Workplace & Organisational Behavior

The world’s best teams don’t win because of leadership alone. They win because of teamship. Yet when it comes to success, it is leaders who are lauded; too little attention is given to the transformation of the team itself. We’ve all but ignored how to extract billions of dollars of shareholder value from the interdependency of talent in teams, Keith Ferrazzi argues. Upgrading teams is one of the least curated and under-leveraged opportunities for success. It is time to focus on teamship.

In conversation with social entrepreneur Badr Jafar, philanthropic leaders including Bill Gates, Baroness Valerie Amos, Kristalina Georgieva, David Miliband, Razan Al Mubarak and many more discuss their hopes and priorities for the world of today and tomorrow. Their insights shed new light on the increasingly important role that strategic philanthropy is playing in helping to address some of the world’s greatest challenges.

Vincent Stanley, Patagonia's director of philosophy, with Yvon Chouinard, founder and former owner of Patagonia, draws on fifty years' experience to challenge all business owners and leaders to rethink their businesses in a time of cultural and climate chaos. The authors describe the current impact of manufacturing, commerce, and traditional capitalism on the planet's natural systems and human communities, and how that impact is forcing business to change its ways.

Business relationships are still dominated by a narrow perspective—trying to match products to customer needs and making deals. It's a buyer-seller relationship built on a transactional mindset, and it's not how you should be doing business. There's a better way—orchestrating growth—in which suppliers and customers collaborate to build strategies and grow together. Christoph Senn and Mehak Gandhi lay out the Triple Fit Strategy framework, which will help you escape the product-centric mindset and put customers at the heart of your business strategy.

This insightful guide provides a proven process for strategy design combined with The Nine Elements of Organizational Identity framework to align action for success. Whether you're a seasoned executive or a budding entrepreneur, this book is packed with valuable resources.

Startup Opportunities is the go-to guide for anyone with a great business idea. Whether it's your first business or your fifth, realistic assessment from the outset can save you a lot of time and money; why pour your heart and soul into a venture that is doomed to fail? Instead, position yourself to win from the very beginning.

Crisis manager George Pillari takes the listener through a series of real-life case studies to show us that decision making in tense situations is a skill to be learned and perfected. Different from most business books that talk about recipes for success (improve your habits, be more productive, etc.), Stupidities highlights what you need to avoid in order to be successful.

If you’ve put in the work, tried the apps, planners, and time management systems, but still aren’t getting the results you’d hoped for — it’s not hopeless! You just haven’t discovered the way YOU work best. Because it’s not about doing more — it’s about doing the right things in the way that’s right for you — not just for better productivity, but for a less stressful, more intentional and fulfilling life.

Transform your organization and personal success with the Kaizen Revolution Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle, featuring True Kaizen and Creating a Kaizen Culture. This audiobook set explores the powerful philosophy of Kaizen, the Japanese approach to continuous improvement that drives lasting success and high performance across industries.

Unlock the secrets to sustainable success in your organization with "Creating a Kaizen Culture: Fostering a Kaizen Culture for High-Performance." In this audiobook, you'll embark on a journey of continuous improvement and learn how to cultivate a workplace culture that thrives on innovation, efficiency, and adaptability. Kaizen, a Japanese philosophy centered around small, incremental changes, has revolutionized countless businesses worldwide. Now, it's your turn to harness its power.

Rising to the challenges of corporate culture and leadership can feel like an impossible challenge, especially when you're striving to align your team with the company’s core values. Guess what? Creating a thriving, motivated, and resilient organization that aligns fully with your corporate vision is entirely achievable. This book is your roadmap for realizing that vision. Drawing from years of hands-on experience, the author shares insights and strategies as someone who has been in your position and understands exactly what it takes to transform your organization.

Many leaders miss out on their teams’ full potential because navigating the complex and ever-changing business landscape is more and more challenging. Traditional leadership models often fail to address the intricate interplay of organizational intentions, external factors, and internal dynamics resulting in subpar performance and disengaged teams. As a result, executives find themselves ill equipped to set their organization and leaders up for success in an increasingly complex world.

"The Cybersecurity Blueprint for Executives" transforms complex cyber challenges into clear, actionable strategies for business leaders. Authors Marco Ryan and Andrew Fitzmaurice draw upon their expertise across government, academia, and business to provide answers you need.

What author Margaret Graziano proposes in Ignite Culture is a fundament shift in leadership’s approach to creating an intentional, healthy, high-performance organization. Offering a unique combination of experiential coaching, evidence-based leadership tools, and actionable strategies, Ignite Culture empowers business leaders with the wisdom and insights they need to reshape their company’s culture, increase employee engagement, and grow revenue in a supportive, high-performance environment.

生産技術とは、企業の工場や生産現場において生産ラインの設計や管理を行う仕事。自動化が進んでいるとはいえ、製造の過程には人間の手が欠かせず、生産技術は将来に渡ってニーズのある必要性の高い仕事といえる。本書は、生産技術業務や他の工場系の業務（生産管理・品質管理・品質保証など）についてのあるあるを、生産技術職YouTuberである著者がまとめたもの。

Are you ready to transform your leadership and create a thriving organizational culture? In "The Dysfunctional Leader," Todd Marshall Hearnsberger draws on over two decades of experience across corporate and non-profit sectors to expose the hidden roots of toxic leadership. Through captivating stories and practical insights, Todd reveals the warning signs of dysfunction and provides a roadmap for redemption.

BRAGG Inc.'s CEO, Norman Stern, is sucking the life out of the company. Everyone sees it. Everyone but Norm.

Diagnose: Boreout–Ein stilles Leiden, das viele Berufstätige trifft. In einer Welt, die oft nur von Burnout spricht, bleibt Boreout, der Zustand chronischer Unterforderung und Langeweile am Arbeitsplatz, häufig unerkannt. Doch die Auswirkungen können ebenso gravierend sein.

We’re living through a time when fiction seems more powerful than fact - when tales trump truth. Storytelling is a power-tool of leadership but it’s one that can both build and destroy. That’s why it’s more important than ever for leaders to master the art of story; not just telling stories about what happened but creating authentic stories that shape what happens next. In Story for Leaders David Pearl outlines the must-have techniques to create a compelling story and deliver it with power.

Life’s way too short to let a FUB suck the soul out of you. Download this audiobook, dodge the BS, and take back your sanity. You’ll thank me later.

In a post-pandemic job market, creating a truly mom-supportive workplace is the ultimate competitive advantage. But there's a pervasive problem across workplaces big and small: Managers aren't asking new mothers what support they need to transition back to work successfully. At the same time, working moms are afraid to ask for help-resulting in poor employment outcomes for both parties. The solution? Intentional and open conversation, which has to start at the managerial level.

The world needs leaders who have the strength to be kind. The Return on Kindness challenges companies to set a higher bar and reimagine what great leadership looks like. Kindness isn’t what you think it is. Kind leaders, far from being soft or weak, are caring and tough. The Return on Kindness makes a compelling, evidence-based case for why kind leadership is good for business and how kind leaders create value through prioritizing the mental health and wellbeing of their people.

Accessible and practical, the book draws on research from coaching, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and industrial-organizational psychology to provide the best science-based practices that can be applied in work and life. It presents core coaching skills that anyone can develop and use to improve their own emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and interactions with others. It uses levels of analysis to help listeners think about key concepts first in relation to themselves, and then in 1:1 interactions, group and team dynamics, organizational-level impact, and beyond.

Are you ready to unlock the secrets of successful organizations and apply them to your business? In her groundbreaking book, "The Next Step: Transforming Culture and Advancing Business Results through Organizational Design," Susannah offers an in-depth, practical guide to understanding and improving organizational design.

Ready to elevate your leadership communication skills in just a short listen? "Elevate Your Leadership: 8 Effective Communication Skills" is your key to transforming your leadership presence swiftly with concise communication tactics! Dive into "Elevate Your Leadership: 8 Effective Communication Skills" for actionable strategies on innovative thinking, transparent honesty, adaptable messaging, constructive arguments, effective differentiation, compelling storytelling, impactful body language, and crisis preparedness, empowering leaders to communicate with confidence and influence.