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"In Scaling Up Excellence, bestselling author Bob Sutton and Stanford colleague Huggy Rao tackle the topic that obsesses businesses large and small, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies--how to scale up their businesses and spread excellence throughout the organizational culture"--
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Driving Excellence tells the inspiring story of one man who, with no formal business training, turned an entire industry on its head. Mark Aesch proves that we really can run government like a business, and provide value to taxpayers and shareholders alike.
When Aesch took over the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority in 2004, it was operating with a 27.7-million-dollar deficit, and was poised to raise fares, lay off employees,...
When Aesch took over the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority in 2004, it was operating with a 27.7-million-dollar deficit, and was poised to raise fares, lay off employees,...
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Pearson Education
Pub. Date
2007
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1 online resource
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English
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"This book is about everything it takes to build a workforce that's strange and extraordinary enough to execute your most powerful strategies and your unique value proposition. It's about understanding exactly how your workforce needs to be different; creating an end-to-end Strange Workforce Value Chain; implementing workforce systems that support your unique goals; and establishing detailed metrics based on what makes you unique, using those metrics...
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ASTD
Pub. Date
2005
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1 online resource (16 pages).
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English
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Knowing how to partner effectively is critical for making performance interventions have a real impact on an organization. Improving workplace performance craves the ideas and support of many stakeholders. The importance of partnering is further illustrated by its inclusion in the ASTD Competency Model. But what is required to partner effectively? The Infoline, Performance Excellence Through Partnering, describes a set of critical success factors,...
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Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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First edition.
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xvii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Covid-19 accelerated the transition to remote working, requiring the wholesale migration of nearly entire companies to virtual work in just weeks, leaving managers and employees scrambling learn how to use cloud, storage, cybersecurity, and device tools to accommodate their new remote workforce. But virtual work has other challenges: employees feel lost, isolated, out of sync, and out of sight. Neeley shows how to maintain connections without in-person...
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LID Editorial Empresarial
Pub. Date
2013
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1a ed.
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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Español
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Mejorar el rendimiento de una organización, a la par que la satisfacción y la realización de las personas que trabajan en ella, es la meta que cualquier buen empresario, gestor o directivo persigue en su día a día. Sin embargo, no todos la logran. Hace falta entrenar mucho el intelecto y la inteligencia emocional, entre otras capacidades, para subirse al podio del éxito en el arte del gobierno de las personas y las compañías. Con el...
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The 30-something founder and CTO of the startup IMVU, Ries developed the strategy he calls the Lean Startup: the application of lean thinking to the process of innovation. His theory of the Lean Startup works according to five principles: entrepreneurs are everywhere; entrepreneurship is management; validated learning; build-measure-learn; and innovation accounting. He recounts his successes and failures, analyzes the success of startups Groupon and...
15) The seven signs of ethical collapse: how to spot moral meltdowns in companies-- before it's too late
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006.
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First edition.
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xvi, 334 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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English
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"In 1986, Ed Catmull co-founded Pixar, a modest start-up with an immodest goal: to make the first-ever computer animated movie. Nine years later, Pixar released Toy Story, which went on to revolutionize the industry, gross $360 million, and establish Pixar as one of the most successful, innovative, and emulated companies on earth. This book details how Catmull built an enduring creative culture -- one that doesn't just pay lip service to the importance...
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2015]
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xii, 260 pages : charts ; 24 cm
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English
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"Chapman and coauthor Raj Sisodia show how any organization can reject the traumatic consequences of rolling layoffs, dehumanizing rules, and hypercompetitive cultures. Once you stop treating people like functions or costs, disengaged workers begin to share their gifts and talents toward a shared future. Uninspired workers stop feeling that their jobs have no meaning. Frustrated workers stop taking their bad days out on their spouses and kids. And...
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Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2006]
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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English
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In this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be "built to change" so they can last and succeed in today's global economy. Instead of striving to create a highly reliable Swiss watch that consistently produces the same behavior, they argue organizations need to be designed in ways that stimulate and facilitate change. Built to Change focuses on identifying practices...
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