The Rockstar It Leader Handbook

Want to develop your leadership skills in the fast-paced world of technology? Get started today with this essential guide to leading fast-growing teams and tips on helping team members succeed. Rudi Mohamed is an accomplished Chief Information Officer (CIO) who is passionate about inspiring others to create impactful innovations. Now, he’s here to share clear and actionable guidance to construct and lead high-performing IT teams that excel in driving innovation, achieving business objectives, and effectively managing complex challenges such as digital transformation and cybersecurity threats. The Rockstar IT Leader Handbook covers a wide range of vital information necessary for becoming a better manager and leader in your organization, such as: - Learning how to inspire IT teams to work creatively and fearlessly toward a clear, well-understood vision. - Learn how to foster an environment where individual members take responsibility and ownership of their actions in pursuit of shared objectives. - Understand all the vital elements that IT leaders must grasp in order to construct highly effective IT teams. - Learn how to implement organizational alignment to achieve IT operational excellence. - Understand what it takes to be well-equipped to tackle emerging challenges and capitalize on opportunities. Order The Rockstar IT Leader Handbook and get started on the road to becoming the kind of IT leader organizations and employees truly need.

A “profound” (Cynt Marshall, CEO of the Dallas Mavericks), timely, must-have guide to understanding and overcoming bias in the workplace from the experts at FranklinCovey. Unconscious bias affects everyone. It can look like the disappointment of an HR professional when a candidate for a new position asks about maternity leave. It can look like preferring the application of an Ivy League graduate over one from a state school. It can look like assuming a man is more entitled to speak in a meeting than his female junior colleague. Ideal for every manager who wants to understand and move past their own preconceived ideas, The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias is a “must-read” (Sylvia Acevedo, CEO, rocket scientist, STEM leader, and author) that explains that bias is the result of mental shortcuts, our likes and dislikes, and is a natural part of the human condition. And what we assume about each other and how we interact with one another has vast effects on our organizational success—especially in the workplace. This book teaches you how to overcome unconscious bias and provides more than thirty unique tools, such as a prep worksheet and a list of ways to reframe your unconscious thoughts. According to the experts at FranklinCovey, your workplace can achieve its highest performance rate once you start to overcome your biases and allow your employees to be whole people. By recognizing bias, emphasizing empathy and curiosity, and making true understanding a priority in the workplace, we can unlock the potential of every person we encounter.

Following the extensive global impact of COVID-19, this forward-looking Research Handbook examines the pandemic from a public management perspective, exploring the roles and responses of public managers and considering how public organisations will be reshaped in the future.

The way to executive leadership in the corporate workplace can be a struggle for women of color according to recent studies, and this current environment of health crisis, economic and cultural unrest have made it even moreso. No, Thanks: 7 Ways to Say I'll Include Myself provides a roadmap of affirmations, coaching and actionable steps women of color can take to not only lead, but lead like a rockstar during this unprecedented time and beyond. Based on the career journey of former corporate leader, serial entrepreneur and certified executive & business coach L. MIchelle Smith, she shares a simple roadmap to success while weaving in storytelling of her own and those of her own mentors and sponsors from the C-Suite. The book shares insights on knowing one's value, "flipping" white privilege to your advantage, building a rock-solid personal brand that attracts opportunities, leading with excellence and authenticity and more.

This book is a church leader’s guide for connecting guests and closing the back door. You’ll discover how to intentionally serve people from their first visit, to becoming a flourishing member. You’ll learn how to build a culture of connection that purposefully expresses the value that Jesus places on all people. It’s this connection culture that has allowed Milestone Church to grow to thousands of active members, while maintaining its heart for the one, and a focus on the next one coming. Three intentional sections cover the POWER, the PRINCIPLES, and the PROCESS of connection. The why, the what, and the how—why connection is so powerful, what you can do to be better at it, and how to build a process that creates a culture of connection. Great services and excellent service are imperative, but connection is the value people feel. Connection is more than an action, it’s an attribute. This book will help you deliver on a desire to see people loved into a relationship with Jesus, grow spiritually, and find meaningful relationships in His Church.

Calling all gay males who want to become a rockstar role model! Finally, there is a leadership roadmap, a simple guide to being a dynamic, successful leader in any field, designed just for you.Need to learn how to boost your confidence, enhance your communication skills, and improve your inner game? Wondering about the power of mentoring? These are the keys to becoming a rockstar role model-and unlike other leadership books, this refreshing guide offers both a framework with specific principles and a step-by-step planning process tailored for gay men, with an eye toward your unique challenges and mindset hurdles. Within these pages, you'll find authentic stories about the author and other professional gay men who've struggled, lost jobs, and rebounded using the author's rockstar role model techniques. They've not only succeeded-they've become superstars in their fields (and in their personal lives as well!). Now you can, too.In Be a Rockstar Role Model, you'll discover how to:? thrive as a leader, get results, and track your successes ? use specific techniques for dealing with harassment ? create an action plan to reach your goals? employ quick wins to generate momentum? become more self-aware and ultimately more effectiveWith Gabe Deremiens' help, you'll learn how to play to your strengths as a gay male leader and develop three distinct, invaluable qualities of leadership-being authentic, adopting a mindset of servant leadership, and leading by example. And the book will give you the keys to mastering your inner game-the people skills that every job (and healthy relationship) requires and that are critical to success.Ready to be a rockstar role model? Buy now and make a commitment to yourself to develop those core skills and be the leader you've always dreamed of becoming.

Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism, delivered to produce better results and help employees develop their skills and boundaries of success. Great bosses have a strong relationship with their employees, and Kim Scott Malone has identified three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees: make it personal, get stuff done, and understand why it matters. Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Drawing on years of first-hand experience, and distilled clearly to give actionable lessons to the reader, Radical Candor shows how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. Radical Candor is the perfect handbook for those who are looking to find meaning in their job and create an environment where people both love their work, their colleagues and are motivated to strive to ever greater success.

This volume illustrates the diversity of populism globally. When seeking power, populists politicize issues, and point to problems that need to be addressed such as inequalities, the loss of national sovereignty to globalization, or the rule of unresponsive political elites. Yet their solutions tend to be problematic, simplistic, and in most instances, instead of leading to better forms of democracy, their outcomes are authoritarian. Populists use a playbook of concentrating power in the hands of the president, using the legal system instrumentally to punish critics, and attacking the media and civil society. Despite promising to empower the people, populists lead to processes of democratic erosion and even transform malfunctioning democracies into hybrid regimes. The Routledge Handbook of Global Populism provides instructors, students, and researchers with a thorough and systematic overview of the history and development of populism and analyzes the main debates. It is divided into sections on the theories of populism, on political and social theory and populism, on how populists politicize inequalities and differences, on the media and populism, on its ambiguous relationships with democratization and authoritarianism, and on the distinct regional manifestations of populism. Leading international academics from history, political science, media studies, and sociology map innovative ideas and areas of theoretical and empirical research to understand the phenomenon of global populism.