Leadership Consulting

When Martin Kihn joined a powerhouse New York consulting firm, he thought his job was to help organizations. In reality, the consultants spent precious work hours prowling for new clients, and offered little or no useful information. From power breakfasts with mind games to the screaming indignity of “Feedback Camp” in New Jersey, House of Lies reveals the truth about a “profession” that could threaten your job, your career, and your life...and even throws you some lifelines should the suits start circling your company.

Leadership Insights That Endure offers a rare window into the minds of two leaders from Boston Consulting Group—a top global consulting firm—over the course of five years of real-world transformation. Christoph Schweizer, BCG’s CEO, along with former CEO and current Global Chair Rich Lesser, share their most powerful weekly briefs written to leaders in the middle of crises, recalibrations, and reinventions.

Leadership is one of those things that we all think that we know what it is, but we are hard pressed to describe it to someone if they ask us. This makes picking the next generation of leaders that much harder. We want them to have the leadership skills that we know that they need, but how can we make sure that they have them? Some IT managers revert to using the time-tested trial-by-fire approach, but is this really the best way?

Embark on a journey of meaningful leadership with "Lead With Purpose: Unleashing the Power of Meaningful Leadership" by Algrish C. Williams, Sr. This transformative guide melds the author's rich military leadership experience with insightful corporate strategies, illuminating the profound impact of purpose-driven leadership. Through a compelling narrative laced with personal anecdotes, Williams invites listeners to explore the essence of leading with purpose and its potential to transform individuals, teams, and organizations.

This audible book reviews nine essential leadership qualities designed to encourage, up and coming, leaders as to their mission and purpose of leadership, which is to strengthen others. I speak of leadership from both the business and church perspective.

In How to Manage in Times of Crisis, you will learn how to prepare for inevitable approaching challenges in life and business and how to navigate them with the best results. Released as a written version of his presentation to the Russian Academy of Economics in 2009 (just after the 2008 financial crisis), where Dr. Adizes is an honorary scientific advisor and recipient of an honorary doctorate, this audiobook version of Dr. Adizes' speech gives us hope, and an appropriate strategy, to prepare and rebuild.

Never Say Sell explains how to scale individual engagements into long-term business relationships. Cowritten by Tom McMakin, the coauthor of How Clients Buy and expert in account development, and colleague Jacob Parks, this book provides insights into how key rainmakers at firms like Accenture and IBM drive growth from existing relationships. Never Say Sell is a business development guide for professional service providers like consultants, accountants, and lawyers, whether they are sole proprietors or members of account teams tasked with expanding key accounts.

For over 15 years, consultants, both internal and external, have relied on Peter Block's landmark best seller, Flawless Consulting, to learn how to deal effectively with clients, peers, and others. Using illustrative examples, case studies, and exercises, the author, one of the most important and well known in his field, offers his legendary warmth and insight throughout this much-awaited second edition.

Unstoppable takes the most valuable lessons and top commonalities from how to succeed and lays out the nine principles for unlimited success...in both business and in life. Proven by author Kelly Roach's award-winning career in corporate settings and as an entrepreneur, Unstoppable is set to inspire everyone from the new entrepreneur to the seasoned CEO.

Anyone can manage IT employees. Due to the fact that the employees have agreed to work for the company, as their manager you hold the ability to fire them in your hands. If they don't do what you tell them to do, you have the right to terminate them. That's management, not leadership. This audiobook will provide you with numerous examples of good leadership. I'll be showing you the skills and talents that IT leaders must have in order to do a good job of motivating their team.

It's not easy being an IT manager. There are constant staffing issue, budget issues, project issues, and the challenge of keeping your management informed about what is going on. The one thing that too many of us end up overlooking as we try to accomplish all of these things is that we have one more management job to do: Manage our careers.

Statt der Zeit besser das "Wozu?" im Blick haben: Reagieren oder Agieren? Wie Sie das Hamsterrad verlassen. Vergessen Sie Planung. Konzepte stellen das Ergebnis vor die Tat. Drei Erfolgsrezepte: Dynamische ToDo-Sammlung statt ToDo-Liste, Rückzugsräume schaffen und weniger tun um mehr zu schaffen.

Project Management: Influence and Leadership includes three proven fundamentals to unlock the secrets of leadership, influence, and stakeholder communication management! Imagine that you master the magic of influence and are able to successfully lead and manage stakeholders. Imagine that you have a clear path of how to accomplish it.

This book is to help those in the behavioral health field. For many years, I have worked with community mental health agencies. I have learned that it can be one of the more toxic environments you can work in. It does not sound logical that it should harm those wanting to help others. The field is here to help people, and it does. It has been the most rewarding time in my life. But it has also been some of the most troubling times.

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, traditional talent strategies are no longer enough. Enterprise Skills Unlocked offers a comprehensive guide to transitioning your organization toward a skills-based talent model—one that’s more agile, data-driven, and aligned with the future of work.

This audiobook doesn’t offer quick fixes for developing leadership skills. It presents an approach to raise the awareness level of the whole of the person. The author contends that leaders must not only develop values like integrity and accountability but also expand their critical thinking ability, which is one quality of several for becoming accountable as a leader in the corporate or political world.

Oracle's world-famous consultants are leaders in delivering best-in-class services, solutions, and client satisfaction. Now for the first time, this practical insider's guide reveals the secrets behind Oracle's astonishing success - a virtual crash course in the best practices and proven methods that can take your career to the next level.

The modern workplace isn’t actually a single place. Teams are spread around the globe and across generations—yet expected to work in unison despite the cultural and age distinctions that shape their worldviews and work views. Whether you lead a company or are part of a team, thriving in this complex matrix requires a unique ability to turn generational differences into seamless collaborative strengths.

Inspired Manufacturing Leadership answers the question of how to systematically incorporate Kaizen, metric management, problem solving, people development, culture change, and many more improvement efforts into one cohesive system of implementation. It reveals to leaders how to effectively and systematically challenge all processes having them to become predictable and repeatable. Once implemented, it facilitates the achievement of breakthrough results.

Leadership's Top 12 is a book that counts down 12 proven qualities developed over a course of over 23 years. They are all great qualities and much needed, but some are more important in building the foundation of leadership that results in successful leading, and are found in you. If you are ready to lead life and put away that testimony of old, then this is a must read.