Organizational Change

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is driving change at an unprecedented pace, level, and intensity that is impacting businesses across industries, not to mention our everyday lives. We are rapidly blurring the physical and the digital, transforming the way we live and, in some sense, what it even means to be human. Whether we run a startup or multinational, a nonprofit or academic institution, a city or a whole country, we need to embrace this change to not just survive but thrive under these new realities.

Paul A. Pagnato has tapped into an incredible brain trust of world-renowned experts from a diverse set of challenging disciplines, each having encountered the intersection of exponential growth and transparency. Their honest assessment for turning challenges into opportunities is inspirational. Their work is changing the world, and now through the prism of transparency, the wave of the future is upon us.

In the years surrounding WWI, the basic models of many technologies we use today were invented and introduced en masse. Some organizations anticipated these changes and were able to adapt, but other organizations ignored them at their peril. The iconic British television series Downton Abbey provides a glimpse into this period of societal change. Whether you are a fan of the television series or not, the examples in this audiobook provide practical advice to effectively manage technological and cultural change.

You will never come across a business person who wishes for his or her business to end when he or she leaves. If an organization chooses not to embrace change, it will have no customers because people only buy things that meet their needs. For this reason, an organization needs to ensure that it stays ready for what is to come. The way to do this is to continually sharpen own tools by creating a learning environment so that own employees learn all business and change-related tricks to help them maneuver the business world.

Communicating Through Change is a life-changing book, which will show you how to communicate through major changes in your life, and to best express yourself when you need to be heard. It is packed with real-life stories, practical exercises, insightful tips, and uplifting affirmations. Addressing relevant challenges, which everyone meets at one time in their life, this book will give you hope, resilience, and clarity about how to move forward. By sharing her vulnerability with authentic openness, the author helps you to find your inner strength and to speak up for yourself.

A person finds themselves lost, wondering through life without any sense of direction. This person wants to be financially free and happy, but they do not know how to achieve that goal. Is this person you? This book is written to help a fellow entrepreneur navigate through life. In the book, I will be teaching techniques to help with finding hobbies, developing a money mindset, principles of success, viewpoints on failure, what it means to be financially free, plus much more.

Take Your Shoes Off First is a fast and entertaining listen that illustrates how easy it is to limit what is possible in your life - without knowing you are doing it. You will be pulled into a thought-provoking story about an executive who finds a better path forward through a challenging situation by embracing one simple idea. As he learns to see himself and the world more clearly, you will be inspired to do the same.

This audiobook is about the stuff you learn when you've worked for a boss you'd swear jumped out of a Dilbert cartoon; worked in a business whose performance careened up and down like a runaway clown car; when you've faced legal or ethical problems that needed the wisdom of Solomon to sort out while they roiled your guts at night; or when you've sat on the stand across from some third-rate Perry Mason, or tried to be one yourself.

This is a book that will truly change one’s life if the information learned is applied. There will be a step-by-step process on exactly what to do for a 30-90 day period with goal setting. The information in the book was compiled by years and years of study of public figures such as Bob Proctor, Jack Canfield, Joe Vitale, Napoleon Hill, John Assaraf, and etc.

What can science tell us about why people resist change or what you can do to help your staff adjust? This audiobook discusses how to utilize behavioral psychology techniques to help overcome resistance to change in yourself and in others. Before we can embrace change, we first have to unlearn our old ways of doing things. In this audiobook, author Jennifer Hancock is going to discuss why we all find it so hard to change and why it’s particularly difficult to create culture shifts within an organization.