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It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
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Include books by the same authorTrillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle · 240 pages
The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable
Patrick Lencioni · 134 pages
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Leif Babin · 325 pages
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin served together in SEAL Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated Special Operations unit from the war in Iraq. Through difficult months of sustained combat, Jocko, Leif and their SEAL brothers learned that leadership -- at every level -- is the most important thing on the battlefield. They started Echelon Front to teach these same leadership principles to companies
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown · 288 pages
Do you make those around you smarter? We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest ones in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who
Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You
Frances Frei · 240 pages
Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization
Kenneth H. Blanchard · 188 pages
Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits
Robert C. Townsend, Warren G. Bennis · 202 pages
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."
12: The Elements of Great Managing
Rodd Wagner, James K. Harter · 258 pages
Combines the results of interviews with employees and managers from around the world with research in psychology, game theory, and other fields to explain how to apply an understanding of human nature to promote a company's success.
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Michael D. Watkins · 278 pages
Principles
Ray Dalio · 592 pages
Bridgewater Associates founder, Ray Dalio, offers a five-step process to getting what you want out of life, which involves systemizing everything to run like a machine — which can then be fine-tuned.
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
Patty McCord · 228 pages
Leading Change
John P. Kotter · 208 pages
From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented M&A activity to scandal, greed, and, ultimately, recession -- we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. It's the rule. The author's eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations across the globe. By outlining the process organizations have u
The One Minute Manager
Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson · 111 pages
Details a simple, yet effective management system based on three fundamental strategies for earning raises, promotions, and power in business.
From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback
Gordon Bethune · 304 pages
The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results
George B. Bradt, Jayme A Check, Jorge E Predaza
The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, and the included downloadable forms, has proven itself to be a valuable resource for new leaders in any organization. This revision includes 40% new material and updates -- including new and updated downloadable forms -- with new chapters on: A new chapter on POSITIONING yourself for a leadership role A new chapter on what to do AFTER THE FIRST 100 DAYS
Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results
Roger Connors, Tom Smith
A fully revised and updated installment from the bestselling author of The Oz Principle Series. Two-time New York Times bestselling authors Roger Connors and Tom Smith show how leaders can achieve record-breaking results by quickly and effectively shaping their organizational culture to capitalize on their greatest asset-their people. Change the Culture, Change the Game joins their classic
Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
Dave Logan · 320 pages
How Google Works
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg · 303 pages
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford · 345 pages
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.
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras · 355 pages
"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor even is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies." So write James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras in this groundbreaking book
Organizational Theory, Design, and Change
Gareth R. Jones · 521 pages
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
James C. Collins · 300 pages
Answers to commonly asked questions about how good-to-great principles can help social sector organizations make the leap to greatness, using interviews with over 100 social sector leaders.