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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Leadership
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"There are a host of neuroscientific explanations for why laughter makes us feel so great. Laughter triggers "feel good" chemicals in the brain which activate opiate receptors throughout your body and mind. Creating a workplace culture in which laughter is not only allowed but expected is an important step in building the trust, openness, authenticity, storytelling, and teamwork (TOAST) that are essential to any healthy collaborative environment....
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Catherine had just celebrated her 43rd birthday on May 20th. Her dream of owning and running a thriving company was coming true. Essentially Proximal's essential oil line was becoming a major success, and her company was in growth mode. As a female business owner, she was doing her best to promote positive culture at work and retain talent. Her goal was to build a diverse high-performing and inclusive leadership team, but her leadership team was...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For nearly thirty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner eighteen Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Top Forbes writer and DEI consultant explores how whiteness is often centered in the workplace and how individuals and organizations can work to decenter it. Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace exposes how pervasive white-centering is in the modern American workplace and explores how we can work toward decentering whiteness, unpacking the ways that a person can contribute both individually and systemically to the white-centering that occurs in...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"America's preeminent law firms, investment banks, and management consultant firms are known for being difficult workplaces. Between long, stressful hours on the job, low odds of promotions, often-unrewarding work assignments, and "up-or-out" personnel practices, most people who begin their careers in these institutions leave within several years of starting. But life in these firms is especially difficult for Black professionals, who leave elite...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What is “being geeky?” It’s being a perennially curious person, one who's not afraid to tackle hard problems and embrace unconventional solutions. McAfee shows how the geeks have created a new culture based around four norms: science, ownership, speed, and openness. The geek way seems odd at first. It's not deferential to experts, fond of planning and process, afraid of mistakes, or obsessed with "winning." But it explains everything from why...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Leadership
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"How do I stand out? How do I become irreplaceable? With a crowded workforce, an unstable job landscape, and the rise of AI, these questions are the ones that everyone either is or should be asking. William Vanderbloemen has asked these questions over the past 15 years while running one of the world’s top executive search firms. Through extensive research of over 30,000 top leaders and proprietary data, Vanderbloemen has identified the 12 habits...
Author
Publisher
Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An award-winning executive consultant and a retired, high-ranking US Navy SEAL trainer team up in this revolutionary guide that provides crucial leadership strategies to help organizations revamp their work culture, throw out stifling leadership models and embrace a dynamic, results-oriented and successful self-led team-oriented model instead.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Focus your time, energy and attention on the things that really matterFor many leaders, the reality is that now they have achieved career success, they have never felt so busy, so distracted, so overwhelmed, and so unable to find time for the things that truly matter in their role. Too many leaders fall victim to crushing meetings schedules, hopelessly overflowing inboxes, constant interruptions, and a sense of busyness that does not equate to effectiveness...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Reimagine Inclusion provides a clear roadmap to all businesses, big and small, on how over the course of a 5 year plan, they can start to see the transformation of their workplaces into inclusive communities by addressing 13 myths about inclusion that dominate the workplace today. Inclusive leaders create inclusive cultures. Inclusion can only start to exist and then thrive when each one of us individually commits to do the work that starts with...
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