The Leadership Practices Inventory or Small Business Management

The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) (The Leadership Practices Inventory Series #10): Leadership Development Planner

Author: Barry Z Posner

The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) is the best-selling and most trusted leadership tool of its generation. Developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the third edition of this celebrated instrument package approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. This 360° leadership assessment tool helps individuals and organizations measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner's acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® Model to their real-life organizational challenges. The newly revised LPI offers in-depth, precise results to help you become a leader who can:

• Model the Way
• Inspire a Shared Vision
• Challenge the Process
• Enable Others to Act
• Encourage the Heart

The Leadership Development Planner picks up where the LPI Participant's Workbook leaves off and helps take you to the next level of developing your leadership skills. The Planner reviews The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadershipâ, describes the best practices of learning to lead and contains over one hundred developmental activities for becoming a better leader. The Planner can be customized for your situation and will help you:

Understand how people learn to lead

Integrate the best leadership learning practices into your own routines

Consciously review your progress toward becoming a better leader

Select the kinds of development activities that best fit your needs

Write a plan for the next steps in your leadership development

Apply an easy-to-use process that can be repeated

The Planner isyour essential LPI resource for determining the most appropriate ways to continue your leadership development journey. It's your guide to personalizing your plans for becoming the best leader possible.

Interesting textbook: Globalization or Understanding the Process of Economic Change

Small Business Management: An Entrepreneur's Guidebook

Author: Leon C Megginson

Operating any business is complex and challenging, but it provides interesting, creative, and rewarding experiences. Small Business Management, Fifth Edition, takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to planning, organizing, and running a small business. While employing current research and theory, Small Business Management takes a pragmatic "how-to" perspective illustrating many practical examples and applications from the business world. It explains how to achieve optimum benefits from the limited resources available to small firms, as well as how to plan for growth and succession in a business. It also explores arguments both for and against owning a small business. All three authors, Megginson, Byrd and Megginson, have had meaningful experiences in the "real world" as an owner, manager or employee of one or more small businesses.

Table of Contents:

PART I The Dynamic Role Of Small Business
Chapter 1 Starting Your Small Business
Chapter 2 Family-Owned Businesses
Chapter 3 Forms of Ownership of Small Business
PART II How To Plan And Organize A Business
Chapter 4 Becoming the Owner of a Small Business
Chapter 5 Planning, Organizing and Managing a Small Business
Chapter 6 How to Obtain the Right Financing for Your Business
PART III How To Market Goods and Services
Chapter 7 Developing Marketing Strategies
Chapter 8 Promoting and Distributing
PART IV How To Organize and Manage the Business
Chapter 9 How to Obtain and Manage Human Resources and Diversity in Small Companies
Chapter 10 How to Maintain Good Relationships with Your Employees and Their Representatives
PART V How To Operate The Business
Chapter 11 Obtaining and Laying Out Operating Facilities
Chapter 12 Purchasing, Inventory, and Quality Control
PART VI Basic Financial Planning and Control
Chapter 13 Profit Planning
Chapter 14 Budgeting and Controlling Operations and Taxes
Chapter 15 Using Computer Technology in Small Businesses
PART VII Providing Security For The Business
Chapter 16 Risk Management, Insurance, and Crime Prevention
Chapter 17 Maintaining Good Government Relations and Business Ethics