Business Organization

What do you do when the old processes that were the foundation of your business no longer serve the purpose or are no longer benefitting the whole? This problem has a name: The Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone! The Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone equips business owners, business leaders, and the inquisitive minds in between with the tools to make their cultures, companies, and lives more successful. The tools within take little knowledge or experience to understand but can have a huge impact on you, your team, and your organization.

In this must-listen book, you'll learn about Dr. Pelè’s groundbreaking strategies, systems, and software for harnessing the science-backed tools of Profitable Happiness™ to create a culture of collaboration, innovation, and engagement that delivers high performance in your organization.

In I Am Accountable, renowned speaker and consultant Sam Silverstein explains how accountability is the secret to filling your life with more meaning, more success, and more joy - and it all starts with your mind-set. In order to create a truly meaningful life, we must first accept that the problem is never other people. “The real problem,” Sam Silverstein maintains, “is what we believe about other people.”

You have a great company and mission and are excited to make a difference with your product and service. Some years have been great and others not so great. You are hopeful consistent results will happen soon, but you struggle with inconsistent performance with your people. You may be asking yourself...what can I do about it? Although many times "people" are considered the soft stuff, they are the hard stuff - and the biggest expense and asset of your organization. What is the secret to becoming the organization that everyone wants to work for - and to do business with?

Too often discussions of management practice focus exclusively on managing people and organizational issues. Rarely, however, do they incorporate a discussion about technology or address all three dimensions in a balanced way. When they do, the result is game changing. In our hypercompetitive environment, those managers who are outstanding at being plugged into their people, technology, and organizational processes simultaneously excel at coming up with effective business solutions.

Disruption creates 10 times the opportunity to advance your organization and your career, according to former CEO and author Peter J. Boni. In All Hands on Deck: Navigating Your Team Through Crisis, Getting Your Organization Unstuck, and Emerging Victorious, Boni shows any leader or aspiring leader exactly what to do. Following his advice, recognition and rewards come quickly.

The Innovation Mandate offers a clear and straightforward pathway to profitable innovation. It demystifies the concept, making it easy to understand, implement, and measure. The audiobook centers around three simple concepts: Innovation generates profits; innovation, in the form of new, profitable ideas, can come from anywhere; and identifying, harnessing, evaluating, and implementing these new ideas cannot be left to chance. Additionally, the audiobook offers a five-point checklist to ensure your company is innovation ready.

People are the heartbeat of business! Leaders are the life force of every team. Just as the heart pulses our nutrient-rich blood to each organ in the body, leaders push out encouragement, direction, correction, energy, growth, and influence to the team. Now more than ever, how leaders handle each pulse can empower or weaken leadership, engage or disengage teams, and positively or negatively impact an entire organization. Dawn S. Kirk shares her proven six Pulses of Heartbeat Leadership to empower leader.

In Work with Me, author Gini Graham Scott presents her proven conflict resolution model — first outlined in her popular book Resolving Conflict and later in Disagreements, Disputes and All-Out War. Here she applies this model to the workplace, guiding readers on how tomanage emotions and use logic and intuition to resolve common problems on the job.

Doing the right job the right way is critical to your professional success. Influence and Impact provides an easy-to-follow, common sense approach to building influence at any level of an organization. Accomplished leadership and executive coaches Bill Berman and George Bradt offer a fresh perspective on evaluating what values, strengths, and capabilities you bring to your role; how you can develop new skills to increase your influence; and determining if you are in the right place to have the greatest impact.

Objectives and key results (OKRs) are the secret sauce that has been driving the largest migration of financial assets and technological innovation ever recorded in human history to Silicon Valley, California, since the 1970s. OKR leadership - the process for managers and leaders to practice what matters - is the secret sauce that drives transformational leadership, employee engagement, and the next generation of management consulting.

Every great leader understands the burden of responsibility that they have in leading a team of people. As Churchill observed, "responsibility is the path to greatness." And we have a responsibility as leaders to care for our teams in ways that they leave us uplifted and not in anger and frustration. In The New Leadership Paradigm, I discuss how you can take control of your organization and create something that transcends the norms of the business world.

From one of the most respected names in business and leadership, a rare look at the specifics of how great leaders achieve "common purpose" and success within their organizations.

Time has become a precious commodity, so business leaders who can save their customers’ time more effectively than competitors do will win their loyalty. To become a real-time company, as top scholars Jerry Power and Tom Ferratt explain, you need a real-time monitoring and response system. They offer detailed advice on how to put procedures in place that will collect data on how well products or services are saving customer time; identify strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities; and specify innovations needed to save even more customer time.

Most business books on social media have focused exclusively on using it as a marketing tool. Many employers see it as simply a workplace distraction. But social media has the potential to revolutionize workplace learning. People have always learned best from one anothersocial media enables this to happen unrestricted by physical location and in all kinds of extraordinarily creative ways.

The Safety Effect will help you replicate the conditions shared by Google's most effective teams. Psychological safety is the primary driver of team effectiveness at Google, more important than seniority, individual team member performance, and hundreds of other variables. When we work in a psychologically safe workplace, we comfortably share ideas for improvement, ask for help when we need it, and celebrate our successes.

El autor del bestseller Los primeros 90 días presenta un nuevo marco práctico para ayudar a los líderes a pensar de manera estratégica, una de las habilidades que se necesitan más que nunca en un mundo en cambio constante.

When it comes to the gender gap, it is not enough to ask women to "lean in" and demand promotions and raises. Organizations have an obligation to level up and provide women with more opportunities for advancement. In this book, leadership and governance expert Carol Geffner makes a strong case that for women to reach their full potential, workplaces and their leaders must take a more proactive role in combating gender discrimination.

A team of pioneering decision and AI strategists delivers a digestible and hands-on resource for professionals at every part of the decision-making journey. The book discusses the latest technology and approaches that bridge the gap between behavioral science, data science, and technological innovation. Discover how leaders from various industries and environments are using data and AI to make better future decisions, taking both human as well as business factors into account.

The level of complexity in most organizations today is staggering—and it's only getting worse. There are so many choices to be made, people to involve, processes to manage, and facts to analyze, it's impossible to get things done. And in today's hypercompetitive world, that can be fatal. Yet complexity doesn't happen on its own. Managers unwittingly create it, often through well-intended decisions. In Simply Effective, Ron Ashkenas provides a playbook for regaining control, focused on the four major causes of complexity.