Leaders play an essential role in every aspect of our modern lives and good leadership is an art that is highly prized. Effective leaders not only control, appraise and analyze, they also encourage, improve and inspire. This book shows how every manager can learn to lead.

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Presents guidance on what you need to become a leader in the form of a dialogue with a young business executive. This work discusses the various fundamental aspects of leadership including the qualities of leadership, leadership styles, leadership functions, the difference between leadership and management, and strategic leadership.

Explores the nature of motivation, individual needs and how they relate to the key tasks facing leaders and managers. This title presents the author's own theory of motivation - the fifty-fifty rule - and identifies the eight key principles for motivating others. It stimulates your thoughts and ideas on how to inspire others.

Teaches you things you need to know to enable you to: select the right people to create the strong foundations your team needs; encourage your team members to work well together and use each other's skills to complement their own; and sustain group morale and motivation.

By encouraging you to analyze where, how and why you are spending your time at present and then think about the future, set goals and develop plans, this book helps you to: reduce time pressures by ridding yourself of activities that waste time; and learn how to save time by delegating.

Including helpful advice on interviews, appraisals, giving and receiving criticism, conducting and participating in meetings, the use of visual aids, communication between departments and more, this title offers a tool for improving your communication skills and helping you become a better manager.

Drawing upon real-life examples including Google, Honda and 3M, this title sets out practical ways for bringing about change in organizations. Identifying the characteristics of an innovative organization, it discusses key topics such as: organizing for team creativity; motivating creative people; and, how to be a creative leader and team member.

Innovation - the process of taking new ideas through to satisfied customers - is the lifeblood of any organization. This book tells you things that you need to know to enable you to generate new ideas and bring them to market. It shows how to generate the best possible ideas from yourself and the people around you.

Developing the ability to come up with new ideas can help businesses gain a competitive advantage over their rivals and can also be rewarding for the individual. This work shows you practical ways to become a creative thinker. It includes topics such as: Overcome barriers to creating new ideas; Broaden your vision; Build on new ideas; and more.

Effective Teambuilding shows how productive working groups can be forged by selecting the right people, working together, sustaining group morale and raising standards of performance.

On management and leadership.

Argues that leaders are not born but made. Taking the form of conversations between a young chief executive and the author, this title explores the nature and practice of leadership. It studies and discusses the various aspects of leadership, revealing the key skills for those who adopt and use to inspire and encourage others.

Aims to help to boost confidence levels and guide and inspire those on their journey to becoming a leader of excellence. This title offers insights into recognizing and developing individual leadership qualities, acquiring personal authority, and mastering core leadership functions such as planning, communicating and motivating.

Successful management and leadership has never been a greater challenge. Time is stretched, your people are highly motivated but can be highly demanding and business is competitive. Whether you are a first-time manager or experienced leader, this work gives you practical advice on the best practice.

Offers practical guidelines for developing your powers as a creative thinker. Using examples of entrepreneurs, authors, scientists and artists, this book illustrates key aspects of creativity. It helps you to understand the creative process, overcome barriers to new ideas, learn to think effectively and develop a creative attitude.

Focuses on leadership development, the nature of leadership and how it can be taught. This title identifies the seven key principles of leadership development and answers questions on how to select, train and educate leaders at team, operational and strategic leadership levels. It guides you on your personal journey towards excellence as a leader.

This practical guide helps readers to understand their talents and temperament and find the career or calling in which they can flourish. It takes a broad-ranging view of vocation to include all kinds of secular work, for people who are looking for personal fulfilment in what they do.

Including advice on various aspects of decision-making process, this book helps you to approach problems efficiently and effectively - define objective, collect information, develop options, evaluate, decide and implement.

Presents things that you need to know to enable you and your team to perform to the best of your abilities. This book shows how you can increase energy and motivation, in yourself and others, in order to achieve your goals.