Books in the J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership) series

The ongoing state of many organizations is one of change. People who experience major change tend to exhibit one of four patterns of response: entrenched, overwhelmed, poser, or learner. The people in each group need different kinds of help in order to make the transition. This guidebook will help you understand how people, including yourself, are responding to change and what you can do to help them move forward.

A practical resource, this book combines tips, checklists, exercises, and stories to outline concrete processes that improve the way leaders, managers, and anyone within an organization responds to conflict.

The path to creating a genuine leadership culture in organizations is perhaps the deepest mystery of organizing. This book documents the actual paths taken by some of the very few companies that have successfully transformed toward interdependence together. It maps the process into the heart of this mystery.

Jennifer Deal explains the similarities and differences among the generations in the workplace and offers an understanding of what may be causing conflict. She identifies strategies to help managers work more effectively across generations and ensure the development of up-and-coming leaders.

There is an increasing need to understand how women will prioritize or integrate the many roles and possibilities now available to them. This book looks at the fundamental pressures that influence the career and personal life decisions that high-achieving women make.

This text interprets aspects of chaos and complexity theory into practical business and organizational terms. It points to methods for converting "turbulence" into an engine for innovation and change. It includes examples from a range of settings: from 18th-century Europe to the present day.

This title enables readers to learn how to harness the inner spirit to help yourself and those around you approach work with a renewed sense of purpose and satisfaction. In this book, Moxley shows how spirit can spawn a more vital and vibrant kind of leadership-one that, in turn, promotes the creativity, vitality, and well-being of others.

Understanding how to cool down, slow down, and engage the naturally occurring conflicts among team members is critical to the ultimate success of a team. With this book, your team and its members will gain a deeper understanding of how conflict emerges and how to respond in ways that will leverage conflicts to their advantage.

This is a book about leading dispersed teamsΓÇöteams that are made up of people who donΓÇÖt work in the same geographical area. Such teams donΓÇÖt often meet faceΓÇôtoΓÇôface. Usually their members are separated by time and distance, and they often bring different cultural views to bear on their work. Solving potential communication problems and devising processes for making decisions and managing conflict are challenges for leaders of dispersed teams. But before they can address those challenges, they need to analyze the support such a team will get from the organization as a whole. Dispersed teams are a necessary, strategic work unit in a world that continues to grow more interconnected every day. Guiding them to their full potential is a difficult challenge for even the most seasoned team leader.

The book will provide readers with the comprehensive, multi-perspective look at evaluation of leadership development efforts. The language of the book is practical and relevant to a broad audience (both practitioners and researchers).

This book offers practicing leaders and managers with a more complete understanding of what character is; its importance in leading others; how it can be further developed in one's self and in others.

The challenges faced by organisations are increasingly complex: volatile, multidimensional, and unprecedented. To many people, such challenges seem insurmountable. And they may well be if they are faced using only traditional leadership, management, and technical competencies. This book deals with this topic.

The comprehensive guide to 360-degree feedback from the Center for Creative Leadership In the network economy, growing intellectual capital is the key to increasing market value.

Written to help individual leaders give and receive feedback and coaching, work with difference, deal with change, and achieve work-life balance.