Business Organization

Many organizations are facing the uphill battle of modernizing their legacy IT infrastructure. Mirco Hering, a thought leader in managing IT within legacy organizations, lays out a road map to success for IT managers and tells them how to create the right ecosystem, how to empower people to bring their best to work every day, how to put the right technology in the driver's seat to propel their organization to success, and addresses the different challenges that legacy organizations face as they transform into modern IT departments.

Who makes the important decisions in your organization? Strategy, product development, budgeting, compensation - such key decisions typically are made by company leaders. That's what bosses are for, right? But maybe the boss isn't the best person to make the call. That's the conclusion Dennis Bakke came to, and he used it to build AES into a Fortune 200 global power company with 27,000 people in 27 countries.

We are living in an epidemic of disengagement and despair that calls us to action. Awakening Compassion at Work answers the call, showing us new ways to enliven the humanity of work and in so doing address the suffering of the world and create an innovative, optimistic, and engaged workforce.

Leading for Organisational Change is an intelligent and practical guide to the human side of merger integration and other organizational change. Building a clear sense of common purpose and then reinforcing it through storytelling can underpin the success of an integration or significant change program. Pulling together the best thinking from neuroscience, psychology, business, and her rich personal experience in 20 years of leading change projects in professional services organizations and other people-centered businesses, author Jennifer Emery presents a framework for change.

Éxito en ventasOchenta por ciento de todas las ventas se realizan solamente por el veinte por ciento de los vendedores. Es sorprendente descubrir que esos vendedores se desempeñan solo un poco mejor que sus colegas en determinadas áreas críticas. Al brillar en estas competencias, puedes ganar dinero más rápido, tener más éxito, y obtener una mayor satisfacción profesional de la que imaginaste posible.

If your people know you care about them, they will move mountains. Employee engagement and loyalty expert Heather Younger outlines nine ways to manifest the radical power of caring support in the workplace. Heather Younger argues that if you are looking for increased productivity, customer satisfaction, or employee engagement, you need to care for your employees first.

Managers will learn how and why to stop bullying; prepare executives to lead the campaign and to resist undermining efforts of subordinates; and create a new, positive role for human resources. Outlining the required steps, The Bullying-Free Workplace includes information on how to create a preventive policy that brings consequences, like never before, when violated.

In this timely and essential guide, McKinsey alumni Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas present a proven approach to workplace anxiety that reduces stress, boosts well-being, and overcomes blocks that get in the way of success. It begins with changing our relationship with fear and then developing strategies that improve outlook and performance, leading to greater profits, sustainable growth, and personal rewards. It’s only possible with a culture of unfear.

Shifting demographics combined with the digitalization of all aspects of life are transforming the nature of work. This is forcing companies to rethink how they design jobs and recruit, develop, and engage employees. In Talent Tectonics, Dr. Steven Hunt explains how technology is changing the purpose of work and why creating effective employee experiences is critical to building organizations that can thrive in a world of accelerating change and growing skill shortages. You'll find insights from a person who has worked with thousands of companies around the globe.

That's Not How We Do It Here! is a business parable about a clan of meerkats who live in the Kalahari. Well-organised and efficient, the colony enjoys many years of successful growth until it suddenly comes under threat from a new form of predator and is forced to rethink its organizational structure. John Kotter uses this charming parable to explore why organizations often struggle no matter their past success and why they fall.

At its heart Lessons from the Mouse presents 10 lessons that guide listeners in applying excellence in their own organizations, careers, and lives. Whether being used as a tool for increased organizational effectiveness or a guide for the college grad or new entrepreneur, Lessons from the Mouse offers timeless, straightforward advice.

Découvrez des informations précieuses sur l'importance de la gestion des personnes dans le contexte des entreprises avec "Ressources humaines : Développer les Talents et Dynamiser les Organisations". Ce livre complet et pratique offre une approche directe et accessible, abordant les fondamentaux et les sujets clés de la gestion des personnes.

Dental entrepreneurs often have only part of their vocation mastered: dentistry. Meanwhile, they overlook the accounting and finance principles necessary to thrive as a business leader. The business acumen of a dental entrepreneur is the difference between their success and failure in growing a group of dental practices or becoming a DSO. In DEO’s Financial Secrets to Grow Dental Organizations, Ken Kaufman teaches you the critical finance tools you didn’t learn about in dental school to up your entrepreneurial game.

Daniel Siegel, bestselling author and one of the leading researchers on the neuroscience of mindfulness, talks about creating adaptive, resilient organizations.

Cross-functional Work: Getting Out of Our Siloes. Whether we are in a formal matrix structure, a matrix role or work through a web of people to get things done, today’s work requires us to work side to side, across the organization. For our own careers and for the success of the organization, we can’t remain in the comfortable confines of our functional, geographical or product siloes. The complex solutions and decisions that move businesses forward are found in the lateral work—with partners scattered across the organization and around the globe.

Why do some businesses “fail to scale”? Smooth Scaling offers a clear diagnosis, along with twenty practical Rituals to boost your organization’s performance and achieve frictionless growth. Where other books on scaling focus on strategy, fundraising, or product-market fit, Smooth Scaling addresses the most pervasive and least-understood fail point that threatens to kneecap even the best-laid scaling plan: organizational friction.

Many companies make disruption their goal. They believe that if they develop the right innovation, they will disrupt their markets forever and drive the kind of growth worthy of a magazine cover story. But as best-selling author Charlene Li explains, that’s not how disruption works. Disruption doesn’t create growth; instead, growth creates disruption.

Organization: Contemporary Principles and Practice addresses organizational issues in terms of how managers experience them and how MBA students can most effectively learn about them. John Child draws attention to the exciting possibilities currently arising in organizations as the conditions for their survival change. His analysis covers new internal organizational forms, various kinds of network organization, and the evolution of organization to meet new demands.

After a period of tremendous upheaval, it is necessary for organizations to transform alongside their employees and welcome new ways of working. While it is impossible to predict which changes will be successful, it is crucial for leaders to now ask: what should work look like to achieve productive, healthy, and safe organizations? In Brave New Workplace, Julian Barling argues that we should focus on creating environments in which employees can flourish, rather than relying on the resiliency of workers to withstand difficult working conditions.

For all professionals, knowledge of the key elements of high-quality leadership is vital, whether they are existing managers, taking on additional managerial responsibilities, or looking ahead to their career goals. This base of knowledge stretches from the individual - leading yourself - to the group, leading teams and even entire organizations. In tackling all these key aspects, the audiobook equips individuals to progress in any area of leadership and management, from team-building to strategic planning.