Reinvent best practices that have become bad habits Without meaning to, and often with the best of intentions, most organizations continually waste precious time and money on processes and activities that don't create value and no longer make sense in today's business environment.
This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution into an incisive volume It is a book about work, about the organization and management of work, but it is also a book about people.
In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "e;whatever it takes"e; are required to run a successful business today.
This book is an impassioned wake-up call to bring diversity management to a new level -- beyond finger-pointing and well-meaning ';initiatives', and toward the shared goal of building robust organizations and thriving communities.
Shedding new light on the human side of big data through the lenses of emotional and social intelligence competencies, this book advances the understanding of the requirements of the different professions that deal with big data.
Today's organizations demand a focus on higher-level objectives-objectives that clearly provide business impact and value and satisfy the expectations of a wide range of key stakeholders.
Based on an extensive national survey of workers and four separate industry-specific surveys, Generations and Work will examine and provide answers to the most common issues and problems of multi generational work by assessing differences and commonalities between and among generations.
Whether it's writing a proposal, motivating employees, or reaching out to customers,the Perfect Phrases series has the tools you need for precise, effective communication.
A new, updated and expanded edition of this New York Times bestseller on how to reconstruct your life so it's not all about work Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times.
This volume focuses on new ways of working, and explores implications of these new practices with a particular emphasis on the place occupied by technology, materiality and bodies within contemporary working configurations.
Bürokratie gilt als unverzichtbar für die Organisation moderner Staaten – doch ihre Komplexität und Starrheit behindern oft Fortschritt und Bürgernähe.
Project management-it's not just about following a template or using a tool, but rather developing personal skills and intuition to find a method that works for everyone.
A leading workplace expert provides an inspirational, practical, and forward-looking career playbook for recent grads, career changers, and transitioning professionals looking to thrive in todays rapidly evolving workplace.
More than two hundred CEOs reveal their candid insights on how to build and foster a corporate culture that encourages innovation and drives resultsIn Quick and Nimble, Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than two hundred CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move an organization faster, to be quick and nimble, and to rekindle the whatever-it-takes collective spark of a start-up workplace, all with the goal of innovating and thriving in a relentlessly challenging global economy.
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Richard Hackman, one of the world's leading experts on group and organizational behavior, argues that teams perform at their best when leaders create conditions that allow them to manage themselves effectively.
Learn the secret to using big data and gamification to motivate, engage, and engender true loyalty among your customers, employees, and partnersAs our lives move online and nearly everything we do is being mediated by technology, all of our activity is generating reams of data we are all walking data generators.
The Decision Maker's Playbook is an easy-to-use, "e;how-to"e; toolkit to improve managers' decision making, using visualisations, relevant examples and actionable checklists that cater to its main target group: analytically interested, busy managers and entrepreneurs.
Seize the competitive edge and increase innovation-while doing right by people-with a strong culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belongingStudies prove that companies with more diversity in their ranks are more innovative, expand their markets, and perform better financially.
The classic guide to bringing out the best in people at their worst-fully updated for a world that's meaner, nastier, and more polarized than everToday, new technologies, the increased role of social media, and the ubiquity of remote work have resulted in more polarized workplaces, the breakdown of social mores, and downright rude behavior.
Leading Culture Change: What Every CEO Needs To Know is a practical guide for top leaders who are faced with the challenge of shaping their culture to create long term, sustainable value.
