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1) The real-life MBA: your no-bs guide to winning the game, building a team, and growing your career
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English
Description
The founders of the Jack Welch Management Institute, a fully accredited online MBA program, present a guide to overcoming modern business challenges, with recommendations for creating effective strategies, leading others, and building a thriving career.
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The more traditional forms of leadership that are based on static hierarchies and professional distance between leaders and followers are growing increasingly outdated and ineffective. As organizations face more complex interdependent tasks, leadership must become more personal in order to insure open trusting communication that will make more collaborative problem solving and innovation possible. Without open and trusting communications throughout...
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice!
There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office...
There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedin and author of Blitzscaling Silicon Valley expert Robert Chesnut shows that companies that do not think seriously about a crucial element of corporate culture-integrity-are destined to fail... Defining integrity is difficult. Once understood as "telling the truth and keeping your word," it was about following not just the letter but the spirit of the law. But in a moment when workplaces are becoming more diverse,...
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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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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Linchpin and Tribes comes a new challenge to leaders of all stripes The workplace has undergone a massive shift. Remote work and economic instability have depressed innovation and left us disconnected and disengaged. Paychecks no longer buy loyalty, happiness, and effort. Quiet quitting runs rampant, and people show up without truly showing up. Alarmed managers are doubling down on keystroke surveillance, productivity...
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Examines how the ideas of Silicon Valley and its "new oligarchs" have changed work culture, making employees subject to constant change, dehumanizing technologies, and even health risks, and discusses how to restore the social contract between employers and employees.
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In an age when business and finance are dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett presents a radically different strategy for success: businesses and investors can revolutionize their understanding of behavior by studying consumers, markets, and organizations through an anthropological lens"--Jacket.
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Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2014]
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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...
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Harper Business
Pub. Date
2011, c2008
Language
English
Description
Describes how corporate leaders can manage group dynamics to maximize productivity, in a guide based on an eight-year study of over two dozen companies that also draws on insights by NASCAR CEO Brian France and Dilbert creator Scott Adams.
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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."--
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Publisher
HarperBusiness
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The essential guide for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and employees looking to navigate today's multigenerational workplace, which spans more generations than ever before. Millennials have only just begun their reign as the largest generation in the workplace. But they are not alone. For the next decade at least, these young professionals will be working side by side with more established generations, including the Baby Boomers who are working...
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Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint, www.josseybass.com
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Shares advice on how to calculate one's true value to an organization by recognizing the cost of actions and attitudes, explaining how to become an invaluable team member and find greater job satisfaction.
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