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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Bartley J. Madden's The Pragmatic Theory of the Firm specifies that a firm's knowledge-building proficiency is the fundamental cause of a firm's survival and prosperity as well as a pathway to significant improvements across a firm's typically siloed activities. This theory is about connectedness among the firm's purpose, its major activities, and its long-term overall performance, with attention to long-term financial performance. Madden argues...
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
Language
English
Description
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Empowerment produces the conditions for high performance. Especially for middle managers and below. Empowered cultures attract and retain talent. They produce high achievement, high accountability and high commitment. The Empowered Manager uncovers a roadmap to creating a more accountable culture in today's fragmented and virtual world. Bestselling author Peter Block is a true visionary: author of the classic Flawless Consulting, his work is about...
Author
Series
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Project Management for Performance Improvement Teams (or, PM4PITs, for short) provides practical guidance based on innovative concepts for project teams especially performance improvement teams (PITs) and their Project Managers. It shows how to successfully complete a project using a scalable, iterative framework based on an innovative foundation fusing elements of both Project Management and Continuous Improvement to create a "Lean Project Management"...
Author
Publisher
BERRETT-KOEHLER
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Great ideas don't matter if you can't execute--bestselling leadership expert Mark Miller offers a proven, research-based method for creating workplaces where everyone performs at the highest level. All high performance organizations have one thing in common: execution. The men and women who work there sustain performance at seemingly otherworldly levels of precision, accuracy, and consistency. In the fifth and final book of Mark Miller's High Performance...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The best thinking and actions in the fast-moving arena of collaboration and knowledge management The New Edge in Knowledge captures the most practical and innovative practices to ensure organizations have the knowledge they need in the future and, more importantly, the ability to connect the dots and use knowledge to succeed today. Build or retrofit your organization for new ways of working and collaboration by using knowledge management. Adapt to...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The old business model of adapting to change for continued success is dead. Change is the new normal. There are no more periods of stability and predictability. There is only change. This continuous upheaval can undercut morale, decrease productivity and decimate profits, or it can be a game-changing opportunity. Arussy illuminates the path to opportunity. He helps corporate leaders and their employees view change as an opportunity to become invested,...
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A complete guide to using KPIs to drive organisationalperformance Is your business on track to achieve success? Key PerformanceIndicators For Dummies covers the essential KPIs that areuseful to all kinds of businesses, and includes more than 100different ways leaders can monitor and drive performance in theirorganisations. This book helps managers understand the crucial KPIs that shouldbe implemented for all different aspects of the organisation,including...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning columnist and journalist describes how businesses that structure their teams into functional departments, or "silos," actually hinder work, cripple innovation, restrict thinking and force normally smart people to ignore risks and opportunities. --Publsiher's description.
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Series
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
""For aspiring life guards this book is a must read on how to give oxygen to create energy and have impact (like JR). This book is for anyone who wants to breathe life into their team through inspiration resulting in impact, leading to higher engagement, better customer experience and ultimately revenue""--Neal Watkins Chief Product Officer and Executive Board Director, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, UK 'After 30 years in business, I cannot think...
Author
Publisher
IT Revolution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The fastest growing and most competitive organizations in the world have no bureaucracies, no bosses, and no bullshit. In this groundbreaking book, technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically collaborative organizations thrive on.
Author
Publisher
Productivity Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
One of the major discussions in the business world is: How do we get our human capital assets more engaged in the organization? Current Gallup Polls state that 85% of our employees are not engaged within their organizations. Employee Empowerment fully analyzes this workplace condition, which is a major concern for most CEOs. The solution proposed by this book is the introduction of the TLS (Theory of Constraints - Lean - Six Sigma) Continuum Empowerment...
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