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2011.
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"Most startups are built to fail. But those failures, according to entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. Startups don't fail because of bad execution, or missed deadlines, or blown budgets. They fail because they are building something nobody wants. Whether they arise from someone's garage or are created within a mature Fortune 500 organization, new ventures, by definition, are designed to create new products or services under conditions of extreme...
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2022.
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In True North: Emerging Leaders Edition, renowned leadership expert Bill George and Millennial tech entrepreneur Zach Clayton issue the challenge to emerging leaders--from Gen X to Millennials and Gen Z--to lead their organizations authentically through never-ending crises to make this world a better place for everyone. Emerging leaders do so by discovering their "True North"--who they are--and then finding their "North Star"--their leadership purpose....
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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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2007
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English
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"This book is about everything it takes to build a workforce that's strange and extraordinary enough to execute your most powerful strategies and your unique value proposition. It's about understanding exactly how your workforce needs to be different; creating an end-to-end Strange Workforce Value Chain; implementing workforce systems that support your unique goals; and establishing detailed metrics based on what makes you unique, using those metrics...
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2022.
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Only 10% of job opportunities are filled with internal lateral hires -- which represents a missed opportunity for employers and employees alike. Existing workers' institutional knowledge can help them quickly contribute in their new roles. Workers can also gain new skills that align with their career goals, leading to increased retention. Based on their research, the authors offer four practical insights to help companies that are currently underutilizing...
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[2023]
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English
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Tackling the big, systemic challenges confronting many organizational business leaders will increasingly require strategizing across organizational boundaries, but doing so is more complex than making strategy within a single organization. The authors developed a new approach to collaborative strategy in working with a global public health organization. Lessons learned can help leaders in individual organizations work with others to achieve both shared...
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[2022]
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To leverage the immense opportunities associated with accelerating change, organizations need teams capable of trying new ideas quickly, learning from their experiences, and adapting based on that learning. Helping these teams to grow and thrive requires agile leaders who support, inspire, and encourage, and who can leave behind the management skills of directing, monitoring, and rewarding or punishing. The Professional Agile Leader is a realistic,...
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Reveals how a powerful goal-setting system can help any organization thrive, outlining objectives and key results as the most important factors to business success.
In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change...
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[2018]
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English
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"In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today." -- From Amazon.com summary. Fried and Hansson reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today. They believe the answer to better productivity...
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2005
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English
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Knowing how to partner effectively is critical for making performance interventions have a real impact on an organization. Improving workplace performance craves the ideas and support of many stakeholders. The importance of partnering is further illustrated by its inclusion in the ASTD Competency Model. But what is required to partner effectively? The Infoline, Performance Excellence Through Partnering, describes a set of critical success factors,...
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2021.
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Deutsch
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Jitske Kramer beschreibt in ihrem Buch aus einer anthropologischen Sicht die Auswirkungen eines durch Corona ausgelösten kollektiven Kulturschocks auf das Arbeitsleben. Gewohnte Routinen sind verschwunden und Unsicherheit sowie die Notwendigkeit, sich ständig anzupassen und zu verändern, sind an ihre Stelle getreten.Wie kann eine Unternehmenskultur an diesen neuen Kontext angepasst werden? Wie wird ein Team remote gesteuert? Wie wird die Verbindung...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat. From his first day at West Point, to his years in Afghanistan, to his efforts helping business leaders navigate a global pandemic, McChrystal has seen how individuals and organizations fail to mitigate risk. Why? Because they focus on the probability of something happening instead of the interface by which it can be managed. In this new book, General...
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2014.
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English
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"In Scaling Up Excellence, bestselling author Bob Sutton and Stanford colleague Huggy Rao tackle the topic that obsesses businesses large and small, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies--how to scale up their businesses and spread excellence throughout the organizational culture"--
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2022.
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English
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"People in the business world are struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing economy. Beset by transformational forces, managers are bombarded with a bewildering array of schemes for how to be a boss and make an organization tick. It's easy to be seduced by futurist fantasies where every company has the culture of a startup, where employees in wacky, whimsical office settings champion the end of old-fashioned corporate hierarchy. Autonomous employees...
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