Conscious is a deeply human approach to personal change Our world is changing faster than our ability to adapt. Ambushed by speed, complexity, and uncertainty, many of us are unprepared for this acceleration. We act on autopilot as new challenges confront us. We are too reactive to problems and miss out on opportunities. We get hijacked by conflicting values and polarizing relationships. We face uncertainty with fear and mistrust. Stress and burnout are pervasive as many of us do not perform up...
The Conscious Consultant (J-B O-D (Organizational Development), #12)
by Kristine Quade and Renee M. Brown
Find out what it takes to become an effective consultant! In order to succeed as a change agent and consultant we mustclarify our own purpose, motivation, and relationship with ourcareers. The Conscious Consultant--a book in ThePracticing Organization Development Series--offers amuch-needed road map and powerful tool that consultants can use toperform a personal assessment of foundational principles in orderto achieve greater integrity and alignment with personal values andcareer. The book's Ac...
OECD factbook 2015/2016
Redesigning Asian Business: In the Aftermath of Crisis
by Frank-Jurgen Richter
8 Steps to Building Innovating Organizations (Response Books)
by Manu Parashar
Successful businesses are those that continuously turn ideas into profits. In the present global context, it is innovation that determines whether a business is gaining a competitive edge over others in shrinking markets. This extremely interesting book breaks the manager's myth that innovation is something outside the organizational framework, and shows how the capability to innovate can be built into the fabric of an organization in eight steps. The author focuses on a model that managers ca...
Professionals and Policy: Management Strategy in a Competitive World
by Mike Bottery
From the founder of "layoff survivor sickness" an updated edition of a book for today's downsized workforce Thoroughly revised and updated, David Noer's classic book about downsized organizations has never been more relevant. Reports of the most recent layoffs are making the front pages of our newspapers with frightening regularity. And massive downsizing continues to reshape the face of American business. But what about those who remain behind? Healing the Wounds provides an antidote to the wid...
In Atomic the authorsa revolutionary theory is put to the test. Looking across all sectors of business, including retail banking, financial services, telecommunications, IT and consultancy, carbon--based corporations (oil and gas companies), and consumer products companies, Camrass and Farncombe discover some real eye--openers, including how truly more efficient these industries become by a change in corporate structure. The implications for individuals are equally profound and far--reaching. I...
Vulnerable People, Vulnerable States
by Daniel Bromley and Glen Anderson
A revealing look at austerity measures that succeed-and those that don'tFiscal austerity is hugely controversial. Opponents argue that it can trigger downward growth spirals and become self-defeating. Supporters argue that budget deficits have to be tackled aggressively at all times and at all costs. Bringing needed clarity to one of today's most challenging economic issues, three leading policy experts cut through the political noise to demonstrate that there is not one type of austerity but ma...
Managing Change in Organizations 6th Edn
by C A Carnall, Colin Carnall, and Rune Todnem
Managing Change in Organisationsprovides a practical and thorough overview of how effective change can be achieved in organizations. The text is ideal for advanced undergraduates, MBA and postgraduate students on courses in managing change and organisational change.Colin Carnall takes a strategic approach, outlining guidance and techniques for planning and implementing, evaluating and learning from major organizational change. Reviewing traditional and more recent critical theories, he also pres...
The primary aim of this text is to provide management students and practising managers with an understanding of, and a guide to, managing the complexities of organizational change effectively.
Trends (Essentials (DK Publishing)) (Tom Peters Essentials)
by Martha Barletta and Tom Peters
How you respond to emerging trends and exploit their potential is key to the success of your organisation. Create a strategic vision for the future with this crucial guide to trends. Perceptive, provocative and inspiring ideas to transform the way you work, reinvent your business and make your organisation a trendsetter from management guru Tom Peters.
For more and more companies in a world that's changing fast, there's only one way to win the game: transform it entirely. For anyone who wants to thrive in this new order, this requires a revolution in thinking--a steady stream of disruptive strategies and unexpected solutions. Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business shows how to generate and execute those solutions--a disruptive approach for a disruptive age. Author Luke Williams demonstrates his experience crea...
In this book the reader will encounter a number of insidious doings including kidnappings, poisonous cats, snake murders, albino peacocks, killer apes, quicksand, a haunted house, rat torture, mummy attacks and more.