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New tools for managing complexity
Does your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone.
According to The Boston Consulting Group's fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness-that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision-making forums, and systems-has increased by a whopping...
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Entire service businesses have been built around the ideas of Heskett, Sasser, and Schlesinger, pioneers in the world of service. Now they test their ideas against the actual experiences of successful and unsuccessful practitioners, as well as against demands of the future, in a book service leaders around the world will use as a guide for years to come. The authors cover every aspect of optimal service leadership: the best hiring, training, and workplace...
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Find out how bold actions by visionary leaders can inspire powerful stories that drive culture change.
Data indicates that most strategic efforts to change a company's culture fail. So how do companies succeed in this endeavor?
A top strategy professor and two highly successful CEOs found that, in companies that had successfully changed their culture, leaders had taken dramatic actions that embodied the new cultural values. These actions inspired...
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Fire Your Boss is the disruptive alternative blueprint for charting a new life-giving career path that gives you control, allowing you to set your own rules for your work life. Provocative, liberating, and universally appealing, Fire Your Boss seeks to help readers resolve the deepest root of workplace unrest-namely, fear and self-preservation. This book upgrades readers' core belief systems, demonstrates how to liberate their careers forever, and...
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Media is showing us that self-managing organizations, like Zappos, unleash human potential in ways we couldn't have imagined, but so often when we try to transition to a self managed organization, we get stuck. The task seems overwhelming and many organizations just give up. We find ourselves caught between the inspirational stories of these self-organizing companies and the deeply entrenched habits. It can be overwhelming to have such a sense of...
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Bob Quinn is one of the founders of the Positive Organizational Scholarship movement no author is more qualified to write a guidebook to creating the positive organization. This book provides a plethora of practical steps leaders can take to transform and revitalize their organizations and themselves.
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Ten years ago, when Theory U was first published, Otto Scharmer invited us to see the world in new ways and in so doing discover a revolutionary approach to leadership. But at over 500 pages, that book was a bit daunting. Now Scharmer has created a concise guide to its key concepts and applications, making his vital work and its methods and tools accessible to a wider audience. Scharmer argues that our capacity to pay attention coshapes the world....
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Change initiatives fail because humans are hardwired to resist them. This book offers a straightforward process for overcoming that resistance and building support for change from the ground up.
Erika Andersen says resistance to change is a biological imperative. All living things seek stability and consistency to conserve energy, it's called homeostasis. This is why so many change initiatives fail: we have to overcome this instinctive resistance...
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In a recent Fast Company article, nine CEOs said the biggest challenges their companies face are all related to change. Change is a constant need and a constant challenge for every organization-large or small, for-profit, nonprofit, or governmental. Is there a way to make it easier? If you're trying to lift something heavy, it helps to have a lever. In this book, Jake Jacobs provides eight levers that can transform the typical change process into...
70) The Champions Network: A Blueprint to Expand Your Influence and Spread Big Ideas in Any Organization
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ACTIVATE YOUR NETWORK! We all have BIG IDEAS: best practices, transformative programs, innovative initiatives, and ways to improve our company culture and productivity. If you could influence others to adopt these, would it make your job easier and help to accomplish your professional goals? Would it provide a benefit to your organization, community, or society?The Champions Network will help you leverage your existing network of colleagues and connections...
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Project management, escrito a partir de la experiencia de su autor, presenta un enfoque pragmático que permite liderar proyectos con éxito. Convertir ideas en realidades, más allá de la naturaleza del proyecto, es el desafío que debe enfrentar quien ha recibido la responsabilidad de su liderazgo y para ello es necesario que pueda entender a priori la problemática de los proyectos en el entorno corporativo y disponer de metodologías y herramientas...
72) Learning to Lead, Leading To Learn: Lessons From Toyota Leader Isao Yoshino on a Lifetime of Cont
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Refreshing, Timeless Lessons for Those Who Care to Lead
In “Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn”, leadership coach Katie Anderson and Toyota leader Isao Yoshino bring you a remarkable book about what it means to learn, to lead, and to care. Created through years of collaboration, this book offers their shared reflections on leadership and learning, providing readers an inspirational experience that defies generational and cultural divides. With...
73) The Principles of an Unstoppable Family Business: How Successful Family Businesses Think and Grow
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The Principles of an Unstoppable Family-Business is all about building a family-based business on a set of specific principals that are absolutely necessary for it to survive. It's an enormous challenge to be in business with kin and actually make it work. Family-business consultant Bryan Dodge goal is to provide the best practices and key elements needed for a solid foundation. It's all about making something very challenging into something very...
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How do you manage diverse and disparate teams to reduce conflict and lift productivity?How do you motivate people to form an A-team fast when staff turnover is high?How do you know when your team's success is jeopardised?Team Harmony is the ultimate relief guide for people-leaders, mid-level and frontline managers, as well as team leaders to deal with the overwhelm of the ever-changing demands of their role and manage their dispersed teams effectively...
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A blueprint for becoming the best boss you can be
North Americans work 90,000 hours in their lifetime. Wouldn't they enjoy working in a job they love, with a boss who energizes them? David Lahey's From Hire to Inspire can help make that happen. With advice for all types of companies, From Hire to Inspire is a road map to becoming a better boss - maybe even the best boss - and to helping your employees achieve their potential.
Using a new set of...
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El objetivo de este texto es establecer una cartografía del campo de los estudios organizacionales (EO), más conocido internacionalmente como 'organization studies' (OS). Presenta, en ocho capítulos, un panorama amplio de este campo, atendiendo a consideraciones históricas, teóricas, epistemológicas, metodológicas, institucionales, sociales, políticas, culturales y geográficas. La obra surge en el marco del núcleo de trabajo académico e...
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Equipado con estos ideas, conceptos y herramientas de negocio, pueda acelerar su camino hacia la prosperidad. Más gente se va a hacer millonario por medios empresarios en esta década que lo han hecho en los 200 años recientemente pasados. Y usted puede ser uno de ellos. Obtenga acceso al formulario comprobado del gurú de negocios Brian Tracy para empezar, construir, manejar y desarrollar su negocio con éxito. Haciendo estas acciones específicas...
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You're too close to your business, and it's killing your creativity
Traditional business structures love stability and predictability. Yet many organizations believe the two essential ingredients for long-term success are creativity and innovation. Kiirsten May and Alex Varricchio, founders of the marketing agency UpHouse, call the relationship between these two opposing expectations the Proximity Paradox™ - the belief that those who are closest...
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The Art of the Possible Create an Organization with No Limitations offers instructive insight into what works in business, revealing how a few simple tenets can build long-standing excellence and success. An easy-to-use integrated leadership and management guide, this book revolves around the fact that strong, effective leadership is a requirement for any company hoping to become-or remain-relevant and competitive in the twenty-first century's fast-paced...
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FOAMSHIP is an introspective and transformational approach that can help you to visualize and reshape your future. Increasing and developing your capabilities will enhance your readiness for the next chapter of your life. FOAMSHIP can help you to become better prepared, more competitive, more confident, and more successful. The FOAMSHIP way can be applied to large corporations, small businesses, entrepreneurial ventures, and is even relevant to how...
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