Human Leadership

In every position of power—from executives and world leaders to church elders and parents—lies the potential for life-giving leadership or destructive corruption. Driven by sinful pride or opportunism, many people abuse their God-given authority, harming the ones they're called to lead and contributing to a skeptical attitude toward leadership. The answer to bad authority, however, is not no authority, but good authority—the kind that, according to Scripture, causes those under it to flourish.

Kennen Sie diese Situation? Der Mitarbeiter ruft an: "Chef, wir haben ein Problem." In der Folge hört dieser aufmerksam zu, und am Ende des Gespräches hat plötzlich der Chef das Problem des Mitarbeiters. Auf geheimnisvolle Weise hat sich der "Monkey" vom Mitarbeiter zum Chef herübergehangelt und sitzt nun vergnügt auf der Schulter des Chefs. Der Autor zeigt auf, mit welchen raffinierten Strategien Mitarbeiter versuchen, ihre Monkeys zurückzudelegieren und wie man sich als Chef davor schützen kann, um sich endlich wieder auf seine Kernaufgaben konzentrieren zu können und nicht in Überstunden zu versinken.

Which mindset do you think existing Boards and CEOs are in when it comes to HRDs being able to make the move to CEO? Have you ever asked the question why HR Directors don’t make the move to CEO? Why Boards and CEOs ignore “HRness”? Is HR really dead? Where is HR’s guiding North Star? Could you imagine an HR Director being your CEO? In Human Resources Changes the World, Glenn G Jones examines the available research and sets out the reasons why HR is not progressing to its full potential; it will surprise you.

Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking new book, economist Ian Ayres shows how today's best and brightest organizations are analyzing massive databases at lightening speed to provide greater insights into human behavior. They are the Super Crunchers.

Stop Engaging Employees provides heart-driven leaders with a constructive, contrarian, and practical approach to cultivating healthier workplace cultures. The book's six disciplines of humancentric leadership provide guideposts that every conscientious human can follow to support more satisfaction, fulfillment, self-actualization, and flourishing at work.

The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future. While smart machines are weapon number one for organizations, leaders are still the drivers of breakthroughs. Only they can ask crucial questions to capitalize on business opportunities newly discovered in oceans of data. This dynamic combination will make possible the fulfillment of missions that once seemed out of reach, even impossible to attain.

The top is never lonely when you value the relationships that you've built on the climb. The Top Is Never Lonely is a leadership journal that focuses on the human connection of leadership. Built on the experiences, insight, and lessons learned throughout a military career, The Top Is Never Lonely takes listeners on a 30-day leadership journey that explores the realms of team-building, empathy, resilience, authentic communication, vulnerability, and courage.

What if a simple understanding of how the mind works was all you needed to build a business that inspired innovation, productivity, loyalty, and the ability to continually solve complex business problems? What if you never needed to study "proven strategies" or buy into someone else's success story? Humans Working presents a deep yet straightforward understanding of the most important asset in business - the human mind - and illustrates implications for you as a business leader, contributor, parent, partner, and beyond.

Emotional intelligence is about knowing enough about your emotions that you are able to turn them into positive energy that enhances, as opposed to undermines, your work efficiency. You definitely will love learning about your emotions. You will know that the best place to start with dealing with others as a leader is from within yourself. Yet, as you understand yourself, you get ideas about others, and you can recognize their emotional states. This way, you can guide your employees on the same and path, too.

How to Be Present in an Absent World is a guide for cultivating a self-awareness that empowers you to take ownership of your life in every area of influence. It provides a biblical way to handle the daily pressures of life without denying, escaping, or outrunning the present, past, or future. Montgomery and his coauthors, Webb and Silva, equip you with the kind of self-understanding that allows you to overcome obstacles - whether in your church, in your job, or in your family - that were previously discouraging and seemingly insurmountable.

The COVID-19 pandemic and an ever-changing array of new ways of working seem to have all of us asking, "Does work really have to suck this bad?" It looks like a small taste of flexibility and freedom has made many of us rethink the nature of the work we do and how we do it. In Work Here Now, Melissa Swift delivers an eye-opening roadmap to better work that generates wins for companies and employees alike. In the book, you'll explore different ways to improve the growth-impeding, borderline inhumane people management practices we've created and endured over time.

At the dawn of unprecedented change in the artificial revolution, ETHIC (empathy, trust, human-centricity, integrity, and collaboration) emerges as a guiding light–a practical and inspiring roadmap to navigate the complex landscape of AI innovation, built on a solid moral foundation. As AI and automation redefine our possibilities, we face both incredible challenges and boundless opportunities.

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People are what make companies great. Good leaders know this and spend time, effort, and money taking care of the people who work for them so that their business results are phenomenal. So, why is it that so many people are still miserable at work? Experts around the world offer countless ideas and techniques and training for elevating the joy (and performance) of workers. And still, we fail. Things must change.

We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs) - the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle class workers in the process.

Negotiation is a social activity that involves disciplines like language, observation, reaction, listening, speaking, storytelling, humor, and sensing. The number one thing you bring to every negotiation is you. This book helps you understand how these various behaviors and disciplines come to play and therefore how you can become a better negotiator. The book helps you develop the mindset and tools to become a great negotiator for yourself and for others.

Ann was agitated and troubled as she summoned the courage to recount what had happened. The intensity of her remarks was gripping the whole team; all eyes were on her. She took the extraordinary step of sharing her emotions with her team; she felt alone, helpless, unimportant, and rejected. In reflecting on our individual professional experiences, we each remember occasions when we were Ann; desperate for connection. At times we reacted by retreating to our offices and at other times by becoming angry, shouting, or being overly defensive. Has this ever happened to you?

As human beings, we are fascinated by what makes us tick. We know that nature gave us certain biological appetites to ensure our survival, among those the need for water, food, sex, and love, but meeting these alone is not enough to ensure happiness. Scientists, and now managers, are realizing that people have a biological need to experience social rewards like praise, the thrill of innovation, and the satisfaction of acquiring new skills.

Think how commonplace it is now for people to ask Siri for the weather forecast, deploy Roomba to clean their homes, or summon Alexa to turn on the lights. The "smart home" market will reach well over $100 billion in the next five years on the promise of products that are truly integrated with our cooking, cleaning, entertainment, security, and hygiene habits. But the reality is, these first-generation "smart" products aren't very smart - yet. We're clearly seeing only the tip of the iceberg in terms of capability and how such products can enhance our lives.

Practical. Challenging. Well-researched and unflinchingly candid, this book—based on a decade-long study—provides leaders at all levels an actionable framework for building cultures that support higher levels of engagement and innovation. Choose Love, Not Fear challenges listeners to overcome a history of fear-based processes that unnecessarily render us less capable, restrict what we see, and narrow what we believe is possible. This book shows how the best leaders build teams where love and positive emotion are the foundation of making the rhetoric of engagement a reality.