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Assessing and Managing Security Risk in IT Systems
Author John McCumber
This book begins with an overview of information systems security, offering the basic underpinnings of information security and concluding with an analysis of risk management. Part II describes the McCumber Cube, providing the original paper from 1991 and detailing....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances
Author J. Richard Hackman
Richard Hackman, one of the world's leading experts on group and organizational behavior, argues that teams perform at their best when leaders create conditions that allow them to manage themselves effectively. Leading Teams is not about subscribing to a spec....
Release Date 2002/07 -
People management: Getting started
Author Alexander Grosse , David Loftesness
An explicit focus on people management is vital to company success, particularly at fast-growing companies. With proper training and a healthy culture, people managers can help teams scale by maintaining morale, ensuring alignment between work assignments and compa....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Confessions of a Corporate Trainer: An Insider Tells All
Author Jonathan Halls
Embrace the Gritty Reality of TrainingEver watched half your class stomp out on you? Fallen asleep facilitating a creativity workshop? Planned a bulletproof lesson plan, then dropped it 10 minutes after you started? Don’t worry—it’s fine to confess. If you have fac....
Release Date 2019/04 -
A Freelancer’s Guide to Legal Entities
Author Alex D. Bennett
Whether you are just starting out as a freelancer or have been freelancing for years, choosing the right legal structure for your business is an important part of maximizing your returns and minimizing your risk. In the right situation, forming a limited liability ....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Frieda Klotz
While flat organizational structures have gained favor in recent years, hierarchies continue to provide many important benefits, says the University of Michigan’s Lindy Greer. Depending on the circumstances, the answer isn’t to eliminate hierarchy but to train lead....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Fighting the Gravity of Average Performance
Author Martin Reeves , Kevin Whitaker , Tom Deegan
New research shows that market leadership is increasingly temporary. Just 17% of companies are able to significantly outperform their industry average for five years. The ones that do continually find new sources of competitive advantage by reinventing their businesses an....
Release Date 2020/01 -
Business Coaching and Mentoring For Dummies
Author Steve Crabb , Marie Taylor
Don't fall behind—Coach your business toward success!Business Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies explores effective coaching strategies that guide you in coaching and mentoring your colleagues. With insight into key coaching concepts and an impressive range of t....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Author Stephen Gribben
KEY COACHING MODELS IS AN ESSENTIAL DIRECTORY OF 72 TOOLS FOR MANAGERS TO USE TO UNLOCK PERFORMANCE THAT NO MANAGER SHOULD BE WITHOUT. All managers and leaders are now expected to use coaching techniques to get the most out of their people. With 72 proven, easy to....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Ben Collins-Sussman , Brian W. Fitzpatrick
In the course of their 20+-year engineering careers, authors Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman have picked up a treasure trove of wisdom and anecdotes about how successful teams work together. Their conclusion? Even among people who have spent decades learn....
Release Date 2015/10 -
The Adventures of Team Fantastic: A Practical Guide for Team Leaders and Members
Author Glenn L. Hallam
Using imaginative examples, this entertaining and informative book looks at the ways anyone who is part of a team can help improve its performance. The reader travels through time and space with Team Fantastic--in the Brazilian jungle looking for a cache of diamond....
Release Date 1996/06 -
Building a Winning Business Model Portfolio
Author Danielle G. Reza , Stefan Haefliger , Paolo Aversa
Across many industries, companies are using innovative business models as a basis for competitive advantage. In recent years, for example, upstarts such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Airbnb Inc. have used multisided business models to leverage ordinary resources ag....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Author Tim Tassopoulos , Tim Irwin
The age-old question for every leader—how do we bring out the best in those we lead? Anyone who has run a company, raised a family, lead an army, or coached a team struggles to find the key to help others excel and realize their potential. It is surprising how ofte....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy
Author Stephen J. Gill , David Grebow
The only sustainable advantage in our hypercompetitive marketplace is the ability to learn and adapt faster than everyone else. Companies that cling to management practices of a bygone era continue to fade away. They desperately need managers who empower people to ....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Managing Using the Diamond Principle
Author Mark W. Johnson
Change is inevitable, but, poorly handled, can spell disaster. A bold new vision for implementation of new strategies and processes call for an understanding of what is to be changed, based on The Diamond Principle. The Diamond Principle, briefly, is that the....
Release Date 2018/05 -
The Art of Engagement: Bridging the Gap Between People and Possibilities
Author Jim Haudan
"Haudan's approach helps organizations bring strategies to life by engaging the hearts and minds of their people.” -Marcus Buckingham, bestselling author of Go Put Your Strengths to WorkAlmost any business leader will admit that creating a strategy is far easier t....
Release Date 2008/06 -
Author Robert Bruce Shaw
Managers want great teams, but most build them around decades-old ideas and practices made popular by companies that have lost their edge.Extreme Teams looks at the new generation of teams driving growth in today’s most innovative firms. They do this by doing thing....
Release Date 2017/02 -
The New Extraordinary Leader, 3rd Edition: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders, 3rd Edition
Author John H. Zenger , Joseph Folkman
The classic for managers seeking to hone their leadership skills into a C-Suite position Updated with copious new research conducted over the past ten years, this landmark work provides everything you need to transform yourself from an effective manager to an extraordinar....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Essential Communications Skills for Managers, Volume I
Author Ben Haskell , Walter St. John
The purpose of this book is to provide practicing and aspiring managers and students of management a practical and comprehensive reference source for communicating on the job with all people in all situations. This “how-to” book provides readers with th....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Understanding Decision-Making within Distributed Project Teams
Author Emilie Hamel , Jaouad Daoudi , Nathalie Drouin , Mario Bourgault
The proliferation of geographically dispersed teams is, of course, related to the explosive development of information and communication technologies (ICT), and particularly technologies related to the Internet. Now that these technologies are performing better and....
Release Date 2009/08 -
Author Douglas K. Smith , Jon R. Katzenbach
"The Wisdom of Teams" is the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization. Having sold nearly a half million copies and been translated into more than fifteen languages, the authors’ clarion call that teams should be the basic u....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Information Systems Management
Author Claudio Vitari , Jean-Loup Richet , Julien Malaurent , Philippe Eynaud , Daniel Alba
Information Systems Management is intended to sensitize the heads of organizations to the issues raised by information systems (IS). Through its pedagogical presentation, the book ensures that issues related to IS are not left solely to the experts in the field. T....
Release Date 2019/07 -
10 Steps to Successful Coaching, 2nd Edition
Author Sophie Oberstein
Build Your Coaching Skills to Develop OthersCoaching has the power to enhance individual, team, and organizational performance. Its interactive process helps individuals set and act upon goals, make better decisions, and produce results. 10 Steps to Successful Coaching of....
Release Date 2020/04 -
Author Marshall Goldsmith , David Dye , Karin Hurt
It can feel like a rigged game. Executives set aggressive goals, so managers drive their teams to burnout trying to deliver. Or, employees seek connection and support, so managers focus on relationships . . . and fail to make the numbers. The fallout is stress, fru....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Author Stephen Preskill , Stephen D. Brookfield
Build teams, make better decisions, energize groups, and think out of the boxDo you need a resource that you can pull out of your pocket to liven up meetings, trainings, professional development, and teaching? The fifty easily applied techniques in this timely manu....
Release Date 2016/01 -
Coaching for Action: A Report on Long-term Advising in a Program Context
Author Victoria A. Guthrie
The Center for Creative Leadership developed the role of process advisor in order to provide a long-term coaching solution within the context of its LeaderLab program. Process advisors encourage and enable individuals to take more effective action in leadership sit....
Release Date 1999/03 -
Author David Mole , Sandy Mamoli
People are happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with. Self-selecting teams give people that choice. Build well-designed and efficient teams to get the most out of your organization, with step-by-step instructions on ho....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Author Olga V. Mack
Get on Board: Earning Your Ticket to a Corporate Board Seat is a practical beginner’s guide for anyone considering becoming a director, from young professionals seeking corporate board service in the distant future to seasoned professionals contemplating an imminen....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Fixing the Overload Problem at Work
Author Erin L. Kelly , Phyllis Moen
Employee overload is costly for organizations and individuals alike. But dual-agenda work redesign — which helps people work more effectively and in ways they can sustain — can reduce burnout, deterioration in performance, employee turnover, and other problems associated ....
Release Date 2020/04 -
Author Niamh O'Keeffe , Dr. Sarah Wood
Ever felt like you need an inspired action plan on how to step up? Stepping up could be about taking on your first leadership or management role. It could be about changing your career, or leaving employment to start up on your own. It could be about changing the w....
Release Date 2017/10