downloaded sales expert in iTunes history; his Sales Gravy and Sales Guy audio programs have been downloaded more than 3 million times When all else is stripped away, people don't work for companies, paychecks, perks, or slogans, people work for you. Become a manager people will follow, and lead your team to greater achievements and measurable gains.
Author: Brian Fugere
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2005-02-22
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780743269094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is a fundamental disconnection between the way business people speak and real people communicate. From advertisers, big business and CEOs - the blather is coming at us in waves. The International Language of Business is no longer English - it's gobbledygook. The authors blindly discovered the enormity of the problem in June 2003 with the launch of Bullfighter, an anti-jargon software tool. But jargon is just one symptom in a larger problem afflicting corporate communications today: the wholesale inability to connect with an audience. In the form of admirably straight-talk, we discover how to avoid the 'obscurity trap', 'the anonymity trap', the 'hard-sell trap' and most importantly, 'the tedium trap'. In this witty and practical new book readers are given all the tools they need to fight the 'spin' and learn to speak like the rest of us.
Author: Melissie Clemmons Rumizen
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780028641775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses management models and concepts, strategies for sharing knowledge, and ways to implement the concept within a company.
