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Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The Leadership Classic, Discover Your True North, expanded for today's leaders Discover Your True North is the best-selling leadership classic that enables you to become an authentic leader by discovering your True North. Originally based on first-person interviews with 125 leaders, this book instantly became a must-read business classic when it was introduced in 2007. Now expanded and updated to introduce 48 new leaders and new learning about authentic...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Proven tools and techniques to improve business efficiency In today's competitive environment, it's the businesses with the right set of tools and technologies that get ahead, while others are left in the dust. Business Efficiency For Dummies provides you with practical, useful information on how to run a more effective business while saving time and money in the process.
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Identifies and describes six practices that help nonprofit organizations achieve significant results, and tells the stories of twelve high-impact nonprofits, including Habitat for Humanity, Teach for America, and The Heritage Foundation.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic forced an unprecedented experiment that reshaped white-collar work and turned remote work into a kind of "new normal." Now comes the hard part. Many employees want to continue that normal and keep working remotely, and most at least want the ability to work occasionally from home. But for employers, the benefits of employees working from home or hybrid approaches are not so obvious. What should both groups do? In a prescient...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jerry Z. Muller is professor of history at the Catholic University of America and the author of many books, including The Mind and the Market and Capitalism and the Jews (Princeton).
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government-and the quality of our lives
Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the...
Author
Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2012], p2006
Language
English
Description
Habit 1: Be proactive. Use your resourcefulness and initiative to break the barriers to results. Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind. Make the great contribution you are capable of making. Habit 3: Put first things first. Focus on a few "wildly important goals" and track your progress. Habit 4: Think win-win. Make Win-Win Performance Agreements to motivate superb performance. Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Practice Empathic...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the new world of hybrid work, leaders need to ensure that remote work is productive, employees are engaged, and success is guaranteed. Here, leaders and managers will find expert advice on how to achieve the gold standard for work, and workplace, excellence no matter where the work gets done"--
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The former director of the Tassajara Zen Center and a cofounder of Google's Search Inside Yourself program shows how modern workplaces can become more productive, compassionate, and harmonious by applying the practice of mindfulness"--
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