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Creative Conspiracy
The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Embracing the Counterintuitive Side of Collaboration
Think of your to-do list at work. Chances are the most important tasks require you to work with others-and the success of those endeavors depends on the effectiveness of your collaboration.
According to management expert Leigh Thompson,...
The Many Faces of Josephine Baker
Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
A complete biographical look at the complex life of a world-famous entertainer
With determination and audacity, Josephine Baker turned her comic and musical abilities into becoming a worldwide icon of the Jazz Age. The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy provides...
8 Steps to High Performance
Focus On What You Can Change (Ignore the Rest)
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
What Really Works
There's no shortage of advice out there on how to perform better, and better than others, at work. The problem is knowing which methods are actually proven to work--and how you should act on them to get the best results.
In 8 Steps to High Performance, talent expert...
Getting Unstuck
A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
You will experience psychological impasse many times in your life. During these times, you have the sensation that you’re stuck or paralyzed. You’re convinced that something must change, whether in your work or personal life. Though this feeling is normal, you need to move beyond it. Failure to...
Innovation as Usual
How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Turn team members into innovators
Most organizations approach innovation as if it were a sideline activity. Every so often employees are sent to Brainstorm Island”: an off-site replete with trendy lectures, creative workshops, and overenthusiastic facilitators. But once they return, it’s...
by Heidi Grant Halvorson
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Have you ever felt you’re not getting through to the person you’re talking to, or not coming across the way you intend? You’re not alone.
That’s the bad news. But there is something we can do about it. Heidi Grant Halvorson, social psychologist and bestselling author, explains why we’re...
The First Mile
A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas into the Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
You have a great idea, now what?
That first mile-where an innovation moves from an idea on paper to the market-is often plagued by failure. In fact, less than one percent of ideas launched by big companies end up having real impact. The ideas aren’t the problem. It’s the process.
The...
by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Praise for Foster and Magdoffs The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination...
by Joshua Gans
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Stewart Brand famously declared, Information wants to be free.” Except he didn’t (not really). And it doesn’t.
Information is much more complicated than that. What information really wants-what makes it more valuable, useful, and immediate, Joshua Gans argues-is to be shared.
Using...
Changing Your Company from the Inside Out
A Guide for Social Intrapreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
MAKE YOUR COMPANY A FORCE FOR GOOD
You’re ambitious. You’re not afraid to take risks. You want to bring about positive social change. And while your peers have left a trail of failed start-ups in their wake, you want to initiate change from within an established company, where you can have...
Sense and Respond
How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The End of Assembly Line Management
We’re in the midst of a revolution. Quantum leaps in technology are enabling organizations to observe and measure people’s behavior in real time, communicate internally at extraordinary speed, and innovate continuously. These new, software-driven technologies...
Better Under Pressure
How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Most business leaders can take only so much pressure before their performance slides. Yet some CEOs deliver their greatest successes when times get toughest-when customers’ preferences are shifting away from a company’s products, when new regulations are shrinking profit margins, when political...
Creating Great Choices
A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Move Beyond Trade-Off Thinking
When it comes to our hardest choices, it can seem as though making trade-offs is inevitable. But what about those crucial times when accepting the obvious trade-off just isn't good enough? What do we do when the choices in front of us don't get us what we need?...
What's Your Digital Business Model?
Six Questions to Help You Build the Next-Generation Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Digital transformation is not about technology--it's about change.
In the rapidly changing digital economy, you can't succeed by merely tweaking management practices that led to past success. And yet, while many leaders and managers recognize the threat from digital--and the potential opportunity--they...