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The Brain Advantage shows leaders how to become even more effective decision-makers, communicators, and change-agents. In short, readable chapters it combines the latest brain research with insights from psychological studies of how people think.

In A New Breed of Leader, Dr. Sheila Murray Bethel—global leadership expert, bestselling author, and award-winning speaker—will show readers how to develop the essential qualities needed to become an effective leader: Filled with stories about and interviews with successful leaders such as golf legend Arnold Palmer; Andrea Young, CEO Avon Corporation; Howard Schultz, CEO Starbucks; and David Neeleman, CEO JetBlue; this book offers valuable insights and teaches readers how to take advantage of the immediately usable action steps.

Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date reviews of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned chapters from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates, as well as a foundation for future research. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Part of the Oxford Library of Psychology , the Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work examines what positive psychology offers to our understanding of key issues in working life today.

The author of Bad Leadership introduces a new leadership model that considers the increasingly vital roles of followers in relation to their leaders, examining five different types of followers in terms of how they relate to their leaders as well as to each other, and assesses the influence of followers on the leaders.

True North shows how anyone who follows their internal compass can become an authentic leader. This leadership tour de force is based on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today’s top leaders—with some surprising results. In this important book, acclaimed former Medtronic CEO Bill George and coauthor Peter Sims share the wisdom of these outstanding leaders and describe how you can develop as an authentic leader. True North presents a concrete and comprehensive program for leadership success and shows how to create your own Personal Leadership Development Plan.

Used worldwide, this award-winning book has been revised to reflect many changes in nursing and health care. Targeted to students, practicing nurses, and those in management, this book helps all nurses acquire skills they need to be successful in today's dynamic health environment. FEATURES: NEW-added chapters on retention of nurses and workplace violence prevention NEW-expanded technology content, especially networking among information systems and linking clinical data with information systems NEW-expanded community and public health content NEW-Questions to Challenge You at the end of each chapter NEW-list of tools for using the skills presented in the chapter NEW-Case Studies with Manager's Checklist that show concepts in action