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,...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...