Summary: Have you ever tried to define "leadership"? How about identifying the skills of a good leader? In this video, one young executive must tackle this difficult task through an assignment from his CEO. By working around the clock, he gains valuable information on leadership skills from some very unexpected sources. Viewers learn how styles of leadership differ, skills that make a good leader, how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Merchant, Nilofer
Summary: In The Power of Onlyness, Nilofer Merchant, one of the world's top-ranked business thinkers, reveals that, in fact, we have now reached an unprecedented moment of opportunity for your ideas to "make a dent" on the world. Now that the Internet has liberated ideas to spread through networks instead of hierarchies, power is no longer determined by your status, but by "onlyness"--that spot in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 MERCarnegie, Dale
Summary: Carnegie's classic bestseller--an inspirational personal-development guide that shows how to achieve lifelong success--is now in a newly packaged edition, the first hardcover release of this classic since 1981.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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Summary: "The communication and leadership secrets of Jeff Bezos and how to master them, from the bestselling author of Talk Like Ted. Jeff Bezos is a dreamer who turned a bold idea into the world's most influential company, a brand that likely touches your life every day. As a student of leadership and communication, he learned to elevate the way Amazonians write, collaborate, innovate, pitch, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 GALRumsfeld, Donald
Summary: United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's advice on government, business and life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 355.6092 RUMSummary: Essentially, a manager's style is the way he or she makes decisions, relates to subordinates, and lays out a vision for an organization. This program examines five widely recognized management styles, commonly identified as autocratic, persuasive, consultative, participative, and laissez faire. Viewers learn about each style's characteristics, advantages, drawbacks, and practical applications....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Sinek, Simon
Summary: Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty? In studying the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world, Simon Sinek discovered that they all think, act, and communicate in the exact same way-and it's the complete opposite of what everyone else does. People like Martin Luther King Jr.,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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Summary: "A recent estimate suggest that employees collectively endure a staggering 55 million meetings a day in the United States. This tremendous time investment yields only modest returns. No organization made up of human being is immune from the all-too-common gripes about meetings: that they fail to engage, inadvertently encourage participants to tune out, and blatantly disregard participants'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019