Do you sometimes feel stuck as a leader, as though you are the one being led, and by circumstances outside your control? Do you feel there are not enough resources to accomplish your goals, or that you can't find the right people for the roles you need filled? Jim Nevada understands where you're coming from. He has spent years leading high-performing companies and studying what makes leaders effective. In Igniting Purpose-Driven Leadership, he shares decades of executive experience and research into leading organizations to find the essence of what makes them successful. His findings reveal that today's most successful leaders operate under two guiding principles: the need to focus on your purpose and the need to unleash the creative energy of your people. Nevada uncovers how we've arrived at an "Era of Human Capital," a time when successful executives understand that authenticity and creativity must be the cornerstones of their operational approaches. By understanding how highly-successful leaders operate in this new era, you too can adopt proven practices to attain similar success. Through a series of stories on some of the most enduring companies in history and a profile of various leadership disciplines, Nevada provides readers with clear and thorough approaches to increase the energy and engagement of employees through authentic leadership and to enhance the creativity levels throughout their respective organizations. Igniting Purpose-Driven Leadership will teach you how to: • Make purpose the foundation of your leadership approach • Remove the scarcity mentality that there aren't enough good people • Replace it with an abundance mentality that focuses on everyone's potential genius • Seek authenticity and creativity in your organization • Focus on strengths and simplicity • Build trust through empowerment and recognition Are you ready to have the clarity you need to ignite the purpose-driven leader within you? Then begin here.

Igniting Conscious Leadership will shape your distant dream into an actionable and achievable reality. Do you know that each individual is equipped with limitless possibilities to transform themselves into a conscious leader? That makeover can be ignited by the spark of self-knowledge using the 5-step conscious leadership framework proposed in this book. This book will unveil all it takes for individuals and organizations to become or create conscious leaders. The process of conscious leadership explained in this book will develop a co-culture of resilience, creativity, and inspired performance. Igniting Conscious Leadership (Is it Lying Dormant Within You?) by Sandiip Panndit: "Igniting Conscious Leadership (Is it Lying Dormant Within You?)" by Sandiip Panndit is a thought-provoking book that explores the concept of conscious leadership and its potential impact on personal and professional growth. With insightful narratives, practical strategies, and thought exercises, this book serves as a guide for individuals aspiring to become conscious leaders who are self-aware, empathetic, and capable of making a positive difference in their organizations and communities. Whether you are a current or aspiring leader, this book offers valuable insights and inspiration to awaken the dormant potential within you. Key Aspects of the Book "Igniting Conscious Leadership (Is it Lying Dormant Within You?)": Exploration of Conscious Leadership: The book delves into the concept of conscious leadership, examining its essence and the qualities that define a conscious leader. It highlights the importance of self-awareness, emotional intelligence, ethical decision-making, and authentic connection with others in the realm of leadership. Practical Strategies and Thought Exercises: The book provides practical strategies and thought exercises to help individuals cultivate conscious leadership qualities. It offers guidance on developing self-awareness, fostering empathy, practicing mindfulness, building effective relationships, and creating a positive organizational culture. Inspiration and Reflection: Through inspiring narratives and insightful anecdotes, the book encourages readers to reflect on their own leadership journey and explore their potential to become conscious leaders. It challenges conventional notions of leadership and inspires individuals to embrace a more holistic and purpose-driven approach to leadership. Sandiip Panndit, the author of "Igniting Conscious Leadership (Is it Lying Dormant Within You?)," is an accomplished leadership coach, motivational speaker, and author. With his expertise in leadership development and personal growth, he has empowered individuals and organizations to unlock their true leadership potential. Sandiip Panndit's book serves as a catalyst for individuals aspiring to become conscious leaders, guiding them on a transformative journey towards self-discovery, empathy, and positive impact.

This book was written to turn you ON – to ignite you from the core of your being! The contents are designed to vitally inspire you to cultivate meaning, passion, and purpose in the everyday moments, unleashing the very best version of you, every day. And then, you will be compelled to bring it – and bring it strong - to everything you do to make the contribution worthy of your one, precious life. People are motivated at their highest levels when they can connect their work contributions to a greater purpose and mission, and you as their inspirational leader can help them do so. The world desperately needs a sea change in an otherwise soul-sucking workplace that is draining the life out of its members. This book will transform you to be that force, standing strong in inspiration and purpose, igniting the vitalizing ripple through your team and organization. Starting with meaning and finishing with purpose, Part One is designed to get you fit for living and leading with “gusto.” Each chapter contains activities designed to transform you into a more impassioned and inspirational leader. Part Two teaches you how to unleash that newly found vibrant being to ignite your team members to realize their own greatness and elevate your organization’s cause to a higher contribution that betters the world. Work and the way business is done can be such profoundly powerful forces for good that elevate humanity – your impassioned, inspirational, and purposeful leadership is essential to creating a world we all want to live in. Your journey awaits – let’s get to work. Key features: · Provides a 6-point framework to live with passion and work on purpose · Inspiring stories from Alise’s radio show guests to illustrate key points · Application activities in each chapter to catalyze your transformation

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER 2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST — BUSINESS: GENERAL • 2022 AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARD GOLD MEDALIST — LEADERSHIP "Critically important reading as our economy struggles to recover the pandemic's deleterious economic impact that is currently compounded by supply chain issues and the beginnings of an inflationary spiral." —The Midwest Book Review "Provides concrete steps leaders and employees can take to thrive in today’s marketplace, where taking a stand on something important to your customers can become a competitive differentiator." —Forbes Discover an urgent prescription for a new business paradigm—one that better serves humanity and the planet. The global coronavirus pandemic has thrown into stark relief how “business as usual” is no longer serving us. The economic, business, and environmental models of the past do not reflect our current realities. And for our economy—for us—to survive, we need nothing less than a seismic shift in the way we do business. Enter Simon Mainwaring, New York Times-bestselling author and founder and CEO of We First. A decade ago, he showed how business leaders and consumers could use social media to build a better world in We First. Now, after decades of research and field experience at the vanguard of the world’s most successful brand revolutions, he provides in Lead With We a blueprint for doing business better in today’s challenged world. By leading with “we”—putting the collective above the individual, holding the sum above the parts, and emphasizing the importance of the role that everyone plays—you can not only help solve the escalating challenges of today but also unlock extraordinary growth for your business, and abundance on our planet. Timely and compelling, this book’s message is simple: The future of profit is people’s purpose, aligned. Lead With We not only examines why we must all conduct business differently in order to grow in today’s market, but provides the how—concrete steps any reader, wherever they find themselves in the business hierarchy, can take toward success.

Leadership Ignite…Unleash the Consciousness 2019 will ignite one’s awareness and consciousness of the meaning and purpose of organizational, strategic, and executive leadership. By bringing these topics and examples into the forefront of one’s thinking, each reader will be in a better position to recognize leadership, while promoting individual growth and development of their own personal abilities, as well as their willingness to lead and make a difference in the organizations they are a part. Lighthouses symbolize the way forward and help in navigating one’s way through rough waters whether those waters be financial, personal, business or spiritual in nature. Nothing else speaks of safety and security in the face of adversity and challenge quite the way a lighthouse does. Leaders, much like a lighthouse, are also responsible for envisioning the future, and navigating their followers through the rough waters in order to achieve and exceed organizational objectives. I welcome each reader to this collection of articles and practical examples of leadership and people who hold leadership positions, as I have reflected on decades of experience in major organizations, and pulled from the past 15 years as a life-long learner, student and professor of the fascinating study of organizational leadership.

The Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management is an authoritative and comprehensive reference resource with almost 400 entries on core HR areas and key concepts. From age discrimination, to zero hours contracts, each entry reflects the views of an expert and authoritative author. The terms included vary from singular concepts such as performance appraisal and industrial conflict, to organisational behaviour terms including organisational culture and commitment; and broader management terms such a resourcing and management development. Each entry provides a list of references and further reading to enable the reader to gain a deeper awareness and understanding of each topic. This book is an ideal companion to a standard HRM textbook, and both undergraduate and postgraduate students will find it to be of value. It will also be useful for academic researchers, HR practitioners and policy specialists looking for a succinct expert summary of key HR concepts.

The Best Leaders Aren't People Instead, innovative and emerging research shows that a compelling and other-centered authentic purpose--The Invisible Leader--may be the most powerful influencer of our behaviors, attitudes, and motivation in organizations, work, school, and life. Yet despite the increasing evidence of purpose's power, many of the organizations, systems, and institutions which dominate human life aren't built to elicit and leverage the fundamental human search for purpose and meaning. In this must-read book for anyone who considers themselves a leader, international speaker, trainer, and organizational performance scholar Zach Mercurio shows business leaders, educators, students, athletes, and parents how to AWAKEN, CLARIFY, and DELIVER their reason for existence--their authentic purpose. Personal, researched, and even mind-shifting, the tools in the The Invisible Leader will help you lead with authentic purpose and build a life and organization that matters. "Zach Mercurio has written a compelling book filled with powerful stories, cutting-edge research, and practical tools that shows us how to lead with purpose..." - Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO at Thrive Global, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. "If you are seeking both practical guidance and powerful inspiration to unlock the power of purpose in your life or organization, The Invisible Leader is for you. Through vivid storytelling and compelling research, Zach Mercurio proves yet again that the pursuit and achievement of a world-bettering purpose is the most powerful driving force in life and work." - Aaron Hurst, National Bestselling Author of The Purpose Economy, CEO at Imperative "At KPMG, our purpose-driven culture inspires us to make a tangible difference for our clients, our people, and society. In The Invisible Leader, Zach Mercurio explains why bringing purpose into the workplace is a business imperative and shares valuable insights on how to unleash its power within yourself and your organization." - Lynne Doughtie, U.S. Chairman & CEO, KPMG "Nothing inspires or motivates people more than purpose - to know that our lives and our work can make a difference. The Invisible Leader is a profoundly practical guide to empowering people with purpose so that your organization can make the greatest possible impact." - Andrew Ripley, Co-Founder & CEO, PurposeMatch.com "A compelling, research-based case for elevating a shared "why" to its rightful place: as the invisible leader that pulls us all forward. Zach is a clear leader in the #lovework Revolution; get this book and join him in the movement!" - Josh Allan Dykstra, CEO at Strengthscope U.S. & Author of Igniting the Invisible Tribe: Designing An Organization That Doesn't Suck