Kegan, Robert.
Summary: "In Immunity to Change, authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey show how our individual beliefs - along with the collective mindsets in our organizations - combine to create a natural but powerful immunity to change. By revealing how this mechanism holds us back, Kegan and Lahey give us the keys to unlock our potential and finally move forward. And by pinpointing and uprooting our own immunities to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 KEGTaylor, William
Summary: "Disruption is the key to innovation. Whether you run a one-man startup or a global business behemoth, the only way to win big is by relentlessly rethinking the rules of your industry - no matter how tried-and-true they are. InSimply Brilliant, the visionary co-founder of Fast Company William C. Taylor goes behind the scenes at nineteen organizations that are revolutionizing their otherwise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2016
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Contents: The quiet revolution -- Your return on revolution -- Drivers of sustainable high performance -- Putting behavioral leadership into practice: seven essential steps -- Game-changing plan deployment -- Coaching for elite performance -- Changing the way organizations change -- Winning on culture -- Developing behavioral leaders -- Building enterprise advantage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 JACSeidman, William Henry.
Contents: Follow your stars to a brighter future -- Reach for your stars -- Discover and describe: the detective -- Transform for brilliance -- Motivate the rest to be like the best -- Own your own learning -- Learning to lead -- Distribute globally, act locally -- Experience a real-world executive program -- Unleash the suppressed energy of frontline managers -- Drive cultural change with individual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 SEIKellerman, Barbara
Summary: "The COVID-19 pandemic will forever be remembered as a pivotal event in American history. Written by one of the world's foremost experts on leadership and followership, this book centers on the first six months of the pandemic and the crises that ran rampant. The chapters focus less on the former president, Donald Trump, than on his followers: on people complicit in his miserable mismanagement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Summary: "From the world's leading experts on workplace accountability comes the most comprehensive study on the subject, revealing the cure that could fix low employee engagement in the workplace once and for all One factor, more than any other, causes the problems business leaders fear most. Lackluster performance, sinking profits, and unmet stockholder expectations all stem from one source: a massive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2016
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Summary: The founders of the Jack Welch Management Institute, a fully accredited online MBA program, present a guide to overcoming modern business challenges, with recommendations for creating effective strategies, leading others, and building a thriving career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 WELAaker, Jennifer Lynn
Summary: "Anyone-even you!-can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the popular class at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Many people understand humor's power intuitively. But when it comes to using it with intention, far fewer know how. As a result, humor is vastly underleveraged in most workplaces today, impacting our performance, relationships, and health,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business AakerEllis, Lee
Summary: "Grounded in statistical research and supported by data from millions of clients and more than 45 years of workplace experience, Lee Ellis and Hugh Massie reveal their behavioral assessment process as well as personal stories on how they've successfully helped organizations achieve their goals by applying practical insights on human design. Readers are empowered to: Grow by capitalizing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FreedomStar Media 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 ELLLyons, Daniel
Summary: Examines how the ideas of Silicon Valley and its "new oligarchs" have changed work culture, making employees subject to constant change, dehumanizing technologies, and even health risks, and discusses how to restore the social contract between employers and employees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 658.3 LYOFerrazzi, Keith
Summary: How are leaders reshaping their organizations for a post-Covid world? Keith Ferrazzi offers a vision for what the organization of the future looks like and the best leadership practices that will redefine success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 658.41 FERBeer, Michael
Summary: "In thirty years of working in corporations, Michael Beer has witnessed how organizational silence has derailed many a strategic objective. When lower-level employees in the organization can't speak truth to power, senior leaders don't hear what they needto hear about their firm's fitness to compete. Employees lose trust in higher-ups and become more resistant to change. In Fit to Compete, Beer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business Review Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 BEESummary: Video version. Viewers meet two young managers who help workers with appropriate responses to feedback in different work situations. Whether feedback is true, unclear, or downright false, we discover how to respond in a way that enables us to develop confidence, separate our reactions from our feelings, and learn from the situation. Using live-action video, the CD-ROM program guides the user...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The relationship between supervisors and support staff members can often run off the smooth road of productivity. The major reason for problems between supervisors and staff is a lack of effective, open communication. This program is a dramatization of one employee's problems with his supervisor. The information he receives from the company's personnel manager gets him on track with how to cope...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: What kind of person goes into advertising? How do you break in? And what does it take to succeed once you get there? This program goes to New York City-based Euro RSCG, one of the world's largest ad agencies, to find out. Shoot-from-the-hip candid, a mixed group of recent hires and award-winning professionals-account executives, an art director, creative directors, executive creative directors,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: How will America close the gender gap that exists in technology, to empower female students? Set at Fulmore Middle School in Austin, Texas, this program exposes counterproductive classroom behaviors and presents measures being taken to correct the misperception that computing is a males-only domain. The Director of the Center for Gender Equity, the author of SchoolGirls, the creators of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: It's the clearest window into our modern world, the most popular search engine in existence, and the foundation of an economic juggernaut, eponymously named. This CNBC Original documentary goes inside Google and examines the Internet phenomenon-or transformation-it spawned. CNBC's Maria Bartiromo presents the fascinating story of how two graduate students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, turned a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Although the service and hospitality industry is a major component of the U.S. economy, it may be difficult to find operations management case studies in the hotel sector. This program fills that void, guiding viewers through the "input and output" of operations management at a major Australian hotel. Viewers follow the general manager, food and beverage manager, executive chef, and executive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Blue-collar jobs have been leaving America for decades. Now, thousands of higher paying positions are also moving abroad. This program examines the pros and cons of white-collar outsourcing, highlighting emotional and ideological divisions on the topic. It also studies real-life examples of outsourcing in action. An in-depth look at India's booming call center industry-which provides systematic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Once the reigning symbol of American industrial might, General Motors now ranks among the most visible casualties of the global economic crisis. What specific forces cut the industrial giant down to size, and what strategies will enable it to rebuild? This CNBC Original documentary goes inside GM as it scrambles to stay alive and-if it can learn from the past-regain its former glory. Topics...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Using the EEOC definition of sexual harassment, this program shows how this damaging and expensive problem in the workplace takes place, how situations get out of hand, and how the problem can be addressed and stopped. It reviews all the well-worn excuses for ignoring harassment, provides suggestions for action if harassment is suspected, and highlights the cost of failing to take action at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: There are many reasons why the quality of restaurant and hotel service varies-but they generally boil down to one factor: teamwork. This program helps students who are aiming for the hospitality industry understand why teamwork is vital to the success of an establishment, what its core principles are, and how it can be put into practice and strengthened. The video examines team structure,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This video provides students with the basic skills needed to handle all types of business telephone communications. Shows the viewer how to deal with the proper procedures for answering the telephone, taking messages, screening calls, and handling irate callers. Presents the steps for placing calls, including a brief look at the telephone directory, local and long distance calls, efficient use...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Heath, Dan
Summary: "So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix the systems that caused the problems ... [This book] probes the psychological forces that push us downstream--including 'problem blindness,' which can leave us oblivious to serious problems in our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020