Self Leadership

Jogos finitos têm participantes conhecidos, regras fixas e um objetivo claro que, ao ser alcançado, encerra o jogo. Nele, vencedores e perdedores são facilmente identificados. Em jogos infinitos, os participantes estão sempre mudando e as regras não são precisas. Não existem vencedores e perdedores. Quanto mais eu entendia a diferença entre os dois tipos de jogos, mais via jogos infinitos ao nosso redor. Percebi que grande parte das dificuldades que as empresas enfrentam existe simplesmente porque seus líderes estão participando de um jogo infinito com uma mentalidade finita.

A startup enxuta é um modelo de negócio que vem sendo amplamente adotado ao redor do mundo, mudando de maneira como companhias idealizam produtos e seus serviços. Pioneiro na implementação abordagem, Eric Ries define a startup como uma organização dedicada a criar algo novo sob condições incertas - e isso inclui tanto o jovem empreendedor que trabalha nessa oficina de casa quanto o profissional experiente em uma multinacional. Neste livro, Ries reúne histórias reais e exemplos de empresas que se transformaram ao implementar esse modelo revolucionário.

Was braucht es wirklich um eine erfolgreiche Führungskraft zu sein / werden? Wie erlernt man erfolgreiche Führungstechniken? Wie schafft man es, dass der Führungsstil gut aufgenommen und respektiert wird? Wie muss eine Führungskraft im digitalen Zeitalter sein? Was muss eine tiefenwirksame Führungskraft Hypnose können? Diese Fragen haben Dr. Alfred Pöltel die letzten Jahre intensiv begleitet. Durch viele Forschungen hat er den Schlüssel gefunden. Und gibt diesen nun in seinem neuartigen Selbsthypnose Programm weiter.

In Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws, renowned strategy consultants and best-selling authors Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach deliver an insightful exploration of how people tend to act tentatively in the face of uncertainty and provide the tools we need to do things differently.

In Anticipate Failure, Lak Ananth—CEO of global venture capital firm Next47—describes the most common patterns of failure in innovation. He starts with the premise that building a business based on innovation is a perilous endeavor, and failures big and small are always around the corner. Ananth then dives into instances of failures, guiding the listener to understand root causes. Finally, he provides listeners with insights and coaching that will enable them not just to avoid failure, but to anticipate it and then get through it on the way to success.

While employees may possess the knowledge and skills to do their jobs, they are unaware of what best-selling customer service author Steve Curtin calls job purpose: how their specific tasks contribute to the organization’s reason for being. They understand what to do and how to do it, but not why they do it. Curtin offers a fresh tool to overcome this challenge. Instead of just having assignments to work on, they now have a purpose to work toward. Service quality goes from transactional to exceptional.

Millennial women are living in a time when career opportunities have never been better—if you want them, that is. In the past, most people accepted the necessity of “putting in the time”. You had to earn your way up the corporate ladder or hope to be in the right place when the next opportunity presented itself. Michelle Turman shows you how to seize those opportunities, achieve great things, and get what you want.

The Beautiful Business encourages entrepreneurs to reclaim their business and life as a fundamental creative journey that enables their people and their business entity to continually evolve and thrive.

Leadership consultant BH Tan has written an outstanding exposition of the Asian perspective on leadership. He has drawn upon his deep appreciation of Daoist principles to propose a complementary approach to the Western-centric leadership mindset. A lifelong student of Eastern and Western thinking and leadership, he challenges some of our most cherished truths and perspectives.

La investigación de Daniel Goleman, psicólogo y coautor de Primal Leadership, demostró que la inteligencia emocional es un determinante del buen liderazgo más poderoso que la competencia técnica, el cociente intelectual o la visión estratégica. Influir en quienes nos rodean y mejorar nuestro bienestar requiere que seamos conscientes de nosotros mismos, que sepamos controlar nuestras emociones y que comprendamos las emociones de los demás.

In Be More Wrong, noted leadership coach Colin Hunter shows you why, in the age of disruption, it’s never been more important to fail early, fail often, and fail forward. Through his Pi2 Leadership Impact Model, he explains how to create systems and build habits that will help you lead with greater confidence, conviction, and connection. You’ll learn how to recognize different leadership styles and what transforms a good leader into an outstanding one.

From small indignities to unconscious slights, women experience situations at work every day that may seem small or unimportant but that effectively differentiate and exclude them. These are micro-offenses; the small, awkward, or uncomfortable moments that slow-build until the unwelcome environment takes hold and women disengage.

That is the challenge that all leaders face. This challenge grows more intense every day. Lead with Speed is the answer. This problem of speed is often disguised by other symptoms, such as "my projects cannot make an accurate prediction of when they will be done" or the stated need of "my teams need to take more risks." The real need is not reckless risk-taking that will lead to even more problems and finishing even later. The real need is for speed.

Look around any city and you will find millionaires and poverty all calling the same part of the world home. Despite the popular mantra, wealth has nothing to do with location, gender, race, or family background. For if it were true that your zip code dictated whether you became wealthy or not, getting rich would simply be a matter of moving home.

The business world is full of catchphrases: follow your passion, think positive, be authentic, suck it up, take risks, network. All are well-intentioned, but let's be honest - this inch-deep advice just isn't very helpful. How do real people succeed in the real world of work? That's the question best-selling author Joanna Barsh sets out to answer - not by asking motivational gurus or well-established CEOs, but by diving into the trenches with today's boldest, brightest up-and-coming leaders.

Many executives and managers have learned to accept the poor performance they are getting from their employees as normal. You are paying for results every payday, but you are not always getting them. Totally accountable systems (TAS) are for professionals who understand that the “new norm” isn’t something that has to be accepted. If you want to create an environment where you can actually count on people to keep their word, this book is for you. Remember, people treat you exactly the way you teach people to treat you.

Ian Robertson, psiholog și profesor, ne oferă o lectură fascinantă pentru un viitor mai bun, în care știința încrederii devine condiția sine qua non a dezvoltării și vindecării societății. Vom afla de unde vine și cum se propagă încrederea, care sunt consecințele ei economice și politice, de ce unii o posedă și alții nu, cum lipsa ei ne afectează sănătatea, care este dinamica încrederii la locul de muncă, acasă și în relațiile dintre sexe. Mai presus de toate, vom constata că încrederea nu este înnăscută, dar odată învățată și stăpânită ne va face mai puternici.

Tony Fadell est l'un des plus grands mentors de la Silicon Valley. Il a dirigé les équipes qui ont créé l'iPod, l'iPhone et Nest, le thermostat intelligent. Il offre ici une mine de conseils et un retour d'expérience précieux. Il a passé les dix premières années de sa carrière à enchaîner les échecs, avant de passer les vingt suivantes à créer quelques-unes des plus grandes réussites techno-logiques de notre temps. Le leadership, le fonctionnement des start-up, le management, la prise de décision, les échecs dévastateurs et les succès grisants n'ont plus aucun secret pour lui.

Cultivating resiliency in changing times takes skills, perspective, and wisdom. At its core, resilience is not just about "bounce-back" after adversity. It's about moving through change while maintaining grit, perseverance and (hopefully) good health. To regain a sense of peace with what is, even in chaotic times, we need to begin within. From Chaos to Calm: Leading Change from the Inside Out is a quiet call to wake up to our individual and collective role and responsibility in solving our most pressing 21st century problems by cultivating resiliency at the personal level first.

If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21st-Century Leaders provides listeners with guidance for any sort of leadership journey. Whether you are a seasoned executive or just starting your first leadership role, this audiobook will help you grow as a leader. Doug Moran starts by posing four critical questions for every listener to consider: 1. Who am I? 2. What do I want? 3. How can I get others to make their own choice to follow me? 4. How can I earn and retain the privilege to lead? If You Will Lead helps each listener discover his or her own answers.