Fred Luthans’s book is a milestone contribution to management research. The size of his sample, the duration of his study, the variety of measures he used, and his robust conclusions suggest the book should be a citation classic. Luthans’s book reported the first major study to point out that organizations often promote people into leadership positions using the wrong criteria. This message seems to still hold true today, and continues to serve as a strong empirical backdrop for this revisitation.

Real Managers Revisited

Business & Money

Hodgetts, Richard M.

Rosenkrantz, Stuart A.

Luthans,Fred

Ashton, James

Management & Leadership

Hogan Press

Teams are the fundamental building blocks of today’s organizations, yet only 1 in 5 are high performing. Most teams need help, and Ignition provides practical guidance on how to overcome common team challenges. Featured in the book are 12 case studies, complete with off-site designs and step-by-step instructions for facilitating 40 field-tested team improvement activities. Team leader and facilitator support materials, such as downloadable Power Point decks, forms, handouts and relevant articles are also included. The book content is fully integrated with the Team Assessment Survey, which provides teams with benchmarking feedback on performance.

Ignition: A Guide to Building High-Performing Teams

Hogan, Robert

Curphy, Gordon J.

Nilsen, Dianne L

The CEO Checklist is a road map of best practices for achieving leadership and business excellence. It can be used as an assessment tool by individual managers and management teams to: Assess the strengths and opportunities of the business/business unit Get the difficult issues on the table for discussion Identify gaps in current business practices Identify opportunities for leadership development (assessments, programs or coaching) Approve an action plan that could take the business to the next level Turbulence and disruption are now the new norms for the business world. Winning organisations will be those that can reinvent themselves faster than their competitors. Leading change is a key capability. Leadership and engagement are measurable and can be improved. If you add business excellence disciplines, you should be well placed to outperform the competition. The CEO Checklist should help many managers to assess their business/business unit and develop an action plan for improvement.

The CEO Checklist

Peter Berry

Reputation ... A Leader's Path to Career Success is the result of many conversations about the importance of a leader's reputation in the workplace. We talked to many of the best coaches in the world. We reflected on conversations with hundreds of leaders we have coached over the years. We discussed it many times as we worked toward the publication of our first book together, Coaching the Dark Side of Personality. Through all those conversations and discussions, we are convinced of four things: All leaders have workplace reputations. All leaders experience reputational challenges. Effective leaders engage in reputation management. Effective reputation management results in career success. This book is dedicated to providing leaders with the practical knowledge and skills necessary for effective reputation management. We are passionate in our belief that leaders who follow the path we outline will achieve the career success to which they aspire.

Reputation: A Leader's Path to Career Success

Rodney Warrenfeltz

Trish Kellett

Personality psychology is about the fundamentals of human nature, and is the subject matter that attracts students to psychology in the first place. The major theories of personality contain important insights about human nature, but they are often unconnected with modern research. Personality: Theories and Applications bridges the gap between research-oriented books and traditional theory books by combining a strong historical perspective with practical applications that largely concern personalities in the workplace. Designed for the first course in personality psychology, Personality: Theories and Applications serves as an ideal introduction to personality psychology. It is written in a clear and accessible style that thousands of students have found engaging as it focuses on the core content of personality psychology. Personality: Theories and Applications also provides a natural transition to a second course in research topics providing a context for understanding the relevance of the topics. Section topics include: 1. Introduction to Personality Psychology 2. Classical Psychodynamic Theories 3. Traditional American Theories 4. Social Psychological Theory 5. Responses to Social Psychological Theory

Personality: Theories & Applications

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Robert Hogan

Robert Smither

Psychology & Counseling

"It's a mistake to try to fix weaknesses; instead, play to your strengths" goes the thinking behind a popular fad in management development. But there are certain half-truths and hidden dangers in this seductively appealing philosophy.  This edited volume features a collection of chapters from pioneers who helped create the modern field of management development. Leading thinkers like Morgan McCall Jr., Bob Eichinger, Bob Hogan, Steven Berglas, Bob Kaplan, Randy White, and the Center for Creative Leadership explain these concerns and provide sound advice for capitalizing on strengths without resorting to hyped-up, dumbed-down, or naively simplistic prescriptions. You will learn that... --Most managers don t have the leadership strengths their companies need to be competitive --Mastering the art of leadership requires learning to do what may not come naturally --A focus on strengths can promote stagnation and inhibit learning and development --Strengths can, ironically, become weaknesses through overuse and overreliance --Ignoring weaknesses is a fatal strategy for managing careers and managing talent --You can reap the benefits of talented-but-troubling managers while containing their dark sides  Written for HR and T&D professionals, executive coaches, and managers themselves, this book promises no quick fixes, no silver bullets, and no easy roads to success. Instead, it offers balanced judgment along with research-based strategies and road-tested techniques that can help managers truly become stronger leaders.

The Perils of Accentuating the Positive

Robert B. Kaiser

Hogan Development Survey Manual

Joyce Hogan

From the cover: Our work with hundreds of public and private sector groups and teams across the United States and Europe suggests that leaders need a practical, well researched model for team building. The Rocket Model provides leaders with sound practical advice on how to improve group and team dynamics. The model is both descriptive and prescriptive it can be used to diagnose team functioning and make specific recommendations regarding how to launch new teams or to improve the performance of more established teams.

The Rocket Model: Practical Advice for Building High Performing Teams

Gordon Curphy

It is often said that the top 20 percent of leaders account for 80 percent of the impact on an organization. Those leaders influence both business results and the quality of employees the firm can attract and retain, and, above all, they affect the culture of the organization. As such, the ability to hire leaders who will succeed is critical.  In Don't Hire the Best: An Essential Guide to Building the Right Team, author Abhijit Bhaduri explains how the best candidate isn't always the right candidate for the organization. As most hiring managers face the dilemma of having to choose between people who may be equally qualified for a leadership role, Bhaduri contends that personality fit and competencies should take priority over education and experience when selecting candidates. By hiring individuals who are motivated and fit in with the organization's culture, rather than those with the most impressive resumes, the organization can ensure it brings in the right people.

Don't Hire the Best: An Essential Guide to Building the Right Team

Abhijit Bhaduri

Coaching the Dark Side of Personality combines the power of Hogan personality research with more than two decades of coaching expertise to help leaders uncover and overcome the derailers responsible for inhibiting their performance and limiting their careers. Drawing upon the knowledge of psychologists and professional coaches at the forefront of personality-based leadership development, Coaching the Dark Side of Personality provides an advanced framework to: 
 Establish a comprehensive model outlining the role of personality in leader performance 
Describe the essentials of personality-based behavior change in a systematic way 
Outline the coaching fundamentals that are necessary for success when working with leaders 
 Detail the coaching tips and techniques that have been proven to produce performance improvements

Coaching the Dark Side of Personality

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