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The Strategic Playbook Chronicling 30 Years of ESPN
"If you're a fan, if you’re a fan, what
you will see in the next few minutes, hours, and days
to follow may convince you that you've gone to sports
heaven."
With these words, the Entertainment and Sports Programming
Network went live on September 7, 1979. Launched by
sports junkies, funded by an oil company, and marginalized
by critics and broadcast networks alike, the fledgling
ESPN ultimately transformed sports from an American
pastime to a global business.
Dr. Smith, witnessed this transformation first-hand
as ESPN's lead management consultant. For twenty years,
Dr. Smith has counseled, coached and critiqued ESPN's
senior team as they've built an unrivaled sports entertainment
empire. Now, he's distilled the lessons of two decades
into the guiding principles that have turned a cash-poor
start-up into a worldwide brand valued at more than
$25 billion.
Learn more at www.espnthecompany.com.
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The Taboos of Leadership
Painful, touchy, intimate, difficult-to-discuss, and
politically incorrect taboos of leadership are the subject
of this book. By holding them up to the light, judging
them for good or bad, exposing their myths, and revealing
their underlying truths, Smith creates a helpful and
instructive description of leadership that will benefit
leaders, their followers, and those who aspire to become
one or both.
Thousands of books have been written on leadership,
but too many have confused the biography of the “leader”
for the act of “leadership.” We talk about
Servant Leadership, Leading with Heart, Leading with
Soul, Leading Quietly, and the Art of Leadership. Unfortunately,
for those who want more than just inspiration, and learn
the real truth regarding leadership, little has been
written. Smith claims it’s high time to expose
the truth, and talk about the importance of power, intelligence,
self-centeredness, political gamesmanship, double standards,
insecurity, arrogance, competitive fire, women as leaders,
and manipulation.
Leadership is one of the toughest roles anyone will
ever play. We owe it to those who do it, and those who
want to understand what it takes to do it, a book like
The Taboos of Leadership!
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Leadership coaching has become vitally important to
today's most successful businesses. The Art
and Practice of Leadership Coaching is a landmark
resource that presents a variety of perspectives and
best practices from today's top executive coaches. It
provides valuable guidance on exactly what the best
coaches are now doing to get the most out of leaders,
for now and into the future. Revealing core philosophies,
critical capabilities, and the secrets of coaching success,
this one-of-a-kind guide includes essays from fifty
top coaches, including Ken Blanchard and Frances Hesselbein.
Packed with cutting-edge ideas and proven best practices,
this is the definitive source of information for anyone
dealing with coaching.
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Leading Organizational Learning brings
together today’s top thinkers in organizational
learning—including Jon Katzenbach, Margaret J.
Wheatley, Dave Ulrich, Calhoun W. Wick, Beverly Kaye,
and other thought and industry leaders. This handbook
helps business, government, and nonprofit leaders understand
how to master learning and knowledge sharing within
their organizations. This one-of-a-kind volume
is filled with chapters that directly address the most
current ideas, concepts, and practices on the topic
of organizational learning. Acclaimed authors, world-renowned
thought, global, and industry leaders, managing directors,
and presidents of leading organizations have contributed
their original essays to this provocative collection.
Leading Organizational Learning
- Offers ten guidelines to help key employees and
knowledge workers do a better job of influencing upper
management
- Demonstrates the best way to move ideas through
an organization
- Outlines the principles that facilitate knowledge
management
- Explains how people learn on the job
- Discusses how larger organizations can leverage
their “bigness”
- Proposes a method of knowledge mapping to effectively
organize and use knowledge in decisionmaking
- Outlines the knowledge and attributes integral to
the success of today’s executives
- Discusses passing knowledge from person to person
- Explains how consultants can help organizations
develop ideas
- Debunks the myths and explores the realities of
knowledge management
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The Leader of the Future
"Hesselbein and Marshall Goldsmith, one of the
USA's top executive coaches, edited the collection The
Leader of the Future 2. Its 27 eloquent essays provide
a kind of hopeful, idealistic best-case scenario for
future leaders of non-profits and businesses.
This is not a cookie-cutter, how-to approach. The job
of the essayists is to provide food for thought and
goals. The high quality of writing here should inspire
anyone who has aspirations for leadership."
Tony Smith’s article
in LOF is The Puzzles of Leadership, co
authored with Steve Bornstien, CEO ESPN; pp.281-292.
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The Inner Edge by Joelle
Jay, Ph.D.
Although books about leadership abound, The Inner Edge
is one of the few that focuses squarely on the leaders
themselves. This is surprising given that the results
of a leader depend largely on that leader's clarity,
engagement and sustainability. Leaders must not only
concern themselves with the vision and achievements
of their organizations, they must prioritize their own
needs to be able to make their most valuable contribution.
With her insider's knowledge of what leaders need to
thrive, drawn from the experience with hundreds of leaders
from America's most successful, most admired companies,
executive coach Dr. Joelle Jay, Ph.D. provides fresh
insights into the experience of being a leader.
Dr. Jay poses thought-provoking questions that help
leaders develop their effectiveness and sense of well-being.
For example, she asks leaders: What do you want, and
where do you need to focus your attention to get it?
What actions will be the catalyst for change? What strengths
do you need to draw on to be your best as a leader,
and what contributions do you want to make? How can
you maximize your time to do more with less? Who will
support you? What do you most need to know? How can
you stop chasing opportunity and instead invite opportunity
to come to you? And finally, how do you move from excellent
to extraordinary? The leaders who share their experiences
in this book are some of the most celebrated and accomplished
influentials in business today.
The Inner Edge will be an essential resource for leaders
in understanding not just how to get results for their
organizations, but how to do so in a way that capitalizes
on their own unique identity as a manager. The book's
wealth of information will help business leaders, executive
coaches and human resource executives understand what
each needs to truly excel in leadership and life.
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The Organization of the Future
In this second in a series sponsored by the Drucker
Foundation (The Leader of the Future, Jossey-Bass, 1996),
48 distinguished managers, academics, and writers have
contributed highly readable articles on modernizing
organizational structures and hierarchies. A unifying
theme is that the way managers have divided up work
and assigned tasks and resources in organizations must
be examined through the lens of customer satisfaction
and employee empowerment. Of the many excellent contributions,
some that stand out include Joel A. Barker's description
of the Mondragon Cooperative in Spain as an example
of workplace democracy; Rosabeth Moss Kanter's exhortation
to managers to place employees at the heart of any organization
design; and Jeffery Pfeffer's review of how America's
managers organized in the past. The somewhat academic
tone should not prevent the book from being read by
those at the helm of today's organizations.
Tony Smith’s article
in OOF is Human Capital in the Digital
Economy, co authored with Tim Kelly, CEO,
National Geographic Television, pp.199-212.
Paul Gaske’s article
has an article in OOF, co authored with Ric Duques,
CEO First Data Corp, The "Big"
Organization of the Future, 33-42.
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