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American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) recently released a fantastic collection titled “ The ASTD Management Development Handbook ”. This is a very non-traditional approach to write a handbook of management development! Books/Reviews Leading People ASTD ASTD Management Development Handbook book HR Leadership Management Training MORE
The CEO’s Strategy Handbook: How to create, sustain and accelerate profitable growth Stuart Cross Global Professional Publishing (2011) How to manage strategy effectively and on a continuous basis In fact, everyone in a given enterprise (including but not limited to C-level executives) should be actively engaged in effective management of strategy. MORE
This weekend I spent time reviewing Alan Hirsch’s new book 5Q: Reactivating the Original Intelligence and Capacity of the Body of Christ. First, let me give you my review, and then I’ll tell you what I learned. This book is excellent. In it, Hirsch indicates he is working on his doctorate, and this is clearly […]. Other MORE
The Perfectionist’s Handbook: Take Risks, Invite Criticism, and Make the Most of Your Mistakes Jeff Szymanski John Wiley & Sons (2011) A brilliant analysis of the differences between healthy and unhealthy perfectionism I agree with Jeff Szymanski that perfection is best viewed as an on-going process rather than as an ultimate destination. MORE
Michael Michalko is one of the most highly acclaimed creativity experts in the world and author of the best sellers Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity), ThinkPak (A Brainstorming Card Deck), Creative Thinkering (Putting your Imagination to Work), and Cracking Creativity (The Secrets Of Creative Genius).??As MORE
Employee Turnover Eric Jacobson Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Exit Interviews The Essential HR HandbookKnowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. That's because you can use the reasons a departing employee provides to gather information about processes, people and departments that might need some redirection to correct situations that may have contributed to the employee's reasons for leaving. MORE
Perhaps the biggest – and the most troublesome reason is; organizations cohering to a one-size-fits-all employee handbook that often exposes them to liability for having an insufficient policy. Most experts agree that a customized employee handbook is the most effective way to exercise policies and procedures governing tricky aspects such as background checks, minimum wages, drug testing, harassment, family leave and whistle blower protection. MORE
Mergers & Acquisitions Integration Handbook: Helping Companies Realize the Full Value of Acquisitions Scott C. Whitaker John Wiley & Sons (2012) How to combine, consolidate, and integrate resources effectively Most mergers and acquisitions either fail or fall far short of original expectations. Reasons vary, of course, from one situation to another. However, more often than [.]. MORE
Check out Price Pritchett's book called, The Team Member Handbook For Teamwork. In fact, you can even learn a lot just from reading the handbook's Table Of Contents. It provides you good, practical, useful information. You'll learn as a manager how to build a strong team. You'll learn as a team member how to be effective on a team. MORE
Guest Posts employee handbook human resourcesWe've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. link]. MORE
This handbook is designed to help every manager navigate this evolving business landscape through a new lens. The post Remote Manager Handbook appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training. As organizations across the globe quickly shift to remote work structures, much of the responsibility for ensuring continued success falls on the shoulders of managers. MORE
Humility Leading Marks of leaders Personal Growth Taking others higher accounting practices arrogance Disagreement employee handbooks Growth hr guidelines Leadership Development PowerPride is good. For example, “Have some pride” and “Take pride in your work.” Arrogant pride, however, represents the dark, blinding, deceptive underbelly of leadership. MORE
Humility Leading Marks of leaders Personal Growth Taking others higher accounting practices arrogance Disagreement employee handbooks Growth hr guidelines Leadership Development PowerPride is good. For example, “Have some pride” and “Take pride in your work.” Arrogant pride, however, represents the dark, blinding, deceptive underbelly of leadership. MORE
It is called, The Management Development Handbook, from ASTD Press. One chapter is a set of screen shots from the best employee handbook I have ever seen. Words like “cry,” “love,” and “irreverence,” are shared in this handbook about management. The Management Development Handbook. Hello! Yes, I got all my hair cut off. The Houston humidity is not a curly girl's friend.but I digress. I want to tell you about my new book! MORE
This handbook is designed to help managers navigate this transition through a new lens, by helping them process the change that has occurred and providing strategies for evaluating their teams’ goals and performance. The post The Returning to Work Handbook: Reflections and Strategies for Managers appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training. MORE
Bob's blog entries Cracking Creativity (The Secrets Of Creative Genius) Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work Frans Johansson Henry Ford integrative thinking Michael Michalko on how to “crack the barriers to creativity” Roger Martin Ten Speed Press The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas [comma] Concepts [comma] and Cultures Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques Thinkpak: A Brainstorming Card Set MORE
Today I have a great resource from the folks at HubCap Digital with the inaugural volume of its Human Capital Handbook. The Resource: HubCap Digital's Human Capital Handbook 2011 What It Covers: This free download from HubCap Digital is the organization's first installment of what is meant to be a "living document" that continually evolves to adapt to the needs of its audience facing an ever-changing. Happy Friday - I hope you have had a wonderful week! MORE
Meyers, you just gave us all a life handbook! Did you know September is international “Update Your Resume Month&# ? I didn’t either…but it is! This press release by career coach and author, Ford R. Myers, offers five tips to develop attention-getting resumes: 1. Be Brief. Be Specific. Be Active. Be Selective. Be Honest. Taken like this, I think these five tips can apply to just about every facet of a women’s career. MORE
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Michalko, author of business classics that include Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius (2001), Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques, 2nd Edition (2006), and Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work (2011). MORE
Foreign Policy (The Ethics of American Foreign Policy) the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom The Office Politics Handbook: Winning the Game of Power and Politics at Work Tom Davenport University of California/Berkeley University of Hawaii Voltaire Jack Godwin, PhD, is a political scientist whose appeal spans the political spectrum. MORE
dence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic The Office Politics Handbook: Winning the Game of Power and Politics at Work Jack Godwin Unlimited Sales Success: 12 Simple Steps for Selling More Than You Ever […]. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Conf!dence: MORE
Flip the book over, and you have Gutsche’s updated and expanded, bestselling, Exploiting Chaos , book now called, The Innovation Handbook , featuring memorable real-world case studies and plenty of thought-provoking questions to inspire next steps for innovation. Once you are primed for change, you can flip it over to read, The Innovation Handbook , and began the journey to finding your big idea. MORE
Whitaker on completing successful cross-border mergers and acquisitions: An interview by Bob Morris University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Mergers & Acquisitions Integration Handbook: Helping Companies Realize The Full Value of AcquisitionsScott Whitaker is a Partner with Global PMI Partners and has been involved in dozens of mergers and acquisitions totaling nearly $100 billion in value. MORE
I just received this introduction from Marshall Goldsmith and Patricia Wheeler and thought you may be interested. Here are the details. * * * Marshall Goldsmith and Patricia Wheeler invite you to a ?Thought Thought Leader Teleforum?on on Wednesday March 28th at noon Eastern time? Please join us for a Thought Leader TeleForum on Wednesday March 28th [.]. MORE
Onboarding today looks nothing like onboarding of ten or twenty years ago. Acclimating new millennial employees to company culture requires creative thinking and modern tactics. Read Beth Miller’s new guest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out how. Beth Armknecht Miller Millennials onboarding MORE
Bob's blog entries Alliance Boots Alliance Unichem Apple Avon Cosmetics Boots the Chemists DFS Global Professional Publishing GSK plc In Which We Serve John Le Carré Lawrence Of Arabia Zulu Local Hero Morgan Cross Consulting PricewaterhouseCoopers Steve Jobs Stuart Cross The Bridge on the River Kwai The CEO's Strategy HandbookStuart Cross is a consultant, coach, and speaker who helps world-class companies dramatically accelerate profit growth. MORE
By Sharon Armstrong Most all managers and leaders do performance reviews, and most don’t look forward to them. This practical and broad ranging book may help. About the final third of the book is a compilation of sample forms that an organization could adopt or adapt, but the first 130 pages applies to all leaders [.]. Books Developing Others Leadership Learning coaching performance reviews MORE
The Daily Handbook for Extreme Leaders (adapted from The Radical Leap Re-Energized ) is a practical, inspiring, and essential guide to being a leader of substance and significance. I’ve had many people tell me that they’ve used The Daily Handbook with their teams and families, too). MORE
The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook by Rupert Scofield is written to guide the aspiring social entrepreneur through the full range of activities of starting, building and running a social business. Rupert is the CEO of the foundation for International Community Assistance, a leading microfinance institution. Review by David Stephens FCMI. You are not watching this post, click to start watching MORE
As we approach another year, California employers should reexamine their employee handbook to ensure that it is up to date. These differences between the FMLA and CFRA will require a revision to your handbook. You should have a policy in the employee handbook addressing to phone use. MORE
The Employee Handbook. A good employee handbook will introduce new recruits to the company’s core values, mission and culture, will tell them what’s expected of them, but most importantly, it will tell them what’s permissible and what’s not. MORE
Recently, I read a great book by William Crilly and Andrew Sherman called, The AMA Handbook of Due Diligence. I harvested a huge bag of lettuce (Hobby 1) on the weekend to freeze to make soup and you can see, I still have lots left. Lettuce put through the blender makes an excellent soup (hobby 2)stock. Also had a great 8 mile run(hobby 3) yesterday in the heat. MORE
Chris Griffiths, author of The Creative Thinking Handbook: Your Step-By-Step Guide To Problem Solving In Business, is founder and CEO of OpenGenius. Innovation business management Chris Griffiths strategydriven The Creative Thinking Handbook:? Where does an idea come from? It’s a debatable question, and one that likely invokes an image of classic cartoons and lightbulbs above heads. In real life, those “eureka!” MORE
Bob's blog entries David Evans and Dick Schmalensee on “The New Economics of Multisided Platforms”: An interview by Bob Morris Global Economics group Handbook of Industrial Organization Harvard Business Review Howard W. David Evans and Dick Schmalensee are among the early pioneers in the research of “multi-sided markets” and the economic principles that inform the unique design of business models, pricing and incentive structures, and product design for these platform-based businesses. MORE
David S. Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. This book tells the in-the-trenches stories of individuals who led bold, sweeping change. MORE
The Perfectionist’s Handbook: Take Risks, Invite Criticism, and Make the Most of Your Mistakes Jeff Szymanski John Wiley & Sons (2011) A brilliant analysis of the differences between healthy and unhealthy perfectionism I agree with Jeff Szymanski that perfection is best viewed as an on-going process rather than as an ultimate destination. MORE
This handbook is designed to guide employees navigating this transition through the lens of Situational Leadership ® by providing strategies that will help you process the change that has occurred and evaluate your goals and performance, as well as the tools to “Take Charge” of your own performance. The post The Returning to Work Handbook: Reflections and Strategies for Employees appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training. MORE
Bob's blog entries “A Daily Handbook for Extreme Leaders” “Doing-Knowing Gap” Eliyahu Goldratt Jeffrey Pfeffer No Limit Publishing Patrick Lencioni Rabbi Hillel the Elder Robert Sutton “The Knowing-Doing Gap” Steve Farber The Radical Edge The Radical Leap The Radical Leap Re-Energized: A Story That Will Change the Way You LeadThe Radical Leap Re-Energized: A Story That Will Change the Way You Lead Steve Farber No Limit Publishing (2011) “If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? MORE
Bob's blog entries Adam Bryant AT&T Corner Office column Donald Sull Joan Magretta John Donovan Stuart Cross SundayBusiness section sustain and accelerate profitable growth The CEO’s Strategy Handbook: How to create The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed The New York Times The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World Times Books Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy MORE
Judith Humphrey ''s new book, Taking the Stage: How Women Can Speak Up, Stand Out, and Succee d , is based on a program that has been delivered to over 400,000 women worldwide. Filled with practical and actionable advice , the book is ideal for women at all stages of their career and for the managers and executives committed to supporting and guiding these women on their leadership journeys. This book deals with the qualities and desires deep within all of us," says Humphrey. "It MORE
Bob''s blog entries Action Learning: Simultaneous Development and Succession Planning Handbook Chris DeRose Don Pryzgodski GE’s Leadership Center Global Business Partnership Global Leadership in Healthcare Program Global Leadership Program Noel M. Succession: Mastering the Make-or-Break Process of Leadership Transition Noel M. MORE
The post Remote Employee Handbook appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training. As organizations across the globe quickly shift to remote work structures, employees that were accustomed to working in a centralized location are finding themselves in a new world of work—in their home. MORE
The Office Politics Handbook: Winning the Game of Power and Politics at Work Jack Godwin Career Pess (2013) How to survive and then thrive by effectively managing micropolitics in the contemporary workplace As I began to read this book, I was reminded of another, Jeff Pfeffer’s Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don’t. […]. MORE
Handbook Related Topics The Center For Leadership Studies
MARCH 30, 2020
This handbook is designed to help every manager navigate this evolving business landscape through a new lens. The post Remote Manager Handbook appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training. As organizations across the globe quickly shift to remote work structures, much of the responsibility for ensuring continued success falls on the shoulders of managers.
HR Digest
DECEMBER 27, 2020
As we approach another year, California employers should reexamine their employee handbook to ensure that it is up to date. These differences between the FMLA and CFRA will require a revision to your handbook. You should have a policy in the employee handbook addressing to phone use.
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The Center For Leadership Studies
MARCH 24, 2020
The post Remote Employee Handbook appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training. As organizations across the globe quickly shift to remote work structures, employees that were accustomed to working in a centralized location are finding themselves in a new world of work—in their home.
HR Digest
MARCH 4, 2020
Perhaps the biggest – and the most troublesome reason is; organizations cohering to a one-size-fits-all employee handbook that often exposes them to liability for having an insufficient policy. Most experts agree that a customized employee handbook is the most effective way to exercise policies and procedures governing tricky aspects such as background checks, minimum wages, drug testing, harassment, family leave and whistle blower protection.
Kevin Eikenberry
JULY 21, 2013
By Sharon Armstrong Most all managers and leaders do performance reviews, and most don’t look forward to them. This practical and broad ranging book may help. About the final third of the book is a compilation of sample forms that an organization could adopt or adapt, but the first 130 pages applies to all leaders [.]. Books Developing Others Leadership Learning coaching performance reviews
The Center For Leadership Studies
MAY 15, 2020
This handbook is designed to guide employees navigating this transition through the lens of Situational Leadership ® by providing strategies that will help you process the change that has occurred and evaluate your goals and performance, as well as the tools to “Take Charge” of your own performance. The post The Returning to Work Handbook: Reflections and Strategies for Employees appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training.
Eric Jacobson
MARCH 5, 2020
Flip the book over, and you have Gutsche’s updated and expanded, bestselling, Exploiting Chaos , book now called, The Innovation Handbook , featuring memorable real-world case studies and plenty of thought-provoking questions to inspire next steps for innovation. Once you are primed for change, you can flip it over to read, The Innovation Handbook , and began the journey to finding your big idea.
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Women on Business
MARCH 20, 2013
Guest Posts employee handbook human resourcesWe've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. link].
Sales Wolf Blog
MARCH 25, 2011
Today I have a great resource from the folks at HubCap Digital with the inaugural volume of its Human Capital Handbook. The Resource: HubCap Digital's Human Capital Handbook 2011 What It Covers: This free download from HubCap Digital is the organization's first installment of what is meant to be a "living document" that continually evolves to adapt to the needs of its audience facing an ever-changing. Happy Friday - I hope you have had a wonderful week!
Eric Jacobson
OCTOBER 29, 2018
David S. Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. This book tells the in-the-trenches stories of individuals who led bold, sweeping change.
Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Check out Price Pritchett's book called, The Team Member Handbook For Teamwork. In fact, you can even learn a lot just from reading the handbook's Table Of Contents. It provides you good, practical, useful information. You'll learn as a manager how to build a strong team. You'll learn as a team member how to be effective on a team.
Great Leadership By Dan
JULY 29, 2015
Onboarding today looks nothing like onboarding of ten or twenty years ago. Acclimating new millennial employees to company culture requires creative thinking and modern tactics. Read Beth Miller’s new guest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out how. Beth Armknecht Miller Millennials onboarding
CEO Blog
JUNE 27, 2011
Recently, I read a great book by William Crilly and Andrew Sherman called, The AMA Handbook of Due Diligence. I harvested a huge bag of lettuce (Hobby 1) on the weekend to freeze to make soup and you can see, I still have lots left. Lettuce put through the blender makes an excellent soup (hobby 2)stock. Also had a great 8 mile run(hobby 3) yesterday in the heat.
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The Center For Leadership Studies
MAY 11, 2020
This handbook is designed to help managers navigate this transition through a new lens, by helping them process the change that has occurred and providing strategies for evaluating their teams’ goals and performance. The post The Returning to Work Handbook: Reflections and Strategies for Managers appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training.
Deep Imprints
JUNE 26, 2017
This weekend I spent time reviewing Alan Hirsch’s new book 5Q: Reactivating the Original Intelligence and Capacity of the Body of Christ. First, let me give you my review, and then I’ll tell you what I learned. This book is excellent. In it, Hirsch indicates he is working on his doctorate, and this is clearly […]. Other
First Friday Book Synopsis
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
The Office Politics Handbook: Winning the Game of Power and Politics at Work Jack Godwin Career Pess (2013) How to survive and then thrive by effectively managing micropolitics in the contemporary workplace As I began to read this book, I was reminded of another, Jeff Pfeffer’s Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don’t. […].
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 10, 2012
Mergers & Acquisitions Integration Handbook: Helping Companies Realize the Full Value of Acquisitions Scott C. Whitaker John Wiley & Sons (2012) How to combine, consolidate, and integrate resources effectively Most mergers and acquisitions either fail or fall far short of original expectations. Reasons vary, of course, from one situation to another. However, more often than [.].
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
Meyers, you just gave us all a life handbook! Did you know September is international “Update Your Resume Month&# ? I didn’t either…but it is! This press release by career coach and author, Ford R. Myers, offers five tips to develop attention-getting resumes: 1. Be Brief. Be Specific. Be Active. Be Selective. Be Honest. Taken like this, I think these five tips can apply to just about every facet of a women’s career.
First Friday Book Synopsis
DECEMBER 22, 2011
The Perfectionist’s Handbook: Take Risks, Invite Criticism, and Make the Most of Your Mistakes Jeff Szymanski John Wiley & Sons (2011) A brilliant analysis of the differences between healthy and unhealthy perfectionism I agree with Jeff Szymanski that perfection is best viewed as an on-going process rather than as an ultimate destination.
Steve Farber
JANUARY 3, 2012
The Daily Handbook for Extreme Leaders (adapted from The Radical Leap Re-Energized ) is a practical, inspiring, and essential guide to being a leader of substance and significance. I’ve had many people tell me that they’ve used The Daily Handbook with their teams and families, too).
First Friday Book Synopsis
DECEMBER 28, 2011
The CEO’s Strategy Handbook: How to create, sustain and accelerate profitable growth Stuart Cross Global Professional Publishing (2011) How to manage strategy effectively and on a continuous basis In fact, everyone in a given enterprise (including but not limited to C-level executives) should be actively engaged in effective management of strategy.
First Friday Book Synopsis
DECEMBER 30, 2011
The Perfectionist’s Handbook: Take Risks, Invite Criticism, and Make the Most of Your Mistakes Jeff Szymanski John Wiley & Sons (2011) A brilliant analysis of the differences between healthy and unhealthy perfectionism I agree with Jeff Szymanski that perfection is best viewed as an on-going process rather than as an ultimate destination.
Management Craft
MAY 21, 2012
It is called, The Management Development Handbook, from ASTD Press. One chapter is a set of screen shots from the best employee handbook I have ever seen. Words like “cry,” “love,” and “irreverence,” are shared in this handbook about management. The Management Development Handbook. Hello! Yes, I got all my hair cut off. The Houston humidity is not a curly girl's friend.but I digress. I want to tell you about my new book!
Chartered Management Institute
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook by Rupert Scofield is written to guide the aspiring social entrepreneur through the full range of activities of starting, building and running a social business. Rupert is the CEO of the foundation for International Community Assistance, a leading microfinance institution. Review by David Stephens FCMI. You are not watching this post, click to start watching
Eric Jacobson
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Judith Humphrey ''s new book, Taking the Stage: How Women Can Speak Up, Stand Out, and Succee d , is based on a program that has been delivered to over 400,000 women worldwide. Filled with practical and actionable advice , the book is ideal for women at all stages of their career and for the managers and executives committed to supporting and guiding these women on their leadership journeys. This book deals with the qualities and desires deep within all of us," says Humphrey. "It
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
The Employee Handbook. A good employee handbook will introduce new recruits to the company’s core values, mission and culture, will tell them what’s expected of them, but most importantly, it will tell them what’s permissible and what’s not.
First Friday Book Synopsis
DECEMBER 21, 2014
Bob''s blog entries Action Learning: Simultaneous Development and Succession Planning Handbook Chris DeRose Don Pryzgodski GE’s Leadership Center Global Business Partnership Global Leadership in Healthcare Program Global Leadership Program Noel M. Succession: Mastering the Make-or-Break Process of Leadership Transition Noel M.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 19, 2012
Humility Leading Marks of leaders Personal Growth Taking others higher accounting practices arrogance Disagreement employee handbooks Growth hr guidelines Leadership Development PowerPride is good. For example, “Have some pride” and “Take pride in your work.” Arrogant pride, however, represents the dark, blinding, deceptive underbelly of leadership.
Strategy Driven
MAY 9, 2019
Chris Griffiths, author of The Creative Thinking Handbook: Your Step-By-Step Guide To Problem Solving In Business, is founder and CEO of OpenGenius. Innovation business management Chris Griffiths strategydriven The Creative Thinking Handbook:? Where does an idea come from? It’s a debatable question, and one that likely invokes an image of classic cartoons and lightbulbs above heads. In real life, those “eureka!”
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 1, 2016
Whitaker on completing successful cross-border mergers and acquisitions: An interview by Bob Morris University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Mergers & Acquisitions Integration Handbook: Helping Companies Realize The Full Value of AcquisitionsScott Whitaker is a Partner with Global PMI Partners and has been involved in dozens of mergers and acquisitions totaling nearly $100 billion in value.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 19, 2012
Humility Leading Marks of leaders Personal Growth Taking others higher accounting practices arrogance Disagreement employee handbooks Growth hr guidelines Leadership Development PowerPride is good. For example, “Have some pride” and “Take pride in your work.” Arrogant pride, however, represents the dark, blinding, deceptive underbelly of leadership.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 24, 2016
Bob's blog entries David Evans and Dick Schmalensee on “The New Economics of Multisided Platforms”: An interview by Bob Morris Global Economics group Handbook of Industrial Organization Harvard Business Review Howard W. David Evans and Dick Schmalensee are among the early pioneers in the research of “multi-sided markets” and the economic principles that inform the unique design of business models, pricing and incentive structures, and product design for these platform-based businesses.
First Friday Book Synopsis
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Michalko, author of business classics that include Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius (2001), Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques, 2nd Edition (2006), and Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work (2011).
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 29, 2012
Bob's blog entries Cracking Creativity (The Secrets Of Creative Genius) Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work Frans Johansson Henry Ford integrative thinking Michael Michalko on how to “crack the barriers to creativity” Roger Martin Ten Speed Press The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas [comma] Concepts [comma] and Cultures Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques Thinkpak: A Brainstorming Card Set
First Friday Book Synopsis
APRIL 30, 2012
Michael Michalko is one of the most highly acclaimed creativity experts in the world and author of the best sellers Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity), ThinkPak (A Brainstorming Card Deck), Creative Thinkering (Putting your Imagination to Work), and Cracking Creativity (The Secrets Of Creative Genius).??As
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 27, 2013
dence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic The Office Politics Handbook: Winning the Game of Power and Politics at Work Jack Godwin Unlimited Sales Success: 12 Simple Steps for Selling More Than You Ever […]. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Conf!dence:
Eric Jacobson
JUNE 22, 2016
Employee Turnover Eric Jacobson Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Exit Interviews The Essential HR HandbookKnowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. That's because you can use the reasons a departing employee provides to gather information about processes, people and departments that might need some redirection to correct situations that may have contributed to the employee's reasons for leaving.
First Friday Book Synopsis
DECEMBER 2, 2013
Foreign Policy (The Ethics of American Foreign Policy) the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom The Office Politics Handbook: Winning the Game of Power and Politics at Work Tom Davenport University of California/Berkeley University of Hawaii Voltaire Jack Godwin, PhD, is a political scientist whose appeal spans the political spectrum.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MARCH 19, 2012
Bob's blog entries Alliance Boots Alliance Unichem Apple Avon Cosmetics Boots the Chemists DFS Global Professional Publishing GSK plc In Which We Serve John Le Carré Lawrence Of Arabia Zulu Local Hero Morgan Cross Consulting PricewaterhouseCoopers Steve Jobs Stuart Cross The Bridge on the River Kwai The CEO's Strategy HandbookStuart Cross is a consultant, coach, and speaker who helps world-class companies dramatically accelerate profit growth.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MARCH 6, 2012
Bob's blog entries “A Daily Handbook for Extreme Leaders” “Doing-Knowing Gap” Eliyahu Goldratt Jeffrey Pfeffer No Limit Publishing Patrick Lencioni Rabbi Hillel the Elder Robert Sutton “The Knowing-Doing Gap” Steve Farber The Radical Edge The Radical Leap The Radical Leap Re-Energized: A Story That Will Change the Way You LeadThe Radical Leap Re-Energized: A Story That Will Change the Way You Lead Steve Farber No Limit Publishing (2011) “If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?
First Friday Book Synopsis
MARCH 20, 2012
I just received this introduction from Marshall Goldsmith and Patricia Wheeler and thought you may be interested. Here are the details. * * * Marshall Goldsmith and Patricia Wheeler invite you to a ?Thought Thought Leader Teleforum?on on Wednesday March 28th at noon Eastern time? Please join us for a Thought Leader TeleForum on Wednesday March 28th [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
JANUARY 1, 2012
Bob's blog entries Adam Bryant AT&T Corner Office column Donald Sull Joan Magretta John Donovan Stuart Cross SundayBusiness section sustain and accelerate profitable growth The CEO’s Strategy Handbook: How to create The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed The New York Times The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World Times Books Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy
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