Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Organizational Development

Agile adoption can only be successful when the people themselves create the necessary changes and are committed and feel accountable for it. The goal, vision and reasons for the adoption should be clearly communicated. But the path towards agility can only emerge by walking it.

In EMERGENT, Cesario Ramos shares his experience in Agile adoption. He introduces the Emergent Innovation Framework that you can use to:

- Successfully lead your Agile adoption
- Engage people in the change so that the change sticks
- Create an innovative workplace that enables...

The way we manage organizations seems increasingly out of date. Survey after survey shows that a majority of employees feel disengaged from their companies. The epidemic of organizational disillusionment goes way beyond Corporate America-teachers, doctors, and nurses are leaving their professions in record numbers because the way we run schools and hospitals kills their vocation. Government agencies and nonprofits have a noble purpose, but working for these entities often feels soulless and lifeless just the same. All these organizations suffer from power games played at the top and...

The way we manage organizations seems increasingly out of date. Survey after survey shows that a majority of employees feel disengaged from their companies. The epidemic of organizational disillusionment goes way beyond Corporate America-teachers, doctors, and nurses are leaving their professions in record numbers because the way we run schools and hospitals kills their vocation. Government agencies and nonprofits have a noble purpose, but working for these entities often feels soulless and lifeless just the same. All these organizations suffer from power games played at the top and...

The typical structure of today s corporate organization was essentially invented in the nineteenth century and based deliberately on the military s command and control model and on the hierarchical pyramid of the Catholic Church. As such, it is outmoded and not equipped to deliver corporate success in the 21st century. My Steam Engine is Broken calls on a new generation of organizational leaders to stop trying to fix a broken and outmoded structure, and to create new, successful working structures that work with, not against, people s natural modes of behavior. The authors explore the way in...

This is a collection of 15 team building training activities developed by well known author and consultant Louis E. Tagliaferri, retired founder and former CEO of Talico Developmental Systems LLC. These easy-to-administer team builders capture the attention and interest of managers, supervisors and employees at all organizational levels as they demonstrate key team interaction principles and motivate activity participants. Purchase of the book includes a limited license to reproduce and use any of the activities without royalty payments. This is a "must have" for any training professional or...

This book examines planning as the critical influence on performance at work and in organizations. Bridging theory and practice, it unites cutting-edge research findings from cognitive science, social psychology, industrial and organizational psychology, strategic management, and entrepreneurship, and describes the practical applications of these research findings for practitioners interested in improving planning performance in organizations.

Learn how to network your way to the top. In this book, you will learn how to overcome fears, experience success, and achieve your dreams. This book will provide you with a step-by-step process to help you to recruit, train, and retain a superior organization.

One of the most profound changes in business and society is the emergence of the post-Millennial generation, Gen Z. While every new generation has faced its share of disruption in technology, economics, politics and society, no other generation in the history of mankind has had the ability to connect every human being on the planet to each other and in the process to provide the opportunity for each person to be fully educated, socially and economically engaged.
What might this mean for business, markets, and educational institutions in the future? In this revolutionary new book, The...

To compete with today's increasing globalization and rapidly evolving technologies, individuals and organizations must take their ability to learn--the foundation for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation--to a much higher level. In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess combines recent advances in neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics, and education with key research on high-performance businesses to create an actionable blueprint for becoming a leading-edge learning organization.

Learn or Die examines the process of learning from an individual and...

The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies provides a comprehensive and timely overview of the field. This volume offers a compendium of perspectives on process thinking, process organizational theory, process research methodology and empirical applications. The emphasis is on a combination of pedagogical contributions and in-depth reviews of current thinking and research in each of the selected areas, combined with the development of agendas for future research.

The Handbook is divided into five sections:

• Part One: Process...

Have you ever been coached? In a group or in a team? If you could observe a group coaching session, would you get the full picture? Being Coached is not a how-to manual, nor is it narrowly focused on the role of the coach. In fact, the coach's touch is light. Breakthroughs occur when leaders are in the middle of leading, engaging in peer coaching, or even in quiet reflection. Written from the multiple viewpoints of eight leaders in a group coaching program and six executives on a leadership team, Being Coached illustrates how creating a learning community promotes growth by making space for...

As an HR, Training or Talent Consultant, you probably recognise the benefit of 360 Degree Feedback as an effective tool for one-to-one coaching and development. 360 Degree Feedback can be a flexible, highly bespoke tool that can help link your training programmes with your clients' strategic talent and performance plans, providing a common framework for performance, development and succession planning. Many consultants would like to use 360 more strategically, but worry about the time, effort and cost, and how they can find a system that will always work for their clients. If you would like...

Effect better outcomes with a robust coaching program

The CCL Handbook of Coaching in Organizations deals with the practical, ethical, and political challenges of coaching within an organization. From coaching superiors to coaching business teams, this book outlines the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) approach to professional coaching to help readers better manage leadership development and talent management program outcomes. With expert guidance on the key functions of human resources, learning and development, and organizational development, readers will gain insight...

This book innovatively explores: * Stories that every change leader needs to read * The often unexamined role of the "ordinary" person in change * How stories can help you be a more engaging coach, facilitator, trainer, leader, ... * The power of story as a tool for influence * How archetypes provide a way of interpreting stories * The different meaning of first, second and third-person stories * The deeper meanings behind "All stories are true but some actually happened" * Ways of effective story listening and interpreting * Understanding that "What's not said" is as important, or more so,...

The Only Innovation Guide You Will Ever Need--from the Award-Winning Minds at Mayo Clinic

A lot of businesspeople talk about innovation, but few companies have achieved the level of truly transformative innovation as brilliantly--or as famously--as the legendary Mayo Clinic.

Introducing Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast, the first innovation guide based on the proven, decade-long program that's made Mayo Clinic one of the most respected and successful organizations in the world. This essential must-have guide shows you how to:

• Inspire and ignite trailblazing...

"Mastering the Cube" skillfully lays out proven organization design principles. Comparing today's complex organizations to a Rubik's Cube, the authors explain how focusing improvement efforts on just one or two facets of the organization is akin to concentrating on just one side of the cube. Doing so is bound to affect-and more likely jumble-the other areas needed to generate a healthy and sustainable organization. They advocate stepping back and taking a systems-wide, comprehensive view of change and bringing all elements into alignment with strategy. They describe eight common beliefs and...

Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small- or Medium-sized Enterprises outlines different approaches to the analysis of the organisation of small- or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Owing to the increased competition in the worldwide market, several SMEs operating in the same industrial sectors have agreed collaborative market strategies, both for raw material procurement and for final product delivery. The resulting networks, however, have a tendency to suffer from a lack of organization, which minimizes their impact on the product and labour markets, and causes a weak...

The world of quality management has a problem-it's inundated with improvement techniques that, while helpful to a small minority, are of little help to most managers.

The problem, in part, is the hit-or-miss pattern whereby mangers encounter such systems. Not taught in colleges, improvement techniques usually come to managers through consultants. This is at best a scattergun approach to quality management-some managers receive enough information to benefit their organizations, while others receive insufficient information on which to act-or worse yet, try to act with incomplete and...

Organizations are often forced to change and adapt as a result of internal or external circumstances - whether the impetus is vision and ambition, a competing organization, societal pressure, or financial pressure. In this book, the authors posit that successful change requires the coherence of five elements: rationale and effect, focus and energy, and connection.

In Change Competence, they present a vision of change management centered around these five elements, along with a model and method for diagnosing, approaching, and developing change management in...