Download or read book Transforming the Clunky Organization written by Samuel B. Bacharach and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doldrums of inertia -- Leading for robust discovery -- Leading for focused delivery -- Conclusion : pragmatic leadership and the couch-potato organization

Download or read book The Agenda Mover written by Samuel B. Bacharach and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations, institutions, and individuals get stuck in spite of their innovative ideas and ambitious agendas. Never has the timing been better for a book that cuts through the theoretical jargon and delineates the exact political and managerial skills leaders need to move agendas forward. Whether you're a team leader trying to lead change and innovation in a large corporation, an entrepreneur trying to gain support, a politician trying to expand your coalition, or an individual trying to advance your career and build networks, The Agenda Mover will give you the political and managerial leadership skills necessary to achieve results. Based on the premise that leadership competencies and skills can be learned, The Agenda Mover is the inaugural volume of the practitioner-oriented Pragmatic Leadership Series published in association with Cornell University Press. Each volume emphasizes specific skills of execution that leaders at all levels need to master. Visit pragmaticleadershipseries.com to learn more about the series.

Download or read book Pull written by David Siegel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first clear guide to the Semantic Web and its upcoming impact on the business world Imagine that, in 1992, someone handed you a book about the future of something called the World Wide Web. This book claimed that through a piece of software called a "browser", which accesses "web sites", the world economy and our daily lives would change forever. Would you have believed even 10 percent of that book? Did you take advantage of the first Internet wave and get ahead of the curve? Pull is the blueprint to the next disruptive wave. Some call it Web 3.0; others call it the semantic web. It's a fundamental transition from pushing information to pulling, using a new way of thinking and collaborating online. Using the principles of this book, you will slash 5-20 percent off your bottom line, make your customers happier, accelerate your industry, and prepare your company for the twenty-first century. It isn't going to be easy, and you don't have any choice. By 2015, your company will be more agile and your processes more flexible than you ever thought possible. The semantic web leads to possibilities straight from science fiction, such as buildings that can order their own supplies, eliminating the IRS, and lawyers finally making sense. But it also leads to major changes in every field, from shipping and retail distribution to health care and financial reporting. Through clear examples, case studies, principles, and scenarios, business strategist David Siegel takes you on a tour of this new world. You'll learn: -Which industries are already ahead. -Which industries are already dead. -How to make the power shift from pushing to pulling information. -How software, hardware, media, and marketing will all change. -How to plan your own strategy for embracing the semantic web. We are at the beginning of a new technology curve that will affect all areas of business. Right now, you have a choice. You can decide to start preparing for the exciting opportunities that lay ahead or you can leave this book on the shelf and get left in the dust like last time.

Download or read book Quality Experience Telemetry written by Alka Jarvis and published by Quality Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important and timely book. Students of organizational behavior for the last 15 years have been asking how to integrate the technology of data gathering and data analysis with critical organizational challenges. This book shows how to do that, using the field of customer service to illustrate the broader point. This volume allows lay readers to understand telemetry and helps them enhance their data-gathering activities to strengthen customer relations. Author of The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough and Transforming the Clunky Organization: Pragmatic Skills for Breaking Inertia (Cornell University Press) Telemetry is an automated way of collecting data at remote sites or locations, and transmitting it to collectors at receiving site for monitoring, analyzing, and driving improvement actions. This book provides the necessary knowledge and information to understand the telemetry infrastructure and associated details. It will enable readers to implement a telemetry program to address customer experience pain and improve customer experience. The authors of this book have all served in different roles and capacities in one of Silicon Valley's premier technology companies. These roles include software engineering, customer assurance, quality management, technology development, and implementation. Their paths intersected in the area of quality management, and they have witnessed first-hand how the latest technology/market transitions around Internet of Things (IoT), digitization, and telemetry are impacting the company they work, as well as the high-tech industry and global economy as a whole. The real-time nature of data and the advent of machine-learning algorithms have set the stage for a new era that the authors call adaptive customer experience. The premise of this concept is that real-time availability of customer experience data opens the door for real-time responses based on machine-learning algorithms. This creates an unprecedented opportunity to change the relationship between customers and the systems they depend on in their digital world. The proliferation of sensors and improvements in data science capabilities are creating an environment where the possibilities for telemetry are limitless. The book provides several examples of use cases and applications that help bring telemetry to life.

Download or read book The Loop Approach written by Sebastian Klein and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How best to adapt established companies to a rapidly changing economy has long been a topic of debate in both the corporate and academic worlds. This challenge is especially pressing for large organizations that may have grown top-heavy and rigid with time but now need to be light on their feet to stay relevant and profitable. Until now, the best attempts have consisted of plucking tools and methods from the world of start-ups and applying them wholesale in large corporate environments. Most of these efforts have either fizzled or failed outright because they lacked a framework for a comprehensive corporation-sized rollout. The Loop Approach introduces a new series of methods that could help change the course of operations for even the most colossal organizations. Sebastian Klein and Ben Hughes provide a wide-ranging set of guidelines for achieving corporate agility, complete with checklists and worksheets that should prove instantly applicable. Want proof? The methods outlined in The Loop Approach have already been successfully implemented at such European corporate giants as Audi, Deutsche Bahn, and Telekom.

Download or read book Leadership Sustainability written by Michael Fullan and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Leadership & Sustainability' examines how the opportunity for new leadership can be leveraged to focus on sustainability of reform, & will identify barriers & strategies for moving in new directions. Fullan defines the meaning of 'sustainability' & the important part it plays in contemporary reform.

Download or read book The Future of Leadership in the Age of AI written by Marin Ivezic and published by Marin Ivezic. This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reality. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, or a Robot Apocalypse depending on whom you ask, is already underway. The transition has already started. But what it means in terms of leadership? How should leaders prepare for the dramatic shifts in the global workforce? The authors, emerging technology risk researchers and practitioners, demystify the processes behind this revolution. Rather than offering another sensationalistic, panic-inducing view on AI – or its overly-optimistic alternative – the authors explain the reality of AI implementation in business environments. The transformed economy will need a new kind of executives – motivators, innovators and social experimenters – those that have, paradoxically, developed their distinctly human skills. The Future of Leadership in the Age of AI clarifies those new roles and makes the transition easier.

Download or read book Startup Patterns written by Sam McAfee and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Startup Patterns is for startup founders who want to increase their chances of building a successful startup. At both a high-level and in detail, it lays out the patterns that great startup teams use to create amazing products.Loaded with practical examples and easy to follow steps, Startup Patterns will help you navigate the treacherous waters of the tech startup world and dramatically improve your chances of success.

Download or read book Top Tasks A How to Guide written by Gerry McGovern and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essence of Top Tasks is a prioritized list of what matters most to customers. You then continuously improve these top tasks based on evidence of customers trying to complete them. Developed as a result of 15 years of research and practice. Implemented by some of the world's largest organizations: Cisco, Microsoft, NetApp, IBM, Google, European Union, Toyota, Tetra Pak, and hundreds more. More than 300,000 customers have participated in Top Tasks studies in over 40 countries and 30 languages.

Download or read book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up written by Marie Kondo and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book that sparked a revolution and inspired the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo: the original guide to decluttering your home once and for all. ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE—CNN Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles? Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you’ll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results. In fact, none of Kondo’s clients have lapsed (and she still has a three-month waiting list). With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house “spark joy” (and which don’t), this international bestseller will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home—and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.

Download or read book Get Them On Your Side written by Samuel B. Bacharach and published by Platinum Press. This book was released on 2006-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics is an inevitable, legitimate, and even beneficial aspect of corporate and organizational life. Hard work and good ideas are not enough to ensure success-your ability to win allies and head off resistance is what really matters in today's corporate environment. If you don't garner support for your ideas, you could become an organizational casualty. Get Them on Your Side outlines how to: Assess allies and resistors Build coalitions Negotiate support Understand the agendas of others Get Them on Your Side, written by Samuel B. Bacharach-the McKelvey-Grant chair in the Department of Organizational Behavior at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations-builds your political competence with fascinating illustrations from the worlds of business, government, academia, and nonprofit organizations. With Get Them on Your Side, you'll develop the specific leadership skills you need to get results.

Download or read book Accelerating Performance written by Colin Price and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transform your organization into a dynamic catalyst for success Accelerating Performance is not just another “warm and fuzzy” change management book—it's a practical, comprehensive, data-driven action plan for picking up the pace and achieving more. Co-written by one of the authors of Beyond Performance, this book draws on a combination of empirical research and decades of experience advising global companies to show you how to reduce time to value by building and changing momentum more quickly than your competitors. The META framework (short for Mobilize, Execute, and Transform with Agility) offers advice for leading change at four levels: strategy, the organization, teams, and individuals. In addition to step-by-step guidance toward assessment, planning, and implementation, the book offers: A diagnostic tool for leaders, teams, and organizations to assess their starting place, and highlight the specific areas needed to improve the ability to accelerate performance. A detailed look at the factors proven to create drag—and drive—at each of the four levels: strategy, organizations, teams, and individuals. An exploration of the 39 differentiating actions that organizations can combine as dictated by their strategy and context into a winning recipe. A closer look at the practices of 23 “superaccelerators,” a global (and perhaps unexpected) mix of companies that have demonstrated a consistent ability to accelerate performance. A single taste of success is all it takes to spark change, but the hard work of following through requires constant vigilance—and a plan. Learn how to capture that drive, bottle it, and use it to sustain motivation, inspiration, and achievement. Deliver at the highest level, and then turn around and do even better next time. Accelerating Performance gives leaders a step-by-step framework for taking action and transforming their organizations, teams, and even themselves—starting today.

Download or read book Overturning Tables written by Scott A. Bessenecker and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation Best World Missions Book, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore We are more than the businesses we have become. Much of Christian ministry has been shaped to operate not according to the witness of the Scriptures, but according to the values of the free market. We adopt metrics of success that have nothing to do with the state of people's souls or the seeding of the earth with the kingdom of God. We have borrowed our paradigms uncritically from the for-profit corporate sector. The mission of the Church is being held back by the business container into which we have placed the gospel. Every year Scott Bessenecker travels the world with thousands of college students, ministering to those in need and learning from the global church about what God is doing in the world. In Overturning Tables he shows, through stories and analysis, that the mission of God reaches well beyond the grasp of the free market, and if we are willing to reach as well, we will see God do amazing things, even as the world sees the gospel in its fullest sense.

Download or read book The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg Summary Analysis written by Elite Summaries and published by Elite Summaries. This book was released on with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed summary and analysis of The Power of Habit.

Download or read book Entrepreneur s Guide to the Lean Brand written by Jeremiah Gardner and published by Market by Numbers. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most powerful brands are no longer being developed on Madison Avenue. They are methodically crafted by startups using a revolutionary new framework. process.Businesses are now able to validate their branding in the market, steering clear from meaningless questions like "If you were a dog, what kind of dog would you be?" and turning subjective opinion into fact. This is not new jargon for old thinking, but a fundamental shift in how brand development works.Unfortunately, many large companies haven't learned the new way. The cost? Millions of dollars in lost sales, and countless unsatisfied customers.The Lean Brand offers you the blueprint for creating passionate customers who love and support your business. Distilling over 16 years of experience in branding and the lean startup movement, Jeremiah Gardner teams up with New York Times bestselling author Brant Cooper to reveal:- The new definition of brand- How you can emulate successful lean brands like Buffer and SoulPancake to build a loyal customer base- How customers and brands really interact through The Lean Brand Framework- How to use Viability Experiments to test and iterate your brand, and find Product-Market-Brand fit- A set of tools including the Persona Grid, the MVB Canvas, the Experiment Map and the Value Stream Matrix that will help you develop your brand properlyGreat brands must do more than just satisfy customers; they must create passionate ones. The Lean Brand shows you how to develop meaningful relationships with your audience, based on a shared journey of value creation.

Download or read book Reinventing Organizations written by Fr?d?ric Laloux and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The way we manage organizations seems increasingly out of date. Deep inside, we sense that more is possible. We long for soulful workplaces, for authenticity, community, passion, and purpose. In this groundbreaking book, the author shows that every time, in the past, when humanity has shifted to a new stage of consciousness, it has achieved extraordinary breakthroughs in collaboration. A new shift in consciousness is currently underway. Could it help us invent a more soulful and purposeful way to run our businesses and nonprofits, schools and hospitals? A few pioneers have already cracked the code and they show us, in practical detail, how it can be done. Leaders, founders, coaches, and consultants will find this work a joyful handbook, full of insights, examples, and inspiring stories."--Page [4] of cover.

Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry