Organizational Theory

"The Spirit of Evolutionary Leadership" by Ammanuel Santa Anna is a transformative guide that blends ancient wisdom with modern leadership strategies. This insightful book explores how field theory and resonance can elevate your leadership style, creating a more empathetic, effective, and fulfilling approach to guiding teams and organizations. Santa Anna draws on his extensive experience in mysticism, energy healing, and executive coaching to offer practical techniques for developing emotional intelligence, achieving work-life balance, and cultivating a unique leadership presence. Through ...

Existing narratives about how we should organize are built upon, and reinforce, a concept of "good management" derived from what is assumed to be a fundamental need to increase efficiency. But this assumption is based on a presentist, monocultural, and generally limited view of management's past. A New History of Management disputes these foundations. By reassessing conventional perspectives on past management theories and providing a new critical outline of present-day management, it highlights alternative conceptions of "good management".

A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors, which reveals how big tech's obsession with optimisation and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy and save ourselves. As the dominance of big tech becomes an explosive societal conundrum, they share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to help everyone understand what is happening, what is at stake and what we can do to control technology instead of letting it control us.

Provocative political commentator Arianna Huffington yanks back the curtain on the unholy alliance of CEOs, politicians, lobbyists, and Wall Street bankers who have shown a brutal disregard for those in office cubicles and on factory floors.

Super Bomb unveils the story of the events leading up to President Harry S. Truman's 1950 decision to develop a "super" or hydrogen, bomb. That fateful decision and its immediate consequences are detailed in a diverse and complete account built on newly released archives and previously hidden contemporaneous interviews with more than 60 political, military, and scientific figures who were involved in the decision.

The Transformational Coaching handbook is a welcome and much-needed addition to the literature of the field. Francine Campone, Ed.D., MCC This unique handbook, edited by Kymberly O. Akouris and Astrid E. Emond, studies the intersection of human and organizational development for coaches, highlighting transformative opportunities that can lead to positive changes in outlook and behavior. The authors put the discipline of coaching in the context of the range of challenges that individuals and organizations are facing in a time of rapid and unsettling change. Thoughtful coaches understand that...

A Crisis of Beliefs makes us rethink the financial crisis and the nature of economic risk. In this authoritative and comprehensive book, two of today's most insightful economists reveal how our beliefs shape financial markets, lead to expansions of credit and leverage, and expose the economy to major risks.

Do we have to choose between equality and prosperity? Many think that reducing economic inequality would require such heavy-handed interference with market forces that it would stifle economic growth. Heather Boushey insists nothing could be further from the truth. Presenting cutting-edge economics with journalistic verve, she shows how rising inequality has become a drag on growth and an impediment to a competitive United States marketplace for employers and employees alike.

"Conquer the CLEP Principles of Management Exam" is your comprehensive study guide to mastering the Principles of Management exam. Covering a wide range of topics, this guide equips you with the knowledge and skills needed to ace the exam and earn college credit. Topics include: Organization and Human Resources: From personnel administration to workforce diversity, delve into the intricacies of managing human capital within organizations. Operational Aspects of Management: Learn about operations planning, quality management, information processing, and other key operational functions ...

The Hope-Driven Leader is not about feel-good theory or dry data. It's an action guide informed by the thousands of people Gill has coached in both the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds around the globe. Whether you are a rising star or a seasoned leader in your own business, a corporation, or your community, The Hope-Driven Leader offers you a roadmap for instilling positive beliefs and behaviors into the core of your being and the culture of your workplace. Let the journey begin!

In this collection of stories, Gabriella Braun shares insights from over twenty years of taking psychoanalysis out of the therapy room and into the sta­ff room. She shows us why a board loses the plot, nearly causes their company to collapse, and how they come through. We see the connection between a headteacher's professional and personal loss. We understand seemingly unfathomable behaviour—why a man lets his organisation push him around, a lawyer becomes paranoid, a team repeatedly creates scapegoats, and founders of a literary agency feud.

Das große, wissenschaftlich fundierte Debattenbuch zur Generation Z und der Arbeitswelt. Faul, unverbindlich, arbeitsunfähig - der jungen Generation von heute wurde schon viel nachgesagt. In Bezug auf ihre Arbeitsmoral selten Positives. Im Vergleich zu Generationen vor ihr, hat die Generation Z – jene Altersgruppe, die zwischen 1995 und 2010 geboren wurde – eine andere Einstellung zur Arbeit entwickelt: Sie wünscht sich weniger Überstunden, mehr Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten und vor allem Freizeit.

Descubra las profundas conexiones entre mente, cuerpo y sociedad en "Psicología de la salud: comprender la psicología en la teoría y en la práctica". Este libro le guía a través del fascinante mundo de la psicología de la salud y le revela cómo los procesos psicológicos influyen en nuestra salud y viceversa. Desde los fundamentos de la teoría hasta las estrategias tangibles para la práctica, el autor ofrece una guía sólida y accesible que resultará atractiva tanto para el científico como para el profano.

Access Granted: Tomorrow's Business Ethics is science fiction in its literal sense. The book analyzes actual and future technological developments to discuss how these will affect tomorrow's business reality and its impact on the human. It is clear that robotization and the implementation of artificial intelligence will change companies and societies. This does not mean automatically a shift for the better or worse, but life will be different, and it is in our hands to use technology for the better.

The Big Bing will be a mandatory addition to the library of everyone who works for a living, or would like to. For nearly 20 years, Stanley Bing's funny, wise, pleasantly mean-spirited, and at times even useful columns have delighted readers in the pages of Esquire, Fortune, and a variety of other national publications. Bing has lived the last two decades inside the belly of the corporate beast, clawing his way to the top of one of the great multinational companies in the cosmos.

Gazprom, Google und der Fluch der Abhängigkeit: Warum Monopole so gefährlich sind. Gazprom, Google, Blackrock, USA, China und Russland: Konzerne und Staaten mit übergroßer Marktmacht greifen tief in unser Leben ein. Der Monopolismus mit seiner Herrschaft über Rohstoffe und Kapital, Energie, Nahrungsmittel und Daten droht den Wettbewerb abzuschaffen. Die Folgen sind weniger Innovation, höhere Preise, aber vor allem wirtschaftliche und politische Abhängigkeiten.

Unleashing Advancement: Harnessing A.I. and ChatGPT for Personal, Company, and Organizational Growth is your comprehensive guide to understanding the transformative potential of A.I. and ChatGPT. This audiobook explores the advantages of integrating A.I. and ChatGPT into your operations, shares real-world success stories, addresses challenges and concerns, and provides practical steps to get started on your journey towards harnessing the power of A.I. for your benefit.

In this Pulitzer entry, the author describes how we can find balance between our competitive drives and our cooperative drives so that we can operate at highest possible level, and shows us how nature relates to these traits and how they both tie into order and chaos, even to the universe. It gives us a dynamic equation for synthesizing cooperative order with competitive chaos, and teaches the universal law of co-opetition - which means to synthesize cooperation with competition.

Cette œuvre guide le lecteur à travers les fondements de la psychiatrie, offrant une compréhension complète et scientifiquement fondée de la discipline. Des origines aux développements contemporains, le livre explore l'évolution historique, conceptuelle et neurobiologique qui a façonné la pratique psychiatrique.