"Practical advice for making the shift to your first leadership position The number of people who will become first-time supervisors will likely grow in the next 10 years, as Baby Boomers retire. Perhaps the most challenging leadership experience anyone will face isn't one at th…
Combining elements of economic reasoning and political science has proven to be very useful for understanding the broad variation in economic development around the world. In a sense research in this field goes back to the Scottish Enlightenment and Adam Smith's original plan in…
The fifth edition of the Handbook explores the role and value of leadership and management development and provides tools, techniques and authoritative guidance on how to deliver it effectively. The contributors, both academics and professionals, many of whom are highly-regarded…
Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice is about the creative ways in which social entrepreneurs solve pressing and insurmountable social problems. Theories of social change are presented to help demystify the "magic" of making an immense, yet durable and irreversible socia…
"There are certain kinds of people who garner enormous satisfaction from successfully taking on a "mission impossible" and, by so doing, actually manage to change the world, sometimes in surprising ways. Such individuals are rare, and when we become aware of them and their aston…
"Leadership has never been more important to the cultural industries. The arts, together with museums and heritage sites play a vital part in keeping economies going, and, more importantly, in making life worth living. People in the sector face a constant challenge to find suppo…
"Leadership has never been more important to the cultural industries. The arts, together with museums and heritage sites play a vital part in keeping economies going, and, more importantly, in making life worth living. People in the sector face a constant challenge to find suppo…
Lead yourself-and your company-into the future with these powerful, proven leadership strategies from Brian Tracy.
"Leadership is an exact science but a simple one, born of clear vision and courage, self-knowledge and integrity, focus and confidence. How the Best Leaders Lead brings those powerful attributes and leadership greatness easily within your reach."--BOOK JA.
... "Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People lik…
Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Mar…
"The Harvard Business Review looked at 300 of the most creative, successful executives in business and found that they shared a number of tendencies and characteristics, but one stood out at the top of the list--they all were master questioners. It's not necessity, but a questio…
"The Harvard Business Review looked at 300 of the most creative, successful executives in business and found that they shared a number of tendencies and characteristics, but one stood out at the top of the list--they all were master questioners. It's not necessity, but a questio…
