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The Big 3 Management Styles
We all know that we are supposed to alter our management styles to suit the individual and the situation; however, knowing how to change our style can be a challenge. Leadership and management expert Paul B. Thornton has distilled the knowledge of many noted management gurus (such as Ken Blanchard and Peter Drucker) in his new book, The Big 3 Management Styles. This book describes the three main management styles (directing, discussing and delegating) that ALL managers and supervisors need to know to be successful in today's business world. Thornton explains how to use each style when communicating, setting goals, problem solving, coaching, and leading. Improve your ability to lead all types of employees in a fast-changing business environment by adapting your management styles. This book will tell you how.
Be the Leader - Make the Difference
"Be the Leader, Make the Difference" links separate leadership behavior--like vision, empowerment, reward and recognition, coaching, and mentoring--into a single leadership model. Readers can discover the connection between challenging people, building their confidence, and coaching. Graphs and charts.
Leadership—Off the Wall
LeadershipOff the Wall W. Clement Stone began as a shoeshine boy and became a multimillionaire. He credits his success to three words: Do It Now. He required everyone who worked for him to write those words on index cards and post them in their work area. Find out what these leaders have posted on their office wall. Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Louis Gerstner Jr., Ursula Burns (CEO Xerox), Kevin Sharer (CEO AMGEN), Tony Hsieh (CEO Zappos) President Ronald Reagan, Rudy Giuliani, Sara Palin, and many others.
Big Leadership Ideas
Playing hockey in high school, prep school and in college, taught author, Paul B. Thornton, valuable life lessons. In addition, it sparked his interest in management and leadership. He studied and observed what the top coaches did that made them successful. This book describes his journey from player to coach to leader. He illustrates the four steps that all leaders must take to make a difference. His "Possibilities Model" provides a clear view of the big dots you need to connect to become a successful leader. As you apply his leadership model, you will gain insights into your leadership strengths as well as areas that may need improving.
The Institutional Logics Perspective
The book analyzes, synthesizes, and further develops theoretical and methodological tools in the rising new school in institutional analysis, the institutional logics perspective, which offers opportunities to examine how individual and organizational actors are a product of multiple social locations in an inter-institutional system.
Management Principals and Practices
Management - Principles and Practices-now in its fifth edition-presents a unique, cutting-edge approach to management. Using his experience as a consultant, executive coach, manager, and college professor, Paul B. Thornton provides a wealth of insight and examples, showing you what you need to do to be an effective manager and leader. He explains concepts in a simple, clear, and concise manner. Each chapter includes several interesting and insightful quotes from world-famous managers and leaders. You'll learn the key management theories and how to apply each concept. Application exercises include case studies, in-basket exercises, discussion questions, self-reflection activities, role-playing, and interviews.
Social Change and the Family in Taiwan
Until the 1940s, social life in Taiwan was generally organized through the family—marriages were arranged by parents, for example, and senior males held authority. In the following years, as Taiwan evolved rapidly from an agrarian to an industrialized society, individual decisions became less dependent on the family and more influenced by outside forces. Social Change and the Family in Taiwan provides an in-depth analysis of the complex changes in family relations in a society undergoing revolutionary social and economic transformation. This interdisciplinary study explores the patterns and causes of change in education, work, income, leisure time, marriage, living arrangements, and intera...
Entrepreneurial Librarianship
Although libraries are not businesses, library management must be driven by the same characteristics that make a business successful -- responsibility, performance, and control. Entrepreneurial Librarianship offers specific techniques for creating an entrepreneurial environment in a library or information services organization -- or initiating such techniques where a less-successful operation is already in place.
Leader to Leader (LTL), Volume 60, Spring 2011
Get insightful articles on leadership, management, and strategy written by today's leaders with this award-winning journal. Brought to you by the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, Leader to Leader brings together a peerless selection of world-class executives, best-selling management authors, top consultants, and respected social thinkers. Leader to Leader poses provocative questions that challenge your leadership assumptions and provides compelling evidence powerful enough to change your leadership thinking while offering thoughtful analysis of complex leadership issues.
Plant Your Flag
Learn leadership skills to rise above the status quo and do whatever it takes to achieve your vision with this practical and inspirational guide. Everyone faces challenges on a daily basis. They range from inconveniences and temporary setbacks to major life events that can permanently alter someone’s trajectory. These challenges have the power to define us or even defeat us—but only if we let them. Because no matter what gets in the way, every person gets to decide how their story plays out. Survivor contestant Carolyn J. Rivera knows this first-hand. She’s experienced the discouragement of defeat as well as the realization that everyone has the power within them to overcome life’s greatest challenges. Through personal stories, relatable examples, and specific calls to action, Plant Your Flag breaks down the steps necessary to pick yourself up, get ahead, and lead the charge to VICTORY no matter what path you’re on.
