""We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live. Drawing on the latest research in behavioral...

"A humorous, yet practical five-step guide to ridding ourselves-and our companies-of commonplace, bureaucratic bottlenecks that plague every office around the world"--

Offers insight into the corporate cultures of high-performance organizations to explain the importance of engaged employees in business success, outlining a seven-step plan for managers to facilitate high-achieving teams.

"An urgent yet hopeful analysis of the surge in dehumanization, and how we can reverse it. The unprecedented access to other humans that technology provides has ironically freed us from engaging with them. Thanks to social media, we can know a campaigning politician's platform; an avid traveler's restaurant recommendations; and the daily emotional fluctuations of our friends without ever even picking up the phone. According to social psychologist...

Demonstrates how professional leaders can enable record-breaking results by creating a people-centric organizational culture.

"The ultimate handbook for fostering and cultivating a strong team culture, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Culture Code. In his years studying the ways successful groups work together, Daniel Coyle has spent time with elite teams around the world, studying the ways they support each other, manage conflict, and move toward a common goal. In The Culture Playbook, he distills everything he has learned into sixty concrete, actionable...

"Our organizations are failing us. They're sluggish, change-phobic, and emotionally arid. Human beings, by contrast, are adaptable, creative, and full of passion. This gap between individual and organizational capability is the unfortunate by-product of bureaucracy--the top-down, rule-choked management structure that undergirds virtually every organization on the planet. Invented in the nineteenth century with the goal of turning people into semi-programmable...

This book provides answers to businesses, organizations, and people that are searching for alternate perspectives and strategies to advance diversity and inclusion; it is for those who feel different or feel alienated, who want to foster self-empowerment and connect with others, and who want to deepen their capacity to build greater empathy, open-mindedness, and ability to connect --

The charismatic, accessible, and down-to-earth CEO of Dunkin' Brands (Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin-Robbins) shows how positive pushback--the discipline of "questioning everything without trashing anyone"--provides a unique, results-oriented way to lead an organization to prosperity.

Presents information on the practices needed to do business in over sixty countries, covering such topics as historical background, cultural orientation, protocol, negotiations, entertainment, dress, and forms of address.