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Many organizations, even those that may have brilliant starts, falter in their attempts to achieve transformational growth in their later phases. In The Elephant Catchers, Subroto Bagchi distils his years of on-the-ground learning to explore why this happens and what such organizations and their people must do to climb to the next level and beyond.

Writing in an exciting, fast-paced narrative style, Gerstner takes readers through his experiences at IBM -- from the high-powered recruiting pressure to take the Chairman's position, to first days on the job learning the strengths and weaknesses of IBM, to formulating and successfully...

Do systems have souls? This book, based on a popular elective at IIM Ahmedabad, looks for answers in the hard trade-offs inherent in the design of operating systems and business models. It encourages business leaders to ask two different sets of existential questions: Does the organization that...

CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr.’s memoir about the extraordinary turnaround of IBM and his transformation of the company into the industry leader of the computer age – the great American business story of our time. When Louis V. Gerstner became CEO of IBM in 1993, shares had slumped and the...

If You Think You Hate Selling, This Book Is for You. Serial entrepreneur, business expert, and best-selling author Mike Keonigs has spent decades studying human psychology, motivation, business, and language, in order to crack the code on sales. The result: A sure-fire way to get people to not just buy from you, but want to buy from you (there's a big difference!). Welcome to the Superpower Accelerator Lightning Close. This sales system is so straightforward and so simple, it will outperform any other "process," "framework," or "secret" being touted by the so-called sales gurus and experts......

Stanley Bing follows his enormously successful What Would Machiavelli Do? with another subversively humorous exploration of how work would be different—if the Buddha were your personal consultant. What would the Buddha do—if he had to deal with a rampaging elephant of a boss every day? That...

ELEPHANT IN THE BOARDROOM - the podcast where agency leaders say the quiet part out loud. Presented by Supo, this is where founders and senior leaders from across the agency world name the issues everyone sees but nobody mentions - the dependencies, the pretences, the decisions being dodged. Each episode brings leaders to the table to confront the elephant head-on, from invisible power structures to growth questions agencies would rather avoid. No polish, no PR lines - just honest conversation about the things that actually keep agency leaders up at night.

In a survey of more than 4,000 CEOs, executives, and managers, more than 90 percent admitted they were uncomfortable confronting or engaging in conflict. Yet leaders must realize that every conflict presents an opportunity to reach higher levels of performance. In The Elephant in the Boardroom, award-winning leadership psychologist Edgar Papke explores the unique and challenging relationship that leaders have with conflict and offers the know-how needed to use conflict as the engine of innovation and creativity.

Confront what no one dares to say, but everyone feels Enterprise families rarely fall apart because of bad strategy or poor governance. What truly gets in the way are the things left unspoken: quiet resentments, competing values, and emotional undercurrents that influence decisions and...

Writing in an exciting, fast-paced narrative style, Gerstner takes readers through his experiences at IBM -- from the high-powered recruiting pressure to take the Chairman's position, to first days on the job learning the strengths and weaknesses of IBM, to formulating and successfully...

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This podcast is a supplement to our blog, The Glovebox. Offering an audio companion to our carefully curated and researched content about car insurance, cars, road safety, protecting your assets, and personal insurance best practices.

Elephant Advisory is a prominent accounting and broking firm based in Melbourne, with a successful history of growing Australian businesses. This podcast will feature Elephant team members breaking down every unique challenge of small business ownership in Australia, from the good times, the bad times and the ugly times. With a little help, you'll be prepared to make the right decisions for your business and avoid making our many mistakes. So join us as we begin a podcast journey to improving your small business. www.elephantadvisory.com.au/services/accounting

In The Elephant and the Mouse, diversity and inclusion expert Laura Liswood delivers a thought-provoking and insightful new business guide that explores workplace diversity and offers new ideas for gaining the real benefits from your diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. In this book, you'll explore the powerful case for diversity, equity, and inclusion and the often-overlooked risks posed by a homogeneous workforce. You will learn the hard truths about why many DE&I efforts fail, millions of dollars are wasted, and why organizations confuse efforts with outcomes.

Willkommen bei The Elephant Room - der Podcast. Wir sprechen mit Euch über den sogenannten Elefanten im Raum im Leben der Frauen, vor allem der Mütter. Die brutalen Wahrheiten, die Geheimnisse, die nicht besprochenen Fakten, die jede Frau in ihrem Leben hat, über die jedoch keiner offen spricht. Wir möchten Euch inspirieren, informieren und mit Denkansätzen vorsorgen, auf dass sich jede Lady in Richtung einer besseren Zukunft entwickeln kann. Sollte dein Leben schon perfekt sein, lass dich einfach von uns unterhalten und enjoy the show.

Conflict exists in every organisation. Sometimes very obviously. Sometimes quietly. Very few love it. If you are frustrated with yourself for not stepping in; with others, for not playing ball; with the politics that get in the way of getting results; with the clearly dysfunctional teams; then this book is for you. A companion to Mentally at Work, but also a stand-alone book, it takes the science of our brains and the reality of the workplace and gives you practical tools to more effectively navigate the elephant in the room, to decrease conflict.

Dr. Jo Brown, a world-renowned performance coach and physiotherapist, has spent decades championing champions, guiding elite athletes and Olympians like Noah Lyles and Yohan Blake to peak performance. In this book, she shares invaluable insights that reveal how profound self-awareness and unbounded personal growth can help you redefine what's possible and achieve your biggest, brightest goals.

Drawing on case studies from the most innovative start-ups in Silicon Valley, this step-by-step guide will show you how to develop, validate and bring your impossibly big ideas to life. In today's world, everyone needs to innovate to stay competitive. It doesn't matter if you're a start-up founder, corporate executive, small business owner, freelancer or professional: there's a technology out there that's going to upend your industry. And if you aren't able to harness it to your advantage, someone else will.

Driven entrepreneurs seem to always be in search of their "unicorn" team - that match made in heaven that opens the door to freedom and endless possibility. Unfortunately, huge obstacles - the "elephants" - tend to get in the way. Bringing her expertise from HR to EQ, Caroline Stokes offers real-world solutions to the people management problems business owners like you face right now.

Discerning Elephant’s mission is to empower and motivate people to use their inner moral compass to do better for the betterment of humanity. To hear and discern at an infrasonic range, and not just at the acoustic level. To be charged to touch the world in a meaningful way through works of education, practice, discipline(s), and art.