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Knowing the tools of social media is a must for successful marketing these days, but the real promise of social media is the way it can teach us a whole new way of doing business. Humanize takes the principles underlying social media's growth and applies them to the way we lead and manage our organizations. Leading organizational consultants Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant help you change your organization, from the culture down to individual behavior, in ways that make it more human - and more effective.

Get your mind around this: a company without org charts or hierarchy. Some firms do operate this way, but this download, The Centerless Corporation, explains how they work and why. Give this a listen and maybe it'll show you how to change your company. You can bring it up with the, uh...boss.

This book debunks the myth that leaders need to be creative like designers to apply design thinking. Applying design approaches and practices to organizational leadership is not just about its leaders becoming more creative. It is definitely not about the person at the top coming up with the grand answer. Design thinking starts with the 'pain point' related to the problem you are trying to solve. You get to the heart of the issue. It is a collaborative effort that neatly leads stakeholders and representatives affected by the problem to design novel leadership solutions that work.

Embark on a captivating journey through the realm of innovation management and organizational change with this comprehensive and practical guide. Crafted for professionals, leaders, and students alike, this book offers an inspiring expedition, brimming with insights and strategies to tackle the challenges of an ever-transforming business landscape.

What do you do when the old processes that were the foundation of your business no longer serve the purpose or are no longer benefitting the whole? This problem has a name: The Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone! The Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone equips business owners, business leaders, and the inquisitive minds in between with the tools to make their cultures, companies, and lives more successful. The tools within take little knowledge or experience to understand but can have a huge impact on you, your team, and your organization.

In this discussion, Simpson breaks down the steps to implementing the Organizational Effectiveness Cycle by using definitions of mission, vision, and values.

Why is it that so many of us toil away in jobs we hate, being treated like machines, doing things that will eventually ruin the planet? Is this really the best we can do with our work and our lives? Concluding a massive research project spanning the fields of behavioral economics, future trend analysis, and management science, Josh Allan Dykstra elegantly shows how the world of work is evolving.

Too often discussions of management practice focus exclusively on managing people and organizational issues. Rarely, however, do they incorporate a discussion about technology or address all three dimensions in a balanced way. When they do, the result is game changing. In our hypercompetitive environment, those managers who are outstanding at being plugged into their people, technology, and organizational processes simultaneously excel at coming up with effective business solutions.

Every business needs to innovate, but few know where to start. ON Innovation, gives leaders 72 simple but powerful ideas they can use to create a more innovative organization. Drawing from his experience as founder and CEO at Travelocity.com and from the 10 other start-ups where he’s worked, Jones helps listeners turn innovation from an academic exercise into an everyday skill.

With the growth of remote work and an increased focus on diversity and inclusion, companies are increasingly finding themselves in a war for talent as they source and recruit candidates from all over the world. Part call to action, part strategic road map, Reset challenges business leaders' underlying assumptions about workers and the workplace, delivers practical strategies for finding and keeping the talent needed to make businesses successful and introduces dynamic tools to sustain that success over the long haul.

Every great leader understands the burden of responsibility that they have in leading a team of people. As Churchill observed, "responsibility is the path to greatness." And we have a responsibility as leaders to care for our teams in ways that they leave us uplifted and not in anger and frustration. In The New Leadership Paradigm, I discuss how you can take control of your organization and create something that transcends the norms of the business world.

After writing the first book about why Lean and Six Sigma practitioners should volunteer their skills to help nonprofits, I wanted to give more tangible and real-life examples of how these tools and techniques can be applied. I've reached out to friends and colleagues who are already volunteering their time, and asked them to write a chapter for this first volume, called Lessons Learned from the Gemba.

Whether it's the composition of a company's leadership team or identifying the candidates that are a 'good fit' with the organisation, racial divisions play out as starkly in the workplace as they do in wider society. Social Psychologist Robert Livingston has made it his life's work to show people how to turn difficult conversations about race into productive instances of real change. With wit and clarity, The Conversation distils Livingston's decades of research and practice into a solution-oriented road map for anyone seeking to uproot entrenched biases in the workplace.

In this must-listen book, you'll learn about Dr. Pelè’s groundbreaking strategies, systems, and software for harnessing the science-backed tools of Profitable Happiness™ to create a culture of collaboration, innovation, and engagement that delivers high performance in your organization.

This book is a passionate and enthusiastic account of the life of a religious sister in the 21st century. As an Educator and Organizational Consultant the author draws on the resources of professional skills in leadership training, facilitation, and consultancy and integrates them with discernment for action. True to the charism and mission of her congregation of the Faithful Companions of Jesus, based on the spirituality of St Ignatius of Loyola, she writes with energy and vast experience about practical ways of living faith in action.

Podcasts are a wonderful way to connect with your target audience and build a memorable brand. They are informative, entertaining, and enlightening. Podcasts stimulate conversations between you and your followers. Better yet, listeners will likely to become lifelong customers and promoters of your brand because they get to know you on a deeper level. In other words, a podcast will serve as a powerful springboard for your business. And the popularity and overall demand is continuing to grow every single day.

Disruption creates 10 times the opportunity to advance your organization and your career, according to former CEO and author Peter J. Boni. In All Hands on Deck: Navigating Your Team Through Crisis, Getting Your Organization Unstuck, and Emerging Victorious, Boni shows any leader or aspiring leader exactly what to do. Following his advice, recognition and rewards come quickly.

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.

Based on a cover story in the Harvard Business Review entitled "Maneuver Warfare", Leading to Win the Marine Corps Way shows business leaders and managers how to adopt the principles and strategies that have made the Marine Corps so successful. Written by a Wharton professor and two former marines who have now moved on to the business world, the book brings a consummate mix of business savvy and military know-how to bear on the challenges faced by today's managers.

Millennials and future leaders no longer have to make the mistakes of yesterday in order to learn valuable lessons tomorrow; they can have the answers they need today! Laser brilliantly combines her expertise in risk reduction, human behavior and strategy with existing "better" practices and experiences from others, in this entertaining, easy-to-follow, solution-packed beginner's guide to leadership essentials.