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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Business
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Organizations are stressed. Innovation and global competition have become the source of relentless pressure and customers have never had higher expectations. Corporate efforts to improve everyday productivity and boost profits are producing diminishing returns. Yet a new frontier of enormous opportunity to improve results is hidden in plain sight. According to a Fortune 500 study, as much as 80% of working time is lost to tiresome meetings, unclear...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
True North shows how anyone who follows his or her internal compass can become an authentic leader. This leadership tour de force is based on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today's top leaders - with some surprising results.
In this important audiobook, acclaimed former Medtronic CEO Bill George and coauthor Peter Sims share the wisdom of these outstanding leaders and describe how you can develop as an authentic leader. True North...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Chapman and coauthor Raj Sisodia show how any organization can reject the traumatic consequences of rolling layoffs, dehumanizing rules, and hypercompetitive cultures. Once you stop treating people like functions or costs, disengaged workers begin to share their gifts and talents toward a shared future. Uninspired workers stop feeling that their jobs have no meaning. Frustrated workers stop taking their bad days out on their spouses and kids. And...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Blow away the competition-and your own expectations-using advice that starts with one simple concept: focus! There are countless books, seminars, and consultants that offer the secrets to everlasting business success. After heeding their advice, perhaps you manage your time more efficiently, write a compelling pitch letter, or close a few more deals. But after a week or a month, you revert to your old bad habits and mediocre performance, until the...
Author
Publisher
Collins Business
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Unfortunately, we've all been there. You and your team are facing a problem. Yet rather than working with you to come up with a solution, your manager swoops in squawking like a seagull, dumps orders riddled with formulaic advice, then takes off, leaving everyone else to clean up the mess. Or-let's be honest-there's been a time (or two) when all of us have been guilty of this very behavior.The truth is, seagull managers live in every workplace-but...
Author
Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Complexity has met its match!
Today, organizations are grappling with ambiguity, volatility, and paradox surrounding the challenges they face. This is complexity. But too many leaders approach complexity the wrong way-they push their people harder and harder and tackle problems one at a time over months, sometimes even years and nearly always in a linear fashion. It's like setting a pot of water on "low" and waiting for it to boil. To solve the seemingly...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Expanded, updated, and more relevant than ever, the bestselling business classic by two internationally renowned management theorists shows how companies of any size in any industry can seize opportunities in the post-bubble economy. Lean Thinking begins by helping listeners to identify value, asking, "What does the customer really want?" instead of "What can we try to convince the customer to accept?" Lean thinkers then identify the value stream...
Author
Publisher
Bibliomotion, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In Be Bad First, leadership readiness expert and renowned author Erika Andersen explores how we can become masters of mastery, proficient in the kind of high-payoff learning that's needed today. Andersen offers a simple framework for taking full advantage of our deeply ingrained human desire for mastery. Through her ANEW model, Andersen shows you how to develop the four mental skills crucial to learning: aspiration, neutral self-awareness, endless...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Critical insight from the man Fortune called "the world's leading expert on business strategy"About the only thing a leader can be sure of is that what worked yesterday is unlikely to work today, let alone tomorrow. Never before have businesses faced a more fractured, contentious and dynamic environment. If ever there was a need for fundamentally new thinking about values, competition, leadership, organization talent, and how these things are directly...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The old business model of adapting to change for continued success is dead. Change is the new normal. There are no more periods of stability and predictability. There is only change. This continuous upheaval can undercut morale, decrease productivity and decimate profits, or it can be a game-changing opportunity. Arussy illuminates the path to opportunity. He helps corporate leaders and their employees view change as an opportunity to become invested,...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Drawing on extensive work with an extra-ordinary range of organizations, among them Google, Ford, Sony, Ernst & Young, Shell, IBM, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Cleveland Clinic, Schwartz creates a road map for a new way of working that focuses on four core needs that energize great performance: sustainability, security, self-expression, and significance.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They'd have to know when to...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"The former director of the Tassajara Zen Center and a cofounder of Google's Search Inside Yourself program shows how modern workplaces can become more productive, compassionate, and harmonious by applying the practice of mindfulness."--