ACTIVE Learning for Exemplary Leaders The best leaders are the best learners. This evidence-based truth has been a foundational principle of The Leadership Challenge since it was first published nearly twenty-five years ago. In this new work, bestselling Leadership Challenge authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner team up with experiential learning expert Elaine Biech to bring today's leaders over 100 engaging activities designed to expand and accelerate their leadership development efforts.
Generative Leadership: Shaping New Futures for Today's Schools
The authors demonstrate how to tap into an organization's collective intelligence through generative leadership. The model includes engaging in personal reflection, promoting professional conversations, and harnessing creativity.
Nahavandi’s text has an application emphasis with a cross cultural perspective on leadership. Coverage includes individual differences and traits, power and leadership, using resources effectively, and participative management and teams. For any leader, or potential leader, who wants better decision making capability, more satisfied employees, better quality products and services, and more satisfied constituencies and customers.
Modern organisations need great leadership not only from the chief executive officer or their equivalent, but at every level of management. Arguably, as high-calibre management skills are inferred from every successful twenty-first century operation, what sets the truly great organization ahead of its competitors is the quality of its leadership. The personal qualities and abilities that great leaders possess cannot be taught in the same way that the skills and techniques of good management can. Leadership is an intensely human activity, and great leadership takes many different forms.
Nonprofit Finance for Hard Times: Leadership Strategies When Economies FalterHow to make strategic plan to help your nonprofit navigate turbulent financial waters and achieve strengthened revenues
During this time of upheaval and instability with the country's financial markets and economy, you might be wondering how your nonprofit can emerge stronger from this unprecedented turmoil and prepare for future economic cycles. Practical and timely, Nonprofit Finance for Hard Times: Leadership Strategies When Economies Falter helps your nonproft get strategic in the weak economy.
