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Suggested in 2017 by Dmitry Bashakin, Expert on Soft and Management Skills, Project Management from Luxoft
1. Great Leaders Grow by Mark Miller, Ken Blanchard
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By the bestselling authors of The Secret (over 350,000 copies sold): the legendary Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller, a top executive at one of the most successful restaurant chains in the country Identifies the specific ways leaders must grow—on the job and off—to remain inspiring and effective Written for both established leaders looking to ensure their continued effectiveness and those who aspire to leadership Successful leaders don’t rest on their laurels. Leadership must be a living process, not a title on a business card, and life means growth. As Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller write in the introduction, “the path to increased influence, impact, and leadership effectiveness is paved with personal growth.… Our capacity to grow determines our capacity to lead. It’s really that simple.”
2. Learn How to Lead and Succeed (Collection) by Colleen Barrett, Ken Blanchard
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Once, there was a remarkable person who led with love. Her company succeeded where its competitors struggled. Its customers were loyal, its employees loved to work there, and it was profitable year after year, for decades. This loving leader began her career as an executive secretary, yet the company’s founder chose her to succeed him as president. When asked why, he said, “Because she knows how to love people to success.” She is Colleen Barrett, President Emeritus of Southwest Airlines. Lead with LUVis an extraordinary, wide-ranging conversation between Barrett and the legendary Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager. Drawing on personal experience, Barrett and Blanchard reveal why leading with love is the most powerful way to lead and how it can help you achieve truly amazing levels of performance.
3. How to Get People to Do Stuff: Master the art and science of persuasion and motivation by Susan Weinschenk
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We all want people to do stuff. Whether you want your customers to buy from you, vendors to give you a good deal, your employees to take more initiative, or your spouse to make dinner—a large amount of everyday is about getting the people around you to do stuff. Instead of using your usual tactics that sometimes work and sometimes don’t, what if you could harness the power of psychology and brain science to motivate people to do the stuff you want them to do - even getting people to want to do the stuff you want them to do.
4. How to Create and Deliver Great Presentations by Joel Comm / Felicia Slattery
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The easy hands-on video guide to preparing outstanding presentations: personal training from two of the world’s top presentation experts!
5. The Leader’s Guide to Negotiation by Simon Horton
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Negotiation is THE core business skill. It is fundamental to everything we do that involves other people, whether that’s asking for a raise, pitching an idea or deciding who gets the coffee. The Leader’s Guide to Negotiation is a highly practical guide to getting the most out of your business interactions, whilst building stronger relationships to boot. From achieving win-win outcomes to problem-solving and building trust, it equips you with failsafe strategies for conducting successful and positive negotiations.
6. Resolving Conflict: Ten Steps for Turning Negatives to Positives by Harold Scharlatt
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Conflict is inevitable, in everyday life and—especially in today’s increasingly non-hierarchical organizations—in the workplace. So what has always been a key leadership skill—conflict resolution—has become even more critical. But too often, leaders receive little formal training in conflict resolution, and they struggle just to manage the simplest interpersonal conflicts. By using the lessons of this book, readers will be able to apply a thorough, proven method—summarized in ten steps—for resolving conflicts. Following these steps, leaders can analyze a conflict and move toward its resolution with more assurance of a positive outcome for everyone involved.
7. Successful Time Management, 4th Edition by Patrick Forsyth
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Provides readers with effective ways to manage one’s schedule so as to maximize productivity at work and at home and is packed with exercises and action sheets and appendices.
8. Effective Communication and Soft Skills by Mamta Bhatnagar, Nitin Bhatnagar
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Effective Communication and Soft Skills provides a clear understanding of the attributes of good communication vis-a-vis soft skills and hard skills. It offers practice and assessment modules to sharpen learning, while covering all the four tenets of language learning (listening, speaking, reading and writing). It covers all essential topics for teachers and students of BCom, BBA and MBA and mass communications, as well as professionals in all industries and is a comprehensive resource for inter-personal communication in the professional world.
9. Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky’s Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent by Joel Spolsky
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The top software developers are ten times more productive than average developers. Ten times. You can’t afford not to hire them. But if you haven’t been reading Joel Spolsky’s books or blog, you probably don’t know how to find them and make them want to work for you. In this brief book, Joel reveals all his secrets—from his years at Microsoft, and as the co-founder of Fog Creek Software—for recruiting the best developers in the world. If you’ve ever wondered what you should be looking for in a resume, if you’ve ever struggled to decide whether to hire someone at the end of an interview, or if you’re wondering why you can’t find great programmers, stop everything and read this book.
10. Practical Guide to Performance Appraisals by Eve Ash
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Performance appraisal schemes have poor reputations, usually because they fail to assist managers and employees to achieve open communication and continuous development. However when performance planning is introduced, it provides greater benefits, including clear communication about expectations, an objective basis for reviewing performance and an opportunity for collaboration that can lead to enhanced employee commitment. Performance requires performance planning and ongoing reviews. Psychologists Eve Ash and Peter Quarry designed this series of videos as a way to ‘reinvent appraisals’ so they are productive and appreciated by staff and managers. It is aimed at executives and managers at all levels, team leaders and employees - anyone who participates in the process of performance management will benefit from this series of five videos.
11. How to Give and Receive Feedback by Eve Ash
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Everyone needs to be skilled to give and receive feedback about job performance, suggestions or ideas. This essential communication task is an integral part of life in today’s organizations. Yet few people are naturally good at this task and most never receive the opportunity to improve their skills. This video set is ideal for frontline employees, team members, supervisors, managers, even executives. The skills acquired will directly benefit anyone who is involved in the feedback process - those who give it and those who receive it. Developed by psychologists Eve Ash and Peter Quarry, these practical video chapters demonstrate basic principles for how to effectively give and receive feedback and provide specific behavioral skills for handling difficult feedback situations.
12. The Little Book of Big Decision Models by Dr. Jim McGrath
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Leaders and Managers want quick answers, quick ways to reach solutions, ways and means to access knowledge that won’t eat into their precious time and quick ideas that deliver a big result. The Little Book of Big Decision Models cuts through all the noise and gives managers access to the very best decision-making models that they need to to keep things moving forward. Every model is quick and easy to read and delivers the essential information and know-how quickly, efficiently and memorably.
13. Decision Making and Problem Solving, 3rd Edition by John Adair
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Leadership guru John Adair provides the techniques and insights you need to find solutions, spark creativity and confidently make the right decisions.
14. People Management for Entrepreneurs: Recruitment, Retention and Reward: An Instant Guide by Guy Rigby
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This eBook is about people management for entrepreneurs. The author of this instant guide from Harriman House, Guy Rigby, has also written From Vision to Exit, which is a complete entrepreneurs’ guide to setting up, running and passing on or selling a business.
15. Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators by Patrick Lencioni
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In the years following the publication of Patrick Lencioni’s best-seller The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, fans have been clamoring for more information on how to implement the ideas outlined in the book. In Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni offers more specific, practical guidance for overcoming the Five Dysfunctions-using tools, exercises, assessments, and real-world examples. He examines questions that all teams must ask themselves: Are we really a team? How are we currently performing? Are we prepared to invest the time and energy required to be a great team? Written concisely and to the point, this guide gives leaders, line managers, and consultants alike the tools they need to get their teams up and running quickly and effectively.
16. Goal Setting: How to Create an Action Plan and Achieve Your Goals, Second Edition by Michael S. Dobson, Susan B. Wilson
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The ultimate key to success is setting goals. This book makes you an expert.