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Ella Bell Smith and Stella Nkomo take an unflinching look at the differences between Black and White women's experiences at work. Based on groundbreaking research, the book compares and contrasts the experiences of 120 first-generation Black and White female managers in the American business area. In-depth histories bring to life the women's powerful and often difficult journeys from childhood to professional success, highlighting the roles that gender, race, and class played in their development.

Have you ever heard of business being compared to a game of chess? If you’re a leader in any sector, you know that business today feels more like a chaotic game of poker - one where you can’t see all the cards, and you’re certain some opponents have an ace up their sleeve. This audiobook shows you how to use the Scrum method to create a winning hand from the cards you’ve been dealt. From a Scrum strategist and educator with years of experience across a variety of sectors, you’ll learn how to complete more work in less time, while delivering better value to clients.

This audiobook will enable you to crack the most significant challenge in business: Applying and maintaining a constant outside-in perspective. Stop focusing on customers, and expand your worldview to users. Based in Shanghai, Jacob Johansen facilitates the transformation of brands and organizations. This audiobook builds on his experiences of remaking some of the world’s most influential companies. In From Customer to User, he shares his provoking and groundbreaking principles for the business organizations of the future.

The Human Element is for anyone who wants to introduce a new idea or innovation into the world. Most marketers, innovators, executives, and activists operate on a deep assumption. It is the belief that the best way to convince people to embrace a new idea is to heighten the appeal of the idea itself.

This book is a passionate and enthusiastic account of the life of a religious sister in the 21st century. As an Educator and Organizational Consultant the author draws on the resources of professional skills in leadership training, facilitation, and consultancy and integrates them with discernment for action. True to the charism and mission of her congregation of the Faithful Companions of Jesus, based on the spirituality of St Ignatius of Loyola, she writes with energy and vast experience about practical ways of living faith in action.

Informed by more than 70 years of experience and expertise and propelled by extensive original SHRM research, Reset delivers a candid and forward-thinking vision for leaders to reimagine their company cultures in a time of global upheaval. Part call to action, part strategic road map, Reset challenges business leaders’ underlying assumptions about workers and the workplace, delivers practical strategies for finding and keeping the talent needed to make businesses successful, and introduces dynamic tools to sustain that success over the long haul.

Too Proud to Lead provides essential advice on how to avoid hubristic behavior that can endanger businesses, as well as cope with arrogant overconfidence in others in the workplace.

Becoming a Boardroom Star is designed to offer practical advice and insights to directors who want to shine in the boardroom - earning the genuine esteem of their peers, the respect of senior management, and most importantly, adding real value for stakeholders. Not only is it brimming with terrific ideas to help you raise your boardroom game and avoid common pitfalls, it’s fun to listen to - a refreshing take on the sometimes stodgy world of governance.

There are no magical silver bullets or single approach that will guarantee that you will be successful! There is, however, a formula just like any other success process, program, or tool that requires a combination of practical application, trial and error, mixed with a lot of conversations with sales leaders to understand their wants, needs, and expectations.

Lisa Gable, turnaround mastermind, offers a clear-headed, straightforward method for getting you back on track. For more than 30 years, Lisa Gable has been called to turn around failing organizations and solve seemingly intractable problems. From Silicon Valley to Washington DC, she’s seen it all. Over time, she has learned that the key to course-correct when things go south is applying the discipline of process engineering with diplomacy and humanity, taking care of relationships, and forging strong partnerships.

Cracks are forming in the myth of the VC-funded, IPO-driven billion-dollar company. They're unprofitable, unethical and unsustainable - so why bother chasing unicorns? The Minimalist Entrepreneur is the manifesto for a new generation of founders who would rather build great companies than big ones. Packed with hard-won, battle-tested lessons from Lavingia's own journey of building Gumroad, The Minimalist Entrepreneur teaches founders how to start from anywhere to build any kind of software-enabled business.

Ninguna empresa está exenta de problemas de poder: choque de personalidades, competencia por los mismos objetivos, guerras entre departamentos… Pero necesitas trabajar de forma productiva con todos tus compañeros por el bien de tu empresa y de tu carrera. Para conseguirlo sin comprometer tus valores, debes reconocer que existen dinámicas de poder y reglas no escritas que tienes que saber gestionar. 

Every person in every function of every organization is involved in solving problems. They show up in your email inbox, in meetings, in your own work. They are strategic and tactical, mundane and breakthrough, easy and difficult. Most organizations want to, and need to, improve their people's problem-solving efforts, and so they offer them tools, templates, and training. Yet this is not where the leverage for impact is found. People Solve Problems: The Power of Every Person, Every Day, Every Problem explores the real leverage to improve your problem solving.

This audiobook is for anyone, ranging from senior leaders to the front line, charged with leading continuous improvement efforts for their organization. Regardless of the improvement program or tools your organization chooses, it is a must-listen for successful implementation, sustainability, and growth. We describe our learnings from decades of field work, and why improvement initiatives in some organizations do extremely well, but in others struggle and die out. Discover what is most necessary to foster and sustain a culture that is nimble, able to continually improve and innovate.

Ruth Dorsainville has worked with more than 30,000 people from around the world, for the past 18 years. Based on extensive research and one on one interviews with the CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, Ruth Dorsainville has created a step-by-step blueprint that anyone can use to create a legacy diversity and inclusion organization. With topics ranging from its benefits and challenges to its implementation, anyone can create a workplace culture within their organization where everyone is valued for their ideas and contributions, rather than just their demographic characteristics.

Accélérer, accumuler, privilégier la quantité des accomplissements à la qualité, avoir l'air sans cesse occupé, c'est dépassé : innovez, ralentissez ! Encore minoritaires dans les entreprises, parfois mal compris, le slow working propose une autre vision du travail qui concilie sérénité et efficacité. Adopter le slow working, c'est avant tout s'inscrire dans une révolution douce qui dépasse le monde du travail et modifie progressivement sa façon de voir le monde.

Reframing Organizations provides time-tested guidance for more effective organizational leadership. Rooted in decades of social science research across multiple disciplines, Bolman and Deal's four-frame model has continued to evolve since its conception more than 25 years ago. This new seventh edition will be updated to include additional coverage of cross-sector collaboration, generational differences, virtual environments, globalization, sustainability, and communication across cultures.

A sweeping leadership framework to institute clear and intentional actions throughout your organization so that people of all racial backgrounds are empowered to lead, collaborate, and excel at work.

The financial health of your organization depends on it! Bernie Haffey’s Cutting Through is a comprehensive exploration into the nuances of the key high-performance management systems that turn good companies into great ones!

In Part 1, I talk generally about compliance and ethics, often through personal and professional stories and metaphors that illustrate important lessons I’ve learned over my 40-year career, from my early days at the Federal Reserve (before compliance was a well-known function) through my years as a chief compliance officer for some of the biggest companies in the world. My goal is to enlighten board members, as well as current, and especially, future compliance and ethics officers.