Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
Why Smart Executives Fail
And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Bob Pittman and AOL Time Warner. Jean Marie Messier and Vivendi. Jill Barad and Mattel. Dennis Kozlowski and Tyco. It's an all too common scenario. A great company breaks from the pack; the analysts are in love; the smiling CEO appears on the cover of Fortune.
Two years later, the company is...
Meetings Suck
Turning One of the Most Loathed Elements of Business Into One of the Most Valuable
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
We all know that meetings suck, right? You hear it all the time. It's the one thing that almost everyone in business can agree on. Except it's not actually true. Meetings don't suck—we suck at running meetings. When done right, meetings not only work, they make people and companies better. In Meetings...
Dying for a Paycheck
How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying from...
Wiser
Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Why are group decisions so hard?
Since the beginning of human history, people have made decisions in groups—first in families and villages, and now as part of companies, governments, school boards, religious organizations, or any one of countless other groups. And having more than one person...
Situations Matter
Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
An "entertaining and engaging" exploration of the invisible forces influencing your life-and how understanding them can improve everything you do.
The world around you is pulling your strings, shaping your innermost instincts and your most private thoughts. And you don't even realize...
Summary of Team of Teams
by General Stanley McChrystal | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Summary of Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal | Includes Analysis Preview: Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal is an examination of the process he began of restructuring the Joint Special Operations Command management style, from a rigid command...
The Challenger Customer
Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Four years ago, the bestselling authors of The Challenger Sale overturned decades of conventional wisdom with a bold new approach to sales. Now their latest research reveals something even more surprising: Being a Challenger seller isn’t enough. Your success or failure also depends on who you challenge.
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by Duncan J. Watts
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2004
The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered an avalanche of interest in networks.
In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are...
The Bass Handbook of Leadership
Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
For thirty-three years and through three editions, Bass & Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership has been the indispensable bible for every serious student of leadership. Since the third edition came out in 1990, the field of leadership has expanded by an order of magnitude. This completely revised...
Leadership and Motivation: The Fifty-Fifty Rule and the Eight Key Principles of Motivating Others
The Fifty-Fifty Rule and the Eight Key Principles of Motivating Others
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
John Adair has transformed our understanding of how leadership works with his pioneering book Not Bosses But Leaders. Here he explores the nature of motivation, individual needs and how they relate to the key tasks facing leaders and managers - good, positive motivation can create, maintain and improve...
by John Zenger, Joseph Folkman, Scott Edinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
In their bestselling work The Extraordinary Leader, performance thought leaders John Zenger and Joseph Folkman revealed the 16 key competencies that separate the top 10 percent of leaders from the rest. Since that book’s publication, they and coauthor Scott Edinger discovered, through an extensive...
Primed to Perform
How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The revolutionary book that teaches you how to use the cutting edge of human psychology to build high performing workplace cultures.
Too often, great cultures feel like magic. While most leaders believe culture is critical to success, few know how to build one, or sustain it over time.
What...
by Kevin Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2008
Put play in your work as you improve on:
Innovation: Create better products and services
Problem-Solving: Tag-team responsibility and collaborate on solutions
Motivation: Build creative excitement at every level
Risk-Taking: Push new ideas to their limits
Ingenuity: Reward the “a-ha!” ideas and drive progress forward
Team-Building: Find new ways to share solutions and forge new ones
Community
The Structure of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
As a response to the increasing violence in our culture, the widening ideological divides, and the growing gap in economic well-being, there is greater awareness that a deeper sense of community is desperately needed. But even as we acknowledge the *need to build community, the dominant on-the-ground...