The one primer you need to develop your leadership skills.
Put aside all the overhyped new frameworks, the listicles, the "10 best things you need to succeed as a leader today." The critical leadership practices--the ones that will allow a leader to make the biggest impact over time--are well established. They're about how you create a vision and inspire others to follow it. How you make difficult strategic choices. How you lead innovation. How you get results. These fundamental skills are even more important today as organizations and teams become increasingly networked, virtual, agile, fast-moving, and socially conscious.
In this comprehensive handbook, strategy and change experts Ron Ashkenas and Brook Manville distill proven ideas and frameworks about leadership from Harvard Business Review, interviews with senior executives, and their own experience in the field--all to help rising leaders stand out and have a big impact.
In the HBR Leader's Handbook you'll find:
Concise explanations of proven leadership frameworks from Harvard Business Review contributors such as Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Porter
In-depth case studies of senior leaders such as Jim Wolfensohn at the World Bank, Paula Kerger at PBS, Darren Walker at the Ford Foundation, and Jim Smith at Thomson Reuters
Step-by-step guidance to help you understand and start implementing six core leadership practices: building a unifying vision, developing a strategy, getting great people on board, focusing on results, innovating for the future, and leading yourself
HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, real-life stories, and concise explanations of research published in Harvard Business Review, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack--whatever your role.
Описание: Get Flipped: Using Learning Technology to Engage Student Learning gives instructors ideas about general apps, forms of technology, and technological resources they can use to create assignments that get students excited about what they are learning.The book introduces ways to use video logging as a writing tool. It explains how to use popular sites and apps, such as Pinterest and Instagram, as tools for viewing a community, and examines how Myfitnesspal can be used to explore intersectionality in the social sciences. Each exercise has been developed to enhance critical thinking, information selection, and concept application. In addition, the book features three expanded assignments from special contributors which can be used in more involved projects.In a world where technology is an increasingly important aspect of life and education, the applications and activities will resonate with educators and students alike. All ideas and exercises can easily be adapted to different disciplines, topics, and levels. Get Flipped is an excellent resource for any teacher who wants to implement the most current technology to foster student engagement.
Описание: This book prompts readers to make their own meaning by considering a series of questions. Abundant examples and case studies from the frontlines of school change provide inspiration and ideas you can adopt or adapt for your context. Discussion prompts are included to promote and provoke conversations—both inside and outside school—with everyone who has a stake in student success (including students themselves). Working together, through collaborative inquiry and hard conversations, you will arrive at your best answers for how schools should adapt for your context and your children. This four-part framework, based on insights from those at the leading edge of change, will help readers navigate the journey ahead: (1) The Why: To help a community reimagine school, effective leaders must first build common understanding about why change is necessary. (2) The How: Moving from vision to reality requires practical considerations. For example, stakeholders with diverse backgrounds bring a wealth of experiences and perspectives to shape the future of education. To collaborate effectively, however, they need to speak the same language. (3) The What-ifs: Only on paper do plans unfold without any push-back or detours. Leaders who maintain momentum and overcome resistance to “what ifs” and “yeah buts” share their troubleshooting strategies in this section, preparing readers to anticipate challenges and be more effective change managers. (4) The Future Story: School leaders who are taking courageous steps to reinvent education understand the power of story. A superintendent who regularly tweets out examples of powerful student learning or a principal who blogs about school-business partnerships helps to build public understanding of 21st century learning. Keeping change efforts from backsliding requires ongoing communication, effective storytelling, and optimism about the future. This book will walk readers through these four critical stages, helping communities mobilize around the shifts that students deserve. Compelling examples from schools on the leading edge of change will inspire readers to embark on the challenging work ahead. The book is intended to be a practical action guide, taking readers from talking about the future of learning to realizing their community’s vision.
The heart is the life force within each of us. It's the organ that keeps you alive with every contraction and pulse. Leaders are the life force of every team. Just as the heart pulses our nutrient-rich blood to each organ in the body, leaders push out encouragement, direction, correction, energy, growth, and influence to the team.
And just like the automatic beat of the heart, leaders can make these pulses of leadership second-nature if they learn to recognize and choose them.
Now more than ever, how leaders handle each pulse can empower or weaken leadership, engage or disengage teams, and positively or negatively impact an entire organization.
Dawn S. Kirk shares her proven six Pulses of Heartbeat Leadership to empower leaders:
Priorities: The Purpose of Leadership. Your priorities give you the gift of clarity and position your team to win. If priorities aren't crystal clear, you may find your ladder leaning against the wrong building and all you do will be in vain.
Preparation: The Energy of Leadership. Preparation is critical if you want to close the gap between where you are now and where you want or need to be. Only then can you start to move.
People: The Power of Leadership. People are your competitive advantage. Ensure you have the right people in the right seats, and commit to investing in them to achieve shared results.
Processes: The Drivers of Leadership. Processes are the drivers that simplify leadership. When put into place early, they enable you to measure success and mark consistent wins.
Performance: The Metrics of Leadership. Without measurable targets, it's impossible to know if you are succeeding. Performance metrics give you a system to measure, adjust, and repeat with laser-like focus.
Promotion: The Growth of Leadership. Promotion is the catalyst that helps your leadership grow. It is a delicate balance of humility and pride that shares your individual and your team's success with the organization.
When leaders embrace the Six Pulses and put them to work, the results are nothing short of amazing.
The heart is the life force within each of us. It's the organ that keeps you alive with every contraction and pulse. Leaders are the life force of every team. Just as the heart pulses our nutrient-rich blood to each organ in the body, leaders push out encouragement, direction, correction, energy, growth, and influence to the team.
And just like the automatic beat of the heart, leaders can make these pulses of leadership second-nature if they learn to recognize and choose them.
Now more than ever, how leaders handle each pulse can empower or weaken leadership, engage or disengage teams, and positively or negatively impact an entire organization.
Dawn S. Kirk shares her proven six Pulses of Heartbeat Leadership to empower leaders:
Priorities: The Purpose of Leadership. Your priorities give you the gift of clarity and position your team to win. If priorities aren't crystal clear, you may find your ladder leaning against the wrong building and all you do will be in vain.
Preparation: The Energy of Leadership. Preparation is critical if you want to close the gap between where you are now and where you want or need to be. Only then can you start to move.
People: The Power of Leadership. People are your competitive advantage. Ensure you have the right people in the right seats, and commit to investing in them to achieve shared results.
Processes: The Drivers of Leadership. Processes are the drivers that simplify leadership. When put into place early, they enable you to measure success and mark consistent wins.
Performance: The Metrics of Leadership. Without measurable targets, it's impossible to know if you are succeeding. Performance metrics give you a system to measure, adjust, and repeat with laser-like focus.
Promotion: The Growth of Leadership. Promotion is the catalyst that helps your leadership grow. It is a delicate balance of humility and pride that shares your individual and your team's success with the organization.
When leaders embrace the Six Pulses and put them to work, the results are nothing short of amazing.
Описание: The dark secrets of the World Health Organization (WHO) are hiding behind a respectable fa ade and the words of noble principles. This is where the WHO Administration and its top management perpetually collude in the suppression of employee's rights. Bullying and fraud is among the preferred tools, personally carried out or endorsed over a ten your period by the WHO Director General, Margaret Chan. I am a former member of the WHO administration with 15 years of professional experience as a human resources expert in four organizations under the UN Umbrella and 10 years of litigations in front of the ILO Administrative Tribunal in Geneva. I have witnessed abuse of employees in all of the Organizations I worked for but will in this account focus on the worst offender among them: WHO, the world's leading expert on health, hereunder occupational health. WHO is now celebrating its 70 years anniversary and is welcoming a new Director General. Let this be the year where transparency and accountability is finally introduced in the World Health Organization, a normative organization, very apt at telling others what to do but unwilling to practice what it preaches. Never before have the internal practices of a UN System administration been exposed in such detailed, frank and fully evidence manner. I can assure you that whether an outsiders to the UN System or an experienced veteran insiders, - you are in for a big surprise.
Описание: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This is the story of al-Haq, leading from the front in Palestine and internationally. Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian human rights organization and one of the first such organizations in the Arab world. This inside history explores how al-Haq initiated methodologies in law and practice that were ahead of their time and to which can be traced the origins of many strands of human rights work in Palestine and elsewhere today. It looks at the founders of this internationally recognized organization, its staffers, its work, and its legacy. Al-Haq's history answers important questions, such as: Why would one set up a human rights organization under military occupation? How would one go about promoting the rule of law in a Palestinian society deleteriously served by the law and with every reason to distrust those charged with implementing its protections? How would one go about educating overseas allies and activating international law in defense of Palestinian rights? This revelatory story speaks to the practice of local human rights organizations and their impact on international groups.
Описание: Can your students encode critical information into their long-term memories? To meet rigorous standards, students need to be able to retrieve critical information and comprehend key features of the content. They must be able to authentically engage with content so they can effectively process the learning and store it for future use. Processing New Information: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Engage With Content explores explicit techniques for mastering this crucial strategy of instructional practice. It includes adaptations for various student populations, examples and nonexamples from classroom practice, and strategies to avoid making common mistakes.
