Leadership Philosophy

The often hilarious and sometimes poignant story behind Dal LaMagna's attempts to create a successful business. By the time LaMagna graduated from the Harvard Business School, his numerous entrepreneurial activities - including operating discotheques in drive-in movie theaters, working with the 1960s musical teen sensations the Cowsills, and opening an ice cream parlor on the Venice Beach boardwalk - had landed him $150,000 in debt. Raising Eyebrows tells the story of how he finally succeeded. After years of failures and living pennilessly, LaMagna finally succeed with tweezers. He started Tweezerman, one of the world's most respected, innovative and successful beauty tool manufacturers with only $500. Not only was Tweezerman a financial success but is became a model of how to operate a company responsibly.

For the last decade, decorated Navy SEAL, accomplished athlete, and bestselling author Don Mann has been traveling across the country giving motivational talks and in the process inspiring hundreds with the secrets behind his awe-inspiring achievements. In Reaching beyond Boundaries, Mann brings his much sought-after wisdom to the audiobook. As an elite Navy SEAL, Mann performed seemingly impossible tasks on a regular basis. Here he details the lessons he learned from his training and shows how the rest of us can apply those teachings to our daily lives.

In What Universities Can Be, the high-profile educator Robert J. Sternberg writes thoughtfully about the direction of higher education in this country and its potential to achieve future excellence. Sternberg presents, for the first time, his concept of the ACCEL model, in which institutions of higher education are places where students learn to become Active Concerned Citizens and Ethical Leaders.

This biography of educational activist and Black studies forerunner Bertha Maxwell-Roddey examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the desegregated South. Sonya Ramsey modernizes the nineteenth-century term "race woman" to describe how Maxwell-Roddey and her peers turned hard-won civil rights and feminist milestones into tangible accomplishments in North Carolina and nationwide from the late 1960s to the 1990s.

Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince is a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince, a king, a president.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, the outspoken president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and coauthors Philip J. Rous and Peter H. Henderson probe the way senior leaders, administrators, staff, faculty, and students facilitate academic success by cultivating an empowering institutional culture and broad leadership for innovation. They examine how shared leadership enables an empowered campus to tackle tough issues by taking a hard look in the mirror, noting strengths and weaknesses while assessing opportunities and challenges.

Leadership Revisited is a leadership handbook that every leader should have in their library. This book navigates through leadership from a hands-on, practical, and personal perspective. In your leader journey, you will experience ups and downs, highs and lows, winning and losing success and failure. You will learn to give and take. You will learn when to fight and when to stand still. You will hopefully learn from the mistakes you've made and use them as stepping stones to become wiser and better than before.

Author Jarrod McGrath personally interviewed 15 global CEOs to determine their thoughts around the mindset, skillset and toolset required to lead effectively now and into the future. As a CEO of a company that specialises in helping organisations to better manage and engage their people, Jarrod is at the coal face of both the issues and the opportunities that CEOs are facing right here, right now. The Modern CEO is set to become a pivotal book globally; a manifesto to guide all modern CEOs forward.

In I Am Accountable, renowned speaker and consultant Sam Silverstein explains how accountability is the secret to filling your life with more meaning, more success, and more joy - and it all starts with your mind-set. In order to create a truly meaningful life, we must first accept that the problem is never other people. “The real problem,” Sam Silverstein maintains, “is what we believe about other people.”

Success is a progressive realization of a worthy goal. Success and self-fulfillment can be predicted and guaranteed if we do certain things in a certain way, every day. This audiobook not only clearly outlines the steps required to become successful but also answers the question: why and how do successful people become successful and have a fulfilled life?

Around the world, thousands of people who've found success in their chosen careers are getting the call to do something more with their lives - to give something back to a world in desperate need of their help. And you don't have to be a billionaire to do so. With Moulden's guidance, you can transform how you earn your daily bread and make a real difference.

This is the ultimate guide for women in education. Written by leading members of the grassroots #WomenEd movement, it offers guidance on how to attain and succeed in leaderships positions, alongside nuanced analysis and debate of topics including: the gender pay gap, gender stereotyping in schools and beyond, the realities experienced by BME leaders and how flexible working cultures can redress inequities.

李嘉诚不但是香港的传奇，更是华人的传奇。在自己70年的商业生涯中，他不断地扩大经营，不断地抓住机遇跨行业发展。李嘉诚总结自己生意上的理念和做人的心得，从而道破自己在管理方面50余年来一直坚守不弃的哲学。…… 李嘉誠不但是香港的傳奇，更是華人的傳奇。在自己70年的商業生涯中，他不斷地擴大經營，不斷地抓住機遇跨行業發展。李嘉誠總結自己生意上的理念和做人的心得，從而道破自己在管理方面50餘年來一直堅守不棄的哲學。

In Navigating Social Justice, Martin Scanlan introduces a comprehensive social justice schema that melds organizational learning with leading for equity. Scanlan distills wisdom gleaned from the experiences of a variety of educational professionals as well as from his own more than three decades of work in equity-focused partnership with elementary schools.

Through candid storytelling and self-disclosure, Mistakes, Missteps, Missed Opportunities offers a refreshing departure from the idealized narratives of leadership, providing an unfiltered examination of the impact, context and lessons learned through errors made by real educational leaders. For new administrators, this book is intended to serve as a GPS, minimizing missteps and offering guidance through the treacherous early years.

In 1954, the Supreme Court's Brown decision ended segregated schooling in the United States, but regrettably, as documented in congressional testimony and transcripts, it also ended the careers of a generation of highly qualified and credentialed Black teachers and principals. In the Deep South and northern border states over the decades following Brown, Black schools were illegally closed and Black educators were displaced en masse. By engaging with the complicated legacy of the Brown decision, Leslie T. Fenwick illuminates a crucial chapter in education history.

Este libro explora una visión continua del trabajo con las nuevas generaciones para asegurar una mayor eficacia en la formación espiritual y el discipulado de niños, pre adolescentes, adolescentes y jóvenes.

Digital technologies are no longer only impacting the way individuals interact with one another, and carry out their daily lives. With the increase in businesses relying on eCommerce, businesses using digital technologies to support essential operations, and entrepreneurs increasingly creating digital-only businesses - this is not just a trend, but a direction for business and entrepreneurship today.

People always search for the perfect “how to” audiobook you can use as a gift for people in business, government, not for profit, education, and entrepreneurial spheres. This highly practical collection of vignettes about leadership is easy to listen. The listener does get a highly useful education on techniques to improve their leadership capabilities. In the post COVID-19 pandemic virus world, the need for leadership in every aspect of our lives is clear.

Steve Jobs. Jeff Bezos. Larry Page. Sergey Brin. Zhang Ruimin. Marc Benioff. Millions of words have been written about the great entrepreneurs of the world. This book is not about describing their achievements. Nor is it about their charisma, personal trials, or their place in popular culture. We have all heard or read about them already. This book is about the entrepreneur, the thinker. It is about the grand ideas, the disruptive thoughts, the innovative underpinnings and business philosophies that gave rise to their achievements.