The Employee Engagement Mindset May 1, 2012
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The Employee Engagement Mindset
The Six Drivers for Tapping into the Hidden Potential of Everyone in Your Company
Authors: Tim Clark
ISBN: 9780071788298
©2012 | 1st Edition | 272 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: JUN-12
Price: US$ 26.00
The Employee Engagement Mindset shifts the paradigm of engagement from an employer-centered model to an employee-centered view. By putting an emphasis on shared manager and personal responsibility coupled with intrinsic motivation in order to increase engagement, companies can reach the levels of engagement necessary to outperform their competitors.
Based on years of research and based on a popular seminar with the same name, The Employee Engagement Mindset outlines a simple six-part shared manager/employee model for increasing engagement: Shaping, Connecting, Learning, Stretching, Achieving, and Contributing. The authors present research proving that companies with employee-engagement programs enjoy measurably greater profits, growth, productivity, and retention than those without.
About the Author
Timothy R. Clark is founder and CEO of TRClark Partners, a consultancy that provides advisory services in strategy, large-scale change and transformation, and executive development. He writes the syndicated column, “On Leadership” for the Salt Lake Deseret News, which holds the largest circulation in the state. He is a leading authority in the field of change leadership and organizational transformation. He is the author of the critically claimed book, Epic Change: How to Lead Change in the Global Age (John Wiley/Jossey-Bass), The Leadership Test: Will You Pass (2009). Some of his clients include Accenture, American Express, Chevron, Disney, Dow Chemical, Microsoft, NASA, and Wells Fargo Bank.
Lead with Purpose October 18, 2011
Posted by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) in Leadership.Tags: achievement, creativity, goals, Leadership, management, Motivation, Motivational, personal development, relationships, success
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Lead with Purpose
Giving Your Organization a Reason to Believe in Itself
Author: John Baldoni
ISBN: 9780814417386 / 0814417388
©2012 | 1st Edition | 224 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: NOV-11
Price: US$ 23.00
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Can you describe the purpose of your organization in a single sentence? More importantly…can your employees?
When an organization succeeds, it’s because the people who drive it know what they do and why they do it. As a leader, it’s your job to provide your people’s work with meaning. Yet the kind of attitude, commitment, and direction found in a workplace led by a clear sense of shared vision and direction is found at only the most successful, top tier organizations.
Based on in-depth research and interviews with business executives in multiple sectors—and featuring practical steps you can take to instill a sense of purpose throughout your organization—Lead with Purpose gives you the insight and guidance you need to ensure that your company succeeds in the new world economy.
Lead with Purpose illuminates the essential actions you must take to turn a sense of collective direction into a strategic advantage for you and your people, including how to:
- Instill purpose in others. Develop your peoples’ talents and skills, and harness their creativity and desire to succeed.
- Make your employees comfortable with ambiguity. In today’s business world, black and white is a luxury. Gray is the new norm. Live with it.
- Turn good intentions into great results. Turn ideas into practical applications that satisfy customer needs.
- Make it safe to fail (as well as prevail). It is ingenuity that turns ideas into practical concepts. Successful companies allow their work forces to experiment.
- Develop the next generation. The time to develop the next generation of leaders is now. Integrate leadership development into management as an ongoing process.
You’ll learn how to instill a sense of ownership from the top down, ensure that organizational purpose is understood and acted upon by all your people, encourage resourcefulness and flexibility, and communicate a narrative that will drive your organization from one success to another.
It’s your responsibility to provide those around you with a shared, focused sense of engagement and direction. This book provides you with a proven blueprint for leading your organization clear-eyed into the future.
About the Authors
JOHN BALDONI is an internationally recognized leadership educator, coach, speaker and author whose many books include Lead by Example, Lead Your Boss, and 12 Steps to Power Presence. In 2011 John was named one of the world’s “30 Most Influential Leadership Gurus” by www.LeadershipGurus.net for the third time.
The Power of Presence October 18, 2011
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The Power of Presence
Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others
Author: Kristi Hedges
ISBN: 9780814417737 / 0814417736
©2011 | 1st Edition | 240 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: NOV-11
Price: US$ 22.00
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Hands-down, executive presence is the corporate it factor. It’s directly linked to your ability to get noticed, forge trusting relationships, and get others on board with your vision.
But few people realize their true presence potential. Think of the otherwise competent team leader who doesn’t command respect in executive meetings, or the overextended boss who never seems to know what’s really going on with his employees, or how to motivate them.
The good news is that limitations such as these are not set in stone. In fact, they’re completely surmountable with the strategies and exercises in The Power of Presence, a highly readable and deeply insightful book that cuts to the heart of presence—what it is exactly, and how to get more of it.
The Power of Presence shows everyone—introverts and extroverts, job seekers and senior executives—how to improve their presence. In her distinguished career as a CEO coach, public relations executive, political consultant, and award-winning entrepreneur, author Kristi Hedges has witnessed even the highest-level people struggling to connect and communicate, often tangled by nerves and confused about how others perceive them. Her experiences have helped her develop the unique I-Presence™ model, which is equal parts communication aptitude, mental attitude, and authentic style. And now, you can cultivate the skills to inspire and motivate by focusing on the three core aspects of presence:
1. Intentional: Determine the type of presence you want and the values you want to convey, and how they match up with the way people currently perceive you.
2. Individual: Understand how to build relationships that foster trust, and that drive business, loyalty, and career success.
3. Inspirational: Learn what the master communicators do to inspire others, including using powerful language, motivating through change, and presenting to audiences effectively.
Presence isn’t just a commanding personality or unabashed confidence. It’s much deeper, achieved over time, and driven by your own authenticity. Each day will bring a new opportunity to reshape or finesse your presence—in your dealings with colleagues, your contributions in meetings, your presentations to groups large and small. With masterful strategies and practical tools, this book will help you rid yourself of limiting behaviors, provide new ways of thinking and doing, and probably change your beliefs about what makes an executive strong.
About the Author
KRISTI HEDGES is a communications expert, entrepreneur, and certified leadership coach whose clients include Fannie Mae, VeriSign, the National Institutes of Health, privately held businesses, and global professional services firms. She’s a leadership columnist for Entrepreneur.com and a speaker for Vistage International and The Founder Institute.
I Moved Your Cheese August 24, 2011
Posted by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) in Highlights, Leadership.Tags: Business, Investing, Leadership, management, Motivational, Psychology & Counseling, self-help, success
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I Moved Your Cheese
Author: Deepak Malhotra
ISBN: 9781609940652 / 1609940652
©2011 | 1st Edition | 120 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: SEP-11
Price: US$ 17.00
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With more than twenty-five million copies in print, Who Moved My Cheese? has become a phenomenon. It does offer some reasonable advice about adapting to change. It’s certainly true that some of the events shaping our lives are beyond our control, and instead of struggling against them we must adapt and move on. But for all its good intentions, it ultimately advises us to unquestioningly accept our circumstances without exploring any possible alternatives—like mice in a maze mindlessly chasing after cheese.
I Moved Your Cheese takes a different point of view and offers an alternative approach. Harvard Business School professor and bestselling author Deepak Malhotra tells an inspiring story about a new generation of mice who begin to challenge assumptions and ask important questions. Rather than just accepting their situation and dutifully chasing the cheese, Max, Zed, and Big begin looking deeper, examining and reassessing what they’ve been told are their limitations, and set out to chart a new course.
Innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, problem solving, and business growth —as well as personal growth— depend on the ability to challenge accepted notions, reshape the environment, and play by a different set of rules: our own. We are not powerless to change our circumstances. We can control our destiny. By analyzing our assumptions about the limitations we seem to face, we can, like Max, Zed, and Big, discover how to overcome them. But first we need to understand the ways we unknowingly hold ourselves back. As Zed explains to Max, “The problem is not that the mouse is in the maze but that the maze is in the mouse.”
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About the Author
Deepak Malhotra is a Professor in the Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit at theHarvardBusinessSchool. He teaches courses on negotiation strategy to MBA students, as well as in a variety of executive programs. Deepak has won numerous awards for his teaching, including Harvard Business School’s MBA Class of 2011 Faculty Award.
Deepak is the coauthor (with Max Bazerman) of Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond. Negotiation Genius was awarded the 2008 Outstanding Book Award by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.
Deepak’s research has been published in top journals in the fields of management, psychology, conflict resolution and foreign policy. His work has also received considerable media attention, including multiple appearances by Deepak on CNBC.
Deepak’s professional activities include training, consulting, and advisory work for firms across the globe in dozens of industries. He is also a frequently invited speaker to executive groups such as the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO).
You can follow Deepak on Twitter at www.twitter.com/Prof_Malhotra
Visit Deepak’s official webpage at www.DeepakMalhotra.com
Harvard Business Review on Inspiring & Executing Innovation June 2, 2011
Posted by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) in Highlights, Leadership.Tags: change management, creativity, Execution, Innovation, Leadership, management, Strategy, strategy execution, success, teamwork
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Harvard Business Review on Inspiring & Executing Innovation
Author: HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
ISBN: 9781422162613 / 1422162613
©2011 | 1st Edition | 272 pages | Paperback
Pub Date: JUN-11
Price: US$ 22.00
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Fresh ideas can mean big profits–but only if they make it to market and sell.
If you need the best practices and ideas for creating and delivering new products and services–but don’t have time to find them–this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.
This collection of HBR articles will help you:
- decide which ideas are worth pursuing
- Adapt offerings from the developing world to wealthy markets
- Plan all-new ventures by testing and tweaking
- Tailor your efforts to meet customers’ most pressing needs
- Make inexpensive products on a vast scale, measure and improve innovation performance
- Avoid classic pitfalls such as stifling innovation with rigid processes
This collection includes these best-selling HBR articles:
- Innovation’s Holy Grail
- Stop the Innovation Wars
- How GE Is Disrupting Itself
- The Customer-Centered Innovation Map
- The Innovation Value Chain
- Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing? Managing Risk and Reward in an Innovation Portfolio
- Innovation: The Classic Traps
- Discovery-Driven Planning
- The Discipline of Innovation
- Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things
Other books you might be interested:
- 9781422162477 HBR on Aligning Technology with Strategy
- 9781422162545 HBR on Finding & Keeping the Best People
- 9781422172391 HBR on Making Smart Decisions
- 9781422162514 HBR on Communicating Effectively
- 9781422162521 HBR on Increasing Customer Loyalty
- 9781422162552 HBR on Reinventing Your Marketing
- 9781422172230 HBR on Advancing Your Career
- 9781422162347 HBR on Building Better Teams
- 9781422162583 HBR on Fixing Health Care from Inside & Out
- 9781422162569 HBR on on Greening Your Business Profitably
- 9781422162576 HBR on Winning Negotiations
- 9781422162606 HBR on Managing Supply Chains
- 9781422162620 HBR on on Rebuilding Your Business Model
- 9781422162637 HBR on Thriving in Emerging Markets
- 9781422162644 HBR on Collaborating Effectively
Full Steam Ahead! April 14, 2011
Posted by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) in Leadership.Tags: Empowerment, Engagement, Leadership, Motivation, personal development, personnel management, professional development, success, team building, teams, Values, vision, visioning
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Full Steam Ahead!
Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life
Authors: Ken Blanchard, Jesse Stoner
ISBN: 9781605098753 / 1605098752
©2011 | 2nd Edition | 200 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: APR-11
Price: US$ 22.95
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Vision is the vital extra ingredient for truly satisfying, long-term success. Without a vision, you’ll end up reacting rather than acting, and sooner or later you’ll get lost. But if you have a compelling vision, you’ll be so clear about your purpose, so committed to it, and so sure about your ability to accomplish it that you’ll be able to recognize obstacles, taken them into account, and press on.
Ken Blanchard and Jesse Stoner show how to create a vision for your organization, your team, and your own life that will unleash your power and potential and allow you to go full steam ahead! The lessons of this book are revealed through the inspirational story of two people who discover the three elements of a compelling vision: significant purpose, clear values, and a picture of the future. Along the way, Blanchard and Stoner offer numerous examples of effective visions and show exactly how to create an enduring vision vision that will guide you on a daily basis.
This new edition is thoroughly revised, with a new chapter on sustaining your vision, updated examples, more information on creating vision for teams, and a new section that includes a vision assessment and action resources.
Endorsement
“The clearest, the most cogent statement I’ve ever read that gives new meaning and life to visions. Even Dilbert will get it!”
–Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administrative, University of Southern California, and author of Still Surprised
“A wonderful road map through the very important territory of vision that can move into action. A powerful, simple guide for a journey we all need to take”
–Margaret J. Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science
About the Authors
Ken Blanchard is a prominent, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant, Blanchard is universally characterized by his friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate individuals in business today. Ken is one of the most influential leadership experts in the world and is respected for his years of groundbreaking work in the fields of leadership and management.
Jesse Lyn Stoner, founder of Seapoint Center, is a well-known organizational consultant, executive coach, and author. Her clients include Fortune 1000, small business, non-profit and government agencies such as The Hartford Life Insurance Company, Jackson Hole Ski Resort, New York City Housing Authority, The Center for Human Development, Avon Public Schools, and The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). She is co-author of the previous edition of Full Steam Ahead! (Berrett-Koehler, 2003). She has also authored three other titles published by The Ken Blanchard Companies.
Other books you might be interested:
- 9781605093482Whale Done Parenting
The Laws of Charisma: How to Captivate, Inspire, and Influence for Maximum Success September 7, 2010
Posted by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) in Highlights, Self-Improvement.Tags: aptivate, communication, Empowered, influence, inspire, Interpersonal Communication, Kurt W. Mortensen, Publishers Weekly, success, The Laws of Charisma
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The Laws of Charisma
How to Captivate, Inspire, and Influence for Maximum Success
Author: Kurt W. Mortensen
ISBN-13: 9780814415917
ISBN-10: 0814415911
©2011 | 1st Edition | 208 pages , Hardcover
Pub Date: October 2010
Price: US$ 21.95
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When you speak…are people influenced?
Some people have the ability to enter a room and draw instant attention, effortlessly exuding charm, radiating energy and a commanding presence. That enviable quality is called charisma…and those who have it are better able to influence what gets done and ultimately achieve what they want. To some extent, it’s innate—but with a few simple principles anyone can develop a more charismatic and compelling presence.
Filled with practical, powerful tools, exercises, and assessments, The Laws of Charisma explores the vital skills and traits anyone can use to earn trust, generate interest, and motivate others. Focusing on the four core elements of charisma, this book shows readers how to:
• Radiate confidence, passion, power, and optimism.
• Combine purpose, creativity, competence, and focus to inspire commitment.
• Influence others by improving communication skills.
• Persuade and empower anyone by creating instant rapport.
Charisma is the key that will unlock the door to improved relationships, greater income…and enhanced success in every area of life. The Laws of Charisma is all anyone needs to bring out the charismatic person within.
About the Author
KURT W. MORTENSEN is one of America’s leading authorities on persuasion, motivation, and influence. A highly sought-after consultant, trainer, seminar leader, and speaker, he is the author of Maximum Influence and Persuasion IQ.
Review
“For readers early in their careers or who are stuck in a rut, this work might offer a practical look at possible blind spots or ‘perception biases’ and fundamental skills to work on. For bosses, the straight-forward tips might provide a safe and constructive teaching tool.” –Publishers Weekly
Thrive on Pressure: Lead and Succeed When Times Get Tough July 5, 2010
Posted by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) in Highlights, Management & Organization.Tags: Business, crisis, lead, Leadership, pressure, psychology, success
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Thrive on Pressure
Lead and Succeed When Times Get Tough
Authors: Jones, Graham
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-174882-7
ISBN-10: 0071748822
©2010 | 1st Edition | 240 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: August 2010
Price: US$ 18.95
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Be the Leader Who Is Cool, Calm, and in Control–Even in the Worst of Situations
When the going gets tough, you get going! Author Graham Jones, Ph.D., whose work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, shows you how to excel when the chips are down and use pressure to your advantage. With his successful program, you’ll learn how to: • Manage stress • Develop strong self-belief • Improve mental outlook • Channel motivation into tangible goals • Refine your focus
If you have the guts to make a real difference in your organization, you’re ready to Thrive on Pressure and produce positive results for you and your team! For more than 20 years psychologist Graham Jones, Ph.D., has worked with people from all walks of life, helping them reach their high-performance levels. He is the founder of Lane4, a leading international performance development consultancy with offices in the United States, England, and Asia. Jones lives in Princeton, NJ.
Reviews
“This book is a great guide for helping you thrive on pressure and use it to your advantage.” — Bill Vit, President and COO, Aon Affinity Insurance Services
“Thrive on Pressure focuses not only on theoretical aspirations, but also on practical measures to manage and utilize the pressures that are an inevitable part of the job.” — Edward Dolman, Christie’s International PLC
“Graham’s expertise on mental toughness and helping executives grow into real leaders is second to none. This book is a must read for all business leaders during these competitive economic times.” –Mark Schortman, Chairman, Coca-Cola Sales and Services Company
“This book is an extraordinary read. Jump into it and fasten your seat belt!” –Gene Boccialetti, Ph.D., ILR School, Cornell University
About the Author
For more than 20 years, psychologist Graham Jones, Ph.D., has worked with Olympians, athletes, military personnel, and senior leaders for Fortune 500 companies, helping them reach their high-performance levels. He is the founder of Lane4, a leading international performance development consultancy with offices in the United States, England, and Asia.
Managing Thought: Think Differently. Think Powerfully. Achieve New Levels of Success June 28, 2010
Posted by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) in Self-Improvement.Tags: Achieve New Levels of Success, behavior, extraordinary performance, Managing Thought, Mary Lorre, performance, satisfaction, success, Think Differently, Think Powerfully
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Managing Thought
Think Differently. Think Powerfully. Achieve New Levels of Success
Authors: Lore, Mary
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-170341-3
ISBN-10: 0071703411
©2010 | 1st Edition | 272 pages , Hardcover
Pub Date: February 2010
Price: US$ 24.95
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Most of what we have been taught about achieving success in our lives and our organizations involves changing our behavior and performance. However, extraordinary performance also calls for extraordinary thinking, and far too many of us are trapped in old thinking patterns. It’s only when we start managing our thoughts and start looking at our jobs, the challenges we face, the people around us, and our very definition of success in new and exciting ways that we can achieve breakthrough results and achieve amazing success.
In Managing Thought, Mary Lorre, a CEO and popular Vistage Speaker shows readers how to become more aware of their thoughts, how to master them, and how to point them in the right direction for success. Managing Thought doesn’t just provide readers with empty promises and a lot of motivational talk: It gives readers the tools they need and a step-by-step process to:
- Discover what they truly want and how to achieve it
- Identify those thoughts that aren’t working for them and waste their time, energy and money
- Discover and release limiting perceptions and beliefs
- Align their intentions with their professional goals and shape their thoughts to create the results and life they intend.
Armed with clarity, vision, purpose and energy, once readers’ thoughts are managed and are focused in the right direction, money, fulfillment and success are sure to follow. Managing Thought proves that you don’t need to be an intellectual or have innate talent to attain great success and satisfaction — but you do need to learn and understand the habit of thinking and behaving in ways that will get you there.
Features
- Success of Self-Published edition: Mary Lorre self-published Managing Thought in 2008 and has sold over 3000 hardcover copies ($24.95) and 1,000 audio book copies ($29.95) through back of room sales at her speaking engagements. Managing Thought was awarded the Best Business Book of the Year by USA Book News, and also won an award from the Axiom Book Award, among others.
- Author platform: Mary Lorre is an active member of Vistage, the world’s foremost chief executive leadership organizations. She speaks to official Vistage groups of approximately 50 CEOs four times a month, and based on her success at these events, is invited to speak several more times a month more at the companies these CEOs run (Total audience of about 500 people a month).
- Bestselling Tradition: As books by Tony Robbins, David Schwartz, and Napoleon Hill indicate, there is a market hungry for new ways to think about and achieve success.
Endorsements
“Managing Thought is to this century what How to Win Friends and Influence People and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People were to the last century.”—Barbara G. Stanbridge, change management expert and former president of the National Association of Women Business Owners
“A must-read.”
—Howard Putnam, former CEO of Southwest Airlines and author of The Winds of Turbulence
WINNER of two Nautilus Awards, the Eric Hoffer Award, the Axiom Business Book Award, and two USA Book News National Best Book Awards
“Managing Thought teaches us how to actually manage our thoughts to be creative, inspired, and impactful in all we do.”
—Gordon Krater, CPA, managing partner of Plante & Moran
About the Author
Mary J. Lore (West Bloomfield, MI) is the founder and CEO of Managing Thought, LLC, which helps individuals and organizations develop self-awareness and change how they think and conduct business to attain long-lasting success. She is an internationally recognized leader, public speaker and executive mentor, and author of the award-winning book and audio Managing Thought. Mary has devoted thirty years to serving as a CPA, senior executive, entrepreneur, and mentor to corporate leaders. She has successfully assisted others, in North America and Europe through her corporate and public workshops, and thousands of hours working with CEOs, managers, employees, teachers, parents, and teens. Since 2002, Mary has served as a chair for TEC, also known as Vistage, the world’s preeminent organization for the personal and professional development of CEOs
The Resilient Organization: How Adaptive Cultures Thrive Even When Strategy Fails June 15, 2010
Posted by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) in Highlights, Management & Organization.Tags: adversity, challenge, Cultures, design, evolvable, Innovation, leader, Long Range Planning, opportunity, overhead cost, recession, RESILIENT, Resilient Organization, robust, Setbacks, strategies, Strategy, Strategy Fails, strengths, success, Survive Shocks, sustainable, threats, Välikangas Liisa, Wall Street Journal
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The Resilient Organization
How Adaptive Cultures Thrive Even When Strategy Fails
Author: Välikangas Liisa
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-166366-3
ISBN-10: 0071663665
©2010 | 1st Edition | 288 pages , Hardcover
Status: June 2010
Price: US$ 27.95
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A “RESILIENT” ORGANIZATION?
It means you are not a prisoner of past performance, good or bad; you don’t rely on the right leader alone for success but build the capability to be resilient into the organization. You constantly rehearse the culture of anticipating and responding to change, and you innovate even when you don’t yet need to. You don’t just survive, you thrive–amidst challenge and opportunity.
This essential guide, written by a renowned expert in global resilience strategy, shows you how to be smart about success and failure. With these field-tested forward-focused tools, you can:
- SURVIVE SHOCKS AND SETBACKS
- TURN THREATS INTO OPPORTUNITIES
- ANTICIPATE CHANGE BEFORE IT HAPPENS
- ENSURE YOUR SUCCESS IS SUSTAINABLE
As a bonus, the book features Postcards from the Resilient Edge, a powerhouse selection of frontline lessons from leading corporations that demonstrate ways you can marshal skill and master luck to take control of your organization’s destiny.
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE NEW RESILIENCE MOVEMENT
One of the most powerful trends born of the New Recession, resilience has become the operative word for business leaders and entrepreneurs facing an unpredictable market. On the forefront of this movement, global innovator and strategy consultant professor Liisa Välikangas has created a step-by-step system of proven survival strategies you can put into action immediately.
Whether you need to bounce back from a downturn, take the fight to new competitors, or change your game plan at a moment’s notice, The Resilient Organization shows you how to rethink your current strategies–and rebuild your company’s foundation–using four basic tools . . .
- INNOVATION with high impact and low overhead
- DESIGN that is robust, sustainable, and evolvable
- ADAPTABILITY to changing circumstances
- STRENGTH in the face of adversity
By creating a culture of resilience in your organization, you’ll be prepared for any challenge the future might hold. The Resilient Organization’s fascinating case studies provide real-world examples of resilience in action: how to recover faster from hardships, how to experiment on new opportunities in a timely manner, how to avoid repeating bad business decisions, and when to scrap old strategiesthat just don’t work anymore. Using the timetested principles of resilience, you can find golden opportunities in any situation–whether it’s tough competition, reduced resources, or a roller-coaster market. If you’re strategically resilient, you not only survive crises, but you can turn these crises into opportunities.
About the Author
Dr. Liisa Välikangas (Helsinki, Finland) is Professor of Innovation Management at Helsinki School of Economics. She was invited to the chair in 2007. Her areas of research are innovation, strategy and global change. Previously, she was Managing Director and Research Director of the Woodside Institute—a professional research organization dedicated to advancing innovative management practice and organizational resiliency – which she founded in 2002 with Gary Hamel. She is also a founder and President of Innovation Democracy, Inc., a nonprofit organization committed to supporting innovative entrepreneurship in countries of importance to world stability.
Her research on innovation, strategy and organizing has been published in Harvard Business Review, MIT/Sloan Management Review, the Wall Street Journal, Long Range Planning, and other leading journals. Beyond her research activities, she regularly gives presentations to executive audiences in public and private forums. She works with a number of leading corporations and governmental organizations in the U.S., Europe and Asia in an advisory capacity.
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