Business Change

Lightweight, compact, distinctively styled, and now, electric: The Brompton isn't the only folding bicycle—or even the first. But everyone who has been on one will enthusiastically testify to its marvelous design (virtually unchanged over decades) and the particular joy of riding it. Will Butler-Adams, CEO of Brompton Bicycles, has been at the company for twenty years. Initially, he worked as an engineer for Andrew Ritchie, the bike's brilliant inventor and the business's founder, before taking the helm in 2008.

Less than 10 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women, and the pace of growth is shockingly slow, made worse by COVID-19 and its aftermath. What does it take for women to ascend permanently into leadership roles? In Her Own Voice sheds some light on this timely topic. Based on twenty-five years of research, Jennifer McCollum offers sage advice for the unique hurdles facing women in business, from contending with our own inner critic to having to navigate the often-intimidating world of negotiating for ourselves.

As a leader, changing your mind has always been perceived as a weakness. Not anymore. In a world that's changing faster than ever, successful leaders realize that a genuine willingness to change their own minds is the ultimate competitive advantage. Drawing on evidence from social science, history, politics, and more, business consultant Al Pittampalli reveals why confidence, consistency, and conviction are increasingly becoming liabilities.

Change initiatives fail because humans are hardwired to return to what's worked for us in the past. This book offers a straightforward process for rewiring ourselves and those we lead to be more change-capable.

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.

In today's world of near-constant disruption, every leader faces a slew of conflicting demands involving employees of different generations, cultures, and age groups; one of history's tightest labor markets; and never-ending geopolitical, climate, financial, and health challenges. Lead Through Anything provides simple, tested, and actionable strategies to help you continually level-up your impact as an individual, manager, and leader. It walks you through the process of developing a leadership mentality that balances three key elements to achieve sustainable success.

Set your goals and achieve them. Wouldn’t that be a fabulous thing to be able to do for you, for others, for your business, and for life? Imagine anything you want you can have with a goal and a plan and action with determination and perseverance.

Change Management and Process Improvement are considered two separate disciplines. Change Management initiatives often originate in the human resources department, whereas Process Improvement plans may come from the quality engineering or the project management departments. These departments' agendas, knowledge, mindset, and resource competency differ. However, Change Management approaches and Process Improvement models have much in common.

Leading Inclusion is not a how to book; it’s a how to be book—one that educates, challenges, and empowers you and your C-suite and board colleagues to lead a diverse workforce effectively. You’ll learn the historical facts that created the racial inequities and systemic injustices that show up in the workplace, even today. Leading Inclusion shows the importance of taking the pulse of all your employees, so you can identify meaningful actions to build an inclusive, respect-first organizational culture.

Tired of making decisions that seem to only work against you? It starts with understanding your brain and the decision-making process. Cognitive biases and heuristics have developed over thousands of years of evolution and can lead to serious damages in multiple areas of life if you don’t recognize them and stop them dead in their tracks. How Our Brains Betray Us has everything you need to know with examples, tools, and strategies to identify the most powerful cognitive biases that impair all types of decisions, how to avoid them and also use them to your advantage.

We all want an exceptional workplace culture that delivers better results and higher employee engagement. We know that companies with weak or average cultures struggle to attract and retain top talent. But culture change seems daunting—it feels time-consuming, risky, and difficult to manage. The real problem, however, is that we’re not seeing the invisible patterns inside our culture that make culture change so hard. The truth is, you can create a stronger, more resilient culture by uncovering your patterns and solving the problems they create—all in a matter of months, not years.

Most businesses still believe that having a high-quality website alone is enough to be successful online. They're wrong, too, because websites of quality have a very small role to play on the internet. These websites only help you connect to the company, and their impact is no longer effective. So, What’s next? What should an organization do to improve its online presence? Just put, your company needs to market itself. It wants to publish its services and products on the Web across networks. It must also find ways to reach more users online and share their brand messages.

As anyone who uses the Kaizen technique will endorse, the aforesaid understanding cannot get any further away from the truth. What is Kaizen? Kaizen is an effortless, simple and inevitable way to change one's life. In this book, Dr. Robert Maurer, a renowed author, psychologist and world famous Kaizen expert introduces the listeners to an extremely powerful transformative technique. The book sets out a step-by-step system for anyone to achieve any change in her/his life, be it big or small.

In a concise, easy-to-understand manner, the book reveals four mindsets (Be, Relate, Think, Inspire) that are most critical for individuals to experience deep, meaningful change, along with the process and tools for sparking their own powerful conversations to get the best out of themselves and those around them.

Resilience isn’t superhuman internal strength. True resilience is letting go of the “old way of doing things” and rewriting a script for success that gives you the fastest and best path from where you are to where you’re going. Backed by data-driven research, ReVisionary Thinking offers concrete strategies for blazing a new path to achieve your goal when the goalposts move on you. You will learn to acquire resilience through adaptive thinking, a three-part process involving flexibility, creativity, and openness to possibility.

This audiobook includes a fine group of simple rules that have the potential to greatly change your life. No kidding! Ever wanted a compass for life? Here is a very unique step-by-step guide: self-motivation broken down into defined everyday life issues: love, money, romance, karma, justice, your purpose of life, and several more. Figuratively, this is a medical doctor's self-help dissection notepad. The rules are plain amazing, simple, and down to earth. Need that extra drive, clarity, or motivation? Take a chance! Be enlightened and inspired!

Discover eight powerful mindset shifts that enable leaders and those they lead to adapt and thrive in a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty. Being adaptable and flexible have always been hallmarks of effective leadership, but recent events have seriously stress tested this idea. How do you find calm in the midst of all this chaos?

Traditional leadership frameworks emphasize control over making connections, but that underestimates the value of collaboration. By sharing the lessons of facilitative leadership, Invisible Leader gives you a new framework for tapping into your team’s potential. This book will show you how to approach, prepare, and guide team meetings to their best outcomes as well as how to use reflection to improve every stage of your work.

Having spent the last few years in Denmark uncovering the secrets of the happiest country in the world, Helen Russell knows it's time to move back to the UK. She thinks. Maybe. Or maybe that's a terrible idea. Like many of us, she suffers from chronic indecision and a fear of change. So she decides to give herself a year for an experiment: to overhaul every area of her life, learn how to embrace change and become a lean, mean decision-making machine.

The only thing you can rely on in today’s workplace is uncertainty. Between mergers and acquisitions, layoffs and team shuffles, pandemics and recessions, only the nimble survive. Change on the Run is your secret weapon to navigating it all. Change on the Run provides a laser-focused guide to navigating your way through disruption, without any time-consuming fluff or theory. Change-management expert Phil Buckley gives you 44 tried-and-true survival strategies for responding to transitions and disruptions as quickly as possible.