It's hard to make change happen in HR. If you're a HR manager with good ideas on making things work better that's frustrating enough, but for organisations that fail to respond to the way the world is changing the results could be fatal. In this insightful, practical book the world's top HR disruptor – Lucy Adams – explains why HR needs to change its approach if it’s to be successful in transforming its organisations ...
*SHORT-LISTED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2019!* This book equips executives to give compelling and clear presentations: the kind of presentations that drive corporate change and innovation AND make reputations. And it’s all down to presence. Presence works at three levels – what you say, how you use your body, and your mindset. Level 1: Discover how to transform ideas and business messages with a simple 5-step tool.Level 2: Learn ho ...
This book is about the ‘how’ of managing behavioural change in project teams. Much of the project management literature published over the last five years urges the reader to become better leader by improving their soft skills. Few books however actually explain how to apply a people-oriented approach in practice. This book fills the gap, setting out a wide range of step-by-step exercises to use with groups that will specifically help ...
Light a Fire in Their Hearts helps to set great leaders apart by helping them connect with others on a human level. Light a Fire in Their Hearts is unique and appealing in that, Lisa Anna Palmer, uses a highly conversational style and speaks directly to new and aspiring leaders, including from team leader, manager and director. Within Light a Fire in Their Hearts , Lisa engages readers as though she were accompanying them, side by side, t ...
Tami Longaberger, CEO of The Longaberger Company, offers readers a glimpse of her unique 'American Dream.' Whether sharing memories of her impoverished childhood in Appalachia or accounts of reaching out to business women of the Middle East, Longaberger evokes a balanced nostalgia for the sweetness of the past comingled with a passionate call for hope for the future, prompting readers to dream bigger, think more broadly, and risk takin ...
The Children’s Fire forges a trail into Britain’s wild and ancient Celtic past. It locates the fragments of a story that still has resonance today; the pulse and surge of an older wisdom that cracks the mendacity of the shopping mall’s vacuous promise. It is a passionate evocation of a generous, inclusive, diverse and spiritually significant world – the world of our longing. In the winter of 2009 Mac Macartney walked from his birthplace in Engla ...
In this fully updated Eight Edition of Leadership: Theory and Practice , a new chapter on Followership examines the central role followers play in the leadership process and unpacks the characteristics of both effective and ineffective followers. The new edition also includes a new Ethical Leadership Style Questionnaire and new coverage on the dark side of leadership and destructive leadership. Adopted at more than 1600 institutions i ...
Organizational Leadership provides an accessible, critical and engaging analysis of what constitutes ‘leadership’ today. Demonstrating leadership as an interconnected process between leaders, followers and context, the book ensures a rounded understanding of theory and practice to support students throughout their course and future career. Part 1: Contextualising Leadership examines the internal and ext ...
Это продолжение книги «В поисках совершенства» от гуру управленческой науки Тома Питерса. Технологии изменили мир, но, как и прежде, при прочих равных люди выбирают то, что выглядит совершенным. Вот только добиться совершенства теперь сложнее: удачные решения приходится оттачивать на ходу. В книге систематизированы аспекты, которые лидер или руководитель может улучшить в своей компании: управление, исполнение, корпоративная культура и т. д. Книг ...