Human Leadership

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of the manager has become increasingly crucial. As Baby Boomers retire and Gen Z floods the employee roster, we see expectations, competencies, and communication needs shift in the wake. To keep pace with the speed of innovation, it is essential to equip our leaders with the skill sets and resources to succeed . . . but we need to move beyond why and straight to how.

【世界で発売まもなく、メディアで大反響！】ルールなんてぶっ壊せ！「文芸×エンタメ×サイエンス×ビジネス」ジェットコースター級、圧巻のおもしろさ！

To perform better in any situation - in your career, hobbies, relationships, or in any facet of your life - it is critical to develop psychological skills, which, just like physical abilities, can be taught, learned, and practiced. Both as individuals and as groups, we can tone these psychological skills and use them to heighten awareness, foster talents and technical abilities, and reach peak performance. Mental preparedness and psychological awareness are the keys to thriving in any environment.

What can organizational leaders in business, education, government, and most any enterprise learn from an unemployed, unmarried woman who lived in patriarchal, misogynistic rural England more than 200 years ago?

A team of accomplished talent experts delivers a hands-on roadmap to filling your most mission-critical roles with the best people. In the book, you’ll explore strategies that guide the world’s most innovative companies and high-performing organizations as they scour the globe to build impactful, productive teams.

In this comprehensive guide on Human Resources Management, we delve into fundamental strategies for attracting, developing, and retaining talents within organizations. Discover how HRM can drive performance and productivity by aligning individual employee goals with those of the company. Learn about effective recruitment and selection, leadership development practices, innovative training programs, and how to foster an inclusive and sustainable culture.

The Business of Excellence offers a unique and compelling perspective on the drivers of excellence in teams and organizations. The challenges of high performance and leadership are explored in depth and are illustrated with insights, interviews, and case studies from the military, sporting, and corporate worlds. The material includes a proprietary performance model that can be applied to a wide spectrum of organizations.

Getting your employees to do their best work has never been easy. But it is a particular challenge for knowledge workers, who must attend to many different tasks and whose to-do list is often ambiguous, requiring outside-the-box thinking. Lists of dos and don'ts are rarely effective. Instead, your best bet is to align their interests with your own - the heart of motivation - and set them free to use their own drive and creativity on their, and your, behalf.

In this hysterical, astute book, HR industry expert Jim Dunn explores how humor can improve our professional environments and personal development by exploring questions like: How is humor a superpower for fostering collaborative environments? Are funny employees more effective? How can laughter turn crisis into connection and opportunity? How can instituting a culture of levity shape team dynamics and improve job satisfaction?

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.

Your CEO just came to you, the HR leader, and said she was hearing rumors about the turnover rate going up. She asks you why this might be happening and how it is could be affecting the bottom line. Are there certain leadership issues? Are engagement levels changing? Is there a problem with the company culture? These are all logical questions. You have hunches for answers, but you have no way to prove those hunches. You know your CEO is going to want data to support any argument you make.

The perils of a disengaged workforce are well known - low productivity, high employee turnover, and failure to meet organization-wide goals. Less well known is what to do about it. How do you create a workforce that is always ready, able, and eager to take the organization to the next level? You have to create a magnetic culture. As CEO of leading employee survey and HR consulting firm HR Solutions, Inc., Kevin Sheridan knows how it's done - and in Building a Magnetic Culture, he shares all his secrets.

The last five years have seen dramatic and fundamental changes in whistleblower procedures for organizations. Prompted by a spate of important public disclosures, organizations are now mandated by law to implement effective arrangements enabling employees to speak up about perceived wrongdoing. Currently few resources exist to help with this. To help fill the gap, The Whistleblowing Guide examines the opportunities and challenges associated with different types of whistleblowing and speak-up arrangements, making recommendations based on best practices you can trust.

Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one", divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ from the beginning to the present. We cluster in theological groups, gender groups, age groups, ethnic groups, educational, and economic groups. We criticize freely those who disagree with us, don't look like us, don't act like us, and don't even like what we like. With a personal touch and the trained eye of a social psychologist, Cleveland brings to bear the latest studies and research on the unseen dynamics at work that tend to separate us from others.

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.

Digitalisierung ist der Megatrend, aber auch das Schreckgespenst in allen Unternehmen. Äußerlich wird fleißig genickt, wenn es um die Wichtigkeit der Digitalisierung fürs eigene Business geht, aber innerlich ruft der Begriff Unruhe hervor: Wie geht Digitalisierung? Was heißt das für mich persönlich? Müssen wir unser komplettes Geschäftsmodell neu erfinden? Sollen wir etwa Google werden? Natürlich nicht, lautet die Antwort von Bettina Volkens und Kai Anderson.

Dan Schawbel guides the next generation of leaders to create a workplace where teammates feel genuinely connected, engaged, and empowered to grow strong interpersonal skills rather than relying on technology. Based on Schawbel's exclusive research studies - featuring the perspectives of more than 2,000 managers and employees across different age groups and from the US, UK, China, India, Brazil, and other countries - Back to Human reveals why electronic and virtual communication, though useful, actually contributes to a stronger sense of isolation at work than ever before.

Has your company's experience with off-shoring been so bad that it turned you off? Jude Mahony's has, and in Offshoring or Not-Sure-ing, Jude uses her experiences with offshoring, outsourcing, and centralizing to ensure that you stay out of trouble when transitioning work from one team to another. Offshoring or Not-Sure-ing is a how-to guide that presents tools for planning, managing, and implementing shared services, and strategies for reducing risk when launching new service delivery models.

In her breakout business book, corporate coach and business guru Jeanet Wade distills the essence of team and company success. The secret sauce to great teams, vibrant organizations, and happy people? Human nature. In a series of engaging and provocative chapters, she combines business research with anecdotes from her career and her executive client sessions, showing how we can attend to human needs by clarifying assignments, showing baseline consideration, and inspiring confidence.

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.