Meet the Humanistic LEADER in You


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A book of innovative ideas for school managements, professors, principals and teachers. A book for parents to understand what can be the best in education system for their child. This book is my diary of personal experiences of practicing SOKA EDUCATION's principles in the context of humanistic LEADERSHIP as a SCHOOL LEADER IN INDIA. This book will unravel the strategies, planning, delegation, process of building a strong team of teachers, address parents concerns, ensuring all students are happy, connecting to the latest in technology, always thinking of creating value for the student, achieving two National awards and best practices in education. Innovative practices like using 'drones' to bring discipline in children, invigilator free exams, appointing a visually challenged teacher, conducting inclusive sports day, No school bell, Design thinking as a culture of the school and many more.




Permission to Be Human


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Create a successful workplace culture with the help of international expert and visionary MaryBeth Hyland. Culture is complex. It has its own language and nuances that can change in an instant. To build a thriving, sustainable company, business leaders must be intentional in crafting cultures that reflect their core values-well beyond creating posters that simply profess them. But how? Using personal stories, national research, and proven practices, Permission to Be Human lays out a guide to workplace culture that will empower and equip leaders to activate alignment at the highest levels. This book will teach you how to: Inspire and mobilize team members Empathize with and relate to the human experience at work Identify and operationalize your company's core values Create a flourishing, connected, people-centered business Permission to Be Human is a step-by-step guide to creating a thriving culture where people matter, stay, and grow so that your business succeeds. Are you ready to ignite alignment in your organization?




Compassionate Leadership


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Leadership is hard. How can you balance compassion for your people with effectiveness in getting the job done? A global pandemic, economic volatility, natural disasters, civil and political unrest. From New York to Barcelona to Hong Kong, it can feel as if the world as we know it is coming apart. Through it all, our human spirit is being tested. Now more than ever, it's imperative for leaders to demonstrate compassion. But in hard times like these, leaders need to make hard decisions—deliver negative feedback, make difficult choices that disappoint people, and in some cases lay people off. How do you do the hard things that come with the responsibility of leadership while remaining a good human being and bringing out the best in others? Most people think we have to make a binary choice between being a good human being and being a tough, effective leader. But this is a false dichotomy. Being human and doing what needs to be done are not mutually exclusive. In truth, doing hard things and making difficult decisions is often the most compassionate thing to do. As founder and CEO of Potential Project, Rasmus Hougaard and his longtime coauthor, Jacqueline Carter, show in this powerful, practical book, you must always balance caring for your people with leadership wisdom and effectiveness. Using data from thousands of leaders, employees, and companies in nearly a hundred countries, the authors find that when leaders bring the right balance of compassion and wisdom to the job, they foster much higher levels of employee engagement, performance, loyalty, and well-being in their people. With rich examples from Netflix, IKEA, Unilever, and many other global companies, as well as practical tools and advice for leaders and managers at any level, Compassionate Leadership is your indispensable guide to doing the hard work of leadership in a human way.




Dare to Lead


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#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. Don’t miss the five-part HBO Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart! 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.




Educating Humanists


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This volume explores the challenges that humanists face from hostile religious traditionalists on its right flank and from the political antihumanism, which is often postsecular, of critics on its left flank. Given this dual challenge, how can "secular" humanism educate, sustain, and reproduce itself?




Winning In Life And Work : Dare To Dream


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Dare To Dream is about exploring how amazing and fulfilling life can be, if only we would dare to dream - for how can you follow your dreams if you don't dream in the first place? It is a book which explores the concepts and really brings them to life through sharing the experiences of 17 diverse people from around the globe who dared to dream. Each author shares their own experiences - the highs, the lows, the obstacles, and the eventual triumphs, in a way which seeks both to inspire us as to what it possible, and to motivate us to keep going and to achieve it. By reading them all, the book becomes greater than the sum of its parts, as the various experiences and lessons resonate across chapters, reinforcing in surprising ways, and build within the reader the desire, the will, the commitment to Dare To Dream. "Dare to Dream offers a collection of beautiful stories and powerful perspectives from a variety of authors. It shows us how the human spirit can shine through a myriad of challenges and how we each can develop the courage to live our dreams." - Marci Shimoff- #1 NY Times bestselling author of "Happy for No Reason", and "Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul". Dare To Dream is the eagerly anticipated fourth book in the internationally bestselling Winning in Life and Work series (which includes Volume 1 [2013], New Beginnings [2015], and Success Secrets [2017]) Like its predecessors, this book is concerned with helping you to win in life and work. It follows the same well-proven premise - experts sharing their experience, skills, and knowledge in specific areas to help you to become even better at winning in life and work. As with previous books, the chapters follow a specific theme – in this case, that of daring to dream, to believe in our dreams, and to follow our dreams wherever they may take us. It is not necessary to have read the previous volumes in order to get the most from this one, although after reading this book you might become inspired to seek out the guidance and suggestions offered within the first three. For this book, creator Keith Blakemore-Noble brings together 17 international experts to share their messages, learnings, experiences, and insights into the power of dreams, all of whom seek to inspire us all to Dare o Dream. Contributors - Keith Blakemore-Noble, Laura Di Franco, Lynn Dehnke, Jennifer Whitacre, Paula Kalik, Shelia Heard, Veronica B. Light, Manuela Rohr, Karen Fulkerson, Margie O’Kane, Amy Boyer, Nadia Gualtieri, Jason Withers, Gila Nehemia, Stephen Bryant, Nick Manci, and Lori Zeltwanger. Chapters include - 1 - It’s Never Too Late 2 - Transformation is a warrior’s path 3 - Adversity: Make It Count 4 - The Subtleties of Self-Sabotage 5 - The Elephant In The Room 6 - Life Happens 7 - At The Centre Of Your Being 8 - Broken Dream 9 - I Pressed On: Destigmatizing Depression 10 - No Time For Regret 11 - Taking Responsibility for our Inner Pain 12 - The Power Of Beliefs 13 - Pocket More, Stress Less – Simple Pathways to Profit 14 - Forgiveness Leads to Peace 15 - First Steps Into The Unknown 16 - The Solo Search For Sanity 17 - Pain Pain Go Away - Don’t Come Back Another Day! "Dare to Dream is not only a good book, it’s a way of life. There are some great examples in these stories of how to live outside the box that so many people are stuck in. If you want more from life, you should read this book." - David Alan Arnold - Helicopter Cameraman of The Deadliest Catch and Author of Help From Above




Leadership Standards in Action


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"Case studies of exceptional principals as servant-leaders"-- Provided by publisher.




Motivate Like a CEO: Communicate Your Strategic Vision and Inspire People to Act!


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“An exciting read, you won’t want to put Motivate Like a CEO down until you’ve mastered all of its secrets!” Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times bestselling author of What Got You Here Won’t Get You There "Motivated leaders are rare, yet everyone seeks to become one. The greatness of this book is that it breaks down the process by giving you the ideas and the tools to motivate and inspire yourself first, and then others second. If you’re in a leadership position or hoping to get to the next level, make the decision to buy this book, study this book, and put it into practice." -Jeffrey Gitomer, author of The Little Red Book of Selling The most successful leaders seem to possess a remarkable gift for inspiring and motivating people. They are not only hard workers who possess great business minds; they rally others to drive forward with a powerful, common vision. Motivate Like a CEO demonstrates how leaders at every level can develop this skill and use it to bring their teams together around a common purpose. In this follow-up to her bestselling Speak Like a CEO, Suzanne Bates explains how you can become a powerful force of influence within your organization and position your company for greatness. You'll learn how to translate simple, effective concepts into brilliant execution; get people working together on the highest priorities; and align warring factions to channel energy into the efforts that make your company profitable. Inside, you’ll discover secrets to generate excitement all the way down the line to achieve superior results. Real-world stories of leaders who have transformed their organizations will inspire you to move your own organization to a position of strength. And, you’ll find helpful, easy-to-follow advice on how to communicate ina way that inspires people to act. Motivate Like a CEO teaches you how to: Inspire people to embrace and share your vision Speak with energy and confidence in tough situations Turn challenges into opportunities Get your team engaged, in the loop, and tracking real results Make time in your schedule for sharing your message of motivation throughout your company Even a well-positioned, strategically sound company will fail if its messages and focus are not clear. Successful leaders must be able to move the strategic plan from words on paper into the hearts and minds of the people who make it happen. Motivate Like a CEO can help you significantly improve bottom line results, create a happier, more unified team of people, and allow you to leave a legacy of leadership.




The Humanist


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The Awakened Leader


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Argues that leadership styles do not need to change in different contexts, thus giving readers permission to develop one style that works for every situation. Readers are instructed on the behaviors and traits necessary to become awakened leaders, such as integrity and compassion, and they are warned about common mistakes, such as being judgmental or manipulative. In-depth interviews with leaders in many settings, from corporate to nonprofit and religious to personal, reveal crucial points for leadership success as well as organizational aspects for achieving greater job performance and satisfaction. Taking into account the many recognized leadership styles discussed in business literature, Awakened Leadership is presented as the most effective, versatile style of leading.--From publisher description.