The Monster Under The Bed explains why
it's necessary for businesses to educate employees and consumers. Consider
the fact that the vast majority of 60 million PC owners, for example,
learned to use their computers not at school but at work or at home.
The authors explain how any high-tech, low-tech, or no-tech company
can discover new markets and create new sources of income by building
future business on a knowledge-for-profit basis— and how, once it does, its competitors must
follow or fail.
Filled with examples of high-profile companies
that are riding the crest of this powerful wave, this book is an insightful
exploration of the many ways that the knowledge-for-profit revolution
will profoundly affect our businesses, our educational processes, and
our everyday lives.
#2
Walk the Talk
... And Get The Results You
Want
by Eric Harvey and Alexander Lucia
CAUTION! This
is a book you’ll find yourself reading time and time again. It is so
captivating that several of our CEO clients have purchased a copy for
each of their Managers and Supervisors. It educates and entertains through
the journey of two fictitious characters who reveal the many
pitfalls that typically lay hidden from management. Walk The Talk
will arm you with the solutions to overcome these barriers.
Walk The Talk has answers to some of the
most pressing business challenges facing us today and tomorrow. Everyone
from corporate executives to individual contributors will benefit from
these results-oriented principles and techniques for building a productive,
enjoyable and high-performance culture.
The authors have created an entertaining and practical
tool to help you understand the power and simplicity of walking the
talk. It’s an invaluable tool for anyone who works with or through
other people.
#3
The Oz Principle
Getting Results Through Individual And Organizational Accountability
by Roger Connors - Tom Smith - Craig Hickman
Like all powerful literature,
The Wizard of Oz continues to enthrall audiences because its
plot strikes a nerve in most everyone. The book recounts a journey toward
awareness, and, from the beginning of their journey, the story’s main
characters gradually learn that they possess the power within themselves
to get the results they want.
Through these beloved characters, the authors
draw many likenesses between the Land of Oz and today’s challenging
workplace. The Oz Principle shows how to create a sense of urgency and
accountability for change that unleashes a power that only comes when
each employee, at every level, fulfills their obligation and realizes
the opportunity to participate in creating solutions.
This engaging book will put a smile on your face,
warmth in your heart, and real-life tools and strategies in your hands.
No doubt, you’ll be sharing the contents of The Oz Principle with everyone
you work with.
#4
Journey to the Emerald City
Achieve A Competitive Edge By Creating
A Culture of Accountability
by Roger Connors and Tom Smith
Building on the success
of their previous book, The OZ Principle, the authors explore the direct
link between a company’s culture and the results it produces. Journey
To The Emerald City details a clear road map for accelerating the move
to a Culture of Accountability in which people focus on achieving the
results critical to a company’s future.
Filled with success stories, Connors and Smith
introduce a step-by-step model to help people at any level of the organization
take action that will alter the culture’s belief system in order to
produce the desired results.
Rather than presenting a formula for "one best
way" to run an organization, the authors have provide a practical and
powerful desktop guide for any organization or team leader who has a
genuine interest in shifting their organizational culture in a "non-cookie-cutter"
format.
#5
Management Challenges for the 21st Century
New and Revolutionary Ideas and Perspectives
on the Central Management Issues of Tomorrow by "The Most Important
Management Thinker of our Time"
by Peter F. Drucker
In this book, Peter F. Drucker discusses the new
paradigms of management — how they have changed
and will continue to change our basic assumptions about the practices
and principles of management. Drucker analyzes the new realities of
strategy, shows how to be a leader in periods of change, and explains
"the New Information Revolution," discussing the information an executive
needs and the information an executive owes
Incisive, challenging, and mind-stretching, Drucker’s
new book is forward-looking and forward-thinking. It combines the broad
knowledge, wide practical experience, profound insight, sharp analysis,
and enlightened common sense that are the essence of Drucker’s writings,
which are continuing international bestsellers and "landmarks of the
managerial professional."
#6
The Dance of Change
The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum
in Learning Organizations
by Peter Senge
A follow-up on his
groundbreaking book
The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge has written The Dance
of Change for managers and executives at every level of an organization
revealing how business leaders can work together to anticipate the challenges
that profound change will ultimately force the organization to face.
Filled with individual and team exercises, in-depth
accounts of sustaining learning initiatives by managers and leaders
in the field, and well-tested practical advice, this book provides an
insider's perspective on implementing learning and change initiatives
at leading organizations around the world.
You don’t have to read this book from cover to
cover. Just open to any page; you’ll be surprised and challenged. On
every page an idea stops you in your tracks and makes you rethink everything
you thought you knew about the subject.
#7
Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers
Paradigm-Busting Strategies for Developing Change-Ready
People and Organizations
by Robert Kriegel and David Brandt
Tackling one of the
most important business issues of today, the authors demonstrate why
the latest panaceas — re-engineering, virtual
teams, outsourcing, reinventing, restructuring, downsizing — almost always prove unsuccessful. They expose how
these buzzword programs overlook the most fundamental element of all
business: people. After all, people are the gatekeepers of change, with
the power to breathe life into a new program or kill it. If they’re
excited and positive, it’s open sesame; if they’re resistant, they’ll
slam the door in your face.
Outmoded beliefs, practices, and processes ...
why do so many business people cling to their established ways as if
their lives depended on them? When the very things they refuse to give
up, the sacred cows of the business world, are the lodestones that will
kill their careers and their companies’ path to success? In this insightful
and unique guide, the authors reveal why people hold on to the old and
how to inspire them to bring on the new — to the point where they’re enthusiastically turning even their favorite
sacred cows into burgers. This entertaining book offers concrete strategies
to help you identify sacred cows, round them up, and put them out to
pasture. Getting to the heart of the matter, Kriegel and Brandt show
you how to coach yourself and others to create Change-Ready people.
#8
Mission Possible
Becoming a World-Class Organization While
There’s Still Time
by Ken Blanchard & Terry Waghorn
This book was written
for all living in organizations today who are dealing with the reality
of having to improve their present operation and design their future
at the same time.
The authors have a message for you: Your organization
is dying! To stay alive in the short run, you must improve quality,
profits, and customer service. Blanchard and Waghorn tell you how.
But that’s not enough. Before you know it, your
organization may be obsolete, unless you start re-creating it for the
future. Managing your present organization while creating a world-class
future—that’s your mission—should you and your organization choose to accept
it. Blanchard and Waghorn say, Mission Possible!
#9
The 3 Keys to Empowerment
Releasing the Power Within People
for Astonishing Results
by Ken Blanchard - John P. Carlos - Alan Randolph
Written in an easily accessible Q & A format, this
book closely examines and expands on the three keys to empowerment originally
presented in
Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute —
sharing information with everyone, creating autonomy
through boundaries, and replacing the hierarchy with teams. It clearly
outlines the promises and challenges of each stage of the journey, providing
managers with thought-provoking questions, clear advice, effective activities,
and action tools that will help them create a culture of empowerment.
Wherever they are in the journey, managers will find a clear roadmap
in this user-friendly action guide.
#10
GUNG HO!
Turn on the People in Any Organization
by Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles
The co-authors of the
business bestseller
Raving Fans are back with Gung Ho!
Here is an invaluable management tool that outlines foolproof ways to
increase productivity by fostering excellent morale in the workplace.
It’s a must-read for everyone who wants to stay on top in today’s ultra-competitive
business world.
Raving Fans taught managers how to turn customers
into full-fledged fans. Now, Gung Ho! brings the same magic
to employees. Through the inspirational story of fictional business
leaders, the authors reveal the secret of Gung Ho!—a revolutionary technique to boost enthusiasm and
performance and usher in astonishing results. The three principles of
Gung Ho! are:
