Download or read book Backbonology written by David P. Bugay Ph.D. and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership means having a backbone, and there’s nothing better to illustrate its detailed framework than the actual vertebrae of the human spine. David P. Bugay, PhD, also known as “Doc D,” drives that simple concept home in this guidebook that will help leaders and everyday people make tough decisions. The author draws on many of his own experiences to share coaching suggestions—and his words are so clear and concise that you’ll be able to engage in the behavior he suggests. Learn how to: · improve the way you show up to the world every day; · develop strength, power, integrity, and compassion; and · harness natural strengths in making decisions. Our workplace has radically changed in recent decades, and concerns about employee engagement, productivity, and well-being has placed a premium on selecting and developing leaders. Be the leader you’ve always wanted to be by learning the lessons in Backbonology.

Download or read book The Riches of This Land written by Jim Tankersley and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class decline and points the way to its revival. For over a decade, Jim Tankersley has been on a journey to understand what the hell happened to the world's greatest middle-class success story -- the post-World-War-II boom that faded into decades of stagnation and frustration for American workers. In The Riches of This Land, Tankersley fuses the story of forgotten Americans-- struggling women and men who he met on his journey into the travails of the middle class-- with important new economic and political research, providing fresh understanding how to create a more widespread prosperity. He begins by unraveling the real mystery of the American economy since the 1970s - not where did the jobs go, but why haven't new and better ones been created to replace them. His analysis begins with the revelation that women and minorities played a far more crucial role in building the post-war middle class than today's politicians typically acknowledge, and policies that have done nothing to address the structural shifts of the American economy have enabled a privileged few to capture nearly all the benefits of America's growing prosperity. Meanwhile, the "angry white men of Ohio" have been sold by Trump and his ilk a theory of the economy that is dangerously backward, one that pits them against immigrants, minorities, and women who should be their allies. At the culmination of his journey, Tankersley lays out specific policy prescriptions and social undertakings that can begin moving the needle in the effort to make new and better jobs appear. By fostering an economy that opens new pathways for all workers to reach their full potential -- men and women, immigrant or native-born, regardless of race -- America can once again restore the upward flow of talent that can power growth and prosperity.

Download or read book To Shape a New World written by Tommie Shelby and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cast of distinguished contributors engage critically with Martin Luther King's understudied writings on labor and welfare rights, voting rights, racism, civil disobedience, nonviolence, economic inequality, poverty, love, just-war theory, virtue ethics, political theology, imperialism, nationalism, reparations, and social justice

Download or read book Negotiation Readings Exercises and Cases written by Roy Lewicki and published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiation is a critical skill needed for effective management. NEGOTIATION: READINGS EXERCISES, AND CASES, 5/e takes an experiential approach and explores the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation, and the dynamics of interpersonal and inter-group conflict and its resolution. It is relevant to a broad spectrum of management students, not only human resource management or industrial relations candidates. It contains approximately 50 readings, 32 exercises, 9 cases and 5 questionnaires.

Download or read book Zombie Dearest written by Doc D. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This poem book seeks to grab the young person's imagination as Shel Silverstein does with Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends. It opens with an explanation from two good zombie doctors, who were transformed in a laboratory accident into zombies, that they want a poem book for their grandchildren to read one day. They want their grandchildren children to be prepared for the strange things of the world, those things that go bump in the night like Trolls, Zombie Bunnies or even Dark Sharks. The poems that follow grab children's imagination with wild illustrations that live up to be fun, zany, crazy poems. Zombie poems run amok with poems titles like Zombies, Zombies Everywhere, Princess Zombie-rella, Cold Slushy Zombie, Zombie Yogurt Dude, Zombified Football and even Zombie Dog. There are wild poems like Attack of the Wild Dust Bunnies, Drunken Monkeys, Worms in the Pancakes, Invisible Kid, Ducks in Gangs, Turtle Lost in the Roasting Pan. There are whimsical poems like Easter Squirrel, Gross Brothers, Belly Button Popped, Billy's Giant Ball of Ear Wax and Talking Animal Crackers. These poems promise to make young ones freak out, gross out and laugh out loud.

Download or read book The Naked Turtle Dances written by Doc D. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poem, The Naked Turtle Dances, opens up to a book of over a hundred sensitive, yet positive poetry. Doc D's poems, which have appeared in many magazines, and he brings them together along with new material in a volume for a cross-section of poetry for everyday life. Graphic images accompany the imagery of the poems grouped by categories to relate with how we live. He opens with poems on the Love of Life with poems like, It's Not the Wrapper, Just Call me an American and Angels in Fur. He shifts to Poems About Victory to reach the champions within ourselves with titles like Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda, The Triumph of the Moment, and Undiscovered Country. Munchkins and Children touch parenting with titles such as Time is a Thief, growing up with Warrior of the Outfield, and about true motherhood with Mama Bear. In Poems About the Soul the poems like, 2 B Free, Never 4 Free touches our freedom, Earth Lease touches the world around us and Naked Reflections touches our inner world of the soul. In Poems about Eternity and Spirit no holds are barred as Doc D opens with My Faith is Soiled by my Religion, then moves into The Good Samaritan's Neighbor, discusses the Measure of a Man and how our world is Chasms Apart. He even dives into poems about the irrational part of us all such as Speech-A-Phobia and Height Fright before he jumps into Poems on the Human Condition. There he brings the everyday life to the Human Condition with poems like Withered Roses, Uglies, Unchallenged Life and even includes a poem about the Pain of Pain. Poems about Life at Work keep in the everyday life scenario as Doc D explores with poems like the Corporate Beatitudes, Bite the Hand and those wonderful work relations some of us have like Crocs and Snakes. These are all topped off with poems about food like Pie, Steak and Doc D's personal obsession with Cr�me Brulee. The poems close on a style unique to Doc D with Audience Participation Poems where a stanza is read and the audience has a responsorial line. He has a series for every month of the year for various holidays. These range from the Ode to Punxsutawney Phil for Groundhog's Day to the somber on Hug a Vet for Veteran's Day and even a graduation poem, Go Forth and Be Awesome. The Naked Turtle Dances, Poems for Everyday Life brings positive poetry that relates into our lives on a daily basis.

Download or read book Essentials of Negotiation written by Roy J. Lewicki and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Managing for the Future written by Peter Drucker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging, future-oriented book is sure to number among the most important and influential business books of the decade. Drucker writes with penetrating insight about the critical issues facing managers in the 1990s: the world economic order; people at work; new trends in management and the governance of organizations.

Download or read book Humanocracy written by Gary Hamel and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal Bestseller In a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring. Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish and timid. In the age of upheaval, top-down power structures and rule-choked management systems are a liability. They crush creativity and stifle initiative. As leaders, employees, investors, and citizens, we deserve better. We need organizations that are bold, entrepreneurial, and as nimble as change itself. Hence this book. In Humanocracy, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. Drawing on more than a decade of research and packed with practical examples, Humanocracy lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are as inspired and ingenious as the human beings inside them. Critical building blocks include: Motivation: Rallying colleagues to the challenge of busting bureaucracy Models: Leveraging the experience of organizations that have profitably challenged the bureaucratic status quo Mindsets: Escaping the industrial age thinking that frustrates progress Mobilization: Activating a pro-change coalition to hack outmoded management systems and processes Migration: Embedding the principles of humanocracy—ownership, markets, meritocracy, community, openness, experimentation, and paradox—in your organization's DNA If you've finally run out of patience with bureaucratic bullshit . . . If you want to build an organization that can outrun change . . . If you're committed to giving every team member the chance to learn, grow, and contribute . . . . . . then this book's for you. Whatever your role or title, Humanocracy will show you how to launch an unstoppable movement to equip and empower everyone in your organization to be their best and to do their best. The ultimate prize: an organization that's fit for the future and fit for human beings.

Download or read book The 360 Degree Leader Workbook written by John C. Maxwell and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2006-09-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The 360 Degree Leader Workbook, Maxwell addresses that very question and takes the discussion even further. You don't have to be the main leader, asserts Maxwell, to make significant impact in your organization. Good leaders are not only capable of leading their followers but are also adept at leading their superiors and their peers. Debunking myths and shedding light on the challenges, John Maxwell offers specific principles for Leading Down, Leading Up, and Leading Across. 360-Degree Leaders can lead effectively, regardless of their position in an organization. By applying Maxwell's principles, you will expand your influence and ultimately be a more valuable team member.

Download or read book Leadership by Algorithm written by David De Cremer and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With artificial intelligence on the rise, the way we run our organisations will change—and drastically. But what exactly will that future look like? And who will take the leading role: machines or people? In this compelling new book, leading management guru David De Cremer identifies the key areas where algorithms will collide with human skills, and assesses the likely outcomes. Will your next boss be a robot? Can an AI boss display the human qualities that define a good leader: compassion, empathy, imagination, ethics, and strategic awareness? Drawing on his own research findings, and those from thought leaders around the world, the author presents fascinating insights into the challenges that an automated work environment poses for organisations of the future. Leadership by Algorithm offers some startling conclusions that make clear the true nature of the power struggle between man and machine. It also identifies the leadership qualities needed to deal with this struggle most effectively.

Download or read book Leadership and Self deception written by The Arbinger Institute and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why self-deception is at the heart of many leadership problems, identifying destructive patterns that undermine the successes of potentially excellent professionals while revealing how to improve teamwork, communication, and motivation. Reprint.

Download or read book You re About to Make a Terrible Mistake written by Olivier Sibony and published by Swift Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A masterful introduction to the state of the art in managerial decision-making. Surprisingly, it is also a pleasure to read' – Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow A lively, research-based tour of nine common decision-making traps – and practical tools for avoiding them – from a professor of strategic thinking We make decisions all the time. It's so natural that we hardly stop to think about it. Yet even the smartest and most experienced among us make frequent and predictable errors. So, what makes a good decision? Should we trust our intuitions, and if so, when? How can we avoid being tripped up by cognitive biases when we are not even aware of them? You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake! offers clear and practical advice that distils the latest developments in behavioural economics and cognitive psychology into actionable tools for making clever, effective decisions in business and beyond.

Download or read book Principle Centered Leadership written by Stephen R. Covey and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational and practical guide to leadership from the New York Times–bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Covey, named one of Time magazine’s 25 Most Influential Americans, is a renowned authority on leadership, whose insightful advice has helped millions. In his follow-up to The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, he poses these fundamental questions: How do we as individuals and organizations survive and thrive amid tremendous change? Why are efforts to improve falling so short in real results? How do we unleash the creativity, talent, and energy within ourselves and others? Is it realistic to believe that balance among personal and professional life is possible? The key to dealing with the challenges that we face is to identify a principle-centered core within ourselves and our institutions. In Principle-Centered Leadership, Covey outlines a long-term, inside-out approach to developing people and organizations. Offering insights and guidelines on how to apply these principles both at work and at home, Covey posits that these steps will lead not only to an increase in productivity and quality of work, but also to a new appreciation of personal and professional relationships as we strive to enjoy a more balanced, rewarding, and ultimately more effective life. “There seems to be no limit to the number of writers offering answers to the great perplexities of life. Covey, however, is the North Star in this field . . . without hesitation, strongly recommended.” —Library Journal

Download or read book Leading the Starbucks Way 5 Principles for Connecting with Your Customers Your Products and Your People written by Joseph Michelli and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lead Your Business the Starbucks Way Foreword by Herve Humler, President and COO, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. One of the best-recognized and admired brands in the world, Starbucks singlehandedly transformed the ordinary delivery of coffee into a cultural phenomenon--a result of the company’s exemplary leadership practices. Joseph Michelli, author of the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and BusinessWeek bestseller The Starbucks Experience, explains that the international success of Starbucks begins with a promise: To inspire and nurture the human spirit--one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time. Michelli offers a perspective on the leadership principles that drove the iconic coffee company’s resurgence from serious setbacks during the economic downturn--one of the few true turnaround stories of this time. And the company continues to grow dramatically, entering new markets and channels with fresh products and technologies. In Leading the Starbucks Way, Michelli establishes five actionable principles that fuel long-term global sustainability at Starbucks and that can be used in any company, in any industry: Savor and Elevate Love to Be Loved Reach for Common Ground Mobilize the Connection Cherish and Challenge Your Legacy Leading the Starbucks Way is a penetrating look at the inner workings of one of today’s most successful brands. The company gave Michelli one-on-one access to a variety of employees (called partners) to write this book--from baristas to senior leaders, including Howard Schultz, chairman, president, and chief executive officer. In short, success is all about loving your product, loving your customers, and loving your employees. Sincerely. Without fail. Even in the face of business challenges. Praise for Leading the Starbucks Way “Michelli shows us how a small Seattle-based chain of coffee shops became one of the most beloved brands on the planet. So grab a cup of coffee, put your feet up, and read this book!” Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and Leading at a Higher Level “Culture is everything! This fast-moving, fascinating book gives you countless practical ideas you can use immediately to create a company climate of inspiration and loyalty.” Brian Tracy, author of Full Engagement “Michelli identifies the principles by which Howard Schultz and his team passionately perform in a culture that loves, respects, and rewards suppliers, employees, customers, shareholders, and the community.” Robert Spector, author of The Nordstrom Way “Leading the Starbucks Way provides the key success factors of a lifestyle brand that is globally scaled, locally relevant, and powered by the passion of the Starbucks culture.” John Timmerman, PhD, Senior Strategist of Customer Experience and Innovation, Gallup "Organizational consultant Michelli serves up a new helping of the recipe for business success he offered in The Starbucks Experience." Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book The Human Factor written by Graham Miller and published by Miller West Family Trust. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines how you can take the lessons learned in the aviation industry and apply these in your organisation to improve organisational resilience and performance, reduce errors and utilise the full potential of your people.

Download or read book Lead Yourself First written by Raymond M. Kethledge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the role of solitude in good leadership, including profiles of historical and contemporary figures who have used solitude to lead with courage, creativity, and strength. Throughout history, leaders have used solitude as a matter of course. Eisenhower wrote memoranda to himself during World War II as a way to think through complex problems. Martin Luther King found moral courage while sitting alone at his kitchen table one night during the Montgomery bus boycott. Jane Goodall used her intuition in the jungles of Central Africa while learning how to approach chimps. Solitude is a state of mind, a space where you can focus on your own thoughts without distraction, with a power to bring mind and soul together in clear-eyed conviction. Like a great wave that saturates everything in its path, however, handheld devices and other media now leave us awash with the thoughts of others. We are losing solitude without even realizing it. To find solitude today, a leader must make a conscious effort. This book explains why the effort is worthwhile and how to make it. Through gripping historical accounts and firsthand interviews with a wide range of contemporary leaders, Raymond Kethledge (a federal court of appeals judge) and Michael Erwin (a West Pointer and three-tour combat veteran) show how solitude can enhance clarity, spur creativity, sustain emotional balance, and generate the moral courage necessary to overcome adversity and criticism. Anyone who leads anyone-including oneself-can benefit from solitude. With a foreword by Jim Collins (author of the bestseller Good to Great), Lead Yourself First is a rallying cry to reclaim solitude-and all the benefits, both practical and sublime, that come with it.