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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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Multitud de personas (sindicalistas, empresarios, trabajadores, autores varios,...) hablan y debaten sobre la organización del trabajo, pero no existe un acuerdo respecto al significado de tal expresión.
Este libro pretende aportar luz al respecto, proponiendo, en primer lugar, una definición o marco de referencia que facilite el entendimiento. A partir de ahí, analiza aquellas fórmulas organizativas que han venido siendo utilizadas en los niveles...
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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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We bear witness today to the emergence of various work-related illnesses, such as burnout. The employee suffers, and the cost of this suffering amounts to billions of euros per year for each Member State of the European Union. It is now time for small, medium and large-scale companies, and for administrations, to include more humanism in their business model, thus fostering their staff's fulfilment while taking into account the economic imperatives...
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This study aims to incorporate the positive mindset, or the so-called "Heartware," into the software and hardware of management. This study proposes a model that crosses the disciplines of neuroscience, physiology, organizational behaviors, and management science. In the nutshell, it stresses the use of mindfulness practices to shift people's mindsets to achieve better self-management and better relationship with others. This will develop the personal...
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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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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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"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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Este libro presenta un conjunto de métodos que pueden ser aplicados de manera sencilla en el mundo real de las empresas a través de aplicativos de Excel. Además, permite a los lectores crear estructuras y diseñar procesos consistentes con las estrategias de cualquier institución, demostrando que, en la práctica, muchas estructuras cobran forma con el tiempo y evolucionan, pero normalmente se inician con un dibujo de las mismas, que es la interpretación...
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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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Britain needs to nurture a new approach for economic success. Economic change needs to be achieved in ways that are more inclusive in terms of society and sustainable and resilient in terms of the natural environment. One ingredient for this is to harness innovation trends that encourage far stronger doses of economic collaboration. We call this the co-operative advantage.
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The worldwide pandemic, economic upheaval and social unrest that 2020 debuted will linger with us in many forms for years to come. As international as these issues have been, the management of the crisis and disruption it has caused in the United States has fallen most often to state and local leadership. In every local community, Chambers of Commerce have been part of that critical response and recovery team, aiding citizens and businesses alike....
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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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Transforming a company's digital product development capabilities is a monumental task that can leave even the most seasoned leaders feeling completely overwhelmed.
Traditional approaches to training often fail to have their desired impact. Instead of transformation, you get piecemeal improvements that don't lead to significant change.
Here's the truth: if you want learning that sticks, you need a dojo.
In Creating Your Dojo, experienced dojo coaches...
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