Improv Leadership

Improve your organization’s odds of succeeding with artificial intelligence. Managers struggle to determine whether they have the right people, knowledge, data, and tools to compete in a new business landscape―a landscape revolutionized by AI. Although most leaders ‘hope’ that they have the ‘right stuff’, hope is not a strategy. Organizations must critically assess where they are currently and what gaps they must fill to be competitive in this new environment. Through questionnaires and assessments covering eight critical dimensions, this book will help you build the foundation ...

Every day, thousands of hidden and ignored problems frustrate workers and customers and, in turn, reduce profits. The key to finding and fixing these problems is to engage employees closest to the work and closest to the customer in new ways so they can contribute their ideas. This book provides rules that, if followed, will allow employees to harvest all the low hanging fruit - and some that is not so low hanging - that will grow earnings, make customers happier, and increase morale.

Leadership Lessons is a book that is all about how to improve organizational performance. The central focus of all these essays is improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organizations. The purpose is to help organizations and the people within them to be able to realize their individual and collective potential. Many of the essays are titled in the form of a question because if you don’t learn to ask better questions, you will never get the answers you really need.

Leadership Lessons is a book about how to improve organizational performance. The essays in this book are an accumulation of various projects that I have been involved in for more than a dozen years. The term projects spans quite a range of subject matter and purposes for their existence. The reality is that the central focus of all these essays is improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organizations. The purpose is to help organizations and the people within them to be able to realize their individual and collective potential.

In this book, you'll get fresh takes on well-beaten topics such as leadership, accountability, and a step-by-step approach to innovation. It contains a simple way to build winning strategies and align efforts across the entire enterprise. All of these breakthrough insights are based on the same set of principles. Discover how these principles make air travel safer, employees happier and smarter, weight loss easier, health care better, and business meetings shorter.

Improve your life, where everything’s not made up, and the points do matter. Drew Carey’s show Whose Line Is It Anyway? has turned improvisational comedy into a pop culture phenomenon. But improv is more than just laughs - it’s a valuable training tool that will make you a more effective business professional.

Discover the secret to becoming a person-focused manager and the leader who gets the best results! Bursting with quotes, anecdotes, and historical titbits, this audio version of the book offers a practical and out-of-the-box approach to a management style that works. Delving into real historical examples of what makes a good leader, along with how old lessons of leadership can be applied to our modern workforce, Tales of the Person-Focused Manager combines authentic advice with tons of engaging stories.

In today’s fast-changing world, the greatest challenge for any organisation isn’t technology, competition, or market shifts - it’s leadership. The Open Executive is a call to action for apex executives - CEOs, managing directors, and business owners -who recognise that true organisational transformation starts from within. If you are in such a role, or if you are on a career arc towards it, this book is for you. Using modern management thinking proven in hundreds of organisations, we reveal how leaders can embrace openness, trust, and adaptability to create workplaces that thrive in ...

2024 AMERICAN WRITING AWARDS - FINALIST IN THE BUSINESS-MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP CATEGORYJust as DNA shapes who we are biologically, your personal and professional DNA forms the core of your identity, capabilities, and potential. In Enhancing Your Leadership, Communication and Performance DNA, Denola Burton guides you through a transformative journey of self-development using the concept of DNA—Develop, Nurture and Achieve—as a framework for growth. This book provides practical strategies, real-life examples and actionable tools to help you unlock your fullest potential in leadership, ...

In lively prose that is as engaging as it is illuminating, Dattner tells a host of true stories of those he has worked with - from the woman who was so scapegoated by her colleagues that she decided to quit, to the clueless boss who was too quick to blame his staff. He shares a wealth of insight from the study of human evolution and psychology to reveal the underlying reasons why people are so prone to blaming and credit-grabbing; it's not only human nature, it's found throughout the animal kingdom.

He traveled over two thousand miles to find her.... And yet she is firmly saying, "No, thank you" to raising her orphan cousins. Boston lawyer Reed Malloy cannot believe it. After an exhausting train ride west to a dusty Colorado town, he's not prepared for Miss Charlotte Sanborn, who wears her independence like a suit of armor, cloaks her identity behind her pen name, and flat out refuses to raise her kin!

You want to be a better boss, be better respected by your subordinates and superiors alike, and lead a team that happily achieves their goals and then some, but you don’t have time to read a textbook and then attempt to apply complicated psychological theories about leadership? That’s why this audiobook is the only one you need. The focus is on the people who report to you: The teams, the individuals, and those mid-level members with subordinates of their own. This is a handbook - a reference of 20 simple rules to enact.

If you are a business owner who wants to be fast at their work and still do it efficiently and effectively, then Work Smarter, Not Harder: 9 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Improve Work Efficiency is for you. You will learn in this book that the secret to running a successful business is not just working harder, but working faster. The nine tips in this book have been a long-time practice of the author, a successful business owner. Your work life will get better, and your business will consequently experience exponential growth.

If you want to improve your odds of success in fighting, whether in boxing, MMA, traditional martial arts, or street fighting, then learning and implementing the principles found in this book is a necessary step. It's not a book of secret techniques that only Ninjas knew. It is a collection of the best principles from 35 years of pursuit in the pugilistic experience, backed by quotes from professional fighters of every dimension and era. Additionally, there is a wealth of deep knowledge to be learned from the pugilistic experience that can be applied to life. An experience that confronts ...

The book will help the listener to understand life through that of another's eyes and learn valuable lessons. The author adds meaningful quotes throughout the book to give the listener an understanding of how the 10 Rules apply to universal principals. The stories are crazy and over the top at times because the author has witnessed many alarming situations over time and wanted to share this with the listener.

Have you ever wondered why it's painfully difficult for you to get a raise at work? Do you know you can successfully ask for a raise even if your pay was recently increased? Do you also know you can get the best deals in most transactions if only you will learn how to ask the right questions? In the book Negotiating, Richard Wall demystifies what makes for a good negotiation. It takes a good negotiation to get what you want out of life.

In this fresh and provocative view of a seven-million-year evolutionary journey, Finlayson demonstrates the radical implications for the interpretation of fossils and technologies and shows that understanding humans within an ecological context provides insights into the emergence and spread of Homo sapiens worldwide.

In today's workplace, too many marginalized groups are underrepresented. And yet, workplaces often struggle to find enough employees to sustain their growing needs, putting massive pressure on HR hiring teams to fill the demand. Organizational psychologist Gil Winch argues that addressing our own biases and building organizations where everyone feels a profound sense of belonging is not only great for a company's bottom line, it's also good for employees, communities, and society as a whole. Winning with Underdogs is the highly practical step-by-step guide you need.

If you're looking for an effective and proven approach to product management - one that recognizes that the majority of product managers enter the field with little or no training and must learn through trial and error - this is the book for you. Take Charge Product Management guides you step-by-step along the product management path with tips, tactics, and tools to make you and your products more successful.

Organizations that provide opportunities for employees to playfully connect, bond, and build friendships see improvements in retention, engagement, and innovation. Intentional play at work creates a culture that benefits all employees’ physical and mental health and the company’s bottom line. It Pays to Play is a rich resource filled with ideas for play at work—whether in person, hybrid, or remote—and illustrates how the ROI from play is multifaceted and exponential. Learn the ways play can be easily and affordably implemented regardless of your industry.