Want to build your organizational culture around highly competent leadership and better outcomes? A highly successful leader in the field of health care, Studer provides extensive guidelines for the management and employee behaviors and relationships you'll need. 

What leader dares to start a meeting with 20 minutes of silence? Find out how the occasional "circle of silence" and "circle of compliments" will do more for your team than the best equipment, plans, products and services. James Autry's servant leadership ideas lead to more sincerity, compassion and results!

The white hat is neutral and objective. The red hat represents the emotional view and black is the devil's advocate. This book is a uniquely positive and practical guide to making decisions and exploring new ideas. Author Edward de Bono is an international authority on conceptual thinking.

A practical guide for inspiration and solutions. The authors identify problems and offer their ideas for solving them based on their work with major companies like IBM, Sony, Nike and Hewlett-Packard. Unstuck is a map that leads teams from zero to energized.

Could your agency use an additional revenue source to help weather fluctuations in funding or to plan for growth? This book offers a time-tested approach to social enterprise that will help your organization find, test, and launch a successful nonprofit business venture. The author's 20 years of experience as a venture manager and consultant for nonprofit organziations form a basis for this seven-step process that any organization can use to create a solid business plan.

Leaders have opportunities every day to foster innovation-in hiring, planning, motivating, and so on. Armed with a few weird ideas, they can challenge conventional wisdom and encourage employees to be creative and promote their innovative ideas.

Do your coworkers drive you crazy? Learn creative and growth-enhancing ways to deal with a wide range of distressing behaviors. Take steps to detect, detach, depersonalize, deal and unhook physically, mentally and verbally.

Keeping employees motivated and on task is the cornerstone of all management. Learn ideas for mastering issues like flex time, computers, telecommuting, stress and safety. This updated version is based on feedback from 30,000 managers.