Jossey Bass imprint: 1362 books
by Amy C. Edmondson
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key insights on teaming, as they pertain to innovation. How do you build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look like? How does it evolve and grow?...
Team Building
Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
TEAM BUILDING
Now in its fifth edition, Team Building is a classic in the field of organization development. In this new edition, the authors strengthen the Four Cs framework that was introduced in the fourth edition and add a wealth of new illustrative examples, a chapter on the challenges...
Leadership Conversations
Challenging High Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Conversation techniques and tools that can help strong managers become great leaders
Often the very same skills and traits that enable rising stars to achieve success "tenacity, aggressiveness, self-confidence" become liabilities when promoted into a leadership track. While managers'...
Getting Change Right
How Leaders Transform Organizations from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
An innovative communication method for making change happen in any organization
Getting Change Right presents a new view of leadership communication that says change doesn't flow top-down, bottom-up, or sideways, but inside-out. This is how change spreads through a complex system successfully-the...
The Credible Company
Communicating with a Skeptical Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
In The Credible Company, communication expert Roger D?Aprix provides a logical and tested strategy to inform skeptical employees in a time of turbulent change. With information being the lifeblood of today?s intellectual-capital assembly line, D?Aprix explains, the internal communication task has...
Answering the Ultimate Question
How Net Promoter Can Transform Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Fred Reichheld's 2006 book The Ultimate Question, that question being, "How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?"-challenged the conventional wisdom of customer satisfaction programs. It coined the terms 'bad profits' and 'good profits' and pointed...
Driving Results Through Social Networks
How Top Organizations Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Driving Results Through Social Networks shows executives and managers how to obtain substantial performance and innovation impact by better leveraging these traditionally invisible assets. For the past decade, Rob Cross and Robert J. Thomas have worked closely with executives from over a hundred top-level...
Talent
Making People Your Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
The source of competitive advantage has shifted in many organizations from reliability to innovation and flexibility. But what does it take for an organization that innovates to then manage effectively? In this follow-up to Built to Change, Ed Lawler argues that it is a combination of the right structure...
Leadership-Driven HR
Transforming HR to Deliver Value for the Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Presents a new vision for HR's role in business
Focusing on strategic solutions for HR, Leadership-Driven HR challenges the traditional view of HR as a service function and replaces it with a new vision of HR as an internal business accountable for the return on investment of essential corporate...
Optimizing Organization Design
A Proven Approach to Enhance Financial Performance, Customer Satisfaction and Employee Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Optimizing Organization Design offers a comprehensive resource and valued guide for anyone interested in improving organization performance. The book presents an approach to optimizing organization design that is based on over 100 large scale projects and 23 research studies that have been completed...
Leading Organization Design
How to Make Organization Design Decisions to Drive the Results You Want
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Praise for Leading Organization Design
"Designing organizations for performance can be a daunting task. Kesler and Kates have done an admirable job distilling the inherent complexity of the design process into manageable parts that can yield tangible results. Leading Organization Design...
Designing Your Organization
Using the STAR Model to Solve 5 Critical Design Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Designing Your Organization is a hands-on guide that provides managers with a set of practical tools to use when making organization design decisions. Based on Jay Galbraith’s widely used Star Model, the book covers the fundamentals of organization design and offers frameworks and tools to help...
Bridging Organization Design and Performance
Five Ways to Activate a Global Operation Model
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Five practical steps to enhance organization effectiveness on a global scale
Bridging Organization Design and Performance is a handbook for leaders looking to enhance the success of their organizations and themselves. Companies that compete globally require organizational operating models as...
The Truth About Employee Engagement
A Fable About Addressing the Three Root Causes of Job Misery
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
The Truth About Employee Engagement was originally published as The Three Signs of a Miserable Job.
A bestselling author and business guru tells how to improve job satisfaction and performance.
In his sixth fable, bestselling author Patrick Lencioni takes on a topic that almost everyone...