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Illinois

Silver Medal Winner, Business and Leadership, 2012 Nautilus Book Awards

Respected former CEO, professor, and speaker examines what it takes to become a values-based leader

In this highly-anticipated book, Harry Kraemer argues that today's business environment demands values-based leaders who, in "doing the right thing," deliver outstanding and lasting results. The journey to becoming a values-based leader starts with self-reflection. He asks, "If you are not self-reflective, how can you know yourself? If you do not know yourself, how can you lead yourself? If you cannot lead yourself, how can you lead others?" Kraemer identifies self-reflection as the first of four principles that guide leaders to make choices that honor their values and candidly recounts how these principles helped him navigate some of the toughest challenges he faced in his career.

 * Offers a framework for adopting the principles of values-based leadership--self-reflection, balance, true self-confidence, and genuine humility--to lead organizations effectively
 * Based on Kraemer's popular Kellogg MBA course on values-based leadership
 * A recognized expert in values-based leadership, Kraemer is a sought after speaker on the subject

Lively and engaging, Kraemer's book comes at a critical time when true leadership in every facet of society is desperately needed.

All of Harry's proceeds from the book sales are donated to the One Acre Fund in Africa.

From Values to Action: the Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

How to Electrify Your Work and Your Life by Putting Service First

Happy customers. Passionate employees. A highly recognizable brand known for delivering on its promises. That's the power of WOW. From its birth during the Dot Com Boom in 1999 to its acquisition by Amazon in 2009, Zappos, the customer service company that just happens to sell things online, continues to turn heads with its disruptively entrepreneurial spirit and radically innovative employees. Ever unfolding throughout two decades, Zappos continues to outlive the seemingly inevitable short lifespan of the average corporate company. How do they do it? In The Power of WOW, the essential follow-up to Tony Hsieh's Delivering Happiness, Zapponians from every part of the business share powerful stories and lessons that they have learned in business and life––from delivering empathetic customer service in the face of devastating circumstances to creating a self-organized organizational structure using Market-Based Dynamics and everything in between. Fast-paced and filled with authentic, diverse voices, The Power of WOW gives readers an exclusive and immersive understanding of how one company is finding resilience. This glimpse inside the world of Zappos shows how a self-organized company is opening up avenues for passionate individuals to unleash their undiscovered strengths in the workplace and evolve the business from the inside out. Whether you are a customer, an employee, a business leader, shareholder, entrepreneur, or just happened to pick up this book, The Power of WOW will, ultimately, show how leading and infusing humanity into the workplace can change everything in your business, your community, and your life.

The Power of WOW

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Texas

A Study of the Gospel of Mark

John Feinstein

Al McGuire

Minnesota

A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers

An unprecedented inside look at America's most controversial basketball coach, Bob Knight. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.

A Season on the Brink

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Bob LaMonte

Robert L. Shook

Leadership Lessons from Football's Top Head Coaches

Meet Mike Holmgren, Jon Gruden, John Fox, Andy Reid, and Mike Sherman -- top NFL head coaches whose careers rest on their ability to lead other men to win in the fiercely competitive world of professional football.

Being an NFL coach is the ultimate high-pressure job. The average life span of a coach is two and a half years, so there is an enormous amount of pressure and scrutiny, from demanding owners, millions of fickle fans, and unyielding media. Every Sunday he makes split-second decisions that will not only decide the fate of a game but also his team's season and, ultimately, his own job.

In an extraordinary collaboration with Bob LaMonte, each of these five coaches shares their leadership principles in Winning the NFL Way. Having spent thousands of hours with these men, LaMonte understands their quirks, superstitions, philosophies, and work ethics. He takes you behind the scenes, where you'll be a fly on the wall in team meetings, on the sidelines, and in the locker room as Holmgren, Gruden, Fox, Reid, and Sherman reveal how to win beyond the X's and O's. You'll find how to pick and choose the right people for an organization. How to communicate with different personalities. How to be an effective disciplinarian. How to develop a vision and execute it. How coaches build trust in their people and win loyalty, overcome adversity, and adapt to change. All while being a person of integrity and high character.

Through their colorful and motivational anecdotes, you'll gain unprecedented insights into the minds of some of the best coaches today and valuable lessons on what it means to be a leader and a champion.

Winning the NFL Way

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Business & Economics

Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business

TheLos Angeles Times andUSA Today bestseller!

Wise, practical, and profitable letters to entrepreneurs, leaders, managers, and business owners in every field--from a leading executive, investor, and business founder

More than 600,000 new businesses are launched each year. How can a start-up find the funding it needs to survive? When, if at all, should a company go public? How does an entrepreneur build and manage a workplace--and create a lasting legacy?

Maynard Webb has helped found, fund, and grow dozens of successful companies, and has driven strategic change at Salesforce, eBay, Everwise, and Visa, among other worldwide corporations. Known for offering savvy insight, encouragement, and a dose of reality in the form of engaging personal letters to a select group of business leaders, Webb now shares his lessons with the rest of America's aspiring entrepreneurs--at any age and stage in their careers--in Dear Founder.

Featuring more than eighty inspiring, informative, and instructive letters,Dear Founder is rich with sound advice on an array of business topics, from turning your idea into a reality to building a culture, to reaching key financial goals. This book is an indispensable guide to navigating the realities, risks, and rewards of being your own boss--and founding the company of your dreams.

Dear Founder

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Jon Gordon

Ken Blanchard

Alaska

10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

Fuel your life with positive energy with this bestselling fable It's Monday morning and George walks out of the front door to his car and a flat tire. This is the least of his problems. His home life is in shambles and his team at work is in disarray. With a big product launch coming in two weeks, he has to find a way to get it together or risk losing his marriage and job. Forced to take the bus to work, George meets a unique bus driver and an interesting cast of characters who, over the course of two weeks, share the ten rules for the ride of his life. In the process, they help him turn around his work and life, saving his job and marriage from destruction. The Energy Bus, an international bestseller, takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals ten secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment—at work and at home. Build positive energy with vision, trust, optimism, enthusiasm, purpose, and spirit Learn how to turn negative energy into positive achievement Overcome obstacles and bring out the best in yourself and your team For managers and team leaders or anyone looking to turn negative situations into positive outcomes, The Energy Bus provides a powerful plan for overcoming common life and work obstacles and bringing out the best in yourself and your team. When you get on The Energy Bus, you'll enjoy the ride of your life.

The Energy Bus

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John O. Whitney

Tina Packer

Oklahoma

Shakespeare's Lessons In Leadership and Management

Whether we are dealing with an indecisive Hamlet or a corporate Lear, this innovative approach to management helps us tap the timeless wisdom and profitable genius of the Bard."--BOOK JACKET.

Power Plays

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Thomas K. Connellan

Seven Keys to Disney's Success

Now an insider takes you inside the incredible Disney service culture and presents simple, powerful concepts in a fun, memorable way.

Inside the Magic Kingdom

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Dennis Snow

Teri Yanovitch

The Complete Guide to Ultimate Customer Service

Authors provide no-nonsense, practical approaches to customer service proven successful by leading corporations around U.S. Highly readable and easy to implement ideas for improving even the best customer service program.

Unleashing Excellence

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Ann Marriner-Tomey

This text provides nurses studying leadership theory with insight and guidance in motivating and leading staff. The concepts of transformational leadership are explored to direct the nurse leader in increasing productivity and retention of staff.

Transformational Leadership in Nursing

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Nursing Administration for the Future

Beyond Leading and Managing focuses on real life stories and anecdotes about the practice of nursing administration. It highlights key information such as advanced administrative theory, financial decisions, quality control, working with external groups and individuals, planning strategically, and creating new opportunities within the profession. Theory boxes, case studies, and current literature and research located both in the book and on the Evolve website help the reader grasp the key points, remember them and think about the practicality of the content in the real world of leading in healthcare organizations.
 * A brief overview of the chapter helps focus readers and the content builds the base of important information about the topic.
 * Literature boxes pull out and summarize key relevant theories in nursing administration.
 * Contemplations (questions to ponder about the topic) are included to help readers think about the practicality of the content.
 * Leadership Stories offer actual scenarios of practice from a professional view.
 * Administration certification is included as key content in the text.
 * Evolve website offers web links and current research/literature recommended by the authors.

Beyond Leading and Managing

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Linda A. Hill

Kent L. Lineback

The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader

Shows executives and managers how to be successful by managing their own time, understanding their place in the larger organization, and uniting their employees for a common purpose.

Being the Boss

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California

How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

There are now 26 millennials in congress - a fivefold increase gained in the last midterms. They're governing over Midwestern cities and college towns, sitting on city councils and running for state legislatures. Some of them have been in office for a few years; one of them is running for president. In The Ones We've been Waiting For, TIME correspondent Charlotte Alter defines the class of young leaders who are remaking the nation, and what America will look like when they're in charge.

The Ones We've Been Waiting For

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Patrick M. Lencioni

A Leadership Fable... about Restoring Sanity to the Most Important Organization in Your Life

A singularly relevant application of organizational leadership to the home and family

In this unique and groundbreaking book, business consultant and New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni sets his sights on the most important organization in our lives--the family.

As a husband and as the father of four young boys, Lencioni realized the discrepancy between the time and energy his clients put into running their organizations and the reactive way most people run their personal lives. Having experienced the stress of a frantic family firsthand, he and his wife began applying some of the tools he uses with Fortune 500 companies at home, and with surprising results.

In the book, you'll learn to answer questions like:

 * What makes my family unique?
 * What is my family's biggest priority-its rallying cry-right now?
 * How can my family use the answers to these questions today, next week, and next year?

An indispensable resource for busy professionals with full family lives, The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who has ever struggled to balance leading people at work with leading a family unit.

The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family

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A Leader's Playbook for Serial Success

Reinvent

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Brené Brown

Arizona

Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead. Look for Brené Brown’s new podcast, Dare to Lead, as well as her ongoing podcast Unlocking Us! NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential. When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don’t see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don’t avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into vulnerability when it’s necessary to do good work. But daring leadership in a culture defined by scarcity, fear, and uncertainty requires skill-building around traits that are deeply and uniquely human. The irony is that we’re choosing not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders at the exact same time as we’re scrambling to figure out what we have to offer that machines and AI can’t do better and faster. What can we do better? Empathy, connection, and courage, to start. Four-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown has spent the past two decades studying the emotions and experiences that give meaning to our lives, and the past seven years working with transformative leaders and teams spanning the globe. She found that leaders in organizations ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, civic organizations, and Fortune 50 companies all ask the same question: How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders, and how do you embed the value of courage in your culture? In this new book, Brown uses research, stories, and examples to answer these questions in the no-BS style that millions of readers have come to expect and love. Brown writes, “One of the most important findings of my career is that daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are 100 percent teachable, observable, and measurable. It’s learning and unlearning that requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart. Easy? No. Because choosing courage over comfort is not always our default. Worth it? Always. We want to be brave with our lives and our work. It’s why we’re here.” Whether you’ve read Daring Greatly and Rising Strong or you’re new to Brené Brown’s work, this book is for anyone who wants to step up and into brave leadership.

Dare to Lead

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Lance A. Berger

Martin J. Sikora

A Road Map to Corporate Transformation

The future success and even survival of thousands of companies depends on how well they anticipate and respond to both unexpected and foreseeable change. The Change Management Handbook is a road map that lays out the actions to help you execute change while adapting your organizational goals. This practical, action-oriented guide for change agents and managers shows how to develop the type of flexible and nimble organization that achieves long-term success. It lists specific actions to be taken by senior business managers, the people they assign to implement change policies on the line, and the professional advisors they enlist to assist and monitor the change processes. You'll also find ways to use change processes for competitive advantage; methods to maintain continuous alignment of strategy, operations, culture, and rewards; ways to identify the change agents and managers in your organization; more than 30 contributions by a who's who of change management, all written in a very specific, how-to format; real-world examples from actual corporations that expose both potential opportunities and pitfalls; how to maintain productivity and quality during times of rapid change and even chaos; and an actual change map that leads through all the steps necessary to make successful changes. The Change Management Handbook is uniquely designed as a desktop resource that defines the goals and explains the methods and processes required to manage change. For the first time, this book assembles and integrates all the pieces required to create effective, flexible organizations.

The Change Management Handbook

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How to Navigate the Unknown and Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution barrels forward and the pace of disruption accelerates, all organizations must operate withagility. But this urgent priority, now widely-accepted by senior leaders, presents a major challenge: In business, government, and warfare, agility is a buzzword. There is no common understanding of what it means, or of what it takes to be consistently agile.

In this groundbreaking book, Leo Tilman and Charles Jacoby offer the first comprehensive assessment of the fundamental nature of organizational agility and then describe the essential leadership practices for achieving it. They show that agility is far superior to mere speed or adaptability. Pinpointing its distinctive features, they define agility as the ability to detect and assess changes in the competitive environment in real time and then take decisive action. They demonstrate that agility enables an organization to outmaneuver competitors by seizing opportunities; better defending against threats; and acting as a well-orchestrated collective of teams that are empowered to take disciplined initiative.

Combining their personal experience of building and leading agile organizations, Tilman in the realm of business and finance and Jacoby in battlefield command and homeland security, they present a powerful approach to fostering agility up and down an organization, and out to its very edges. They show how to detect opportunities and threats by fighting for risk intelligence; how to pierce through complexity and unleash creativity by nurturing a culture of honesty and trust; how to meld top-down vision and planning with decentralized execution; and how to enhance strategy by recognizing organizations as dynamic portfolios of risk.

In a world where leaders and their teams must brave the unknown and step confidently forward - or risk extinction -Agility provides a vital roadmap for seizing the unprecedented possibilities of the new age and dominating change instead of being dominated by it.

Agility

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Lessons Learned from the Bridge to the Corner Office

How do you quadruple the size of an 85-year-old company in one decade without changing its cultural DNA? How do you accomplish this while keeping your original base of customers wildly loyal and your employees passionately engaged? With Cutler Dawson at the helm for the last 14 years, Navy Federal Credit Union, the world's largest credit union, has quadrupled the size of the organisation and made it an industry leader in customer service.

A retired Navy vice admiral with an esteemed 34-year career commanding ships and fleets, Cutler arrived at the venerable and conservative credit union and Set it on a course for meteoric growth. It is now one of the most fiercely trusted and smoothly run financial institutions in the world ranked by Fortune magazine as a Best Place to Work for eight years. How did Cutler and his team at Navy Federal do it? What did he learn on the ship's bridge that that helped him successfully run a bank--a credit union, actually? What did he learn leading ships and crews into harm's way that helped him weather the storms of the 2008 financial crisis without a layoff? And what can you learn from his leadership experience that began when he took command of his first ship at the age of 27?

This book reveals an honest and straightforward look at Cutler's leadership philosophy and guiding principles, offering tangible and practical insights for readers who want to learn how to chart a similar course of success--one of exponential growth without compromising a company's bedrock principles.

From the Sea to the C-Suite

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Colorado

The Power Principle debunks the traditional ideas that force, fear, and control constitute power, and demonstrates why honorable behavior is the key to professional and personal success. Combining real-life examples and inspiring advice, it describes the principles that foster and encourage the respect, trust, and loyalty of employees, customers, coworkers, and even family members.

"The Power Principle is profound! Blaine Lee teaches you the essence of true empowerment through understanding the hearts and minds of those you live and work with". -- Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One-Minute Manager

"What people think they want is power. But what they really need is heart-centered leadership, which The Power Principle so aptly teaches!" -- Mark Victor Hansen, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul

"The Power Principle provides a new standard for how we can build more meaningful relationships". -- John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Power Principle

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Spencer Johnson

Kenneth Blanchard

New York

An a-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

Relates a highly meaningful parable intended to help one deal with change quickly and prevail, offering readers a simple way to progress in their work and lives.

Who Moved My Cheese?

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Oregon

The Power of Positive Relationships

A compendium of straightforward techniques on how to accentuate the positive and redirect the negative, increasing productivity at work and at home. What do your people at work and your spouse and kids at home have in common with a five-ton killer whale? Probably a whole lot more than you think, according to top business consultant and mega-bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his coauthors from SeaWorld. In this moving and inspirational new book, Blanchard explains that both whales and people perform better when you accentuate the positive. He shows how using the techniques of animal trainers -- specifically those responsible for the killer whales of SeaWorld -- can supercharge your effectiveness at work and at home. When gruff business manager and family man Wes Kingsley visited SeaWorld, he marveled at the ability of the trainers to get these huge killer whales, among the most feared predators in the ocean, to perform amazing acrobatic leaps and dives. Later, talking to the chief trainer, he learned their techniques of building trust, accentuating the positive, and redirecting negative behavior -- all of which make these extraordinary performances possible. Kingsley took a hard look at his own often accusatory management style and recognized how some of his shortcomings as a manager, spouse, and father actually diminish trust and damage relationships. He began to see the difference between "GOTcha" (catching people doing things wrong) and "Whale Done!" (catching people doing things right). In Whale Done!, Ken Blanchard shows how to make accentuating the positive and redirecting the negative the best tools to increase productivity, instead of creating situations that demoralize people. These techniques are remarkably easy to master and can be applied equally well at home, allowing readers to become better parents and more committed spouses in their happier and more successful personal lives.

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From Values to Action: the Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership

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The Power of WOW

Hugh R. Peterson

A Study of the Gospel of Mark

John Feinstein; Al McGuire

A Season on the Brink

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Winning the NFL Way

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Dear Founder

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The Energy Bus

John O. Whitney; Tina Packer

Power Plays

Thomas K. Connellan

Inside the Magic Kingdom

Dennis Snow; Teri Yanovitch

Unleashing Excellence

Ann Marriner-Tomey

Transformational Leadership in Nursing

Patricia S. Yoder-Wise; Karren E. Kowalski

Beyond Leading and Managing

Linda A. Hill; Kent L. Lineback

Being the Boss

Charlotte Alter

The Ones We've Been Waiting For

Patrick M. Lencioni

The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family

Fred Hassan

Reinvent

Brené Brown

Dare to Lead

Lance A. Berger; Martin J. Sikora

The Change Management Handbook

Leo M. Tilman; Charles Jacoby

Agility

Cutler Dawson; Taylor Baldwin Kiland

From the Sea to the C-Suite

Blaine Lee

Power Principle

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Who Moved My Cheese?

Jim Ballard; Kenneth Blanchard; Thad Lacinak; Chuck Tompkins

Whale Done!

Patrick Lencioni

The Three Signs of a Miserable Job