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"The phenomenon of uncertainty is not new; what is new is its intensity and potential to change industries and destroy companies. Business leaders can be on the defensive, or they can be on offense, prepared to lead decisively. The ability to deal with uncertainty is perhaps the paramount skill leaders must have to be successful in this era. Without it they risk becoming personally obsolete and driving their companies off a cliff. In The Attacker's...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...
71) The personality brokers: the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing
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"An unprecedented history of the personality test that has achieved cult-like devotion, devised a century ago by a pair of homemakers and found today in boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It has been harnessed by Fortune 100 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language--of extraversion vs. introversion, thinking vs. feeling--has inspired...
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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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Are you tired of being just "good" when you know you have the potential to be truly great? Are you ready to unlock the winning formula that will take your team from average to extraordinary? Look no further, because the transformation you've been searching for is right here, right now. The Problem is all too common - teams stagnating in mediocrity, with untapped potential and unfulfilled dreams. Despite having competent individuals, the collective...
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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...
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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...
76) 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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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...
78) 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...
79) 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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Build a Modern L&D Team
Organizations are facing an era of rapid acceleration. As new technology and digital strategies are integrated, workers at all levels will be required to build capability much faster than before, navigating more complex systems and processes. Yet, learning and development (L&D) has lagged in this area, as too many L&D functions still focus on transactional interactions across a broad and complex portfolio while starved for...
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