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Great teams can sometimes feel like magic. It's hard to pin down just why they work so well. But what seems like magic is explainable, and replicable. It starts with team culture. Much has been written about the power of emotional intelligence at the individual level, but little has been said about the benefits of this concept for groups. In this book, social and organizational psychologist and professor Vanessa Urch Druskat combines thirty years of research and team development to present a model for building and leading emotionally intelligent teams.

Minda Harts knows from years of experience as a highly sought-after workplace consultant how a lack of trust between colleagues, managers, and executive leaders is bad for business and our own professional well-being. That’s where the seven workplace trust languages come into play.

Drawing on two decades at the heart of New Zealand's most successful technology companies–Trade Me, Xero, Vend and Timely–Rowan Simpson unravels the messy reality behind familiar glossy success stories. With raw honesty and sharp analysis, he challenges conventional wisdom by sharing compelling firsthand lessons about focused execution, team building and genuine ecosystem growth.

Using the issue of intent as the golden thread, this booklet eloquently draws a line of sight between organisational culture as a whole and the empowerment of the individual. It provides a powerful framework that ties all the required pieces together whilst maintaining a keen focus on the real locus of transformation, which sits at the level of the intent of the individual.

Wenn Sie Managementverantwortung übernehmen, werden höchste Anforderungen an Sie gestellt, und fehlt es hier an Erfahrung, machen sich leicht Unsicherheit und Führungsschwäche breit. Dieses Hörbuch steht Ihnen mit Rat und Tat zur Seite und begleitet Sie auf dem spannenden Weg, Ihre persönliche Führungsrolle zu entwickeln. Ob Sie in Kürze eine Beförderung erwarten, eine neue Position übernehmen werden oder bereits Verantwortung tragen – hier finden Sie Inspirationen und Tipps für jede Management-Herausforderung.

The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn is a timeless spiritual guide that reveals the hidden laws behind success, prosperity, and happiness. Drawing from the principles of the New Thought movement, Shinn teaches that life is not governed by chance, but by thought, word, and spiritual alignment. Through simple yet powerful affirmations, visualization techniques, and real-life anecdotes, she shows readers how to replace fear with faith and speak their desires into existence.

Seven Letters to a Young Engineer is a rare and timeless guide for the next generation of builders, thinkers, and doers. In this deeply insightful and personal book, Mohamed Hamed Ahmed Soliman — Lean expert, engineer, and author of The Problem-Solving Kata — distills decades of engineering wisdom into seven powerful letters. Each one delivers a hard-earned truth, a mindset shift, and a call to action for young professionals entering the world of systems, factories, and innovation. Through vivid analogies and sharp lessons rooted in Lean thinking, Soliman challenges readers to go beyond...

Leadership was never meant to be grounded. It was meant to soar. In Eagle Leadership: Rising Above, Leading Beyond, Michael Sirmon invites readers to rise from the trenches of reactive leadership and take flight with purpose, vision, and resilience. Drawing inspiration from the majestic eagle—a symbol of strength, clarity, and elevation—this book challenges leaders to break free from fear-based management and mediocrity-driven habits, and instead lead with unwavering focus, high-altitude vision, and grounded integrity. This isn’t another leadership book filled with recycled clichés. ...

In The Performance Culture, leadership expert Khalil Smith and veteran storyteller Chris Weller deliver an authoritative and practical instruction manual for every leader who wants to create healthy, high-performing cultures. The authors explain how to get your employees aligned, engaged, and collaborating with each other using compelling stories and contemporary research.

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, traditional talent strategies are no longer enough. Enterprise Skills Unlocked offers a comprehensive guide to transitioning your organization toward a skills-based talent model—one that’s more agile, data-driven, and aligned with the future of work.

Do you ever feel like your best ideas arrive randomly, or worse, not at all? In a world that demands constant innovation, the ability to generate valuable ideas on demand is no longer a luxury—it's a core professional skill. Yet, most of us are taught to believe that creativity is a mysterious gift reserved for a select few. We wait for inspiration to strike, only to feel frustrated and left behind when our minds go blank at critical moments. The Idea Factory demolishes this myth. Written by N.J. Parker, this practical, no-nonsense guide reveals that creativity is not magic; it’s a ...

The first pillar of scalable organizations, Readiness shows how to make employees fully capable of performing their responsibilities independently, consistently, and with clarity. Eric Kish introduces a proven system of roles, responsibilities, and readiness KPIs that turns capability into a measurable, coachable, and scalable asset.

Every successful business needs to have turnaround tactics in its arsenal. When a business is struggling, it’s these tactics that will turn the tide. Everyday Turnaround tells the tale of a turnaround CEO of a fictional organization who uses agile tactics to achieve success. Author Eric Kish developed and tested the Everyday Turnaround concept while executing 12 turnarounds across seven industries and three continents over a period of 18 years. From the introduction: "The guy who hired me to do my first turnaround was very smart. He gave me on average 18 months to complete a turnaround ...

Deciding where you want to go in your professional life is essential. To borrow a line from Lewis Carrol, you need to know where you are going or you will not know when you get there. I agree with this sentiment. I planned out my career as best as possible, which was very successful. I started as a specialist and became a senior executive with the federal government. Now my goal is to provide as much information as possible about what I did with my career so others might learn from it. This book outlines the basic premise of learning to be a leader. It traces the author's journey and ...

A BOLD LOOK AT THE CULTURE OF BOARDROOM DYNAMICS AND WHY ITS TIME TO CHANGE IT In a rapidly changing socioeconomic and business climate, nonprofit board leadership is being challenged to reassess the way it has traditionally governed. Change, flexibility and adaptability are knocking at the boardroom doors with an invitation to consider strategies for expanding capacity and increasing board member engagement. When boards take a fresh view of the culture by which they oversee corporate affairs, they may be shocked to learn of outmoded approaches to deliberations and making decisions. ...

The world of work, the way we work and we, who work, will continue to evolve. From commuting to large industrial units, to operating from structured cabins and now from homes―every change has brought its set of challenges. It has become imperative for humans to be at the forefront of it. Human at Work delves into these challenges, the rapid technological advances, digital transformation and economic uncertainties that serve as opportunities and threats for the future of work.