Built on a unique four-year experiment working alongside real leaders in real businesses, Living Leadership explodes the myth of the charismatic, transformational leader, to show that real progress comes from the dramatically ordinary stuff of leadership. From building relationships - not starting revolutions, by working with the grain of your organisation - not against it, and in knowing your limitations as much as pushing every boundary.

Living Leadership: A Practical Guide for Ordinary Heroes (Financial Times)

Business & Money

Williams, Colin

Binney, George

Wilke, Gerhard

Management & Leadership

Ft Pr

What really makes a good business leader? Do you have to be an extraordinarily charismatic hero with a larger than life personality before you can make things happen? What if you're not? What are the practical and personal lessons of good leadership that will help ordinary managers get the results they want by leading their teams effectively? Living Leadership 2e has the answers. This insightful and motivating book will help you discover how to make real connections with people, and become an effective leader who makes things happen in the real world. Built on a unique four-year experiment working alongside real leaders in real businesses, Living Leadership explodes the myth of the charismatic, transformational leader, to show that real progress comes from the dramatically ordinary stuff of leadership. By observing business leaders in top companies on a day-to-day basis, the authors found out how these top managers really spent their time and how they really made an impact. They saw these leaders holding key discussions with their teams; watched them formulate strategies, plans and visions; observed their behaviours, ambitions and frustrations. What emerged was a powerful set of principles and proven advice for managers everywhere who want to develop their leadership skills.

Living Leadership: A Practical Guide for Ordinary Heroes (Financial Times Series)

Reassess your leadership style, discover how to connect with people, and become a leader who can make things happen in the real world. Built on a unique four-year experiment working alongside real leaders in real businesses, Living Leadership explodes the myth of the charismatic, transformational leader, to show that real progress comes from the dramatically ordinary aspects of leadership. From building relationships, to working with the grain of the organisation rather than against it, and to knowing our limitations as much as pushing every boundary, the new edition of this book will challenge you to push your leadership skills to a new level. “Living Leadership shows how, when you take away the myths and misconceptions, leading can genuinely be made easier.” Hans Straberg, CEO, Electrolux “A ‘how to’ book that redefines leadership in terms of the realities and choices facing people in organisations today.” Professor Michael Osbaldeston, Director of Cranfield School of Management

FT Publishing International

Agile Leadership for Turbulent Times: Integrating Your Ego, Eco and Intuitive Intelligence

Olivier, Sharon

Hölscher, Frederick

Routledge

This thought-provoking and engaging book is for you, whatever your seniority, in the private or public sector – if you are curious about the role and purpose of leadership in a turbulent world. 
It will help you become a more agile leader through understanding and integrating your ego, eco and intuitive intelligence. You will gain a deeper understanding of your unique leadership blend through a short diagnostic inventory, bringing insight about your strengths and what may be tripping you up. The book offers tips, ideas and practical suggestions on how to develop your ability to use the three intelligences in order to expand your leadership repertoire. It will help you enable the teams you lead to be more flexible, responsive and autonomous. 
The authors have drawn on their vast experience from the boardroom to the shop floor, the classroom and research around the world, to write an easy-to-digest yet ground-breaking book that deals with the root causes of today’s twenty-first-century leadership challenges. Its contents are straightforward and widely applicable.

Agile Leadership for Turbulent Times

This fast, easy way for students to learn how to use Mathematica to solve problems in calculus is a combination text/lab manual/resource book that includes student projects and weekly labs.

CalcLabs with Mathematica

Computers & Technology

Boggess, Albert

Barrow, David

Blachman, Nancy

Rahe, Maurice

Programming

Brooks/Cole

Isn't My Name Magical (Read and Listen)

BERRY, JAMES

BBC CONSUMER PUBLISHING

In 1936 while the British government pursued a policy of non-intervention, around 2000 volunteers from Britain and Ireland fought the Republican cause against Franco with the International Brigade. This volume presents a visual record of the many memorials erected as tributes to those who died in the struggle. Unique photographs of the war and an informative text tell the stories of those commemorated.

Memorials of the Spanish Civil War: The Official Publication of the International Brigade Association

History

Europe

Sutton Pub Ltd

How many businesses start-ups conduct some or all of their trade ‘off-the-books’? And how many enterprises continue to do some of their work off-the-books once they are more established? What should be done about them? Should governments adopt ever more punitive measures to eradicate them? Or should we recognise this hidden enterprise culture and attempt to harness it? If so, how can this be done? What measures can be taken to ensure that businesses start-up in a proper manner? And what can be done to help those enterprises and entrepreneurs currently working off-the-books to legitimise their businesses?   The aim of this book is to advance a new way of answering these questions. Drawing inspiration from institutional theory, informal sector entrepreneurship is explained as resulting from the asymmetry between the codified laws and regulations of a society’s formal institutions and the norms, values and beliefs that comprise a society’s informal institutions. The argument is that if the norms, values and beliefs of entrepreneurs (i.e., their individual morality) were wholly aligned with the codified laws and regulations (i.e., state morality), there would be no informal sector entrepreneurship. However, because the individual morality of entrepreneurs differs from state morality, such as due to their lack of trust in government and the rule of law, the result is the prevalence of informal sector entrepreneurship.   The greater the degree of institutional asymmetry, the higher is the propensity to engage in informal sector entrepreneurship. This book provides evidence to show that this is the case both at the individual- and country-level and then discusses how this can be overcome.  .

Entrepreneurship in the Informal Sector: An Institutional Perspective (Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship)

Economics

Colin and Jackie from Northern England, were in their early sixties and had just witnessed the demise of two respective parents to care homes, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Determined to squeeze some excitement into the autumn of their years, they embark on an ‘adventure before dementia’. With no experience of sailing whatsoever, they are on a steep learning curve with the ambition of buying their own boat and sailing around their adopted holiday island of Hispaniola, in the Caribbean. Inspiring, informative, funny and heart-warming, this tale will be of interest to all adventurers and travelers, and to all sailors, arm-chair or otherwise; from wannabe dreamers and sailing novices to salty seadogs. The story of their circumnavigation of Hispaniola provides an insight into conditions in Haiti, as well as a detailed and cautionary tale of cruising East and West, along the Southern and Northern coasts of the Dominican Republic. In addition, there are descriptions of their extended stays in Santiago de Cuba and Port Antonio, Jamaica and two very different crossings of both the dreaded Mona Passage and the Windward Passage. Colin’s wry sense of humor captured all of this in his day to day journals. From the trials and tribulations of fixing boats in exotic locations to hair raising encounters on the high seas, the book often reads like a liturgy of disasters and incompetence, and of incidents and accidents that eventually lead them from novices to navigators, and finally, from sailors to seadogs. Colin, a lifelong musician, song-writer and artist, wrote songs inspired by his sailing antics. These lyrics introduce some of the chapters and, along with Colin’s journals, form the basis of the book. Jackie’s narration fills in the gaps and introduces a flow to their story. In part one,’ Novices to Navigators’, Colin and Jackie take you with them on a nightmare journey as they are rescued by a Motor Tanker in the Jamaican Channel. The back-story to each chapter tells of the challenges they faced from being dreamers in the UK, to boat-owners in the Caribbean. Part two, ‘Landlubbers to Liveaboards’, chronicles the sometimes-hilarious uphill struggle to get their boat shipshape and learn to sail her. It features some of the many characters they met in Salinas, Puerto Rico, the delays and disasters they faced, and an eventful ‘shake-down’ sail to the Virgin Islands, forced upon them by the need to avoid overstaying their welcome in US territory. In part three, ‘Sailors to Seadogs’, join Colin and Jackie on their two-year sailing odyssey. Experience the places they visited, the bureaucracy they met and the challenges of ‘fixing boats in exotic locations’. Live through some life-threatening drama on the high seas as well as musician, Colin’s struggle to come to terms with his life-changing hearing loss through the onset of Meniere’s disease which eventually ended their extraordinary adventure.

Sailors to Seadogs

Sports & Outdoors

Williams, Jackie

Water Sports

Independently published

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