“This book includes the most up-to-date thinking, tools, models, instruments and case studies necessary to identify, lead, and manage talent within your organization and with a focus on results. It provides it all—from thought leadership to real-world practice.”
Patrick Carmichael – head of talent management, refining, marketing, and international operations, Saudi Aramco
“This is a superb compendium of stories that give the reader a peek behind the curtains of top notch organizations who have wrestled with current issues of talent management. Their lessons learned are vital for leaders and practitioners who want a very valuable heads up.”
Beverly Kaye – Founder/CEO: Career Systems International and Co-Author, Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em
“This is a must read for organization leaders and HR practitioners who cope with the today’s most critical business challenge—talent management. This book provides a vast amount of thought provoking ideals, tools, and models, for building and implementing talent management strategies. I highly recommend it!”
Dale Halm – Organization Development Program Manager, Arizona Public Service ?
“If you are responsible for planning and implementing an effective talent and succession management strategy in your organization, this book provides the case study examples you are looking for.”
Doris Sims – Author, Building Tomorrow’s Talent
“A must read for all managers who wish to implement a best practice talent management program within their organization”
Fariborz Ghadar – William A. Schreyer Professor of Global Management, Policies and Planning Senior Advisor and Distinguished Senior Scholar Center for Strategic and International Affairs Founding Director Center for Global Business Studies
“Good old fashioned advice on how to have a great attitude, delivered in a pithy andinteresting way.”?
—Karen Leland, bestselling author of Watercooler Wisdom: How Smart PeopleProsper in the Face of Conflict, Pressure and Change?
“Sam Glenn is known for his funny and motivational presentations and for his ability to give people a kick in the attitude. Now he has done it in print.”
—Stewart Clifford, Enterprise Media
“Sam Glenn energizes our worldwide audience with his profound sense of humor andgentle wisdom, making this giant in the motivation industry powerful and approachable. Experience his energy firsthand and feel it wake you up to the life you’ve always dreamed of.”
—Markandeya, Life Without Limitation, EnergyTalkRadio.com
“If there were an Attitude Hall of Fame, Sam Glenn and this book would be inducted into it! A Kick in the Attitude is the best book I’ve ever read on how to take an enthusiasticattitude and crank up your life to a higher, more powerful and successful level!”
—Anne Bruce, professional speaker and author of Discover True North andHow to Motivate Every Employee
“Sam gets it when it comes to attitude. Read A Kick in the Attitude to jumpstart whateverybody needs for success—a great attitude.”
—Dr. Charles Stone, pastor and author
“No matter what your current ‘drama,’ the principles in A Kick in the Attitude will give you the motivation to turn any situation around.”
—Marlene Chism, author of Success is a Given
“Has the economy of 2009 got you down? Is life throwing lemons at you the size of cannon balls? Then stop and read this book.?Sam Glenn is ‘The Attitude Guy’!?He will get you thinking about you and your attitude, then guide you to the understanding that you, and only you, control your attitude.”
International bestselling author, Jeffery Deaver, was formerly a journalist, folk singer and attorney. He has written 25 novels and 2 collection of short stories. He (and his books) has been awarded numerous awards and prizes over the years. Besides The Bone Collector (psst… this title should be one of the 5 titles in your answers to Contest #4), his book A Maiden’s Grave was made into an HBO movie.
Cormac McCarthy has been an undeniable colossus of American literature ever since the publication of Blood Meridian in 1981. His novels have long intrigued film-makers, but despite a body of work that builds on the cinematic cornerstones of lyrical imagery, mythic landscapes, savage violence and spare, quotable dialogue, McCarthy’s books have always been considered too uncompromising, dense and morally complex for easy translation to the big screen. And yet, all of a sudden, McCarthy adaptations are among the hottest properties in Hollywood. So what changed, and why? Until recently McCarthy fans had to content themselves with Billy Bob Thornton’s beautifully photographed but dramatically undernourished 2000 adaptation of All the Pretty Horses, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz as ill-starred lovers straddling the Mexican border. Its perceived failure reinforced the notion that McCarthy’s books were too literary to adapt, too bleak for mainstream cinema audiences to bear or too expensive to mount.
The four Academy Awards and huge box-office returns of the Coen brothers’ lean adaptation of his desert-noir thriller No Country for Old Men – originally written in screenplay form by McCarthy in the mid-1980s, then later worked up into a novel – changed all that. John Hillcoat’s screen version of The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen as a father protecting his son from the horrors of a post-apocalyptic world, looks likely to repeat the trick of reaching a large audience while refusing to dilute McCarthy’s merciless worldview.
The Road
Production year: 2009
Country: USA
Cert (UK): 15
Runtime: 119 mins
Directors: John Hillcoat
Cast: Charlize Theron, Garret Dillahunt, Guy Pearce, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Viggo Mortensen
A slew of McCarthy adaptations are now being lined up, with Andrew Dominik – Australian director of Chopper and The Assassination of Jesse James – preparing to adapt Cities of the Plain, while Tommy Lee Jones is currently filming the McCarthy play The Sunset Limited for American television. . .
This book includes contributions from top scholars who outline the best leadership practices for the benefit of the practicing leader. Each chapter focuses on a specific area of leadership practice and ends with a set of “take away” best practices in each area—an executive summary in reverse—that will serve as a quick reference for those who might want to peruse chapters, but still extract the best practices, as well as a summary for those who thoroughly read each chapter.
“Jay Alden Conger and Ronald Riggio have brought together a galaxy of sophisticated yet practical experts on leadership, stressing both the complexity and indispensability of both transactional and transforming leadership, with the blessing of the pioneering student of leadership, Bernie Bass.”
—James MacGregor Burns, professor emeritus, Willams College, and Pulitzer Prize winner
CONTENT
Part One: Leadership Development and Selection.
1 Best Practices in Leader Selection (Ann Howard).
2 Best Practices in Leadership Assessment (Manuel London, James W. Smither, and Thomas Diamante).
3 Shifting the Emphasis of Leadership Development: From “Me” to “All of Us” (Patricia M. G. O’Connor and David V. Day).
4 Getting Leader Development Right: Competence Not Competencies (Morgan W. McCall Jr. and George P. Hollenbeck).
Part Two: The Tasks of the Leader.
5 Best Practices in the Use of Proactive Influence Tactics by Leaders (Gary Yukl).
6 Creating the Conditions for Success: Best Practices in Leading for Innovation (Michael D. Mumford, Dawn L. Eubanks, and Stephen T. Murphy).
7 Best Practices in Ethical Leadership (Craig E. Johnson).
8 Best Practices in Team Leadership:What Team Leaders Do to Facilitate Team Effectiveness (Kevin C. Stagl, Eduardo Salas, and C. Shawn Burke).
Part Three: Leading the Organization.
9 Best Practices in Leading Organizational Change: Workplace Recovery Following Major Organizational Transitions (Mitchell Lee Marks).
10 Best Practices in Leading at Strategic Levels: A Social Responsibility Perspective (David A. Waldman).
11 Best Practices in Corporate Boardroom Leadership (Jay A. Conger).
Part Four: Leading in Today’s World.
12 Best Practices in Leading under Crisis: Bottom-Up Leadership, or How to Be a Crisis Champion (Ian I.Mitroff).
13 Best Practices in Leading Diverse Organizations (Lynn R. Offermann and Kenneth Matos).
14 Best Practices in Cross-Cultural Leadership (Mary B. Teagarden).
15 Getting It Right: The Practice of Leadership (Ronald E. Riggio and Jay A. Conger).
These are make-or-break times for business leaders. In today’s defining moment, the “New Economy,” CEOs and other leaders in a wide variety of industries must face unprecedented conditions.
Thriving in the New Economygives you a unique look into some of today’s best economic and business minds. A series of close profiles, the book offers inspirational personal stories, useful advice, and actionable strategies you can use immediately to skirt financial peril, seize opportunities, and flourish in the New Economy.
• Profiles include financial publisher Steve Forbes, The Vanguard Group founder Jack Bogle, Former National Economic Council Director and Former Special Assistant to the President on Economic Policy Lawrence Lindsey, former FDIC chair Donald Powell, Saks CEO Steve Sadove, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. President Jim Lentz, legendary vulture investor Wilbur Ross and more
• Looks at how leaders in economics, banking, automobiles, real estate, and retail are not just avoiding the unraveling economy, but actively evolving and growing their businesses
• Foreword by H. Wayne Huizenga; Afterword by Rudy Giuliani
If you’re looking for the way forward through today’s business wilderness, Thriving in the New Economylets you in on how some leaders use challenges not just to survive but thrive.
Japan’s mobile customers enjoyed better mobile devices, more content, and the most advanced functionality and services for the last 10+ years. This book helps cut through the many myths and all of the hype surrounding Japan’s mobile dominance to identify the most important laws that will guide the success of mobile businesses around the world. Based on detailed market analysis and unprecedented access to the major players and pioneers of the Japanese mobile industry, this publication helps you understand the Six Immutable Laws of Mobile Business. These will help you and your business successfully navigate the challenges that the world’s Wireless Revolution brings. From Law #1 through Law #6, authors Philip Sugai, Marco Koeder, and Ludovico Ciferri will help guide you to distinguish mobile myth from mobile fact, micro developments from macro trends, and regional characteristics from universal truths.
The book highlights Japan’s incredible efforts to offer consumers complex, high-tech devices with enriched services that are nonetheless elegant and easy to use, a quest which the authors have labeled “Simplexity.” Based on their interviews and observations, the authors assert that, “Simplexity will be what truly empowers individual users through their mobile devices.
Filled with case studies exploring all aspects of the Japanese mobile industry, this unique publication points carriers and content and service providers towards successful business models and practices for today’s and tomorrow’s mobile Internet.
Are you considering buying a small business? Do you want to invest in a Fortune 500 company? Are you trying to sell your own business? Balance sheets and income statements are essential to helping you make informed decisions regarding important business transactions. But unless you’re an accountant, these documents can be intimidating hodgepodges of columns, rows, and numbers. Don’t fret. Financial Statements Demystifiedis just the tool you need.
Devoid of confusing business jargon, this engaging and easy-to-follow guide defines basic financial statement terminology and explains the components of the four most common financial statements: Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Stockholders’ Equity, and Statement of Cash Flows. You will learn how to read, interpret, and use pivotal data from these sources–each of which will help you make accurate financial decisions without having to go back to school.
There’s no way around it. Your success is at risk if you can’t communicate effectively. If you want to make a difference in your organization, you must develop a communication playbook of strategic responses to challenging situations so the people around you thrive.
The good news is that you can learn how to become a master communicator. All you need is desire and this eminently practical guide.
In Mastering Communication at Work, leadership communication experts Ethan F. Becker and Jon Wortmann describe easy-to-implement techniques for communicating in ways that empower teams, serve clients, and develop stronger relationships. You’ll learn the secrets to making trust-building an innate part of your life—and use your new talent to reduce your stress and improve your organization on every level. Mastering Communication at Work will instantly get you on track with
Clear, actionable advice you can put to use right away
Descriptions of the communication tendencies everyone needs to be able to identify and execute
Simple drills to practice during your next meeting, one-on-one conversation— or even sitting at your desk
Case studies, success stories, and original research proving the impact of the authors’ techniques and formats
When you master the wisdom inside, effective and motivational communication becomes, in the authors’ words, “as natural as breathing.”
Use Mastering Communication at Work as your coach and you’ll see immediate results in yourself, your people, and your organization.
BEST PRACTICES IN TALENT MANAGEMENT
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