Business Organization

Why are the New Zealand All Blacks the best rugby team in the world? How does the Kirov Ballet produce generation after generation of exceptional ballerinas? How did Southwest Airlines evolve from being an idiosyncratic Texan airline to become one of the most successful businesses internationally? How does the Finnish School Education System deliver great results by breaking conventions? Powerhouse uncovers the performance secrets of some of the most impressive organizations around the world and reveals the key principles they have in common....

Internationally renowned business guru, Bill Schwarz explores the way organizations work, the impact of human nature's reactive state, the governing principles that determine why a company believes the way it does.

Unlock the secrets to sustainable success in your organization with "Creating a Kaizen Culture: Fostering a Kaizen Culture for High-Performance." In this audiobook, you'll embark on a journey of continuous improvement and learn how to cultivate a workplace culture that thrives on innovation, efficiency, and adaptability. Kaizen, a Japanese philosophy centered around small, incremental changes, has revolutionized countless businesses worldwide. Now, it's your turn to harness its power.

Since Peter Senge published his groundbreaking book The Fifth Discipline, he and his associates have frequently been asked by the business community: "How do we go beyond the first steps of corporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know that companies and organizations cannot thrive today without learning to adapt their attitudes and practices.

Properly valuing brain gender diversity in the workplace is one of the biggest and largely untapped sources of competitive advantage for modern businesses. Recent advances in neuroscience provide the key to unlocking it. Leading applied neuroscientists and international corporate coaches Kate Lanz and Paul Brown tell you why and how to access all the brains in your business.

You have a great company and mission and are excited to make a difference with your product and service. Some years have been great and others not so great. You are hopeful consistent results will happen soon, but you struggle with inconsistent performance with your people. You may be asking yourself...what can I do about it? Although many times "people" are considered the soft stuff, they are the hard stuff - and the biggest expense and asset of your organization. What is the secret to becoming the organization that everyone wants to work for - and to do business with?

In Amith Nagarajan’s The Open Garden Organization, listeners will learn how to experiment in new ways and drive progress forward within their organizations. The backbone of Amith’s method lies in the “Open Garden Model”, which focuses on three main principles: purpose, culture, and inclusivity.

Being Yourself Exercise (B.Y.E) is a method of change, and when practiced in sessions with your therapist, the outcomes are that of self-discovery and (potentiality) a new beginning. It can be used as self-help and a method of reflective practice in all aspects of one's life. Being Yourself is about a sense of wholeness, and not a fragmented randomness or an emotional turmoil around choices. It is a powerful exercise and signals (if only through its acronym) closure to a conflict between values and standards. V.A.L.I.D.A.T.E. is about both empowerment and recognition.

This book offers a new model for creating inclusive organizations and illuminates the vital role that diversity plays in developing solutions to the critical social, environmental, and leadership challenges we face. While many companies are focusing on DEI efforts, what we need is to take inclusion to the next level. Our massive social, economic, and environmental challenges can only be solved only when organizations and institutions embrace complete inclusion.

Whether you're the new kid in a cubicle, the boss in the executive suite, or self-employed, you have huge potential for greater productivity and fulfillment. Even very high performers in excellent organizations - large and small, for profit and nonprofit - report that 30 to 40 percent of their talent is untapped. Imagine what lies waiting for you.

When it comes to the gender gap, it is not enough to ask women to "lean in" and demand promotions and raises. Organizations have an obligation to level up and provide women with more opportunities for advancement. In this book, leadership and governance expert Carol Geffner makes a strong case that for women to reach their full potential, workplaces and their leaders must take a more proactive role in combating gender discrimination.

In The Digital Helix, authors Michael Gale and Chris Aarons explain the specifics of digitally transforming your organization - from the role of the digital-explorer leader in using information to empower the organization to move better and faster to shifts in sales, marketing, communications and leadership, product development, and service and support. The Digital Helix is a practical guide to bringing all the key functions together and includes guidance on developing a digital culture from the ground up.

Building the Fit Organization gives executives a distilled, jargon-free method for attaining the benefits of lean management under real-world conditions. The corporate landscape is littered with companies that have failed to achieve success by mirroring the Toyota Way, but this book distills the lessons from the Toyota Production System into six core concepts and presents them in the easily understandable language of physical fitness and athletic excellence.

The most successful, disruptive companies are propelled forward by mandate-driven leaders. These leaders are inspired by a compelling belief, idea, strategy or tactic. Through their willpower, organizations are thrust into the future. The mandate-driven leadership model is the hallmark of visionaries who have changed entire industries and sustained consistent innovation in their own companies. The Power of Mandate reveals what it takes to be an effective leader in today's disruptive business environment.

People are the heartbeat of business! Leaders are the life force of every team. Just as the heart pulses our nutrient-rich blood to each organ in the body, leaders push out encouragement, direction, correction, energy, growth, and influence to the team. Now more than ever, how leaders handle each pulse can empower or weaken leadership, engage or disengage teams, and positively or negatively impact an entire organization. Dawn S. Kirk shares her proven six Pulses of Heartbeat Leadership to empower leader.

The Only Leadership Book You'll Ever Need teaches leaders how to overcome their most difficult obstacle: employee engagement. By pinpointing specific areas leaders can focus on and change,this book shows how one leader can effectively change the entire workplace environment - for the better.

This highly enjoyable career development book reveals dynamic aspects of the workplace that are hidden to many, ignored by others - factors that can make or break careers.

As a serial Entrepreneur and the owner of eight businesses over my career, I’ve put this book series together to help you climb to success. They are designed to help you master business planning and execution with practical resources, strategies, and tools. It will equip you with everything you’ll need to develop focused business strategies, manage planning tasks, and drive measurable success. This book is a complete guide that teaches you how to create focused business strategies, plan effectively, and avoid common pitfalls to achieve their goals. Other books in this series include: ...

There's another, better way to drive durable, effective change in your organization, and it’s been proven effective by global IT and business consulting leader Infosys. The Live Enterprise operating model provides a clear path to transform large complex businesses into agile, digital ecosystems that evolve with changing market needs and scale to any size.

There are a lot of right leadership strategies and techniques our leaders have been using throughout history. In Leadership Strategies and Tactics Guidebook for Leaders, you will uncover the secrets to exceptional leadership. The books are designed to get you thinking about your own leadership style and what you need to do to enhance your leadership.