Change Management Leadership

Research shows that diverse workgroups are more productive, creative and innovative than homogeneous groups. In a global marketplace, and with the rapidly changing racial makeup of America, having a high functioning, diverse workforce is imperative for your organization's success. Change the WorkGame has been designed to show you how establish a diverse workforce throughout all strata of your organization and how to sustain your progress.

Early on in the Microsoft story, Bill Gates and other key executives met to decide how they would incentivize employees to make a charitable impact. The status quo was to offer a small percentage of your paycheck as a pretax deduction to a charity selected by your company. Microsoft decided to so something revolutionary instead. The Purpose Mindset tells the inside story behind how Microsoft built its culture of giving.

The Change Maker catapults listeners into a world few will ever experience. Entertaining, fast-paced, and episodic, this memoir of an unconventional agent of change provides a lesson in the values of strategic thinking and responsible leadership found so wanting today. With self-deprecating humor and irony, Al Checchi chronicles the meteoric rise whereby his creativity, strategic thinking, and negotiating skills helped transform three major American institutions....

Goals and success do not just happen. Achievement takes planning, action, risk, and disruption - in other words, the title of this audiobook, Violent Leadership. Inside, author Wesley Middleton presents his philosophy on leading teams with passion, strength, and force. He provides real-life examples from his own experience, so you can learn from his successes and failures, and he explains strategies you can use to unite your team behind a common objective.

The work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource, or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for. The Public Professor offers scholars ways to use their ideas, research, and knowledge to change the world.

It's come to this. All the confusion and chaos and change and turmoil in our working lives have finally tipped the balance. We now need a new way of doing business. Best selling author Seth Godin leads the way, using Darwin's theory of evolution as a simple yet profound model.

Everyone has something to contribute to their organization, but new ideas and decisions so often come only from the top. Bureaucracy, tradition, and apathy slow down many organizations' ability to change, innovate, and grow. San Francisco entrepreneur and product manager Adam Braus studied traditional and recent methods of change and innovation and found a missing link in the way individuals and organizations think about change.

Business as usual ist vorbei! Das wissen wir längst. Und deshalb gibt es kaum noch Unternehmen, in denen das Thema Change nicht ganz oben auf der Tagesordnung steht. Aber wie nachhaltige Veränderung wirklich funktioniert, das weiß so recht keiner. Dabei gibt es in Zeiten permanenter Disruption nur zwei Alternativen: Wir können auf den Zug des Wandels aufspringen oder wir bleiben am Bahnsteig stehen. Wir können uns entweder verändern oder wir werden vom Markt verschwinden.

Most people don't know how to deal well with anger, so when it shows up at work, it can be nasty - and costly! We'll give you awareness of what's happening and effective approaches on how to manage anger, so it doesn't manage you.

The Ultimate Sales Revolution explains how to reach the highest level of a professional relationship and become an indispensable partner in your client's success. You attain this exalted level of trust, respect, and differentiation from your competition by ensuring that every client request and activity delivers meaningful results, builds the strongest and most sustainable client relationship, avoids the three sources of miscommunication, and delivers massive value and impact.

Leaders are under increasing pressure to ensure their businesses are gender-balanced and inclusive for the benefit of the economy and society.

Leading change is not about breaking things - it’s about using empathy to enrich the world. In Empathy for Change: How to Create an Understanding World, former White House entrepreneur-in-residence Amy J. Wilson dives into the intricate science of empathy, debunking common myths and sharing practical uses for a better society.

Super Change defines the new tools and tactics we all need to remain current and relevant in the new age of super change. In one generation, we have moved from the industrial age, the automotive age, the age of flight, the space age, the atomic age, the information age, the communication age, the entrepreneur age, and finally, the permanent age of super change. We all thought things would slow down, go back to normal, and that we could catch up. Things are not slowing down. Things are speeding up, and the pace of super change is accelerating.

Decade of Change features insights and wisdom into how to manage, and make the most of, change. Vinton Cerf, co-creator of the Internet, peers into the Web's future. Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman probes the nature of decision making. Lieutenant General Russel Honoré, the Hurricane Katrina hero, offers leadership lessons he applied in that crisis. Visionary executive Ray Anderson makes a powerful business case for environmental sustainability.

Over-busyness, judgment, resistance to change, fear of admitting failure, intense competition - is burnout inevitable? Do we need to suffer for the sake of pursuing our mission? Leaders who are dedicated to mobilizing social change are often the first ones to experience burnout. Those committed to taking care of everyone and everything tend to neglect themselves and hit the wall, time and again. Davida Ginter's book sheds light on the growing phenomenon of burnout and its root causes.

If you have been charged with leading a change initiative, chances are you were chosen for the job - that is, you didn't volunteer, but rather were tapped to lead or manage a large change project. Change with Confidence addresses the 50 biggest questions that change leaders ask time and again, and provides the context, examples, and advice to answer them well, and to enable successful, sustainable change.

A must listen for any leader. The book is in tune with what is needed today for true leaders to be successful both personally and from a corporate perspective. The characteristics discussed are spot on to assist new leaders as they hone their management style. A great source to self-audit and improve a mature leader's management skills as well. The dynamic and unpredictable situations that have confronted everyone worldwide over the past several years have challenged established workplace orthodoxies and norms.

Hier geht’s lang: Bestimmte Fragen müssen geklärt sein, bevor Veränderungsprozesse erfolgreich umgesetzt werden können. Mutig in die Zukunft: Radikaler Wandel bedeutet die bewusste Auseinandersetzung mit Angst und Unsicherheit. Kein Weg zurück: Eine effektive Kommunikationsstrategie kann Mitarbeiter aus ihrer Verweigerungshaltung holen.

The Healthcare Heretic is both a call for disruptive change to a system that is clearly broken and a rallying cry to potential leaders of the economy of the future. It challenges the obsolete mind-set of the Industrial Age - decayed notions that have lulled corporations and the people who work for them into the illusion that doing things the “old way” is safe and that change is a danger to all.

DEI work is getting a bad reputation. But that’s because it’s not being done right, say veteran diversity consultants James O. Rodgers and Laura Kangas. Too many organizations are treating diversity training as a quick-hit, low-cost, check-the-box activity. Effective diversity training involves behavioral change based on adult learning theory. It is rigorous, deeply personal, experience based, and, if done well, life changing. Rodgers and Kangas offer a complete guide, from design to implementation to results.