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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"University of Michigan Professor and cofounder, with Adam Grant, of Give and Take Inc, shows us how to master one of life's most critical skills: the ability to ask for help. Often, there is a simple and seemingly obvious act standing between us and success: asking for the help and resources we need to succeed. Imagine you're on a deadline for a big project, and feeling overworked and overwhelmed. Or you're looking for a job, but can't seem to get...
23) Crucial confrontations: tools for resolving broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Publisher
ROUTLEDGE
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This volume brings together two hitherto disparate domains of scholarly inquiry: organization and management studies on the one hand, and the study of visual and multimodal communication on the other. Within organization and management studies it has been recognized that organizational reality and communication are becoming increasingly visual, and, more generally, multimodal, whether in digital form or otherwise. Within multimodality studies it has...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
'Organizational research methods' (ORM) are making an ontological turn by studying the nature of Being, becoming, and the meaning of existence in the world. For example, without ontology, there is no 'ground' and no 'theory' in Grounded Theory (GT) This book explores ten ways to develop fourth wave GT that is grounded and theory. 1st wave GT commits inductive fallacy inference, 2nd wave GT bandaids it with positivistic content coding. 3rd wave GT...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
What defines great leadership? Using original research on 360-degree feedback data for thousands of managers, Jack Zenger, with colleagues Joseph Folkman and Scott Edinger, identified 16 specific competencies the most effective leaders share. Of these, the ability to inspire and motivate others to high performance had the most significant, positive impact on the performance of the organization. And yet, it was the area in which managers were weakest....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As work increasingly cuts across boundaries, it's necessary for you to influence people at all levels of your organisation in order to get your job done. Whether it's your boss (or your boss's boss!), peers or direct reports, Carole Robin describes how to use the law of reciprocity and the theory of exchange to create the currencies that matter to potential allies and create win/win solutions. Dr. Robin explains how the effective use of in uence helps...
28) Quick team-building activities for busy managers: 50 exercises that get results in just 15 minutes
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Publisher
American Management Association
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Do you ever think you're the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague's abrasive manner rub you the wrong way?
You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was 'surrounded by idiots', communication expert and bestselling author, Thomas Erikson dedicated
Author
Publisher
Bibliomotion, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement and forty years after passage of Title IX, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers. Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less status, lower compensation, and less satisfaction than men. Breaking Through Bias explains that it is the stereotypes about women, men, work, leadership, and family that hold women...
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Publisher
AMACOM, American Management Association
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Birth, death, and conflict-three things you truly can't avoid. Whether it's big or small, conflict eats into productivity and makes people feel stuck. Yet solutions exist for even the toughest situations with the most intractable people. The answer lies in better communication-not just using different words, but rather learning to think differently. "I Hear You" supplies proven techniques for stepping outside one's point of view and seeing things...
Author
Publisher
McGraw Hill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Carrots and Sticks Don't Work shares his proven conversational techniques for turning workplace confrontations into respectful, successful collaborations. In the workplace, the most common approach to dealing with what we believe will be a difficult or emotionally charged conversation with our bosses, colleagues, or direct reports is, simply, not to. Most of us will do anything to avoid conflict, but the confrontations we...
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