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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.

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.

How do you build the capacity for change in yourselves and your organizations? With examples of coaching programs from around the world, Building the Core Competencies of Change explains the techniques of coaching that build the competencies for growth and change; provides examples of organizations that catalyzed change with the use of strategic coaching programs; and outlines the coaching types, tools, and models used to build core competencies of change in individuals, teams, and whole organizations.

Every day outstanding organizations do things and promote values that ensure they will retain customers, grow revenues, increase market share, and build their reputations. Informed by his own commitment to the concept of personal accountability and enlivened by compelling true stories from exceptional organizations, in this insightful and accessible audiobook John Miller identifies the principles and behaviors that distinguish such organizations from the pack and provides listeners with ways to integrate them into their own work.

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.

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.

“I can’t wait to get to work!” When was the last time you felt that way? Have you ever? Mark McClain has and still does. He and his leadership teams have focused on creating companies that make the quality of their employees’ work experiences of equal importance to the quality of the solutions those employees create.

This book explores how decision-making is changing in the digital economy. The role of data and intuition will continue to rebalance as analytics take on a more significant role in how companies develop and execute strategy. Case studies explore best-in-class organizations from various sectors including pro sports, media, and finance.

Cybersecurity involves people, policy, and technology. Yet most books and academic programs cover only technology. Hence the implementation of cybersecurity as a people powered perpetual innovation and productivity engine is not done. People think they can buy cybersecurity as a product when in fact the discipline is the modern practice of digital business strategy. People also equate cybersecurity with information security or security alone. However, security is a state, while cybersecurity is a process.

Whether you're the new kid in a cubicle, the boss in the executive suite, or self-employed, you have huge potential for greater productivity and fulfillment. Even very high performers in excellent organizations - large and small, for profit and nonprofit - report that 30 to 40 percent of their talent is untapped. Imagine what lies waiting for you.

Once upon a time, a clan of meerkats lived in the Kalahari, a region in Southern Africa. After years of steady growth, a drought has sharply reduced the clan's resources, and deadly vulture attacks have increased. As things keep getting worse, the harmony of the clan is shattered. The executive team quarrels about possible solutions, and suggestions from frontline workers face a soul-crushing response: "That's not how we do it here!"

Great teams are built and maintained with great intention, though they can make it look deceptively easy. Too many teams engage in dysfunctional behaviors or fall into territorialism, apathy, and unproductive relationships. The result? An overwhelmed, unengaged, and stressed-out workforce that settles for average or poor performance.

Learn how to stay where you are and do what energizes and engages you with this sophisticated yet profoundly practical guide to career fulfillment. Make It Work delivers expert advice and dozens of smart, easy-to-use tools to help you discover your passions, choose a direction, practice new skills, and do what you love to do - every day.

Here’s the hard truth: When your sales organization stalls, there’s no single magic trick that can fix it. And when throwing money at digital lead generators, all-star sales recruits, and team-building retreats isn’t boosting your sales, it’s time to get back to basics. Set Up to Win shows you three frameworks that will stabilize and grow your company’s revenue long term using the power of your greatest asset—your team. (And yes, it also gives you a short-term road map to get your sales out of the danger zone.)

Far from slowing down, change and transformation in business seems to come only at a more and more furious rate. The last ten years alone have seen the introduction of groundbreaking new trends that pose new opportunities and challenges for leaders in all industries.

From overarching vision to individual competency scorecards, Total Alignment arms you with powerful concepts and tools to run a successful, efficient business. No matter what size or type of business you run, business strategy experts Riaz Khadem and Linda Khadem show you how to align your team and operations from the ground up and from the top down.

After writing the first book about why Lean and Six Sigma practitioners should volunteer their skills to help nonprofits, I wanted to give more tangible and real-life examples of how these tools and techniques can be applied. I've reached out to friends and colleagues who are already volunteering their time, and asked them to write a chapter for this first volume, called Lessons Learned from the Gemba.

Want to be a better boss? Make the most of your talent? Great doesn’t have to be awful. Start with this guide to the innovative management style that built the Admiral Group into one of the world’s most successful and admired companies. Written by founder and former CEO Henry Engelhardt, Be a Better Boss is part memoir, part management philosophy, and part practical manual, providing valuable leadership lessons for aspiring managers and existing managers alike.

Traditionally, human resources has focused on recruiting good people, preparing them for assignments, motivating them to perform, and retaining them. These functions remain essential. But to be successful in turbulent times like ours, human capital strategy needs to be broader and much more far reaching.

Most business schools continue to prepare managers to be effective in stable and predictable environments, conditions that, if they ever existed at all, are long gone. The Agility Shift shows business leaders exactly how to make the radical mind-set and strategy shift necessary to create an agile, entrepreneurial organization that can innovate and thrive in complex, ever-changing contexts. As author Pamela Meyer explains, there is much more involved than a reconfiguration of the org chart and job descriptions.