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9 Books For Leading People & Teams
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Leadership of people and teams is the most important part of running a business. One must adapt for the changing landscape of competition and new personalities and cultures within the team itself. The following is a comprehensive list of books to cover all aspects of leadership. Some books focus on how to communicate others on how to motivate. Any leader would be well served to read one or all of these books.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Drive
$14.99
How to incentivize staff properly. What can be done to improve performance by simply using the right motivator? This books teaches you the answer to this question and gives actionable ideas to implement.
SHOP NOWA book about motivation and the keys to successfully inspiring team members to enthusiastically work towards the company’s goal. Through explanations of intrinsic and extrinsic motivators the book proves that the old way of motivation, carrot and stick, does not work.
This leadership book is very important to initiate change in incentive processes and answering the question of: how can I get my team more motivated?
Leaders need to be able to inspire and evolve their strategies to manage the team. Learn how intrinsic motivation is the optimal strategy for achieving your desired end. As well as why extrinsic rewards (otherwise known as contingent) can ruin the culture and process of creating greatness in an organization.
The author also shares the importance of autonomy. Even shares the four essential components to autonomy: tasks, time, technique and team.
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High Output Management
$13.49
This is a must read for startups, growing and established businesses. The teachings of a legendary leader are timeless and game changing.
SHOP NOWManagers are not judged based on their individual contribution necessarily. We gauge their success and impact on the production from the team they supervise and lead. Middle managers are the people who are usually overlooked as important and impactful, but in fact they are just the opposite. These people influence everything from culture to learning, to communication and they can make or break your business. This book discusses how to motivate and help these managers put a system in place to level up their activities that generate an increased yield and overall better efficiencies.
Through a step-by-step guide, you will learn training for mid managers to plan ahead in order to get the outcome you’re looking for. With an output-oriented focus when managing you can leverage what's measured to improve production. All this is only possible through training staff specifically for their needs. Hands off management is different from micro management.
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
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GRIT
$13.63
Passion & Perseverance are the keys to success! Learn what it takes to succeed in life as a child, parent, business person and athlete.
SHOP NOWA timeless classic that many people believe is one of the best books on succeeding, but the author speaks in great detail about leading, teams, goal setting, and parenting. In order to succeed as a team we must understand what the group is headed towards. This book will help you define that for yourself.
Many of the most talented people do not work hard enough to realize what they are capable of. If they do, these same people do not work long enough. One needs the desire and determination to succeed over a long period of time to achieve greatness. Even if blessed with natural talent. That is not enough to achieve greatness.
Learn to set goals for yourself the right way. Find out what you’re truly interested in. Discover why you’re so quick to dismiss people that are “better” than you quicker. This book provides example after example of individuals without natural talent being winning over the more talented competition simply due to hard work.
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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Nudge
$14.49
Find out how very small changes to people's environment can achieve the desired reaction. This can be more effective than direct requests if used properly. Read to find out how.
SHOP NOWLeadership does not have to be command and control. Softening the way changes are made can be just as effective and if done properly, not even noticed. This book introduces the idea of using small changes to the environment leading to achieving the desired action. Uncommon ideas about how to get what you want will inspire your imagination.
In one example the author shares a true story of placing a fly sticker in a urinal decreasing spillage by 80%. Another story explains a teacher's difficulty in getting high school students to show up to class on time. Placing a couch at the front of the room made that the “cool” place to sit and suddenly students were showing up early in hopes of snagging a spot on the couch.
Imagine making a small contactless change in your environment that can cause a dramatic change you seek. This book will inspire you to ideate and make a nudge of your own.
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Developing Leaders: Why Traditional Leadership Training Misses the Mark
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Developing Leaders
$17.95
The key to keeping employees engaged is training managers properly. Learn why cookie cutter training is ineffective and how to customize your training to your needs.
SHOP NOWTraining managers is not something that can be done one in a one size fits all way. Each company and team within have unique people and problems. Cultural interpretations alone stand to create massive miscommunication. The goal, according to the author, is to create unique and problem/solution based training for mid-managers. Especially considering these are normally the people most neglected as far as training goes.
The goal for all this customized training is to improve employee engagement. That is typically the number one issue at any company, so an actionable book to solve that problem is a massive value add for any leadership team. This is not a theoretical book either. There are specific strategies and tactics that you can deploy to get your managers and team members more focused, enthusiastic and productive. All of this in turn reduces churn.
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Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences
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Flex
$25.89
Lear about a power gap that creates distance between people in the workplace of different cultures or ages and even genders. Being flexible in your management style will make communication more effective with staff & clients.
SHOP NOWThere is a power gap in every business. Those who have cultural authority and those who do not. There cultural differences can push towards a social gap and leadership needs to avoid this in the workplace so it doe not create a power gap. The main focuses for discussion in this book includes gender, age, and culture.
It is important today that managers close these gaps by more adaptive leadership. Behavior should leverage differences rather than reacting and reinforcing barriers. Often this is unintended, and awareness can improve that. This all will dramatically improve communication company wide.
To build an amazing and successful company one must managers need to establish trust. Yet, cultures throughout the world build trust differently. Ignorance leads to miscommunication which lead to misinterpretations of the way that different cultures show respect.
Flex management style teaches how to be a more fluent leader and bridge these gaps with peers, staff, and even supervisors. This includes learning to put aside personal judgements and any assumptions.
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Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
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Team of Teams
$14.90
A book about bringing a team together. Finding success through slow methodical actions that are well received. Opening up lines of communication. Building a business that is able to adapt and more.
SHOP NOWBuilding a team that can adapt to change is more important than ever. Efficiency is good, but even efficient teams can fall behind on the times. To manage change you need a strategy to approach it. This starts with high quality communication. The role of a strong team leader is that of a gardener tending to plants and making small nudges that lead to better growth. Micromanaging in today’s work is a recipe for disaster.
Using failure as a time for change is highly recommended. Showcasing what went wrong and how to avoid it in the future seems very reasonable. If you take advice from this book you’ll have a more open flow of information and be able to adapt feedback from failures without emotions being a problem.
This book will give you actionable steps to avoid micromanaging, improve employee moral, and company communication. Basically a more understanding and actively improving company.
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Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United
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Leading
$17.49
Legendary coach Alex Ferguson shares his secrets to managing challenging people in a difficult role and succeeding. With his suggestions you too can get your team to perform better and be happier in their work.
SHOP NOWLeading professional sports teams is perhaps one of the highest stakes and more publicly critical positions in the world today. Any leader who can sustain employment and succeed is credible and proven. Strategies vary, but success is objective. Alex Ferguson shares his strategies and stories of successfully managing some of the most prolific and egotistical athletes ever.
This legendary British soccer coach provides specific actions he took throughout his illustrious career leading Manchester United. Topics include managing failure and gaining from it. Failure is inevitable and Alex argues that it is healthy. He credits his success to his failures. He provides invaluable tactics for managing individuals as well as the whole. How unique each person must be treated as well as the entire organization.
He’s wise words extend to avoid fear of the competition, when and why to bring in new members to the organization, and even how to speak to the team concisely so as to keep attention.
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The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team
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The 6 Types of Working Genius
$22.50
A new book that will transform the way you see yourself, your teammates, and even your family. After completing a 10-minute assessment, you will discover the types of work you find fulfilling. You will also learn the types of work that are most likely to result in burnout.
SHOP NOWFrom Patrick Lencioni, the author of “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,” comes a new book that will transform the way you see yourself, your teammates, and even your family. After completing a 10-minute assessment, you will discover the types of work you find fulfilling. You will also learn the types of work that are most likely to result in burnout.
Identifying your ideal working style is only the first step in this journey. As you read “The 6 Types of Working Genius,” you will begin to understand how each of the six types fits together to create a cohesive and productive team. Reading this book with your team, company, or family not only helps everyone understand where they fit but also learn to appreciate each member’s unique gifts.
To avoid the pitfalls of drier self-help books, “The 6 Types of Working Genius” is written in Lencioni’s trademark engaging narrative format. As the main character, Bull Brooks discovers the six types of working genius, you will too.
Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
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Radical Candor
$23.16
This is a book about being a better leader and communicator. Straightforward talk is a huge benefit. The author shares that discussing problems and concerns can not only improve job satisfaction, but also performance.
SHOP NOWThis is a book about being a better leader and communicator. American culture can be more polite than helpful sometimes, where as Russian culture pride honesty very high. Straightforward talk is a huge benefit. The author shares that discussing problems and concerns can not only improve job satisfaction, but also performance.
In an example provided is the story of one staff member who was doing a poor job for a long period of time at his job, rather than stating this clearly the manager just told him it was fine and corrected all the mistakes. When this person was eventually let go due to the poor performance, he rightfully said: why didn’t anyone tell me. Not everyone has the same narrative and the book makes the case that the benefits of getting on the same page outweigh any disadvantages.
There are sections that also discuss the importance of managers to connect with their team. Knowing if someone’s mother is sick and discussing it IS the job of a manager. It can’t all be about work. Candor is most effective if there is a more connected emotional side to it as well.
These and more lessons, examples and anecdotes are included is this amazingly unique and insightful book about being honest.
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