Books - Leadership

Roger Pearman, author of the dynamic Hard Wired Leadership, gives us another powerful tool for business in the new millennium. By linking type and leadership behaviors, this guide provides practical suggestions for executives, managers, and supervisors who want to increase their effectiveness in motivating others, improve productivity and job satisfaction, and refine awareness of their leadership style while discovering self-imposed barriers to development.

This monumental book presents a dynamic look at human behavior that gets to the very heart of leadership. Based on his firsthand experience working with leaders and managers around the world, and on the field research of the Center for Creative Leadership, Pearman brings us a new way of thinking about leadership. Hard Wired Leadership offers readers the tools and step-by-step guidance they need to evaluate their strengths, identify their blind spots, and plan a course of action for mastering the leadership competencies of the twenty-first century.

This booklet, authored by OKA's consulting director, connects the framework of psychological type with the activities and processes of project management. The booklet includes an introduction to type and key project management terms and processes, a section connecting type to project management from a diagnostic and intervention perspective, an overview of 16 “project types,” and five case studies. This booklet is a great supplement for a type workshop with a project team, or as an independent resource for project managers continuing to deepen their leadership expertise.

This book provides vivid and practical guidance for human resource consultants and managers. Numerous case studies show their rich observations of type behavior, and prescriptions for developing the leadership potential in all the types is compelling reading.

What is leadership. . .and who is a leader? Leadership is practiced every day in big and small ways - it's a matter of personal insights and inspiration as much as practical day-to-day accomplishment, and this is the book that can initiate and nurture leadership in educators at all levels. A one-of-a-kind guidebook for administrators and teachers, Leading Every Day offers inspiration and opportunities for reflection in a unique and accessible new way. Each chapter is divided into thirty-one days in a powerful fourfold "daybook" format.

Part novel, part workbook, Light Bulbs for Leaders is brimming with insights, ideas, tools, and step-by-step guidelines all packaged in a down-to-earth, easy-to-digest form. Packed with checklists, exercises, charts, and other visual aids, this handbook helps you master the skills you need to overcome impasses in the team learning process and to achieve ever higher levels of team performance and productivity.

In this groundbreaking first book, authors Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen introduce the principles of Typewatching® and give readers a new way to understand themselves and others. Based on the theories of psychologist Carl Jung, Type Talk has become required reading for anyone interested in learning about personality type and how it affects daily life.

Bestselling authors Kroeger, Thuesen and Rutledge make it easy to recognize your type and those of your co-workers in Type Talk at Work, a revolutionary guide to understanding your workplace and thriving in it. Revised and updated for its 10th anniversary, this popular classic now features a new chapter on leadership. Get the most out of your employees-and employers-using the authors' renowned typological expertise. With Type Talk at Work, you'll never look at the office the same way again!