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Yo, listen up! Before we dive into this game-changing guide, we gotta lay down some real talk. This ain't your grandma's and them, self-help book with all that PG-rated, sugar-coated fluff. Nah, we're here to keep it a buck, with Unfiltered Love and straight-up, even if it makes my church folks squirm a little. 'Cause God Ain't G-Rated, so BE FREE! Consider yourself warned! Disclaimer: This guide contains language that may ruffle a few feathers, challenge...
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What got us here will not get us there. The context in which we now live, trade, and work in the 21st century has little in common with that of Frederick Taylor or Henry Ford. What is revered as leadership today is often nothing more than a destructive set of obsolete behaviors that harm individuals and societies, and that must be reinvented.
Dare to Un-Lead explores the opportunities we have to collectively transform leadership from a top-down hierarchical...
203) HBR's 10 Must Reads on Diversity (with bonus article "Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm f
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Reap the benefits of a diverse workforce.
If you read nothing else on promoting diversity and realizing its benefits, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you create a culture that seeks and celebrates difference.
This book will inspire you to:
Identify and address bias
Short-circuit discrimination instead of unintentionally feeding it
Attract, retain,...
204) HBR's 10 Must Reads on Reinventing HR (with bonus article "People Before Strategy" by Ram Charan
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How HR can lead.
If you read nothing else on reinventing human resources, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones on how HR leaders can partner with the C-suite, drive change throughout the organization, and develop the workforce of the future.
This book will inspire you to:
Overhaul performance management practices to jump-start motivation and engagement
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A revolutionary step-by-step guide-by and for men-to ending toxic masculinity and leveraging men to enact heart-based leadership, increase diversity, bolster the bottom line, and create a culture so everyone in the workplace wins.
The Times Up, Me Too, and Black Lives Matter movements have been wake-up calls to all of us, but perhaps mostly for men. And organizations worldwide are finally realizing the critical importance of diversity, equity, and...
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Positive influence (without authority) is the superpower that most people never learn to use at work.
Millions of subject-matter experts, functional leaders, requirements gatherers, and problem solvers have opportunities to influence every day. Instead, too often they merely respond to requests and take orders from their stakeholders. By not exercising their unknown superpower, they miss opportunities to break down silos, improve collaboration, and...
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If you want to create a professional document like a resume or cover letter, then you know where to go: word processing software like Word or Pages. But, what if you just want to create well-organized notes?
If you are using a Mac, iPad or iPhone, then the choice is obvious: the appropriately named Notes app.
On the surface, Notes is a pretty basic text editor, but there's more than meets the eye, as Notes can do more than just give you a place to...
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Every leader cares about inclusivity, wellbeing and performance. For technical organizations these issues are especially acute: in the least diverse sectors, with every-increasing issues around mental health and resilience, companies need to realize continuous gains in performance and productivity to stay ahead, or even just to stay in the game, in a fiercely competitive space. How can leaders square the circle?
This book will show you how to build...
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In The Little Black Book of Innovation, long-time innovation expert Scott D. Anthony draws on stories from his research and field work with companies like Procter & Gamble to demystify innovation. Anthony presents a simple definition of innovation and illuminates its vital role in organizational success and personal growth. Anthony also provides a powerful 28-day program for mastering innovation's key steps: finding insight, generating ideas, building...
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Choosing the right leader can mean the difference between unbelievable success or abysmal failure.
• When a company is in chaos or decline, it's time to call in a Fixer.
• When a company needs a creative jolt to jump out of stagnation, turn to an Artist.
• When a company needs new markets and big growth, hire a Builder.
• When a company reaches complexity and scale, align with a Strategist.
Which type of leader are you, and, if you're a...
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Most transformations fail. Don't let yours be one of them.
Most transformations and large-scale change programs fail, but in a rapidly changing world change is becoming more and more critical for survival.
The Transformation Playbook is your step-by-step playbook of EXACTLY how to deliver successful transformations and large-scale change programs with the best chance of success.
Based on 20 years of work with clients on large scale transformation...
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Design-oriented firms such as Apple and IDEO have demonstrated how design thinking can directly affect business results. Yet most managers lack a real sense of how to put this new approach to use for issues other than product development and sales growth. Solving Problems with Design Thinking details ten real-world examples of managers who successfully applied design methods at 3M, Toyota, IBM, Intuit, and SAP; entrepreneurial start-ups such as MeYou...
213) Consensus-Oriented Decision-Making: The CODM Model For Facilitating Groups To Widespread Agreement
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Consensus-Oriented Decision-Making combines extensive knowledge of effective communication techniques with deep insight into conflict resolution and group dynamics. This practical step-by-step facilitation guide presents an efficient method any business, government, non-profit, social or community group can use to generate widespread agreement on important decisions with full member participation in an atmosphere of true collaboration.
214) Communication Essays
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Communicate Personally: "…a powerful survey that displays how systematic personal communication can foster growth, change, and dialogues that promote organizational and community trust…" (D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review) Connecting these seven thought-provoking essays, written over three decades, is a common aim for communication to optimize results - whether to teach oral communication, strengthen democracy, grow organizational...
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What explains the massive worldwide success of video games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, and Pokémon Go? Game companies and their popularity are poorly understood and often ignored from the standpoint of traditional business strategy. Yet this industry generates billions in revenue by thinking creatively about digital distribution, free-to-play content, and phenomena like e-sports and live streaming. What lessons can we draw from its major successes...
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The international bestselling authors return to share the four ways leaders must challenge themselves in order to fulfill their highest potential.
Successful leaders don't rest on their laurels because leadership is not a title on a business card. Leadership is a living process, and life means growth. As Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller write in the introduction, "the path to increased influence, impact, and leadership effectiveness is paved with personal...
217) Voice and Vocation
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For many people steeped in homelessness and poverty, the worst day is every day; and so, before we do the heavy lifting of getting back to work, we may first need to find a way to get back to hope.
For 30 years, Cara Collective has been in the business of creating hope, jobs, and opportunity so that the world can see what they see: the limitless talent pool in our communities most affected by poverty. Their unique approach to workforce development,...
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Scott E. Page is the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan. His books include The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (Princeton).
How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think
What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right...
219) Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, & Quiet Lovers of Justice
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A practical guide to community organizing that gathers the accumulated lessons, strategies, and secrets a veteran activist's forty-four years of experience.
This latest work by legendary activist, musician, and author Si Kahn is a different kind of community organizing book. As with other books, including some by Kahn himself, it does describe many of the practical tactics organizers use. But it's also about community organizing as a way of thinking...
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Written to speak for those who've been without a voice throughout their professional career, Plantation Theory: The Black Professional's Struggle Between Freedom & Security showcases the realities that countless Black corporate professionals face despite best efforts to prove their worthiness of opportunity. It challenges the status quo and urges future generations of Black excellence to recognize how much power they wield and evaluate closely the...
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