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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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Brown Books Publishing Group
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[2007]
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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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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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[2018]
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English
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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...
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Worth Books
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[2017]
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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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Worth Books
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[2017]
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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 context...
7) Frontline Incident Prevention - The Hurdle: Innovative and Practical Insights on the Art of Safety
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Gatekeeper Press
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2022.
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Safety. It’s a basic human need, a workplace right, a misunderstood concept with situational importance, and a challenging word to apply. It’s also a science. To be safe, you need to know about things like electrical theory, ergonomics, and standards applicable to your work. But it doesn’t stop there. To get safety right, you must understand the art of safety: how and why to understand, lead, develop, and protect people. That’s why Frontline...
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Sourcebooks
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[2020]
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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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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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[2018]
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All humans have bias, and as a result, so do the institutions we build. Internationally sought-after diversity consultant Tiffany Jana empowers readers to work against institutional bias no matter what their position is in an organization. Building upon the revelatory power of her book Overcoming Bias , which addressed managing individual and interpersonal bias, Erasing Institutional Bias scales up the framework to impact systemic change in organizations....
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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2014.
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Ugh-meetings. They're where productivity goes to die, right? There has to be a better way. According to leading consultants Dick and Emily Axelrod, there is. Using the same principles that make video games so engaging and that transformed the numbing assembly line into the dynamic shop floor, the Axelrods outline a flexible and adaptable system used to run truly productive meetings in all kinds of organizations-meetings where people create concrete...
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"Corporate culture is critical to any organizational change effort. This book offers a proven model for identifying and leveraging the essential elements of any culture. In a world that changes at a dizzying pace, what can leaders do to build flexible and adaptive workplaces that inspire people to achieve extraordinary results? According to the authors, the answer lies in recognizing and aligning the elusive forces -- or the "puzzling" pieces -- that...
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Society For Human Resource Management
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[2019]
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Who hasn't suffered at one time or another from exhaustion, cynicism, and a lack of effectiveness? But combine them over time and you're flirting with a disaster of catastrophic magnitude -- burnout. Elegantly defined as the depletion of personal agency (the apparatus driving our ability to initiate and execute actions) burnout effectively wipes out our ability to be effective, much less engaged. And the cost of burnout is astronomical in all its...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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2014.
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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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Sourcebooks
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[2008]
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"Have you confronted any of these coworkers or bosses recently? The Grumpy Martyr The Boss's Pet The Credit Snatcher Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots is designed to help people with all their office issues, from an exasperating coworker to a boss from hell. This book helps readers quickly pinpoint their problems and implement immediate tactics to resolve them. Vicky Oliver has helped more than 5,000 working people at different levels...
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Atlantic Publishing Group
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[2016]
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English
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It's now easier to find an activity that you think will work best for your team. The second edition of this book includes more team building activities for teams that telecommute or work from home. It also includes more activities that highlight the importance of diversity, breaking down stereotypes and acceptance.
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HarperOne
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[2020]
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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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This balanced guide to agility gets past the hype and frustration to help frustrated leaders transform their agile transformations. Agile transformations are supposed to make organizations modern, competitive, and relevant. But in the well-intentioned effort to move into the future, change leaders find themselves frustrated by pushback, limited impact, poor practices, and unfair criticism. What's going on? Jesse Fewell's book cuts through the "quick-fix"...
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Atlantic Publishing Group
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[2021]
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English
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"With the number of leadership books available on the market, it's not surprising that leadership is a skill that many aspire to achieve. But it can be overwhelming to find one method that stands out above all others. Uing his years of leadership experience, author Hal Chappelear offers a refreshing approach to leadership through the eyes of humility. The Miracle of Humble Leadership: Helping Good People Become Great hopes to inspire men and women...
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Major Street Publishing
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2024.
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English
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Move more and find a happier, healthier, more productive you. After a long day of sitting at work, your body aches, you have no energy, you' re drained of creativity and your mood has hit rock bottom. But that' s just part of your job, right? Wrong! It doesn' t have to be that way. The Active Workday Advantage will educate and inspire you to incorporate micro moves – small and powerful moments of movement – into your daily routine....
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"Ed Hess's Hyper-Learning is uniquely practical and is the essential starting point for charting new ways of thinking, living, working, leading, and being fulfilled in our new world." -- Gary Roughead, Admiral, US Navy (retired) former Chief of Naval Operations The Digital Age will raise the question of how we humans will stay relevant in the workplace. To stay relevant, we have to be able to excel cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally in ways...
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