Organizational Leadership

Surviving Toxic Leadership with Gratefulness is the result of my struggle to make sense of the experiences HR professionals generously shared with me, as well as my own nearly decade long experience with a toxic leader. In this audiobook, I share gory details along with a systemic research-based perspective on toxic leadership, recognizing that the problem of a toxic workplace is never encapsulated in the leader alone. I argue throughout the audiobook that it is crucial and urgent that we not only learn about toxic leadership but act to end it.

In "The Unvarnished Leader," prepare to embark on a journey through the raw, unfiltered realities of leadership in the modern organizational landscape. This book strips away the gloss and glamour often associated with leadership literature, presenting a candid, no-holds-barred look at what it truly means to lead.

This is an invaluable business manager's guide to avoiding the many pitfalls of Digital Transformation. Curated from over 80 real-world practitioners; from CEOs, Heads of Automation, CIOs, Technology Vice Presidents, Chief Digital Officers, Lean Blackbelts, Developers, Customer Success and Delivery Managers & Business Analysts - who have genuinely lived and breathed the processes and have learnt best practice. This easily digestible and accessible A to Z guide will allow you to dip in and out of the topics you need, to enable a painless and efficient Digital Transformation journey.

From taxi rides, hotel stays, car driving, to communicating and paying, business as usual is a thing of the past. This revolutionary model is the secret to driving profitability and growth in today's transformed business landscape. Free and abundant information, 24/7 connectivity, and the empowerment of everyone has transformed every company into an open-source organization and you must adapt in order to succeed.

ongratulations, new leader! You’ve joined the ranks during an exceptionally complicated time. Our current workplace climate is fraught with political divisions, economic disparities, and ever-shifting social dynamics. Leaders are managing remote teams across larger geographic distances and facing new roadblocks to onboarding, giving performance feedback, and nurturing healthy relationships. Leadership Two Words at a Time speaks directly to the plight of the new leader and is divided into three parts: Leading Yourself, Leading People, and Leading Work.

Lead from the inside out to build great teams and powerful business results. Leading great teams is like building a bridge. Each support cable strengthens the organization, providing both safety and strengthens work culture. The Leadership Bridge was written for anyone who aspires to great leadership in today’s volatile work environment.

Virtual working - also known as remote working, telecommuting, flexible working, or homeworking - is an important and growing trend in the global employment landscape. Its popularity has increased due to globalization and outsourcing. However, unlocking the benefits of virtual work depends largely on the organizational culture, management, and leadership to support it. Virtual Leadership identifies the challenges of virtual work and explains how to develop the facilitative leadership mindset to effectively manage people remotely.

If you’re not operating with Organizational Velocity, you’re getting lapped and don’t even realize it. Business as usual? Established organizations are being disrupted as nimble upstarts cross long-established competitive moats with increasing ease. The status quo needs to be blown up. In Organizational Velocity, veteran UPS executive Alan Amling distills five years of research and three decades on the front lines of Corporate America to reveal a fundamental truth…

In this insightful book, former director of the World Business Forum Eduardo Braun introduces a new vision of leadership: the new CEO - someone who puts people, cultures, and emotions first. Through thousands of hours of conversations with world-class leaders, Braun has identified five key roles leaders can use to inspire people to strive for greater success, and in turn change the world for good.

There are no shortcuts to personal and professional success. Take the Stairs is a step by step guide to personal and organizational success by developing and improving your character.

Revised for a new audience in a new era, Inspiring Leadership in Uncertain Times by Karlin Sloan shows you how to break through the fear to survive the long haul and create a fuller, richer, more sustainable organization. Karlin Sloan is the founder and CEO of Sloan Group International, a boutique leadership development firm that provides organizational development consulting, team facilitation, and executive coaching across the globe.

In turbulent times, the ability to communicate with power and purpose becomes a crucial leadership competency. This insightful book demonstrates how to become a stronger, more confident leader—one who can use communication to build alignment, enthusiasm, and productivity. The Leader as Communicator presents case studies of organizations including Cadillac, Emerson, and Saturn, plus dozens of other examples, showing how leaders can shape the communications climate of their organizations.

La libertad de los trabajadores desata el éxito de las empresas. Existe una fórmula para que las empresas aumenten la productividad, las ganancias y el crecimiento que, sorprendentemente, no cuesta ni tiempo ni dinero. Se basa en la creencia de que, cuando las personas actúan con libertad por el interés de su empresa, los resultados se vuelven espectaculares. Freedom, Inc. revela los secretos de un paradigma empresarial exitoso basado en un entorno liberador, no jerárquico y de confianza que es el de empresas tan diversas como The Richards Group, Sun Hydraulics y Harley-Davidson.

Do you know what it takes to be a good listener? Would you like to improve your communication skills? Would you like to be able to understand the people around you better? If so, this book will show how to train your brain to be better at active listening. With the step-by-step guides and expert strategies found inside, you'll acquire the skills that will allow you to build healthy and meaningful personal relationships and achieve great career success!

Leading Change offers an alternative. It provides a framework for change that opens opportunities for people within the organization to play a significant role in the process. Supported by academic research, and grounded with a range of examples and cases, the book offers a valuable approach to successful change management.

Disruption creates 10 times the opportunity to advance your organization and your career, according to former CEO and author Peter J. Boni. In All Hands on Deck: Navigating Your Team Through Crisis, Getting Your Organization Unstuck, and Emerging Victorious, Boni shows any leader or aspiring leader exactly what to do. Following his advice, recognition and rewards come quickly.

When the daily business news breaks away from stories of profit and loss, it often shines a spotlight on ethical failures. But Christians aim to be ethical in all the areas of daily life and work - not just when the spotlight is on them. For those facing the many questions and quandaries of doing business with ethical integrity, Alec Hill offers a place to begin. In this third edition of a popular textbook on business ethics, Hill carefully explores the foundational Christian concepts of holiness, justice, and love.

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.

Using real-life practical experiences, serial entrepreneur and thought leader Faisal Hoque teams up with journalist Drake Baer to provide a personal and professional playbook that is part philosophy, part business, and part history. Everything Connects offers the wisdom of 2,500-year-old Eastern philosophies and the interconnected insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Couple that with Fortune 100 corporate cross pollination for creativity and startup thinking for how to adapt with ease, and you'll quickly discover that everything connects.

On Fire at Work flies in the face of other books on workplace culture by showing that employee engagement isn't the ultimate goal - it's merely the starting point. Top-tier leaders of the world's best places to work reveal their best-practice strategies for getting employees to work harder, perform better, and stay longer. On Fire at Work features examples and original stories from exclusive personal interviews with over 25 founders/CEOs/presidents of companies like Marriott, Siemens, and many more!