The Leadership Challenge is about how leaders get extraordinary things done in organizations. It is about the practices leaders use to turn challenging opportunities into remarkable successes. There are no shortages of challenging opportunities to radically alter the world in which we live and work.

Drawing from decades of research within world-class organizations, the authors show that great leaders-whether CEOs or managers, coaches or politicians-excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using Emotional Intelligence competencies like empathy and self-awareness.

This guide provides a blueprint for establishing a learning organization -- that is, one where people expand their capacity to create results and where new patterns of thinking are nurtured.

Never before have so many different generations worked shoulder to shoulder without seeing eye to eye. Intergenerational clashes threaten to reduce morale and make workplaces less productive in the future. This book offers eye-opening insights on the four generations--their values, talents, and troubles--and provides pragmatic guidelines.

The tools discussed in this book are just as applicable to making management decisions based on data as they are for the Black Belts and Knowledge Workers of the process. Lean Six Sigma is helping to vitalize many organizations by paying attention to the customer’s needs and providing processes with smaller amounts of variation to meet and even exceed those needs.

Begins with a look at the lives of a few famous people who've turned their inner passions and drives into successful careers. But they also share the stories of some more ordinary folks. These personal stories lead the authors into happiness and achievement at work.

Exercise the freedom to choose your attitude; Realize your will to meaning; Detect the meaning of life's moments; Don't work against yourself; Look at yourself from a distance; Shift your focus of attention; and Extend beyond yourself. By demonstrating how Dr. Frankl's key principles can be applied to all kinds of work situations.

Offers a fresh look at what it takes to excel. A Whole New Mind reveals the six essential aptitudes on which professional success and personal fulfillment now depend, and includes a series of hands-on exercises culled from experts around the world to help readers sharpen the necessary abilities. This book will change not only how we see the world but how we experience it as well.

Lean Six Sigma combines the two most important improvement trends of our time: making work better and faster. In this plain-English guide, you'll discover how this remarkable quality improvement method can give you the tools to identify and eliminate waste and quality problems in your own work area.

Without a strong grasp of performance metrics, a company can have no clear, quantitative indication of its quality improvement. Six Sigma Business Scorecard offers a unique approach to measuring performance. Readers will learn how to track their improvements in quality and profitability and make critical adjustments if such improvements are not up to expectations while implementing Six Sigma.

You know that great improvement initiatives abound. What you may not know is how to implement them effectively; get fast, dramatic improvement; and sustain those results for the long term. The next wave of performance excellence is here—the seamless integration of today's leading improvement methods. This integration builds upon the strengths and addresses the shortcomings of each discipline.