Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization From Success

Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization from Success

James R. Lucas

AMACOM/American Management Association

1001 Ways To Connect with Your Kids

Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Explains how managers and corporate executives can get the most out of their staff by balancing strict management with empowerment

Balance of Power

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Amacom Books

Leaders soon learn that it's impossible to inject motivation into people who lack passion. So how do you find and keep the truly passionate, committed, pure-performance™ people who will take your organization or team to new levels of success? 
 If you're tired of stunts and fads and interviewing gimmicks, this indispensable guide will show you how to get down to what really matters. 
 The handbook provides 5 major sources of clues to help you identify passionate people, an elegantly simple way to determine whether this passionate person is right for this organization, 10 keys to keeping the people you've worked so hard to find, and 7 Keys to Effective Teams™.

The Attraction Principle: Finding, Keeping, and Teaming Passionate People

Phil Hotsenpiller

Quintessential Books

Why do smart people so often collaborate to produce stupid decisions and plans? Why do we so often seem to end up with "lowest-common-denominator" ideas and solutions? Do we have structural and process barriers to innovation? Even though we have good intentions, are we inadvertantly destroying value? Discover how to build 10 key elements into your organization to make it a Thinking Organization™ - an organization that creates more value collectively than smart people could create alone. Learn how to harness this intelligence with 10 essentials for generating an innovative culture. And find out how to get everyone passionately focused on making things better and creating new value - instead of just "doing a job."

The Thinking Principle: Using Passion to Innovate and Create Value

Competing ideas are everywhere. Even the smart people on your team hold passionate differences of opinion. This handbook provides a breakthrough approach to merging those competing ideas to generate value and produce commitment. Leaders wonder, can I be creative and disciplined? Zealous and open-minded? Focused and able to listen for input? Seeing both sides gives leaders a chance to carve out unique contributions and produce results their competitors can't imitate. Find out how to lead passionate mergers of competing ideas with this innovative, practical guide.

The Paradox Principle: How Passionate Leaders Merge Competing Ideas

High-Performance Ethics: 10 Timeless Principles for Next-Generation Leadership

Do you have to lower your ethical standards in order to succeed at your job? High-Performance Ethics authors Wes Cantrell and James Lucas say that the answer is no. The authors outline ways to make ethical decisions (based on the Ten Commandments) that lead to highly successful business practices. High-Performance Ethics includes tips on how to lead a team with integrity, practical tools for resisting the pressure to compromise workplace standards, and encouragement for workers who want to see strong businesses—and strong values—thrive. 10 Principles: 
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<li>First Things Only (priorities)</li> <li>Ditch the Distractions</li> <li>Align with Reality (never claim support for a bad cause)</li> <li>Find Symmetry</li> <li>Respect the Wise</li> <li>Protecct the Souls</li> <li>Commit to the Relationships</li> <li>Spread the Wealth</li> <li>Speak the Truth</li> <li>Limit Your Desires</li>
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Wes Cantrell

Business Culture

Do you have to lower your ethical standards in order to succeed at your job? High-Performance Ethics authors Wes Cantrell and James Lucas say that the answer is no. The authors outline ways to make ethical decisions (based on the Ten Commandments) that lead to highly successful business practices. High-Performance Ethics includes tips on how to lead a team with integrity, practical tools for resisting the pressure to compromise workplace standards, and encouragement for workers who want to see strong businesses--and strong values--thrive. 10 Principles: First Things Only (priorities) Ditch the Distractions Aligh With Reality (never claim support for a bad cause) Find Symmetry Respect the Wise Protecct the Souls Commit to the Relationships Spread the Wealth Speak the Truth Limit Your Desires

Wesley E. Cantrell

Tyndale House Publishers

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Books by James R. Lucas

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Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization from Success

1001 Ways To Connect with Your Kids

Balance of Power

The Attraction Principle: Finding, Keeping, and Teaming Passionate People

The Thinking Principle: Using Passion to Innovate and Create Value

The Paradox Principle: How Passionate Leaders Merge Competing Ideas

High-Performance Ethics: 10 Timeless Principles for Next-Generation Leadership

High-Performance Ethics: 10 Timeless Principles for Next-Generation Leadership