Leadership Myth

The best leaders are born, not made. The best leaders are always in control. The best leaders are those with the highest IQs. But are they really? The thinking surrounding what makes the greatest leaders is increasingly muddled by stereotypes, snake oil promises and pseudo-science. The best leaders rely on fact, not fads. Myths of Leadership blasts away the fluff and confronts false legends head on. Jo Owen uses the most credible research to analyze each myth, using international business case studies, leadership theory and insightful interviews, to uncover the truth.

Brought to you by Penguin. What if charisma could be taught? What you'll find here is practical magic: unique knowledge, drawn from a variety of sciences, revealing what charisma really is and how it works. You'll get both the insights and the techniques you need to apply this knowledge. The...

From one of the world's preeminent political historians, comes a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama. Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders', dominant individual wielders of power, are the most successful and admirable. Within authoritarian regimes, a collective leadership is a lesser evil compared with a personal dictatorship.

From Inc.com's most popular columnist, a counterintuitive--but highly practical--guide to finding and maintaining the motivation to achieve great things. It's comforting to imagine that superstars in their fields were just born better equipped than the rest of us. When a co-worker loses 20...

Beyond the E-Myth embraces the fundamental premise of that first book - that a small business only succeeds to the degree its owner goes to work on the business rather than just in it, creating the systemic operating system that makes that business unique in the marketplace.

يمكنك قراءة هذا الكتاب بأي ترتيب تريده. يمكنك أن تتصفحه على فترات، أو أن تبدأ قراءته من البداية وحتى النهاية، أو أن تبدأ من النهاية ثم تقرأه بعكس الترتيب. يمكنك قراءته كله مرة واحدة، أو أن تقرأ منه فصلًا واحدًا كل يوم قبل أن تبدأ العمل. الهدف من هذا الكتاب هو شحذ الأفكار بشأن طبيعة القيادة بشكل عام، وكيف تستطيع القيادة بصورة أفضل. وإذا جعلك هذا الشحذ للأفكار تضحك أو تلعن الكتاب، فلا بأس بذلك. ولا يدعي الكتاب أن لديه إجابة حاسمة بشأن القيادة، لأنه لا توجد أي إجابة حاسمة فيما يتعلق بالقيادة.

Leading a real estate business can seem like a daunting task, with too few hours in the day, too many petty management issues, and problems real estate agents in large businesses don't seem to face. The E-Myth Real Estate Agent offers you a road map to create a business that's self-sucient, growing, and highly profitable. Take your company to levels you didn't think possible with this unique guide!

Running a successful architectural firm is a juggling act. You need expertise in your area of architecture to provide services to clients. You also need the know-how to run a small business. You've probably been well prepared by your education and experience for the technical ins and outs of an architecture firm. Yet what training has prepared you to run a business? The E-Myth Architect fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for either starting a successful firm from scratch or maximizing an existing firm's performance.

Douglas Kruger, best-selling author of Is Your Thinking Keeping You Poor? and Poverty Proof, returns with his hardest-hitting book yet. This take-no-prisoners exploration of how money works will challenge you on everything you think you know while arming you with economically sound principles for growing your prosperity. No holds are barred when it comes to discussing how governments keep people poor, and which deeply held belief systems promote poverty.

This story delves into the responsibilities, trials, and sacrifices that come with kingship, exploring the journey of life and death of a ruler.

A successful optometry practice is a juggling act. You need to know your field of optometry, as well as how to run a small business. Your education has prepared you for the technical ins and outs of optometry practice. But what has prepared you to run a business? The E-Myth Optometrist fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for starting a successful practice from scratch or maximizing an existing practice’s performance.

This book is two things: the product of my lifelong work conceiving, developing, and growing the E-Myth way into a business model that has been applied to every imaginable kind of company in the world, as well as a product of Tony's extraordinary experience and success in applying the E-Myth to the development of his equally extraordinary enterprise, Super Lawn Technologies, Inc.

Is it really true that working longer hours makes you more successful? Do you really need to hide your emotions in order to gain respect as a manager? Does higher pay really always lead to higher performance? The world of management is blighted by fads, fiction and falsehoods. In Myths of Management, Cary Cooper and Stefan Stern take you on an entertaining journey through the most famous myths surrounding the much-written about topic of management. They debunk false assumptions, inject truth into over-simplifications and tackle damaging habits head-on.

Bloomsbury presents The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle by Richard Vinen, read by Charles Armstrong. 'Deeply researched yet highly readable, with fresh and often provocative insights' DAVID REYNOLDS 'A vivid and shrewd reckoning ... setting its assessment in the perspective of today's...

'Game-changing ... Read it!' - Mariana Mazzucato In a world of epic, overlapping crises, Stephanie Kelton is an indispensable source of moral clarity ... the truths that she teaches about money, debt, and deficits give us the tools we desperately need to build a safe future for all. Read it -...

Yet what training has prepared you to run a business? E-Myth Real Insurance Store fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for either starting a successful business from scratch or maximizing an existing business’ performance. Loaded with practical, powerful advice you can easily use, this one-stop guide helps you realize all the benefits that come with a thriving insurance business.

Running a successful real estate brokerage firm is a juggling act. You need expertise in your practice area to provide services to clients. You also need the know-how to run a small business. You've probably been well prepared by your education or experience for the technical ins and outs of operating a real estate brokerage. Yet what training has prepared you to run a business? The E-Myth Real Estate Brokerage fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for either starting a real estate company from scratch or maximizing an existing company's performance.

لدى مؤلفي هذا الكتاب الكثير من الخبرات في الحياة. فنحن الاثنان نملك معًا حوالي سبعة عقود من الخبرة في الدراسة والتفكير في العمل وكيفية إنجازه. لقد جربنا الصالح والطالح من الرؤساء، وتقلدنا المسئولية أحيانًا أيضًا. لقد مررنا بنفس الخبرات. لهذا السبب نحن نستطيع أن نعلن بثقة، منذ البداية، أنه لا توجد مطلقًا أفكار جديدة في هذا الكتاب.

كتاب خرافات الاستراتيجية هو النتاج النهائي لعشر سنوات من العمل. على عكس العديد من كتب الاستراتيجية الأخرى، فهو لا يعكس آراء أو معتقدات لا أساس لها من الصحة. بدلًا من ذلك، فهو يرتكز على نتائج (أفضل) الأبحاث. لقد تم تأليفه بناءً على أكثر من 150 مقالة وكتابًا أكاديميًا، تم تقليصها من القائمة الأصلية التي يبلغ طولها 10 أضعاف ذلك.

Become a better salesperson by learning to debunk the sales myths and focus your strategy on a proven approach that will drive the results you want. Can succeeding in sales be as simple as hooking up the latest CRM tool or perfecting your social media profiles and waiting for qualified leads to...