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Portfolio/Penguin
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[2023]
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"From the bestselling author of Linchpin and Tribes comes a new challenge to leaders of all stripes The workplace has undergone a massive shift. Remote work and economic instability have depressed innovation and left us disconnected and disengaged. Paychecks no longer buy loyalty, happiness, and effort. Quiet quitting runs rampant, and people show up without truly showing up. Alarmed managers are doubling down on keystroke surveillance, productivity...
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In "Organizational Management", explore the fundamental concepts and strategies that drive successful organizational management. This concise and comprehensive guide delves into the theories of organizational management, examining the different types of behaviors and the biographical characteristics, abilities, and learning that shape them.Gain insight into the importance of attitudes and job satisfaction in creating a positive work environment, and...
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An expert guide to resolving coworker conflicts and healing hurt feelings and resentments, to create a more productive-and pleasant-environment.
Are you feeling less engaged, less committed, and more skeptical at work? Do you find yourself isolated? Or are you caught in the middle of co-workers' interpersonal conflicts? If so, you may be experiencing the symptoms of broken trust in workplace relationships.
Small but hurtful situations accumulate...
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Helping is a fundamental human activity, but it can also be a frustrating one. All too often, to our bewilderment, our sincere offers of help are resented, resisted, or refused-and we often react the same way when people try to help us. Why is it so difficult to provide or accept help? How can we make the whole process easier?
Many words are used for helping: assisting, aiding, advising, caregiving, coaching, consulting, counseling, guiding, mentoring,...
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Discover a more agile, democratic, and effective model of leadership, from legendary business scholar Edgar Schein and Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein.
Legendary organizational scholar Edgar Schein and former Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein say leadership today requires that people transcend their hierarchical roles and relate to each other as human beings-what they call humble leadership. In such relationships new ideas can flow freely,...
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The executive chairman and former CEO of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins reflects on the unique, results-oriented discipline he's developed over decades of leadership, which provides a blueprint for any organization to achieve prosperity.
We live in an era in which successful organizations can fail in a flash. But they can cope with change and thrive by creating a culture that supports positive pushback: questioning everything without disrespecting...
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Learn How to Turn Change into Opportunity
"Change is not merely necessary to life-it is life." –Alvin Toffler
In this FranklinCovey book on responding to change, explore your own experiences with change using a river journey parable as a point-of-reference. Take this voyage and discover timeless principles and timely results from an industry leader who has helped numerous organizations turn disruptive change into individual and collective opportunity....
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A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results.
We've all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest person in the room. These are the idea killers,...
9) The Champions Network: A Blueprint to Expand Your Influence and Spread Big Ideas in Any Organization
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ACTIVATE YOUR NETWORK! We all have BIG IDEAS: best practices, transformative programs, innovative initiatives, and ways to improve our company culture and productivity. If you could influence others to adopt these, would it make your job easier and help to accomplish your professional goals? Would it provide a benefit to your organization, community, or society?The Champions Network will help you leverage your existing network of colleagues and connections...
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The speed of the business is the speed of the leader. It's time to up your game. One of the most important questions a leader can ask themselves is: "How do I get my teams, my organization to move faster?"That is the challenge that all leaders face. This challenge grows more intense every day. Lead with Speed is the answer. This problem of speed is often disguised by other symptoms, such as "my projects cannot make an accurate prediction of when they...
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Team Building inside: Trabajo en equipo y coordinación¡Crea y vive el espíritu del equipo! Colaborar y trabajar en equipo es divertido… ¿En serio? ¿Usted piensa que no puede crear y mover un equipo mientras se divierten?¡Es perfectamente posible y se puede hacer por su propio equipo!¡¡Nuestra colección de guías prácticas « Team Building inside » va a demostrarlo!!Descubrir las actividades energizantes y divertidas que le ayudarán a...
12) Most Likely to Succeed at Work: How to Get Ahead at Work Using Everything You Learned in High School
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As Kurt Vonnegut once said, "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
When it comes down to it, work--with its know-it-alls, gossips, and brown-noser--is a lot like high school. This clever and useful book helps readers identify and better communicate with these and other common types we all remember from the days when report cards, not business reports, were our concern, and when the...
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Meredith Wilson's 'Shift: Everyday actions for leaders to shift culture' simplifies workplace culture with a focus on actionable steps. This practical guide enables leaders to shape, shift, and strengthen workplace cultures through everyday actions.
'Shift' demystifies organisational culture, without being stuffy or fluffy. Using everyday language and removing unnecessary complexity, Shift makes culture doable for leaders at all levels.
This valuable...
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Are you faced with a lack of effective leaders within your organization? Do you struggle to find individuals who possess the necessary skills and qualities to lead your teams to success? Without strong leaders, your company may be missing out on opportunities for growth, productivity, and innovation.This leadership gap can lead to a host of problems. Without capable leaders, your teams may lack direction, resulting in confusion and decreased efficiency....
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Leadership. Engagement. Retention. Recruitment. Diversity. The key challenges facing workplaces today.
Underpinning these challenges are the millennial workforce.
• A generation who are experiencing global challenges like the economic crisis, debt, job insecurity and housing unaffordability.
• A generation who are experiencing personal challenges like social media addictions, pressure, and mental health crisis.
• A generation who has been put...
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Drawing on 30-years of successful change management delivery, this book lays out how to get any business change adopted. Written in an engaging conversational style and brought to life through cartoon character 'Change Cat,' it gets to the heart of how to design, develop, and deliver change that works.
A great tool for change managers, team leaders, and senior management author Barb Grant shares the strategies, tools, tips, and templates to ensure...
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If you have ever feared speaking up about your ideas or have done so but are frustrated by your lack of success, this book is for you.
You'll learn from the stories of others who have been a "lone voice" or an "independent thinker" and their attempts at change-both successful and unsuccessful. By learning from their experiences, you'll gain insight into effective tactics and pitfalls to avoid. In addition, if you are a leader and afraid you are not...
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In the last decade, research on negative social evaluations, from adverse reputation to extreme stigmatization, has burgeoned both at the individual and organizational level. Thus far, this research has largely focused on major corporate risks. Corporate public relations and business executives intuitively know that a negative image deters important relationships-from customers and partners, to applicants, stakeholders, and potential funding. At the...
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Ray Fisman is the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and codirector of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School. His research has been published in leading economics journals. He is also a regular contributor to Slate. Tim Sullivan is the editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press. His writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, and other popular outlets.
We create organizations...
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Which business structures are best suited to the unpredictable 21st century? How can a business reconfigure itself with minimum disruption and maximum impact?
Every executive grapples with problems of restructuring--and most need hands-on guidance to solve them. Based on Jay Galbraith's world-renowned approach to organization design and featuring a broad selection of practical tips and tools developed by Diane Downey and Amy Kates, Designing Dynamic...
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