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In leadership, you need to be able to play to your strengths and look toward overcoming your limitations. The first and most important step is identifying and understanding your leadership style. Without this self-analysis, it's impossible to know what your strengths and limitations are. Where do you want to be a year from now? Do you want to be recognized as a leader who is on top of their game? Or do you want to be left where you are now - still...

Do you want to be a better leader? Raise the threshold of your pain. Do you want your church to grow or your business to reach higher goals? Reluctance to face pain is your greatest limitation. There is no growth without change, no change without loss, and no loss without pain. Bottom line: if you're not hurting, you're not leading.

But this book is not a theological treatise on pain. Rather in Leadership Pain Samuel Chand—best-selling

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Managing an Organization is no less than driving a ship through a sea with mine infected areas. At any point in time, a crisis can strike, and it takes good leaders to cope up with the situation and lead the team to success. Organizations led by leaders with inadequate leadership skills and crisis management easily succumb to external pressure causing great damage not just to the organization head but also to people associated with them. Other than...

Microsoft is well-known for being an intense place to work: employees face constant pressure to innovate and excel and are passionately devoted to their jobs. In this insightful book, Anna Rowley reveals the major problems all managers face and shows how to conquer them. She distills the characteristics every leader must have to succeed in a demanding environment, including belief, confidence, self-awareness, trust, power, and ambition. She provides...

Who knows what it really takes to be an effective leader in business today? The most successful CEOs do. They are the men and women who run the #1 or #2 corporation in their industry or market niche. Leadership is such a vital skill that four out of ten U.S. corporations now have some sort of formal leadership training program in place, says author Eric Yaverbaum. His new book, Leadership Secrets of the World's Most Successful CEOs, consists of

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"Leadership Mastery: Ten Steps to Unlock Your Full Potential" is a must-read for aspiring leaders, seasoned professionals, and anyone seeking to enhance their leadership abilities. It serves as a guidebook and mentor, providing invaluable insights and practical strategies that will inspire, empower, and guide readers on their leadership journey.

This updated edition of management guru Ken Blanchard's classic work Leadership and the One Minute Manager® teaches leaders the world renowned method of developing self-reliance in those they manage: Situational Leadership® II.

From Leadership and the One Minute Manager® you'll learn why tailoring management styles to individual employees is so important; why knowing when to delegate, support, or direct is critical; and how

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Greatly reduce the stress of managing a team with this quick and reliable information on how to correctly master-both legally and ethically- progressive discipline and structured termination, from the leading voice in HR expertise. This resource takes the highly complicated subjects of progressive employee discipline and structured terminations-actions that can be rife with legal issues and paperwork-and breaks down the process for HR professionals...

The authors of the classic bestseller The Leadership Challenge bring their expertise to higher education, offering five practices that can make any college or university leader into an exemplary leader. Drawing on the same pioneering research that formed the foundation of their classic bestseller The Leadership Challenge (over 2. 7 million copies sold), James Kouzes and Barry Posner offer a set of leadership skills and practices that will make a...

Leadership and Self-Deception shows how the problems that typically prevent superior performance in organizations and cause conflicts in our personal lives are the result of a little-known problem called self-deception. People who are in self-deception live and work as if trapped in a box. They can't see the reality around them-they're blind to the self-serving motivations that are sabotaging them on the job and at home. But there is a way out. Through...