Toy Box Leadership

Author : Ron Hunter,Michael E. Waddell
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781418570828

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Toy Box Leadership by Ron Hunter,Michael E. Waddell Pdf

Reach back into your childhood and recapture the leadership principles you learned from your favorite toys. Authors Ron Hunter and Michael E. Waddell take a nostalgic look back into their childhood toy boxes to revisit the valuable leadership and life lessons we all unintentionally learned during playtime. While these lessons started in fun, as adults, we’ve complicated the principles of leadership - cluttering them with popular trends and theories. Toy Box Leadership clears away the clutter and takes listeners back to the simple and essential roots of the most effective and unchanging leadership best practices. In this book, you will learn: what Lego bricks can teach you about building your business through connection; how Slinky Dog demonstrates the value of patience when you're growing your organization; what every kid learned from the Little Green Army Men that can be used in business strategy; and many more playful and insightful lessons. Whether you still feel young at heart or your childhood seems to be a distant memory, Toy Box Leadership will bring you back to the place where all important life lessons began to reinvigorate your ability to influence and lead others in the playground of life.

Author : Ed Catmull,Amy Wallace
Publisher : Random House
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593594650

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Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition) by Ed Catmull,Amy Wallace Pdf

The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture, and on all he learned during the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve. “Might be the most thoughtful management book ever.”—Fast Company For nearly thirty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner eighteen Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the twenty-five movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: • Give a good idea to a mediocre team and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. Creativity, Inc. has been significantly expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. It features a new introduction, two entirely new chapters, four new chapter postscripts, and changes and updates throughout. Pursuing excellence isn’t a one-off assignment but an ongoing, day-in, day-out, full-time job. And Creativity, Inc. explores how it is done.

Author : Kim Box
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1935953109

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Woven Leadership by Kim Box Pdf

Today's fast-paced business cycle demands a new approach to solving problems and moving forward. In a global world, you need employees who understand your customers and the competition. By including people of all races, ages, genders, skill sets and approaches, you multiply the resources available for any given project. However, in this inclusive new workplace you have to empower your diverse team with the candid information, support and permission to bring their authentic selves to the table in order to make the most of your collective creative energy. That is Woven Leadership and when embraced fully it is a powerful force to help any organization be successful today and tomorrow.

Author : Ron Hunter, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0892656557

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The DNA of D6: Building Blocks of Generational Discipleship by Ron Hunter, Jr. Pdf

Author : Chap Clark
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441227881

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Youth Ministry in the 21st Century (Youth, Family, and Culture) by Chap Clark Pdf

There are many philosophies and strategies that drive today's youth ministry. To most people, they are variations on a single goal: to make faithful disciples of young people. However, digging deeper into various programs, books, and concepts reveals substantive differences among approaches. Bestselling author Chap Clark is one of the leading voices in youth ministry today. In this multiview work, he brings together a diverse group of leaders to present major views on youth ministry. Chapters are written in essay/response fashion by Fernando Arzola, Greg Stier, Ron Hunter, Brian Cosby, and Chap Clark. As the contributors present their views and respond to each of the other views, they discuss their task and calling, giving readers the resources they need to develop their own approach to youth ministry. Offering a model of critical thinking and respectful dialogue, this volume provides a balanced, irenic approach to a topic with which every church wrestles.

Author : Jennifer Garvey Berger
Publisher : Stanford Briefs
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1503609014

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Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps by Jennifer Garvey Berger Pdf

Author and consultant Jennifer Garvey Berger has worked with all types of leaders - from top executives at Google to nonprofit directors who are trying to make a dent in social change. She hears a version of the same plea from every client in nearly every sector around the world: "I know that complexity and uncertainty are testing my instincts, but I don't know which to trust. Is there some way to know what to do when I can't know what's next?" Her newest work is an answer to this plea. Using her background in adult development, complexity theories, and leadership consultancy, Garvey Berger discerns five pernicious and pervasive "mind traps" to frame the book. These are: the desire for simple stories, our sense that we are right, our desire to get along with others in our group, our fixation with control, and our constant quest to protect and defend our egos. In addition to understanding why these natural impulses steer us wrong in a fast-moving world, leaders will get powerful questions and approaches that help them escape these patterns.

Author : George Kohlrieser,Susan Goldsworthy,Duncan Coombe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118361283

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Care to Dare by George Kohlrieser,Susan Goldsworthy,Duncan Coombe Pdf

Have you ever been led by someone who cared for you like family, and dared you to achieve more than you ever thought possible for yourself, your organization, and even society? Award-winning author of Hostage at the Table, George Kohlrieser, along with his co-authors Susan Goldsworthy and Duncan Coombe, explain how becoming a secure base leader releases extraordinary potential in others. Part of the Warren Bennis leadership series Care to Dare shows you how to become a Secure Base Leader so that you release your followers from the fears that get in the way of their performance. It shows you how you can unleash astonishing potential by building the trust, delivering the change, and inspiring the focus that underpins sustainable high performance. From extensive interviews with executives from all over the world, as well as from surveys with more than a thousand executives, the book reveals the nine characteristics that Secure Base Leaders display on a daily basis. The research shows that a primary difference between a successful leader and a failed leader is the presence or absence of secure bases in his or her life. Care to Dare will take you on a journey where you will discover your own secure bases, past and present, and determine how you can be a secure base for other people in your life at work and at home.

Author : Taylor Field
Publisher : New Hope Publishers (AL)
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1596693428

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Upside-Down Leadership by Taylor Field Pdf

Flip conventional ideas upside down, escape clichés on leadership, and see real leadership principles revealed right side up.

Author : Andrew Fox
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781640125377

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The Devil's Toy Box by Andrew Fox Pdf

A Promethean technology is one that allows someone of average resources, skills, and intelligence to carry out actions that were once only doable by governments, militaries, or institutions with considerable resources. Essentially, Promethean technologies allow users to create their own weapons of mass destruction. These emerging technologies are increasingly affordable and accessible—and are no more complicated to operate than a satellite TV control box or a smart phone. Although these technologies are a terrifying prospect, the more we know about these dangers, the better we can prepare to head them off. In The Devil’s Toy Box, Andrew Fox lays out seven decades of preemptive analysis and shows that while homeland security has explored, in depth, the possible Promethean threats the world faces, it has failed to forecast the most likely attacks. Using fictional scenarios Fox teaches how to predict future threats and how to forecast which ones are likely to be used by bad actors within the next five to ten years. Combining the skills of homeland security experts and the imaginations of speculative fiction writers, he then offers an analytical method to deter, counter, or abate these threats, rather than adopting an attitude of resigned fatalism.

Author : Vijay Govindarajan
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633690158

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The Three-Box Solution by Vijay Govindarajan Pdf

How to Innovate and Execute Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet the performance requirements of the existing business—one that is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it? Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader’s innovation tool kit with a simple and proven method for allocating the organization’s energy, time, and resources—in balanced measure—across what he calls “the three boxes”: • Box 1: The present—Manage the core business at peak profitability • Box 2: The past—Abandon ideas, practices, and attitudes that could inhibit innovation • Box 3: The future—Convert breakthrough ideas into new products and businesses The three-box framework makes leading innovation easier because it gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring these different sets of behaviors and activities across all levels of the organization. Supported with rich company examples—GE, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hasbro, IBM, United Rentals, and Tata Consultancy Services—and testimonies of leaders who have successfully used this framework, this book solves once and for all the practical dilemma of how to align an organization on the critical but competing demands of innovation.

Author : Hans Finzel
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1575675021

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Change is Like a Slinky by Hans Finzel Pdf

A practical guide to navigate change in today's organizational climate. Change or perish: this is a current motto for leaders in all types of organizations. But how does one adapt to such fast and furious change and effectively lead the organization through change intact and more effective? Hans Finzel provides a proven strategy in Change is Like a Slinky, exploring the six major phases in the cycle of change. As he says, 'Change is a lot like a Slinky... A slinky can be a lot of fun, but it is also completely unpredictable.' Instead of grudgingly wading through inevitable change, readers will find themselves equipped and fired up to tackle it head on.

Author : Seth Godin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780698409002

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Poke The Box by Seth Godin Pdf

"A one-two punch! Half kick in the ass, half cheerleading encouragement." —Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art If you are happy being just a dreamer, perhaps you don’t need this book. If you’re enjoying the status quo, don’t even consider reading this book. If you are content waiting for success to find you, please put this book down and go find something else to read. Why has Poke the Box become a cult classic? Because it’s a book that dares readers to do something they’re afraid of. It could be what you need, too. "Is Seth Godin the Pied Piper for however many of us have been afraid to fail? Will I answer his call? Will you?" —Peter Shermeta, reviewing the original edition of Poke the Box

Author : Michelle Cummings,Matthew Broda,Trevor Dunlap
Publisher : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792457847

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Teambuilding from the Toy Aisle by Michelle Cummings,Matthew Broda,Trevor Dunlap Pdf

Author : Tony Wall,John Knights
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749468613

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Leadership Assessment for Talent Development by Tony Wall,John Knights Pdf

For professionals responsible for talent management and development, assessing competence and capability is crucial, especially in relation to recruiting the right leader. Yet talent professionals can also use leadership assessment as a positive and powerful talent development tool. Leadership Assessment for Talent Development goes beyond recruitment to position assessment as a central, strategic activity. It demonstrates how to apply a connected process that accelerates behavioural change areas and facilitates the engagement and enabling of in-house talent. This practical, forward-looking book uses authentic, engaging case studies to show how the principles of leadership assessment can work in practice. It is an essential companion for HR and talent professionals in any field who want to equip their company with the talent it needs to be fit for business success.

Author : Richard Banfield,Martin Eriksson,Nate Walkingshaw
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781491960578

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Product Leadership by Richard Banfield,Martin Eriksson,Nate Walkingshaw Pdf

In today’s lightning-fast technology world, good product management is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage. Yet, managing human beings and navigating complex product roadmaps is no easy task, and it’s rare to find a product leader who can steward a digital product from concept to launch without a couple of major hiccups. Why do some product leaders succeed while others don’t? This insightful book presents interviews with nearly 100 leading product managers from all over the world. Authors Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, and Nate Walkingshaw draw on decades of experience in product design and development to capture the approaches, styles, insights, and techniques of successful product managers. If you want to understand what drives good product leaders, this book is an irreplaceable resource. In three parts, Product Leadership helps you explore: Themes and patterns of successful teams and their leaders, and ways to attain those characteristics Best approaches for guiding your product team through the startup, emerging, and enterprise stages of a company’s evolution Strategies and tactics for working with customers, agencies, partners, and external stakeholders