It explains the rules of this new game, and gives invaluable tips and pointers for teaming with employees while inspiring them to breakthrough performance and results. Let the two dozen rules and guidelines in this quick-hitting manual show the best ways to: * Delegate * Review performance * Think strategically * Lead great meetings * Give and get results-oriented feedback * Provide dir…
Being able to anticipate and shape the future is the goal of every leader. "Fortune favors the prepared mind," wisely advised Louis Pasteur more than 100 years ago. So, how well do modern institutions prepare? In recent decades, leaders have often been caught unaware by momentous events—oil shortages and gluts, the collapse of the Soviet empire, and technology that quickly transformed whole…
"Scenario Planning" with new data and concepts. The innovative "Scenario Planning" has been updated and revised to provide even more insight into how to effectively plan for the future, using new research carried out since the first publication.Recent research in the field of business strategy has shown that strategic flexibility can be achieved through a scenario planning perspective for long-…
Systems thinking can help us solve everyday and wicked problems, increase our personal effectiveness as human beings, and transform our organizations. This book is for anyone interested in learning the foundational ideas of systems thinking. SIMPLE RULES OF SYSTEMS THINKING Systems Thinking Made Simple doesn't mean that we're going to oversimplify it like a ... for Dummies book. It me…
In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today—and how we can apply it to our own lives. From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We’re told that learning is all self-discipline,…