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English
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Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential. When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the right answers. We stay curious and ask the right questions. We don't see power as finite and hoard it. We know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don't avoid difficult conversations...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
" The highly anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed bestseller Start With Why Simon Sinek's mission is to help people wake up every day inspired to go to work and return home every night fulfilled by their work. His first book, Start With Why, offered the essential starting point, explaining the power of focusing on WHY we do what we do, before getting into the details of WHAT and HOW. Start With Why became an instant classic, with a loyal following...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxxi, 251 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bill Walsh was perhaps the most influential and successful coach in NFL history, transforming the San Francisco 49ers from the worst franchise in sports to a dynasty that won five Super Bowls. He is acclaimed not only for his strategic brilliance but also for his advanced approach to leadership. His teams sustained a consistency of excellence rarely seen in sports or anywhere else. Drawn from a series of deeply revealing conversations with coauthor...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
2nd edition.
Language
English
Description
"In each chapter, you will find honesty, wit, compassion, and actions you can put into motion ASAP to improve your ability to share your leadership effectively. Garry offers a recipe for a real partnership between an executive director and a board chair. She draws on her own staff and board experience and her work with hundreds of clients to share what it takes to be a first class fundraiser and public speaker. She will also offer practical advice...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 450 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them -- women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there's a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing. That's exactly how Julie Zhuo felt when she became a rookie manager at the age of twenty-five. She stared at a long list of challenges--from hiring to firing, from meeting to messaging, from planning to pitching--and faced a thousand...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
January 17, 1961: President Eisenhower delivered a speech three days before President-elect Kennedy's inauguration: three days that were the culmination of a lifetime of service that took Eisenhower from rural Kansas to West Point, to the battlefields of World War II, and finally to the Oval Office. As president, Eisenhower--former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during World War II--guided the U.S. out of war in Korea, through the threat of nuclear...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio / Penguin
Language
English
Description
..."Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. It was their natural ability to start with why that...
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 10
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
510 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alastar has settled into his role as the Maitre of the Collegium. Now married and a father, he would like to focus his efforts on improving Imagisle and making it more self-sufficient. However, a crisis is brewing in Solidar, causing the High Holders to call for repeals on the Codex Legis. Once again, Alastar must maintain a careful balance, but he can't avoid the involvement of the Collegium when someone begins killing students. Trying to protect...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Physical Desc
xix, 916 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in winning the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 180 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers an open letter to the first woman president, and all women striving to achieve something, containing forward-thinking advice and inspiration for future women leaders.
14) The escape
Author
Series
Horses of the dawn volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In "Lean In", Sheryl Sandberg -- Facebook COO and one of "Fortune" magazine's most powerful women in business -- looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale. She draws on her own experiences working in some of the world's most successful businesses, as well as academic research, to find practical answers to the problems facing women in the workplace.
Author
Publisher
Red Comet Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Really Bird, a small bird who lives in a big city park, wants to be first! But on today's adventure, Really Bird discovers that being a leader is about more than being first in line.
Author
Publisher
Plata Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robert Kiyosaki's new book 8 Lessons in Leadership draws from his years at the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point and his service in the United Sates Marine Corps. With compelling stories and examples and a engaging way of comparing and contrasting two very different cultures and value systems, Robert shares the challenges he faced in transitioning to civilian life - where chain of command and team-over-self-once so black and white-were muddy...
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hr.)
Language
English
Description
Deemed "irreplaceable" by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. It is said that The Army of Northern Virginia never fully recovered from the loss of Stonewall's leadership when he was accidentally shot by one of his own men and died in 1863. Davis highlights Stonewall Jackson's a general who emphasized the importance of reliable information and early preparedness (he so believed in information...
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 9
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
460 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four centuries after its founding, Solidar's Collegium of Imagers is in decline, the exploits of its founder, the legendary Quaeryt, largely forgotten. The Collegium is so lacking in leadership that the dying Maitre must summon Alastar, an obscure but talented senior imager from Westisle far to the south who has little knowledge of politics in the capital, as his successor. When Alastar arrives in L'Excelsis and becomes the new Maitre, he finds disarray...