Best of
Leadership

1978

Hand Me Another Brick


Charles R. Swindoll - 1978
    The brilliant and uplifting new manual that enables you to experience moral vigor and spiritual fulfillment.You Too Can Learn How To:-Overcome discouragement-Relate to your boss-Get over jealousy-Handle money wisely-Practice the fine art of insightful thinking-Find and nurture your unique inner spirit-Develop self-control-Be aware of details without getting lost in them-Confess and accept your part in a problem-Prepare yourself for success

Structuring of Organizations


Henry Mintzberg - 1978
    A framework is developed enabling students to handle organizational problems. For use as a supplement in upper level Organizational Design courses in Management.

Don't Let Anybody Steal Your Dream


Dexter R. Yager Sr. - 1978
    He is "Mr. Motivation" to the 500,000 business people who come to hear him speak during an average year. To his critics, he is naive, simplistic, shallow, but to the millionaire businessmen, international bankers, and entertainment celebrities, who are among his devotees, he is one of a handful of motivators whose achievements are equal to his advice. When the subject is how to make money, you will hear men speak more eloquently and cleverly than Dexter Yager, but when it comes to having money, you will not be able to name many to match him. To use his own terminology, Yager is a "do-er."

The Big Walls: From the North Face of the Eiger to the South Face of Dhaulagiri


Reinhold Messner - 1978
    They are steep, exposed, extremely difficult to climb and lead up to some of the highest summits in the world. Messner knows them all; he was the first man to climb a dozen of them and the first to conquer all fourteen eight-thousanders.In his description of recent ascents, he pays tribute to the younger generation who have once more revealed new dimensions in climbing. Thanks to Messner's contact with many of these new, young mountaineers, the book covers the latest information and pictures of these amazing big walls and ones yet to be mastered.

How The Rural Poor Got Power: Narrative Of A Grass-Roots Organizer


Paul Wellstone - 1978
    Describes Wellstone's grassroots work with OBRC (Organization for a Better Rice Country) which helped poor people gain a political voice to get better health and welfare benefits.

Ten Thousand Working Days


Robert Schrank - 1978
    He serves as consultant to the New York City Mayor's Productivity Council, the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Department of Labor, other governmental bodies, and universities. So another academic specialist has written another book about the values and goals--or the lack of them, or their decline, or whatever--of working stiffs, about which he knows from nothing, right?Wrong. This particular academic specialist didn't get to college until he was over forty, and earned (the right word for a working man) his doctorate when he was in his fifties. For more than forty years--ten thousand working days--from the age of fourteen on, he has held down an astonishing variety of jobs that cover both a wide occupational range and just about every level, from the top to the bottom, in the organizational scheme of things. He has been a plumber, a city commissioner, a plant manager and engineer, an auto mechanic, an antipoverty program bureaucrat, a machinist, a union official, a coal miner, a foundation professional, a farmhand. Not in that order, but the point is that the experiences, commingling in the memory, all have an equal value in human terms. Always onward-and-upward, the American-Dream-come-true, is exactly not the point.Robert Schrank writes about each of these jobs in a personal, chronological, specific, narrative way, but always from a perspective that has been enlarged by the scope of his professional training and and commitments. His memories give his experiences uniqueness. His sociological insights lend them a kind of universality.But this author is his own best advocate: I was moved to write this book as a result of listening to and reading about what behavioral scientists, academics, and other literati had perceived at places of work. I felt that in the pursuit of psychology or sociology they had missed the humanity, the poetry, and the community of people that is created by the workers at their workplaces. I hope in this book to catch some of that sense of community, camaraderie, conflict, and humor.... I will be tempted from time to time to write in my present profession as a sociologist. But I will do my best to resist that in favor of trying to catch the language and the feel of the workplaces I am writing about. I will try to differentiate between the job and the actual work on tasks. The job I define as the container, the institution, or the structure in which a person performs something for which he or she gets paid. If we think about the job as a container, what interests me in this book is what goes on inside that container. This includes the work tasks, physical surroundings, the benefits, the amenities, and most important, the social milieu of the community.The author also brings critical acuteness and common sense to his examination of such issues as the quality of work (and of workmanship), work as a means of self-definition and personal fulfillment, and the point at which diminishing rewards--material and psychological--make the alternative of not working (or working at a minimal level of commitment) the preferred way of life.

Organizational Dynamics: Diagnosis and Intervention (Prentice Hall Organizational Development Series)


John P. Kotter - 1978
    Comprehensive and fully integrated, the book includes many different concepts, research findings, and competing philosophies and provides specific examples of how to use the information to improve organizational functioning.

Lives You Wished To Lead But Never Dared: A Series Of Stories


L. Ron Hubbard - 1978
    

The Character of a Christian Leader: Originally Titled the Six Wings of the Seraph


Bonaventure - 1978