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Building Effective Teams (Leading from the Center)

1 review
Duke Corporate Education

Kaplan Business, 2005

Use middle managers to build strong teams.
Two words - middle management - often provide the punch line for comic strips and business jokes. But many people misunderstand the role of middle managers. When they work as team leaders, middle tier executives can dramatically improve a company's competitive performance. In clear language, this book from Duke Corporation Education outlines a solid case for using middle managers as team leaders. ...

Changing Roles: Avoiding the Transition Traps (Leading from the Center)
Duke Corporate Education

Kaplan Business, 2006

Translating Strategy into Action (Leading from the Center)

2 reviews
Duke Corporate Education

Kaplan Business, 2005

Well written and an easy and quick read
An excellent read for middle managers and anyone who would like to learn or understand what processes are needed to take an idea and turn it into a working model.

Influencing and Collaborating for Results (Leading from the Center)

2 reviews
Duke Corporate Education

Kaplan Business, 2005

The wait is finally over
The new series from Duke CE is a must have. Managers will find Influencing and Collaborating for Results an indispensable guide for motivating and team building. It is a small book that will produce big results.

Coaching and Feedback for Performance (Leading from the Center)

1 review
Duke Corporate Education

Kaplan Business, 2006

Small but focused manual on helping employees improve
The Duke Corporate Education team has produced a compact guide that defines coaching in the workplace and explains how your organization can begin to implement it. We recommend this guide to anyone responsible for ensuring that other people produce results. Potential coaches include corporate managers and leaders at all levels, entrepreneurs, small business owners, and nonprofit managers and ...

Inspiring Other (Leading from the Center): What Really Motivates People (Leading from the Center)
Duke Corporate Education

Kaplan Business, 2006

Discovering Creative Solutions to Everyday Challenges (Leading from the Center)
Duke Corporate Education

Kaplan Business, 2006

There?s no doubt that innovation drives organizational growth, boosts profits, and enables companies to beat their competition. Yet even the best managers are not always able to advance novel ideas that result in practical solutions. Drawing on the in-depth research of Duke CE, Discovering Creative Solutions to Everyday Challenges provides leaders with a framework to guide innovation in their organizations. Each chapter highlights a critical ...

Staying Focused on Goals and Priorities (Leading from the Center)
Duke Corporate Education

Kaplan Business, 2006

The rapid pace and complexity of business have put increased stress on leaders to perform. What?s more, the flow of demands never stops, and the work often seems to be spinning out of control. In this challenging business climate, the most successful managers are those able to adopt a two-pronged approach: building their own capabilities while leveraging those of their employees. Staying Focused on Goals and Priorities gives managers all the ...