Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Organisational theory is vitally relevant to today's student of business. Understanding Business Organisations introduces the student to classic debates and new perspectives on organisations through a wide ranging but approachable selection of readings.
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* considers why organisations matter...
The Spaces of Organisation and the Organisation of Space
Power, Identity and Materiality at Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
This book examines the role and utilization of workplace 'space': how it is organized; how it can reflect organisational values; how it can affect employee identities; and the many ways in which the physical environment can influence and affect organisational goals, especially in areas such as commitment, creativity and innovation.
The Star Factor
Discover What Your Top Performers Do Differently--and Inspire a New Level of Greatness in All
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
As much as we may encourage our employees that they all have their own unique strengths that they need to embrace for the good of the business, the truth is a select few produce more, sell more, and flat-out deliver better results than anyone else. And many days, if we’re honest, we wish we had...
How to Kill a Unicorn
How the World's Hottest Innovation Factory Builds Bold Ideas That Make It to Market
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
A unique behind-the-scenes look at the groundbreaking methodology that today's most in-demand innovation factory uses to create some of the boldest products and successfully bring them to market.
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Today, innovation is seen by business leaders and the media alike as the key to growth, a burning...
Change is Your Competitive Advantage
Strategies for Adapting, Transforming, and Succeeding in the New Business Reality
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2009
Organizations today face a stark choice: change or fail. Transformation has become the only constant of the business landscape, and those companies that cannot adapt are doomed. But Karl Schoemer's New Reality program is here to help businesses make the tough choices that will lead to success. This...
Leadership Is Language
The Hidden Power of What You Say--and What You Don't
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
From the acclaimed author of Turn the Ship Around!, former US Navy Captain David Marquet, comes a radical new playbook for empowering your team to make better decisions and take greater ownership.
You might imagine that an effective leader is someone who makes quick, intelligent decisions,...
The Five Temptations of a CEO, 10th Anniversary Edition
A Leadership Fable
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A commemorative edition of the landmark book from Patrick Lencioni When it was published ten years ago, The Five Temptations of a CEO was like no other business book that came before. Highly sought-after management consultant Patrick Lencioni deftly told the tale of a young CEO who, facing his first...
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...
Intrapreneurship
Managing Ideas Within Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
As an employee, you suspect that your best ideas are valuable and could greatly benefit your organization. Management also recognizes that a company's ability to compete is contingent on how well it leverages its employees' ideas. So, why are individuals at all levels of organizations typically poor...
The End of Competitive Advantage
How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Are you at risk of being trapped in an uncompetitive business?
Chances are the strategies that worked well for you even a few years ago no longer deliver the results you need. Dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional approaches to strategy and the way the...
Turning Goals into Results (Harvard Business Review Classics)
The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Most executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. But they install layers of stultifying bureaucracy that prevent them from realizing it. In this article, Jim Collins introduces the catalytic mechanism, a simple yet powerful managerial tool that helps turn lofty aspirations into reality. The crucial...
by David Dunkerley
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In this introduction for undergraduate students, the author surveys the development of the study of organizations from an historical point of view. He studies organizations within the framework of the main schools of thought, looks into the various levels of analysis involved, and considers the influence...
Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society
Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Since the dawn of the digital era, the transfer of knowledge has shifted from analog to digital, local to global, and individual to social. Complex networked communities are a fundamental part of these new information-based societies. Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices...
Dynamic Strategy-Making
A Real-Time Approach for the 21st Century Leader
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Praise for Dynamic Strategy-Making
"An astonishingly timely, hopeful, and important book that recasts and freshly imagines strategy-making and integrates theory with practice in the field of strategic management. A must-read for all those who want to learn more about the future of strategy...