Author: Joan Wallace-Benjamin Publisher: ISBN: 9780578732381 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The book is a leadership/memoir written by a female African American civil rights beneficiary offering a personal look at successful leadership philosophies and practices paired with reflections on combining a demanding career with at satisfying family life and commitment to community. Told through Joan's own experiences running high-profile organizations and a busy family of four, this extraordinary guide explores the influences of heritage, family, school, and community on who we become and how we move forward with the confidence we need to survive, thrive, and lead a life of growth and fulfillment. A life in balance is suffused with a belief in yourself and your purpose. It requires deliberate action that builds over time. And it demands an unwavering commitment to your goals and a refusal to allow others to stand in your way.
Author: Joan Marques Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317443632 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 264
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Leadership argues that finding satisfaction and sanity at work requires the development of both ambition and acceptance. While these traits seem to be at odds with one another, Marques shows that each one has positive and negative elements and the trick is balancing the useful aspects of each to maximize success. The book defines this balance and its relationship to success, featuring real-world examples, useful diagrams, and cases to encourage students to reflect on how to apply these principles to their own lives. Laying the foundation for understanding the need to develop both ambition and acceptance, and providing the context for what performance means in modern times, Marques presents a framework for growing in one’s own career. Students learn how to evaluate competing impulses, and how to make critical decisions to define career success. Students of career development, leadership and organizational behavior classes will appreciate its grounded, engaging writing style.
Author: Donnie Hutchinson Publisher: Advantage Media Group ISBN: 9781599326627 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
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Valuable Techniques to Living a Balanced Life Has your "regular" workday started to last over nine hours? Have you been missing important family events to satisfy the boss? Are you regularly skipping healthy meals and trips to the gym just to squeeze more into your day? If so, you're not the only one. Countless individuals struggle with maintaining steady personal and work lives. In Lead with Balance, university professor, speaker, and executive consultant Donnie Hutchinson addresses this issue head-on and explains how leaders, employees, and students can properly manage all the important facets of life. A balanced life leads to increased well-being, happiness, satisfaction, and productivity--a win-win for everyone. Through proper time management and focus, anyone can find their life's balance. Don't lose sight of the most significant moments in life. We can all learn from the Millennials. It's time to take action and enjoy living!
Author: Bruce J. Avolio Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 1135705690 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 248
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This book, written by a leading scholar in leadership, takes readers through a very realistic look at what it takes to develop leadership competencies. Focusing on four major goals, this text: *provides the reader with a broader and deeper understanding of what constitutes authentic leadership development; *challenges a very basic notion that leaders are born versus made; *talks about the elements that comprise leadership development so readers are informed to ask the many providers of leadership development the right questions; and *develops full leadership potential. There are numerous case examples used throughout the book: high-tech executives, community leaders, correctional service supervisors, bank managers in Canada, and platoon commanders in Israel. Each example is used as a general basis for discussing how people develop their leadership potential, and as models of training and evaluation. Leadership Development in Balance: MADE/Born is intended for graduate or undergraduate students of leadership, project managers, supervisors, senior executives, school principles, health care officers, or legislators.
Author: Robert J. Marzano Publisher: Solution Tree Press ISBN: 1935542362 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 297
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Bridge the great divide between distanced administrative duties and daily classroom impact. This book introduces a top-down power mechanism called defined autonomy, a concept that focuses on district-defined, nonnegotiable, common goals and a system of accountability supported by assessment tools. Defined autonomy creates an effective balance of centralized direction and individualized empowerment that allows building-level staff the stylistic freedom to respond quickly and effectively to student failure.
Author: Matthew Kelly Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101544287 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 160
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The prescriptive follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Dream Manager. One of the major issues in our lives today is work-life balance. Everyone wants it; no one has it. But Matthew Kelly believes that work- life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction. Kelly lays out the system he uses with his clients, his team, and himself to find deep, long-term satisfaction both personally and professionally. He introduces us to the three philosophies of our age that are dragging us down. He shows us how to cultivate the energy that will give us enough battery power for everything we need and want to do. And finally, in five clear steps, he shows us how to use his Personal & Professional Satisfaction System to establish and honor our biggest priorities, even if we spend a lot more time on some of the lesser ones.
Author: Mike Lerario Publisher: ISBN: 9781988071190 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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"Mike takes a fresh perspective on the topic of leadership. A must read for aspiring and seasoned leaders alike, and a welcomed addition to anyone's leadership library." Mike Garner, a former Infantry officer and leadership instructor at West Point. This book is written for the new manager or anyone who aspires to become a leader. Whether you have just finished school or have been working for some time, you are in (or about to assume) your first real leadership position. Leadership in Balance will help you to see and understand your natural tendency in each of four essential leadership domains. Once you've identified your true and natural tendencies, you become self- aware of your default position as a leader. Armed with that knowledge, and as you become situationally aware of your team and the environment, you will learn to see when the situation demands a shift in order to find balance between you and the environment where you lead. Understanding the concepts of Leadership in Balance will allow leaders at all levels to become immediately more effective and infinitely more productive.
Author: Women of Faith, Publisher: HarperChristian Resources ISBN: 0310684617 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 128
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Most of us desire to have balance in our routines. We want to get to the place where our household, work, diet, rest, and exercise schedules are all in perfect harmony. But as believers, we know that if we don’t have spiritual balance, we will never truly have balance in any other area of life. For this reason, we have to consider the state of our heart and determine whether anything is taking priority over God. In this study, readers will have the opportunity to examine our levels of balance and see how they measure up against Jesus’ example. For it is only when we start within—and allow God to work in us—that we can find the equilibrium we need.
Author: Stewart Friedman Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press ISBN: 1422189430 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 271
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A Wall Street Journal Bestseller “For nearly thirty years, my life’s work has been to help people like you find ways to bring the often warring aspects of life into greater harmony.” — Stew Friedman, from Leading the Life You Want You’re busy trying to lead a “full” life. But does it really feel full—or are you stretched too thin? Enter Stew Friedman, Wharton professor, adviser to leaders across the globe, and passionate advocate of replacing the misguided metaphor of “work/life balance” with something more realistic and sustainable. If you’re seeking “balance” you’ll never achieve it, argues Friedman. The idea that “work” competes with “life” ignores the more nuanced reality of our humanity—the interaction of four domains: work, home, community, and the private self. The goal is to create harmony among them instead of thinking only in terms of trade-offs. It can be done. Building on his national bestseller, Total Leadership, and on decades of research, teaching, and practice as both consultant and senior executive, Friedman identifies the critical skills for integrating work and the rest of life. He illustrates them through compelling original stories of these remarkable people: • former Bain & Company CEO and Bridgespan co-founder Tom Tierney • Facebook COO and bestselling author Sheryl Sandberg • nonprofit leader and US Navy SEAL Eric Greitens • US First Lady Michelle Obama • soccer champion-turned-broadcaster Julie Foudy • renowned artist Bruce Springsteen Each of these admirable (though surely imperfect) people exemplifies a set of skills—for being real, being whole, and being innovative—that produce a sense of purpose, coherence, and optimism. Based on interviews and research, their stories paint a vivid picture of how six very different leaders use these skills to act with authenticity, integrity, and creativity—and they prove that significant public success is accomplished not at the expense of the rest of life, but as the result of meaningful engagement in all its parts. With dozens of practical exercises for strengthening these skills, curated from the latest research in organizational psychology and related fields, this book will inspire you, inform you, and instruct you on how to take realistic steps now toward leading the life you truly want.
Author: Kerry A. Bunker Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership ISBN: 1882197887 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 118
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Organizations today are awash in change. Managing change requires leaders to focus simultaneously on managing the business and providing effective leadership to the people. More often than not, it is the focus on the people side that loses out. This book offers a framework for understanding the issues and competencies that contribute to effective leadership during times of change. Its purpose is to help leaders determine how to choose and move among a variety of managerial approaches--to help them see what's working, what's not working, and what's missing. In this way, leaders can more clearly assess their impact and learn how to meet the demands of both managing the business and leading the people.
Author: Joan Wallace-Benjamin
Author: Joan Marques
Author: Donnie Hutchinson
Author: Bruce J. Avolio
Author: Robert J. Marzano
Author: Matthew Kelly
Author: Mike Lerario
Author: Women of Faith,
Author: Stewart Friedman
Author: Kerry A. Bunker