Work Culture Leadership

To achieve efficiency, productivity, and significant results, you need to make the best use of the resources available to you. Productivity expert Maura Thomas helps you nurture the crucial resource that is your work culture and build productive habits for yourself and your team, without letting work take over your life. Everyone Wants to Work Here empowers you to define what productivity means for your team and to create conditions that support your own productivity. Starting with yourself, Thomas's holistic advice will help you develop productive strategies for your whole team.

Wir erleben eine doppelte Zeitenwende. Erstens eine reale Wende. Infolge der geostrategischen Verwerfungen driftet der Boden weg, auf dem wir jahrzehntelang Karrieren gebaut haben. Vorbei ist die gefühlte Normalität unseres Wohlstands, der bei vielen jedes Jahr noch größer wurde – und dieses Vorbei ist der zweite Aspekt der Zeitenwende: Es ist eine mentale Wende. Es ist wie ein brutales Aufwachen und jähes Erkennen, dass unser Leben und unsere Karrieren seit den Nachkriegswirtschaftswunderjahren bis heute eben nicht mehr die Regel sind.

"F*ck Your Office Snacks" is a book written by Tara Furiani, who is also known as "Not the HR Lady," about her experiences as a Chief People Officer and her journey towards advocating for self-care, self-advocacy, and empowerment in the workplace. The book includes history lessons, news stories, studies, data, and facts that support the author's position on equity and inclusivity, as well as movie and song lyrics, quotes by the artists she is inspired by and are relevant to the storytelling, all wrapped up with a healthy dose of humor.

In Diversity in the Work Place, you will discover what diversity looks like now, and how you, as a leader, can help foster a more inclusive workplace; the devastating fear of the unknown and why so many leaders are reluctant to change and evolve their managerial skills; how to be an inclusive leader, and build trust and open-mindedness among your employees; and much more.

Fun is the secret sauce every business needs to better engage and motivate its employees today. Work Made Fun Gets Done! gives listeners simple, practical ideas for instantly bringing fun into their work and workplace. Based on examples from scores of companies like Zoom, Pinterest, Bank of America, Zappos, Honda, Microsoft, and many more, this book provides clear examples of exactly what managers and employees alike can do to lighten the tone in the work environment and allow employees to have more fun at work.

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!

Spirituality is the basis for all successful organizations and the most important asset you have in elevating you and your business to a new level of performance. The most successful individuals and firms in the world are changing the way they do business, in order to access a vast resevoir of untapped energy. You too can join the revolution, because the tools these people are utilizing are found inside each and every one of us.

In Nature of Work: The New Story of Work for a Living Age, Paul Miller, CEO and founder of Digital Workplace Group (DWG), and Shimrit Janes, DWG's director of knowledge, draw on patterns from forests and the natural world to illustrate a dynamic, vital, and more beautiful world of work that our hearts and minds know is possible.

Award-winning author George Murray asks leaders and business owners…if your company is struggling to find new employees, you are not alone. If you find new people, but they soon leave, usually for more money, you are not alone. If you are working hard to engage those who have worked for you for a while—-or are brand new—-this book has answers how to help so you are successful. It's all related to the company's culture in how you Ignite. Engage. and Retain. with both long-term and new employees.

Why work harder than you have to? One manager kept his senior execs happy by secretly hacking into the company’s database, providing them the reports they needed in one-third the time. Hacking is a powerful solution to every stupid procedure, tool, rule, and process we are forced to endure. Benevolent hackers are saving business from itself. It would be so much easier to do great work if not for lingering bureaucracies, outdated technologies, and deeply irrational rules and procedures.

The Hope-Driven Leader is not about feel-good theory or dry data. It's an action guide informed by the thousands of people Gill has coached in both the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds around the globe. Whether you are a rising star or a seasoned leader in your own business, a corporation, or your community, The Hope-Driven Leader offers you a roadmap for instilling positive beliefs and behaviors into the core of your being and the culture of your workplace. Let the journey begin!

In lively prose that is as engaging as it is illuminating, Dattner tells a host of true stories of those he has worked with - from the woman who was so scapegoated by her colleagues that she decided to quit, to the clueless boss who was too quick to blame his staff. He shares a wealth of insight from the study of human evolution and psychology to reveal the underlying reasons why people are so prone to blaming and credit-grabbing; it's not only human nature, it's found throughout the animal kingdom.

The need for skills that defy disruption has never been so urgent, as traditional workplace models give way to confronting new rules of engagement. If you’re looking for job security, growth, and acceleration in a radical, new workforce, then Future Fit is the place to start. Award-winning author Andrea Clarke shares her experience, expertise and tactical advice on how to become truly future fit.

Dr. Joey Faucette discovered that while owners and executives can shape a work environment, it’s the managers and their teams who best create a positive workplace. Work Positive in a Negative World, Team Edition helps influence those on the front lines of increasing team productivity and company profitability. Written in a story-driven style that unpacks the five core practices of a work positive environment in an easy-to-access way Dr. Joey shares what he’s learned in the nine years since his previous best seller that managers and team members can implement starting today.

In the global turmoil of 2008, Andrew Moore took charge of a declining real estate business in a troubled market. Managing short-term behavior through the language of organisational values, he and his team developed a culture that not only steadied the business, but reversed its fortunes. This book explains how. Andrew Moore has done something remarkable - he's made culture real, tangible and actionable. This is a wonderfully honest and well-written testimony to the power of organisational culture.

Recent best-selling books have completely altered the way we understand how humans work and play together. Zina Sutch and Patrick Malone hope to flip a light switch and illuminate, above all else, that leadership begins with heart and soul. In five succinct chapters, they show that we lead best when we tap into our genetically driven human nature to love and nurture, connect and trust. This book seeks to reintroduce the warmth of human interaction and emotion into the leadership tool kit.

The hardest part of a manager’s job isn’t staying organized, meeting deliverable dates, or staying on budget. It’s dealing with people who are too comfortable doing things the way they’ve always been done and too afraid to do things differently. Treasurer, a courage-building pioneer, proposes a bold antidote: courage. With more courage, workers gain the confidence to take on harder projects, embrace company changes with more enthusiasm, and extend themselves in ways that will benefit their careers and their company.

Inspired to extend a helping hand to ambitious women working in corporate America, a veteran executive offers honest, practical, slightly irreverent advice about navigating companies that are run and populated predominately by men: how to interpret their sometimes surprising behavior, avoid common mistakes, flourish with the good guys, deal with the bad guys, and nurture a wonderful, satisfying career in a non-traditional role.

In this book, Blades and Fondas offer business professionals an indispensable handbook for transforming the way we work and breaking free from the old, inflexible, 40-hour workweek. The authors show creative ways for individuals to fit work requirements with life obligations, and persuade managers to adopt these custom-fit work strategies to improve their bottom line.

Aufgewachsen in einer Zeit von "no future", Jeans und Parka, Persching II und kaltem Krieg hat Gunnar Barghorn Egoismus und Ellenbogen als toxische Elemente erlebt. Der kalte Krieg fand nicht nur draußen, sondern auch in seiner Familie statt - hautnah. Das hat ihn geprägt anders mit Menschen umzugehen, Macht, als die Freiheit zu entscheiden, stets positiv und immer mit Leichtigkeit einzusetzen. Vor allem hat es ihn geprägt, jeden Menschen den sein oder werden zu lassen, der dieser gerne sein möchte.