Workplace Organization

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.

Share looks at how new business models are being created based on the disruptive idea of ‘sharing’. Uber, Airbnb, Skype, Alibaba, Google, Netflix and WeChat (China’s answer to Whatsapp) are all based on the sharing of information, assets and human capital, and a new and dynamic economy is already emerging. Traditional consumer and industrial models of Western capitalism are having to adapt to the ‘sharing’ concept, but few traditional organisations seem to understand the implications of the ‘share’ mindset for how they operate and compete.

This highly enjoyable career development book reveals dynamic aspects of the workplace that are hidden to many, ignored by others - factors that can make or break careers.

You have a great company and mission and are excited to make a difference with your product and service. Some years have been great and others not so great. You are hopeful consistent results will happen soon, but you struggle with inconsistent performance with your people. You may be asking yourself...what can I do about it? Although many times "people" are considered the soft stuff, they are the hard stuff - and the biggest expense and asset of your organization. What is the secret to becoming the organization that everyone wants to work for - and to do business with?

Any cursory online search will reveal thousands of books and articles that try to help you become a better manager or a better leader. In this audiobook, we propose a third set of skills that are often neglected but are just as essential for effective leadership: the ability to clarify individual and organizational values and to find a way forward when these values conflict. This audiobook will help you develop those skills and apply them in your organization to become a better leader.

If you are a manager or leader in an organization - company, public service, or NGO - or you are simply interested in how to make your organization work better, then this book is for you. If you have the feeling that you are skating over the surface of what is really going on in your organization, if you know that there is something more vital that you are missing out on, if you’re frustrated by applying the same management fads over and over, just with different labels on, then perhaps you are open to looking deeper into what makes organizations function, fail, and flourish.

Du bist Führungskraft oder Teil eines Teams und suchst nach Möglichkeiten, die Zusammenarbeit noch effektiver zu gestalten? Dann ist "Teamorganisation" genau das Richtige für Dich! In diesem Buch dreht sich alles um die Kunst der Teamarbeit – vom Timeboxing bis zum WIP Limit findest Du jede Menge Anregungen.

It’s time to eliminate the fear-based tactics that lead to hiring the wrong people for the wrong positions or inserting the right people into the wrong team dynamics. You can massively impact voluntary and involuntary turnover, even if there are toxic elements to your organizational culture. It’s not about changing the culture first..

When it comes to the gender gap, it is not enough to ask women to "lean in" and demand promotions and raises. Organizations have an obligation to level up and provide women with more opportunities for advancement. In this book, leadership and governance expert Carol Geffner makes a strong case that for women to reach their full potential, workplaces and their leaders must take a more proactive role in combating gender discrimination.

Every business needs to innovate, but few know where to start. ON Innovation, gives leaders 72 simple but powerful ideas they can use to create a more innovative organization. Drawing from his experience as founder and CEO at Travelocity.com and from the 10 other start-ups where he’s worked, Jones helps listeners turn innovation from an academic exercise into an everyday skill.

Why is it that so many of us toil away in jobs we hate, being treated like machines, doing things that will eventually ruin the planet? Is this really the best we can do with our work and our lives? Concluding a massive research project spanning the fields of behavioral economics, future trend analysis, and management science, Josh Allan Dykstra elegantly shows how the world of work is evolving.

Fifteen million working age Americans have a disability. Only four million have jobs. Learn the seven steps to create a workplace where people with disabilities can thrive. Jade was asked by her new boss to spearhead her organization's disability inclusion initiative. On her way home that evening, she was in a horrific accident. While unconscious, she met seven people who taught her how to create a disability inclusive organization. Behind Gold Doors is a great resource to create a disability-inclusive organization.