Leadership Library Inventory

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Understanding Financial Statements: A Primer Of Useful Information

James O. Gill

Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1990)

This book was written for those not familiar with basic financial analysis. Its purpose is to explain fundamental concepts in a clear and understandable way and to provide simple tools that can help readers apply what has been learned to their business needs or interests.


Understanding Organizational Change: Converting Theory To Practice

Lynn Fossum

Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1989)

This book will help you develop an overview of the process of change. It will help you look at change-at all levels: personal, group, organizational, and environmental. It will teach you basic principals of change and enable you to help your employees through the stages of change. UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE contains idea, and activities you can use immediately with your employees.


Up Your Productivity

Kurt Hanks

Crisp Publications, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (1990)

A light-hearted and easy reading approach to a critical subject. With clear, forceful language and creative imagery. This book jolts you with hard-hitting ideas as it entertains. Learn how to measure your own effectiveness and make needed improvements. By exploiting a number of simple and easy-to-use principles, you can increase your productivity and job satisfaction, manage your time better, and help others around you to improve their productivity as well.


Walking The Talk Together

Eric Harvey and Alexander Lucia

Performance Publishing Company, Dallas, TX  (1998)

The challenge of bringing organizational values to life is right there in front of us and it's not going away any time soon.  We can choose to ignore it and point our fingers at others. Or, we can choose to do something about it. Either way, WE ARE RESPONSIBLE.


Wake Up Your Creative Genius

Kurt Hanks

Crisp Publications, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (1991)

WAKE P YOUR CREATIVE GENIUS shows you how to think more creatively--how to get good ideas and how to do something with them. It gives you proven techniques that can multiply the quantity and quality of your creative thoughts.


Wellness In The Workplace: How To Plan, Implement And Evaluate a Wellness program

Merlene T. Sherman

Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1990)

This book is written in a direct, no-nonsense style with an occasional twist of humor.  It shows how to develop and maintain wellness programs with practical, low-cost techniques, and provides enlightening examples of thriving wellness programs across the country. You'll find hundreds of creative ideas to enhance existing programs, plus a host of innovative strategies to help revitalize wellness programs that have lost their zip.


A Whack On The Side Of The Head: How to Unlock Your Mind For Innovation

Roger von Oech, Ph.D.

Warner Books, Inc., New York, NY (1983)

This book zeros in on the ten mental locks that prevent you from being as innovative as you can be-and shows you what you can do to open them. combining wisdom, tomfoolery, paradox, philosophy, and scientific fact through stories, mental exercises, and case histories.


What A Great Idea! Key Steps Creative People Take

Charles "Chic" Thompson

Harper Perennial, A Division of Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY (1992)

In this workbook, the author teaches you how to challenge the assumptions you hold that at stifle your creativity, freeing you to discover your innate innovative abilities.


What A Manager Learned And How He Learned It

Wilfred H. Drath. Robert E. Kaplan

Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC (1985)

(This is a reprint of the feature article appearing in the August 1985 Issues & Observations, a quarterly publication of the Center for Creative Leadership.) The use of realistic behavioral simulation for management training is growing. Perhaps the most often asked questions about such simulations are: How do they work? And what can managers learn from them? The authors attempt to answer these questions in narrative form by following one manager in his search for self-discovery and understanding during the Center's Looking Glass simulation.


What They don't Teach You At Harvard Business School

Mark H. McCormack

Bantam Books, New Youk, NY  (1984)

"In fairness to the Harvard Business School, what they don't teach you is what they can't teach you. Business demands innovation.  There is a constant need to feel around the fringes, to test the edges, but business schools, out of necessity, are condemned to teach the past.  My main purpose in writing this book is to fill in many of the gaps - the gaps between a business school education and the street knowledge that comes from the day-to-day experience of running a buisness and managing people."   - Mark H. McCormack


When In Rome: A Business Guide To Cultures & Customs In European Nations

John Mole

American Management Association, New York. NY (1990)

Did you know that table-pounding is considered acceptable in America, embarrassing in Britain, uncouth in Germany, rude in Luxembourg, and commonplace in France? If you work abroad or plan to soon, you need When in Rome...an entertaining and practical book of "rules" to help you avoid the social and business faux pas that can spoil a cross-cultural business relationship before it's even begun.


Where's The Learning In Service-Learning?

Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles, Jr.

Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco, CA (1999)

In this book, Eyler and Giles use two national research projects to track the cognitive development of the participants.  They are looking to see, if in this ever changing technical world, real learning can occur when there is so much at the fingertips that requires no thinking at all.  However, at the base root of it all, the one-on-one relations with people is learning in it's own right. 


White to White on Black/White

Toni E. Weaver, Ph.D.

Voices Publishing, Vandalia, OH (1993)

This is an educational and motivational handbook for whites who want to know how racism is perpetuated in America and how they contribute to the problem.  Whites' most often asked questions on Black/white relations are addressed and potential ways to become a part of the solution are offered.


Winning At Human Relations: How To Keep From Victimizing Yourself

Elwood N. Chapman

Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1989)

This positive book explains the importance of developing strong human relationships at work and provides methods to build and maintain them and also describes how to avoid self-victimization, even when others are responsible for conflicts. The emphasis is on how to build mutually rewarding (i.e., "win-win") relationships.


Winning Numbers: How To Use Business Facts & Figures To Make Your Point & Get Ahead

Michael C. Thomsett

AMACOM, A Division of American Management Association, New York, NY (1990)

This book gives non-financial managers ammunition to influence decisions that affect them. This book explains how to use various ratios and report formats to translate your departmental data into practical information.


Winning On The Telephone

Donald H. Weiss

AMACOM, A Division of American Management Association, New York, NY (1988)

Whatever your responsibilities, there is no doubt that the telephone is your most important communication network. But are you using this valuable tool effectively? If you're like most people, you've had many phone conversations that you wish you could have handled better. This book explains how you can become a more effective speaker and listener and get your message across.


The Wisdom Of Teams - Creating The High-Performance Organization

Jon R. Katzenbach - Douglas K. Smith

Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA (1993)

Teams are the key to improving performances in all kinds of organizations. Yet today's business leaders consistently overlook opportunities to exploit their potential, confusing teams with teamwork, empowerment, or participative management. In this book the two senior consultants argue that we cannot meet the challenges ahead-from total quality to customer service to innovation-without teams.


Working Ethics

Marvin T. Brown

Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA (1990)

In many organizations, ethics simply means a list of rules and regulations for controlling worker behavior. But as Marvin T. Brown demonstrates in this thoughtful book, ethics can be a powerful tool for better decision making. Brown shows how attention to ethics can improve communication, resolve disagreements, and set just standards for employee-management relations - and so create conditions that foster greater organizational effectiveness.


 

Workplace 2000 The Revolution Reshaping American Business

Jose H. Boyett and Henry P. Conn

Plume, an imprint of New American Library,(1992)

This is an excellent, invaluable book. It is doubtful that you will find anywhere a clearer explanation of the depth and breadth of change reshaping American business.


The Write Stuff: A Style Manual For Effective Business Writing

Richard Anderson - Helene Hinis

National Press Publications, Shawnee Mission, KS (1990)

Guidelines for getting it right whenever you write. Get quick answers to common questions about grammar, usage, diction and more. Avoid embarrassing mistakes that make you look bad. Improve the quality of everything you write.


Write To The Point! Letters, Memos & Reports That Get Results

Rosemary T. Fruehling, N.B. Oldham

McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY (1988)

Effective writing at work and at home; typical business letters: providing information; seeking information; selling; letters of introduction; making a reservation; confirming a reservation; asking; agreeing; declining; offering credit; refusing credit; seeking payment; offering a job; rejecting a job applicant; resigning; writing for pleasure; writing for action; writing for a job. It is all in this book.


Writing Fitness: Practical Exercises For Better Business Writing

Jack Swenson

Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1988)

The objective of this book is to help improve the quality of business writing skills by providing concepts and allowing the readers to practice what they have learned.


You Can't Afford The Luxury Of A Negative Thought

John-Roger & Peter McWilliams

Prelude Press, Los Angeles, CA (1988)

This is not just a book for people with life threatening illnesses. it's a book for anyone afflicted with one of the primary diseases of our time: negative thinking.


You Don't Have To Go Home From Work Exhausted

Ann McGee-Cooper

Bantam Books, New York, NY (1992)

Plug into this action resource and discover how to recharge your batteries at a moment's notice. This practical, one-of-a-kind program is based on fascinating new research-from brain science to stress reduction-and has been tested extensively by the author's leading corporate clients. Open to any page and you'll find a wealth of creative ideas and strategies that can help turn your life around.


You Just Don't Understand - Women And Men In Coversation

Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.

Ballantine Books, New York, NY (1990)

People are telling Tannen that the book is saving their marriages. What this book says is that men and women grow up behaving in such profoundly different ways, and seeing themselves connecting to others in such profoundly different ways, that the two sexes are really trying to communicate across two different cultures. YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND goes a long way toward explaining why men and women behave in ways that baffle their partners.


You'll See It When You Believe It

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Avon Books, A Division of the Hearst Corporation, New York, NY (1989)

This book will show you how, by tapping the truly amazing power that lies within you, you can direct the course of your own destiny. Using examples from his own highly successful experiences, Wayne Dyer will convince you that, with his proven techniques, you can make your most impossible dreams come true.


Your First Thirty Days: Building A Professional Image In A New Job

Elwood N. Chapman

Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1990)

This book was designed to help new employees make a more successful and complete adjustment to their environment. The book is based on a proven systematic program for self-development that focuses on personal productivity.


Zapp! The Lightning Of Empowerment

William C. Byham, Ph.D.

Harmony Books, New York, New York, NY (1988)

Zapp is a book on empowering people within the business organization. Its secret is in painting a simple and yet vivid picture in the reader's mind, accompanied by a concise review of the principles.


GAMES

G.A.M.E.S. (Getting Adults Motivated, Enthusiastic & Satisfied)

Michele L. Deck & Jeanne R. Silva

Resources for Organizations, Inc., Edina, MN (1990)


Situational Leadership Simulator

Paul Hersen & Ken Blanchard

Pfeiffer & Co., San Diego, CA (1977)

A simulation for learning behavioral science theory.