Systems Leadership

Finding great talent is crucial for the success of any business. Scrolling through countless job boards, reading endless resumes, and conducting interview after interview consumes precious time and often leads to bad hires. It’s a system in need of an overhaul. Excellent hiring doesn’t have to be an impossible task. Employers can improve their recruiting practices with simple steps that highlight their company’s values and attract quality candidates every time.

Founding the Colony is the second of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Colonization Chronical. This volume follows Ricky and his family after they reach Murna after overcoming seemingly impossible system and component failures to their ship, while escaping two separate piratical attacks. One of the first colonists to step foot on his new planets, he immediately begins establishing his farmstead with his girlfriend Edin. Using technology he has developed Ricky is able to communicate directly with his Grammy back on Earth. He is concerned the ansible network may be ...

In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. Drawing on provocative, original research and a lifetime of experience in global affairs, Naím explains how the end of power is reconfiguring our world.

This is a great book for beginners or those seeking general knowledge about the subject matter. It focuses on supply office management, operations management, crisis management, and project management from a leadership perspective. It explores the responsibilities of managers, the roles they play in achieving organizational goals and objectives, and the impact they have on employees and workplaces. The text is informational and educational, and it is written for easy understanding at all reader levels. If you are interested in learning about these four important aspects of management, then ...

This book focuses on 9 topics that leaders must understand to properly run their organizations. These topics include Crisis Management, Consistently Inconsistent Leadership, CEO Mistakes, Coworker Relationships, Delegation, Brainstorming, Hands-on Leadership, Psychopathic Employees, and Drug Abuse. The text is educational and informational, and it is written for easy understanding at all reader levels.

Most books that teach you how to build and grow a business are organized around the functional areas of business, such as people, finance, operations, and marketing. Those things are important and necessary - no question - but what is missing is an overarching methodology that systematically reels in every aspect of building and growing a successful company and creates a repeatable process to execute on the activities that will lead to big growth in your company.

The Power of a System contains the technical, managerial, and entrepreneurial secrets to running a multi-million-dollar law firm. Tried-and-true methods for managing and growing the injury law firm of your dreams is available - precise methods that, when applied, will slowly but surely grow your law firm into an asset that serves your ideal lifestyle.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on leadership style, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Leaders play a critical role in organizations. Their decisions affect every aspect of the workplace, and those decisions are influenced by the way they manage people and processes. In other words, their decisions are influenced by their leadership style. This eBook focuses on leadership style in organizations. Specifically, it examines the present and future of the following types of styles: • Authoritarian • Democratic • ...

Metronomics unites top business thought leadership with over 20 years of proven practical experience. The outcome is a prescriptive, progressive growth system for every business. In this book, you’ll learn how to build a high-performing business team that achieves superior results with ease, speed, and confidence. You’ll learn the practical progression that ensures your team is fiercely connected to your strategic execution system.

"A FUNNY, HARD-HITTING, SYSTEMS-THINKING APPROACH TO BUSINESS & IT!" Most books: Here's *my* opinion on how to do technology. UNF*CK IT!: Here's a process to analyze your Business & IT and to apply systems-thinking & continuous improvement methodologies to improve your business-technology alignment. A PG-rated rewrite of the author's first title, UNSUCK IT keeps all of the humor and pop-culture references but none of the language that would make a sailor blush. UNSUCK IT! presents a comprehensive, systematic plan to improve IT performance, Business-IT alignment, & reduce IT costs. Using six...

Drawing upon new theories about leadership and the long-term success of change initiatives, and based upon 25 years of experience building learning organizations, the authors of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook show how to accelerate success and avoid the obstacles that can stall momentum. The Dance of Change, written for managers and executives at every level of an organization, reveals how business leaders can work together to anticipate the challenges that profound change will ultimately forc

As humans, what sets us apart is that we can achieve extraordinary goals when we focus, collaborate, and continuously check on our progress. However, even in large companies, only seven percent of the people know their company's top goals. OKRs, objectives, and key results, are what Google and many other top companies have been using deeply immersed into their culture from the very beginning.

This book’s expanded edition includes two new sections, crisis management and organizational development, making it even better for those interested in the subject matter. Plant Manager's Reference Handbook discusses 12 essential skills of plant managers including delegation, organization, recruitment, motivation, communication, strategic, training, decision making, emotional intelligence, problem-solving, sales, and political. Quality Assurance in Manufacturing describes the topic, discusses its implementation, talks about the advantages and challenges involved, notes methods of ...

Do you want to discover the must-have project management hacks to achieve more success and master every area of your life? If you’ve ever experienced project failure at home, work or even with your hobbies, you’re not alone. The truth is, project management isn’t easy. And it’s important to remember that this is not your fault! But becoming a successful project manager doesn’t happen by luck...you have to take action. And that’s how Project Management for Beginners will empower you.

Business leaders know that the key to competitive success is smart management of scarce resources. That's why companies allocate their financial capital so carefully. But capital today is cheap and abundant, no longer a source of advantage. The truly scarce resources now are the time, the talent, and the energy of the people in your organization—resources that are too often squandered.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on research and development, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. This book focuses on product-based research and development in organizations…primarily manufacturers. It examines the responsibilities of R&D personnel, analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of R&D departments, suggests methods for improving R&D, and assesses the general future of the concept. The text is informational and educational, and it is written for easy reader understanding at all levels. If you are ...

GUTS: Greatness Under Tremendous Stress is more than a motivation guide. It's a complete life-changing program full of powerful, transformational strategies straight from the Navy SEAL playbook. It's like a personal boot camp for retraining the brain, breaking bad habits and thought patterns, taking risks, and turning apathy into action.

Here’s how to make purposeful system change happen! The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is...how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on organizational design and structure or bureaucracies, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Organizational Design and Structure Workplace culture is determined by organizational design and structure. These two concepts work together to accomplish the goals and objectives of the organization. Along the way, they define management style, establish the working environment, and make sure that work related tasks are completed in an accurate and timely manner. Specifically, this eBook ...

Every day major headlines tell the story of a new and better American marketplace. Established corporations have begun reevaluating the quality of their products, the ethics of their supply chains, and how they can give back by donating portions of their profits to meaningful causes. Meanwhile millions of entrepreneurs who want a more responsible and compassionate marketplace have launched a new breed of socially focused business models.