Organizational Development Leadership

From the beaches of Rio to the boardrooms of Madison Avenue, Shake the Cart is a delightful discourse on the art of creative disruption and millennial-driven innovation. Championing a brave new millennial-based outlook on life and business, Shake the Cart introduces three bold new ideas: the disruption mindset, the new adoption curve (the shaky-cart curve), and the way of the cart. With sportive case studies from Washington, DC to Wall Street, Shake the Cart envisions a diverse and inclusive world and workplace.

Theories to leading an organization efficiently are very important. Most people who are thrown into management positions will eventually be put on the spot when it comes to deciding which form of management to use for their employers' organization.

In From the Death Zone to the Boardroom, speed ski mountaineer Benedikt Boehm tells gripping and inspirational stories about his fears, pain, suffering and facing death during his expeditions to some of the world's highest mountains. Throughout, his coauthor and professor of leadership and management, Stefan Gröschl, integrates scholarly ideas and works beyond traditional business boundaries providing you with unusual insights and thought-provoking alternatives for managing your business.

Drawing on the science of how we learn, The Expertise Economy shows companies big and small how to transform their employees into experts and ultimately their biggest competitive advantage. Kelly Palmer, Silicon Valley thought leader from LinkedIn, Degreed, and Yahoo, and David Blake, cofounder of Ed-tech pioneer Degreed, share their experiences and describe how some of the smartest companies in the world are making learning and expertise a major competitive advantage.

Solid profits, a strong brand, steady customers - all of these can vanish when market shifts disrupt business as usual. So how do you keep from losing ground? How do you stay a step ahead of competitors? The solution is surprisingly straightforward: innovate tweak by tweak.

Encapsulating over 60 years of combined professional experience working with successful leaders worldwide, authors Eric Harvey and Steve Ventura provide a proven collection of universal best in class leadership beliefs and behaviors labeled THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF LEADERSHIP. Despite the old adage, leaders are made not born. They are made with integrity, discipline, commitment, and hard work. Truly effective leadership is developed by learning and refining specific skills and applying those skills according to sound principles and time-tested guidelines. Providing you and your colleagues ...

Culture Infusion is your guide for improving corporate culture and motivating your employees to perform at their highest capacity. Culture Infusion is for leaders and aspiring leaders who want to build a legacy, shift perspectives, and lead by example so others are inspired and driven to be their best selves. Whether you are a top-level executive or lead a team, you will find valuable insights in this audiobook on how to create and maintain a sought-after workplace.

"The Change Imperative: Organizational Development for the 21st Century" is an essential guide for leaders, managers, consultants, and scholars navigating the complex terrain of organizational change. In an era marked by rapid technological advances, shifting global labor markets, and increasing calls for corporate social responsibility, this book offers a comprehensive examination of the theories, strategies, and practices essential for driving effective and sustainable change.

In the wake of economic downturn, foreign competition, spiking oil prices, and even war, American business throughout this decade has been thrust into crisis. To improve their performance, corporations everywhere have adopted a wide range of tools and techniques, yet many continue to struggle. Going Lean points to a better way.

This audiobook will help you comprehend the significance of conducting an external analysis to assist in the development of efficient strategic plans for organizational management. In addition, it explains how conducting an external analysis can help strategists detect possible threats and obstacles, as well as help them identify opportunities they may wish to explore further.

Penguin Business Experts: Coach Your Team is a practical guide for leaders who want to foster a culture where everyone has a chance to flourish, create and innovate while being happy and more resilient. It draws on cutting-edge, evidence-based techniques in coaching that focus on developing mindfulness and compassion in leaders, their employees and throughout their organisation with case studies of best practice from around the world.

What are a few of your greatest goals in life? To slim down? To take in more revenue? To be in your dream vocation? To assemble your own business? Would you love to live in abundance? To be in the best health? To find your life mate? To have a loving household? For any of these goals, have you ever experienced the resolve to accomplish it, commit resources toward it, work at it for an long time period, only to have it flop finally? Well, help is here in this book.

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.

Por qué arriesgarnos a gestionar en soledad,cuando lo podemos hacer con el apoyo de las demás personas que forman nuestra organización? A través de la aventura de recorrer en compañía el Camino de Santiago, "Por buen camino" desgrana, de forma muy amena, los puntos principales sobre los que se apoya el trabajo en equipo, cuyas bondades el autor ha podido contrastar en su experiencia profesional con equipos comerciales en multinacionales del sector textil.

Too Proud to Lead provides essential advice on how to avoid hubristic behavior that can endanger businesses, as well as cope with arrogant overconfidence in others in the workplace.

Whether interviewing, selling, networking, or leading a team, brainstorming with the boss or delivering a presentation, success in business depends on connection with other people. Nicholas Boothman, the best-selling author or How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less, now brings his system of forging instant relationships to the world of business. Beginning with the simplest of tools - face, body, attitude, and voice - he shows how to make a dazzling first impression.

Facing a corporate merger or restructuring? Feeling adrift in a sea of uncertainty? Currents of Change is your compass. This captivating fable follows a data analyst navigating the turbulent waters of a company merger. Discover how she transforms from a cog in the machine to a leader, inspiring her team to overcome challenges and emerge stronger. Learn practical strategies, build resilience, and unlock your organization's full potential.

Richard Branson, at his brilliant and motivating best, reveals how with his exciting new vision for the future. It is time to turn capitalism upside down - to shift our values, to switch from a profit focus to caring for people, communities and the planet. With inspiration for everyone, Screw Business As Usual shows how easy it is for both businesses and individuals to embark on a whole new way of doing things, solving major problems and turning our work into something we both love and are proud of.

Business is personal. A statement on life as a business owner. Being the leader of your own life is the greatest lesson in business. Your business is personal, as it is yours. We live in a fast-paced, overconnected world. Relying on your own instincts and knowing the dreams you hold for your version of success, ambition and happiness will ensure you have the life you want and not the life you compare yourself with.

During my 30-year career in the military, I read many books on leadership and human potential, but none of them really stirred my thinking like the book The Heart of a Leader by Ken Blanchard. That’s why, when I became an author, I knew I wanted to put together a book like his, a book that could help other people like his book had helped me. I really hope the quotes in this book and my thoughts on them will help you grow as a leader, but perhaps more importantly, I hope they inspire you to develop higher level thoughts of your own.