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Why do some workplace cultures inspire energy and innovation, while others fuel anxiety, boredom, or cynicism? Until now, such legendary cultures have seemed like magic beyond our control. However, behind every culture is a surprisingly elegant science. Primed to Perform argues that the highest-performing cultures are built on a simple truth: why people work affects how well they work. Great organizations inspire the three most powerful motives for...
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Gallup surveys show that two out of three employees are disengaged to some degree-loudly proclaiming that culture is an essential component to business success.
In this novel, newly appointed medical company president Jason Bailey inherits a disconnected enterprise that's struggling from a lack of leadership, alignment, and direction. All business metrics point down, placing the company's future at a tipping point.
With a product breakthrough
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Every manager and human resources department has seen it time and time again--candidates whom they viewed from across the table as promising individuals loaded with potential turning out to be disappointing and underwhelming employees. Meanwhile, numerous resources are wasted yet again while the company continues to seek out the right fits for their needs. Is this just a rite of passage for all businesses, or is there a way to simplify the hiring...
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Regardless of the sector your organization operates within or its size, increasing employee performance, building customer loyalty, and growing revenue are likely your top priorities. How can you continually improve your employees' morale and performance in a sustainable way? How can you stay ahead of your customers' ever-changing needs without spending a fortune on technology? How will you survive financially amidst the rising costs of retaining...
5) S'organiser pour la complexité. Revitalisez le travail et remettez l'humain au cœur de la perform
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Actualiser les organisations et le travail pour l'ère de la connaissance.
Un livre sur la complexité et le travail - et sur la façon de les gérer de manière productive. Une introduction condensée à la théorie et à la pratique de la haute performance organisationnelle. Un manifeste pour un leadership contemporain et une transformation profonde dans les organisations de toutes sortes.
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In this book the author shares a number of columns she published on various media, in order to give more insight and inspiration on the art of sitting on your hands. The basics of this is called Not Doing.
When sitting on your hands, the other person has the change to find an answer, start an action or initiates something. Often enough we are too fast and take away the opportunity for others to contribute.
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The source of the problem is not so much the new, but the threat of the loss of the old. Resistance to change is often grudgingly accepted as an unavoidable challenge for organizations striving to remain competitive in the global marketplace. However, NOT ONE of the existing change methodologies has recognized, integrated, or even mentioned the true origin of the term Resistance. How can your organization avoid the 70% organizational change failure...
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It's well known that human beings are allergic to change. This is nowhere more true than of human beings in organizations. Organization Development initiatives, Leadership Development programs, and Business Transformation plans all founder too often on our resistance and reluctance, on the tendency of people and things to slip back to how they were before. For a long time, Systems Thinkers in general (and Power+Systems pioneer Barry Oshry in particular)...
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Digital transformation may be the reason your company survives — but a more fundamental business transformation will be the reason it thrives. Indeed, companies that successfully navigate the choppy waters of digital transformation make sure their business models evolve with the technology they use. In succinct, upbeat fashion, Colombian business developers Oscar Cárdenas and Javier Alexis García teach you how to make this "Quantum Leap": using...
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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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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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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...
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Innovation has hit a deadlock. Business, economy, ecology, governance, society and our familiar way of life are reeling from the aftermath of this shortfall. Yet, we keep looking in the wrong places for new discoveries that can alter the arc of our personal, organizational and collective destiny.
The time is ripe to humanize innovation. We must take an inside-out approach, starting from the very essence of our humanness to harness the immense potential...
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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 massive paradigm shift in the world of work and the way we manage people. What's changing – everything!
All of this has been brought about by several converging factors. The impact of COVID on how we work; causing a shift from where work is done. Recent significant changes in Artificial intelligence, Chat GPT and robotics will impact on every area of work worldwide – it's happening now.
Predictably, fewer people are now required in the world...
16) 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...
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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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The practical guide to making the Beta organization happen. Anywhere - in just a few months. Sounds impossible? It isn't anymore! This handbook spells out an all-hands, high-engagement approach to organizational transformation that is suitable for any kind of company, regardless of size, age, country/culture, legal form and industry! So obvious and yet groundbreaking, this is the way to make the Beta organization happen. Anywhere. Fast.
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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...
20) Team Quotient
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The fundamentals of Team Quotient (TQ) is based on a 10-year study with 108 teams from Fortune 500 and other global companies, on the essential elements of High Performance Teams. Using numerous case studies from the companies with which he has worked, Douglas describes how he helped to turn mediocre and even dysfunctional teams into High Performance and WINNING teams with measurable results.
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