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Why the Bottom Line Isn't! : How to Build Value Through
People and Organization by Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood
John Wiley & Sons (2003) ISBN: 047144510X
"This book explores a new bottom line that creates real market value. In this new bottom line, the soft stuff is as important as the hard stuff because it builds customer, investor, and employee confidence about the future. Because leaders want to build confidence about the future, they need to discover a new bottom line, one focused on creating value through people and organization. When they do so, they will find that remarkable things happen. Employees are more committed, customers more satisfied, and investors are more confiident...Accomplishing this purpose requires an integration of ideas from a number of different disciplines. It involves an understanding of the new role that intangibles play in company valuations and new shifts in thinking about organizational theory. It invites leaders in human resources, accounting, finance, and information technology to consider new dimensions to their roles...The traditional viewpoint is that when a firm earns more money, its value goes up. The more it earns, the more investors value it. In recent years, however, that logic has begun to twist. Firms in the same industry and with similar earnings may have vastly different market values. This is based on the intangible value-components of a company (pp. 1-2)."
Results-Based Leadership by Dave Ulrich,
Jack Zenger, Norman Smallwood
Harvard Business School Press (1999) ISBN: 0875848710
A landmark book, Results-Based Leadership challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding leadership. Authors Ulrich, Zenger, and Smallwood--world-renowned experts in human resources and training--argue that it is not enough to gauge leaders by personal traits such as character, style, and values. Rather, effective leaders know how to connect these leadership attributes with results. Results-Based Leadership shows executives how to deliver results in four specific areas: results for employees, for the organization, for its customers, and for its investors. The authors provide action-oriented guidelines that readers can follow to develop and hone their own results-based leadership skills. By shifting our focus to the connection between the attributes and the results of leadership, this perceptive new guide fundamentally improves our understanding of effective leadership. Results-Based Leadership brings a refreshing clarity and directness to the leadership discussion, providing a hands-on program to help executives succeed with their leadership challenges.
The Change Champion's Fieldguide: Strategies and Tools
for Leading Change in Your Organization
by Dave Ulrich, Louis Carter, Marshall Goldsmith (Editor), Jim
Bolt (Editor), Norm Smallwood (Editor), Warner Burke (Foreword)
Best Practice Publications (2003) ISBN: 0974038806
Reviewer Suzanne Levin from Boston, writes: "This is like a conference within a book without the travel and expense - I learned from the top thought leaders in the field such as David Cooperrider - the creator of Appreciative Inquiry, Marshall Goldsmith - one of the world's top coaches and experts on behavioral change, Jerry Sternin - the founder of applied positive deviance, Louis Carter - one of the foremost experts in best practices in leadership and organization development, Kathleen Dannemiller - the creator of whole scale change, Dave Ulrich - one of the world's top 5 management educators ranked by Business Week, Lawrence Susskind - the Director of the Consensus Building Institute at MIT/Harvard, the well known futurist Ryan Matthews, the world's leading expert in succession planning Dr. William Rothwell, Dr. W. Warner Burke, the award winning teacher and consultant and many more! Any organization that does not have a copy of the fieldguide in their organization will seriously lack competitive advantage."
The Extraordinary Leader : Turning Good Managers into
Great Leaders by John H. Zenger, Joseph Folkman
McGraw-Hill Trade (2002) ISBN: 0071387471
The Extraordinary Leader is a research-based book about
leadership. It analyzes 200,000 assessments from 20,000 managers
and presents new insights that demystify this complex subject.
It clearly establishes the importance of developing great leaders
versus being satisfied with merely good ones, and highlights the
link between leadership behavior and an organization's performance.
From the authors' research, a new model of leadership emerges
that challenges long-held beliefs about leadership competencies.
The authors identify 16 competencies that tower above all the
others-­­the ones that separate great leaders from the
average. One of the book's major breakthroughs is its focus on
the importance of maximizing strengths as opposed to merely correcting
weaknesses. Further, the importance of balanced strengths is introduced:
when strengths are clustered in one area, the leader is less effective
than he or she could be with strengths in different areas.
Accountability: Getting a Grip on Results
by Bruce Klatt, Shaun Murphy, David Irvine
Bow River Publishing Inc. (2003) ISBN: 0973036524
Accountability
represents a promise and an obligation, both to managers and to
the people they manage, to deliver specific, defined results.
Accountability is essential to the running of every efficient
organization, showing that to operate from a position of accountability
is to recognize that each individual stands at the center of a
circle of influence and should be willing to extend its boundaries
in pursuit of results.
Providing practical solutions to the accountability crises currently
affecting many organizations, the authors have succeeded in supplying
not only a template for achieving agreements, but the inspiration
to do so. Accountability is more than doing one's best, it is
a force for empowerment for all managers or leaders who are keen
to raise the goals set for their workforce.
Becoming Real: Journey To Authenticity by
David Irvine
DC Press, Sanford, Florida, 2003 ISBN: 1932021108
Self-respect,
meaningful impact, and the freedom that comes from living in harmony
with your deepest self is achievable. The promise of becoming
real, of living a life without façade or pretense or the
need for prestige is possible. In this personal and provocative
work, David shares his profoundly human journey to realness and
his vision of authentic living.
The authentic journey is a voyage to awaken us and take us to
the heart of what our life is meant to be about. Yet when we conform
to the world’s expectations, we stray from that path. While
some books offer ephemeral ideas for behavior change, this book
offers enduring wisdom for real change. This book is valuable
for those committed to amplify your impact in the world –
business and community leaders, parents, teachers, entrepreneurs
- from your presence rather than your position, from your soul,
rather than your role, and for those who yearn for serenity beyond
the fleeting allure of achievement and materialism.
