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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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The definitive classic on high-performance teams
The Wisdom of Teams is the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization. Having sold nearly a half million copies and been translated into more than fifteen languages, the authors' clarion call that teams should be the basic unit of organization for most businesses has permanently shaped the way companies reach the highest levels of performance.
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3) Onboarded
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In this easy-to-read book for all entrepreneurs, managers and HR professionals, Brad Giles outlines the simple step-by-step process that leaders worldwide use to significantly increase the effectiveness of both new hires and existing teams. Backed by global research and years of implementation, “Onboarded” brings dramatically more confidence to leaders responsible for managing new hires.
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• The structural reasons that lead to...
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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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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....
7) 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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El trabajo, la cooperación, la organización y la cultura son algunos de los conceptos que se examinan, desde la visión sistémica, en la presente compilación. Tal como lo indica el título de este libro, los matices son fundamentales para comprender las complejidades de las organizaciones y sus tensiones, que se despliega en dos vertientes: una relativa al desembarco del pensamiento sistémico y otra guiada por propuestas más concretas en torno...
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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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Great teams don't just happen.
How often have you sat in team meetings complaining to yourself, "Why does it take forever for this group to make a simple decision? What are we even trying to achieve?" As a team leader, you have the power to improve things. It's up to you to get people to work well together and produce results.
Written by team expert Mary Shapiro, the HBR Guide to Leading Teams will help you avoid the pitfalls you've experienced...
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As much as we may encourage our employees that they all have their own unique strengths that they need to embrace for the good of the business, the truth is a select few produce more, sell more, and flat-out deliver better results than anyone else. And many days, if we're honest, we wish we had three or four of each of these all-stars on the payroll. While cloning is still not possible, The Star Factor delivers the best of both worlds. Managers can...
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Like a hiker climbing to reach a mountaintop, you will undoubtedly encounter obstacles on your journey to peak effectiveness as a business leader. Challenges can range from leading a dysfunctional team to underestimating how much your actions impact others.
What if you could be more effective as a leader?
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• Significantly, improve your organization's culture?
• Engage your team, to maximize performance?
• Learn to appreciate...
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An essential guide for managers and leaders on building resilient teams in turbulent times.
As a result of global economic changes, new technologies, and increased competition, business environments are becoming increasingly turbulent and unpredictable, requiring new forms of resilient work teams.
Due in part to the increasing complexity of business environments, more and more organizations worldwide are using teams of employees to respond to adversity....
14) Conscious Culture: How to Build a High Performing Workplace through Values, Ethics, and Leadership
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With employee engagement between 26-30 percent leaders are looking for ways to engage untapped employee potential and maximize their capital investment in HR.
A new business paradigm is emerging in the twenty-first century where an organization's culture is the most important and valuable asset a company has to attract, engage, and retain top talent. The most successful corporations in the world are values-driven and consciously invest in building...
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Most people associate drum circles with the counterculture and rarely think of them in relation to how their corporations function. However, drum circles can build emotional and energetic connections among people, says drummer and organizational change expert Jim Boneau. The energy of the drum circle can provide a powerful transformational metaphor for organizational change. All of that happens in the "rumble," a time of chaos and change.
This officially...
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Teams are fast becoming a flexible and efficient way to enhance organizational performance. This Harvard Business Review collection brings together the ideas and research from Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith, who argue that we cannot meet the challenges ahead, from total quality to customer service to innovation, without teams. This collection includes The Wisdom of Teams and The Discipline of Teams.
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This e-book innovatively explores: Stories that every change leader needs to read. The often unexamined role of the "ordinary" person in change. How stories can help you be a more engaging coach, facilitator, trainer, and leader. The power of story as a tool for influence. How archetypes provide a way of interpreting stories. The different meaning of first, second and third-person stories. The deeper meanings behind "All stories are true but some...
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Make your learning organization truly indispensable.
If you're planting the seeds of improved organizational and individual effectiveness, you are a true learning leader. You know better than anyone that learning is an evolution, not a singular event. But what if your organization isn't on the same page? Or worse, what if you find that your efforts are the first to go when there's a change in the C-suite, or when budget cuts loom?
“Learning for...
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Are you building a typical team… or a high-performance tribe? The motivational power of the desire to belong is the key element for ensuring employee satisfaction and retention, as well as your company's long-term success.
With millions of exhausted employees "living for Friday," the place we spend most of our time--our workplace--is drudgery.
But what happens when leaders revive the workplace by tapping into a hardwired human need? That need,...
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Here's how to make purposeful system change happen!
The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is...how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through:
• Innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.
• How transformation catalysts work...
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