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Discover the secret behind how Israel, a tiny country with the highest concentration of start-ups per capita worldwide, is raising generations of entrepreneurs who are disrupting markets around the globe and bringing change to the world.
Dubbed "Silicon Wadi," Israel ranks third in the World Economic Forum Innovation Rating. Despite its small size, it attracts more venture capital per capita than any other country on the planet. What factors have...
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What new products or services should you launch next year? How can you improve the productivity of a paint line? What should you name your new venture? How can you decrease patient waiting times? How can you improve the customer experience?
Pretty much any creative problem-solving task can be framed as seeking a new match between solution and need, from operational process improvements to creating strategies to foster organic growth. Innovation tournaments...
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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 tried-and-true CEO shows how to effectively translate business priorities in a manner that mobilizes and unites a team behind one holistic strategy.
All growth comes with growing pains-especially corporate growth. Larry Solomon, CEO of Solomon People Solutions and former executive vice president of human resources for the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, tackles the major challenges of mobilizing employees in his new book, Translate, Motivate, Activate.
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Organizational Energy presents a powerful and proven method for transforming organizations. Its power comes from a new understanding of organizations as living systems with their own vital energy, rather than simply mechanistic engines striving to meet their financial targets. Using the analogy between the human energy system and the organizational energy system leaders are able to understand and improve business excellence from a different perspective...
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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.
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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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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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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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It's no secret that we are, living in the Digital Age. Technology companies make up seven of the world's ten largest firms by market capitalization. And, the key to their success is, the key to all modern organizations.
Jonathan Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach, reveals the patterns and anti-patterns that will help organizations from every industry, deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels...
51) 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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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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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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What does it take to start and run a business that's built to last? What Works highlights the ten best ideas from the syndicated radio show What's Working with Cam Marston. Selected from 200 interviews with entrepreneurs, small business owners, and subject matter experts, these case studies feature the ideas that fuel real businesses from startup to success to succession. With his trademark curiosity, Cam gets his guests to tell us how they did it.
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56) Coaching Basics
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Great coaching makes a world of difference. Coaching is one of the quickest and most effective ways to advance the success of an organization. Yet it remains underused and misunderstood, and the term is often used synonymously with corrective counseling, encouragement, or the many helpful tactics in between.
In “Coaching Basics” you'll discover a precise coaching framework along with insights from 40 experienced coaches, including Barry Goldberg...
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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...
58) 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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Have performance appraisals been a source of motivation and compelled you to do your job better and more efficiently? Or have you found the performance appraisal to be unfair, demotivating, frustrating or even a waste of time?
Iggy Tan CEO shares his ideas on how to create high-performing organisations and the importance of workplace culture within an organisation. This includes banning the performance appraisal, creating a "no blame" culture, and...
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This book reflects the desire to awaken leaders to what is necessary to unlock the unlimited potential and possibilities for healthcare organizations through the synchronization of strategy, culture, people, and processes.
An Awakened Organization provides clear and consistent direction, builds a strategy-supportive culture, staffs it with high-performing people, and multiplies the efforts through continuous process improvement. The awakened...
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