The Effective Board

The Effective Board offers best practice advice for directors on how to be successful as individuals while also ensuring board success as a whole, covering essential topics such as governance, leadership, values and ethics.

The Effective Board is a best practice guide for improving your personal effectiveness and that of the board on which you serve - whether it’s for a FTSE company, a small business, a public sector body or a board of trustees. Using case studies and research from the Institute of Directors it provides you with useful insights into the workings of an effective board and the real importance and benefits of good governance.

With particular reference to small businesses, the Not-for-Profit sector, and ethics and values, The Effective Board will help you to review and improve your own performance, and respond to the governance challenges in your organization.

From the Bureau to the Boardroom

30 Management Lessons from the FBI

Discover the art of being a courageous and vigilant leader from some of our most fearless agents.

When it comes to motivating and inspiring employees, there is no better or tougher model than the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In its one hundred-year fight against the ever-changing tactics of organized crime and terrorism, the FBI has learned invaluable lessons about powerful leadership and management. Like many companies, the FBI must succeed on a global playing field with limited resources; it must deal with unforeseen challenges and long-term strategic threats. Former Marine Dan Carrison has had unprecedented access to the inner workings of the FBI. Here he offers an insider’s look at the Bureau, taking readers behind the scenes of some of the FBI’s most important missions—from infiltrating a world-wide drug cartel to closing in on a terrorist cell. Managers will learn how to: cultivate an “All for One, One for All” corporate culture • create a Ten-Most-Want­ed customer list • maintain a sense of readiness, and think on their feet • deploy task force management • and more

Instructive and exciting, From the Bureau to the Boardroom will show all leaders how to win in the marketplace and stay true to core values, no matter how tense or challenging the situation.

Leading the Charge:

Leadership Lessons From The Battlefield To The Boardroom.

Leading the Charge is an insightful, highly useful guide to meeting the challenges in today’s world.

Gen. ret Tony Zinni, USMC, has been one of this reviewer’s personal heroes since the early 1990s when Zinni served in U. S. European Command (EUCOM) headquarters in Germany and this reviewer was Chief of Russia Branch on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon, a position that required frequent coordination with EUCOM on U. S. government policy issues regarding the 15 former Soviet republics that had become independent nations after the USSR’s collapse in December 1991. Gen. Zinni was always an unshakable voice of reason and stability during a particularly trying and often confusing time. He was – and remains – a “leader’s leader” and a “Marine’s Marine,” a bastion of common sense and an inspirational leader of character and insight. A former commander in chief of U. S. Central Command (CENTCOM), 1997-2000, Zinni was U. S. Special Envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and serves as a board member of several corporations. Gen. Zinni has extensive leadership experience at the highest levels of military, diplomatic and business worlds. In short, he is the perfect choice to write this book about how military, diplomatic and business leaders must adapt and how they can thrive while meeting the unprecedented challenges of the 21^st century.

An outspoken critic of what he sees as political, military and business leadership that has failed the country in the years following the end of the Cold War, Zinni characteristically pulls no punches when he asks, “Where were our leaders?” when the United States slipped from its previous position as the world’s most respected power. Although critics of U. S. leadership abound today, Zinni sets himself apart from the howling pack of detractors in the “chattering classes” by actually prescribing in Leading the Charge what political, military and business leaders can do about it to win back public confidence, remedy the ailing economy, and restore America’s world standing. In fourteen insightful chapters, Zinni does just that, laying out how leaders not only can meet the prodigious challenges of the still-unsettled post-Cold War world, but how they can lead their organizations to thrive in such an environment.

Zinni sees opportunity in a world beset by chaos, advising:

“Provide the vision and direction that makes your organization a success. Create a sense of ownership for all those who are part of the success. Be visible, accountable, and in charge in times of crisis and change for your enterprise. Master time and technology – don’t let them drive or control you. … We need leaders who see [the challenges of today’s strange new world as] opportunities. Be one of them.”

Gen. Zinni’s co-author, Tony Koltz, is an inspired choice for this project. Koltz is an experienced writer who co-authored Tom Clancy’s Into the Storm and Battle Ready, and previously collaborated with Gen. Zinni on their book The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America’s Power and Purpose, which was a 2007 New York Times bestseller. Leading the Charge is an insightful, highly useful guide to meeting the challenges in today’s world. We highly recommend that readers put Leading the Charge on their “must read-must buy” list and add it to their personal libraries. This former 4-star Marine general’s outstanding book is a ‘5-star’ guide to leadership — we rate this book “5 STARS,” our highest rating.

Tales For Change

Margaret PARKIN
Using Storytelling to Develop People and Organizations
Published date: October 2010
Paperback
Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd

Including 50 tried and tested tales to aid change management, Tales for Change helps managers, trainers, educators and coaches to reinforce key messages and stimulate fresh thinking.

The link between storytelling and the concept of change and transition is as old as some of the stories themselves. However storytelling is not just the province of children, stories can be used to re-frame and re-size problems and provide useful metaphors for the boardroom, office and individual.

Showing you how and when to use stories to maximum effect, Tales for Change will immediately help managers, trainers, educators and coaches to reinforce key messages or stimulate fresh thinking. The book includes 50 tried and tested tales that can be used in a change management context. These tales can be used to communicate ideas, aid memorable learning, encourage brainstorming sessions, develop training and reflection as well as help those involved to cope with the stress of change, increase emotional intelligence levels and increase creativity.

Complete with a detailed matrix showing which titles can effectively be used to promote particular actions or concepts, this innovative book is sure to change the way that others learn and develop.