No Bullsh!t Leadership


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What makes a truly exceptional leader? Discover the practical, fail-proof tools that will help you to fine-tune your leadership skills, solidify respect among your workforce, and ensure your company’s lasting success. When Martin G. Moore was asked to rescue a leading energy corporation from ever-increasing debt and a lack of executive accountability, he faced an uphill battle. Not only had he never before stepped into the role of CEO; he also had no experience in the rapidly evolving energy sector. Relying on the practical leadership principles he had honed throughout his thirty-three-year career, he overhauled the company’s culture, redefined its leadership capability, and increased earnings by a compound annual growth rate of 125 percent. In No Bullsh!t Leadership, Moore outlines these proven leadership principles in a clear, direct way. He sweeps away the mystical fog surrounding leadership today and lays out the essential steps for success. Moore combines this tangible advice with honest, real-world examples from his own career to provide a no-nonsense look at the skills a true leader possesses. Moore’s principles for no bullshit leadership focus on: Creating value by focusing only on the things that matter most Facing conflict, adversity, and ambiguity with decisiveness and confidence Setting uncompromising standards for behavior and performance Selecting and developing great people Making those people accountable, and empowering them to do their best Setting simple, value-driven goals and communicating them relentlessly Though the steps aren’t easy, they are guaranteed, if implemented, to lift your leadership–and your organization–to a higher level. Wherever you are in your career, No Bullsh!t Leadership will help you develop the skills and form the habits needed to become a no bullshit leader.




The Family Question and Other Plays


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This collection contains nine most important works written and performed between 1973 and 1989. Three of the plays won first positions in national drama competitions (The Cell, the Family Question, and the Headmaster and the Rascals). Subsequently, the Family Question was performed in Detroit and published in Chicago by Bedford publishers. the Cell has been reviewed in various journals and books, Father Kalo commissioned by the Ministry of Health and John Hopkins School of Medicine was a campaign play against the spread of HIV and AIDS. Themes that preoccupy the author include alienation for returnees from the diaspora in Europe and the USA, power and its corrupting influences, ethnicity and with its offshoots of overdependence and nepotism, and intricate relationship encompassing HIV/AIDS, love and marriage. They are multilayered plays variously classified as tragic comedies, allegories, satires, characterised by high sense of humour.




Leadership


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Taking in an amazing range of nationalities - British, Arabic, Chinese, Indian, Greek, Italian, American, Korean - in Leadership: It's in Your DNA Rhea Duttagupta examines how her interviewees became leaders, what worked for them, mistakes they've learned from and risks they've taken. From boardroom politics to the challenges faced by the first female commissioner of Asian police tasked with transforming the world's one of the most corrupt prisons, the stories are diverse, inspirational and instructional. This book provides readers with a framework of ten ingredients distilled from Rhea's extensive experience and research. She argues that these ingredients are innate within us and that if we recognise their importance and enhance them within ourselves, they'll help us maximise our achievements and our leadership qualities.




CEO Excellence


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"Based on extensive interviews with today's . . . corporate leaders, this look at how the best CEOs do their jobs focuses on the mindsets and actions that foster an environment of excellence"--







Management Aids for Small Business


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Mr. Ou, Take Medicine


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It was well-known that the eldest miss of the Guan family was a vicious woman who was jealous of her sister. She stole her sister's boyfriend but didn't succeed to be his aunt.It was simply disgusting, upsetting the three views!But who would have thought that her younger sister's boyfriend would kidnap her on her wedding day and announce that she was his wife in front of everyone. He only loved her for the rest of his life.One day, the young miss of the Guan Family rushed to the emergency room on her bicycle. She looked at a wolf lying on the operating table, her mouth slightly twitching.A certain wolf cried out, "Wife, you are the only one with my internal organs, liver, lungs, lungs, and blood bacteria! I'm sick! Save me!"







A Harvest of Thorns


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Several centuries in the future, corruption dominates the governments of Earth as well as its food and pharmaceutical industries. The public takes a back seat to a mad scramble for profits at any cost. Hundreds of years earlier, human beings discovered a way to accomplish interstellar travela method that, though expensive and dangerous, allowed Earth to colonize a planet in another part of the galaxy. Aquario Prime serves as a new home for humankind, led by a government that had learned to avoid many of the pitfalls that had plagued Earth over its long history. It has strict laws regulating what can and cannot be included in food and drugs. But soon humanity finds itself facing a devastating virus that could drive the species to extinction. People of both planets will have to work together to find a solution. Meanwhile, a yet deadlier threat emerges, one that could throw the twin worlds into a dark age of war and anarchy from which there may be no recovery. Can a better system be found before the mad exercise of power by those at the top ruin humans hope for the future? In this science fiction novel, the populations of two planets facing total annihilation must find a way to embrace an economic system that works for justice and prosperity. Several centuries in the future, corruption dominates the governments of Earth as well as its food and pharmaceutical industries. The public takes a back seat to a mad scramble for profits at any cost. Hundreds of years earlier, human beings discovered a way to accomplish interstellar travela method that, though expensive and dangerous, allowed Earth to colonize a planet in another part of the galaxy. Aquario Prime serves as a new home for humankind, led by a government that had learned to avoid many of the pitfalls that had plagued Earth over its long history. It has strict laws regulating what can and cannot be included in food and drugs. But soon humanity finds itself facing a devastating virus that could drive the species to extinction. People of both planets will have to work together to find a solution. Meanwhile, a yet deadlier threat emerges, one that could throw the twin worlds into a dark age of war and anarchy from which there may be no recovery. Can a better system be found before the mad exercise of power by those at the top ruin humans hope for the future? In this science fiction novel, the populations of two planets facing total annihilation must find a way to embrace an economic system that works for justice and prosperity.




Cyberbooks


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Computer genius Carl Lewis has invented the "Cyberbook", an electronic device that instantly and inexpensively brings the written word to the masses. But not everyone warms to Carl's ideas. Add corporate spies, authors threatening to strike, and a wave of mysterious murders, and you have Ben Bova at his best.