Ready to sharpen your leadership skills and achieve effective change? Use these research-based pointers to indentify resistance, alter ineffective views and discover key elements for lasting transformation. And, see how the methods work in actual organizations.

Are you an introvert in leadership? Find out how you can leverage your strengths and manage your weaknesses to become an effective leader. Noting that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are both highly successful introverts, Kahnweiler offers four, very practical steps that anyone can use in work situations such as public speaking, heading up projects, managing up and building relationships.

This practical, enjoyable guide will give a shot in the arm to any manager who knows what it's like to lose a valuable contributor. Learn to better hear, understand, link, mentor, motivate, reward and celebrate the employees your organization cannot afford to lose.

Leaders cannot afford to give mixed messages, or fail to reach people on essential issues. These entertaining stories and useful exercises will help you craft memorable messages for advertising, presentation and more, using six principles: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions and stories.

For all the talk of worsening corporate ethics, there are many, many companies that are improving their social responsibility. Making Money While Making a Difference describes some of these companies, and offers business people a step-by-step way to both increase their contribution to the public good and improve their bottom line. This clear, engaging guide to profit-nonprofit partnerships covers choosing a cause, choosing a nonprofit partner, developing a campaign, setting goals, getting employees on board, budgeting, publicizing and evaluating the program.

In this concise and accessible guide, Mintzberg describes how superior management looks in a wide variety of fields, from business to nonprofits to the public sector. He explores micromanaging vs. macroleading, the folklore that really informs how things get done, and the reasons managers spend too much of their time putting out fires instead of running a balanced, tight ship.

University of Michigan Business School's Weick and Sutcliffe use real life examples to describe high reliability organizations (HROs). HROs perform flawlessly a majority of the time despite their high risk work, such as aerospace, nuclear warfare and nuclear power. Learn key strategies that can improve performance in any organization.

Enhance your leadership skills by exploring this evidence-based approach to great leadership. The authors focus on the behavior of followers to guide leaders in developing an effective management style. Topics include loyalty, discretionary effort, motivation, creating momentum, commitment, adding meaning to the employee's work and much more.

Why do people do foolish things in the face of compelling evidence against that course of action? Tavris and Aronson use numerous examples and draw on years of research to explain the reasons. They also discuss ways you can ensure that decisions are based on verifiable facts rather than on a wished-for reality.

Daniels explodes myths about behavior in the workplace, including management practices that just don't work. Isn't it time to stop reinforcing the wrong behaviors in your organization? Try these management strategies that have actually been proven, through research, to work.

A renowned leadership expert shows you the nuts and bolts of the very difficult job of changing the culture of your organization. Use these practical tools and methods to fully understand the problem, and make that change you know is needed.

Prepare your organization for major gifts! This book is for directors, board members, financial officers, development officers and major donors who care about their social service organization. It helps them understand the crucial role that planned gifts play in the organization's financial future, and learn how to manage major donations. Get new ideas for developing an effective planned giving program, educate your stakeholders, and build donor legacies that everyone can feel good about.

Are you a social or environmental entrepreneur? Do you use methods and serve people in ways that the business world has traditionally considered a waste of resources? Elkington and Hartigan describe the methods of some visionary entrepreneurs, and how their successes are transforming the commercial world. Learn how to become one of these mission-driven leaders and develop an "unreasonable" organization of your own.

How well do you detect the meaning of life's moments, shift your focus of attention and extend beyond yourself? Pattakos helps you apply Viktor Frankl's life-infusing philosophy to workplace challenges with examples and thought-provoking exercises.