Organizational Leadership

The Gen Z Effect provides a mind-bending view of why we will need to embrace Gen Z as the last, best hope for taking on the world's biggest challenges and opportunities, and how you can prepare yourself and your business for the greatest era of disruption, prosperity, and progress the world has ever experienced.

Hire with Fire is an educational and entertaining hiring book which acts as an interview guide for managers who want to hire the best people - engaged, A players, high achievers, and top performers. In this noteworthy hiring book, you will explore best practices for how to interview people. The authors offer four key traits to help you select and hire the best people, A players, and top talent. In addition, through their relationship-driven approach to interviewing and hiring, you will build an engaged workforce filled with top performers.

Tom Kelley, author of The Art of Innovation and the general manager of IDEO, the world-famous design firm, illuminates the strategies IDEO used to beat the devil's advocate and drive creativity throughout the organization.

What does it mean to be yourself at work? As a leader, how do you strike the right balance between vulnerability and authority? This book explains the role of authenticity in emotionally intelligent leadership. You'll learn how to discover your authentic self, when emotional responses are appropriate, how conforming to specific standards can hurt you, and when you need to feel like a fake.

A guide to navigating the messiness of software development process change, dealing with all the legacy organizational elements, and focusing on increasing business agility.

In the wake of economic downturn, foreign competition, spiking oil prices, and even war, American business throughout this decade has been thrust into crisis. To improve their performance, corporations everywhere have adopted a wide range of tools and techniques, yet many continue to struggle. Going Lean points to a better way.

Like all relationships, the ones we have at work are subject to stresses—maybe even fractures that can really take a toll on the workplace. Productivity is lost. Time is wasted. Tension mounts. Cooperation is reduced. And the workplace becomes toxic. What’s the solution? In Making Things Right at Work, Dr. Gary Chapman is joined by business consultants Dr. Jennifer Thomas and Dr. Paul White to offer the strategies you need to restore harmony at work. Don’t let broken relationships taint your work environment. Take the needed steps to make things right today.

Ce n’est pas parce qu’on réunit un groupe de personnes et qu’on leur dit qu’elles vont dorénavant travailler ensemble que ça produit nécessairement une véritable équipe. Un groupe de personnes, c’est un attroupement. S’ils s’apprécient, ils peuvent même avoir du plaisir à se côtoyer. Mais de là à en faire une équipe gagnante qui réussira à atteindre ses objectifs contre vents et marées, il y a un pas que vous apprendrez à franchir dans ce livre. Vous serez à même de constater ce que chaque carence peut coûter aux équipes les mieux intentionnées.

The 16 case studies in this volume examine the culture of armies, navies, and air forces from the Civil War to the Iraq War and how and why culture affected their performance in the ultimate arbitration of war.

Listen to the experts reveal the secrets of preparing budgets, justifying investments to top management, motivating employees, and more. Why waste years at an expensive business school, when you can hear top professors present all the practical strategies and techniques that M.B.A. candidates must learn - from management and accounting to marketing and human resources.

You don’t need all the answers to lead well. True leadership is about showing up with purpose, supporting your team, and leading by example. In Leadership Uncomplicated, Bryan Banta cuts through the noise to offer a clear, real-world guide to leading others—at work, on the field, or in your community.

Workplace finger-pointing stifles creativity, reduces productivity, and limits psychological safety. Although no one sets out to be judgmental, learning new habits is hard. Two experienced leadership and agilists coaches share a road-tested leadership model that continuously embraces humility and failure as part of the growth process to deliver results. By facilitating blame-free retrospective meetings, leaders chart a productive path forward. They amplify three essential motivators of purpose, autonomy, and co-intelligence within their team, layered on with four resilience factors.

Alex Atherton is the former secondary school headteacher who heard the word ‘snowflake’ once too often. In The Snowflake Myth, he challenges the negative stereotypes surrounding Generation Z. Drawing on his years of experience working with thousands of students, Atherton reveals that far from being lazy, entitled, or unreliable, Gen Z represents our most diligent, pragmatic, and patient generation yet.

This book is about one of the most important factors that leads to spectacular performance in organizations. Kim Cameron, a true pioneer in the study of positive leadership, offers validated scientific evidence that all individuals are inherently attracted to and flourish in the presence of positive energy.

Transform your business without disrupting your daily operations—unlock the power of Kaizen, even in the most demanding environments. Are you a leader constantly seeking ways to enhance productivity and success but need help finding sustainable improvement strategies? Do you dream of embedding continuous improvement within your organization without overwhelming your existing workflows? You may also have encountered resistance to introducing new methodologies and need a compelling way to make improvements work in your unique setting.

This value-dense guidebook features actionable principles extracted from over 40 renowned servant leadership experts and practitioners, including prominent business executives, bestselling authors, and respected spiritual leaders. These and the proven easy-to-follow techniques and exercises are the reason why more and more people who peruse this book are becoming the charismatic and thoughtful leaders that lead the charge in their organization. Will you be one of them?

Agile transformations are supposed to make organizations modern, competitive, and relevant. But in the well-intentioned effort to move into the future, change leaders find themselves frustrated by pushback, limited impact, poor practices, and unfair criticism. What’s going on? Jesse Fewell's book cuts through the “quick-fix” hype of agile theory and explains a recurring transformational pattern that unpacks what holds organizations back.

Werner Katzengruber zeigt, wie Psychologie, Neurobiologie und Management zusammenwirken, um Resilienz zu stärken. Er benennt toxische Faktoren, die Unternehmen schwächen, und vermittelt, wie eine gesunde Kultur entsteht. Ein praxisnaher Leitfaden und Appell an Führungskräfte, ihre Kompetenzen für eine starke Zukunft zu erweitern.

This book, based on two rigorous doctoral theses, is an essential guide for business leaders, company owners, and consultants seeking to take their organizations to the next level. Through a practical approach supported by real-world experience, the author reveals the two key models used in his consulting and coaching interventions, providing effective tools to transform leadership and organizational culture.

Narrated by the author, this book has energy, insight, and humor. What is it that prevents us from making deeper, more long-lasting connections with others? To author John Klymshyn, the answer lies in our understanding of the power of language. We must study, explore, and practice deeper dialogue in order to connect, communicate, collaborate, and contribute!