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Drawing on two decades of leadership and coaching research, Vallée and Bloom reveal the proven strategies behind the University of Windsor women’s basketball team’s transformation from last place to five-time national champions. Dare to Win bridges the gap between theory and practice, blending leadership insights, real-world examples, and Vallée’s experiences as both an academic researcher and a championship-winning coach. This invaluable resource is perfect for anyone seeking to build successful teams and elevate leadership, management, and coaching skills in sports and beyond.

The Student Leadership Challenge tailors one of the world’s most respected leadership models to students’ unique needs, and provides a proven pathway to success. Based on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, this book merges solid research with personal stories from real-world student leaders to help students develop the critical skills they need to lead both now and after graduation. Useful from high school to graduate school and beyond, these lessons are reinforced by reflective and critical thinking activities to help students internalize important concepts.

Bloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition tells the story of how one of America's most successful entrepreneurs was elected mayor of New York City and what he did with the power he won. Bloomberg's stunning victory against all odds just weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attack left him facing challenges unlike any mayor in history. For the next 12 years, he kept the city safe, managed budgets through fiscal crises, promoted private sector growth, and more. But his time as mayor was not without controversy.

In 1998, three Harvard Business School graduates - two men and one woman - turned down six-figure salaries at big corporations, bet on themselves, and launched their own new companies. By their 10-year reunion, their audacity had paid huge dividends. They'd made many millions of dollars, created hundreds of jobs and left their mark on the world. The Intelligent Entrepreneur tells the compelling and instructive story of how these three young founders did it.

Mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and resilience are the “must have skills” for modern leaders - yet many professionals are too stressed to know where to start. Creating Mindful Leaders provides deep insights and easy practices based in neuroscience, brain training, and positive psychology to help professionals thrive in the “age of disruption”. Written by a COO turned successful tech entrepreneur, the book provides a roadmap to greater health, happiness, and performance. It speaks to every professional wanting to reduce stress, achieve greater success, and enjoy life more.

Sir Alex Ferguson es uno de los pocos líderes que verdaderamente conoce su materia. En sus treinta y ocho años dentro del mundo del fútbol, Ferguson ganó la impresionante cifra de 49 títulos y fue la pieza angular que convirtió al Manchester United en una de las grandes marcas del mundo entero. Liderazgo está estructurado alrededor de las claves estratégicas y de los valores fundamentales de la vida de Ferguson. Incluye temas que se asocian con su estilo de gestión: Disciplina, Control, Trabajo en Equipo y Motivación.

"Nach drei Wochen muss ich alles wieder neu erklären!", "Meine Mitarbeiter sind so unselbstständig!", "Meine Leute denken nicht mit!" - diese Sorgen teilen viele Führungskräfte. "Wer hat den Ball" zeigt, welche Führungsfehler dieses problematische Verhalten der Mitarbeiter auslösen. "Selbst schuld!" ist dabei die gute Nachricht für den Hörer: Er muss sich nicht täglich über solche Mitarbeiter ärgern, er kann unmittelbar bei sich selbst beginnen, etwas zu verändern.

What future forces will affect a leaders ability to lead in the next year, five years, 10 years? We are in a time of disruptive leadership change. In a VUCA world - one characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity - traditional leadership skills won't be enough, noted futurist Bob Johansen argues.

On April 10, 1966, a crowd of 10,000 farm workers and supporters gathered at the California state capitol to celebrate victory in one of the most significant strikes in American history - one that made Cesar Chavez famous as leader of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Marshall Ganz tells the story of the UFW's ground-breaking victory, drawing out larger lessons from this dramatic tale.

Future Brain is the busy professional's secret weapon for boosting mastery, efficiency, and productivity to gain that coveted competitive edge - in business and in life. Designed to be implemented at the individual, team, or organizational level, this in-depth, step-by-step framework leverages neuro-scientific principles to help you develop a solid, habit-changing plan for building and maintaining brain fitness and healthy behaviors.

How to Sweet-Talk a Shark is a rare, candid, and entertaining glimpse into an insider's world of high-stakes negotiation - showing Richardson's successes and failures in some of the world's least friendly places. Meanwhile, listeners get frank lessons in the art of negotiation: how to prepare, how to size up your opponent, how to understand the nature of power in a standoff, how to give up only what is necessary while getting what you want, and many other strategies Richardson has mastered through at-the-table experience.

はじめまして、小倉広です。私は、年に300回の企業研修に登壇し、毎年1万名を超えるビジネスパーソンに対して「マネジメント研修」を提供していますが、

El autor de los éxitos Tu vida tu mejor negocio y Empresa admirada nos trae ahora un texto para los líderes empresariales. En la actualidad existe una demanda de líderes que sepan resolver problemas, actuar con asertividad, dar respuestas rápidas y tener facilidad para conectar con las personas. Para muchos de ellos la tarea de transformar organizaciones representa un reto difícil de alcanzar en un entorno cada vez más competitivo y exigente. En este contexto de cambios e incertidumbre, el recurso más urgente y escaso es el liderazgo.

“If I relentlessly drive my team to achieve our goals, they won’t like me.” “If I try to make everybody on the team happy, we won’t hit our numbers.” As a leader, you’ve likely felt this fundamental tension - the tension between driving results and developing positive relationships with your people. In Bankable Leadership, psychologist, executive coach, and proud leadership geek Dr. Tasha Eurich (or Dr. T) solves this dilemma and reveals how to make leadership exhilarating, fun, and fulfilling.

For thousands of years, the Bhagavad Gita has inspired millions of saints, leaders, scientists, philosophers and ordinary people around the world. In this quick read, Vimla Patil draws valuable success mantras from the philosophical text that are sure to take your life to the next level.

In this path-breaking book, Chanakya's 7 Secrets of Leadership, author Radhakrishnan Pillai delves into Chanakya's Saptanga with the real-life example of D. Sivanandhan. Former Director General of Police, Maharashtra, and the archetype of an able administrator, Sivanandhan shares his guidelines for effective management, highlighting those that make him a dynamic leader.

With Zoom, Fortune magazine extends one of its most successful franchises, 40 Under 40, to bring you original insight on the best-kept secrets of top entrepreneurs, business leaders, and rising tech stars. Discover how Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh built a uniquely attractive corporate culture, how Under Armour founder Kevin Plank took on Nike, and what Marissa Mayer told herself before leaping from a safe post at Google to the high-risk top job at Yahoo. Zoom features the fascinating profiles of these and other young innovators and provides listeners with tips to fast-track their own career success.

If you think the world is a mess, you already have a lot in common with Larry. The genius and power of his simple approach to turning around the parts of your life that need it has transformed people and businesses all over the world. Now, in this wildly entertaining and informative diagnosis and prescription, he narrows down the singular virus sickening the four most influential aspects in our lives: the people around us, our education system, business, and government.

Business-Do is your personal handbook for achieving happiness by systematically turning your dreams into reality. Success looks different to everyone, but author Hiroshi Mikitani exemplifies its essential, universal qualities: as the founder and CEO of Rakuten, Mikitani is a self-made entrepreneur who became Japan's leader in the new global economy - a journey that made him a billionaire. In this book, he shows you how to achieve your own version of success in work and in life.

Are you paid what you deserve by your clients? This book will save you a fortune - and maybe even make you a fortune. Using proven strategies that can be applied to your business today, it will help you discover: how to confidently hold your price, how to say "no" to clients while improving your relationship, how to negotiate higher fees and prices, and how to handle unrealistic timescales and budgets. Why Do Smart People Make Such Stupid Mistakes? is a practical negotiation guide to more profitable client relationships for marketing and communication agencies, sales teams, and professional service people.