Charles Carroll - Leadership Lessons From a Chef: Finding Time to Be Great [Repost]

Charles Carroll – Leadership Lessons From a Chef: Finding Time to Be Great
2007 | ISBN: 0470125306 | English | 192 pages | PDF | 5.2 MB

Leadership Lessons from a Chef is about creating excellence in the professional kitchen. Here the difference between good and great comes down to the details, and attention to these details comes from the right attitude reaching across all staff. A good culinary manager, according to author and award-winning Certified Executive Chef Charles Carroll, skillfully cultivates this attitude for success, and so leads the way toward kitchen excellence.

Using stories and examples drawn from his many years’ experience, Chef Carroll gives you a leader’s tour through the working kitchen. Offering proven wisdom in plainspoken terms instead of abstract management theories, the practical tools and ideas found in this groundbreaking book can be used immediately to motivate and develop an effective team environment among kitchen staffs.

Leadership Lessons from a Chef features:

Chef Carroll’s formula for managing kitchen staffs?SEF: Scheduling, Empowering, and Follow up?and how the formula works in practice

Take-away boxes that reinforce key points

Chapters that progress logically, helping you evaluate and refine your goals, develop a mission and principles, and implement these in a motivational and positive way

Helpful forms for both greater efficiency and esprit de corps

Inspiring quotations, as well as life and work tips from Chef Carroll

Whether you’re a student just starting your culinary education, or an executive chef seeking to take your operation to a whole new level of excellence, Leadership Lessons from a Chef is an indispensable resource for all stages of your culinary career.

Bob Stewart - Leadership under Pressure: Tactics from the Frontline [Repost]

Bob Stewart – Leadership under Pressure: Tactics from the Frontline
2009 | ISBN: 0749456558 | English | 192 pages | PDF | 12 MB

In Leadership under Pressure, Col. Bob Stewart draws on his experiences in the army and in business, using them to illustrate the key attributes of a leader. In this timely and personal view of leadership, readers learn how to maintain morale in tough times, deal with a crisis, show courage to colleagues, and lead others by example. Personal stories and frontline details will give aspiring leaders valuable tools for crisis management and negotiation.

You Can"t Send a Duck to Eagle School: And Other Simple Truths of Leadership

Mac Anderson, “You Can’t Send a Duck to Eagle School: And Other Simple Truths of Leadership”

ISBN: 1492630519 | 2015 | EPUB | 128 pages | 410 KB

An essential part of being a successful leader is hiring and utilizing the right people who truly represent your company’s values. And whatever skills you need can be taught and honed into expertise. But no matter how great a manager you are, there are some things you cannot teach: desire, personality and drive.

In You Can’t Send a Duck to Eagle School, Mac Anderson shares his 30 plus years of experience to enable managers to recognize small and simple truths of staying resourceful and accessible in a leadership role. His engaging advice will help you to hire great people, change the way you think and learn to communicate with your team.