Feel like the world is passing you by as you rush through another workday? Like you never have enough energy to manage the team you're supposed to be leading? Like you can't even accomplish yourself what you set out to achieve?What you need is focus. Focus is at the core of effective leadership, but cultivating it has become daunting in our age of globalization, fast technological change, and environmental challenges. As a leader, you need tools to navigate these unknown territories. One of the most effective tools is mindfulness: paying attention, openly and curiously, to what happens in the present moment. This book is full of insights and exercises that teach leaders and leaders-to-be how to practice mindfulness. It shows how mindfulness allows you to become more mentally and physically resilient, more easily able to switch between action and reflection, and better equipped at knowing when to focus on yourself or the world around you. But mindfulness-based leadership doesn't stop there. By learning to focus, you learn to work with your team more effectively. Nurturing a mindful corporate culture helps you solve problems and build healthy strategies that will benefit you, your colleagues, and your organization.

Mindful Leadership: Effective tools to help you focus and succeed

Business & Money

Koole, Wibo

Management & Leadership

Warden Press

Social enterprise is an up and coming phenomenon around the world. Businesses with the primary aim of bettering the world. Social enterprises are claiming a distinct place amongst commercial enterprises, charities, and public sector organizations. This book paints an inspiring picture of the social enterprise, what it is and what it is not. How it works and what the challenges are. With a wide range of examples from the Netherlands, most of which can be found elsewhere across the world. A book with global relevance. Easy to read, insightful, and inspiring. For anybody who is interested in social entrepreneurship and its growing impact on our society at large. By the founders of Social Enterprise NL, the national society of Social Enterprises in the Netherlands.

Social Enterprise Unraveled: Best Practice from the Netherlands

Verloop, Willemijn

Hillen, Mark

This book is a pragmatic guide to building more meaningful, positive organisations. It bridges the gap between the latest research on well-being and today's organisational practices, highlighting where organisations can learn from the latest insights on human well-being. Translating the findings from top experts in the field into easy-to-understand language, this practical manual will help managers, executives and employees make a positive impact on their organisations. "Building Positive Organisations" investigates this broad topic and offers proven step-by-step exercises to help people and organisations flourish. "Successful 21st-century organisations have embedded positive psychology practices into their DNA and thrive on people who are flourishing. This book is a terrific how-to manual for building positive organisations. An exciting book to read." - Nick van Dam, chief global learning officer, McKinsey & Company "Rens has systematically and effectively implemented the best of positive psychology in a number of settings, from elite sports to corporate teams. My hope is that many more will benefit from his important work in the future." - Tal Ben-Shahar, author, lecturer, former teacher at Harvard University "Rens ter Weijde is a person with a high degree of positive energy, which he combines with a deep scientific knowledge of happiness. I saw Rens work with diverse cross-cultural teams on happiness and team building with extraordinary positive results in a very short time. His book Building Positive Organisations gives a profound overview of the scientific research on happiness, and offers multiple methods and links on how to scale happiness with teams and in organisations towards a sustainable world." - Alfred Tolle, director Nordic LCS at Google

Building Positive Organisations: A pragmatic guide to help people and organisations flourish

Weijde, Rens ter

About 85% of companies & institutions in old economies are aging at an incredible rate. Many of them were very successful last century, but now face the ever more prevalent question of how to stay vital and up to date. This energizing book about successive generations will show surprising new ways. The evolution of aging organizations in Europe and beyond depends on the youthfulness of all working generations, from the youngest to the oldest. Aart Bontekoning has developed and tested a scanning method across successive generations that shows quickly and clearly where updates are needed and how to activate culture-updating processes. It requires a willingness to look for solutions across the boundaries of the existing culture. Humor, interaction between generations and contemporary leaders are important ingredients. The process can become hugely exciting. Gerrit Brouwer, CEO of Appical: 'We produce onboarding apps for companies all over the world. Millennials are the most important users. Aart's generation insights inspire us to create the best possible fit.' Suzanne Merritt, former Director of the Polaroid Creativity Lab, currently leading Flow-tography workshops around the world: 'This groundbreaking book about generations has given me a boost of energy.' Edwin Hageman, CEO of INTO IT & Telecom: 'Companies in (digital) transformation should make sure the company's culture is up to date, stimulating the adoption of new technologies by both the younger and older generations. This book has great insights for HR, change and people managers.'

The Power of Generations: How to keep aging organizations up to date

Bontekoning, Aart

Human Resources

Purpose+Profit - How Organisations Will Shape the Defining Challenges of Our Time addresses the critical challenges of the 21st century, such as inequality and global warming, and outlines the strategic role for-profit organisations can play in addressing these collective challenges. "This book describes how the world and our organisations are gravitating towards a purpose+profit paradigm. Building on the idea of shared value creation, this book details the critical ingredients for organisations to thrive in this new era. Highly recommended." - Michael Tushman, Paul Lawrence Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School "Combining the frames of purpose and profit is the way forward for organisations. This book details why this trend is so important and provides the pragmatic frameworks to deliver on the promise. Rens is not to be missed." - Arne Gast, Partner, Leader of Asia Organization Practice and Co-founder of Aberkyn, McKinsey & Company "From day one our passion at Rituals for making people feel good has been our purpose and has driven the success of our company. If you are starting a company or leading one, this book can help you in the right direction." - Raymond Cloosterman, CEO and Founder, Rituals Cosmetics "Operating a successful business that can be used as a vehicle for positive impact has been the mission of Patagonia since the beginning. Rens has set out to help other organisations chart a path to doing the same. Highly recommended." - Ryan Gellert, General Manager EMEA, Patagonia

Purpose+Profit: How Organisations Will Shape the Defining Challenges of Our Time

Organizations become more agile and teams more self-organizing. Insight into yourself and others is therefore more important than ever. The Enneagram is a proven model that describes nine personality types. It offers tools with which you can communicate more effectively, manage more consciously and achieve better results with teams. The Enneagram theory clarifies which of the nine types applies to you the most. Each type uses a specific strategy as a means to success, but each approach also entails obstacles. Understanding your type helps you better understand your own motives, making it easier to reach your goals. The Enneagram offers many leads for (team) coaching, talent development and organizational change. In this book you will be introduced to the Enneagram and the application possibilities in your daily practice. Author Oscar David started working with the Enneagram in 1993 and has introduced it to a large number of organizations. This book is full of practical experiences from managers and professionals with whom he has worked over the past decades. The original Dutch edition of The Enneagram in the Workplace has been a bestseller and has sold more than 10,000 copies to date.

The Enneagram in the Workplace: Better insight into yourself and others

David, Oscar

Our societies, institutions and social fabric are currently in the early stages of the third revolution of humanity, the Digital Civil Revolution. Disruption is not restricted to markets. The same technologies that cause and fuel it are giving citizens more knowledge and information, more public and political influence, and tools to organize themselves and so to disrupt politics, democracy and public services. This totally transforms the media landscape, public opinion, political debate, and the roles of industry and the state toward citizens.Using multiple examples from across the globe, this book explores, analyzes and defines this revolution, its impact, the underlying technology and trends, as well as the special kind of civil leadership needed to harness this new citizen power that is disrupting the public domain.Steven P.M. de Waal, PhD, is a strategic consultant, entrepreneur and chairman of multiple non-executive boards. He combines his extensive experience in the boardroom with research and academic reflection. Dr. De Waal's writing focuses on strategic thinking, practical wisdom for executives and social entrepreneurship. He has published several books and many articles, and he has given numerous interviews and lectures for an executive audience. His dissertation (2014) conceptualized civil leadership and researched civil leaders' values patterns in the different private-sector contexts. He launched one of the first think tanks in the Netherlands, Public SPACE (www.publicspace.eu), which aims to develop strategies for the common good.

Civil Leadership as the Future of Leadership: Harnessing the disruptive power of citizens

de Waal, Steven

For the Time Being: Reflections on life's insistent companion

Politics & Social Sciences

Piët, Susanne

Philosophy

How can today’s managers concentrate on what really matters to improve the performance of their organization, to reach outstanding goals?
The answer is in What Makes an HPO. The five critical factors of the HPO Framework – Management Quality, Openness &amp; Action-Orientation, Long-Term Orientation, Continuous Improvement &amp; Renewal and Employee Quality – will help you turn your organization into an HPO. This book shows you what to concentrate on, how others have done it, and how to achieve it yourself.
The HPO Framework is the result of a global five-year research project into the genuine success factors of High Performance Organizations (HPOs). The HPO Center, led by Dr de Waal, discovered what really works on the ground in every type of organization rather than what managers think should, or might have, worked. 
In his book André de Waal gives many real-life examples from a variety of sectors including Finance, Retail, Industry, ICT, High Education and Government, all illustrating the successful workings of the HPO Framework in organizations worldwide. Also included are many interviews with HPO leaders at Microsoft, SABMiller, Svenska Handelsbanken, HP, Tata Steel, Umpqua Bank, Unilever and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

What Makes a High Performance Organization: Five Validated Factors of Competitive Advantage that Apply Worldwide

de Waal, André A.

There are plenty of books and theories about leadership. What these rarely describe, though, is HOW to manage effectively. 
This book fills that void. 
Often find yourself explaining to your employees how they should do their jobs? Tend to duck difficult conversations? Sometimes at a loss when trying to deal with complaining, quarrelling, or underachieving employees? Need some guidance on how to support employees who want to develop?\nNo-Nonsense Leadership helps you adopt a confident, coaching leadership style. Coaching leadership is a surprisingly effective leadership style. Your employees will take more responsibility, allowing you more time and energy for important management tasks. This book helps you recognize and bypass your reflexes and pitfalls, and teaches you coaching skills and easy-to-use conversation techniques. The practical pointers and countless real-life examples in this book enable you to immediately put it all into practice. You will soon notice that you are getting more out of your people – and out of yourself. 
Nadia van der Vlies is the co-owner of the NONONS training institute. She has held management positions at various organizations, develops leadership programs and trains managers to become more effective by adopting a coaching mindset. 
‘Instantly applicable in my day-to-day work. Highly relatable and a must-read for any manager who wants to save time and get the most out of themselves and their team.’ 
Joris Herremans, Manager Digital Grandvision Benelux 
‘This book is an engaging combination of self-reflection and useful stepping stones.’ 
Hugo de Koning, founder Young Capital

No-Nonsense Leadership: How to Become an Effective Leader, Manager and Coach

van der Vlies, Nadia

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