The Leader's Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the Ages
The Leader's Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the Ages

Author: J. Thomas Wren

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-30

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 1439135975

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This book serves as a guided introduction to the richly diverse perspectives on leadership throughout the ages and throughout the world. Each of the selections, introduced by the editor, presents enlightening thoughts on a different aspect of leadership. Writings by Plato, Aristotle, Lao-tzu and others demonstrate that the challenges of leadership are as old as civilization. Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Ghandi, and W.E.B. Du Bois provide a wide range of insights into the eternal practice and problems of leadership. Modern masters of leadership such as James MacGregor Burns, John Kotter, and Warren Bennis join such leading practitioners as Max De Pree and Roger B. Smith in discussing contemporary issues in leadership theory and practice.

Guild Leadership
Guild Leadership

Author: Jeon Rezvani

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1435739558

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This timely work shares valuable leadership lessons from the parallel universes of online games -- lessons that can impact the real world in meaningful ways. In addition, this book: Challenges some classically held leadership tenets; Strives to influence today's and tomorrow's leaders; Demystifies the art of leadership in a fresh new way. It is vitally important for today's leaders to prepare for the world of tomorrow. It is the author's hope that this book will assist them in their preparation. All of the author's proceeds are being donated to charity (specifically, Oprah's Angel Network).

The Guild Leader's Companion 2nd Edition
The Guild Leader's Companion 2nd Edition

Author: Adam Trzonkowski

Publisher:

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781938064043

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Whether you are already a leader or aspire to be one, we all know how challenging it is to run a guild, clan, corp, kinship, or any sort of organization. So why try to do it alone? There is little doubt that taking on a position of leadership requires hard work and dedication. You’re going to be responsible for motivating your team, assigning resources, and all of the managerial intricacies that come with your position. Collected within the pages of The Guild Leader's Companion you'll find common sense-based knowledge of a leader that has been in the trenches for over ten years. That is where The Guild Leader's Companion comes in! Adam "Ferrel" Trzonkowski has shared his proven advice, strategies, and tactics from his decade-long journey as a successful guild leader. Take a moment to sit down with the 2nd Edition and you will learn everything, good and bad, about leadership. You’ll discover topics that range from dealing with other players to the specifics behind resource management, all framed in Ferrel’s own positivity-driven, socially-focused leadership style.

The Lost Companions and John Ruskins Guild of St George
The Lost Companions and John Ruskins Guild of St George

Author: Mark Frost

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1783082844

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This important work in Ruskin studies provides for the first time an authoritative study of Ruskin’s Guild of St George. It introduces new material that is important in its own right as a significant piece of social history, and as a means to re-examine Ruskin’s Guild idea of self-sufficient, co-operative agrarian communities founded on principles of artisanal (non-mechanised) labour, creativity and environmental sustainability. The remarkable story of William Graham and other Companions lost to Guild history provides a means to fundamentally transform our understanding of Ruskin’s utopianism.

The Companions
The Companions

Author: Tina Daniel

Publisher: Wizards of the Coast

Published: 2012-05-29

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 078696328X

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The final installment in the New York Times–bestselling Meetings Sextet series brings the cast of Dragonlance together for their first adventure While on an innocent ship’s errand, Caramon, Sturm, and Tasslehoff are blown thousands of miles off course by a magic windstorm and transported to the eastern Bloodsea. Caramon and Sturm are left for dead while Tasslehoff mysteriously turns against his friends. Back in Solace, Raistlin convinces Flint Fireforge and Tanis Half-Elven that they must make a perilous journey to Mithas, the kingdom of the minotaurs. Their task: not only to rescue their friends, but also to defeat the elusive Nightmaster.

Barn Club
Barn Club

Author: Robert Somerville

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2021-03-11

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1603589678

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“In today’s ego-techno-centred world, Robert Somerville’s . . . Barn Club approach is a way forward that utilizes local traditions, local materials, and local hands to create a built environment that is more harmonious with the natural world and of course more beautiful.”—Jack A. Sobon, architect, timber framer, and author of Hand Hewn “Somerville knows more about wooden barn construction than almost anyone alive.”—The Telegraph Natural history meets traditional hand craft in this celebration of the elm tree and community spirit. When renowned craftsman Robert Somerville moved to Hertfordshire in southern England, he discovered an unexpected landscape rich with wildlife and elm trees. Nestled within London’s commuter belt, this wooded farmland inspired Somerville, a lifelong woodworker, to revive the ancient tradition of hand-raising barns. Barn Club follows the building of Carley Barn over the course of one year. Volunteers from all walks of life joined Barn Club, inspired to learn this ancient skill of building elm barns by hand, at its own quiet pace and in the company of others, while using timber from the local woods. The tale of the elm tree in its landscape is central to Barn Club. Its natural history, historic importance, and remarkable survival make for a fascinating story. This is a tale of forgotten trees, a local landscape, and an ancient craft. This book includes sixteen pages of color photographs, and black and white line drawings of techniques and traditional timber frame barns feature throughout. Perfect for fans of Norwegian Wood and The Hidden Life of Trees.

Graveyard of Heroes Fantasy Roleplaying Game
Graveyard of Heroes Fantasy Roleplaying Game

Author: Matthew Byers

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-03-19

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1365805735

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Graveyard of Heroes is a pen and paper tabletop fantasy role-playing game in the dark/weird fantasy sub-genre. As part of the second wave of the OSR (Old School Renaissance) movement it takes classic role-playing and moves it in new directions. Inside you will find: new monsters, new spells, new magic items, new ways to make characters and a new attitude. Despite all the changes, the spirit of classic fantasy role-playing is preserved. Experience all the dungeon delving fun in a brand new way. All heroes die. What legacy will you leave behind? In a vast world where the actions of heroes are often overshadowed by the unknowable forces of the universe what impact can a mere mortal have on the world? Will you be forgotten like all the others in the graveyard of heroes or will your name be made immortal?

Debating Leaderless Management
Debating Leaderless Management

Author: Frederik Hertel

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-12-16

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 3031045939

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Management research has traditionally assumed that leaders play an essential role in both public and private organizations and are required for a business to run smoothly. However, more recently, a vein of critical research has claimed that leaders can do more harm than good, creating confusion and putting their reputation before production and employee wellbeing. This book asks the question - what would happen if there were no leaders? Would employees be better off without formal (or informal) leaders? And even if such a utopia were desirable, would it be realizable in practice?