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Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A Harvard Business School professor and leading expert in virtual and global work provides remote workers and leaders with the best practices necessary to perform at the highest levels in their organizations. --
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This is the management book of the year. Clear, powerful and urgent, it's a must read for anyone who cares about where they work and how they work." Seth Godin, author of This is Marketing "This book is a breath of fresh air. Read it now, and make sure your boss does too." Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take , Originals , and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg Aaron Dignan is the driverbehind some of today's most agile, fastest-scalingcompanies....
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today." -- From Amazon.com summary.
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Language
English
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Description
"In 1986, Ed Catmull co-founded Pixar, a modest start-up with an immodest goal: to make the first-ever computer animated movie. Nine years later, Pixar released Toy Story, which went on to revolutionize the industry, gross $360 million, and establish Pixar as one of the most successful, innovative, and emulated companies on earth. This book details how Catmull built an enduring creative culture -- one that doesn't just pay lip service to the importance...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
How do you get to what's real? Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback. These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco Leadership and Team Intelligence head Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring...
Author
Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In Scaling Up Excellence, bestselling author Bob Sutton and Stanford colleague Huggy Rao tackle the topic that obsesses businesses large and small, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies{u2014}how to scale up their businesses and spread excellence throughout the organizational culture"--
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat. From his first day at West Point, to his years in Afghanistan, to his efforts helping business leaders navigate a global pandemic, McChrystal has seen how individuals and organizations fail to mitigate risk. Why? Because they focus on the probability of something happening instead of the interface by which it can be managed. In this new book, General...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Challenges companies that use such traditional cost-saving practices as layoffs and service cutting, sharing the story of how the author revitalized a flagging transportation company using principles that enabled high levels of profit and customer satisfaction.
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Newly revised and updated, this valuable resource, profiling 12 nonprofits that have achieved remarkable levels of impact, including Habitat for Humanity and the Heritage Foundation, offers a wealth of information for creating significant social change.
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
High performance has always required shrewd strategy and superb execution. These factors remain critical, especially given today{u2019}s unprecedented business climate. But Rich Karlgaard{u2014}Forbes publisher, entrepreneur, investor, and board director{u2014}takes a surprising turn and argues that there is now a third element that{u2019}s required for competitive advantage. It fosters innovation, it accelerates strategy and execution, and it cannot...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal discarded a century of management wisdom and pivoted from a pursuit of mechanical efficiency to organic adaptability. In this book, he shows how any organization can make the same transition to act like a team of teams -- where small groups combine the freedom to experiment with a relentless drive to share their experience."--
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we've gone from measuring performance to fixating on measuring itself. The result is a tyranny of metrics that threatens the quality of our lives and most important institutions. In this...
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