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" The highly anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed bestseller Start With Why Simon Sinek's mission is to help people wake up every day inspired to go to work and return home every night fulfilled by their work. His first book, Start With Why, offered the essential starting point, explaining the power of focusing on WHY we do what we do, before getting into the details of WHAT and HOW. Start With Why became an instant classic, with a loyal following...
3) Principles
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2017.
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In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history. Dalio himself has appeared on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have led to Bridgewater's exceptionally effective culture, which...
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2019.
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Featuring a new preface, afterword and Radically Candid performance review bonus chapter, the fully revised & updated edition of Radical Candor is packed with even more guidance to help you improve your relationships at work. Radical Candor is about caring personally and challenging directly, about soliciting criticism to improve your leadership and also providing guidance that helps others grow. It focuses on praise but doesn't shy away from criticism--to...
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2014.
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"In 1986, Ed Catmull co-founded Pixar, a modest start-up with an immodest goal: to make the first-ever computer animated movie. Nine years later, Pixar released Toy Story, which went on to revolutionize the industry, gross $360 million, and establish Pixar as one of the most successful, innovative, and emulated companies on earth. This book details how Catmull built an enduring creative culture -- one that doesn't just pay lip service to the importance...
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To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions. It is the set of assumptions employees use to resolve everyday problems. If culture is not purposeful, it will be an accident or a mistake. Here he explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four historic models of leadership and culture-building, and connecting their leadership examples to modern case-studies. The practical and often surprising advice that results will help...
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2015.
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"'We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing.' So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at [Google]. This insight is the heart of [his book], a ... manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live. Drawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and with a ... grasp of human psychology, Bock also provides teaching examples...
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[2016]
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In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle's company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff...
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"In too many industries and organizations, the business world is a cutthroat environment that seems to care much more about profits than about the employees who deliver the actual results. And yet, organizations can and do change the world--but never without a great culture. Leaders and managers play the crucial role in shaping and modeling a culture that motivates and inspires every employee to give their best."--
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2022.
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Many leaders recognize that their organization's corporate culture needs improvement but don't know where to start. Research on unhealthy corporate cultures points to toxic leadership, toxic social norms, and work design as the three most powerful predictors of toxic workplace behavior. The authors explore evidence-based interventions, organized around these key drivers of toxic culture, that leaders and companies can use to retain employees and create...
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[2015]
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Why do some workplace cultures inspire energy and innovation, while others fuel anxiety, boredom, or cynicism? Until now, such legendary cultures have seemed like magic beyond our control. However, behind every culture is a surprisingly elegant science. Primed to Perform argues that the highest-performing cultures are built on a simple truth: why people work affects how well they work. Great organizations inspire the three most powerful motives for...
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2022.
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New research finds that reporting on unethical conduct in the workplace is linked to employees’ degree of psychological safety. Those with lower scores on a measure of psychological safety were less likely to report unethical behavior through effective channels — but were also more likely to observe more instances of unethical behavior. The authors argue that a healthy organizational culture is one in which speaking up and listening go hand in...
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2023.
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Typical programs aimed at changing corporate culture to more effectively address organizational challenges often fail to have a lasting effect. Taking a skills-based approach, however, can lead to positive changes in behavior that endure, particularly when it comes to cultivating soft skills like perspective taking. The author explains key attributes of the skills-based approach to culture change and how organizations can leverage it to speed adoption...
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[2022]
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"Talent Tectonics is written to help leaders create resilient workforces and organizations that will thrive in a fast-changing world with increasing shortages of skilled labor. It is based on engagements with hundreds of organizations around the world combined with research from industrial-organizational psychology, management science, socioeconomics, and related fields. It is a product of the author's unique experience working at the intersection...
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"Catherine had just celebrated her 43rd birthday on May 20th. Her dream of owning and running a thriving company was coming true. Essentially Proximal's essential oil line was becoming a major success, and her company was in growth mode. As a female business owner, she was doing her best to promote positive culture at work and retain talent. Her goal was to build a diverse high-performing and inclusive leadership team, but her leadership team was...
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""Rob is an insider who's combined doing good with doing business well in two iconic Silicon Valley companies. His book contains smart, practical advice for anyone looking to do good and do well." -Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedin and author of Blitzscaling Silicon Valley expert Robert Chesnut shows that companies that do not think seriously about a crucial element of corporate culture-integrity-are destined to fail. "Show of hands-who in this...
19) Leading in a non-linear world: building wellbeing, strategic and innovation mindsets for the future
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2023.
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Leading in a Non-Linear World: Building Wellbeing, Strategic and Innovation Mindsets for the Future, leads readers through a groundbreaking set of science-based strategies to help them face rising demand, uncertainty and change posed by disruptive technologies and seismic shifts in globalisation. The book shows how our mindset, more than our knowledge and expertise, has the potential to be our greatest asset in facing the future. Jean Gomes reviews...
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2023.
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Los cuatro ejes del liderazgo para llegar a la cumbre: consciencia relaciones, emociones, acción. Este es un libro sobre liderazgo distinto, en el cual se describen las características esenciales que tienen que tener los líderes. Lo hace siguiendo la historia novelada de un ejecutivo que llega a ver la realidad del manejo de una empresa multinacional desde lo más alto. Desde las alturas todo se ve distinto y las decisiones tienen grandes efectos....
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