Title: The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results, 3rd Edition

ISBN: 9781118097540

Topic/Genre: Business/Leadership

Publication Date: October 2011

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George Bradt has a unique perspective on transformational leadership based on his combined senior line management and consulting experience.  George progressed through sales, marketing and general management roles, literally around the world, at companies including Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and then J.D. Power’s Power Information Network spin off as chief executive. George graduated from Harvard and got his MBA from Wharton.

Now he is a Principal of CEO Connection and Managing Director of PrimeGenesis, the executive onboarding and transition acceleration group he founded in 2002.  Since then, George and PrimeGenesis have reduced the risk of failure fourfold for executives they have worked with – from 40% to 10% – based on their own team, tools and perspective on delivering better results faster.

George is the author/co-author of

The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan (Wiley, 2006, 2009 and 2011)

Onboarding: How To Get Your New Employees Up To Speed In Half The Time (Wiley, 2009)

The Total Onboarding Program: An Integrated Approach (Wiley/Pfeiffer, 2010)

New Leader Smart Tools – iPad application (2011)

Twitter Pi – musical play (2011)

The Man with the Glass Heart – musical play (2011)

George has been a frequent speaker on Transformational Leadership and Onboarding at both public and corporate events including The National Director’s Institute, CEO Connection, Human Capital Institute, Society of Human Resource Management, Association of Training and Development, International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters, Association of Executive Search Consultants, Canadian Public Service, and BusinessWeek TV, and has been quoted in and written articles in BusinessWeek, The Economist, The Financial Times, Investor’s Business Daily, Inc., Talent Management, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.  He does a weekly column for Forbes.com, “The New Leader’s Playbook”

Author Websites:

www.primegenesis.com

Twitter: @GeorgeBradt

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/georgebradt

Title: It’s Okay to Manage Your Boss: The Step-by-Step Program for Making the Best of Your Most Important Relationship at Work

ISBN: 9780470605301

Topic/Genre: Business/Management

Publication Date: September 2010

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Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace and one of the leading experts on leadership and management. Bruce is a best-selling author, an adviser to business leaders all over the world, and a sought-after keynote speaker and management trainer.

Since 1995, Bruce has worked with tens of thousands of leaders and managers in hundreds of organizations ranging from Aetna to Wal-Mart; from the Army to the YMCA. He has been called “the new Tom Peters” by many who have seen him speak. In recent years, Bruce was named by Management Today as one of the few contemporary figures to stand out as a “management guru” and he was named to the 2009 Thinkers 50 rising star list (the Thinkers 50 is the definitive global ranking of the world’s top 50 business thinkers). And on August 13, 2009, Bruce was honored to accept Toastmasters International’s most prestigious honor, the Golden Gavel. This honor is annually presented to a single person who represents excellence in the fields of communication and leadership. Past winners have included Marcus Buckingham, Stephen Covey, Zig Ziglar, Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Ken Blanchard, Tom Peters, Art Linkletter, Dr. Joyce Brothers, and Walter Cronkite.

Bruce’s newest book is IT’S OKAY TO MANAGE YOUR BOSS (Jossey-Bass, September 14, 2010). He is also the author of the recent best-seller IT’S OKAY TO BE THE BOSS (HarperCollins, 2007) and the classic MANAGING GENERATION X (W.W. Norton, 2000; first published in 1995). Bruce’s other books include WINNING THE TALENT WARS (W.W. Norton, 2001), which received widespread acclaim from Fortune 500 CEOs and business journalists; the best-seller FAST FEEDBACK (HRD Press, 1998); NOT EVERYONE GETS A TROPHY: HOW TO MANAGE GENERATION Y (Jossey-Bass, 2009); and MANAGING THE GENERATION MIX (HRD Press, 2006). Many of Bruce’s works have been published around the world in foreign editions.

Bruce’s writing appears regularly in human resources, staffing and management journals. His writing has also appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including the Harvard Business Review, BusinessWeek, HR Magazine, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and USA Today. As well, his work has been the subject of thousands of news stories around the world.

Before founding RainmakerThinking in 1993, Bruce practiced law at the Wall Street firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. He graduated with high honors from Amherst College, received his law degree from the New York University School of Law, and is still a member of the Bar in Massachusetts and New York. Bruce continues his lifelong study of Okinawan Uechi Ryu Karate Do and holds a fifth degree black belt. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut with his wife Debby Applegate, Ph.D., who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for her book THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN AMERICA: THE BIOGRAPHY OF HENRY WARD BEECHER (Doubleday, 2006).

Author Websites:

www.rainmakerthinking.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bruce-Tulgans-Weekly-Workplace-Video/132396500134469?v=wall

Twitter: @BruceTulgan

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bruce-tulgan/41/707/b81

Title: First Things Fast: A Handbook of Performance Analysis, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 9780470477748

Topic/Genre: Business/Training & Development

Publication Date: May 2009

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Dr. Allison Rossett, long time Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University, is in the Training magazine HRD Hall of Fame, was a member of the ASTD International Board of Directors, was honored with selection as an ISPI Member-for-Life and more recently with the ISPI Thomas Gilbert Award. Recipient of ASTD’s recognition for lifelong contributions to workplace learning and performance and designated a 2008 LEGEND, Allison co-authored Job Aids and Performance Support: Moving from Knowledge in the Classroom to Knowledge Everywhere, and recently, a new edition of her book, First Things Fast.

Rossett edited The ASTD E-Learning Handbook: Best Practices, Strategies, and Case Studies for an Emerging Field.  She also completed a white paper for the American Management Association, Blended Learning Opportunities and another, on learner engagement, for Adobe Systems. She is the author offour award-winning books, including Beyond the Podium: Delivering Training and Performance to a Digital World and First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis.  Prior award-winning books are Training Needs Assessment, and A Handbook of Job Aids. Some of Allison’s articles are “Ode to Mobile Performance Support,” “Moving Your Class Online,” “Confessions of a Web Dropout,” and“Training and Organizational Development, Siblings Separated at Birth.” She has conducted research and published articles on needs analysis, learner engagement, on demand learning and support, and persistence. Her client list includes IBM, HP, the Getty Conservation Institute, Fidelity Investments, Kaiser Permanente, BP, the IRS, Amgen, Royal Bank of Scotland, USAA, National Security Agency, Transportation Security Administration, Ingersoll Rand, and several new media and learning start-ups.

Author Website:

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/arossett/arossett.html

Twitter: @arossett

Title: e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning, Third Edition

ISBN: 9780470874301

Topic/Genre: Business/Training & Development

Publication Date: August 2011

Price: $65.00

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Dr. Ruth Clark has familiarity with the academic research in instructional methods and has worked for over 20 years with managers assigned to design, develop, and select effective training for classroom or computer delivery. Her professional writings have been largely translating academic research into guidelines usable by the practitioner community. She is widely published in the training and development/performance improvement association periodicals and was recently bestowed a Distinguished Professional Service Award from ISPI.

Author Website:

www.Clarktraining.com

Title: Have a Nice Conflict: How to Find Success and Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places

ISBN: 978-1-118-20276-0

Topic/Genre:  Business/Management

Publication Date: January 2012

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Tim Scudder, CPA is the President of Personal Strengths Publishing,® Inc. and has consulted with the organization development, training, and human resources departments of many corporate, government, education, and not-for-profit organizations. Tim is the author of several experiential training programs including Relationship Intelligence and coauthor of Becoming a Leader We Need with Strategic Intelligence. He lives in Carlsbad, California with his wife and three daughters.

Title: Have a Nice Conflict: How to Find Success and Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places

ISBN: 978-1-118-20276-0

Topic/Genre:  Business/Management

Publication Date: January 2012

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Michael Patterson, Ed.D. is vice president of Personal Strengths USA, a Carlsbad, California-based learning and development company, as well as co-author of Have a Nice Conflict:  How to Find Success & Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places and the Have a Nice Conflict learning experience.  Mike began his career as an U.S. Army officer and then spent 20 years in a variety of sales, marketing and training roles in the pharmaceutical industry culminating in his leadership of two comprehensive employee development programs.   Mike is a frequent conference and keynote speaker, and consults with a variety of global organizations In addition to his work with organizational clients, Mike is an adjunct professor teaching at Concordia University—Irvine and in the doctoral program in organizational leadership at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology.

Title: Training Workshop Essentials: Designing, Developing, and Delivering Learning Events that Get Results

ISBN: 9780470385456

Topic/Genre: Training & Development/Learning & Performance

Publication Date: June 2009

Price: $52.00

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Bob Lucas is an internationally known author and learning and performance expert who specializes in workplace performance-based training and consulting services. He has four decades of experience in human resources development, management and customer service in a variety of organizational environments and was the 1995 and 2011 President of the Central Florida Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Bob has lived, traveled and worked in nineteen different countries and geographic areas. His experience gives him a real-world perspective on the application of theory he has studied and used. 

In addition to having the top selling customer service textbook in the United States, Bob has written and contributed to thirty-one other books and compilations. During the past seventeen years, he has shared his knowledge with workplace professionals from organizations such as Walt Disney World, SeaWorld, Martin Marietta, and Wachovia Bank in the Webster University Master of Arts program in Orlando, Florida. In addition, he has provided consulting and training services to numerous major organizations on a variety of workplace learning topics, such as customer service, presentation skills, creative training and management program development, train-the-trainer, interpersonal communication, adult learning, diversity, team building, and employee and organizational development. Bob regularly gives regular presentations to various local and national groups and organizations such as ASTD (formerly the American Society for Training and Development).

Listed in the Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the South & Southeast, Bob is also an avid writer. His publications include:

- Please Every Customer: Delivering Stellar Customer  Service across Cultures

- Energize Your Training: Creative Techniques to Engage Learners

- Customer Service Skills for Success

- Training Workshop Essentials: Designing,

- Developing and Delivering Learning Events That Get Results

- Creative Learning: Activities and Games That REALLY Engage People

- People Strategies for Trainers: 176 Tips & Techniques for Dealing with Difficult Classroom Situations

- The Creative Training Idea Book: Inspired Tips & Techniques for Engaging and Effective Learning

- The BIG Book of Flip Charts

- How to be a Great Call Center Representative

- Customer Service Skills & Concepts for Success

- Customer Service: Building Successful Skills for the  21^st Century

- Job Strategies for New Employees

- Communicating One-to-One: Making the Most of Interpersonal Relationships

- Coaching Skills: A Guide for Supervisors

- Effective Interpersonal Relationships

- Training Skills for Supervisors

- Customer Service: Skills and Concepts for Business.

Additionally, Bob has been a contributing author for the Annual: Developing Human Resources series by Pfeiffer & Company since 1992 and several compilation works by various publishers.

Bob has earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Law Enforcement from the University of Maryland, a M.A degree with a focus in Human Resources Development from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and a second M.A. degree in Management and Leadership from Webster University in Orlando, Florida.

Author Websites:

www.robertwlucas.com

www.presentationresources.net

Title: The Mobile Academy: mLearning for Higher Education

ISBN: 9781118072653

Topic/Genre: Technology/Education/Innovation

Publication Date: October 2011

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Clark N. Quinn is a recognized leader in learning technology strategy. He’s the executive director of Quinnovation, an independent consultancy focusing on the design of learning technology solutions, and a founding member of the Internet Time Alliance which assists organizations on learning strategy. He is the author of numerous books including Designing mLearning: Tapping into the Mobile Revolution for Organizational Performance and Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games, both from Pfeiffer, and The Mobile Academy: mLearning for Higher Education for Jossey-Bass.

Author Websites:

Consulting: http://quinnovation.com

Blog: http://learnlets.com

1st Book: http://engaginglearning.com

2nd & 3rd Books: http://designingmlearning.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/quinnovator

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/quinnovate

Twitter: @Quinnovator

Title: The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition

ISBN: 9780787984915

Topic/Genre: Business/Management/Leadership

Publication Date: July 2007

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Jim Kouzes is the coauthor with Barry Posner of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, with over 2 million copies sold. He’s also the Dean’s Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.

The fourth edition of The Leadership Challenge was released in August 2007 and is available in twenty-two languages. In 2009 The Leadership Challenge was selected as one of the 100 best business books of all time by 800-CEO-READ, an online bookseller. It was an Amazon Editor’s Pick for one of the Best Business Books of 2007, as well as the winner of the 1995-96 Critics’ Choice Award, and the 1989 James A. Hamilton Hospital Administrators’ Book Award. Their book A Leader’s Legacy (2006) was selected by Soundview Executive Book Summaries as one of the top thirty books of the year and by the Globe and Mail (Canada) as one of the top ten books of 2006. Jim and Barry have coauthored over thirty other publications including Encouraging the Heart (1999, 2003), The Leadership Challenge Workbook (1999, 2003), A Leader’s Legacy (2006), and The Truth About Leadership (2010). Their newest book is the second addition of the award-winning Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It; the first edition was chosen by Industry Week as one of the ten best management books of the year. All their books are extensively researched-based, and over 500 doctoral dissertations and academic studies have been based on their original work.

Jim and Barry also developed the widely used and highly acclaimed Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), a 360-degree questionnaire assessing leadership behavior. Over 500,000 leaders and 3 million observers have completed the LPI. It is the top-selling off-the-shelf leadership assessment instrument in the world, and has been called “the most reliable, up-to-date leadership instrument available today.”

Not only is Jim a highly regarded leadership scholar, The Wall Street Journal cited Jim as one of the twelve best executive educators in the U.S. He is the 2010 recipient of the Thought Leadership Award from the Instructional Systems Association, listed as one of HR Magazine’s Most Influential International Thinkers for 2010 and 2011, and ranked by Leadership Excellence magazine as number sixteen on its list of the Top 100 Thought Leaders. In 2006 Jim was presented with the Golden Gavel, the highest honor awarded by Toastmasters International. Jim and Barry are the recipients of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) 2009 Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award, presented in recognition of their extensive body of work and the significant impact they have had on learning and performance in the workplace. The International Management Council (IMC) honored Jim and Barry as the 2001 recipients of the prestigious Wilbur M. McFeely Award for their outstanding contributions to management and leadership education.  Prior recipients include: Peter Drucker, Lee Iacocca, Tom Peters, Ken Blanchard, Norman Vincent Peale, Francis Hesselbein, and Stephen Covey.

Jim is also an experienced executive. He served as president, then CEO and chairman of the Tom Peters Company from 1988-until 2000. Prior to his tenure at TPC he directed the Executive Development Center at Santa Clara University from 1981 through 1987. He also founded the Joint Center for Human Services Development at San Jose State University, which he directed from 1972 until 1980. Jim’s lifelong career in education began in 1967-1969 when he served for two years in the Peace Corps. Jim believes it was on January 20, 1961 when he was first inspired to dedicate himself to leadership. That was the day he was one of only a dozen Eagle Scouts who served in John F. Kennedy’s Honor Guard at the Presidential Inaugutaion.

Author Websites:

http://www.leadershipchallenge.com

Personal Twitter: @Jim_Kouzes

Author Twitter: @KouzesPosner

TLC Twitter: @TLCTalk

Facebook: http: //www.facebook.com/jim.kouzes  

TLC Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Leadership-Challenge/92727804851

Blog:  http://leadershipchallenge.typepad.com

Title:  Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management, Volume 3, Critical and Emerging Issues in Human Resources

ISBN: 9780470257715

Topic/Genre: Human Resources/Management/Business

Publication Date: April 2012

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William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., SPHR is Professor of Learning and Performance in the Workforce Education and Development program, Department of Learning and Performance Systems, at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park campus.  In that capacity, he heads up a top-ranked graduate program in learning and performance. He has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited 300 books, book chapters, and articles—including over 70 books. He is also President of his own consulting firm, Rothwell & Associates, Inc. (see www.rothwellandassociates.com.)

Before arriving at Penn State in 1993, he had 20 years of work experience as a Training Director and HR professional in government and in business. He has also worked as a consultant for more than 40 multinational corporations–including Motorola, General Motors, Ford, and many others. In 2004, he earned the Graduate Faculty Teaching Award at Pennsylvania State University, a single award given to the best graduate faculty member on the 23 campuses of the Penn State system. His train-the-trainer programs have won global awards for excellence from Motorola University and from Linkage Inc. His recent books include the edited three-volume Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management (Pfeiffer, 2012), Lean But Agile: Rethink Workforce Planning and Gain a True Competitive Advantage (AMACOM, 2012), Invaluable Knowledge (AMACOM, 2011), Competency-based Training Basics (ASTD Press, 2010), Effective Succession Planning: Ensuring Leadership Continuity and Building Talent from Within, 4^th ed. (AMACOM, 2010), Practicing Organization Development, 3^rd ed. (Pfeiffer, 2009), The Manager’s Guide to Maximizing Employee Potential: Quick and Easy Ways to Build Talent Every Day (AMACOM, 2009), Basics of Adult Learning (ASTD, 2009), HR Transformation (Davies-Black, 2008) and Working Longer (AMACOM, 2008). 

William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., SPHR is Professor of Learning and Performance in the Workforce Education and Development program, Department of Learning and Performance Systems, at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park campus.  In that capacity, he heads up a top-ranked graduate program in learning and performance. He has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited 300 books, book chapters, and articles—including over 70 books. He is also President of his own consulting firm, Rothwell & Associates, Inc. (see www.rothwellandassociates.com.)

Before arriving at Penn State in 1993, he had 20 years of work experience as a Training Director and HR professional in government and in business. He has also worked as a consultant for more than 40 multinational corporations–including Motorola, General Motors, Ford, and many others. In 2004, he earned the Graduate Faculty Teaching Award at Pennsylvania State University, a single award given to the best graduate faculty member on the 23 campuses of the Penn State system. His train-the-trainer programs have won global awards for excellence from Motorola University and from Linkage Inc. His recent books include the edited three-volume Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management (Pfeiffer, 2012), Lean But Agile: Rethink Workforce Planning and Gain a True Competitive Advantage (AMACOM, 2012), Invaluable Knowledge (AMACOM, 2011), Competency-based Training Basics (ASTD Press, 2010), Effective Succession Planning: Ensuring Leadership Continuity and Building Talent from Within, 4^th ed. (AMACOM, 2010), Practicing Organization Development, 3^rd ed. (Pfeiffer, 2009), The Manager’s Guide to Maximizing Employee Potential: Quick and Easy Ways to Build Talent Every Day (AMACOM, 2009), Basics of Adult Learning (ASTD, 2009), HR Transformation (Davies-Black, 2008) and Working Longer (AMACOM, 2008).

Author Websites:

http://www.rothwellandassociates.com/

http://www.ed.psu.edu/educ/workforce-ed/faculty/william-j-rothwell

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rothwell-Associates/240986745929810?ref=hnav

Twitter: @WJR9

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bill-rothwell/6/5b1/217

YouTube: http://www.rothwellandassociates.com/-video-seminars.html