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If you're a typical mid-career worker in a typical enterprise – been around a while, employs more than a handful of people – the chances are you are being squeezed. Hard. You're under pressure like never before, coming at you from all directions. It's getting worse, and the prospects are worse still. You've been asked to do more with less for years, and there is nothing left to give. You can't trust people, you feel insecure, and the job seems...
82) The 3D Workplace
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Does your workplace need to change? Are you dealing with the same problems day after day? Struggling with broken processes? Concerned that you're failing your customers? Caught up in a culture of blame?
This illuminating book shows how to bring about deep and lasting change; making work work better for you, your colleagues and your customers.
Whatever type of work, whatever size of organisation, The 3D Workplace strips away the jargon and gives...
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The Matilda Principle offers a coaching approach that builds positive teams regardless of organisational culture. It builds trust, motivation and positivity without attracting attention and without rocking the boat. In other words, it is covert team building.
As a positive manager, you want people to do more than just show up. You also want people to enjoy working for you. You want them to trust you, to be motivated and loyal. In short, you want...
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In this world, interconnectivity is in crisis. Functionality and financial rewards guide our working relations and are affecting our ability to relate to others and ourselves. The human perspective seems to be lost, leading to divided and less productive teams and organizations.
The Connection Quotient enables an honest, courageous and humane interconnection to form, while still focusing on financial outcomes and results. The CQ enables us to illuminate...
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Have you ever noticed that great CEOs, managers and other people in charge always seem to know exactly what to say in every situation? Author Pamela Straker, with more than 25 years experience as a mental health and management professional, has. And in Let Me Stop You Right There, she outlines various common scenarios for effective communication with office archetypes: "by-any-means-necessary" overachievers, gossips, office invaders, negativity-mongering...
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Where attention goes, energy follows.
Tired of working in an Every-thing workplace, where you're so busy you can never catch your breath? Or fed up with the frustrations of a No-thing workplace, where getting anything done is impossible?
From personal experience, conversations with clients, and extensive research, Gayle Smerdon PhD recognised how important it is for organisations to stop wasting time, money and people's goodwill by trying to do way...
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WE do the right thing.
WE own our mistakes.
WE pick each other up.
WE challenge each other.
WE obsess over details.
Apathetic. Disengaged. Insecure. Afraid. These are words appropriately associated with many aspects of Corporate America.
In Begin With WE, leadership expert Kyle McDowell examines the root causes of dysfunction in business, highlighting the plague of a "me-oriented" paradigm, and provides the remedy with his framework, The 10 WEs....
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In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com. Do you regularly find yourself burdened by an ongoing balancing act, engaging in multiple endeavors, yet...
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Millions of people are unhappy with their current jobs. They either do not feel like they are properly appreciated or feel that they could do much better. A recent USA Today poll found that only one in ten people actually feel important in their job. In actuality, the number may even be lower than that, as it does not take into account people who aspire to being promoted or feel that they could perform better at their current position. Many people...
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Most leaders know that employees are an asset, but do they understand how to maximize that asset? Russ Robertson, former vice-president of career development and operational training at the world's largest corporation, discovered the truth to achieving top results through your existing employees. In Leading Regular Folks, you will gain a new understanding of what actually matters most to the people responsible for the actual execution of your business...
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La unidad académica de Alta Dirección se erigió gracias a la cercana relación entre los lideres empresariales y la Universidad EAFIT. Fiel a sus orígenes y su actual propósito superior, EAFIT busca inspirar vidas e irradiar conocimiento para forjar humanidad y sociedad; y, con esta convicción presente, ofrecer de manera permanente herramientas prácticas que contribuyan a resolver los desafíos del sector empresarial.
Esta unidad, que también...
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El libro que usted tiene en sus manos no lo dejará indiferente porque es de los que cuestionan al lector y, por ello, lo hace, en su diálogo tácito, partícipe de los problemas que presenta. Pero, a la vez, no lo abandona en la encrucijada, sino que le propone un camino reflexivo, racional, hacia la salida exitosa (exit, éxito y salida) basado en una cualidad: la integridad. La falta de confianza y de transparencia es uno de los principales problemas...
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How does a successful top-level manager or CEO motivate employees and encourage productivity, while navigating the often-treacherous organizational waters? How do they surpass lofty expectations and deliver impressive results with pitfalls lurking around every corner? Vision Driven: Lessons Learned from the Small Business C-Suite reveals the secrets behind winning executives' strategies for taking charge effectively of small organizations, both for-profit...
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Looking at the back of a book to figure out how to stop the pain and suffering created by insanity is insane!
Start on page 1, invest a few hours, and win the sanity game. This book will provide you with actionable material that will improve your environment for team growth, personal growth, and strategies for getting your sanity back.
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"It used to be that businesses could ask individuals to conform to the organization's needs. But now leaders are charged with creating the best company on earth to work for: they must transform their organizations to attract the right people, keep them, and inspire them to do their best work. In Why Should Anyone Work Here? Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones identify the six key organizational attributes to do just that. In separate chapters, they delve...
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In the hospitality space, Three and Jackie Carpenter know full well the importance of leading teams who are loyal, engaged, and happy. Working in an industry, where customer expectations are at an extreme, Three and Jackie have applied a mindset of treating employees like customers. They've developed a 5-step roadmap to creating positive employee experiences and company cultures where connection is the crux of the team's success. People First will...
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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 that technology can't.
Professor Ed Hess believes that requires us to become Hyper-Learners: continuously learning, unlearning, and relearning at the speed of change. To do that, we have to overcome our reflexive ways of being: seeking confirmation of what we...
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What could your company accomplish if it could attract and retain employees who buy into your organization's mission 100%? Culture Wins is a practical yet challenging modern guidebook for organizations that want to own the future. Its firsthand insights into building a contagious culture will drive sustainable growth and innovation for any organization. You will build a healthy workplace, increase revenue, and change the world with the lessons you'll...
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Organizations need innovation, and there is a powerful source right under their noses. Scholar and consultant David C. Thomas says the same forces of globalization that have created today's superheated competitive environment have also provided a potential hidden advantage: the multiculturals in your midst. Thomas cites extensive research and examples showing that multiculturals-people who have deep experience in more than one culture-have developed...
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