Make Every Business Day a Masterpiece “This fascinating book is a must-read for every leader or individual that aspires to become one. It eloquently offers tips, examples, and analogies that help the reader focus effort and attention in that noble attempt to become a better leader.” ―Eric Weber, Associate Dean IESE, Business School “Unlike explorations of leadership that too often provide ‘more heat than light,’ O’Malley and Baker offer a refreshing and engaging lens that not only illuminates but inspires the reader.” ―Mary C. Gentile, Creator and Director of Giving Voice to Values, and Senior Research Scholar, Babson College “This is not another book on leadership. Its essence is that all great leaders show an intense artistry. O’Malley and Baker give leadership criteria that weave business language with a strong dose of artistic principles. A great read.” ―Chuck Royce, Chairman, Royce Funds “Impressive! O’Malley and Baker have written a book that is at once entertaining, intellectually engaging, and practical―a tough combination, rarely achieved.” ―Ed Greenberg, University of Colorado, coauthor of Turbulence “O’Malley and Baker thoughtfully illustrate the intersections between leadership and art, explaining the requisite attributes for leadership excellence, such as focus, intellectual challenge, imagination, and authenticity.” ―Josh Weston, Honorary Chairman, Automatic Data Processing, Inc. “O’Malley and Baker have written a wonderful book that illustrates the complexities and necessities of what should be understood as the ultimate qualities of leadership.” ―David Finn, Chairman, Ruder Finn, Inc. About the Book: Artists put their work on display for everyone to judge, accepting a position of vulnerability for want of something important to say and in the service of contributing to the common good. Artists bring people closer together by providing a forum for shared experiences. Artists challenge, excite, comfort, and motivate people, and they don’t learn their craft by reading about it in a book; they practice, push themselves and their means of expression, and execute, execute, execute. These are exactly the same things effective business leaders do day in and day out. In Every Leader Is an Artist, leadership experts O’Malley and Baker employ the “leadership as an art” metaphor to its conceptual limits: leadership is an art. Literally. And leaders are artists; they just happen to work in a different medium. This groundbreaking look at leadership offers a completely new perspective on the age-old question: What separates the effective leader from the ineffective leader? O’Malley and Baker reveal 12 key characteristics shared by great artists and leaders, including:
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Intention: Makes an express commitment to achieve certain exceptional ends </li>
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Authenticity: Expresses individuality and personal beliefs with honesty and transparency </li>
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Engagement: Challenges the intellectual capacities of employees and tests their abilities to develop creative solutions to problems </li>
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Imagination: Makes surprising and unconventional departures from the ordinary that create a new sense of awareness or understanding </li>
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Form: Diligently combines various communications, structures, and policies into a unified, coherent whole</li>
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“Collectively, these attributes make great leadership possible, or, in their absence, difficult,” write the authors. “Their presence does not assure leadership excellence, but it does set the range of potential.” Providing the tools and techniques for developing these qualities, the authors provide vignettes that draw parallels between the personal qualities of famous artists and effective leaders. Every Leader Is an Artist will make you see your own leadership characteristics with newfound clarity and help you build upon them to be the best leader you can be. After reading this book, you will never think about leadership and your responsibilities as a leader in quite the same way again.

Every Leader Is an Artist: How the World’s Greatest Artists Can Make You a More Creative Leader

Business & Money

O'Malley, Michael

Baker, William H.

Business Culture

McGraw=Hill

Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America

From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political parties around it, and imprinted it with the name of God—all the while wondering: is money a symbol of the value of human work and creativity, or a symbol of some natural, intrinsic value?
In Face Value, Michael O’Malley provides a deep history and a penetrating analysis of American thinking about money and the ways that this ambivalence unexpectedly intertwines with race. Like race, money is bound up in questions of identity and worth, each a kind of shorthand for the different values of two similar things. O’Malley illuminates how these two socially constructed hierarchies are deeply rooted in American anxieties about authenticity and difference.
In this compelling work of cultural history, O’Malley interprets a stunning array of historical sources to evaluate the comingling of ideas about monetary value and social distinctions. More than just a history, Face Value offers us a new way of thinking about the present culture of coded racism, gold fetishism, and economic uncertainty.

Economics

University of Chicago Press

From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political parties around it, and imprinted it with the name of God—all the while wondering: is money a symbol of the value of human work and creativity, or a symbol of some natural, intrinsic value? In Face Value, Michael O’Malley provides a deep history and a penetrating analysis of American thinking about money and the ways that this ambivalence unexpectedly intertwines with race. Like race, money is bound up in questions of identity and worth, each a kind of shorthand for the different values of two similar things. O’Malley illuminates how these two socially constructed hierarchies are deeply rooted in American anxieties about authenticity and difference. In this compelling work of cultural history, O’Malley interprets a stunning array of historical sources to evaluate the comingling of ideas about monetary value and social distinctions. More than just a history, Face Value offers us a new way of thinking about the present culture of coded racism, gold fetishism, and economic uncertainty.

Review\n“A thorough and sometimes surprising lens into how Irish music in the US came to be codified and understood. . . . A clear impression emerges of a man who tried, not always successfully, to balance an archivist’s meticulousness with an idealistic vision of community cohesion.” ― Library Journal\n"Much to admire. . . . The book is well researched." ― The Irish Times\n"[The Beat Cop] explores how O’Neill collected traditional Irish songs — sometimes while applying pressure from the law." ― Chicago Magazine\n“Five million Irish people came to the US in the century following 1820. Without the efforts of police chief Francis O’Neill, much of their musical heritage might have vanished. As Chicago’s ‘beat cop’—in O’Malley’s wonderfully felicitous phrase—Chief O’Neill uncovered, traced, and classified Irish folk music in America, preserving but also inventing a unique tradition. Vivid, eloquent, and highly engaging, The Beat Cop sparkles with insights about immigration, community, and popular culture.” ― Kevin Kenny, author of The American Irish: A History\n“The Beat Cop is a superb social and cultural study of Irish immigrants and their offspring in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chicago; of the Irish role in policing America’s most corrupt and violent city; and, most importantly, of Chicago police chief Francis O’Neill’s crucial role in promoting Irish traditional music and musicians to create ‘authentic’ Irish identities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.” ― Kerby Miller, author of Ireland and Irish America\n“What O’Malley accomplishes in The Beat Cop is a highly readable, lush, adventurous examination of Chief O’Neill as a whole person, not just as the collector for the Irish musicians’ Bible. The stories of O’Neill’s adventures are entertaining and enjoyable, and O’Malley’s writing is welcoming to both informed insiders and newcomers.” ― Sean Williams, coauthor of Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man\nThe remarkable story of how modern Irish music was shaped and spread through the brash efforts of a Chicago police chief. 
Irish music as we know it today was invented not just in the cobbled lanes of Dublin or the green fields of County Kerry, but also in the burgeoning metropolis of early-twentieth-century Chicago. The genre’s history combines a long folk tradition with the curatorial quirks of a single person: Francis O’Neill, a larger-than-life Chicago police chief and an Irish immigrant with a fervent interest in his home country’s music. 
Michael O’Malley’s The Beat Cop tells the story of this singular figure, from his birth in Ireland in 1865 to his rough-and-tumble early life in the United States. By 1901, O’Neill had worked his way up to become Chicago’s chief of police, where he developed new methods of tracking criminals and recording their identities. At the same time, he also obsessively tracked and recorded the music he heard from local Irish immigrants, enforcing a strict view of what he felt was and wasn’t authentic. Chief O’Neill’s police work and his musical work were flip sides of the same coin, and O’Malley delves deep into how this brash immigrant harnessed his connections and policing skills to become the foremost shaper of how Americans see, and hear, the music of Ireland.

The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

A uniquely blended personal family history and history of the changing definitions of race in America. &nbsp; A zealous eugenicist ran Virginia's Bureau of Vital Statistics in the first half of the twentieth century, misusing his position to reclassify people he suspected of hiding their "true" race. But in addition to being blinded by his prejudices, he and his predecessors were operating more by instinct than by science. Their whole dubious enterprise was subject not just to changing concepts of race but outright error, propagated across generations. &nbsp; This is how Michael O'Malley, a descendant of a Philadelphia Irish American family, came to have "colored" ancestors in Virginia. In The Color of Family, O'Malley teases out the various changes made to citizens' names and relationships over the years, and how they affected families as they navigated what it meant to be "white," "colored," "mixed race," and more. In the process, he delves into the interplay of genealogy and history, exploring how the documents that establish identity came about, and how private companies like Ancestry.com increasingly supplant state and federal authorities--and not for the better. &nbsp; Combining the history of O'Malley's own family with the broader history of racial classification, The Color of Family is an accessible and lively look at the ever-shifting and often poisoned racial dynamics of the United States.

The Color of Family: History, Race, and the Politics of Ancestry

Community & Culture

Profitably Healthy Companies: Principles of Organizational Growth and Development

Burke, Warner

Management & Leadership

Columbia Business School Publishing

Every company faces challenges, but some are able to achieve long-term vitality while others flame out. What distinguishes a healthy, high-performing organization? Which ingredients, decisions, and values result in a business that is built for the long haul? Profitably Healthy Companies lays out ten essential principles of organizational development for sustained success. Bringing together practical and academic expertise, W. Warner Burke and Michael O'Malley detail proven methods for every organization at each level. They demonstrate why a focus on employee and community well-being is more likely to ensure lasting profitability than a single-minded focus on the bottom line. Burke and O'Malley explain the keys to company resilience, examining safeguards against decline and disaster as well as tools for generative renewal and growth. They show how organizational culture encourages optimal performance, flexible and adaptive corporate strategy, and employee motivation and commitment. The book emphasizes up-to-the-moment issues, such as how to center diversity and inclusion and the promise and pitfalls of remote work. Burke and O'Malley base their recommendations on research in organizational psychology as well as their own extensive consultative experience, providing a rich array of case studies and examples. Profitably Healthy Companies is a clear and authoritative guide for practitioners, leaders, and decision makers, synthesizing an all-inclusive treatment of organizational life with a comprehensive checklist of what organizations must do in order to thrive.

Contrary to popular belief, most people truly desire to commit to the organizations for which they work. Just as most of us would prefer not to drift from one relationship to the next, the majority of workers would rather not live like corporate gypsies. So why, at a time when employee retention is so critical to success, do so many businesses find it hard to hold on to their best people? Why, despite the perks, bonuses, and all the other "goodies" with which companies attempt to create employee commitment, does turnover continue to be such a serious problem? In this groundbreaking book, Michael O'Malley-an acknowledged expert with more than two decades of experience helping the Fortune 500 attract and retain the brightest and best-provides answers to these questions. More importantly, he spells out proven strategies for fostering solid employee/employer relationships that last. Deftly interweaving personal insight, case histories, and the latest research in the field, O'Malley explores the nature of employee commitment. He shows how many of the same needs and passions that bind people to one another in their personal lives also bind employees to managers and organizations. O'Malley describes the roles played by factors such as compatibility, trust, predictability, dependability, sensitivity to individual needs, and a willingness to compromise. He explains why organizations invariably fail when they attempt to buy employee commitment. Conversely, while more money is the most commonly cited reason for employee defection, O'Malley reveals that the real reasons often have to do with neglect, distrust, burn-out, inconsiderateness, and other nonmonetary considerations. The lion's share of Creating Commitment is devoted to detailing a practical approach to building commitment in your organization. O'Malley describes specific attitudes and behaviors that either encourage or discourage commitment and provides guidelines for assessing your company's standing on commitment. He also outlines specific steps you can take to find and hire employees who are compatible with your corporate culture; to foster a sense of belonging among employees; to build trust and reciprocity; to promote economic interdependence; and much more. A complete guide to understanding and overcoming one of the greatest challenges to business success today, Creating Commitment is must reading for every manager. Advance Praise for Michael O'Malley's Creating Commitment "Michael O'Malley has found the key to employee retention-commitment! He has taken a rigorous, research-based approach to understanding employee commitment and its implications for organization health, while using examples and comparisons from everyday life to make his insights accessible to all. The result is a must-read book for any leader concerned about keeping the best employees."-Dr. Susan Gale, Vice President, Change Management and Human Resources, Howrey Simon Arnold &amp; White "Michael O'Malley has created a work of great insight that all professionals charged with attracting, retaining, and developing the leaders of today and tomorrow will want to read."-Corey Seitz, Senior Vice President, Executive Development, Bank of America Corporation "The two most important human aspects of organizations today are trust and commitment. Creating Commitment covers both and is loaded with stories and examples that are both readable and timely. O'Malley's contribution to today's business leaders is truly a gift."-Dr. W. Warner Burke, Chair, Department of Organization and Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University "This is an important book for companies seeking a competitive advantage. Read Creating Commitment, and you'll know how to build lasting bonds with the employees you want most to keep."-Matt Broder, Communications Executive, Otis Elevator Company

Creating Commitment: How to Attract and Retain Talented Employees by Building Relationships That Last

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Provides a historical look at the role time has played in civilization, from the local measure ruled by nature's seasons, to an abstract standard governed by machinery which divides days and facilitates transportation, commerce, and labor management

Keeping Watch: A History of American Time

VIKING

In this age of downsizing, paycuts, and shrinking health-care contributions, employees on all rungs of the corporate ladder are increasingly baffled by company pay structures, benefits packages, and bonus plans. What might look like a nice raise on the surface often translates into a virtual pay cut when all the components are figured in. And what's more, until now, employers have had a monopoly on the knowledge of how these systems actually work, leaving employees virtually defenseless. Now, in Are You Paid What You're Worth?, long-time corporate insider and compensation consultant Michael O'Malley exposes the inner workings of compensation systems and provides a specific formula that allows anyone--from the cubicle-dweller up to the CEO--to determine his or her own competitive worth. Packed with practical tips and strategies, and spiced with real-life examples from big-name companies, Are You Paid What You're Worth? arms you with the information, confidence, and strategies you need to: Compute the overall market worth of your job Increase your base salary, or negotiate a salary at a new job Improve your chances of receiving bonuses and other cash/non-cash awards Know the pros and cons of different equity plans, and what to look for in company benefits Increase the total compensation package you receive from your employer

Are You Paid What You're Worth?

Broadway

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Every Leader Is an Artist: How the World’s Greatest Artists Can Make You a More Creative Leader

Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America

Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America

The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music

The Color of Family: History, Race, and the Politics of Ancestry

Profitably Healthy Companies: Principles of Organizational Growth and Development

Profitably Healthy Companies: Principles of Organizational Growth and Development

Creating Commitment: How to Attract and Retain Talented Employees by Building Relationships That Last

Keeping Watch: A History of American Time

Are You Paid What You're Worth?