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Jon R. Katzenbach, Zia Khan

"An all-new exploration of the modern workplace, and how leaders and managers must embrace it for success. Katzenbach and Khan examine how two distinct factions together form the bigger picture for how organizations actually work: the more defined "formal" organization of a company-the management structure, performance metrics, and processes-and the "informal"--The culture, social networks, and ad hoc communities that spring up naturally and can accelerate or hinder how the organization works. With dynamic examples from enterprises around the world, this book takes a timeless organizational approach and creates a powerful paradigm-shifting tool set for applying it. Includes self-assessment guidelines for senior leaders, front-line managers, and individual contributors. Features organizations in business, government, the nonprofit sector, and academia-including the New York City schools system, Aetna, the Marines, United Nations, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Home Depot, Bell Canada, and the Houston Police Department. Leading Outside the Lines illustrates how leaders can make the two distinct factions work together to get the best of both."--Publisher description.

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Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton

Reveals how managers can increase their effectiveness through strategic communication, team-building, and goal-setting practices as exemplified by top executives from some of the world's most successful companies.

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Richard Babcock

John Lincoln, a 33-year old book editor in Chicago, dreams of joining the world of "real" writers and editors in New York. He needs a hot bestseller, and finds his salvation in Amy O'Malley, a recent Univ. of Chicago graduate who has worked on the school's famous sex survey. With Lincoln's prodding, Amy writes an erotic thriller. Her book opens doors for Lincoln but not in the way he imagined. This comic novel is about the hard work of understanding what it is you want out of life.

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Catherine Kaputa

""Whether you need a total career makeover or just a little refining around the edges, [Kaputa] will show you how to get ahead while staying true to yourself. Empowering, insightful, and fun to read."-Clinton Kelly, co-host, TLC's What Not to WearBy the author of the bestsellers You Are a Brand and Breakthrough Branding, an up-to-date guide for women who want to get ahead in the business world. Just as individual strengths are based on who we are as people, gender-based strengths for women are essential assets of the female brand. Out of this provocative and challenging assertion, Women Who Brand delivers the very latest in gender research into the female brain to debunk the notion that women have to play the male game to win.Catherine Kaputa is founder and president of SelfBrand, a brand strategy and business coaching company. A bestselling author and twenty-year veteran of branding and advertising on Madison Avenue, Wall Street, and in academia, Kaputa has been a marketing and advertising executive at well-known New York ad agencies, where she worked on the iconic I?NY campaign, as well as taught at the Stern School of Business, New York University. She has been featured on CNN, ABC, NBC, and MSNBC, in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, and Fortune, and was a "Cool Friend" on TomPeters.com"-- "Just as individual strengths are based on who we are as people, gender-based strengths for women are essential assets of the female brand. Out of this provocative and challenging assertion, Women Who Brand delivers the very latest in gender research into the female brain to debunk the notion that women have to play the male game to win"--