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Peter T. Coleman, Morton Deutsch, and Eric C. Marcus present their classic guide to resolving conflict. 

With The Essential Deming, Fordham University professor and Deming expert Joyce Orsini draws on a wealth of previously unavailable material to present the legendary thinker's most important management principles in one indispensable volume. The book is filled with articles, papers, lectures, and notes touching on a wide range of topics, but which focus on Deming's overriding message: Quality and operations are all about systems, not individual performance; the system has to be designed so that the worker can perform well.

Achieving Excellence in Fundraising is the go-to reference for fundraising principles, concepts, and techniques. With comprehensive guidance toward the fundraising role, this audiobook reflects the latest advances in fundraising knowledge. Coverage includes evolving technologies, the importance of high net-worth donors, global fundraising perspectives, results analysis and performance evaluation, accountability, and credentialing, with contributions from noted experts in the field. You'll gain essential insight into the practice of fundraising and the fundraising cycle.

Managing complex projects can stretch you to the limits. But with a book full of experts coaching you each step of the way, you'll never be baffled, blocked, or misdirected again. Packed with essays and insights from the field's top professionals, The AMA Handbook of Project Management is the resource professionals and students rely on for its practical guidance and big picture overview of the entire field. Whether you need advice keeping projects on track or help preparing for certification, this new edition explains every principle, process, and development.

Decisions equal success - nothing happens until one is made. Businesses make millions of decisions every day. But once in a great while a leader makes a truly game-changing decision that shifts not only the strategy of a single company but how everyone does business. These big decisions are counterintuitive - they go against the conventional wisdom. In hindsight, taking a different direction may seem easy, but these bet-the-company moves involve drama, doubt, and high tension.

Are you over-extended, over-distracted, and overwhelmed? Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven’t accomplished the most important things on your agenda when you leave the office? The world has changed, and the way we work has to change, too. With wisdom from 20 leading creative minds, Manage Your Day-to-Day will give you a toolkit for tackling the new challenges of a 24/7, always-on workplace.

Are you ready to "make a dent in the universe"? As a creative, you no longer have to take a backseat. In fact, stepping up and embracing entrepreneurship is the fastest route to impact. But where do you start? And what sets the businesses that succeed apart? To find out, we asked the bright minds behind companies like Google X, Warby Parker, Facebook, O’Reilly Media, and more to share their startup wisdom.

Decade of Change features insights and wisdom into how to manage, and make the most of, change. Vinton Cerf, co-creator of the Internet, peers into the Web's future. Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman probes the nature of decision making. Lieutenant General Russel Honoré, the Hurricane Katrina hero, offers leadership lessons he applied in that crisis. Visionary executive Ray Anderson makes a powerful business case for environmental sustainability.

Consider, for example, the case of the Swedish match king. At one time, Ivar Kreuger, manufactured almost half of the world's matches, with monopolies in 16 countries. He had so much money that he was a reliable lender to many countries, becoming known as the 'saviour of Europe' for his willingness to give aid to banks crippled by World War I. At the time of the 1929 market crash, his was the most widely held stock in the world. When he killed himself three years later, the whole thing went up in flames.

This book bridges the research and practice of global talent management. It opens important theoretical and practical avenues to understand the concept internationally while focusing on developing and emerging countries. Chapters derive from various geographic regions and embrace cross-national, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspectives. An open and inclusive approach is used in assessing the challenges of global talent management, strategies to overcome these challenges, and in charting opportunities for future talent management. 

The literature of ideas. When author Pamela Sargent used those words to describe science fiction in 1975, the genre had exploded into the literary mainstream. As a literature of ideas, science fiction has proven to be a powerful metaphor for the world around us, offering a rich tapestry of imagination through which to explore how we lead, how we think, and how we interact. To Boldly Go assembles more than 30 writers from around the world to help us better understand ourselves through the lens of science fiction.

Ter líderes capacitados em todos os níveis de uma organização é fundamental para o sucesso a longo prazo. Mesmo assim, em muitas empresas é comum que o pipeline de liderança–a arquitetura interna para o desenvolvimento de gestores–esteja comprometido ou nem sequer exista. Nesta edição revista de Pipeline de liderança, Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter e James Noel ampliaram o conteúdo para incorporar os desafios do mundo de hoje.

Este não é um audiolivro de estratégias de negócios. Estratégias mudam de um ano para outro. Este audiolivro é sobre algo permanen­te. Na essência de todo sucesso e fracasso que testemunhei, há algumas regras que sobrevivem ao teste do tempo, aplicam-se a qualquer setor econômico e podem ser utilizadas por qualquer pessoa que queira construir algo grandioso ou se tornar alguém excepcional.

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance. Aaron Nicodemus is the Editor-in-Chief at Compliance Week, one of the premier compliance-focused publications and websites around. Tom and Aaron are both sports enthusiasts and enjoy comparing notes on their hometown teams. In this bi-monthly podcast, Tom and Aaron discuss some of the top stories that have or will appear in Compliance Week each month, a special appearance by a columnist, reporter, or author, and check in on the sports topic de jour.

At some point in our lives, most of us have been affected by caring adults whose advice, guidance, and example made a difference. In The Person Who Changed My Life, individuals who have distinguished themselves in their fields write about the men and women who served as their mentors.

Whether at work or at home, success is something we strive for in all aspects of our lives. And while there are a number of obvious things you should be doing in order to achieve your goals and reach success, there are also some not-so-obvious ones. Entrepreneur Voices on the Science of Success offers data and research-backed tools and tactics for both business and personal achievement from entrepreneurs and small business owners including Tim Ferris, Brian Tracy, and Reid Hoffman.   

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Responsável por conduzir a espetacular recuperação da Best Buy, maior rede de lojas de eletrônicos dos Estados Unidos, Hubert Joly revela neste audiolivro sua estratégia para alcançar resultados extraordinários: colocar as pessoas e o propósito no coração do negócio, acionando o que ele chamou de “mágica humana”. É uma perspectiva fácil de entender, mas difícil de colocar em prática. Exige repensar radicalmente a liderança, o mundo dos negócios e o trabalho em si.

Existe uma vantagem competitiva mais poderosa do que qualquer outra. Não se trata de marketing, finanças, tecnologia nem inteligência ou conhecimento superiores. A diferença entre as empresas bem-sucedidas e as medíocres é a sua saúde organizacional. Neste livro, Lencioni oferece um modelo inovador e acessível para alcançar esse patamar, valendo-se de histórias reais e de lições extraídas de seus vinte anos de experiência prestando consultoria para grandes empresas e instituições americanas.

Lições do fundador de uma das empresas mais valiosas do mundo retiradas de suas mensagens aos acionistas.