The Pfeiffer book of successful leadership development tools

"The Pfeiffer book of successful leadership development tools is organized into three sections: Presentations and discussions (articles); Experiential learning activities; and Inventories, questionnaires, and surveys. These selections represent the all-time best the Pfeiffer Annuals and Handboo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gordon, Jack
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, Calif. Pfeiffer 2007
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Leadership history: searching the past for insight / Frank A. Prince
  • Management perspectives: identifying styles / Patrick Doyle
  • Organizations and systems
  • MACE: demonstrating factors that affect performance / Stephen Dakin and Russell Robb
  • Organizational structures: a simulation / Rudi E. Weber
  • There's never time to do it right: a relay task / Russell J. Denz
  • The flip-it company: exploring the impact of work quotas / James L. Costigan
  • The robotics decision: solving strategic problems / Charles H. Smith
  • Reviewing objectives and strategies: a planning task for managers / Cyril R. Mill
  • Skill building
  • Feedback awareness: skill building for supervisors / Robert William Lucas
  • Delegation: using time and resources effectively / Michael N. O'Malley and Catherine M.T. Lombardozzi
  • Constructive discipline: following organizational guidelines / Allen J. Schuh
  • Vice president's in-basket: a management activity / Annette N. Shelby
  • Presentation and discussion resources
  • Leadership is in the eye of the follower / James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
  • Leadership as persuasion and adaptation / Julia T. Wood
  • Leadership from the gestalt perspective / H.B. Karp
  • An overview of ten management and organizational theorists / Marshall Sashkin
  • McGregor's theory X-theory Y model / Albert J. Robinson
  • Impact at ground zero: where theory meets practice / Patrick Doyle and C.R. Tindal
  • A model for the executive management of transformational change / Richard Beckhard
  • Visionary's disease and the CEO / George M. Smart, Jr.
  • 2: Experiential learning activities
  • Style and approach
  • Choose me: developing power within a group / Larry Porter
  • Successful leadership traits: reaching consensus / Robert Alan Black
  • Motivation: a feedback activity / Donald F. Michalak
  • Management skills: assessing personal performance / Carol J. Levin
  • Under pressure: managing time effectively / Glenn H. Varney
  • Interviewing gathering pertinent information / Kenneth L. Murrell
  • Meeting management: coping with dysfunctional behaviors / Patrick Doyle and C.R. Tindal
  • 3: Inventories, questionnaires, and surveys
  • Strategic leadership styles instrument / Gaylord Reagan
  • The supervisory and leadership beliefs questionnaire / T. Venkateswara Rao
  • Motivational analysis of organizations
  • behavior (MAO-B) / Udai Pareek
  • Motivational analysis of organizations
  • climate (MAO-C) / UDAI Pareek
  • Managerial work-values scale / T. Venkateswara Rao
  • Patterns of effective supervisory behavior / Henry P. Sims, Jr.
  • The leadership dimensions survey / Gerald V. Miller
  • Includes bibliographical references