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    <![CDATA[Effective Communication: The Most Important Management Tool of All (Effective Series)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Professor John Adair not only helps you improve your natural capacities, he also looks at such derivations as: presentations, giving and receiving criticism, communicating and participating in meetings, communications between departments, and much more.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Inspiring Leadership: Learning from Great Leaders]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this stimulating and rewarding book, leadership guru John Adair asks who are the great leaders in history and what can they teach about the nature and practice of leadership? Asking to what degree true leadership can be identified and developed, this book explores the characteristics and achievements of leaders as diverse as Lao Tzu, Machiavelli, Margaret Thatcher, and Nelson Mandela. The thematic structure illustrates different facets of leadership, and examples are interwoven to provide better understanding. The concept of leadership through knowledge is illustrated by Socrates; the servant-leader by Lao Tzu; George Washington is the gentleman leader; charisma is characterized by Lawrence of Arabia; and Margaret Thatcher is the example used for women as leaders. The different styles of leadership of Abraham Lincoln, Charles de Gaulle, Adolf Hitler, and Mahatma Gandhi are also explored, along with the cardinal skills of inspiring, communicating, and decision making. Also included are topic reviews, key concept summaries, and discussion questions.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Leadership Skills]]>
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    <![CDATA[Leadership for Innovation: How to Organize Team Creativity and Harvest Ideas]]>
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    <![CDATA[Innovate or stagnate: that is the stark challenge facing all businesses today. Creating an innovative climate is essential for positive organizational change, and this demands leaders who can bring about this change. John Adair looks at the links between leadership, creativity, and change. He explores every aspect of this vital business topic in his classic style. This new book will help leaders of all types meet the challenges of innovation and achieve profitable growth through team creativity. Using case studies of Google, Honda, and 3M, Adair covers topics such as the characteristics of innovators, organizing for team creativity, expectations of creative people, creative leadership, managing the criticism of ideas, harvesting ideas, and overcoming resistance to change.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Not Bosses But Leaders: How to Lead the Way to Success]]>
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    <![CDATA[This pioneering work from leadership guru John Adair has transformed the understanding of how leadership works and how executives can become business leaders. It can genuinely be called a &quot;classic,&quot; and has now been translated into 14 languages. Presented as a dialogue with a young business executive who is soon to become a strategic leader, Not Bosses But Leaders offers guidance on exactly what is needed to become a leader. Each fundamental aspect of leadership is exposed and explained in a concise, lucid way.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Effective Leadership Development]]>
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    <![CDATA[A collection of over 40 practical learning exercises designed to facilitate the development of core leadership skills.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Art of Creative Thinking: How to Be Innovative and Develop Great Ideas]]>
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    <![CDATA[New ideas help businesses gain an advantage over their rivals. Employees who generate these new ideas -- who practice the art of creative thinking -- are one of a company's greatest assets. The Art of Creative Thinking shows the reader practical ways of becoming a more creative thinker. Each succinct chapter is built around one core idea which is then developed and illustrated. End-of-chapter key points summarize the main points. The Art of Creative Thinking shows you how to: develop your understanding of the creative process; overcome barriers to creating new ideas; broaden your vision; build on new ideas; develop a creative attitude; become more confident as a creative thinker.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Concise Adair on Creativity and Innovation]]>
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    <![CDATA[This book describes in detail how to recruit the right people, recognizing the key characteristics of innovators and how to organize and use them to achieve the best effect.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Leadership and Motivation: The Fifty-Fifty Rule and the Eight Key Principles of Motivating Others]]>
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    <![CDATA[What motivates people is an important consideration for captains of industry, commerce, and the public sector -- in fact anyone in a position of leadership. Leadership and Motivation explores the subject in depth. Leadership guru John Adair reassesses the theories of Herzberg and Maslow -- still the major contributors to our understanding of motivation -- in the context of Action-Centered Leadership, the concept pioneered and developed by the author.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Puritans (Sutton History Handbooks)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Did the Puritans, as they left England for the New World seeking religious freedom, have any idea that their influence would still be felt today?  This stimulating book traces their emergence early in the reign of Elizabeth 1; the spectrum of their religious and political beliefs; and their creed of purity and asceticism in the name of Christ that found many followers at all levels of English society.  The author explores the fear that their radical ideas engendered in the reigning Church and government, and the frustration at the failure of their aims at home that led them finally on their brave course across the ocean to America.  He contends that their fierce morality and sense of independence became a major force in shaping the American character, and that it is these two traits that are still distinctly part of the culture that we export abroad.]]>
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