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 The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to GreatnessLeadership has not kept up with the changes going on in the world. From board rooms to classrooms, leadership is being challenged on a daily basis yet no new leadership model has been given. In this new, important work, bestselling author Stephen R. Covey offers ideas of how leadership roles have changed and how one can take on the roles of the new leader. Dr. Covey introduces the 4 roles of the new leader--modeling, pathfinding, aligning and empowering--and how those qualities can change you and your organization.  Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don'tJim Collins begins this book with a startling and counterintuitive claim: ''Good is the enemy of great.'' We've become so conditioned to think of performance as something that develops along evolutionary lines -- from poor to good to outstanding -- that it takes a minute to grasp the notion that competence can actually inhibit achievement. As Collins says, ''The vast majority of companies never become great, precisely because the vast majority become quite good -- and that is their main problem.''  Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things RightThe ''executioners'' are back. Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, the straight shooters who brought us Execution, now offer a cut-to-the-core approach to creating or re-creating an enterprise in our rapidly changing business environment. Restructuring, cutting costs, and developing marketing programs are sensible quick fixes, they say; but to get your company squarely on track, you have to get back to basics. Their bottom-line questions make this book an empowering guide for any CEO, entrepreneur, or midlevel manager.  The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership FableThis informative book focuses on the problems and conflicts that often prevent teams from working together to achieve their stated goals. As he has done in works such as The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, Lencioni couches his insights in narrative form: This time, he focuses on a fictional high-tech Silicon Valley start-up that has much potential but is burden by executives whose egos seem to be constantly clashing.  Now, Discover Your Strengths: How to Develop Your Talents and Those of the People You ManageChances are that if someone approached you and asked for an honest list of your weaknesses and failings, you'd be able to oblige them without too much difficulty. But could you describe your strengths as easily? As Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton point out, we've all been so programmed to identify, analyze, and overcome our faults that we've done relatively little to nurture our native talents, even though success is typically won by tapping into those talents and turning them into real-world strengths.  First, Break All The Rules: What The World's Greatest Managers Do DifferentlyMany business books begin by articulating a set of all-encompassing rules that the reader is expected to internalize in order to become successful in his or her profession. Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman take a radically different approach in this bestselling guide to improving managerial performance. Instead of having us squeeze ourselves into prefabricated roles, the authors encourage us to develop individual styles based on our own innate talents and competencies -- and they back up their recommendations with data gathered during the course of more than 80,000 interviews with managers in almost every conceivable industry.  The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All LevelsWritten by noted leadership transition expert Michael Watkins, The First 90 Days outlines proven strategies that will dramatically shorten the time it takes to reach what Watkins calls the ''breakeven point'': the point at which your organization needs you as much as you need the job. Based on three years of research into leadership transitions at all levels and hands-on work designing transition programs for top companies.  Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things DoneAfter a long, stellar career with General Electric, Larry Bossidy transformed AlliedSignal into one of the world's most admired companies and was named CEO of the year in 1998 by Chief Executive magazine. Accomplishments such as 31 consecutive quarters of earnings-per-share growth of 13 percent or more didn't just happen; they resulted from the consistent practice of the discipline of execution: understanding how to link together people, strategy, and operations, the three core processes of every business.  One Minute ManagerTo help facilitate the critical process of communicating objectives and structuring the corporate environment, Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson have written this bestselling guide to saying what needs be said as effectively as possible. By following the clear, accessible advice that the authors provide, you'll be able to take a minute to dispense praise or reprimands, set goals, and do much of the human work upon which management depends. An inspiration to thousands of leaders, this is a business book that should be read and reread as often as possible.  Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your LifeThe ''Cheese'' (with a capital ''C'') referred to in the title is simply a metaphor for whatever it is that we desire most in life -- recognition, acceptance, money, relationships, possessions, freedom, or anything, tangible or intangible, that becomes invested with desire. The problem with the world, of course, is that the Cheese is portable, leaving Johnson's characters -- two mice (Sniff and Scurry) and two ''littlepeople'' (Hem and Haw) -- to navigate a mazelike world in a somewhat desperate search for fulfillment and satisfaction.  Successful Manager's Handbook: Develop Yourself, Coach OthersManaging will never be easy, but it doesn't need to be so hard. The new edition of the Successful Managers Handbook can help its like having a management consultant at your side to provide advice on the challenges you'll face in today's fast-paced work environment. Since it was first published in 1984, the Successful Managers Handbook has proven to be a trusted resource for thousands of managers around the world. In fact, more than 800,000 copies are in circulation! It provides practical, easy-to-use tips, on-the-job activities, and suggestions for improving managerial skills and effectiveness.  The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful GrowthIn his worldwide bestseller The Innovator's Dilemma, Christensen explained how industry leaders get blindsided by disruptive innovations precisely because they focus too closely on their most profitable customers and businesses. The Innovator's Solution shows how companies get to the side of this dilemma, creating disruptions rather than being destroyed by them. Drawing on years of in-depth research and illustrated by company examples across many industries, Christensen and Raynor argue that innovation can be a predictable process that delivers sustainable, profitable growth.  Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance OrganizationTeams are the key to improving performance in all kinds of organizations. Yet today's business leaders consistently overlook opportunities to exploit their potential, confusing teams with teamwork, empowerment, or participative management. In The Wisdom of Teams, consultants argue that we cannot meet the challenges ahead-from total quality to customer service to innovation-without teams. The Wisdom of Teams includes dozens of stories and case examples involving real people and situations. Their accomplishments, insights, and enthusiasm are eloquent testament to the power of teams.  The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team WantsFrom schoolrooms to boardrooms, the word teamwork is becoming more and more important. Organizations of all types accomplish more when people work together. But ultimately, a team is simply a collection of individuals. The challenge for each individual -- each team member -- is to become the kind of person who can maximize his or her contribution and push the team forward to fulfill its mission. The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player can help you meet that challenge by helping you develop into a true team player.  LeadershipWriting in his familiar voice -- a New Yorker's bluntness, leavened by his passion for ideas -- Rudolph Giuliani demonstrates in Leadership how the leadership skills he practices can be employed successfully by anyone who has to run anything. After all, until the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center pushed him into an unwanted role in history, Giuliani was only months away from leaving office with a reputation as one of the most effective mayors New York had ever seen.  Developing The Leader Within YouIn this repackaged bestseller John Maxwell examines the differences between leadership styles, outlines principles for inspiring, motivating, and influencing others. These principles can be used in any organization to foster integrity and self-discipline and bring a positive change. Developing the Leader Within You also allows readers to examine how to be effective in the highest calling of leadership by understanding the five characteristics that set ''leader managers'' apart from ''run-of-the-mill managers.''  Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the BoxCurrent organizational theory finds itself in the same situation that medicine faced a century and a half ago. In those days, doctors didn't understand how a single disease could lie below the surface of a range of different symptoms, and they had no conception of how germs cause disease. As a result, they could only treat symptoms. Leadership and Self-Deception shows how business, like people, can be afflicted by "disease" - in this case self-deception, the major culprit in corporate failure. The book explains how leaders can escape self-deception and put to use the skills, systems, and techniques that will bring success to themselves and their organizations.  Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional IntelligenceUnveiling neuroscientific links between organizational success or failure and "primal leadership," the authors argue that a leader's emotions are contagious. If a leader resonates energy and enthusiasm, an organization thrives; if a leader spreads negativity and dissonance, it flounders. This breakthrough concept charges leaders with driving emotions in the right direction to have a positive impact on earnings or strategy. The authors show that resonant leaders excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using EI competencies like empathy and self-awareness.  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