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As an MBA student, Laura Stack was inspired by Peter Drucker's classic 1967 book The Effective Executive. But a lot has changed since it was written. And while Drucker's advice on what to do remains brilliant, he didn't give much detail on the how. Stack's new book is written for the 21st-century executive, detailing precisely how today's leaders and managers can obtain profitable, productive results by managing the intersection of two critical values:...
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Time management is the single most important skill you can master when it comes to your life, career or business! Now, Warren Greshes teaches you how to effectively manage your time, while taking you through a time test to determine what progress you have made so far.
Learn how to prepare for and plan tasks according to priority and save extra time each day. Whether you're a salesperson with a large territory or you simply want to do things more...
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If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you! But you won't find talking rabbits or princesses here. (There is a cow, but it doesn't jump.) Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two of the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes-heretical reflections on management. The moral here is this: managers...
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Most organizations manage risk using Enterprise Risk Management, which looks at past exposures or actuarial assessments to identify calculable and predictable threats. But the world is changing so quickly, and in such unexpected ways, that executives need to tackle risk head-on as an integral part of their strategic planning process.
Strategic Risk Management is a far more forward-looking approach that emphasizes future potential over past actions-it's...
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Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. It's the sustainable competitive advantage that will distinguish the winners from the losers. Nevertheless, it's frequently back-burnered. When asked why, managers say the number one reason is that they just don't have time-for the meetings, the forms, the administrative hoops.But there's a...
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It's people who make organizations great, so how can leaders best help their people achieve that greatness? As Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert show in this new edition of their bestseller, you can't just demand greatnessyou have to inspire it. The most effective leaders don't just stand in front of their people, they stand behind them too. As one of the characters in the book notes, “You qualify to be first by putting other people first.”...
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From new hires to top executives, the word "Millennial" elicits frustration and ample eye-rolling. Millennials have been called lazy, entitled, and even "the worst generation." But Crystal Kadakia, a Millennial herself as well as an organizational development consultant and two-time TEDx speaker, says these stereotypes reflect an outdated corporate workplace model that fails to attract, engage, and retain modern talent. She argues that reframing these...
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Stay interviews prevent exit interviews! You can't afford to lose them. They're your stars and your solid citizens. You wonder if they're happy in your organization-and what might keep them there. To find out, you could: A. Conduct a survey-then try to guess who said what. B. Take note of their latest tattoos. Is your company logo among them? C. Ask, "What will keep you here?" The correct answer is C. It's the opening line of a great stay interview,...
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"When so many enterprises have the strategic goal of maximizing product value to customers, changing their project management office (PMO) into a value management office (VMO) will help them do it"--
When so many enterprises have the strategic goal of maximizing product value to customers, changing their project management office (PMO) into a value management office (VMO) will help them do it. Because of the widespread adoption of agile methods in...
10) The new leadership literacies: thriving in a future of extreme disruption and distributed everything
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"A rapid and massively disruptive shift from centralized to distributed organizations has already begun. But current leadership practices were designed for large centralized organizations, making them increasingly obsolete. Bob Johansen, who has been projecting future trends from Silicon Valley since 1968, outlines five literacies leaders need to develop to cope with this brave new world. Johansen says leaders must project into the future themselves...
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Speakers and author of the bestselling books Maximum Achievement and The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success, offers 21 proven strategies that will give you a competitive edge in selecting and keeping excellent people. Concise, handy, quick to read and easy to apply, from corner cubicle to corporate suite, managers today say their biggest concern is the competition for talent. The critical constraint on the growth and success of any...
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Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work ForA Guide for New LeadersCopublished with the Center for Creative LeadershipBecoming a leader for the first time is one of the biggest and most stressful psychological and emotional shifts you will ever experience. You're suddenly given an important job that has almost nothing in common with what you've been trained to do. It's as though, at the age of sixteen, your parents said "You ride a bike so well you might...
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Organizations face problems today that are too messy and complicated for consultants to simply play doctor: run a few tests, offer a neat diagnosis of the 'problem,' and recommend a solution. With the pace of change accelerating and globalization and specialization adding new layers of complexity, there is no time for diagnoses. Canned answers from outsiders have become useless. Well-meaning consultants often end up working on the wrong problem, misunderstanding...
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Read hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Loppℓ́ℓs perennially popular blog, Rands in Repose. The Third Edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing saga of Lopp's adventures in Silicon Valley,...
17) How Performance Management Is Killing Performance-and What to Do About It: Rethink, Redesign, Reboot
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Rethink, Redesign, Reboot. Most people associate performance management with the annual review, which is universally dreaded by employees, management, and HR professionals alike. It's a cookie-cutter, fear-based, top-down approach that emphasizes negatives over positives and stifles healthy career conversations. It's never been shown to motivate anyone to do anything but try to avoid it, but nobody feels like they have any alternative. Tamra Chandler...
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What do you do when the biggest threat to your project is your boss? It's not that your boss is out to get you. In fact, bosses generally mean well. But clueless leadership from a well-intentioned boss can sometimes cause more damage than a criminal mastermind tying your project to the railroad tracks. The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up provides refreshingly practical and candid insight into the best practices and techniques that project managers...
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Where do teams go wrong? Having the right people with the right skills doesn't mean they'll know how to work together as a team. David and Mary Sherwin maintain it's all in the design. Through a blend of straightforward activities, conversational stories, and dialogues that help model different forms of team interaction, this book will help teams: *Create workday rituals that aid them in making better decisions and following through on their work...
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The complete guide to human resources processes, issues, and best practices by two of the most seasoned and respected HR professionals.
Managing people is the biggest challenge any organization faces. It's a challenge that has grown even more difficult over the past decade. Since The Big Book of HR was first published, we've seen dramatic changes in the workplace and the workforce. This 10th anniversary edition incorporates discussions and reflections...
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