An organization's character shapes how decisions get made and new ideas are received. In this book, William Bridges identifies 16 organizational character types using the framework of MBTI personality types and shows how these influence an organization's growth and development.

The Character of Organizations: Using Personality Type in Organization Development

Business & Money

Bridges, William

Business Culture

Nicholas Brealey America

The Leader's Window presents an authoritative leadership system to help you give your employees what they need, when they need it, in a form in which they can use it. New and updated leader profiles and case examples illustrate the variety of successful strategies high-profile leaders use, while stories of misguided leadership show pitfalls to avoid. With new information on managing Generation X and adapting to diverse personality types, this classic resource presents the strategies you need to make the most of individual capabilities and simultaneously achieve goals. Charts, action lists, cases for reflection, process plans, performance contracts, self-assessments and tools to crease baseline leadership measures provide the help you need to harness the potential of each worker and transform that potential into results-driven teams.

The Leader's Window: Mastering the Four Styles of Leadership to Build High-Performing Teams

Neil M. Yeager

John D.W. Beck

Adaptive Coaching offers a research-based approach to creating learning opportunities that will close the gap between expectations and results. Authors Bacon and Voss draw from over 2,000 case studies of Fortune 500 employees to show how people prefer to be coached, and offer the key tools and techniques required to identify each client’s true needs.

Adaptive Coaching: The Art and Practice of a Client-Centered Approach to Performance Improvement

Bacon, Terry R.

Spear, Karen I.

Job Hunting & Careers

Learn how to stay where you are and do what energizes and engages you with this sophisticated yet profoundly practical guide to career fulfillment. Make It Work delivers expert advice and dozens of smart, easy-to-use tools to help you discover your passions, choose a direction, practice new skills, and do what you love to do-every day.

Make It Work: Navigate Your Career Without Leaving Your Organization

Frodsham, Joe

Gargiulo, Bill

What If? delivers a highly creative and innovative new way to explore the issues that dominate today's multicultural, multiethnic workplace. To the twenty-five witty yet inspiring stories in this collection, Steve Long-Nguyen Robbins has added tips and suggestions for putting these key learnings into action. Combined, What If? offers a powerful lens into the human experience.

What If?: Short Stories to Spark Diversity Dialogue

Robbins, Steve Long-Nguyen

In today's organizations, career success depends more on political skill-the ability to influence, motivate, and win support from others-than on almost any other characteristic. Political Skill at Work delivers the "how" to influence at work, not just the "what." The authors of this innovative study explore how people high in political skill are more successful at getting hired, building a reputation, and establishing leadership. From the worlds of business, politics, education, and sports, they offer compelling examples of political skill in action. And, for the first time, they provide ways to measure and enhance this powerful ability. Anyone interested in personal or professional development will find this book worthwhile.

Political Skill at Work: Impact on Work Effectiveness

Ferris, Gerald R.

Davidson, Sherry L.

Perrewt, Pamela L.

Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager: Making the Science of Management Work for You

In Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager, Gary Latham covers six key lessons of management. Latham offers techniques to help readers turn a strategic vision into reality. Including detailed examples from around the world, Latham shows frontline managers how to put management research into practice when on the job, with a focus on instilling resiliency and the power of a positive mindset.

Latham, Gary P.

Management & Leadership

When we join an organization, we're immediately slotted into a hierarchy based on a rank-based system of "leaders" and "followers." We then make false assumptions about our place in these hierarchies that divide our efforts, limit our growth opportunities and rob us of meaningful, dignified work. These assumptions are what Jeffrey Nielsen calls the "myth of leadership." In this unconventional book, Nielsen calls for an end to "rank-based" organizational structures, which foster secrecy and miscommunication and steal the joy from work, while breeding corruption and abuse of power. Nielsen's new model is the "peer-based" organization, which uses rotating peer leadership councils and crossfunctional task forces to manage the organization's work. These new entities are better suited to making decisions based on the organization's competencies and customer needs, rather than on static functional groups or other artificial divisions. Nielsen's experience with dozens of organizations showed that while workers were universally motivated to make their organizations profitable, artificial barriers consistently prevented them from reaching their potential. Real-world examples from contemporary peerbased organizations help make his point for creating leaderless organizations.

Myth Of Leadership: Creating Leaderless Organizations

Nielsen, Jeffrey S.

Just like the companies in which they function, teams are going global. Businesses everywhere are at last recognizing global teams for what they are: the force that connects the best people and ideas from all over the world and helps deliver the services and products demanded by global customers. Global Teams offers the tools and strategies you need to effectively lead and/or participate in a global team and to get things done across the boundaries and barriers of diversity and distance.

Global Teams: How Top Multinationals Span Boundaries and Cultures with High-Speed Teamwork

Marquardt, Michael J.

Horvath, Lisa

International

For over twenty years, travelers seeking exciting and rewarding adventures abroad have looked to Bob Kohls for advice and have made Survival Kit for Overseas Living one of the most popular books ever published on crossing cultures, buying over 300,000 copies. With this new edition, sojourners about to set out to live or work overseas will soon discover why Kohls' experience and wisdom have stood the test of time. Kohls' penetrating insights and practical strategies on how to avoid stereotypes, how to explore the mysteries of culture, and how values and different ways of thinking influence behavior make this an indispensable guide. To bridge the cultural divide-whether traveling alone or with a family, for business or education, whether staying a month or a lifetime-pack this guide first!

Survival Kit for Overseas Living, 4th ed.: For Americans Planning to Live and Work Abroad

L. Robert Kohls

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