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Entries Tagged as 'Books'

5 Points for Leaders on Change

July 16th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Leaders know how to change.
1. Everything and everyone changes. We get older, we start a family, we have kids, and our kids have kids. It’s the same with an organization. The economy changes, technology changes, personnel change, and the organization changes.
2. Change can be beneficial, but change can also be detrimental. That’s why it is [...]

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Tags: Books · Change · Leadership

Black Like Me

May 19th, 2007 · No Comments

A course of a different color – the story of a white man immersed in a black man’s world in 1959:
John Howard Griffin authored a compelling, true story that grips the mind of everyone willing to hope and dream of a better world and a better America. Knowing full well the potential for evil found rooted in [...]

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Tags: Books · John Howard Griffin · Leadership · Martin Luther King

What is the Difference Between Leadership and Management?

May 9th, 2007 · 9 Comments

I have often heard the terms used interchangeably, but there is a difference. Beside the definitions of the terms, there is a real, practical, and meaningful differentiation.
Management is planning and organizing projects and operations, allocating resources to minimize costs and maximize benefits, directing practices and procedures, establishing controls to measure the effectiveness and efficiencies, and [...]

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Tags: Books · Leadership · Leadership vs Management · Management · Stephen Covey