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The Power of Thanks: How Social Recognition Empowers Employees and Creates a Best Place to Work

Eric Mosley · McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The most powerful word in your leadership vocabulary is . . . THANKS! Building a fully engaged, energized workforce is the key to business success. The Power of Thanks reveals how leading companies like Intuit, JetBlue Airways, IHG, Symantec, ConAgra Foods, and The Hershey Company empower...
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The Little Big Things: Excellence

Thomas J. Peters · HarperBusiness; unk edition
Format: Kindle Edition with Audio/Video

Tom's new book, The Little BIG Things, is a compendium of 163 ways to pursue excellence - with tips ranging from the blatantly obvious, "Show Up! (It's a Start.)" and "It's All About ... the Quality of the Workforce," to the wildly counterintuitive, "Boring...
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Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City

Kelly Leonard · HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Executives from The Second City - the world's premier comedy theater and school of improvisation - reveal improvisational techniques that can help any organization develop innovators, encourage adaptable leaders, and build transformational businesses.For more than fifty years, The Second...
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Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

Rosabeth Moss Kanter · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

"America has been waiting for a call to think big and act big as we envision our transportation future. Kanter's important book is it." -- Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts, 2007 -- 2015Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays...
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Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance - A Business Novel

Dee Jacob · Free Press

Millions of readers remember The Goal, the landmark business novel that sets forth by way of story the essential principles of Eliyahu Goldratt's innovative methods of production. Now, from the AGI-Goldratt Institute and Jeff Cox, the same creative writer who co-authored The Goal, comes...
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Changing the Conversation: The 17 Principles of Conflict Resolution

Dana Caspersen · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

The seventeen key principles for transforming conflict - in a beautiful package from the creator of The 48 Laws of PowerFrom Joost Elffers, the packaging genius behind the huge New York Times bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, and The Art of Seduction, comes this...
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Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy

Jane Bryant Quinn · Simon & Schuster; Revised edition
Format: Hardcover

Named the best personal finance book on the market by Consumers Union, Jane Bryant Quinn's bestseller Making the Most of Your Money has been completely revised and updated to provide a guide to financial recovery, independence, and success in the new economy.Getting your financial life...
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Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends that Will Transform Your World

James Canton · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

Game-changing trends are coming in business, technology, workforce, economy, security, and environment. Climate change, energy demand, and population growth will redefine global risk and power. Exponential new technologies will emerge in digital money, mobile commerce, and big data. An explosive...
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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership

Richard Branson · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola...
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The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation

Josh Linkner · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Companies, communities, and individuals fall for many reasons, but one of the most common—and easily avoidable—is the failure to reinvent. When people and organizations rest on prior successes rather than driving purposeful transformation, they discover too late that they have lost...
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