Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
Project Decisions
The Art and Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Project management is the art of making the right decisions. To be effective as a project manager, you must know how to make rational choices in project management, what processes can help you to improve these choices, and what tools are available to help you through the decision-making process. Project...
True Alignment
Linking Company Culture with Customer Needs for Extraordinary Results
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Companies live or die based on their ability to communicate and deliver on the promise their brand makes to its customers. But if that message is varied, or added to, or even unknown by a single member of the team, the resulting inefficiency, conflict, and disengagement will cripple a company’s...
Backstabbers and Bullies
How to Cope with the Dark Side of People at Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
The idea of leadership failure and derailment has been brushed under the carpet for far too long and only now are statistics appearing on the sheer number of leaders who fail at their jobs. Backstabbers and Bullies provides the latest psychiatric and clinical perspectives on dark-side behaviour, including:
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Immunity to Change
How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation aren't enough: even when it's literally a matter of life or death, the ability to change remains maddeningly...
by Jeanne Meister, Kevin J. Mulcahy
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal Winner
DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES. THE GIG ECONOMY. BREADWINNER MOMS. DATA-DRIVEN RECRUITING. PERSONALIZED LEARNING.
In a business landscape rocked by constant change and turmoil, companies like Airbnb, Cisco, GE Digital, Google, IBM, and Microsoft...
Kennzeichen des Verwaltungshandelns im Hinblick auf seinen Dienstleistungscharakter
Worin bestehen die Unterschiede zum gewerblichen Dienstleistungsbetrieb?
Language: German
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Organisation und Verwaltung, Note: 1,3, Universität Kassel, Veranstaltung: Verwaltungsmarketing, 8 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Verfasser beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema des Verwaltungshandelns im Hinblick auf seien...
Reinventing Dell
The Innovation Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
“Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.” — Tom Martin, former VP of marketing
Dell...
The Good Struggle
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Leadership is struggle
The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world. In this book, Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways.
Leaders...
Searching for a Corporate Savior
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true...
by M. LeClair
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The already vibrant charitable sector in the US is in the midst of a transformation that is altering both the manner in which donations occur and the causes that are supported. Philanthropy in Transition examines the unique role that charitable giving has played in the US, from colonial times to the...
Mindful Management
The Neuroscience of Trust and Effective Worplace Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book is about the power of our rational and emotional minds in our work lives. It demonstrates the essential interconnection between them for motivating us to work and for making us effective leaders. Using the metaphor of the Rider for the rational mind and the Elephant for our emotional mind,...
The Talent Wave
Why Succession Planning Fails and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
If succession planning works, how do the wrong people so often get to the top? Succession planning was once the key to identifying potential leaders to fill important positions. However, in today's rapidly evolving business world traditional succession planning is no longer a viable strategy with...
The Coaching Organization
A Strategy for Developing Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
The Coaching Organization: A Strategy for Developing Leaders is the only book to provide practical advice on how a company can strategically manage coaching initiatives that strengthen organizations and enhance employee engagement and growth. Authors James M. Hunt and Joseph R. Weintraub offer best...
Union Organizing
Campaigning for trade union recognition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
After many years of indifferent decline, trade union membership is now being revitalized; strategies known as ‘union organizing’ are being used to recruit and re-energize unions around the globe. This book considers exactly how trade unions are working to do this and provides a much-needed evaluation...