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Little, Brown and Company
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2023.
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"The most important technological revolution of our time isn't what companies make, but how they make it."--
What is “being geeky?” It’s being a perennially curious person, one who's not afraid to tackle hard problems and embrace unconventional solutions. McAfee shows how the geeks have created a new culture based around four norms: science, ownership, speed, and openness. The geek way seems odd at first. It's not deferential to experts, fond...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2024]
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English
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"A true story of triumph by award-winning business leader, impact investor, and educator James Rhee about finding success and happiness with the simple yet powerful combination of kindness and math"-- Provided by publisher.
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An expert guide to resolving coworker conflicts and healing hurt feelings and resentments, to create a more productive-and pleasant-environment.
Are you feeling less engaged, less committed, and more skeptical at work? Do you find yourself isolated? Or are you caught in the middle of co-workers' interpersonal conflicts? If so, you may be experiencing the symptoms of broken trust in workplace relationships.
Small but hurtful situations accumulate...
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Helping is a fundamental human activity, but it can also be a frustrating one. All too often, to our bewilderment, our sincere offers of help are resented, resisted, or refused-and we often react the same way when people try to help us. Why is it so difficult to provide or accept help? How can we make the whole process easier?
Many words are used for helping: assisting, aiding, advising, caregiving, coaching, consulting, counseling, guiding, mentoring,...
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Niall Downey, a cardio-thoracic surgeon who retrained as a commercial airline pilot uses his expertise in healthcare and aviation to explore the critical issue of managing human error. With examples from business, politics, sport, technology, finance, education and other fields, Downey makes a powerful case that by following some clear guidelines, any organisation can greatly reduce the incidence and impact of making serious mistakes.
While acknowledging...
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In "Organizational Management", explore the fundamental concepts and strategies that drive successful organizational management. This concise and comprehensive guide delves into the theories of organizational management, examining the different types of behaviors and the biographical characteristics, abilities, and learning that shape them.Gain insight into the importance of attitudes and job satisfaction in creating a positive work environment, and...
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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Meredith Wilson's 'Shift: Everyday actions for leaders to shift culture' simplifies workplace culture with a focus on actionable steps. This practical guide enables leaders to shape, shift, and strengthen workplace cultures through everyday actions.
'Shift' demystifies organisational culture, without being stuffy or fluffy. Using everyday language and removing unnecessary complexity, Shift makes culture doable for leaders at all levels.
This valuable...
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Team Building inside: Trabajo en equipo y coordinación¡Crea y vive el espíritu del equipo! Colaborar y trabajar en equipo es divertido… ¿En serio? ¿Usted piensa que no puede crear y mover un equipo mientras se divierten?¡Es perfectamente posible y se puede hacer por su propio equipo!¡¡Nuestra colección de guías prácticas « Team Building inside » va a demostrarlo!!Descubrir las actividades energizantes y divertidas que le ayudarán a...
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Are you faced with a lack of effective leaders within your organization? Do you struggle to find individuals who possess the necessary skills and qualities to lead your teams to success? Without strong leaders, your company may be missing out on opportunities for growth, productivity, and innovation.This leadership gap can lead to a host of problems. Without capable leaders, your teams may lack direction, resulting in confusion and decreased efficiency....
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The speed of the business is the speed of the leader. It's time to up your game. One of the most important questions a leader can ask themselves is: "How do I get my teams, my organization to move faster?"That is the challenge that all leaders face. This challenge grows more intense every day. Lead with Speed is the answer. This problem of speed is often disguised by other symptoms, such as "my projects cannot make an accurate prediction of when they...
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Leadership. Engagement. Retention. Recruitment. Diversity. The key challenges facing workplaces today.
Underpinning these challenges are the millennial workforce.
• A generation who are experiencing global challenges like the economic crisis, debt, job insecurity and housing unaffordability.
• A generation who are experiencing personal challenges like social media addictions, pressure, and mental health crisis.
• A generation who has been put...
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Character is something intrinsic to us all; it forms and reveals who we are. Unbeknownst to many, character is foundational to our judgment, behavior, and leadership. As we tackle the grand challenges of our time, strength of character guides us to make better decisions, creates greater well-being, and contributes to human flourishing. For those who lead - whether in the public, private, not for profit, or education sectors - a greater understanding...
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Which business structures are best suited to the unpredictable 21st century? How can a business reconfigure itself with minimum disruption and maximum impact?
Every executive grapples with problems of restructuring--and most need hands-on guidance to solve them. Based on Jay Galbraith's world-renowned approach to organization design and featuring a broad selection of practical tips and tools developed by Diane Downey and Amy Kates, Designing Dynamic...
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In the last decade, research on negative social evaluations, from adverse reputation to extreme stigmatization, has burgeoned both at the individual and organizational level. Thus far, this research has largely focused on major corporate risks. Corporate public relations and business executives intuitively know that a negative image deters important relationships-from customers and partners, to applicants, stakeholders, and potential funding. At the...
16) 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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The first and only guide to diagnosing and dealing with the hidden or covert factors that can ruin even the most meticulously planned change processes.
Organizational change initiatives often fail because they focus exclusively on the rational, overt aspects of change, overlooking the powerful role played by concealed or irrational factors. It's well known that these covert processes-such as hidden agendas, blind spots, office politics, tacit assumptions,...
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The key difference between a highly successful organization and one that just merely reaches its quarterly goals--most of the time--might very well be how they address performance reviews.
Are they just a perfunctory, annual "check-off," with no other goal than to justify salary increases, or does the organization truly know how to manage and measure its employees' performances to best impact a company's bottom line?
In The Performance Appraisal...
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The always-on, hustle culture creates an unhealthy, counterproductive relationship with work.
Many workers believe that to compete with other top talent, they must embrace a culture that rewards long hours and a constant connection to work. Businesses and society endorse busyness, overwork, and extreme commitment as the most valued traits in workers. Sometimes that endorsement is explicit, as when Elon Musk told X/Twitter employees to work "long...
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• EXPERT VOICE: Talia is a Business Consultant, CEO of KUSI Global, Inc., Leadership Training & Development, Diversity Inclusion Strategist, Harvard University Fellow, M.Ed., Howard University, Entrepreneur in Residence at Georgetown University
• TRUSTED EXPERIENCE: Talia has transformed hundreds of thousands of executives over the last twelve years and has developed leaders at all levels for major corporations. She has been working side-by-side...
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