18 books like The leadership challenge

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Up the organization Townsend, Robert · 1970 · ★ 4.1 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend's bestseller first among eighty books that "every manager must read."… Shares: Administrative Personnel, Organization and Administration, Management, Business

Reframing Organizations Lee G. Bolman · 1991 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate In this third edition of their best-selling classic, authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal explain the powerful tool of "reframing." The authors have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situations from more than one angle. Their four frames view organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples: The Structural Frame: how to… Shares: Organization and Administration, Gestion, Leadership, Management

Customer Relationship Management Francis Buttle · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate This definitive textbook explains what CRM is, the benefits it delivers, the contexts in which it is used, how it can be implemented and how CRM technologies can be deployed to support customer management strategies and objectives. It also looks comprehensively at how CRM can be used throughout the customer life-cycle stages of customer acquisition, retention and development and how the… Shares: Gestion, Management, Business

Management John R. Schermerhorn · 1995 · 524p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Facts101 is your complete guide to Study Resource for Exploring Management. In this book, you will learn topics such as Ethics and Social Responsibility: Character doesnt stay home when we ..., Managers as Decision Makers: There is no substitute for a good decisio ..., Plans and Planning Techniques: Get there faster with objectives., and Controls and Control Systems: What gets measured happens.… Shares: Gestion, Management, Business

Management Peter F. Drucker · 1973 · ★ 3.6 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, PracticesManagement is an organized body of knowledge. "This book," in Peter Drucker's words, "tries to equip the manager with the understanding, the thinking, the knowledge and the skills for today's and also tomorrow's jobs." This management classic has been developed and tested during more than thirty years of teaching management in universities, in… Shares: Gestion, Management, Business

Managing in Turbulent Times Peter F. Drucker · 1980 · ★ 4.0 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This important and timely book concerns the immediate future of business, society and the economy. We are, says Drucker, entering a new economic era with new trends, new markets, new currencies, new principles, new technologies and new institutions. How will managers and management deal with these new realities?This book, the author explains, "is concerned with action rather than understanding,… Shares: Organization and Administration, Gestion, Management, Business

Modern business administration Robert C. Appleby · 1969 · ★ 5.0 · 506p · ≈ 16h · Moderate [512]p. : 23cm Shares: Gestion, Management, Business

Effective Executive Peter F. Drucker · 1967 · ★ 4.1 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The measure of the executive, Peter Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results. Shares: Administrative Personnel, Leadership, Management, Business

Lean In Sheryl Sandberg · 1799 · ★ 3.9 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Demanding Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women's voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root… Shares: Leadership, Business

Eating the Big Fish Adam Morgan · 1999 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate EATING THE BIG FISH : How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded The second edition of the international bestseller, now revised and updated for 2009, just in time for the business challenges ahead. It contains over 25 new interviews and case histories, two completely new chapters, introduces a new typology of 12 different kinds of… Shares: Gestion, Management, Business

Leadership and Self Deception The Arbinger Institute · 2000 · ★ 4.1 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This phenomenal bestseller over 700,000 copies sold changes readers? lives and helps them transform their organizations. In this new edition, the text has been updated and revised throughout to make it even more readable and powerful and a new section has been added that details the many different ways that people are using the book. Shares: Leadership, Management, Business

The Practice of Management Peter F. Drucker · 1954 · ★ 4.1 · 401p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "This classic volume achieves a remarkable width of appeal without sacrificing scientific accuracy or depth of analysis. It is a valuable contribution to the study of business efficiency which should be read by anyone wanting information about the developments and place of management, and it is as relevant today as when it was first written. This is a practical book, written out of many years of… Shares: Organization and Administration, Gestion, Management, Business

Working with Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman · 1998 · ★ 3.5 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Do you want to be more successful at work? Do you want to improve your chances of promotion? Do you want to get on better with your colleagues? Daniel Goleman draws on unparalleled access to business leaders around the world and the thorough research that is his trademark. He demonstrates that emotional intelligence at work matters twice as much as cognitive abilities such as IQ or technical… Shares: Organization and Administration, Management, Business

The Phoenix Project Gene Kim · 2013 · ★ 4.2 · 431p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win is the third book by Gene Kim. The business novel tells the story of an IT manager who has ninety days to rescue an over-budget and late IT initiative, code-named The Phoenix Project. Shares: Gestion, Management, Business

Tribal leadership David Logan · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate It's a fact of life: birds flock, fish school, people "tribe."Every company, indeed every organization, is a tribe, or if it's large enough, a network of tribes—groups of 20 to 150 people in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of everyone else. Tribes are more powerful than teams, companies, or even CEOs, and yet their key leverage points have not been mapped—until now. In… Shares: Leadership, Management, Business

Expert Secrets Russell Brunson · 2017 · ★ 4.2 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate xxvii, 268 pages : 22 cm Shares: Leadership, Management, Business

The Peter principle Laurence J. Peter · 1969 · ★ 3.8 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The Peter Principle is a book that takes a humorous look at productivity. In a nutshell the Peter Principle says that within any hierarchi, if you stay there long enough, you will eventually be promoted to you level of incompetence. I loved that the last chapters tell you how you can avoid being promoted to that level without being fired. Shares: Gestion, Management

Project management Harold Kerzner · 1979 · 1180p · ≈ 39h · Challenging PROJECT MANAGEMENT THE NEWEST EDITION OF THE #1 PROJECT MANAGEMENT GUIDE FOR STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALSIn the newly revised 13th Edition of Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, project management pioneer, leader, and educator Dr. Harold Kerzner delivers a comprehensive and intuitive approach to project management. Widely known as the bestselling “bible”… Shares: Management, Business

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