Business studies: general

Influence is an essential component of leadership, especially in a nonprofit environment.

Part of the six-volume reference set Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, this volume is a comprehensive look at wellbeing in the workplace at organizational, managerial, and individual levels.

Ambition is a good thing, but too much of it can cause problems.

Every year thousands of ambitious individuals embark on a career in finance, attracted by its potential to offer meaningful work, good remuneration and professional advancement.

An essential book on leadership development and coaching, Compass is the go-to reference to help you-and the people you develop-provide the leadership needed in any circumstance to galvanize teams, groups and entire organizations.

As a leader, you have different roles to play with your direct reports.

Leadership is a quality that is difficult to define.

This book presents eight evidence-based strategies that promote generative learning, which enables learners to apply their knowledge to new problems.

This guidebook provides an introduction to the basics of leader-coaching, including a structure and a set of guidelines to conduct effective formal and informal coaching conversations with your direct reports.

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Team success isn't inevitable.

Getting your team off on the right foot is critical to its success.

What is knowledge?

This Study and Revision Guide will ensure you approach your exams feeling confident and prepared through the help of accurate and accessible notes, examiner advice, and exam-style questions on each key topic.

Learn an entire two-year MBA programme in a few short hours with this quick and easy-to-read illustrated guideAn MBA is the best way to get ahead in business.

The context of leadership has changed.

It specifies: (1) readiness factors (trait, state, environmental, and sociocultural); (2) developmental processes (experience, disequilibrium, equilibrium, construction, and potentiation); and (3) outcomes (competencies and taking action, meaning structures, developmental stages, and holding environments).

One part of your job as a leader is to create commitment to your organization's vision.

Some executives use coaching to learn specific skills, others to improve performance on the job or to prepare for career moves in business or professional life.

This book will show you how to diagnose problems in your team by focusing on the three outcomes of effective leadership: direction, alignment, and commitment.

Often people are given new positions in order to provide them with developmental experiences.

Chances are, you already know what it's like to work for a toxic boss.

How do governments make key decisions on vital economic questions of nationalimportance?

Como líder, tiene que asumir diferentes roles con sus subordinadosdirectos.

The guide all MBAs and exec ed students need.

More than 500 accurate practice questions and answers for the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP examsThis all-new book arms you with hundreds of practice questions for the two new Society for Human Resource Management exams the SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP) and the SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) exams.

Experience is vital for a leader’s success, but merely having an experience (such as a challenging new job, a stretch assignment, or an unexpected hardship) isn’t enough.

This Center for Creative Leadership® publication shows you how your organization and its leaders can create a culture that fosters accountability by focusing on five areas: support, freedom, information, rescources and goal and role clarity.

It's no secret that your genes have a subtle, but powerful impact on your job and career.

The study of urban political economy needs no justification, for cities are the heart (and arguably the soul) of our civilization, and their political and economic conditions are the linchpins of its existence.

Providing feedback to others about their performance is a key developmental experience.

This book explores the interdependencies between technologies and institutions in network infrastructures.

Indigenous ManagementPractices in Africa: A Guide for Educators and Practitioners is a timely response to the recent callfor management philosophies and theories that reflect the peculiarities of theAfrican continent.

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER & FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTHConnect your workforce, improve engagement, and drive productivity to undreamed-of levelsFeelings of loneliness among employees are on the rise with 72% of global workers suffering from it.

The success of your daily interactions with others, whether during formal meetings or encounters at the water cooler, can make or break your success in the workplace.

Everyone has a reputation.

Because executives tend to be problem solvers, they typically focus on weaknesses when they want to improve their performance.

The book that has taught thousands of students how to write winning business reportsFor more than 30 years, Carter A.

Trust is a mechanism of people’s decision-making processes that mediates nearly every interaction in their lives.

To get the biggest return, real estate investors need the right financing.

#2 Wall Street Journal Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerFrom the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Bring Your Human to Work comes an indispensable guide to taking your employee engagement to the next level.

The Center for Creative Leadership developed the role of process advisor in order to provide a long-term coaching solution within the context of its LeaderLab program.

Having interpersonal skills will allow you to motivate, inspire, and successfully lead others, as well as further your own career development.

In an era marked by the dominance of a few corporate giants, and the ease of replicating ideas at minimal costs, the imperative for organisations of all sizes to continually innovate has become paramount.

This guidebook provides an introduction to the basics of leader-coaching, including a structure and a set of guidelines to conduct effective formal and informal coaching conversations with your direct reports.

New York Times BestsellerWe all want to raise children with good valueschildren who are the opposite of spoiledyet we often neglect to talk to our children about money.