Business Organization

The leader's guide to building a service powerhouse using the approach that made Mayo Clinic the number one health-care system in America.

The formula for lean success! Toyota veterans reveal how to build continuous improvement into your company's DNA.

After a period of tremendous upheaval, it is necessary for organizations to transform alongside their employees and welcome new ways of working. While it is impossible to predict which changes will be successful, it is crucial for leaders to now ask: what should work look like to achieve productive, healthy, and safe organizations? In Brave New Workplace, Julian Barling argues that we should focus on creating environments in which employees can flourish, rather than relying on the resiliency of workers to withstand difficult working conditions.

How to Develop a Dynamic Vision for Your Organization contains the steps you need to create bigger thinking within your company. It will create the focus, energy and attitude your team needs to reach its fullest potential.

Farmer Able is an engaging parable that entertains as it enlightens. It reveals a profound truth about the dysfunction in organizations and how dramatic improvements can be made when leaders liberate employees to operate at their fullest potential and discover the significance in their work. If you're looking to develop a new and profoundly satisfying leadership style, one that advocates serving others and creating ethical workplaces, this audiobook will set you on your way.

Educational accountability is here to stay. Comprehensive educational accountability, if designed and implemented effectively, can be the one initiative that helps schools create sustained and meaningful reform.

Learn what it takes to organize yourself for a better life in 60 minutes of conversation and instruction.

Shifting demographics combined with the digitalization of all aspects of life are transforming the nature of work. This is forcing companies to rethink how they design jobs and recruit, develop, and engage employees. In Talent Tectonics, Dr. Steven Hunt explains how technology is changing the purpose of work and why creating effective employee experiences is critical to building organizations that can thrive in a world of accelerating change and growing skill shortages. You'll find insights from a person who has worked with thousands of companies around the globe.

This essential playbook shows how companies can scale success by coupling digital strategies with an investment in the health of their organizations and the people within. To scale and grow, a company must get the organizational elements right. That begins with having the right strategy, the right leadership to drive it, and the right talent, culture, and organizational design to realize a company’s potential. This is especially true in the AI era, where a company’s most valuable assets are its people.

Elegant Power: An Integral Theory Approach to Conscious Female Leadership You feel it in those quiet moments before dawn, when inspiration flows most purely – there's a more profound way to lead, to create impact, to embody power. As a female CEO who understands that business success and spiritual wisdom aren't separate paths but a single journey of conscious evolution, you've long sensed that your natural way of leading holds transformative potential that traditional business frameworks simply don't capture. You know the challenge intimately: maintaining pristine clarity in the boardroom...

A must-listen for service professionals of every level, this essential book takes the proven Lean principles of the best-selling Toyota Way series and applies them directly to the industries where quality of service is crucial for success. Jeff Liker and Karyn Ross show you how to develop Lean practices throughout your organization using the famous 4P model. Whether you are an executive, manager, consultant, or frontline worker who deals with customers every day, you'll learn how take advantage of all Lean has to offer.

Dynamic capability management provides the road map for proactive disruption. It helps modern businesses deal with volatility, rapid growth, and new skills in a much smarter manner. This groundbreaking book explains why dynamic capability management is the way to go for the future-ready organization. It demonstrates how traditional management practices are evolving to meet the needs of a blended workforce. It shatters conventional organizational structures, provides a robust new talent framework, and presents a practical blueprint to make any business truly future-ready.

This short, practical book includes case studies, examples, and practical guidance to help you get started on your own OKR journey.Written by Natalija Hellesoe and Sonja Mewes, who bring their extensive experience working OKRs in companies of all sizes. Natalija and Sonja are trainers, coaches, and change agents. They work with companies at different stages of the their OKR journeys - from first know-how workshops to OKR practitioner coaching and organizational development.

Managing Brilliant Jerks provides resources to help you work more effectively with difficult leaders. As you listen, you’ll find detailed information on the flow of coaching sessions, sample correspondence to use with key stakeholders, and questions that encourage you to reflect on the issues presented in each chapter. The story of Peter will clarify for you the complex processes at work in the mind of an abrasive leader—and empower you to forge a productive and cooperative relationship with the brilliant jerks you encounter.

Creation is disruptive: Something will end, and something new will take its place. Minimizing that disruption takes leadership that can create alignment, develop the capacity for growth, and ensure a high degree of coordination. In The Next Normal, Greg Giuliano provides an actionable framework for anyone who wants to rethink, reset, and renew their leadership to make a bigger impact, engage their people, and lead more successful transformations. Discover an approachable, replicable, and scalable management system to improve your transformation process.

Doing the right job the right way is critical to your professional success. Influence and Impact provides an easy-to-follow, common sense approach to building influence at any level of an organization. Accomplished leadership and executive coaches Bill Berman and George Bradt offer a fresh perspective on evaluating what values, strengths, and capabilities you bring to your role; how you can develop new skills to increase your influence; and determining if you are in the right place to have the greatest impact.

Leading organizations worldwide are evolving from the idea of employee engagement to that of organizational alignment. More important in today’s virtual work environment, The Art of Alignment provides a road map to creating alignment to your mission and vision to distributed teams. The Art of Alignment takes a data-driven approach to organizational alignment. When executives add purpose to engagement, coupled with measurement, your organization will experience market-leading performance.

The role of the #newCEO is less about being an executive and more about being the organization's Chief Energy Officer. This book explains why energy is the secret sauce for leaders, and how the right type of energy elevates culture, communication and organizational success.

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.

In today’s corporate environment it's essential that the people that you employ get along as a team. Professionalism in the workplace is one of the key factors for any business’s success. Throughout this book, the author gives you in-depth guidance, advice, and suggestions on how to turn your employees into a well-oiled team. One that is able to withstand the toughest of problems. Your employees are the backbone of your business. It’s critical that you invest in learning how to change organizational behavior to foster a positive environment.