The Art Of Leading Change

Author : Lee R. Beach
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412913810
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership and the Art of Change written by Lee R. Beach and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Roy Beech seeks to avoid pedantry, gimmicks & hero worship while addressing the complex issues involved in trying to lead an organization. He does not offer any quick fixes, but concentrates on practical strategies.

Author : Petra Kuenkel
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160358627X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Leading Collectively written by Petra Kuenkel and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to collaborative impact for leaders in industry, government, and social change networks Our world is facing unsustainable global trends—from climate change and water scarcity to energy insecurity, unfair labor practices, and growing inequality. Tackling these crises effectively requires a new form of leadership—a collective one. But, in a world of many silos, how do we get people to work together toward a common goal? That is one of the most important questions facing sustainability and social-change professionals around the world, and it is a question that Petra Kuenkel answers in The Art of Leading Collectively. Readers learn how to tackle system change for sustainable development, reimagine leadership as a collaborative endeavor, retrain leaders to work collectively, and manage diverse groups through a change process that has sustainability as a guiding focus. Drawing upon two decades of pioneering, internationally recognized work orchestrating multi-stakeholder initiatives, Kuenkel presents her chief tool, the Collective Leadership Compass, and shows others how to use it with large groups of diverse stakeholders to solve complex, urgent problems—particularly those that enmesh business activities, governance, human needs, and environmental impacts. The book offers many examples of collective leadership efforts involving corporate, public, and nonprofit sectors around the world. Readers learn about the processes that led to a sustainable textile alliance and set standards for sustainable cocoa and coffee production and trade, as well as those that helped nations rebound from war, develop sustainable infrastructure, and tackle resource conflicts with global businesses, to name a few. Kuenkel provides a clear roadmap for leaders from multinational companies involved in partnerships, international organizations engaged in cooperative development, public agencies, and interest groups—as well as for citizens seeking solutions to social and sustainability challenge

Author : Cheryl Cran
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111912476X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Change Leadership written by Cheryl Cran and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be an transformational leader during times of rapid organizational change The Art of Change Leadership represents a major milestone in the study of change leadership. An approachable yet thorough guide for leaders and team members that illustrates how to increase speed and agility during times of intense technological innovation and fast change, this resource focuses on the ways in which you, as an individual, can harness your unique abilities to lead cultural change and personal leadership in a positive and proactive way. Through eleven comprehensive chapters, explore the need for increased human brain speed, how to improve your focus, the body/mind connection, agility within a team setting, improving productivity, communication with your team, and more. Technology, globalization, evolving business models—these are just some of the variables impacting the competitive landscapes across virtually all industries. To keep up with the changes that these and other factors are creating, it is critical that you are able to understand what change leadership is, why it is important, and how you can leverage it in your workplace to positively impact your company. Explore research on change leadership vs. change management to improve business Leverage technology to improve productivity and adaptability to rapid change Evolutionary approaches to change leadership that include energy management and innovative mindset approaches Discover questionnaires, assessments and quizzes to assess your change leadership agilities The Art of Change Leadership is a (r)evolutionary text that prepares you to increase your team's speed and agility, and to thrive in today's continually evolving business environment.

Author : Wally Hauck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982959107
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Leading written by Wally Hauck and published by . This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership is critical skill each of us must develop over our life time. It is also an enormous challenge today especially for new leaders. We have a scarcity of leadership in our organizations and in our country. Leadership is the competency we must improve to transport us out of the many economic, education, and social challenges we are facing today. Poor leadership has brought us here. Only excellent leadership will bring us out. This book provides three basic principles of leadership that form the foundation of success for predictable employee engagement. With just these three principles a leader can bring together a team to create significant positive and sustainable performance improvement. The book provides the foundation of successful leadership so everyone can perform at their best. Everyone can and must be a leader at some level. To truly achieve personal and organizational success in today's challenging world everyone must improve their leadership skills even if only to achieve success for his or her own life or family. This book is for any leader who is: Desiring to create sustainable performance improvement for all employees New to his/her job and wants to start out on the right foot Frustrated by the current performance appraisal process Needing to improve employee engagement in order to create a competitive advantage The Kirkus Discoveries Review Certified speaking professional consultant Hauck presents a guide for managers wishing to improve employee performance. In this engaging, accessible book, Hauck challenges the standard paradigm of employee evaluation by performance review by suggesting the system in which the employee works, rather than the employee, must change. Many organizations currently employ management tools developed during the Industrial Revolution rather than shifting to an approach congruous with the modern workplace.

Author : H. James Dallas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119102200
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change written by H. James Dallas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquer the most daunting change initiative with the right people, tools, and strategies. James Dallas' Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change is an informative, insightful guide to effectively leading the transition through change. While most change management books present case studies about what happened at other companies, this book is based on the author's own experiences managing over 10 transformational and turnaround initiatives, 15 acquisition integrations, and 5 operations/quality shared services centers of excellence. By relating personal lessons learned, how they were subsequently applied, and how you can benefit from them, this book provides a unique first-hand perspective on successful agents of change. You'll learn the qualities and skills required to usher in the new paradigm, and how to break a large initiative into manageable chunks that are more likely to proceed as planned. By crafting your strategy based on proven methods, you're far and away more likely to meet or even exceed your change objectives. The majority of change initiatives fail because people mistakenly think that a change agent is the same as a project leader. They're not. This book shows you why, and how get the tools, strategies, and people you need at the helm of your initiative to come out the other side much stronger as an organization. Learn the critical skills required for effective change management Assess the difficulty and politics of a change initiative Choose the right people to help implement the change See past obstacles and lead effectively in a crisis Change is occurring within and across all industries, countries, and organizations. They begin with the best of intentions, but most fail to meet their objectives. Don't let your organization be one of the failures. Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change shows you how to plan, lead, and manage a successful transition.

Author : Mike Bonem
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506485073
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Leading Change written by Mike Bonem and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Art of Leading Change, author Mike Bonem asks: What is the primary distinction between the science and the art of change leadership? His answer: People! And leading people in churches and ministries is messy. The science of change leadership doesn't ignore the human element, but it tends to overlook the differences between people and the significant impact those differences have on how to best lead change. The art of leading change is all about people. We can't do the work God has called us to do without people, yet each individual--and each collection of individuals--is unique. This resource is a guide to better understand and practice the art of leading people through change. The heart of the book describes ten perspectives on leading change. Each perspective is captured in a memorable phrase that underscores an important principle, such as "Lead with trust" and "Resisters are not the enemy." The ten perspectives are bookended by two other essential insights: "The Challenge of Leading Change" examines the contours and underlying factors that make change so difficult in ministry settings. "The Courage for Change," at the book's conclusion, explores the conviction and fortitude leaders will need for the change journey. Leading change in a church has never been easy. It has become far more difficult as our society has become increasingly complex, fractured, and secular. Even though change is challenging, pastors and ministry leaders cannot be satisfied with maintaining the status quo. Whether you're leading from the first chair or some other role, and whether the changes you face are big or small, The Art of Leading Change will be a valuable addition to your leadership toolkit.

Author : Heather R Younger
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523092211
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Caring Leadership written by Heather R Younger and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your people know you care about them, they will move mountains. Employee engagement and loyalty expert Heather Younger outlines nine ways to manifest the radical power of caring support in the workplace. Here's the thing: most leaders think of themselves as caring leaders, but not all of them act in alignment with what that means for employees. Leaders may not be able to identify the level of care they are extending to their employees, but all employees intuitively know whether their bosses or managers are caring for them. Heather Younger argues that if you are looking for increased productivity, customer satisfaction, or employee engagement, you need to care for your employees first. Genuinely caring for people means that you want to see them succeed for themselves, not just for what they can do for you, your team, or your organization. This book incorporates ten sections with breakout stories and interviews that outline the necessary steps to make all employees feel included and cared for, as well as a call to action for all leaders. Younger states that leaders who have the positive power to change the lives of those they lead shouldn't just want to care for them; they should see it as imperative for the success of their employees and their organization.

Author : Richard Beckhard
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing the Essence written by Richard Beckhard and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1992-02-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the strategies and leadership behaviors required to manage and integrate fundamental change. Uses illustrative examples of CEOs who have successfully led radical rethinking of purpose and priorities, vision, and the very structure and functions of the organization itself.

Author : Rob-Jan Jong
Publisher : AMACOM
ISBN 13 : 0814449085
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anticipate written by Rob-Jan Jong and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This helpful book explains how anyone can develop in themselves a visionary leadership. Most leaders today have not developed the visionary capacity necessary to look ahead and explore strategic futures. Or at least their so-called vision is not one that compels, inspires, and energizes their people. Vision may sound like a rare quality, attainable by only a select few--but nothing could be further from the truth. Strategy and leadership expert Rob-Jan de Jong describes how it simply boils down to sharpening two key skills: 1) the ability to see things early, and 2) the power to connect the dots. Using the author’s trademarked FuturePriming process, which helps distinguish signal from noise, readers geared toward fine-tuning these two essential skills will discover how to: Tap into their imagination and open themselves up to the unconventional Become better at seeing things early Frame the big-picture view that provides direction for the future Communicate your vision in a way that engages others and provokes action When you can anticipate change before your competitors, you create enormous strategic advantage. That's what visionaries do, and now so can you.

Author : Linda A. Hill
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1422187594
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Genius written by Linda A. Hill and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why can some organizations innovate time and again, while most cannot? You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help—but there’s only one way to ensure sustained innovation: you need to lead it—and with a special kind of leadership. Collective Genius shows you how. Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily Truelove, and Being the Boss coauthor Kent Lineback, found among leaders a widely shared, and mistaken, assumption: that a “good” leader in all other respects would also be an effective leader of innovation. The truth is, leading innovation takes a distinctive kind of leadership, one that unleashes and harnesses the “collective genius” of the people in the organization. Using vivid stories of individual leaders at companies like Volkswagen, Google, eBay, and Pfizer, as well as nonprofits and international government agencies, the authors show how successful leaders of innovation don’t create a vision and try to make innovation happen themselves. Rather, they create and sustain a culture where innovation is allowed to happen again and again—an environment where people are both willing and able to do the hard work that innovative problem solving requires. Collective Genius will not only inspire you; it will give you the concrete, practical guidance you need to build innovation into the fabric of your business.