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In this amazing account, Daniel Seddiqui tells of working fifty different jobs in fifty states in fifty weeks. Working as everything from a cheesemaker in Wisconsin to a border patrol agent in Arizona, he details his journey across the industries and cultures of the United States and offers lessons he learned along the way about perseverance, risk taking, adaptability, networking, and endurance.
In this inspiring and beautifully illustrated book, bestselling author Margaret Wheatley offers guidance to people everywhere for how to persevere through challenges in their personal lives, families, workplaces, communities, and causes. She provides hope, wisdom, and perspective for learning the discipline of perseverance.
Crafting agreements with others is a fundamental life skill. Unfortunately, we were never taught how to do it. The agreements most people make are incomplete and ineffective-they usually focus on protecting against what might go wrong instead of figuring out how to make things go right. The Book of Agreement offers a new approach. Stewart Levine demonstrates the superiority of "agreements for results" versus "agreements for protection" and outlines ten principles for creating agreements that explicitly articulate desired outcomes and provide a roadmap to achieving them. He includes over thirty specific templates that can be used to create this new type of agreement for results in a variety of organizational and personal contexts.
With almost 3 million copies sold worldwide, this new edition of an enduring classic is the definitive guide to dramatically improve leadership effectiveness, transform personal and professional relationships, and unleash organizational results.
Significantly revised throughout, this edition includes updated stories, brand new content, and a practical group discussion guide.
Over two decades since first being published, Leadership and Self-Deception continues to help readers discover and overcome the persistent lies that are at the heart of the people-related dysfunction that plagues relationships and hinders organizational results. Told through an engaging story, this book reveals the ways we blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage our efforts to achieve success and rebuild broken relationships.
Completely rewritten throughout, this fourth edition features important updates:
• A broader cast of characters who resonate with a wide and diverse audience
• Updated stories and examples that help readers immediately apply these timeless concepts to the modern workplace
• An individual study and group discussion guide to facilitate personal and team discoveries
• Practical guides to apply the tools on a personal, team, and organization-wide level
Explore the ideas that have helped millions of people and thousands of organizations sustainably transform relationships and results.
Significantly revised throughout, this edition includes updated stories, brand new content, and a practical group discussion guide.
Over two decades since first being published, Leadership and Self-Deception continues to help readers discover and overcome the persistent lies that are at the heart of the people-related dysfunction that plagues relationships and hinders organizational results. Told through an engaging story, this book reveals the ways we blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage our efforts to achieve success and rebuild broken relationships.
Completely rewritten throughout, this fourth edition features important updates:
• A broader cast of characters who resonate with a wide and diverse audience
• Updated stories and examples that help readers immediately apply these timeless concepts to the modern workplace
• An individual study and group discussion guide to facilitate personal and team discoveries
• Practical guides to apply the tools on a personal, team, and organization-wide level
Explore the ideas that have helped millions of people and thousands of organizations sustainably transform relationships and results.
The Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go card deck is an interactive tool built to accompany the bestselling book by Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni. These fifty-six cards share the most insightful career development questions that leaders around the world have been asked—or wish they had been asked.Questions range from "What do you predict will be the 'next big thing' in your field?" to "What one skill would help you be twice as effective?" and even, "When do you feel most alive?" Use them to assess your career development style, engage others, plan a career conversation with your own manager, and more!
Create workplaces where neurodivergent talent—your organizational canaries—can thrive, benefiting everyone, with this award-winning guide.
Despite valuable skills and strong work ethics, neurodivergent individuals (such as members of ADHD, autism, Tourette’s syndrome, and learning differences communities as well as others who bring different ways of thinking and experiencing life) face significant employment barriers. It means that their unique talents and perspectives are often excluded, and their canary warnings about problems like bullying, ineffective work organization, or ethical slippery slopes that harm all are ignored.
This practical guide helps CEOs, managers, HR leaders, and changemakers build truly inclusive workplaces by addressing systemic problems and improving work for everyone. Drawing on over twenty-five years of global experience and research on uniquely inclusive organizations, the book offers the following tools:
Despite valuable skills and strong work ethics, neurodivergent individuals (such as members of ADHD, autism, Tourette’s syndrome, and learning differences communities as well as others who bring different ways of thinking and experiencing life) face significant employment barriers. It means that their unique talents and perspectives are often excluded, and their canary warnings about problems like bullying, ineffective work organization, or ethical slippery slopes that harm all are ignored.
This practical guide helps CEOs, managers, HR leaders, and changemakers build truly inclusive workplaces by addressing systemic problems and improving work for everyone. Drawing on over twenty-five years of global experience and research on uniquely inclusive organizations, the book offers the following tools:
- An intersectional approach to neuroinclusion
- Holistic understanding of human differences (social, cognitive, emotional, physical)
- Comprehensive talent practices from job descriptions to leadership development
- Global perspectives celebrating diverse neurodivergent voices
- Actionable strategies for change at any organizational level
Adopting the latest agile tools and practices won't be enough to respond to rapid market change. Leaders must first lay the groundwork by creating the right environment for these tools to work.
An ever-growing pile of frameworks and tools falsely offer an “easy route” to organizational agility. However, responding to rapid market change requires you alter so much more than just your way of working. Your work style is only one of six factors that the Agile Centre's research identifies as the key to success. From years of experience certifying people in agile leadership, product ownership, and scrum mastery, Karim Harbott has created a model that will help your organization achieve all six factors required for success: leadership, culture, structure, engagement, and governance as well as ways of working together. Drawing from Harbott's famous Business Agility Canvas, this book will help leaders get realistic about the scope of the changes needed in their organization and show them how to get started.
An ever-growing pile of frameworks and tools falsely offer an “easy route” to organizational agility. However, responding to rapid market change requires you alter so much more than just your way of working. Your work style is only one of six factors that the Agile Centre's research identifies as the key to success. From years of experience certifying people in agile leadership, product ownership, and scrum mastery, Karim Harbott has created a model that will help your organization achieve all six factors required for success: leadership, culture, structure, engagement, and governance as well as ways of working together. Drawing from Harbott's famous Business Agility Canvas, this book will help leaders get realistic about the scope of the changes needed in their organization and show them how to get started.
Knowledge Café is a process for creating, exchanging, and optimizing knowledge, whether in-person or virtual. This popular and practical knowledge management tool supports a culture where projects and innovation thrive.
So many project workers are overloaded with useless information and starving for the information they really need. Knowledge Management (KM) is an important and underrated ingredient in successful project management. The Knowledge Café makes KM best practices accessible to project managers everywhere.
Human knowledge is the intellectual capital of organizations, and the consequences for losing it are dire. Knowledge Café is a current, cross-generational, systematic concept designed to retain and manage relevant knowledge--stopping the unchecked "brain drain" that can occur when knowledge is hoarded. This method is as simple to use as a corner café and works in both virtual and real-life settings.
Knowledge Café will help you combine your institutional knowledge from your experienced workers with the fresh ideas bubbling up from the front lines. If our projects (and organizations) are to succeed, we absolutely must make the shift from knowledge hoarding to knowledge sharing. You can't afford to lose the vital institutional wisdom you've built up every time there is turnover in your workforce. Knowledge Café is the solution.
So many project workers are overloaded with useless information and starving for the information they really need. Knowledge Management (KM) is an important and underrated ingredient in successful project management. The Knowledge Café makes KM best practices accessible to project managers everywhere.
Human knowledge is the intellectual capital of organizations, and the consequences for losing it are dire. Knowledge Café is a current, cross-generational, systematic concept designed to retain and manage relevant knowledge--stopping the unchecked "brain drain" that can occur when knowledge is hoarded. This method is as simple to use as a corner café and works in both virtual and real-life settings.
Knowledge Café will help you combine your institutional knowledge from your experienced workers with the fresh ideas bubbling up from the front lines. If our projects (and organizations) are to succeed, we absolutely must make the shift from knowledge hoarding to knowledge sharing. You can't afford to lose the vital institutional wisdom you've built up every time there is turnover in your workforce. Knowledge Café is the solution.
This book describes how companies of all types can achieve even greater success-measured not by volume or profits, but by the quality of life for employees and the quality service for customers.
Free yourself from self-limiting beliefs and fears that keep you stuck. This book lays out a blueprint for how to take control of your life and begin living your dreams.
We all dream. We all imagine. And we all have our vision of the good life. But why is it that 90 percent of people admit they are not living the life they've always dreamed of or imagined? What keeps us comfortable with the status quo and unable to get beyond "what if"?
In this book Dr. Shirley Davis addresses these and other questions by taking the reader on a personal journey of self-discovery, a search for significance, and an examination of the self-imposed limitations and excuses that keep us from living our dreams and performing at our best. Dr. Davis guides you through the steps she took to attack and defeat procrastination and present-bias syndrome-the mindset that causes us to focus on the here and now and overvalue immediate rewards at the expense of long-term goals and benefits. She also helps you overcome paralyzing fears that keep your dreams on pause and inspires confidence in you to jump first and grow your wings on the way down.
We all dream. We all imagine. And we all have our vision of the good life. But why is it that 90 percent of people admit they are not living the life they've always dreamed of or imagined? What keeps us comfortable with the status quo and unable to get beyond "what if"?
In this book Dr. Shirley Davis addresses these and other questions by taking the reader on a personal journey of self-discovery, a search for significance, and an examination of the self-imposed limitations and excuses that keep us from living our dreams and performing at our best. Dr. Davis guides you through the steps she took to attack and defeat procrastination and present-bias syndrome-the mindset that causes us to focus on the here and now and overvalue immediate rewards at the expense of long-term goals and benefits. She also helps you overcome paralyzing fears that keep your dreams on pause and inspires confidence in you to jump first and grow your wings on the way down.
