Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, the author concludes that good to great can and does happen. Here, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations remain only good.

A special 15th anniversary edition of this principle-centred approach for solving personal and professional problems.

A resource on becoming a leader. It offers inspiring stories of real people achieving extraordinary results. It emphasizes the global community and focuses on business leaders.

Examines the difference between leadership styles and outlines principles for inspiring, motivating, and influencing others. This book also enables readers to examine how to be effective in the highest calling of leadership, by understanding the five characteristics that set leader managers apart from run of the mill managers.

A guidebook to personal fulfilment and professional success through principle-centered leadership based on timeless principles - showing how goals of excellence and total quality express an innate human need for progress in personal and organizational life.

A 38-item paper handout that is a team development tool. It provides participants with an opportunity to begin exploring the pitfalls that are side-tracking their team. It is suitable for off-sites, retreats, or a series of team development meetings.

Shortly after the terrible events of 11th September 2001, Rudolph Giuliani came to be known worldwide as a figure of authority and command. In this book he aims to teach profound and practical lessons, and provide an insight into his own ideas and values.

Unveiling neuroscientific links between organizational success or failure and primal leadership, this book argues that a leader's emotions are contagious. It shows that resonant leaders excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using EI competencies like empathy and self-awareness.

Examines the efforts of more than 100 companies to remake themselves into better competitors. This book identifies the common mistakes leaders and managers make in attempting to create change and offers a step-by-step process to overcome the obstacles and carry out the firm's agenda.

A guide to applying the new science to organisations, and our lives. This book shows how examples of non-linear networks and organizations are flourishing in the modern world. It presents examples like the E-bay, search engines and viral marketing works which are based on self-organising dynamics.

Helps readers become more effective leaders from the inside out. Daily readings highlight twenty-one essential leadership qualities and include Reflecting On It and Bringing It Home sections, which help readers integrate and apply each day's material.

Through a series of stories, this book shows you how most of us are not fulfilling our potential - in our personal lives and at work - because of 'self-deception'. It shows you how to escape your box of self-deception, and change for the better in a lasting way.

Offers practical advice and techniques for how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding. This work teaches you how to: make friends quickly and easily; increase your popularity; win people to your way of thinking; and more. It helps you turn around your relationships and improve your dealings with all the people in your life.

Tells a story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in your life - whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money or a possession. And the maze is where you look for what you want - the organization you work for in, or the family or community you live in.

Based on the largest study of its kind ever undertaken, company managers reveal revolutionary insights about successful managerial behaviour.

Drawing on his own richly varied life experiences, the author fleshes out vital principles with riveting first-hand stories.

For this treatise on statecraft the author drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognizing the complicated, transient nature of political life.