Process Management

It's very likely that best practices - ideas, processes, and strategies that are commonplace in your industry - are actually hurting your business. Although best practices can help businesses operate more competitively and efficiently, they are often outdated, harmful, and a hindrance to innovation. In Breaking Bad Habits, Freek Vermeulen, a strategy professor at London Business School, offers the tools to identify bad practices, eliminate them from your organization, and then move on to create new sources of innovation and growth by outthinking your competitors.

Under Joe Solmonese's leadership, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT rights organization, became the model other organizations look toward to create effective social and political change. Beginning with a moving story of working with Matthew Shepard's mother Virginia in passing the hate crimes bill that bears Matthew's name, Solmonese shows how he discovered that channeled anger can drive a commitment to change.

Analyzing the movement's deep-seated origins in questions that the country has sought too long to ignore, some of the greatest economic minds and most incisive cultural commentators capture the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon in all its ragged glory. They give listeners an on-the-scene feel for the movement as it unfolds while exploring the heady growth of the protests, considering the lasting changes wrought, and recommending reform.

Everett Harper delivers a powerful and pragmatic take on solving complex problems by, and making decisions through, uncertainty. You'll learn to discover insights quickly by experimenting, iterating, then building infrastructure to sustain your innovations in your teams and organizations. The author demonstrates a set of practices, processes, and infrastructure that addresses complex problems alongside a set of methods to systematize, scale, and share best practices throughout an organization.

On January 21, 2017, millions of protestors took part in the Women's March, and many of them created a "sea of pink" when they wore knitted pink "pussyhats" in record numbers. The pussyhat swiftly found its place on the cover of Time and The New Yorker, and it ultimately came to symbolize resistance culture. Creator of the Pussyhat Project, Krista Suh, took an idea and built a worldwide movement and symbol in just two months. But like so many women, Krista spent years letting her fears stop her from learning to live by her own rules.

Corporations are the most powerful entities on the planet. Unfortunately, many have had a long record of unprecedented and unbridled environmental degradation, social transgressions, and governance secrecy. Since by law they are beholden to their shareholders, some philanthropic trusts, pension funds, and other institutional investors have used shareholder advocacy to press for changes in corporate policy. But individual investors have largely been silent, thinking themselves powerless.

Not sure what to do when someone quits? Or how to fire someone? We have you covered! From resignations, terminations, walkouts, and succession plans, knowing what to do when someone leaves your company can save you time, money, and potentially your reputation. Protecting your team, your assets, your company—all that you’ve built and worked so hard for is important. The Exit Process provides the knowledge and tools you need to be prepared.

Are you tired of turnover? Are you ready for productivity immediately after hiring? Employee turnover is costly, and in order to increase retention, you need a set of tools to streamline new employee integration, establish engagement, and empower your team.

As a small business owner, you know your team is the most important asset to your company, but you are burdened with overcomplicated and unproductive recruitment. You need a strategy that will streamline the process and a set of tools to provide consistency and clarity for informed hiring decisions.

BAD (Begin Again Differently) helps those who are not quite ready to give up on their dream of serving the community to use the power of motivating oneself to get back on the right track. BAD (Begin Again Differently) is an inspiring guide to starting over again after suffering a major loss. Claudette Yarbrough empowers listeners to use the Seven Smart Processes that led her to “restart” her nonprofit after she lost her annual $4 million contract after 18 years. Claudette teaches listeners how to make a comeback when they acknowledge and embrace their failure.

Where most leaders struggle with accomplishing their goals and getting buy-in from their teams, this book provides a methodology that will help any leader guide their team successfully. Leadership takes many forms in many different environments. Leaders come in all shapes and sizes, too. No matter the environment or who you are as a leader, one thing is for certain: Effective leadership is not a matter of personality or circumstances. It is a process that is applicable to every leader of every stripe in every environment.

Discover this common sense process to give your life direction and meaning. Even tiny steps, taken each week, will generate quantum leaps forward over time. You'll begin to feel the excitement and joy of becoming that terrific person you always knew you could be! Are you ready to start living your happiest life and, in the process, become a better leader, friend, spouse, and parent?

This is your first step to becoming an entrepreneur. In Step One, you will research, validate, and choose the perfect online business idea. By the end of this book, you will come away with a business idea list, one validated business idea, and a plan to launch your first business.

Growing the Top Line: Four Key Questions and the Proven Process for Scaling Your Business delivers the step-by-step approach to topline growth used by some of the word's most successful companies. In this book, leading growth strategy consultant and author Cliff Farrah reveals the copyrighted growth strategy that he has developed over the last 20 years through 1,400 successful client engagements and input from leaders at Fortune 500 organizations.

Der Ton wird schärfer, die Probleme nicht kleiner - in Deutschland wird heftig diskutiert. Die Lager stehen sich zunehmend unversöhnlicher gegenüber. "Alte weiße Männer", denen die Meinungsvorherrschaft abgesprochen wird, auf der einen Seite, junge schwarze Frauen, die, kaum gehört, der Ideologie verdächtigt werden. Dazwischen Wutbürger, Verschwörungserzähler, pöbelnde Klakeure. Vor allem in den sozialen Medien geht es hoch her, niemand will mehr zuhören, alle senden, keiner will empfangen. Zwischen grenzenloser Empörung und großer Empfindlichkeit wabern die Debatten hin und her.

This information is essential for business owners of all size companies. Everything Stutz learned from her professional sales career as a top producer to becoming a top 1 percent influencer, according to Kred, is shared in this book. Personal stories, including tough lessons, are included as examples and for entertainment, too.

Proverbs 31 Leaders is our citizen’s handbook! In this book, you will gain a greater love for Proverbs 31, and all it offers to the body of Christ and the world. We are kingdom citizens, and we should be governing ourselves accordingly. You will be charged for the kingdom of heaven, forever! Stop being just a mere Christian, become a Proverbs 31 Leader!

In the spirit of Machiavelli's classic work on statecraft and government, Dick Morris, the modern equivalent of confidante and consigliere to the head of state, explains how to succeed and win when navigating the corridors of contemporary power.

Social justice work is more crucial than ever, but it can be physically and emotionally draining. Longtime activist Denise Collazo offers three keys to help Latinas keep their focus, morale, and energy high. Doing the work of social change is hard. Waking up every day to take on the biggest challenges of our time can be overwhelming, and sometimes progress is hard to see. She understands that Latina and all women of color activists do their best work when they are thriving, not simply surviving.

People don't always communicate well. It's a fact of life. But you don't have to be a helpless witness or participant in a conversation that steadily unravels into misunderstandings, confusion, and even hostility. You can take charge - and you can make a difference! Breakthrough Communication provides easy-to-implement strategies for virtually any business situation, whether it's one-on-one or within a group.