Unleash Commitment, Initiative, and InnovationIn their decades of leading groups all over the world, Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff discovered they could get superior results by creating an unconventional approach to leadership. Leaders still need to get everyone aligned around the same goals. But to maximize energy, creativity, and productivity, they gain more by focusing on structure rather than behavior, enabling people to take responsibility and manage themselves.Lead ...

This practical guide details ten key principles that will profoundly change the way you think about, organize, and lead the meetings that matter most.Rather than trying to change anyone's behavior, Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff show you how to change the conditions under which people interact. By doing less, you help others do more.With examples from around the world, and practical tips and exercises in every chapter, Don't Just Do Something, Stand ...

Presents often contrarian insights into how to design meetings that actually accomplish something Filled with case examples and exercises Draws on the authors' decades of experience working with businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies worldwide This practical guide details ten key principles that will profoundly change the way you think about, organize, and lead the meetings that matter most. Rather than trying to change anyone's behavior, Weisbord and Janoff show you how to change...

Unleash Commitment, Initiative, and InnovationIn their decades of leading groups all over the world, Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff discovered they could get superior results by creating an unconventional approach to leadership. Leaders still need to get everyone aligned around the same goals. But to maximize energy, creativity, and productivity, they gain more by focusing on structure rather than behavior, enabling people to take responsibility and manage thems...

Leading experts Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff describe eight highly effective leadership skills that confound conventional views-you can be a more effective leader if you give up trying to change or control people.Leadership experts Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff make a bold claim: contrary to conventional management theory, you actually gain more control when you exert less pressure on those you lead-which also means less stress for you.Working with people all over ...

Everybody hates meetings. And why shouldn't they? Most meetings are poorly led, counter-productive, and time-wasting. Based on decades of practice and research, bestselling authors Weisbord and Janoff have come to the conclusion that most people lead meetings incorrectly. They, instead, propose ten contrarian principles that actually get things done.

The guide to approaching leadership in a rapidly changing world.When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context--whether in the private or the public sector--many will feel threatened as you push though major changes. But as a leader, you need to find a way to make it work.Ron Heifetz first defined this problem with his distinctive theory of adaptive leadership in Leader...

One of Library Journal's Top Ten Business Books of the Year: The essentials of managing, from "one of the most original minds in management" ( Fast Company).Winner, Chartered Management Institute's Management Book of the YearOne of Strategy+Business magazine's top three management books of the yearOne of the Toronto Globe and Mail 's top ten business books of the yearOne of

New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and changeContinuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increas...

The second edition of the essential guide, updated with new research and observations to help twenty-first century organizations create models for effective collaboration and teamwork.Collaborative skills have never been more important to a company’s success and these communication skills are essential for every worker today. Radical Collaboration is a how-to-manual for creating trusting, cooperative environments, and transforming groups into motivated and...

You can get anything in the world that you want, if you help somebody else get something they want. —Zig ZiglerWhether you are a parent, son/daughter, friend, employee, manager or salesperson, you are constantly influencing others to accept you, your ideas, products or services. Those who masterfully present themselves and their ideas in a win-win manner, get ahead. Those who do not, may reap short-term gains and eventually fail in their objective.Influence is critical in l...

"This should be required reading by every school administator, every teacher, every board member and all university faculty involved in the training of teachers. There is no doubt that we need to squeeze all blame, all coerion and all criticism out of any people-related business. Not until we realize that schools are in a people business will we ever be able to make meaningful changes."--Dr. Albert Mamary, former superintendent of schools, Johnson City, New York