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"In A Cure for the Common Company: A Well-Being Prescription for a Happier, Healthier, and More Resilient Organization, health and well-being expert, Richard Safeer, M.D. delivers a step-by-step roadmap to creating a culture of health on your team and in your company that keeps your people happier and more engaged. In the book, you’ll discover the importance of shaping your well-being culture, challenging yourself, your team, and your workforce...
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"There is a strong movement today in management to encourage management practices based on research evidence. Handbook of Principles of Organizational Behavior is based on timeless principles, built upon strong science, and these principles can be directly translated into actionable knowledge for application in organizations. It is easy for readers to digest, retain and apply principles, as opposed to thousands of factoids that are forgotten soon...
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2023.
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English
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This lesson provides actionable tips on how to collaborate. This session is part of the insightful Future Human series. A vital aspect of becoming equipped for the future, collaboration involves cooperating with others to share skills and develop ideas. The ability to innovate, discuss new concepts, and understand different perspectives is essential in a fast-paced and interconnected world. Characterised by creativity, active listening, teamwork,...
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[2023]
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English
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"Discover a more agile, democratic, and effective model of leadership, from legendary business scholar Edgar Schein and Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein. Legendary organizational scholar Edgar Schein and former Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein say leadership today requires that people transcend their hierarchical roles and relate to each other as human beings-what they call humble leadership. In such relationships new ideas can flow freely,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Organizational paradoxes are ultimately illusions. They are artificial constructs, sometimes of a system, many times of the mind. They fail to meet the definition of a paradox because they are not irreconcilable. Yet these illusionary obstacles persist as groups, and individuals protect themselves from the perceived challenges of addressing them. They demand engagement because the process of engagement reveals the illusion, develops a deeper sense...
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2020.
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English
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"Understanding experience at work, especially in toxic organizations, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include all senses. The use of applied poetry has its primary value as an evocative approach to sensing, knowing, and understanding workplace experience. Poetry at its best condenses into relatively few words, metaphors, and images what conventional social science narratives would take much longer to articulate. Where poetry often hints...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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When the term quiet quitting is applied to employees whose efforts don't exceed what's in their job descriptions, it fails to recognize the current reality of real wages that have significantly decreased over the past 50 years while executive pay has skyrocketed. The author argues that quiet quitting should be replaced with a different label -- calibrated contributing -- that reflects an employee's rational choice to do the work they're paid for rather...
Pub. Date
2023.
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Italiano
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Welcome to Assemble You Audio Learning. In a psychologically safe work environment, people feel free to share ideas, mistakes and criticisms. They worry less about protecting their image and focus more on doing a great job. These are the words of Amy C. Edmondson to Forbes. Edmondson is an economics professor at Harvard University and has been studying the concept of psychological safety since 1999. But what is psychological safety and how can you...
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2023.
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English
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You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help-but there's only one way to ensure sustained innovation: you need to lead it-and with a special kind of leadership. Collective Genius shows you how. Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily Truelove,...
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2022.
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English
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When members of dominant social groups are accused of discriminating against those with less power and fewer resources, they sometimes seek to deflect criticism by portraying themselves as the victims. Some rely on digressive victimhood, which involves countering accusations of discrimination by reframing the issue as a matter of free speech or religious liberty. The authors discuss how managers can recognize such tactics so they can focus on addressing...
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2022.
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English
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Mentors seldom use their roles to engage in identity work that celebrates the unique characteristics of their mentees. But research shows that mentors have a critical opportunity to redefine the often-gendered rhetoric of success that rewards ideal working at the cost of well-being. Drawing from a recent study, the authors offer tips for mentors and mentees on challenging toxic behaviors and unreasonable expectations and instead prioritizing health,...
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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Many managers are excited about smart machines but are struggling to apply machines' limited intelligence. Indeed, computers can process data just fine, but to generate competitive advantage from machine learning applications, organizations must upgrade their employees' skills. Companies will also need to redesign employee accountabilities to empower and motivate them to deploy smart machines when doing so will enhance outcomes.
13) Not Knowing
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Pub. Date
2015.
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Español
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Con el fin de prosperar en esta época de incertidumbre, este fascinante libro nos propone dirigirnos hacia lo desconocido, en vez de alejarnos de él. Reestructura el concepto del No Saber desde un lugar de miedo e ignorancia para llegar a un lugar donde el No Saber ofrece una brillante oportunidad, donde no te verás limitado por lo que ya sabes, si no que profundizarás en tu conocimiento, surgirán nuevas posibilidades y ganarás sabiduría....
14) Better humans, better performance: driving leadership, teamwork, and culture with intentionality
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Virtue is more than a word; it is a way to live. When applied to our professional life, when we cultivate virtue in ourselves and others and also flourish as a human. When applied to organizational life organizational engagement goes up. When we cultivate virtue, we deepen and strengthen relationships at work and in life"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Leadership from Bad to Worse is about how leadership that is bad, invariably, inexorably, gets worse-unless it is somehow, by someone or something, stopped or slowed. This work draws on four cases of bad leadership-two in political leadership, two in business leadership-to show how it goes from bad to worse. Kellerman finds that bad leadership and bad followership go through four phases of development: 1) Onward and Upward; 2) Followers Join In; 3)...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Prepare for Your Workforce of Tomorrow Today's economic reality is changing the traditional employment model. No longer is it assumed that everyone who works for you will be on your company's payroll. Alongside your regular employees might be temps, freelancers, and independent contractors, all offering a more cost effective and efficient model to address your human resource needs. At the same time, these arrangements can meet the needs of workers...
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"Measurements are the building blocks that determine and drive the final output of every organization. Providing examples of what top companies value, this book describes how these values are measures and how these measures impact the behavior of employees. The text focuses on how measurement systems can either direct or hinder any change initiative. Illustrating how to make measurement a focus in your organization, the author examines what different...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Bestselling author of Who Do We Want to Be gives visionary leaders the tools to create organizations that foster generosity, creativity, and kindness in a chaotic world. We are living in chaotic and contentious times. Tensions between people are reaching dangerously hateful proportions. Margaret Wheatley calls on leaders to resist, to forge communities that protect people from the destructive dynamics so prevalent today and rediscover and reawaken...
19) Cognitive risk
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Cognitive Risk is a book about the least understood, but most pervasive risk to mankind - cognitive risks. Cognitive risks are subconscious and unconscious influence factors on human decision-making: heuristics and biases. To understand the scope of cognitive risk we look at case studies, corporate and organizational failure and the science that explains why we systemically make errors in judgment and repeat the same errors. Cognitive risk takes...
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The journey towards the future of work was greatly accelerated due to the COVID pandemic. Some changes have altered the functioning of the business world forever. Against the backdrop of these alterations, variations, and modifications, this book presents and analyzes three crucial factors: work, workforce, and workplace and their transformation into new-age organizations for meeting its customer expectations and long-term strategic goals. Companies...
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