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Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring, unlikely, laugh-out-loud story of how one woman learned to lead-and how she ultimately succeeded, not despite her many mistakes, but because of them. This is the story of how Kristen Hadeed built Student Maid, a cleaning company where people are happy, loyal, productive, and empowered, even while they're mopping floors and scrubbing toilets. It's the story of how she went from being an almost comically inept leader to a sought-after...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With their first book, Extreme Ownership (2015), Jocko Willink and Leif Babin challenged readers to become better leaders, better followers, and better people in both their professional and personal lives. Now, Jocko and Leif dive deeper into finding balance between the opposing forces that pull every leader in different directions. Mastering the Dichotomy of Leadership requires understanding when to lead and when to follow; when to aggressively maneuver...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Imagine your advantage in negotiations, decision-making, and leadership if you could teach yourself to see, and evaluate, information that others overlook. The Power of Noticing provides the blueprint for accomplishing precisely that. Max Bazerman, an expert in the field of applied behavioral psychology, draws on three decades of research and his experience instructing Harvard Business School MBAs and corporate executives to teach you how to notice...
Author
Publisher
Optimism Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"How do great leaders thrive in uncertain times? By changing their mindsets about power. Why do some organizations grow and thrive with complexity, while others collapse under their own weight? The answer is simple, but transformative: When power is hoarded and lorded over others, it is finite. But when leaders allow power to flow among groups, it can grow indefinitely. While many have realized the limits of top-down hierarchy, "bottom-up" leadership...
Author
Series
Warriors super edition volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Leopardstar knows her destiny is to save RiverClan from destruction, so as the rise of ThunderClan deputy Tigerstar shatters peace among the clans, Leopardstar must decide what kind of leader she will be.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A leadership book by former Navy SEAL and New York Times bestselling author Mark Divine, focused on harnessing the principles of purpose and discipline in life to achieve success. What does it take to command a team of elite individuals? It requires a commitment to seven key principles: Courage, Trust, Respect, Growth, Excellence, Resiliency, and Alignment. All of these are present in an elite team which commits to them deeply in order to forge the...
Author
Series
TBH volume 6
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
TBH, sometimes boys say dumb things about girls. And Cece is sick of it! When she leads a super-successful event at school to raise awareness, everyone starts looking to her to take charge--of everything. Prianka needs ideas for National Poetry Month, Victoria wants advice on volunteer projects, and Gabby needs homework help. To be honest, being a leader is fun but the pressure is OOC (out of control)! Can Cece help her friends without totally losing...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The UFO enigma has been part of our culture since the 1940s and building to a worldwide explosion of acceptance today. Now, as governments around the world open their files and records on internal UFO investigations, the US remains steadfast in its denial of interest in the UFO issue. As more of the world's population accepts the possibility of an extraterrestrial presence, the demand is building for disclosure from the United States. Using newly...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Mike Hayes has lived a lifetime of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. He has been held at gunpoint and threatened with execution. He's jumped out of a building rigged to explode, helped amputate a teammate's leg, and made countless split-second life-and-death decisions. He's written countless emails to his family, telling them how much he loves them, just in case those were the last words of his they'd ever read. Outside of the SEALs, he's run meetings...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling as a college student, he met a young boy begging on the streets of India. When Braun asked the boy what he wanted most in the world, he simply answered, A pencil. This small request became the inspiration for Pencils of Promise, the organization Braun would leave a prestigious job at Bain...
16) Prisoners of the White House: the isolation of America's presidents and the crisis of leadership
Author
Publisher
Paradigm Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
One can scarcely imagine an environment outside the nation's penal system that is more isolating than the Executive Mansion, a habitat almost guaranteed to keep America's commander in chief far removed from everyday life. In fact, isolation is emerging as one of the most serious dilemmas facing the American presidency. This bubble of isolation is real, intense, hard to pierce, and hard to find your way out of. Walsh gets inside the bubble and punctures...
17) The great generals: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton, Marshall, Bradley, Pershing, Stilwell, Arnold
Series
Publisher
Allegro Corp
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The Great Generals provides a unique look at the men who led America's armies in the epic battles and conflicts of the 20th century. These are the stories of American Warriors-the lives they led, the victories they won, and the leadership they provided."--Container.
Author
Series
Trapped in Battle Royale volume 4
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Grey never expected his best friend, Finn, to end up trapped in Battle Royale as well, but now they both have to fight to get out. And there are only a few more weeks to do it. If Ben and Tristan hadn't left Grey's squad, he would have been a lot closer to the top five. But with the help of his new squad members, Grey is determined to climb back to the top. It won't be easy when Grey's old squad mates use his own tactics against him. He must use...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The High Command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War. President...
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