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Wall Street believes that all public companies should grow smoothly and continuously, as evidenced by ever-increasing quarterly earnings, and that all companies either "grow or die." Introducing a research-based growth model called "Smart Growth," Edward D. Hess challenges this ethos and its dangerous mentality, which often deters real growth and pressures businesses to create, manufacture, and purchase noncore earnings just to appease Wall Street....
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Sí se puede. Esta expresión, que puede suscitar una sonrisa irónica, suele aparecer cuando una causa perdida (sea un partido de beisbol o una campaña política) remonta todos los obstáculos y parece dirigirse hacia una victoria inesperada. La mayor parte del tiempo la frase no pasa del acto de fe. No obstante, sí es posible organizarse y cambiar el rumbo de las historias, tanto personales como colectivas. Ése es el espíritu que anima el pensamiento...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Jessica Bennett's Feminist Fight Club by Instaread Preview: Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett is a guide for women to counteract behaviors and trends in the workplace that disproportionately damage their ability to succeed. Bennett's outlook on feminism was shaped early in her career by regular meetings with other women to discuss obstacles and share their successes in what they called a feminist fight club." Women...
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Revised edition of Hock's award-winning Birth of the Chaordic Age, updated throughout and featuring two new chapters; The only first-person account of the rise of VISA, the world's largest business enterprise--in 2004, VISA's products were used by more than a billion people at 20 million locations in more than 150 countries and Hock, VISA's founder, details the revolutionary "chaordic" organizational philosophy that was instrumental in VISA's success....
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What's the number one complaint about the introduction of new collaboration tools into a group or organization? Answer: no one uses them. It's time to do something about this complaint. It's been happening for too long, with too many generations of collaboration tools. What can we do? Become a lot better at user adoption. User Adoption Strategies is written by Michael Sampson (also the author of other books on collaboration strategy), and is published...
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The Third Wave by Steve Case | Includes Analysis Preview: The Third Wave relates AOL co-founder and former CEO Steve Case's reflections on his career and the future of the technology industry in America. Part memoir, part analysis of the industry, The Third Wave is also a cautionary tale to would-be entrepreneurs who believe the culture of solo founders and tech disruption will always be valued in the future. The book is named for futurist Alvin Toffler's...
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A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By promoting open dialogue across the corporate hierarchy, the firm has fostered a uniquely engaged workforce and an enviable capacity for change. Yet the path hasn't always been easy. TechCo has confronted a number of challenges, and its experience reveals the essential elements of bureaucracy that remain even when a firm sets out to discard them. Through...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 Boeing's president, William Allen, was a board member for fifteen years before becoming president in 1945. He never traveled without Triscuits and two pairs of eyeglasses.
#2 Boeing was just one of many airplane manufacturers in a business that was dominated by strong-willed founders. The young companies were controlled by dominant, strong-willed founders like Donald...
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On average, a company will lose 25% of its revenue from an organizational disaster – and that's the good news. The average cost to have prevented it? Less than one-tenth of 1%. But that's not the worst of it; in virtually every case, the organization's leadership will already know this…Cultural Calamity: presents Joseph W. Mayo's breakthrough theory on organizational risk culture. Exploring over a century of such disasters, Mayo introduces his...
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This book presents the intricacies of retailing from both academic and practical points of view. New changing business practices are actuating changes in the retail environment. Dearth of time and increase in incomes of public has created a need for new types of retail formats. This means retailers will have to have knowledge of knowing their customers and anticipating their needs. As the economic structure in India is changing so is the field of...
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Creativity has long been thought of as a personal trait, a gift bestowed on some and unachievable by others. While we laud the products of creativity, the stories behind them are often abridged to the elusive aha! moment, the result of a momentary stroke of genius. In The Craft of Creativity Matthew A. Cronin and Jeffrey Loewenstein present a new way to understand how we innovate. They emphasize the importance of the journey and reveal the limitations...
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Forms and transforms in people, they become strong, focused, and vibrant-and wonderful things can happen. But when the spirit is down, nothing else seems to make a difference-because not too much happens. Many of us today find ourselves trapped in just such organizations. The spirit in our workplace, to say nothing of our own spirit, is getting a little tattered, showing the early stages of what Harrison Owen calls "Soul Pollution." Those in the advanced...
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Abstract: this paper readdresses the founding roots of social science. It presents social model with unified structural parts and measurable force of cohesion. It proves that man is the only valid foundation of any social structure and denounces the group approach of all "isms". Be it communism, socialism. The one and only right is capitalism. It offers us to model social phenomenon with one agent - human. And with two forces that keep the structure...
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This book shows how to spot the emergence of a new level of order from the seemingly chaotic change that characterizes modern times. Offers practices and principles that will help you align yourself and your organization with the new order. This features real-world examples of individuals and organizations that have successfully navigated disruptive change. 2011 Nautilus Gold Medal in the category of Conscious Business/Leadership. Change is everywhere...
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Embracing the Counterintuitive Side of Collaboration
Think of your to-do list at work. Chances are the most important tasks require you to work with others-and the success of those endeavors depends on the effectiveness of your collaboration.
According to management expert Leigh Thompson, collaboration that is conscious, planned, and focused on generating new ideas builds excitement and produces what she calls a "creative conspiracy." Teams that...
77) Onboarded
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In this easy-to-read book for all entrepreneurs, managers and HR professionals, Brad Giles outlines the simple step-by-step process that leaders worldwide use to significantly increase the effectiveness of both new hires and existing teams. Backed by global research and years of implementation, “Onboarded” brings dramatically more confidence to leaders responsible for managing new hires.
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• The structural reasons that lead to...
78) Breaking the silence habit: a practical guide to uncomfortable conversations in the #MeToo workplace
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"Top consultant Sarah Beaulieu offers a five-part framework that enables employees to have difficult but necessary conversations about sexual harassment and violence and develop new, better ways of working together"--
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If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you! But you won't find talking rabbits or princesses here. (There is a cow, but it doesn't jump.) Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two of the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes-heretical reflections on management. The moral here is this: managers...
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author and longtime leader in the discussion of the future of work provides research-based insights and best practices for leading change in the ever-evolving post-pandemic world of work. The pandemic forced your organization to shed antiquated systems, processes, and procedures and to make a bold leap into an even more digitally enabled, technology-driven future. After months of adapting, your teams have settled...
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