"From the bestselling author of Linchpin and Tribes comes a new challenge to leaders of all stripes The workplace has undergone a massive shift. Remote work and economic instability have depressed innovation and left us disconnected and disengaged. Paychecks no longer buy loyalty, happiness, and effort. Quiet quitting runs rampant, and people show up without truly showing up. Alarmed managers are doubling down on keystroke surveillance, productivity...

The founders of the Jack Welch Management Institute, a fully accredited online MBA program, present a guide to overcoming modern business challenges, with recommendations for creating effective strategies, leading others, and building a thriving career.

An authoritative and accessible guide to this foundational form of collaborative decision-making. Uses images, stories and step-by-step instructions to teach the basics of circle and explore its deeper meanings. Written by two pioneers in reviving, standardizing and popularizing circle process. More and more organizations are looking for alternatives to rigid, top-down hierarchy. Even the most old-school now realizes that good ideas can come from...

Wall Street believes that all public companies should grow smoothly and continuously, as evidenced by ever-increasing quarterly earnings, and that all companies either "grow or die." Introducing a research-based growth model called "Smart Growth," Edward D. Hess challenges this ethos and its dangerous mentality, which often deters real growth and pressures businesses to create, manufacture, and purchase noncore earnings just to appease Wall Street....

Competency-based training is a unique approach to training design that builds and enhances individual competencies in line with previously identified profiles of success. This training helps fill the gap between workers' actual performance and their ideal performance. Competency-Based Training Basics shows readers how to assess which competencies are important to an organization and individual positions, and how to design training around those competencies....

In "Organizational Management", explore the fundamental concepts and strategies that drive successful organizational management. This concise and comprehensive guide delves into the theories of organizational management, examining the different types of behaviors and the biographical characteristics, abilities, and learning that shape them.Gain insight into the importance of attitudes and job satisfaction in creating a positive work environment, and...

This book presents the intricacies of retailing from both academic and practical points of view. New changing business practices are actuating changes in the retail environment. Dearth of time and increase in incomes of public has created a need for new types of retail formats. This means retailers will have to have knowledge of knowing their customers and anticipating their needs. As the economic structure in India is changing so is the field of...

Forms and transforms in people, they become strong, focused, and vibrant-and wonderful things can happen. But when the spirit is down, nothing else seems to make a difference-because not too much happens. Many of us today find ourselves trapped in just such organizations. The spirit in our workplace, to say nothing of our own spirit, is getting a little tattered, showing the early stages of what Harrison Owen calls "Soul Pollution." Those in the advanced...

Revised edition of Hock's award-winning Birth of the Chaordic Age, updated throughout and featuring two new chapters; The only first-person account of the rise of VISA, the world's largest business enterprise--in 2004, VISA's products were used by more than a billion people at 20 million locations in more than 150 countries and Hock, VISA's founder, details the revolutionary "chaordic" organizational philosophy that was instrumental in VISA's success....