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1) The Unconventionals: How Rebel Companies Are Changing Markets, Hearts, and Minds-and How You Can Too
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What do electric shavers, craft beer, and DNA tests all have in common?
They were all revolutionized by the Unconventionals.
We've had our expectations turned upside down by leading brands like Converse, General Electric, and Waze simply because they saw things differently. How did they do that? By simply questioning the prevailing wisdom which then created outsized results and lasting change.
Based on the award-winning podcast, The Unconventionals...
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There are many books on Organisational Development, but to the reflective practitioner who is curious about their practice there can be a disconnect between the simplicity of theory and the often messy reality of practice. Organisation Development: A Bold Explorer's Guide explores the realities that they encounter in a way that gives practitioners hope that this is a shared experience (in fact it is normal), and that out of all of this progress can...
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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...
4) 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...
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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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How to Use Limited Liability Companies & Limited Partnerships offers key asset protection benefits to entrepreneurs and investors. This fourth edition of Garrett Sutton's bestselling book has been completely updated to reflect important legal changes affecting Limited Liability Companies and Limited Partnerships and clearly explains the advantages and best strategies in using them to protect your assets.
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A fresh, compelling approach to establishing a sustainable, results-driven nonprofit business plan.
Nonprofits often use the terms "strategic planning" and "business planning" interchangeably, but a good business plan goes beyond the traditional strategic plan with its focus on mission and vision, goals and objectives. The Nonprofit Business Plan, created by the nationally recognized nonprofit consultant experts at La Piana Consulting, helps your...
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Even though a quarter of a century has passed since Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma was first published, business leaders still find themselves confronted with the same problem. A profound disconnect too often exists between innovation development and business outcomes. Companies say they want the stimulus of innovation and even handsomely fund their in-house R&D. Yet when it comes time for a call to action, such as launching a new product...
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None of us can predict with 100% accuracy what will happen when we're in front of a group of people. We need to be prepared, but also prepared to adapt. Whether you are a presenter, facilitator, teacher, chairperson or negotiator, Nimble will equip you to respond effectively when you're taken by surprise. Learn how to craft a careful script, then to hold that script loosely so that you can adjust in real time to whatever's happening in the room. Find...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview:#1 The typical means of growing a business are organic, inorganic, or by external means. Acquisitions, especially those that involve another company, are the most common way to grow a business.
#2 The decision to acquire or build is based on the long-term, sustainable value creation of a company's stakeholders. While growth may accelerate the achievement of these objectives,...
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Get ready to be comfortable with discomfort. Discomfort is the backbone of an effective diversity program, and "Blind Attraction to Certainty" will show you how to successfully implement DEI in your workplace. In our contemporary workplace, it is our collective duty to push the boundaries built up by past generations and discover legitimate strategies that can usher in a new sense of community and belonging. You and your company will never experience...
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Change. Everybody wants it, everybody resists it.
Every change program in every corporation around the world is dreamed about, planned, organized, communicated and.... for the most part, fails.
"Riding Currents of Change" is the story of a consultant, Michael, and his client, Jim, and how they rode currents of change in a transformation program that ended up succeeding.
It is rare enough for operational consultants and clients to end up being friends...
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La administración de una empresa del Siglo XXI ha cambiado, mutado, no sólo por la globalización, el internet, el COVID, sino también por el nuevo contexto social, político y económico.
Como docentes necesitamos tener un dominio sobre el conocimiento, también habilidad o experiencia para transmitir un saber, pero, sobre todo, pensar para qué enseñarlo, cómo enseñarlo para poder tomar decisiones sobre los métodos didácticos para aplicar.
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In The Business of Kindness (2006), author Olivia McIvor introduced the powerful role kindness plays in creating positive, purposeful and profitable workplaces. In this second edition, McIvor fast-forwards to the effect technological change and social media have had on the workplace and the challenges of bullying, employee retention and disengagement businesses face. To McIvor, relationships are front and center in any discussion on how business and...
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"En la actualidad, el concepto de innovación organizacional adquiere trascendencia en razón a que los directivos de las empresas lo consideran un elemento diferencial de competitividad que resulta de actividades que caracterizan e identifican a la empresa por su acción en un marco espacial y temporal, alcanzando logros importantes al ofrecer en el mercado nuevos productos y servicios. Dicho concepto, además, conduce a replantear y proponer técnicas...
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Running a successful business involves people, processes and products. This book is about the people – written to support teams. Ten years ago, Team Clock: A Guide to Breakthrough Teams was designed to introduce a model for effective teaming. That book was the "why." This book is the "how." The research is clear: Effective teams have common themes. There's an investment in a meaningful mission and clear norms to guide the team toward that goal....
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Aujourd'hui, nous assistons à l'apparition de nombreuses maladies liées aux conditions de travail telles que le burn-out. Le salarié souffre et le coût de cette souffrance représente des milliards d'euros par an pour chaque État membre de l'Union européenne.Il est temps pour les petites, moyennes et grandes entreprises ainsi que pour les administrations d'intégrer plus d'humanisme dans leur mode de fonctionnement de manière à favoriser l'épanouissement...
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Thrive provides leaders with a clear blueprint for building a high-performance culture. Drawing on extensive experience in change management, organizational development, and performance consulting, Andrew Freedman and Paul Elliott share their systematic approach, known as the Exemplary Performance System (EPS), in a way that enables leaders to take immediate action to shift workforce engagement and performance.
Thrive teaches leaders how to create...
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"It takes 2 to make a thing go right! It takes 2 to make it out of sight!"
Those lyrics are from a 1988 Top 40 platinum-selling song by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock, who initially made the song with samples from another song written in 1972 by James Brown and performed by Lyn Collins called "Think (About It)." These lyrics succinctly sum up my convictions as an executive leader. Over the last 20 years, I have served in various executive leadership positions...
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