Leadership Revolution

Coal, iron ore, and oil were the key productive assets that fueled the Industrial Revolution. Today data is the vital raw material of the information economy. The explosive abundance of this digital asset, more than doubling every two years, is creating a new world of opportunity and challenge. Data-ism is about this next phase, in which vast, Internet-scale data sets are used for discovery and prediction in virtually every field. It is a journey across this emerging world with people, illuminating narrative examples, and insights.

Times of crisis call for revolutionary leadership. What better model could we have for courage and creativity under fire than those who found themselves in positions of leadership during the American Revolutionary War? Now Pat Williams helps you apply their genius to your sphere of influence. Through the remarkable stories of more than 25 leaders of the American Revolution, you'll discover fresh insight into how great leaders are formed, refined, tested, and strengthened.

Today we are facing the “The Great Resignation.” People are resigning from the workforce or, possibly worse, resigning themselves to an unsatisfying status quo and being disengaged at work. They’ve quit…but stayed. Neither outcome is “great.”

Waterfall methodology is part of the linear, scope-driven lifecycles family of approaches. As it is the manifestation of the command-and-control organization, it is highly prescriptive. Almost all organizations using the methodology have a similar set of processes, mostly based on the PMBOK (more on that later).

VICTORIOUS in the War of American Independence, Alexander Hamilton and the founding fathers built the first successful democratic government. They'll forever go down in history as having changed the rules of leadership and redefined what it means to ignite change in people.

Following the enormous popularity of their bestselling The Carrot Principle, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton return with a groundbreaking guide to building high-performance teams. The powerful research reported in The Orange Revolution reveals that the true driver of exceptional success for great companies is not a genius CEO....

Ein erfolgreicher Mensch ist nicht unbedingt glücklich, aber ein glücklicher Mensch ist erfolgreich. Eine Lebensweisheit, die Bodo Janssen auf die harte Tour gelernt hat: Als Student wurde er entführt - eine Grenzerfahrung, die den Unternehmersohn auf seine schiere Existenz zurückgeworfen hat. Als er später ins elterliche Unternehmen einstieg, ergab eine Mitarbeiterbefragung niederschmetternde Ergebnisse: ein anderer Chef sollte her. Bodo Janssen begann umzudenken, radikal.

Traditional talent processes served the purposes of the last decade, the last millennium even. But we have reached a point where people practices must become more human-centric, intelligent, more robust in their skills and capability matching, more learning and growth-oriented, more enabling, more rigorous in their transparency and inclusivity and better able to deliver the talent optimization that organizations will need in the coming decade. Organizations who are fair, transparent, inclusive, respectful of their people are the ones who will thrive into the future.

Fred muestra un camino hacia el liderazgo trascendente al analizar ejemplos del mundo real de empresas sin dirección y experiencias de servicio al cliente que han resultado terriblemente mal, que abarcan desde la desastrosa administración de Marissa Meyer en Yahoo! al infame representante de servicio al cliente de Comcast que pensaba que estaba haciendo bien su trabajo al negarse obstinadamente a cancelar la cuenta de cable de un suscriptor. Este libro cambiará tu forma de pensar: tu trabajo no es tu trabajo, no es suficiente hacer tu mejor esfuerzo y triunfar.

The Maverick Effect is the extraordinary story of this band of dreamers who joined hands to transform a nation while also changing the lens through which the world looked at India.

Fermenting Revolution delivers an empowering message about how individuals can change the world through the simple act of having a beer. It is also the first book to view all of the important trends in human history as fundamentally revolving around beer.

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.

Evolution Revolution is your handbook! Learn how to be a conscious leader through a series of practices and actionable activities. In an information age where industries are being turned upside down, a new leader is emerging. The conscious leader has the agility to facilitate conditions for increased connection, productivity, and sustainability. This audiobook is for all the humans wanting to wake up, evolve, and take action for the good of humanity and the planet.

Elevate the human experience and maximize potential! The world is changing. Now is the time for an innovative, collaborative learning approach to help people discover what they need to know and when they need to know it—in a way that organically and intentionally maximizes and magnifies human potential.

What do shale gas, Elon Musk’s Tesla, and the global apparel chain Zara share in common? In Resource Revolution, management experts Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers describe how each in its own way exemplifies a resource revolution - a use of natural resources so effective it defies conventional wisdom and enables breakthrough performance where others see only limits and shortcomings.

Big Data Revolution is a guide to improving performance, making better decisions, and transforming business through the effective use of big data. Listeners are guided through tried-and-true methodologies for getting more out of data and using it to the utmost advantage. This audiobook describes the major trends emerging in the field, the pitfalls and triumphs being experienced, and the many considerations surrounding big data, all while guiding listeners toward better decision-making from the perspective of a data scientist.

"Scrum" heißt die revolutionäre Methode, die seit den 90er-Jahren große IT-Projekte zum Fliegen bringt. Und das schneller und kostengünstiger als geplant: Unternehmen, die mit Scrum arbeiten, schaffen die doppelte Arbeit in der Hälfte der Zeit. Gar nicht auszudenken, was geschähe, wenn jede Firma von dieser Methode profitieren könnte! Genau das ist Jeff Sutherlands Mission.

Eine 25-Stunden-Arbeitswoche bei vollem Gehalt? Das kann doch gar nicht gehen. Doch! Der Unternehmer Lasse Rheingans wagte das Experiment. Und blieb nach einer Testphase dauerhaft bei dem Modell. Denn das überraschende wie überzeugende Ergebnis war eine höhere Produktivität in kürzerer Zeit sowie begeisterte und kreativere Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter. Rheingans erklärt in diesem Hörbuch, warum der 5-Stunden-Tag zukunftsweisend ist, aber auch wo die Fallstricke liegen.

Wir leben in Zeiten des Wandels. Sie sind disruptiv und VUKA - volatil, unsicher, komplex und ambivalent. Unternehmen, die sich nicht permanent neu erfinden, gehen unter - so lautet die weitverbreitete Meinung in Managementkreisen. Während die einen versuchen, agiler zu werden und von Scrum bis Design Thinking einen neuen Methodenworkshop nach dem anderen durchführen, stehen andere wie das sprichwörtliche Kaninchen vor der Schlange und berufen sich auf das, was schon immer gut war. Augen zu und durch und der Laden läuft wieder? "Mitnichten", sagt Anke Nienkerke-Springer.

It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle towering social problems. What’s required is a new, more collaborative and productive economic system. The Solution Revolution brings hope - revealing just such a burgeoning new economy where players from across the spectrum of business, government, philanthropy, and social enterprise converge to solve big problems and create public value.