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  TOPGUN'S TOP 10 - Leadership...

  Guy M Snodgrass

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  Learn how to be a leader in your own life and career with expert advice from one of the Navy's elite TOPGUN instructors.During a twenty-year career in uniform, Guy Snodgrass became one of the most skilled fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy, commanding combat jets over some of the most dangerous war zones in the world -- and he did it all using the lessons he learned at the Navy's Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN).The real-life inspiration for the blockbuster films Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick, the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School trains the top one percent of our nation's fighter pilots. Over the course of twelve weeks, these pilots are drilled on aerial tactics, combat, and skills required to win in any organization. Ordinary people are transformed into world-class leaders. Pilots, like Commander Snodgrass, who remain on staff as TOPGUN instructors, are held to even higher and more demanding standards.In TOPGUN's Top 10, Commander Snodgrass distills some of the most important lessons he's learned and taught over the course of his career into a taut, engaging book for readers of all ages and experience levels. It's the perfect gift for anyone looking to change careers, excel in the workplace, or find their way in the world after college graduation. Smart, practical, and direct, Snodgrass's account of real TOPGUN experience will inspire a new generation of leaders.

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  Say It Out Loud - Using the...

  Vasavi Kumar

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  Use verbal prompts and practices to become the person you want to beWhen wellness star Vasavi Kumar suggests “saying it out loud,” she means it literally. Years of journaling in an attempt to learn about herself and meet her goals hadn’t worked, so she decided to talk to herself instead, out loud and with the compassion of a best friend. She used this technique as she journeyed through the challenges of being the daughter of Indian immigrants, a bipolar diagnosis, substance abuse, and recovery. Along the way, Vasavi learned that all the outside expert guidance in the world was no substitute for finding ways of tuning in to her truest inner self, hearing that self’s guidance and wisdom, and then living it with resilience and empathy. In Say It Out Loud, she gives simple verbal prompts to help you voice your deepest desires and reframe negative selftalk so you can heal from past experiences, go after your dreams, and become more intentional, focused, and compassionate.

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  The Power of Little Ideas - A...

  David Robertson, Kent Lineback

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  Conventional wisdom today says that to survive, companies must move beyond incremental, sustaining innovation and invest in some form of radical innovation. "Disrupt yourself or be disrupted!" is the relentless message company leaders hear. The Power of Little Ideas argues there's a "third way" that is neither sustaining nor disruptive. This low-risk, high-reward strategy is an approach to innovation that all company leaders should understand so that they recognize it when their competitors practice it, and apply it when it will give them a competitive advantage. This distinctive approach has three key elements: 
   - It consists of creating a family of complementary innovations around a product or service, all of which work together to make that product more appealing and competitive. - The complementary innovations work together as a system to carry out a single strategy or purpose. - Crucially, unlike disruptive or radical innovation, innovating around a key product does not change the central product in any fundamental way.  
  In this powerful, practical book, Wharton professor David Robertson illustrates how many well-known companies, including CarMax, GoPro, LEGO, Gatorade, Disney, USAA, Novo Nordisk, and many others, used this approach to stave off competitive threats and achieve great success. He outlines the organizational practices that unintentionally torpedo this approach to innovation in many companies and shows how organizations can overcome those challenges. Aimed at leaders seeking strategies for sustained innovation, and at the quickly growing numbers of managers involved with creating new products, The Power of Little Ideas provides a logical, organic, and enduring third way to innovate.

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  Grounded - How Leaders Stay...

  Bob Rosen

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  We are in the middle of a leadership crisis. CEOs are grappling  with an onslaught of forces  growth in their companies has  stalled, and productivity is flat. At the same time, they are  contending with a distrustful, cynical workforce along with their  own personal burnout. They are surrounded by volatility and  impermanence in everything from the economy to industry shifts.  Many are uncertain and ill-equipped to withstand these forces.  This book shows how great leaders are staying rooted and  aspiring to new heights by applying a unique model of leadership,  based on the idea that what makes a successful leader is who a  person is, not what he does. This new leadership is defined by the  Six Dimensions of Healthy Leadership: physical,  emotional, intellectual, social, vocational, and spiritual health.  Great execution begins inside a person; leaders need to step back  from their actions and begin to think about themselves as people.  They need to look inside themselves, into their values,  personalities and experiences, and commit themselves to being  healthy. Only then can they lead.  What makes Grounded unique is that it focuses on a deeply  human, personal approach to leadership, looking at leaders not as  icons or heroes but as real people with aspirations, fears,  concerns and emotions. The Six Dimensions model is illustrated by  interviews with dozens of leaders such as Dennis Nally, PWC  Chairman; Kay Koplovitz, CEO of USA Networks; Graham Allen of the  British Parliament; Tim Ryan, Ohio Congressman; Eric Schoomaker,  Surgeon General of the US Army; and Mike Puzziferri, Battalion  Chief of the New York Fire Department. This multifaceted approach  is also supported by the latest results of HCIs unique  Healthy Leader 360 Assessment, which was developed based on  hundreds of face-to-face interviews with executives around the  world. Above all, the authorsoffer inspiration and motivation.  Without glossing over the difficulty of readers leadership  challenges, they show that change, while difficult, can happen, and  give readers the insights and tools for revitalizing their personal  and work lives.

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  It's Okay to Manage Your Boss -...

  Bruce Tulgan

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  Most employees today answer to multiple bosses at any given time,  some directly, and others indirectly. Often employees are pulled in  different directions by competing authority figures with competing  interests, most of whom have the ability to help or to harm the  employee's daily work conditions, rewards, and longer term career  prospects. Employees are also working harder and facing increasing  pressure to work longer, smarter, faster, and better, while  adjusting to ongoing organizational changes working in smaller  teams with greater requirements. Meanwhile, their managers provide  much less guidance, direction, and support than their  direct-reports need in order to succeed in today's high-pressure  environment.   In this follow-up to the bestselling It's Okay to Be the  Boss, Bruce Tulgan shows that the number one factor in employee  productivity, work-quality, morale and retention is the  relationship between employees and their immediate managers.  Unfortunately, he argues, we have been focusing so much on the  skills and habits of the managers, that we have neglected the role  of the employee in these relationships.  In It's Okay to Manage Your Boss, Tulgan will first  explore the 10 myths about how one should be managed and how  to manage up that so-called experts and books have perpetuated over  the years. After exploring these myths, he will help readers take  responsibility for getting the following four essential things from  their boss(es) in order to succeed at their job:    Clearly spelled out and reasonable expectations (that is, clear  goals with specific guidelines and a concrete timetable to  accomplish them).  The skills, tools, and resources necessary to accomplish those  expectations, or else the acknowledgement that you are being asked  to achieve those expectations without the skills, tools, or  resources that you need.  Accurate and honest feedback about your performance as well as  course-correcting direction when necessary.  A fair quid pro quo--recognition and rewards--in exchange for  your performance.

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  Better Brand Health - Measures...

  Jenni Romaniuk

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  Jenni Romaniuk's latest book is about brand health tracking, one of the biggest (and most costly) sources of insights about brand performance and inputs into brand strategy that marketers engage in. But yet most trackers were designed pre–How Brands Grow, and so suffer from being not fit for purpose to provide insights to managers looking to grow their brands.Jenni has conducted R&D into brand health tracking for the past decade; much of this is published in a disparate range of academic marketing journals, and some of it is not published because it is more technical. Better Brand Health brings together that R&D with Jenni and the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute's background to help brand managers and researchers design an evidence based, useful brand health tracking research instrument and get the most out of the information to inform their recommendations and implications.

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