Organizational Behavior Leadership

The inability to modify available information technologies is a shock to leaders and managers alike. Cloud-based technologies arrive with set processes developed by others, and users must learn new ways of working each time the technologies themselves evolve...To adopt efficiently and adapt effectively to behavior-changing technologies, astute leaders should employ change leadership techniques as a strategy for the digital era. This audiobook offers technology takers a playbook to manage change, create value, and exploit the digital era's strategic opportunities.

It's been said that a good leader brings out the best in people, while a great leader helps people become something greater than they'd ever imagined they could be. Bad leaders, on the other hand, are said to be nothing but trouble: mean, cruel, twisted, creatures that make the workplace a living hell for everyone. That may all be true (we think that it us) but that doesn’t mean that we can't learn something useful from our bad bosses. In Bob We Trust is the third collection of annotated leadership columns from Keil Hubert.

Desta vez, Lencioni conta a história de Jeff Shanley, que assume o comando da empresa da família em meio a um turbilhão de problemas. Ele acredita que só conseguirá salvar o negócio se consolidar uma cultura empresarial forte de contratação e desenvolvimento de pessoas com base nessas virtudes. Para isso, arrisca-se a perder pessoas talentosas que não sabem trabalhar em grupo e precisa convencer um executivo de que, mesmo sob pressão, não vale a pena admitir profissionais abaixo dos padrões da organização.

Our government organizations face political fallout, media scrutiny, reduced funding, and the many challenges involved in motivating large, multi-layered and highly regulated organizations. It's no surprise that many government organizations report that their employees are less engaged than ever and that leaders feel helpless to change the situation. In many cases, employees and government leaders are caught in a vicious cycle. Performance declines, scrutiny increases, and employee paralysis ensues. How do you break this cycle and begin building successful government?

For too long, companies and their leadership teams focused primarily on their products or services. Leaders are deeply dialed into the minutiae of their companies' operations. But veteran Silicon Valley consultant Deborah Perry Piscione says investments in new technologies or operations do not create innovations - people do.

The benefits of the levity effect are not conjecture but are built on extensive research and case studies from some of the world's most successful organizations. New York Times best-selling authors Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher provide powerful examples from Boeing, Nike, KPMG, Yamaha, Enterprise, Zappos, and dozens of others, showing how lightening up can drive real business results.

Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z have different mindsets, expectations and communication styles, yet they have one thing in common: they all feel misunderstood. Being aware of each other’s needs, challenges, viewpoints, strengths—even fears, is key to unlocking the power of intergenerational collaboration in the workplace. Unlike most management books, this will use stories to reveal the origins of intergenerational conflicts, provide groundbreaking strategies to address them, and share first account best practices from leading global organizations.

In these chapters, innovation and transformation expert Bill Adams reveals why a modern-day phenomenon he dubbed “on-the-fly leadership” creates a fallout on the Core Leadership Functions and a blowback effect on the ability of leaders to focus their attention that he calls Attention Deficit Syndrome.

In her breakout business book, corporate coach and business guru Jeanet Wade distills the essence of team and company success. The secret sauce to great teams, vibrant organizations, and happy people? Human nature. In a series of engaging and provocative chapters, she combines business research with anecdotes from her career and her executive client sessions, showing how we can attend to human needs by clarifying assignments, showing baseline consideration, and inspiring confidence.

En Dirige desde cualquier lugar encontrarás todo lo que necesitas para triunfar como líder remoto, lo cual será imprescindible de ahora en adelante para todos los que estén al frente de un equipo.

Survival fact: The people who will succeed today are those who figure out how to benefit from, or take advantage of, continuous disarray, disorder and disruption. Welcome to the age of continuous personal disruption. When even the most basic daily routines get swept up in a storm of ambiguity. When nothing is certain. When there is no perfect decision to be made. That’s why author Bill Jensen identified the 25 habits most necessary for success in today’s crazy world.

While most of us would like to think we generally behave in a positive way, especially at work, everyone has the potential to slip into negative behaviors that can have a damaging impact on our colleagues, morale, and the organization we are part of. This useful guide by Anna Eliatamby looks at the different types of positive and negative work behaviors people fall into and why. Your own toxic work behaviors will help you recognize and acknowledge your own problematic behaviors in the workplace.

What Was Your First Memory of Race? This opening question is the heart and soul of “Room at the Table.” The word equity is thrown around in multiple media outlets, corporations, and non-profits. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion… Many shy away from these terms, convinced that they already understand. In truth, these concepts are a mystery to most. It’s more important than ever to grasp the vital, far-reaching aim of the equity lens. What does this work look like? What does it sound like? What actions must equity leaders take to turn the future of leadership into a reality?

Das Unternehmen als Maschine, ist nur eines von vielen Missverständnissen, die weiterhin hartnäckig ihr Unwesen in modernen Organisationen treiben. Das Buch zeigt eine Alternative zum Altbewährten, wobei das Alte nicht zwangsläufig schlecht und das Neue nicht zwangsläufig gut ist. Differenziert, tiefgründig und provokant wird mit den 9 größten Missverständnissen der modernen Arbeitswelt aufgeräumt und dem Leser nützliche Werkzeuge mit an die Hand gegeben, um sich durch den dichten Unternehmensdschungel navigieren zu können.

You could decide to have G.R.E.A.T. processes. When you have those, these kind of problems perhaps don’t go away completely, but they can be dramatically reduced. Everyone can have an easier life, with less stress, wasted effort and better outcomes for employees, the business and its customers. So the big question you probably have is “well, how do we make that happen?”

Leadership Lessons, Volume 2 is a book that is all about how to improve organizational performance. The central focus of all these essays is improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organizations. The purpose is to help organizations and the people within them to be able to realize their individual and collective potential. Many of the essays are titled in the form of a question because if you don’t learn to ask better questions, you will never get the answers you really need.

This book debunks the myth that leaders need to be creative like designers to apply design thinking. Applying design approaches and practices to organizational leadership is not just about its leaders becoming more creative. It is definitely not about the person at the top coming up with the grand answer. Design thinking starts with the 'pain point' related to the problem you are trying to solve. You get to the heart of the issue. It is a collaborative effort that neatly leads stakeholders and representatives affected by the problem to design novel leadership solutions that work.

From years of research and practical experience as a consultant, Jeff DeGraff has learned that when it comes to any innovation initiative, disharmony is crucial. We innovate when we disrupt, and we first have to disrupt each other.

Leadership Lessons is a book about how to improve organizational performance. The essays in this book are an accumulation of various projects that I have been involved in for more than a dozen years. The term projects spans quite a range of subject matter and purposes for their existence. The reality is that the central focus of all these essays is improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organizations. The purpose is to help organizations and the people within them to be able to realize their individual and collective potential.

Catherine had just celebrated her forty-third birthday on May 20th. Her dream of owning and running a thriving company was coming true. Essentially Proximal's essential oil line was becoming a major success. As a female business owner, she was doing her best to promote positive culture at work and retain talent. Her goal was to build a diverse high-performing and inclusive leadership team, but her leadership team was struggling to put people first and live the mission and values of the company. She had to make some serious changes to ensure the future success of the company.