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Since 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned human wreck confessed to having started the Reichstag fire in Berlin, Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo has studied the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective "truth" onto their victims' minds. And in The Rape of the Mind, he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people's minds.

In Ruthless Consistency, Michael Canic identifies the three surprising reasons most strategic change initiatives fail: Leaders unwittingly send mixed messages that demotivate their people and undermine those initiatives; leaders focus on what they do instead of what their people experience; and leaders are not as committed as they think they are or need to be. The book then introduces an intuitive yet comprehensive model for success.

Veteran DEI leader Mita Mallick debunks thirteen myths that hold us back from transforming our workplaces. She delivers powerful storytelling combined with practical and hands-on ways for us to be more inclusive leaders. She teaches us that when we show up as more inclusive leaders, we have the power to change our organizations, ultimately creating a ripple effect across our ecosystem.

The promise of this book is simple: if you buy this book on Friday, you will be better at your job by Monday. MicroSkills is built on one core, easy-to-learn principle: every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and, yes, even what we think of as character traits, can be broken down into...

Humans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent decades have biologists begun to investigate how these industrious insects live in the wild. The Lives of Bees is Thomas Seeley’s captivating story of what scientists are learning about the behavior, social life, and survival strategies of honey bees living outside the beekeeper’s hive - and how wild honey bees may hold the key to reversing the alarming die-off of the planet’s managed honey bee populations.

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Ambition is a primal drive that, when acted upon, fuels you to overcome fear and doubt. To resist ambition's inner calling is to live a life that is less than you are capable of. Yet ambition alone is not enough. You must also be unreasonable. It's about renegade thinking for big and beyond. Unreasonable ambition is having a supreme belief in your capability to achieve the impossible, driven by a higher purpose. This book is a call to access the greatness inside you that is waiting to be unleashed. It's then that you can live with unreasonable ambition.

Leadership Lessons, Volume 2 is a book that is all about how to improve organizational performance. The central focus of all these essays is improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organizations. The purpose is to help organizations and the people within them to be able to realize their individual and collective potential. Many of the essays are titled in the form of a question because if you don’t learn to ask better questions, you will never get the answers you really need.

Is your team willing to propose game-changing ideas and offer diverse opinions? Will they take personal risks for the sake of your company and its reputation? Most leaders can't answer yes to these questions, especially during critical times of change.

Leadership Lessons is a book that is all about how to improve organizational performance. The central focus of all these essays is improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organizations. The purpose is to help organizations and the people within them to be able to realize their individual and collective potential. Many of the essays are titled in the form of a question because if you don’t learn to ask better questions, you will never get the answers you really need.

Leadership Lessons is a book about how to improve organizational performance. The essays in this book are an accumulation of various projects that I have been involved in for more than a dozen years. The term projects spans quite a range of subject matter and purposes for their existence. The reality is that the central focus of all these essays is improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organizations. The purpose is to help organizations and the people within them to be able to realize their individual and collective potential.

In Bring Your Human to Work, Erica Keswin laid down the rules and protocols of a human workplace. Now, in Rituals Roadmap, she shows us how to further employee engagement, explaining that workplace rituals foster a sense of belonging and help workers connect with one another and their work.

Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected representatives. Our embrace of novel technological pathways, Sheila Jasanoff shows, leads to a complex interplay among technology, ethics, and human rights.

From fifty years working with leaders globally, I state with full confidence that leadership has never been more difficult. The perfect storm is here, created by the coalescence of climate and human-created catastrophes. As leaders dedicated to serving the causes and people we treasure, confronted by this unrelenting tsunami, what are we to do?

Mareena believes the natural way of being is expansion, so when people thrive at work, business can only grow. As an experienced leader and expert in building healthy team cultures, she knows when leaders love what they do, they radiate the possibility for people to thrive at work, and the reverse to be true as well.

Author Joel Malkoff - aka, the Ethics Giver - reveals the powerful and surprising link between business ethics and profits. Drawing on the wisdom of biblical sages, modern thought leaders, and the tenets of his faith, this heartfelt and relatable business parable also features experiences inspired by Malkoff’s 45-year business career.

Business in den Golfstaaten? Dann vergiss alles, was du über Meetings, Pünktlichkeit und Handschläge weißt! Deals werden hier nicht am Verhandlungstisch besiegelt – sondern beim dritten Tee! Willst du wissen, wie du in der arabischen Geschäftswelt punktest? Dann bist du bei Birgit Maria Kemphues genau richtig! Sie ist internationale Business-Strategin, Board Member, preisgekrönte Unternehmerin und Netzwerkerin auf Top-Level. In diesem unterhaltsamen Hörbuch teilt sie Insider-Wissen, das kein Business-Knigge verrät.

En este audio libro vas a poder comprender todos los conceptos tangibles y no tangibles del funcionamiento de una organización. Qué impacto tienen, incluso cuando hay crisis, y cómo juegan a favor o en contra de la empresa. Desde criterios financieros y de performance a conceptos sistémicos y organizacionales, comprobados sociológicamente.

Imagínese que navega en alta mar, el horizonte es vasto e incierto, las olas imprevisibles... bienvenido al océano de la agilidad. En este mundo, la agilidad es más que un concepto: es el arte de sobrevivir y prosperar. "Perdidos en el océano de la agilidad", de René Schröder, es su herramienta de navegación por las procelosas aguas del mundo empresarial moderno.

Join us on a journey to become DE&I champions! In this book, we'll dive into what Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is all about and why it matters in the workplace. With easy-to-understand definitions, you'll see how DE&I is like peanut butter and jelly, and we'll explore the benefits of creating a workplace that celebrates differences. In this book, you'll find not only an enlightening journey through the world of DE&I, but also practical tools and activities to help you bring those lessons to life in your own workplace.