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"Unleash Your Team & Unlock Their Potential" teaches readers how to set their people free to realize their potential. This book provides a unique and fresh perspective on team building that is timeless in its approach. The book clearly defines what separates managers from leaders, the qualities that great leaders should have, and the traits that leaders and teammates should avoid. The author uses real world examples of his experiences to punctuate...
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Who Works Where (and Who Cares?) is a practical, hands-on book that shows managers how to boost collaboration and performance even when their teams don't work together in the same time or space. Designed for flexible, virtual, and dispersed work teams, Who Works Where is an interactive tool that managers can start using immediately to increase their skills and establish team norms for this new age of work. In a world where job descriptions now include...
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Many companies have introduced Lean, WCM and 6 Sigma, trying to realize the promise of these techniques: twice as much production at half the costs. But in the West we are less successful in achieving these goals than the Japanese. In this book, Steven Blom explains why and proposes ideas and methods to make real progress in increasing productivity. According to Blom balancing out the Technical and the Social System of a company is crucial. Finding...
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Has your dream of working from home turned into a nightmare?
Does your home office seem more like a prison cell, with constant interruptions and distractions?
Do you dread Monday mornings, hitting snooze just one more time?
When I began working from home, I thought I had won the lottery. I would finally have the freedom and flexibility to work when and how I wanted. Then, reality set in, and it began to feel more like a curse. I was working longer...
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Increased diversity and globalization are changing the makeup of organizations and teams worldwide. There is now a need for a workforce who can work well across differences, can form productive relationships with diverse clients, and can help their company expand into diverse markets. Mastering Cultural Differences is about valuing differences that enables the creation of more productive and profitable workplaces.
This book if for you if you are...
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Is Everybody HAPPY!?! is a detailed account of the history and principles discovered and leveraged by S. Truett Cathy through Chick-fil-A, a restaurant chain he led that nurtured a culture where success and happiness thrive. For over 50 years, Chick-fil-A has successfully put business men and women into their own restaurant where they earn a good living and are in a position to give back to the communities that support their business. The author looks...
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When Liam's sister dies, his world turns grey. He spends hours watching clouds crossing the wintry skies, hoping that Cassie is out there somewhere.
On the night before Liam's birthday, Cassie sails the Sky Dreamer to their home and drops anchor in a ghost gum tree. She invites Liam to climb aboard, and together the children go sailing through the Milky Way. But there are lessons Liam must learn before the Sky Dreamer returns home.
The Sky Dreamer...
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You know you've got the skill, passion, and drive to build a thriving salon culture, but you might not be sure how to bring that vision to life. Through the launch of her brand, Fox and Jane, Lorean Cairns developed a proven formula and turned a three-chair salon into the international powerhouse it is today. Nine salons, 150 staff members, and $14 million in revenue later, Lorean had the realization that establishing a deep-rooted culture was the...
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This engaging tale takes us on a journey with an executive in a multinational corporation, who, along with her team, had to skillfully, navigate what seemed to them insurmountable challenges and difficulties in a corporate culture ripe with lust, deceit, greed and an insatiable desire for power. The story follows the obstacles they encountered and details how the characters employed biblical principles, corporate strategies, and academics to reorganize,...
50) Team Building
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Successful team building that exists in any workplace is involved with more than simply the creation of a successful team that has been given, instead of creating or building an entire ideal team from the beginning. There are particular core principles that are linked to effective team building that can help any organization or work situation get the best outputs out of any team that has to be managed.
By adopting the effective methods of team building,...
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Although hidden or non-obvious disabilities can't be seen, they make up the majority of the disabilities encountered in the workplace. Unaddressed hidden disabilities can have profound impacts on the work environment and on productivity. What are these hidden disabilities? How do you accommodate a disability that cannot be seen? Hidden Disabilities in the Workplace enables the reader to explore innovative ways to implement workplace accommodations,...
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When businesses, families, or individuals decline to be accountable for their actions and decisions, the results can be devastating. Businesses can fail, relationships falter, and reputations shatter. ‘Culture Without Accountability-WTF?’ is full of real life stories of what accountability looks like, and what can go wrong in its absence. This book offers a proven process for installing an accountability-based culture, a platform for success in...
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For a CEO or business owner, the teams you lead are the heart of your enterprise. An investment in their fulfillment is an investment in your company's future. As the landscape rapidly changes-more than anyone could have foreseen-organizations are scrambling to find and retain their best people. You have the chance to increase retention, drive productivity, and bring joy back to the workplace. It's an opportunity to make a difference in the lives...
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This book was, written to help you navigate three of the biggest challenges young professionals face as they launch their careers: preparing a resume, getting ready for interviews, and successfully networking. Stage management is incredibly important for interview preparation. Whether you like it or not, first impressions mean a lot. Plus, knowing that you look the part lifts confidence and helps you deliver your best possible performance. This book...
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We all make assumptions, and these are the building blocks for our unconscious biases. They pervade the workplace and spill into our personal life. Dr. Stephens carefully walks you through a three-step model for overcoming unconscious bias. Step 1 is to raise awareness and unfreeze the undesired behavior. Step 2 is to change the behavior through transformational conversation. And Step 3 involves creating a plan to freeze the new, desired behavior.
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56) Give & Get Employer Branding: Repel the Many and Compel the Few with Impact, Purpose and Belonging
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In today's fiercely competitive job market, with the balance of power squarely in job-seekers' hands, how can organizations attract and retain the most talented candidates-and the best additions to their culture?
The answer may surprise you. The most effective employer brands don't attract candidates; they repel them.
Combining the expertise of employer brand industry leaders Charlotte Marshall and Bryan Adams, Give & Get Employer Branding redefines...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The three tech kings of China are Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. They are responsible for the country's turbocharged digital economy, which is set to grow five times to $16 trillion by 2035.
#2 The BAT have the best of both worlds: they are protected in their home markets, and they can expand overseas to take on more risk.
#3 The three tech leaders of China, Baidu,...
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Workplace violence literally affects 100% of American businesses every year. Workplace violence (WPV) is much more than just an employee or customer walking into a building and taking target practice.WPV entails bullying, harassment, threats, assault (verbal and physical), and even at times arson/vandalism. This places WPV as a multifaceted problem. The financial costs are in excess to 150 billion dollars per year to american businesses. Litigation,...
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From humble beginnings, FedEx has literally revolutionized the way business is conducted. Not too long ago, overnight shipping was barely an option for even the largest companies. Today, thanks to FedEx, it's available to every living room start-up. With annual revenues of $30 billion, more than 250,000 employees, 600 aircraft, and 70,000 surface vehicles, FedEx handles nearly six million shipments a day in two hundred countries. FedEx has become...
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This Guide to Joy at Work is not about rainbows and unicorns. It's about what it takes to help people thrive in their work, what the authors call, Joy at Work.
Most people must work to financially support themselves and others and create the life they want to have. Given the amount of a person's life that's dedicated to working, it's useful to ask questions like, how am I going to spend my time working? What choices do I feel I have? What's a life...
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