Systems Leadership

Pre-mortem strategies are proactive strategies that assume a failure has occurred and then work backward to come up with reasons for that failure. All potential reasons are analyzed by a diverse team of organizational stakeholders who select those most likely to be the cause. A plan is then put in place to prevent the failure from happening in the future; thereby circumventing the need for a dreaded post-mortem strategy. This book examines pre-mortem strategies for information technology. First, it describes information technology and discusses its advantages and disadvantages. Next, it ...

Company culture influences the roles and responsibilities of every employee within the organization, from executive leadership down to the front lines. A strong, healthy company culture drives productivity and raises profitability, and disengaged employees cost companies billions, yet many executives rarely associate their culture with their bottom line. Today, employee engagement stakes are higher than ever because executives have to consider the impact their company culture has on external stakeholders as well.

The Matrix Model Management System is a much-needed cognitive technology for cross-cultural expertise. The field-tested Matrix System is an innovative tool for developing thought leaders: story-based communication, conflict management, and wise decision making. Build your diverse team, develop thought leaders, and learn how to avoid costly culture clashes using the Matrix System.

In A Good Time to Be a Girl, Helena Morrissey sets out how we might achieve the next big breakthrough towards a truly inclusive modern society. Drawing on her experience as a City CEO, mother of nine, and founder of the influential 30% Club, which campaigns for gender-balanced UK company boards, her manifesto for new ways of working, living, loving and raising families is for everyone, not just women.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on absenteeism in organizations, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Absenteeism is employees’ unscheduled absence from their jobs. Excessive absenteeism creates headaches for organizations because job tasks still need to be completed with fewer employees. This eBook explores the reasons employees miss scheduled days of work and analyzes the problems this causes for organizations. In short, this eBook: • Examines the causes of absenteeism including stress, family care, bereavement, ...

This is the companion book to the online course Why Conflict Models Don’t Work When the Problem Is Bullying. In this audiobook, author Jennifer Hancock discusses the differences between a conflict model and a bullying elimination model and how we can use elimination models to resolve both conflicts and harassment situations ethically and effectively. Workplace bullying and harassment situations often masquerade as conflict. But they aren’t. Applying a conflict resolution model to a bullying or harassment situation makes the problem worse.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on customer service, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. This book focuses on customer service in organizations. It examines departmental structure, analyzes representatives’ skills, explores reasons for failure, suggests methods of improvement, and discusses the future of the concept. The text is informational and educational, and it is written for easy understanding at all reader levels. If you are interested in learning about customer service in organizations, then this book is for...

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on meetings or planning in organizations, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Meetings Meetings are essential for communication in organizations. They convey information that is necessary for workplace operation and survival, and they help organizations grow and prosper. This eBook examines the following in regard to workplace meetings: • Structure of meetings • Purpose of meetings • Advantages of meetings • Disadvantages of meetings Related examples are provided in every ...

Leadership drives purpose, culture drives passion, and strategy drives performance. Together, the 3Ps—purpose, passion and performance—equal profit. And profit is the life-giving blood keeping the economy flowing and growing.

Stop what you’re doing right now and listen up - your commercial driving or trucking business is doomed, unless you change your mindset immediately. It’s all about knowing your business, knowing your client, and showing them why you’re better than everyone else - and you don’t need a ton of money or a university degree to accomplish just that. A little bit of business sense and some guidance is all you need to help you take the right steps.

The CDL trucking industry secrets exposed: here’s what the multi-millionaire truck drivers don’t want you to know...and how to become one of them....

At a time 79 percent of employees quit their jobs because they don't feel appreciated at their workplace, Building Corporate Soul sets out to transform the performance and value of organizations - and to make soulless companies a thing of the past.

Target Funding is a strategic guide to funding opportunities aimed at specific types of businesses and business owners. You'll learn about all the options available to you - including conventional, alternative, and diversity funding - and how to access them based on your needs and your demographic, industry, location, and other variables.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on small businesses, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Small businesses employ millions of people worldwide. They have limited resources, but their creativity and innovation keeps them on the cutting edge of new ideas and technology and allows them to grow and prosper. Many books have been writing about owning a small business, but few have been written about working in one. This eBook: • Examines the advantages and disadvantages of working in small businesses • Analyzes the role ...

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on technology in organizations, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Technology simplifies organizational processes and procedures that were much more complex in the past. It also enables employees to perform their jobs with speed and accuracy that was once not thought possible. However, technology also has a downside because people become dependent on it and move away from the coworker relationships that built strong companies in the past. This eBook examines the following: • ...

Described in a novel-format is an enhanced organizational governance system called Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE). The IEE system offers much flexibility, including a means for effectively managing an organization remotely. Described is how Jorge implemented IEE in his Harris Hospital, and how his golfing MBA friends applied and also benefited from the methodology in their manufacturing and transactional organizations.

Humanism is a philosophy that centers on acknowledging the dignity of your fellow humans. It is a recognition that our behavior impacts others. We don’t live in a vacuum. When we are in a leadership position, we have even more responsibility to do good, not just for ourselves, but for our team as well. Humanistic management or leadership is a philosophical approach that is at once: Compassionate, ethical, responsible, reasonable, and strategic. To be an effective, ethical leader requires a variety of different interrelated skills.

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The Master Chief’s amazing journey continues as he perfectly performs his extraordinary duty leading enlisted sailors and officers in the Top-Secret mission of hunting and tracking nuclear-armed Soviet Union submarines. A mission critical to national security during the Cold War’s waning years. With his “superior technical expertise and intense determination,” Moye was reported as being “one of the finest leaders in the Navy today,” as he inspected, revamped, and improved the communication posture of Atlantic Ocean submarine-hunting. Sailing, this time by air, Moye’s task was ...

Extensively revised and expanded, Future Search, the classic, definitive, best-selling book on one of the most powerful methods for changing and improving all types of organizations and communities, includes a host of new tools, and three new chapters. If you want to do strategic planning, product innovation, quality improvement, organizational restructuring, or any other major change in a participative, whole system way, this book is your guide.