Productivity Press imprint: 189 books
Disruptive Leadership
Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply--Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Disruptive leadership is a topic generating intense interest. Companies all over the world are trying to upend their industry through innovative products and services. Becoming a disruptive organization, however, is easier said than done.
Even more difficult is being a company that continually...
The Workforce Engagement Equation
A Practitioner's Guide to Creating and Sustaining High Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The Workforce Engagement Equation is for the hands-on leaders engaged in the frontline of affecting change those who bear the scars of past failed initiatives yet continue to persevere. Describing the science behind the "Art of Managing" process improvement, it will help you bridge the gap between strategy and tactics and allow you to take concrete
by Chiang H. Ren
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
The Fundamentals of Developing Operational Solutions for the Government guides professionals on how to use operations research to solve problems and capture opportunities for government customers. The governments of modern democratic nations manage large complex societal operations to offer national...
by Richard Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
When hospitals began implementing their electronic medical records/electronic health records systems (EMR/HER) the pharmaceutical companies that were conducting clinical trials at those hospitals wanted to sue the date from those systems instead of having the hospitals enter the data in their EHR...
Taking Ethics Seriously
Why Ethics Is an Essential Tool for the Modern Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
This book develops an intellectual framework for analyzing ethical dilemmas that is both grounded in theory and versatile enough to deal rigorously with real-world issues. It sees ethics as a necessary foundation for the social infrastructure that makes modern life possible, much as engineering is...
Value Management in Healthcare
How to Establish a Value Management Office to Support Value-Based Outcomes in Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
"Nathan Tierney’s powerful storytelling is rarely seen in today’s health care business environment. We must redesign the health care delivery system---a team sport in service of patients, hold it accountable with measurement to improve outcomes, and quantify the resource costs over the full...
The Management and Employee Development Review
Competitive Advantage through Transformative Teamwork and Evolved Mindsets
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
New, and experienced managers alike, typically repeat behaviors they observed or were subjected to when they were employees, which perpetuates unhealthy and unproductive management methods.
The Management and Employee Development Review: Competitive Advantage through Transformative Teamwork...
Planning and Designing Healthcare Facilities
A Lean, Innovative, and Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The planning and design of healthcare facilities has evolved over the previous decades from "function follows design" to "design follows function." Facilities stressed the functions of healthcare providers but patient experience was not fully considered. The design process has...
Lean for the Cash-Strapped Leader
The Path to Growth and Profitability
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Created by Lean practitioners with real-world, results-proven track records, this book is designed to help struggling managers and leaders, interested in the benefits of Lean but bereft of budgets to hire full-time consultants, start substantial change in their enterprises and begin to reap the benefits...
The Lean Electronic Health Record
A Journey toward Optimized Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a reflection of the way your organization conducts business. If you’re looking to make lasting improvements in the delivery of care, you must start with looking at the system from your patient’s perspective to understand what is of value and what is simply...
Leadership Can Be Learned
Clarity, Connection, and Results
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Leadership is poorly understood because human systems are poorly understood. Like the "flat earth" theory of old, modern work culture is limited by a paradigm in which problems are understood as "clashes of personality,"' and blame is directed at the superficial level of individuals,...
Hearing the Voice of the Shingo Principles
Creating Sustainable Cultures of Enterprise Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
This book chronicles key insights that went into development of the Shingo Model for Enterprise Excellence. For more than 50 years, organizations of all types have struggled to achieve lasting benefits from the many tools and programs associated with various continuous improvement initiatives. In...
Assessment and Diagnosis for Organization Development
Powerful Tools and Perspectives for the OD Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Although the theory and methods of organization development (OD) assessment and diagnosis have been covered in other books, there is a lack of practitioner-focused guides that introduce real-world case studies and tools rooted in the methodology. This book will fill that gap, providing practical perspective...
Reality, Perception, and Your Company's Workplace Culture
Creating a New Normal for Problem Solving and Change Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Reality and Perception and Your Company's Workplace Culture presents a demonstrable path for navigating the change-management process from beginning to end while fully detailing its obstacles and its triumphs.
The book presents the view of a fictional 100-year old company called Acme Gyroscope,...