Leadership Library

Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute

Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute tells the story of a young manager whose attempts to turn his troubled company around through traditional top-down, command-and-control management are failing. Although sometimes arduous, the journey to empowerment is well worth making. In fact, unleashing the power of people in an organization may be the only way to continue to do business in a competitive, complicated marketplace.

Execution, The Discipline of Getting Things Done

Execution may very well be the best business book of the year, and one of the most useful to have come around in a long time. This smart and pithy book focuses on a simple though vexing challenge: How can the leaders of an organization exhort their people to deliver on the most important goals?....It's rare to find a book like this that blends smart practice with intelligent articulation of how to get things done. Do yourself a favor. Buy it." --The Boston Globe

Getting the Right Things Done: A Leader's Guide to Planning and Execution

In his new book Getting the Right Things Done, author and LEI faculty member Pascal Dennis outlines the nuts and bolts of strategy deployment. Getting the Right Things Done demonstrates how strategy deployment can help leaders harness the full power of Lean. Organization leaders at all levels and the management teams who are responsible for strategy deployment will find this book especially insightful.

Lead from the Heart

Our common belief in business is that the heart has no place in workplace management. In fact, most of us were taught that the heart acts like Kryptonite in leadership: it inherently undermines a manager's effectiveness - and lowers productivity and profitability.

Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace

Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace contains essays by thirty-nine of the most respected practitioners and scholars of this topic. This definitive collection of essays is rich in concept and theory as well as application and example.

Managing at the Speed of Change: How Resilient Managers Succeed and Prosper Where Others Fail

Managing at the Speed of Change has helped countless business leaders learn how to orchestrate transitions vital to their organizations’ success. Rather than focusing on what to change, this book’s aim is far more valuable: It shows readers how to change. Managing at the Speed of Change uses simple, easy-to-understand language and elegant visuals to explore the dynamics of change, and in doing so, teaches readers

Managing The Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations

The book shows how managers how their companies can benefit from the unexpected developments that impact their business and how they can prepare to creatively leverage the opportunities such developmentspresent. Explaining how an appreciation of conflict and team dialogue can help managers discover and build on the innate energy of their organizations.

Start With Why

Start with Why shows that the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way -- and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

This book shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of methods: the checklist. In riveting stories, he reveals what checklists can do, what they can’t, and how they could bring about striking improvements in a variety of fields, from medicine and disaster recovery to professions and businesses of all kinds.

The Energy to Lead: The Thermodynamics of Leadership

In this book, Terry looks briefly at the three laws of thermodynamics in simple layman s terms and in the following chapters illustrates how leadership follows the same laws. He also applies the same laws to help illustrate and explain his faith and the gospel message in a unique way. Whether you are an engineer, a parent, a pastor or anybody wishing to grow in influence in a leadership position,The Energy to Lead will be a must have in your leadership library.