Business Librarian
Business Librarian
Leadership in Startups / November 2022
Startup businesses require different leadership techniques to meet the varied demands of creating a business from the ground up. Saemoon Yoon from the World Economic forum asked 30 entrepreneurs their thoughts on essential leadership qualities for startups (Forbes, 2022).
For November 2022, here are 12 books from JMU’s print and electronic collections that examine leadership in startups.
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When Leadership Fails
A curated selection of unique, scholar-practitioner reflections from around the world that highlights both the universal impact of leaders behaving badly and the communal triumph that emerges from deconstructing these experiences in aggregate.
Off-Centered Leadership
Considers an innovative approach to business by exploring what happens when companies stop competing and start collaborating -- both externally in the marketplace and internally in building a culture of communication, trust and alignment. Brimming with lessons on entrepreneurship and culture from the founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, this text turns competition on its head by showcasing how competing organizations can work together--and with other local businesses--to reach a common goal.
Trailblazers
Reveals how leaders develop and move markets when others say it's impossible by examining what 12 very different, yet highly successful, leaders did to achieve massive global success despite encountering countless setbacks, adversity, and critics during their journeys.
Exploring Leadership
A thoroughly revised and updated version of the bestselling text for undergraduate leadership courses, designed for college students to help them understand that they are capable of being effective leaders and guide them in developing their leadership potential.
Future Forward: Leadership Lessons from Patrick Mcgovern, the Visionary Who Circled the Globe and Built a Technology Media Empire
No matter what industry you work in--whether you're heading up a small startup, expanding a mid-sized company, or running a major global corporation--McGovern's people-first principles, insights, and integrity will help you lead the way.
The Little Black Book of Success
This invaluable "mentor in your pocket" by three dynamic and successful black female executives will help all black women, at any level of their careers, play the power game--and win.