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  Strengths Finder 2.0: A New & Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths

  by Tom Rath

  DO YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY? Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your... (more)
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  A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

  by J. Kevin Sheehan

  A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)
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  Learning to Lead: The Art of Transforming Managers into Leaders (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)

  by Jay Alden Conger

  Learn the art of transforming managers into leaders. Author shares his undercover experiences in five of the nation's most popular leadership programs to offer readers personal insights into the role training plays in leadership development. DLC: Leadership.
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  The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their Employees, Retain Talent, and Drive Performance

  by Adrian Robert Gostick, Chester Elton

  LEAD WITH CARROTS, NOT STICKS The Carrot Principle reveals the groundbreaking results of one of the most in-depth management studies ever undertaken, showing definitively that the most successful managers provide their employees with frequent and effective recognition. Drawing on case studies from leading companies including Disney, DHL, KPMG and Pepsi Bottling Group, bestselling authors Gostick and Elton show... (more)
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  Beyond the Learning Organization

  by Jerry W. Gilley

  The next step in organizational development, showing companies how to integrate all areas of human resource practice to drive continuous learning. Beyond the Learning Organization will help executives, managers, and human resource professionals put the concepts of the "developmental organization" into practice. Experts in the field of human resource and organizational development, Jerry W. Gilley and... (more)
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  Developing the Leader Within You (Maxwell, John C.)

  by John C. Maxwell

  In this repackaged bestseller John Maxwell examines the differences between leadership styles, outlines principles for inspiring, motivating, and influencing others. These principles can be used in any organization to foster integrity and self-discipline and bring a positive change. Developing the Leader Within You also allows readers to examine how to be effective in the highest calling of leadership by... (more)
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  Developing the Leader Within You Workbook

  by John C. Maxwell

  In the Developing the Leader Within You Workbook , John Maxwell examines the differences between leadership styles, outlines specific ways each reader can apply principles for inspiring, motivating, and influencing others. These principles can be used in any organization to foster integrity and self-discipline and bring a positive change. Developing the Leader Within You Workbook also allows readers to... (more)
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  Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

  by Happy Traum

  Books 1, 2, 3, and 4 all brought together in one complete volume.
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  The Dynamics of Taking Charge

  by John J. Gabarro

  This hardcover edition is available only in a premium, full-cloth binding. It will not ship with a dust jacket. Through studies of actual cases of manager succession, Gabarro isolates those factors that cause managers to succeed or fail in new positions, including prior experiences and support from superiors, and the steps involved in mastering the situation.