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The Serving Leader Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community, 10th Anniversary Edition, Revised and Expanded It's people who make organizations great, so how can leaders best help their people achieve that greatness? As Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert show in this new edition of their bestseller, you can't just demand greatness -- you have to inspire it. The most effective leaders don't just stand in front of their people,...
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"Bob Nelson, author of the multimillion-copy bestseller 1001 Ways to Reward Employees , and human performance expert Mario Tamayo offer hundreds of practical, creative tips for helping employees -- and their managers -- make work more fun. According to the employees that work for firms listed in Fortune 's "100 Best Companies to Work for in America," the most defining characteristic of these organizations is they are all "fun" places to work. Fun...
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"His candid insight... transforms the boardroom business as usual attitude and leads your corporation to a higher platform of performance." -- Dr. Norman (Chip) Harbaugh, MD, FAAP, CEO/Chairman of the Board-Emeritus/Founder, Kids Health First It's time to look at a typical day at work in corporate America and how bad habits, bad procedures, and bad communication creep into the workplace, undermining productivity. Business experts agree that procedural...
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"An important reminder of simple everyday practices to improve how we all work together, which will lead to greater team and individual happiness and performance. Great results will follow."--Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square "With just 30 changes, you can transform your work experience from bland and boring (or worse) to fulfilling, fun, and even joyful."--Daniel Pink, author of When and Drive The vice president of Twitter Europe and host...
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Make work FUN with lessons in engagement that game play can teach us ALL. In videogames, like in any modern workplace, cooperation, continuous learning, hard work, engagement, and a balanced slate of skills are all keys to victory. A lot of thought and science goes into engineering the gamer's experience to provide feedback exactly when it is needed so they can get better and understand how the game works. What if your workplace was designed the same...
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Take Charge of the Relationship That Matters Most to Your Career Your most important work relationship is with your boss. You need it to go well. But even the best bosses can be hard to read, and some seem downright inscrutable. Your boss isn't going to change for you-don't waste your time trying. The solution lies in figuring out what makes your boss tick and adapting your own work style to make the relationship better. But how do you do that? In...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Adam Grant's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Originals includes: ; Historical context ; Chapter-by-chapter overviews ; Profiles of the main characters...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Antonio García Martínez's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez includes: Historical...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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[2018]
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Discover the Purpose Advantage! Customers, employees, and investors are no longer satisfied with companies providing good products, good prospects, and good profits they want them to do some social good, too. These purpose-driven companies do better on nearly every traditional metric: greater customer loyalty, higher retention, more innovation, and a healthier bottom line. But a nice mission statement and donations to charity won't make your company...
10) Pick Up the Gum Wrapper: How to Create a Workplace That Increases Performance While Improving Lives
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Why is it that most people start a job with high hopes but eventually become disillusioned? With mounting pressure for results, companies can't afford employees who are going through the motions. The truth is, most employees want to do their best at something they enjoy, feel valued for their contributions, and make an impact. The majority of leaders understand this, but making it happen can be a mystery.
In Pick Up the Gum Wrapper, Joe Bertotto...
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Every great company has an engaged workforce, and nurturing a culture of engagement is at the heart of great leadership-employees who really care about their work, their coworkers, and the organization can supercharge a company's success. But for many years, engagement has been suffering. Gallop reports that 70 percent of employees are not fully engaged on the job. Mark Miller draws on more than forty years of leadership experience to show leaders...
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Revised and expanded: this classic guide to business leadership presents "an original and profound new view on how to run an organization" (Library Journal).
Despite all the evidence calling for change, most organizations still rely on patriarchy and control as their core form of governance. The result is that they stifle initiative and spirit and alienate people from their work. In Stewardship, Peter Block calls for a dramatic shift in how...
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What is the right leadership approach to transform a company from outdated, sluggish, and unprofitable to an industry darling? When Cheryl Bachelder was named CEO of Popeye's in the Fall of 2007, the stock price had slipped from $34 in 2002 to $13. The brand was stagnant, team members were discouraged, and the franchise owners were just plain angry. By the end of 2016, average restaurant sales were up 45%, operating profits had doubled, market share...
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We all make assumptions, and these are the building blocks for our unconscious biases. They pervade the workplace and spill into our personal life. Dr. Stephens carefully walks you through a three-step model for overcoming unconscious bias. Step 1 is to raise awareness and unfreeze the undesired behavior. Step 2 is to change the behavior through transformational conversation. And Step 3 involves creating a plan to freeze the new, desired behavior....
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Leading Culture Change: What Every CEO Needs To Know is a practical guide for top leaders who are faced with the challenge of shaping their culture to create long term, sustainable value. Culture is changeable-but only with CEO sponsorship and a methodical, best practices approach. Author Christopher S. Dawson draws on 25 years of experience as an organizational consultant in a variety of industries to delineate five critical success factors, without...
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When businesses, families, or individuals decline to be accountable for their actions and decisions, the results can be devastating. Businesses can fail, relationships falter, and reputations shatter. ‘Culture Without Accountability-WTF?’ is full of real life stories of what accountability looks like, and what can go wrong in its absence. This book offers a proven process for installing an accountability-based culture, a platform for success in...
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For a CEO or business owner, the teams you lead are the heart of your enterprise. An investment in their fulfillment is an investment in your company's future. As the landscape rapidly changes-more than anyone could have foreseen-organizations are scrambling to find and retain their best people. You have the chance to increase retention, drive productivity, and bring joy back to the workplace. It's an opportunity to make a difference in the lives...
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This book was, written to help you navigate three of the biggest challenges young professionals face as they launch their careers: preparing a resume, getting ready for interviews, and successfully networking. Stage management is incredibly important for interview preparation. Whether you like it or not, first impressions mean a lot. Plus, knowing that you look the part lifts confidence and helps you deliver your best possible performance. This book...
19) Team Building
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Successful team building that exists in any workplace is involvedwith more than simply the creation of a successful team thathas been given, instead of creating or building an entire idealteam from the beginning. There are particular core principlesthat are linked to effective team building that can help anyorganization or work situation get the best outputs out of anyteam that has to be managed.By adopting the effective methods of team building,...
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Living at 30kFt gives audiences a comedic and pragmatic approach to career success and life after college. Author James N. Kinney weaves together business strategy, holistic living and pop culture into key takeaways that give the reader easy to follow tips for effective living. Kinney explores fitness, stress, social media, and many hot topics of today's workforce. He relates to the reader though hip-hop and rock song lyrics while poking fun at pop...
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