Download or read book Pivot Disrupt Transform written by Marcia Daszko and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the status quo no longer works, the contrarian perspective reigns! In this innovative business how-to, leadership expert Marcia Daszko draws on her expertise to guide leaders at any level through a three-step process to radically improve their businesses: first, recognize and stop outmoded ways of thinking that fail to move the business forward (like focusing on the bottom line, conducting performance appraisals, and searching for best practices); second, start taking steps to introduce new, innovative ways of thinking and contrarian practices (such as developing leaders with the capacity to effect change, creating an interconnected team, and seeking knowledge through questions); and finally, transform your company into a more resilient, adaptive, and united organization. Recent studies have reported that 90% of start-ups will fail. In Silicon Valley alone, this means that more than 5,400 of the current 6,000 startups will flounder and disappear. But risky and cash-strapped start-ups are not the only corporate fatalities: More than 60% of the original Fortune 500 corporations no longer exist. Given these statistics, how can organizational leaders and their employees beat the odds and survive? The only solution is to question the usual business practices, re-think how to lead and inspire, challenge the accepted beliefs, and toss out the failures to accelerate business growth and profitability. Using Marcia's three-part stop, start, transform method, readers will learn to pursue significant untapped opportunities, achieve their organization's competitive edge, and pivot, disrupt, and adapt to unexpected levels of success.

Download or read book Pivot Points written by Julia Tang Peters and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Roadmap for Transforming Ambition into Achievement In the sea of thrown-together, stereotypical leadership advice, Julia Tang Peters’ Pivot Points stands out like a beacon. This book is not the result of trite 10-step recipes or unstudied observations. Instead, its source is in-depth research conducted among some of the country’s most effective leaders. Intimate interviews and broad survey data reveal that the leaders who stand out are the ones who fearlessly face the decisions that characterize career turning points. Amazingly, the people who break through barriers to transform industries encounter—and effectively confront—the same five critical decisions. In Pivot Points, you’ll read how five inspiring and approachable leaders made the choices that cemented their legacies. Pivot Points is a unique opportunity to learn from the leaders you should learn from—authentic, independent-minded people with a genuine desire to help others understand how to lead. Tools developed from their candid accounts will help you measure and assess your own career trajectory. With a self-diagnostic questionnaire based on the book’s unique framework, you’ll be able to identify warning signs of stagnation and sustain the passion to achieve. Gain practical insights from this valuable aid for professional development of high achievers in every career stage. Pivotal decisions can turn an ordinary career into an extraordinary journey to success. The journey is a highly individual one, and Pivot Points will inspire and guide you in the processes of finding your own path to exceptional results. Take a rare look into the process of shifting from the science of management to the art of leadership, and let this one-of-a-kind book propel you toward achieving your best self.

Download or read book Lead Like an Ally written by Julie Kratz and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lead Like an Ally facilitates positive change by including six leadership strategies, such as clean up the culture, stretch talent equally, establish ally networks, manage meeting behavior, promote belonging, and measure success. Leaders, now more than ever, are wrestling with how to attract and retain diverse talent and be inclusive leaders. Despite the best of intentions, very few organizations are reaching their equality goals, even those deeply committed to diversity and inclusion. Leaders have the biggest impact on culture, yet they need tools to do this. Lead Like an Ally provides proven strategies, teaching leaders how to be inclusive with its companion manager tool kit to facilitate sustained success. Within its pages, Lead Like an Ally: Teaches leaders how to be inclusive through an entertaining fable Provides a window into the woman’s journey through Corporate America and the unique challenges women face Facilitates inclusive cultures with proven strategies for positive change Includes a manager tool kit and checklist to take action right away

Download or read book Pivot written by Alan R. Zimmerman and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHETHER YOU ARE struggling with your goals, unmotivated at work, burnt out on bad news, or just uninspired, a simple turn in attitude can make all the difference. In Pivot, Dr. Alan R. Zimmerman draws from his extensive experience as a performance consultant and speaker to reveal the crucial role that attitude plays in your success. Through Dr. Zimmerman's nine-step attitude revolution, you will -Evaluate your status quo -Choose your mental strategy -Curb the negativity blocking your success -Improve your confidence -Build stronger relationships -Experience an instant boost in enthusiasm -Make every day a successful day -Stop worrying -Overcome failure If it's time for a revolution in your life, Pivot can lead the way.

Download or read book Pivot Leadership written by Angela Lynne Craig and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Angela Craig offers practical steps for achieving the personal transformation required for leaders..." -Sally Helgesen - Author, The Female Vision, The Web of Inclusion, The Female Advantage Leadership is a part of every aspect of life. In Work Family And Community Maybe you are a person who leads a team or organization. Or a parent raising up the next generation of change makers. As a mentor, storyteller, or coach you may find yourself sharing your experience to help another to overcome obstacles or achieve their goals. You may also be a volunteer for a cause close to your heart. Regardless of where you work or play, it is easy to see how you are leading in more areas than you think you are. Your leadership has influence. That influence empowers people to move forward towards a common goal. As a wife, a mom, a team leader, coach, and minister I am constantly looking for and collecting tools for personal and professional growth. I want to impact the lives of others with my words and actions. That is why I wrote Pivot Leadership: Small Steps...Big Change & the Pivot Leadership: Training Companion. Pivot Leadership is an invitation for every leader who wants to leave their footprints in their organizations, their families and ultimately the world! Pivot Leadership: Training Companion will be your toolkit to fix, solve, create and plan personal and professional success! Pivot Leadership: Training Companion is packed FULL of exercises for personal growth and team building: Mission & Vision Planning Goal Setting Team Building Communication Skills Time Management Working with your Strengths Discovering Purpose Becoming Unstoppable And More... Pivot Leadership: Training Companion is meant to be presented in partnership with Pivot Leadership: Small Steps: Big Change. If utilized with a team, choose a facilitator for your meeting. As the facilitator, you may choose to read, Pivot Leadership: Small Step... Big Change on your own summaries the chapters for your team, client, or students before leading them through each chapter activity. Or as a team, you may desire to read Pivot Leadership: Small Steps...Big Change discussing it by chapter or by section depending on your timeline. Regardless of the path you take for facilitating, you can be assured that the Pivot Leadership training will create an environment where dialogue and reflection will lead to action and change. Individuals who are ready to propel their leadership into a life of meaning and full potential will find Pivot Leadership: Small Steps...Big Change the perfect guide and inspiration. Get ready for SMALL STEPS that will be the catalyst for BIG CHANGE in your personal and professional life!"

Download or read book The Four Pivots written by Shawn A. Ginwright, PhD and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reading this courageous book feels like the beginning of a social and personal awakening...I can’t stop thinking about it.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Atlas of the Heart For readers of Emergent Strategy and Dare to Lead, an activist's roadmap to long-term social justice impact through four simple shifts. We need a fundamental shift in our values--a pivot in how we think, act, work, and connect. Despite what we’ve been told, the most critical mainspring of social change isn’t coalition building or problem analysis. It’s healing: deep, whole, and systemic, inside and out. Here, Shawn Ginwright, PhD, breaks down the common myths of social movements--a set of deeply ingrained beliefs that actually hold us back from healing and achieving sustainable systemic change. He shows us why these frames don’t work, proposing instead four revolutionary pivots for better activism and collective leadership: Awareness: from lens to mirror Connection: from transactional to transformative relationships Vision: from problem-fixing to possibility-creating Presence: from hustle to flow Supplemented with reflections, prompts, cutting-edge research, and the author’s own insights and lived experience as an African American social scientist, professor, and movement builder, The Four Pivots helps us uncover our obstruction points. It shows us how to discover new lenses and boldly assert our need for connection, transformation, trust, wholeness, and healing. It gives us permission to create a better future--to acknowledge that a broken system has been predefining our dreams and limiting what we allow ourselves to imagine, but that it doesn’t have to be that way at all. Are you ready to pivot?

Download or read book Sell Yourself an Hour Every Day written by Jay Harrington and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's as important as it has ever been for lawyers to build profitable books of business, but it's harder to find the time to do so. Higher billable hour requirements, 24/7 connectedness, unceasing distractions, and increased competition all conspire to make business development a difficult endeavor. In Sell Yourself an Hour Every Day, lawyer, author, executive coach, and consultant to the legal industry Jay Harrington lays a step-by-step approach that successful lawyers use to motivate themselves and manage their attention so they have the time-and the mental and emotional strength-necessary to develop business. This book is not merely a collection of disparate and unrelated productivity tips or hacks. Rather, it lays out a comprehensive system that will: (1) challenge you to determine what you really desire out of your life and career, (2) prompt you to examine your limiting beliefs about what you're capable of accomplishing, and (3) provide you with fresh and unconventional ideas that will transform the way you think about productivity. By reading this book, you'll be armed with the knowledge and tools you need to prioritize the time necessary to build a profitable legal practice.

Download or read book Pivot to the Future written by Omar Abbosh and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proven, effective strategy for reinventing your business in the age of ever-present disruption Disruption by digital technologies? That's not a new story. But what is new is the "wise pivot," a replicable strategy for harnessing disruption to survive, grow, and be relevant to the future. It's a strategy for perpetual reinvention across the old, now, and new elements of any business. Rapid recent advances in technology are forcing leaders in every business to rethink long-held beliefs about how to adapt to emerging technologies and new markets. What has become abundantly clear: in the digital age, conventional wisdom about business transformation no longer works, if it ever did. Based on Accenture's own experience of reinventing itself in the face of disruption, the company's real world client work, and a rigorous two-year study of thousands of businesses across 30 industries, Pivot to the Future reveals methodical and bold moves for finding and releasing new sources of trapped value-unlocked by bridging the gap between what is technologically possible and how technologies are being used. The freed value enables companies to simultaneously reinvent their legacy, and current and new businesses. Pivot to the Future is for leaders who seek to turn the existential threats of today and tomorrow into sustainable growth, with the courage to understand that a wise pivot strategy is not a one-time event, but a commitment to a future of perpetual reinvention, where one pivot is followed by the next and the next.

Download or read book Pivot written by Joanne Soliday and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The news sure looks bad: rapidly shifting student demographics, the ever-increasing speed of technological innovation, and extreme legislative and public pressure are squeezing colleges and universities into a lose-lose race toward irrelevancy. Detailed in countless articles and books, the challenges faced by institutions of higher learning in the U.S. are varied and weighty. But higher education is far from doomed. It is at this inflection point in which independent colleges and universities have the opportunity to revolutionize higher education. It is time to pivot towards a new university, one that radically refocuses structure and pedagogy on students and their learning; reimagines the foundational institutional structures of leadership, tenure, and the higher education business model; and produces national examples for access and inclusion. In an industry notoriously slow to adapt and evolve, leaders of colleges and universities must act quickly and decisively, committing to a monumental shift to educate students for a world that we cannot yet see: a leap-frog into relevancy that higher education has never experienced. Authors Joanne Soliday and Dr. Mark Lombardi, with their combined decades in higher education leadership and consulting, explicate a picture of possibility for the future of independent colleges and universities, one rooted in the essential value of a liberal arts education that brings students to their highest potential. It is the critical reimagining of how that education is shaped that guides a vision for the new university.

Download or read book Pivot Leadership written by Angela Lynne Craig and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Angela Craig offers practical steps for achieving the personal transformation required for leaders..." -Sally Helgesen - Author, The Female Vision, The Web of Inclusion, The Female Advantage You were created for greatness! However, balancing the demands of leading in the ever changing fast-paced global marketplace can deplete the most seasoned leader of vision and the will to move forward. "Pivot Leadership: Small Steps...Big Change" challenges us as leaders to recall the vision and passion we have for our work, while empowering us to pivot our thinking. Angela Craig is on a quest to make you an effective powerful leader that will be unstoppable. A field guide of relevant research, "Pivot Leadership" is written for leaders, coaches, and educators who seek to take their organization, team, client, or student to the next level. Each chapter is carefully crafted with a combination of evidence based research, practical application, storytelling, and end of the chapter exercises created to propel any leader into a life of meaning and full potential both personally and professional. Leaders who are ready to transform their leadership will find "Pivot Leadership" the perfect guide and inspiration. Get ready for SMALL STEPS that will be the catalyst for BIG CHANGE in your personal and professional life!

Download or read book On Being a Pivot Wise Business Leader written by Lance Eliot and published by Lbe Press Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned thought leader, corporate executive, and entrepreneur, Dr. Lance B. Eliot, MBA, PhD, provides keen insights into what it takes to be a Pivot-Wise leader. Business pivots are crucial to today's firms. Business leaders need to be wise about how and when they seek to undertake a pivot. This book reveals the secrets of successful business pivots. Using insights from luminary founders and CEO's, you will find out how founders of Pandora, Box.com, Vizio, Hudson Jeans, Old Navy, KFC, and others well-known firms undertook both business and personal pivots by their top business leaders. With a focus on business leadership, you will discover numerous tools, techniques, methodology, heuristics, and an overarching paradigm of business leaders and pivoting that are provided. Using key diagrams and charts, this savvy treatment of pivots is quite innovative and thoroughly thought provoking.

Download or read book Reliable School Leadership written by Jeff Swensson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped between an encroaching tide of privatization and a rocky theoretical shore, educational leadership in America’s public schools is ardently researched and professionally practiced, but frequently besmirched and poorly understood. Despite the intentions of public educators to engage all students with the original power of education, disconnections caused by mandates, ideologies, and theoretical fuzziness render educational leadership unreliable. The capacities necessary for school leadership to function reliably on behalf of all students are well within the grasp of present-day public educators. But, the action or agency sufficient to enacting educational leadership reliably is on hold. Educational leadership throughout US public schools is submarined when disconnections and ideological misdirection impede the primary purpose and the moral obligation of public education. To fulfill the promises of public education and restore the intentions of educational leadership requires that educators, policymakers, and proponents of US public education reimagine the interconnections that yield the primary purpose and moral obligation of public education. Functional educational leadership is examined throughout this book as the agency necessary and sufficient for public education to discard the forces and factors that impose unreliability.

Download or read book The Pivot written by Lori Michele Leavitt and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great leaders orchestrate change to generate extraordinary momentum, and to never stall. The Pivot introduces four stages of a well-orchestrated Pivot, and identifies six Key Indicators to track, starting now, as you position for a performance breakthrough.

Download or read book Prep Push Pivot written by Octavia Goredema and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance your career with this insightful playbook for underrepresented women In Prep, Push, Pivot, award-winning career coach and author Octavia Goredema delivers an indispensable career coaching guide for women looking for a new job, dealing with job loss, pivoting to a new career, or returning to the workforce after an extended absence. You'll discover practical strategies you can implement at crucial times during your career, ensuring your considerable talents and skills are used to their full potential. In this important book, you'll: Discover your true worth, cement your career values, and carve out a realistic and aspirational career plan Learn how to position yourself for a promotion, navigate a break in your career, and integrate your role as a mother or caregiver with your professional life Deal with monumental career changes, contribute to the development of the women around you, and benefit from an array of professional resources in your journey forward Perfect for women who are ready to overcome any obstacles that await them, Prep, Push, Pivot is a thoughtful road map to help women chart their professional and personal success.

Download or read book Pivot written by Adam Markel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The successful CEO of the internationally renowned Peak Potentials who has trained thousands of people to find new jobs, careers, and directions shares his practical and inspirational program for reinventing yourself, whether you are out of work or want to change your professional trajectory. What would you do in your life if you knew you could not fail? That's the question answered in Pivot, a roadmap for embracing your true potential without abandoning your responsibilities or risking your future.

Download or read book The Business of People written by Iain Fraser and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business of People is purposefully focused on people. The book will assist you to develop and support yourself with your people leadership, knowledge, and skills. It is an opportunity to better manage yourself and lead others, including your organization, into the modern volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. It is also a sequel to the top-selling book The Business of Portfolio Management: Boosting Organizational Value. Authors Madeleine Taylor and Iain Fraser combine to give you the very best in knowledge and experience in a variety of situations. This is a book that cuts through the nonsense and presents real-world solutions for situations facing leaders today and tomorrow. Shifting from managing people to leading people requires a pivot...Leadership matters because the future is at greater risk without it. Regardless of where you are in your leadership journey I am confident this new book from Madeleine and Iain will be a valuable resource for you. Enjoy the journey, it never ends. —Mark A. Langley, Former President and CEO, Project Management Institute Iain and Madeleine are honest and raw about the challenges faced, and the resiliency needed, to lead in business. —Suzanne M. O’Gorman, Senior Strategic Business Architect, United Healthcare Group In a world where leadership increasingly requires emotional and cultural intelligence skills, this masterpiece couldn’t be any timelier. —Dr. Hilary Aza, Senior Portfolio Manager, Tarrant County, Texas Essential for anyone seeking to better understand their personal leadership and to inform further development. —Rob Loader, Executive, Capital Planning & Delivery, Telstra Corporation The book to me is written from a position of empowerment, cultural acknowledgment, hopefulness, and purpose. —Elissa Farrow, Founder, About Your Transition This book will challenge your own thinking and behaviour and give you an opportunity to develop your adaptability and leadership style for an evolving future. —Thomas Davis, GM, Corporate Services, Capital & Coast District Health Board, New Zealand

Download or read book Big Bet Leadership written by John Rossman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Executive Playbook to Lead Business Growth, Innovation and Transformation. The first leadership book for the age of artificial intelligence, equipping leaders with principles and tactics to achieve audacious outcomes and solve complex problems, while smartly managing the inherent risks of bold moves. Applying this playbook will impact your business and, just as critically, propel and protect your career as a bold transformational executive. Co-authored by John Rossman, author of The Amazon Way and Think Like Amazon, and Kevin McCaffrey, seasoned executives from Amazon, Google, and T-Mobile. This fast-moving book melds their direct leadership experiences with comprehensive research and authentic stories. Actionable insights include: Pinpointing Growth Opportunities: Identify your customer's primary frustrations and unmet needs with standout features, forming the foundation for sustainable business growth. Mastering Strategic Communication: Develop skills to ensure alignment, clarity, and vital stakeholder involvement through effective strategic communication. Prioritizing through High-Impact Experimentation: Implement cost-effective, swift, and impactful experimentation methods, utilizing memos and debates for maximum effect. Redefining Cost Models for Winning Business Models: Learn to innovate cost structures alongside improving customer experiences for a transformative impact on your business. Overcoming Inertia and Analysis Paralysis: Discover tactics to break free from conventional pace and decision-making traps by creating focused teams and unique operational environments. Maximizing Return on Effort: Craft a governance approach that provides high quality, timely signals for your strategic endeavors without the usual bureaucratic overhead. With your book purchase you also get a trove of resources including practical frameworks, real-world examples, a Big Bet journal, generative AI prompts , and a Big Bet GPT. These tools are designed to drive active integration of the principles of Big Bet Leadership in your business.