"Building a workplace culture that maximizes employee engagement, performance, and retention for long-term business success Workplace culture is critical, and evidence suggests that it's a top driver of fiscal performance. Since 1998, organizations on Fortune's "Best Companies to Work For" list have outperformed the S & P index two-to-one and garnered nearly three times the cumulative stock market return. Great Mondays identifies the six key components...

"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...

The People Equation Every business leader knows that the key to growth is innovation{u2014}if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got. Deborah Perry Piscione and David Crawley argue that ultimately the key to innovation is people. After all, creativity is a uniquely human function, something that can't be automated. So how do you design an organization so that it provides the elements that will bear new thinking and bring...

"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"--

New research based on MIT SMR's Culture 500 and employees' Glassdoor ratings of their employers identifies the five most common elements of toxic workplace cultures as disrespectful, noninclusive, unethical, cutthroat, and abusive. The authors discuss how unhealthy work environments negatively affect both employees and their employers and how organizations stand to benefit when they identify and address toxic elements in their cultures.

Learn to deal with difficult employee demands, navigate layoffs, address the gender pay gap, protect your time and wellbeing, and discover what candidates really think about recruitment processes. People Ops is a collection of candid lessons, stories, and principles in leadership, people, and culture from startup environments. It reveals the hard truths and sometimes uncomfortable realities that we all know exist but struggle to articulate. For decades,...

Providing proven methods that will assist you in achieving your goals and differentiating your organization; this book helps you visualize exactly how these work?so you can start putting them into action right away. --

"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...