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How to Work With and Lead People Not Like You
Author Kelly McDonald
If you're in a diverse team, you know employee differences can cause miscommunication, lower trust, and hurt productivity. . . It doesn't have to be this way!The people you work with may be from a different generation, different culture, different race, different....
Release Date 2017/08 -
All the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive Presence
Author Suzanne Bates
The book that cracks the code on executive presence: what it is, why it matters, and how you can achieve it. You know it when you see it. That rare combination of qualities that makes a truly great leader. Until now, executive presence has been hard to define and e....
Release Date 2016/03 -
In Great Company: How to Spark Peak Performance By Creating an Emotionally Connected Workplace
Author Louis Carter
Drive long-term profits and growth by making the company a place your employees love.In Great Company presents a practical approach to ensure that your employees perform at their highest possible levels. It’s not about increasing salaries, offering huge bonuses, or....
Release Date 2019/02 -
Author David Loftesness , Alexander Grosse
Leading a fast-growing team is a uniquely challenging experience. Startups with a hot product often double or triple in size quickly—a recipe for chaos if company leaders aren’t prepared for the pitfalls of hyper-growth. If you’re leading a startup or a new team be....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring
Author Lois J. Zachary , Lisa Z. Fain
This first comprehensive guide to helping mentors and mentees bridge gaps between and among cultures—a growing issue in today's diverse workplace—is coauthored by the founder and CEO of the Center for Mentoring Excellence.As the workplace has become more dive....
Release Date 2020/02 -
Author Julienne W. Shields , J. Mark Munoz
Interest in entrepreneurship in the arts has grown in recent years. This book brought together experts and thought leaders from around the world to uncover business success strategies for individuals engaged in the arts worldwide. Show and hide more ....
Release Date 2017/12 -
DK Essential Managers: Motivating People
Author Pippa Bourne , Michael Bourne
Maximize your impact in the workplace with Motivating People. It will show you how to get the best out of your staff by increasing morale, and getting them to work smarter, not harder. Show and hide more
Release Date 2009/08 -
Learning How to Delegate as a Leader
Author Esther Schindler
Delegating work often goes awry. The software doesn’t work, the invitations aren’t sent out on time, or nobody shows up to staff the trade show booth. Or the work is done on time, but at the expense of team member engagement. When a project fails or just plain does....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Camille Fournier
Part of your focus throughout this period of adjustment to management is to figure out your own management style. Many of you will be learning how to manage individuals while simultaneously being responsible for running a team. In the lesson, we’ll talk about the c....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Author Project Management Institute
This important book focuses on one of the nine knowledge areas of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®)-2000 Edition--namely, human resource management. Topics are far ranging and are divided into nine chapters ranging from Key Managemen....
Release Date 2001/01 -
The Trouble with Homogeneous Teams
Author Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Many companies are paying increased attention to workplace diversity — issues such as how to increase diversity, how to foster sensitivity to it, and how to manage a diverse workforce. But, according to MIT Sloan School of Management professor Evan Apfelbaum,....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Ann Herrmann-Nehdi , Ned Herrmann
The long-awaited update of the classic guide to outperforming the competition using Herrmann International's trademark Whole Brain MethodologyPacked with new research, updated examples, and more actionable content, The Whole Brain Business Book outlines four basic....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Author Derek Newberry , Madeline Boyer , Mario Moussa
Build high-performing teams with an evidence-based framework that delivers resultsCommitted is a practical handbook for building great teams. Based on research from Wharton’s Executive Development Program (EDP), this concise guide identifies the common challenges t....
Release Date 2016/03 -
Author Greg Sullivan
There are nine key reasons people fail at retirement—and they’re not what you think. Are you working to avoid these major retirement fails? Every day, people just like you, people who have worked hard and saved carefully for retirement, make decisions that will eve....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Author Lisa Bodell
Imagine what you could do with the time you spend writing emails every day. Complexity is killing companies' ability to innovate and adapt, and simplicity is fast becoming the competitive advantage of our time. Why Simple Wins helps leaders and their teams move b....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author William A. Cohen , Laura Stack
A How-To Guide for the Modern LeaderInspired by Peter Drucker's groundbreaking book The Effective Executive, Laura Stack details precisely how 21st-century leaders and managers can obtain profitable, productive results by managing the intersection of two crit....
Release Date 2016/01 -
Managing Stakeholders as Clients - Second Edition
Author Mario Henrique Trentim
Projects often run adrift despite our best efforts. One of the most commonly overlooked pitfalls is inadequate and ineffective stakeholder management. Gathering decades of research on communications and stakeholder relations, Mario Trentim, PfMP, CBAP, suggests a....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Author Kathleen B. Hass
For organizations to thrive, indeed to survive, in today's global economy, we must find ways to dramatically improve the performance of large-scale projects. Applying the concepts of complexity theory can complement conventional project management approaches ....
Release Date 2008/10 -
The Leadership Coaching Sourcebook: A Guide to the Executive Coaching Literature
Author Gia A. DiRosa , Katherine Ely , Gina Hernaz-Broome , Lisa Boyce , Jonathan Nelson
Executive coaching is an increasingly popular means for developing organizational leaders. This sourcebook provides a resource for both practioners and researchers interested in gaining or updating their understanding of the current state of the executive coaching ....
Release Date 2011/04 -
Improving Executive Sponsorship of Projects
Author Payson Hall , Dawne E. Chandler
This book addresses gaps in current project management literature. From a senior management perspective, the gap is the lack of resources explaining why and how to establish a program to improve executive sponsorship strategically across an organization. From a t....
Release Date 2016/12 -
The Universal Service Desk (USD) - Implementing, controlling and improving service delivery
Author Léon-Paul de Rouw , Brian Johnson
The Universal Service Desk (USD) – Implementing, controlling and improving service delivery defines what a USD is, why it is valuable to an organisation and how to build and implement one. It also discusses the evolution of the USD as part of integrated workplace manageme....
Release Date 2020/05 -
Author Sean Covey , Sue Dathe-Douglass , Shawn D. Moon
“People are our most important asset.” Every company pays lip service to this platitude, but how many companies really embrace it? People are what sustain—or ruin—your brand. If your people are not excited about the company, indi....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Author Alfonso Asensio
Chief Kickboxing Officer shows how the fighting and business mindsets cross over in this process of discovery and, in particular, what lessons can be learned from a highly refined and scientific type of fighting system: the martial arts.Business and fighting are tw....
Release Date 2019/08 -
The 27 Challenges Managers Face
Author Bruce Tulgan
For more than twenty years, management expert Bruce Tulgan has been asking, “What are the most difficult challenges you face when it comes to managing people?”Regardless of industry or job title, managers cite the same core issues—27 recurring challenges: the super....
Release Date 2014/09 -
Author Larry Sternberg
A practical, real-world training manual for mid-level managementManaging to Make a Difference presents a leadership guide for those in the middle. The C-suite has a wealth of resources for leadership guidance, but middle managers face a quandary: often given littl....
Release Date 2017/05 -
Designing Autonomous Teams and Services
Author Scott Millett , Nick Tune
In high-performing organizations such as Salesforce and Spotify, autonomous product development teams own problems end-to-end—from interacting with customers to delivering engaging digital products. These teams find new ways to solve customer problems by constantly....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Collaboration: Individuals working together
Author Ryn Daniels , Jennifer Davis
A large part of what makes a DevOps initiative successful is getting people to work together more effectively than they did previously. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to build communicative relationships, shared goals and empathy for a more effective, collaborati....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Finding Applications for Technologies Beyond the Core Business
Author Federico Frattini , Erwinn Danneels
The technologies underlying a company's core businesses can have lucrative applications beyond the ones they provide to current customers. However, many companies don't pursue these opportunities, or do it half-heartedly. Typically, authors Erwin Danneels and Fed....
Release Date 2018/04