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Researchers have found that the accelerated pace of modern office life is taking its toll on productivity, employee engagement, creativity and wellbeing. Faced with a relentless flood of information and distractions, our brains try to process everything at once, increasing our stress, decreasing our effectiveness and negatively impacting our performance.

The success of Starbucks is one of the most remarkable business stories in decades. Since 1987, the coffee merchant has grown from a single retail store on Seattle's waterfront to a company with more than 1,000 stores nationwide and a new one opening somewhere every business day. According to Fortune magazine, Starbucks "has changed everything...from our tastes to our language to the face of Main Street."

What will your 100-year life look like? Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time? Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse.

In a volatile and complex world roiled by a climate crisis, global pandemics, and disruptive technologies like AI, hyper-individualized leadership models no longer make sense. To seize emerging opportunities and achieve sustainable growth, leaders must recognize that a team’s success flows from the intelligence, achievements, and growth of the entire collective. In Safe to Great, Skip Bowman proposes a leadership sea change that puts purpose before profit, and the team before the individual.

A simple, engaging, and eminently practical guide to overcoming your weaknesses— your "Buts"—to achieve the career and personal relationships you want Imagine a workplace where all the employees are aware of the things they do—or fail to do—that prevent them from being more productive...

DAS ERFOLGSPRINZIP DER TECHNOLOGIE-GIGANTEN. Google revolutionierte die Internetsuche, Amazon etablierte den Onlinehandel und Facebook verkörpert den Erfolg der sozialen Medien. Microsoft verhalf dem PC und Apple dem Smartphone zum Durchbruch. Sie alle zählen heute zu den wertvollsten Konzernen der Welt und ein Ende ihres Erfolgs ist nicht in Sicht. Der preisgekrönte Journalist Alex Kantrowitz führte über 130 Interviews mit vielen Insidern, wie etwa Mark Zuckerberg.

Ed Beltran, the CEO of a powerhouse leadership communication company, believes the antidote to stressed-out workplaces starts with conversation. Beltran has developed a science-based model to reduce stress and help people build what he calls fierce resilience. By leveraging the power of conversations, individuals discover their unique stressors, master skills to neutralize stressors, and build unwavering resilience that elevates their emotional well-being.

Most sales leaders struggle to motivate their teams and deliver sustainable results. Great sales leaders make it look easy while others never figure it out. Ineffective sales leaders may resort to desperate tactics that damage careers, wreck team cultures, and scare great people away from leadership opportunities. In S--tty Sales Leaders: And How to Not Be One, sales veteran Adam Apps shares an actionable template to help you gain followership while acquiring, building, and running high-performing sales teams. When armed with the right tools, anyone can be an effective sales leader.

Who would you be if you felt at peace and had more time and money? An organized life enables you to have more freedom, less aggravation, better health, and to get more done. For nearly 20 years, Regina Leeds - named Best Organizer by Los Angeles magazine - has helped even the messiest turn their lives around. Anyone can get organized-she'll prove it to you!

Die ersten 100 Tage im neuen Unternehmen sind ein bisschen wie Einschulung: viele neue Kollegen, Namen und Abläufe, an die man sich erst gewöhnen muss. Es gilt, die Kultur des Unternehmens zu inhalieren, Prozesse kennenzulernen, Gruppendynamik und geheimen Spielregeln im neuen Job zu erkennen und zu dechiffrieren. Laut Studien der Psychologinnen Vanessa Buote und Anne Wilson von der Wilfried Laurier Universität in Ontario braucht die Mehrheit der Arbeitnehmer zwischen zwei und drei Monate, bis sie im neuen Job wirklich angekommen ist.

In a post-pandemic job market, creating a truly mom-supportive workplace is the ultimate competitive advantage. But there's a pervasive problem across workplaces big and small: Managers aren't asking new mothers what support they need to transition back to work successfully. At the same time, working moms are afraid to ask for help-resulting in poor employment outcomes for both parties. The solution? Intentional and open conversation, which has to start at the managerial level.

When the world was flipped on its head in early 2020, Medix went into crisis mode with everyone else. Business came to a halt. Clients and competitors alike were shutting their doors at record pace. Major cities were turning to ghost towns and the idea of normal life as we knew it was being questioned. As COVID-19 attempted to pull Medix into the depths, the leadership team struggled. They sought new and innovative ways to keep revenue coming in the door and employee paychecks clearing. They swam hard to the surface as COVID-19 continued to pull.

In this follow-up guide to The Great Workplace, experts from Great Place to Work Institute, Inc. reveal the most common excuses managers use for why they can't create a great workplace. Authors Jennifer Robin and Michael Burchell poke holes in every single excuse. Whether the reasons involve the organization's leadership, employees, environment, or any other factor, the authors explain that if managers lead people properly, they can create a great workplace. The authors explore how managers can interrupt their own negative thought patterns and instead create lasting change.

All your life you’ve followed the ‘rules’ of executive presence and leadership to get where you are and suddenly, they’re just not working the way they used to. The business world is clamoring for authentic leadership, but you don’t know what to share, what to wear, or how to show up as your ‘whole self’ or for people bringing their ‘whole selves’ to work. Executive Being: Humanizing Business One Leader at a Time has the answers.

"Work-life balance" isn't making anyone happy. The pandemic helped catalyze a cultural shift of workers redefining themselves beyond what they do for a living. Now, it's time for you to rethink your role as a leader in the nexus of work and life. In Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team That Flourishes, award-winning author Dan Pontefract contends that a thriving workplace isn't about employee engagement levels, nor is it predicated on your team members bringing their "best selves" to work. Instead, it requires you to support the people you manage so they can be their best in work and life.

When you care enough to champion others, the workplace becomes happily infectious and the organization benefits in more ways than one.