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Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Language
English
Description
"In today's workplace, conversations about diversity are vital but filled with potential pitfalls-award-winning consultant Mary-Frances Winters provides specific, tactical, and compassionate approaches for dialoguing across difference"--
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Science is so powerful that the powerful want to control it. From the author of Is Shame Necessary?, comes a biting satire of the techniques used by the corporate world to obfuscate and deny scientific truths. Taking the form of a corporate meeting agenda, The Playbook highlights the tactics used by the business elite to contradict climate change, ignore health risks, and undermine worker safety. The Playbook is a caustic handbook for tobacco, oil,...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Conversations about taboo topics happen at work every day. And if they aren't handled effectively, they can become polarizing and divisive, impacting productivity, engagement, retention, teamwork, and even employees' sense of safety in the workplace. In this concise and powerful book, Mary-Frances Winters shows how to deal with sensitive subjects in a way that brings people together instead of driving them apart. She helps you become aware of the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
How did a Venice Beach T-shirt vendor become television's most successful producer? How did an entrepreneur who started in a garage create the most iconic product launches in business history? How did a timid pastor's son overcome a paralyzing fear of public speaking to captivate sold-out crowds at Yankee Stadium, twice? How did a human rights attorney earn TED's longest standing ovation, and how did a Facebook executive launch a movement to encourage...
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Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"University of Michigan Professor and cofounder, with Adam Grant, of Give and Take Inc, shows us how to master one of life's most critical skills: the ability to ask for help. Often, there is a simple and seemingly obvious act standing between us and success: asking for the help and resources we need to succeed. Imagine you're on a deadline for a big project, and feeling overworked and overwhelmed. Or you're looking for a job, but can't seem to get...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From Erica Dhawan, co-author of Get Big Things Done, the definitive guide to communicating and connecting wherever you are. Email replies that show up a week later. Video chats full of 'oops sorry no you go' and 'can you hear me?!' Ambiguous text-messages. Weird punctuation you can't make heads or tails of. Is it any wonder communication takes us so much time and effort to figure out? How did we lose our innate capacity to understand each other? Humans...
8) The six secrets of change: what the best leaders do to help their organizations survive and thrive
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
9) Crucial confrontations: tools for resolving broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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