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Jack Welch And The 4E's Of Leadership
Jack Welch was one of history?s most competitive corporate leaders, and he had a well-defined process for surrounding himself with individuals cut from the same cloth. Jack Welch and The 4 E's of Leadership examines the model Welch used to identify and develop performance-based leaders and provides a template for incorporating Welch?s tactics into your career and organization. Bestselling author and Welch chronicler Jeffrey A. Krames details the inside secrets of Welch?s success, including: • Insights into the 4E?s: Energy, the ability to Energize others, the Edge necessary to make the hard decisions, and the skill and confidence to Execute • 4E Leader To-Do Lists, along with quizzes, self-assessments, and observations of leadership gurus from Drucker to Senge • Leadership secrets of the Welch 4E All-Stars, featuring the management strategies of five exceptional leaders During Jack Welch?s tenure as CEO, GE turned out more Fortune 500 CEOs than any organization in history. Jack Welch and The 4 E's of Leadership takes you step-by-step through the reasons for that astonishing record, and provides you with specific actions for recognizing and rewarding authentic leaders and becoming a 4E leader yourself.
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Of Guts and Glory
Guts and Glory is a survival racing game created by solo game developer Jedediah “HakJak” Steen and published by tinyBuild. It's loosely based on the concept of ordinary people competing in life-or-death race challenges in a twisted game. However, little has been revealed about this story so far.
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Nasty People
A guide to staying sane while dealing with difficult people. It gives readers the tricks and techniques needed to: identify the invalidators in their lives; protect their sanity; use humor to get out of the blame game; conquer self-doubt; stop invalidating themselves; confront emotional bullies; and see the bigger picture.
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The Toyota Way
The Toyota Way, explain 's Toyota 's unique approach to Lean--the 14 management principles and philosophy that drive Toyota 's quality and efficiency-obsessed culture. You 'll gain valuable insights that can be applied to any organization and any business process, whether in services or manufacturing. Professor Jeffrey Liker has been studying Toyota for twenty years, and was given unprecedented access to Toyota executives, employees and factories, both in Japan and the United States, for this landmark work. The book is full of examples of the 14 fundamental principles at work in the Toyota culture, and how these principles create a culture of continuous learning and improvement. You 'll discover how the right combination of long-term philosophy, process, people, and problem solving can transform your organization into a Lean, learning enterprise--the Toyota Way.
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Project Management: 24 Lessons to Help You Master
Project Management. You've been given a project to manage--now what? Project Management provides you with twenty-four lessons detailing the fundamental skills of successful project management. From understanding the project manager's role to working within budgets and leading a team to understanding and becoming comfortable with the basic tools of project analysis, this latest addition to the popular McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series will show you how to: . Motivate your team * Develop a configuration plan * Perform financial analyses * Quantify and analyze risks * Manage communication channels * Maximize learning * Document goals and achievements * Perform a successful and seamless hand-off. Effective project management isn't easy. The payoff, however, is huge, both for your organization and your career. Project Management will give you the essential foundation knowledge you need to become a high-performing, well-regarded, and--in all likelihood--well-rewarded project manager.. "Project Management" reviews the steps in organizingand managing projects, from how to build a realisticschedule to how to measure both success and failure."Project Management" discusses team building, timing, the planning process, estimating project costs, managingproject interfaces, risk management, and more.