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Discover how putting people first creates vibrant organizations and profound change
In Leadership is a Relationship, accomplished founders and authors Michael S. Erwin and Willys DeVoll deliver an insightful collection of interviews with leaders who have succeeded by prioritizing the wellbeing of other people. Featuring fresh stories from leaders like Olympic legend Kerri Walsh Jennings, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs
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"In A Cure for the Common Company: A Well-Being Prescription for a Happier, Healthier, and More Resilient Organization, health and well-being expert, Richard Safeer, M.D. delivers a step-by-step roadmap to creating a culture of health on your team and in your company that keeps your people happier and more engaged. In the book, you’ll discover the importance of shaping your well-being culture, challenging yourself, your team, and your workforce...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
2023.
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3rd edition.
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1 online resource
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English
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"There is a strong movement today in management to encourage management practices based on research evidence. Handbook of Principles of Organizational Behavior is based on timeless principles, built upon strong science, and these principles can be directly translated into actionable knowledge for application in organizations. It is easy for readers to digest, retain and apply principles, as opposed to thousands of factoids that are forgotten soon...
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Center for Creative Leadership
Pub. Date
[2009]
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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Why aren't suck-ups seen for what they really are? Why do organizations reward the most vocal or most visible even if they aren't the most qualified? These are critically important questions. Beyond bruised egos and a free-floating sense of unfairness lies a larger organizational problem: when the wrong people get noticed and rewarded, organizations suffer. Projects fail, goals are not met, employee morale and motivation disintegrate, and cynicism...
7) The real-life MBA: your no-BS guide to winning the game, building a team, and growing your career
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The founders of the Jack Welch Management Institute, a fully accredited online MBA program, present a guide to overcoming modern business challenges, with recommendations for creating effective strategies, leading others, and building a thriving career.
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Assemble You
Pub. Date
2023.
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[First edition].
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1 online resource (1 audio file (22 min.)).
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English
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This lesson provides actionable tips on how to collaborate. This session is part of the insightful Future Human series. A vital aspect of becoming equipped for the future, collaboration involves cooperating with others to share skills and develop ideas. The ability to innovate, discuss new concepts, and understand different perspectives is essential in a fast-paced and interconnected world. Characterised by creativity, active listening, teamwork,...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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First edition.
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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This book explores the idea of a reimagined form of leadership that coincides with emerging trends of relationship building, complex group work, diverse workforces, and cultures in which everyone feels psychologically safe.
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Second Edition.
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1 online resource
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English
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"Discover a more agile, democratic, and effective model of leadership, from legendary business scholar Edgar Schein and Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein. Legendary organizational scholar Edgar Schein and former Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein say leadership today requires that people transcend their hierarchical roles and relate to each other as human beings-what they call humble leadership. In such relationships new ideas can flow freely,...
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Just as The Road Less Traveled provided hope and guidance for individuals seeking growth, this major new work by M. Scott Peck, M.D., offers a needed prescription for our deeply ailing society. Our illness is Incivility—morally destructive patterns of self-absorption, callousness, manipulativeness, and materialism so ingrained in our routine behavior that...
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2010.
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"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." — Henry Ford As one part of your brain processes these words, another part of your brain is urging you to put the book down and focus on something more pressing. Get back to work on the budget due tomorrow. Answer e-mails growing stale in your inbox. Get off your rear and update that rémé/br> We're all guilty of it, especially in the business world. From...
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John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2012
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1 online resource
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English
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Your plain-English introduction to organisational behaviour. Organisational Behaviour (OB) is the study of how people, individuals, and groups act in organisations. Whether you're studying OB, or you just want a better understanding of people at work, Organisational Behaviour For Dummies gives you all the essentials for understanding this fascinating subject. Inside you'll find out about personality and individual differences, teams and groups, personnel...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
©2007
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2nd ed., rev. and expanded.
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1 online resource (xxvi, 272 pages) : illustrations
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English
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"Seeing Systems" is the most accessible, penetrating book available on the dynamics of systems. In it, Oshry explains why so many efforts at creating more satisfying and productive systems end in disappointment, and proposes an entirely new framework for dealing with human behavior.
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You can read every leadership book ever written, but practice is what turns abstract concepts into useful skills. Spodek walks readers through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experience. He then provides exercises to help you accomplish the inner work and gain the social skills required for great leadership.
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
1st edition.
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1 online resource
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English
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"Understanding experience at work, especially in toxic organizations, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include all senses. The use of applied poetry has its primary value as an evocative approach to sensing, knowing, and understanding workplace experience. Poetry at its best condenses into relatively few words, metaphors, and images what conventional social science narratives would take much longer to articulate. Where poetry often hints...
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MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
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1 online resource (5 pages)
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English
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When the term quiet quitting is applied to employees whose efforts don't exceed what's in their job descriptions, it fails to recognize the current reality of real wages that have significantly decreased over the past 50 years while executive pay has skyrocketed. The author argues that quiet quitting should be replaced with a different label -- calibrated contributing -- that reflects an employee's rational choice to do the work they're paid for rather...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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English
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"Two distinguished scholars offer eight steps to help organizations discover and embrace an authentic higher purpose--something that will dramatically improve every aspect of any enterprise, including the bottom line. What does a lofty notion like purpose have to do with business basics like the bottom line? Robert E. Quinn and Anjan J. Thakor say pretty much everything. Leaders and managers are taught that employees are self-interested and work resistant,...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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In a global survey by the Katzenbach Center, 80 percent of respondents believed that their organization must evolve to succeed. But a full quarter of them reported that a change effort at their organization had resulted in no visible results. Why? The fate of any change effort depends on whether and how leaders engage their culture: the self-sustaining patterns of behaving, feeling, thinking, and believing that determine how things are done in an...
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