A business parable about how companies can achieve remarkable results by helping their employees fulfill their dreams Managing people is difficult. With disengagement and turnover on the rise, many managers are scratching their heads wondering what to do. It’s not that we don’t dream of being great managers, it’s just that we haven’t found a practical and efficient way to do it. Unti…
This book presents a new way of looking at organizational structure and will tell readers how to design and organizational structure and how to diagnose a faulty one.
This book is among the best on stress and its organizational consequences. It is based on papers presented at the Seventh Annual Applied Behavioral Science Symposium. The editors and most of the contributors are academic specialists on stress. The major theme of the book is that stress has negative, and sometimes positive, personal and organizational consequences. On the positive side, stress--…
Mobile is a powerful new tool for supporting organizational performance, including a wide-variety of learning opportunities including innovation, collaboration, research, and design. Mobile generates new products, services, and helps solve problems. Whether providing needed tools, augmenting learning, or connecting individuals, mobile devices are empowering individuals and organizations. Des…
Management Reset is a call to action for any business leader looking to create sustainable growth and value in an increasingly interconnected, thus ethically interdependent world. Ed Lawler and Chris Worley illustrate why new approaches to culture and leadership are the greatest sources of competitive advantage available today. Table of Contents : 1 Time for a Reset. 2 Sustainable Manage…
This is not a book about one thing. It's not a 250-page dissertation on leadership, teams or motivation. Instead, it's an agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world of diminished hopes, relentless change and ferocious competition. This is not a book about doing better. It's not a manual for people who want to tinker at the margins. Instead, it's an impassioned plea to reinv…
Just as batters in baseball must learn to hit every type of pitch to be successful, so, too, must managers be able to think effectively in all four of the areas that business problems fall into: factual problems, tangible problems, intangible problems, and people problems. This dynamic book shows you how to master these problems, illustrating the hallmarks of excellent thinking about each type…
Tulgan, consultant on new management practices, shares what he has learned and taught at the front lines of the war for talent, which many see as the single most important challenge business faces in the 21st century. Basing his discussion on current research about the character and proclivities of this swelling free-agent labor force, he tells how managers at some of America's most influential…