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"Most startups are built to fail. But those failures, according to entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. Startups don't fail because of bad execution, or missed deadlines, or blown budgets. They fail because they are building something nobody wants. Whether they arise from someone's garage or are created within a mature Fortune 500 organization, new ventures, by definition, are designed to create new products or services under conditions of extreme...
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"Chapman and coauthor Raj Sisodia show how any organization can reject the traumatic consequences of rolling layoffs, dehumanizing rules, and hypercompetitive cultures. Once you stop treating people like functions or costs, disengaged workers begin to share their gifts and talents toward a shared future. Uninspired workers stop feeling that their jobs have no meaning. Frustrated workers stop taking their bad days out on their spouses and kids. And...
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The era of the comfy, offsite strategy retreat is over-who has the time? Beset by rapid change, leaders have to build the strategy airplane while they fly it. Agile organizations use execution (i.e., performance) to drive strategy. Laura Stack, bestselling author of What to Do When There's Too Much to do (25,000 copies sold), provides the tools leaders need to adapt.
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An MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on building "learning organizations"--Corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only is the learning organization a new source of competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously empowering approach to work, one which promises that, as Archimedes put it, "with a lever long enough ... single-handed...
6) Designing organizations: strategy, structure, and process at the business unit and enterprise levels
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"This Third Edition of the bestselling book on organization design adds 50% new content to result in the most complete book on organization design currently available. Additions and updates encompass business unit organization, enterprise organization design, standard portfolio strategy, standard functional, divisional, and holding company structures, value-adding conglomerates, and designing global organizations. This new coverage makes this reference,...
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A business/leadership book from the CEO of the once-ailing but now thriving Popeyes restaurant chain, who says that the "the difference maker ... was a conscious decision to lead in a new way. She and her team created a workplace where people were treated with respect and dignity yet challenged to perform at the highest level. Silos and self were set aside in favor of collaboration and team play. And the results were measured with rigor and discipline....
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Holmes has been named one of the top 20 change experts in the country by "Industry Week." He helps clients blow away both the competition and their own expectations with one piece of advice: focus. The author shows the 12 key strategies organizations can use to improve business.
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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.
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"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--how to scale up their businesses and spread excellence throughout the organizational culture"--
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"Inspired by the Simple Sabotage Field Manual released by the Office of Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees ..."--Provided by publisher.
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Unfortunately, we've all been there. You and your team are facing a problem. Yet rather than working with you to come up with a solution, your manager swoops in squawking like a seagull, dumps orders riddled with formulaic advice, then takes off, leaving everyone else to clean up the mess. Or—let's be honest—there's been a time (or two) when all of us have been guilty of this very behavior.
The truth is, seagull managers live...
The truth is, seagull managers live...
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The new edition of the bestselling guide on creating and using key performance indicators—offers significant new and revised content
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) help define and measure the organizational goals which are fundamental to an organization's current and future success. Having solid KPIs is crucial for companies that are implementing performance management systems, such as balanced scorecards, six sigma, or activity-based
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Aaron Dignan confronts teams all over the world with one simple question: "What's stopping you from doing the best work of your life?" He's found that nearly everyone, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, points to the same frustrations: lack of trust, bottlenecks in decision making, siloed functions and teams, meeting and email overload, tiresome budgeting,short-term thinking, and more. Dignan says you can't fix a team, department, or organization...
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Wakeman believes it is high time to reinvent leadership thinking. His straightforward strategies dispenses with unproven HR maxims and shows how time and energy can be recommissioned and put toward the value that hired talent is intended to provide. Happy employees are accountable-- and productive-- employees.