Organizational Behavior Management

On Fire at Work flies in the face of other books on workplace culture by showing that employee engagement isn't the ultimate goal - it's merely the starting point. Top-tier leaders of the world's best places to work reveal their best-practice strategies for getting employees to work harder, perform better, and stay longer. On Fire at Work features examples and original stories from exclusive personal interviews with over 25 founders/CEOs/presidents of companies like Marriott, Siemens, and many more!

accomplished author, professor, and consultant Jay Sullivan delivers a clear, tangible, and actionable guide to implementing flexibility and creativity in your enterprise. Through interviews with senior leaders from a wide array of industries and disciplines, the author shows you the trends and behaviors that allowed successful organizations to navigate the changing realities and complexities that have defined recent years, including the COVID-19 crisis, the increasing awareness of racial injustice in society, and the January 6th insurrection.

In Responsible Dental Ownership, Alex Zlatin explores the best business practices for dental owners, starting with determining your purpose and your practice’s defining ethical intentions. In this audiobook, you’ll learn everything it takes to become a responsible dental owner. From the importance of human resources to the main drivers of dental practices, Zlatin covers everything you wish you had learned in dental school.

Beholden to accepted assumptions about people and organizations, too many enterprises waste human potential. Robert Quinn shows how to defy convention and create organizations where people feel fully engaged and continually rewarded, where - both individually and collectively - they flourish and exceed expectations.

Think One Team has been specifically designed to help listeners, and everyone in their organization, to create and sustain teamwork across boundaries. Beginning with the fable of the big jelly bean team, listeners join one company's engaging, enlightening, and at times funny journey from silo-afflicted to one team. From their experiences you will learn the five practices that define the difference between think silos and think one team, and see what these practices mean for leaders and employees across an organization.

Why do four in every five employees quit their job? According to research, it's because they don't feel appreciated. Maybe this employee is you. Or maybe you're a manager wanting to hold on to good people. Either way, appreciation is the key to a workplace people care about. Dr. Paul White, a psychologist and leading workplace authority, unpacks the obstacles holding you back from authentic appreciation.

Leaders in nearly every industry have learned to keep a professional “distance” between themselves and the people who report to them - to avoid getting too close or too personal. This unwritten rule of leadership is pervasive and quietly destructive, and, little by little, keeping ourselves at arm’s length destroys trust, collaboration, and the very fabric of organizations. When Tom Gartland became president of Avis Budget Group, North America, he wanted the corporate culture to become more "open and connected" - so he started with himself. As he grew closer and connected more with those he was leading, he became a more effective leader.

Apply the psychology of team motivation clusters to "predict" team performance in this fun team leadership and culture change fable of ancient Egypt pyramid building - including real historical findings, interesting and relevant facts, and myths centered around the time just before the construction of the Great Pyramids at Giza. Listeners will get benefit from this audiobook from five team culture change and leadership lessons that TepTep learns on his journey to becoming a better team leader.

Aufgewachsen in einer Zeit von "no future", Jeans und Parka, Persching II und kaltem Krieg hat Gunnar Barghorn Egoismus und Ellenbogen als toxische Elemente erlebt. Der kalte Krieg fand nicht nur draußen, sondern auch in seiner Familie statt - hautnah. Das hat ihn geprägt anders mit Menschen umzugehen, Macht, als die Freiheit zu entscheiden, stets positiv und immer mit Leichtigkeit einzusetzen. Vor allem hat es ihn geprägt, jeden Menschen den sein oder werden zu lassen, der dieser gerne sein möchte.

To you, yes you! You are the boss. You are the one in charge. Here is the number one guide to save your business from lazy f--ks, an unapologetically politically incorrect, how-to with just enough content, served up, frank, and direct so you can use it to suss out if all is that good at your workplace or its adults playing up like they are in kindergarten or much worse, they are absolutely screwing with your business, your livelihood, and they don't give a s--t what you say or do.

In the stormy seas of today's world economy, organizations need people to own their work, not just rent a spot on the organization chart. All Hands on Deck is a fun-to-listen-to story that is both a business strategy book about creating competitive advantage through corporate culture, and a personal development book that will inspire listeners to be more committed and engaged with their work and their organizations.

The Diversity Dilemma is a no-holds-barred account of the impact of work on diversity on society, culture, community, and humanity. Dr. Thela Thatch, a Human Resource expert with over 25 years of working with Fortune 500 companies, explores the damage caused to people and organizational culture, all in the name of diversity. Thatch writes from the center of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) dilemma—where efforts to correct glaring issues simultaneously clash with the painful consequences of exposing them.

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.

Meredith Wilson's Shift: Everyday Actions Leaders Can Take 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.

Discover the key to successful organizational change with "You!—Make Organizational Change Successful" by Tim Moon. Directing change in a workplace can feel scary, but this book breaks it down into simple, actionable steps for everyone, from entry-level employees to top management. Through real-world examples and practical strategies, Moon empowers listeners to understand their role in driving and sustaining change within their organizations.

Here’s how to make purposeful system change happen! The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is...how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.

Most businesses struggle with disengaged employees, high turnover, and cultures that don’t connect. The result? Lost productivity, wasted hiring costs, and stalled growth. MESH shows you a better way. Built on the proven Employee Journey Framework, this book gives leaders a step-by-step roadmap to transform strangers into loyal superfans who believe in your mission and fuel your success.

Rock-star leaders stand out. Up and coming leaders have a challenge: How do you enhance your company’s culture in your current role? How do you establish yourself as a leader who takes your organization’s brand to eleven? You may not be an executive, and you may or may not have direct reports, but author, speaker, and trainer Jim Knight would assert that, nonetheless, you have the power to be a major influencer of your organization’s culture, lighting it up and making it rock, from the inside out.

Access to Asia presents a deeply insightful framework for today's global business leaders and managers, whether traveling from Toronto to Taipei, Baltimore to Bangalore, or San Francisco to Shanghai. Drawing from her extensive experience and global connections, author Sharon Schweitzer suggests that irrespective of their industry, everyone is essentially in the relationship business. Within Asia, building trust and inspiring respect are vital steps in developing business relationships that transcend basic contractual obligations.