Showing titles in Workplace & Organisational Behaviour

Drawing on cutting-edge research from behavioural science, Dr Grace Lordan offers immediate actionable solutions and tips that will help you get closer to your dream future, every day. Focusing on six key areas - your time, goal planning, self-narratives, other people, your environment and resilience - Dr Lordan reveals practical, science-backed hacks that will help you get ahead.

Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johansson's The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar territory, and offers examples on how we can turn the ideas we discover into path-breaking innovations.

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 25 million copies sold! Translated into 60+ languages! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals...

In the spirit of his international best seller, The Energy Bus, Jon Gordon once again shares an inspiring and enlightening story that reveals a powerful way to tackle the biggest problem in business and life - the negativity that costs organizations billions of dollars and impacts the morale, productivity, and health of individuals and teams.

Brought to you by Penguin. The funny and practical guide on how to deal with difficult managers, colleagues, and teams, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots. Being driven crazy by a micro-manager? Frequently drowning under your boss's unreasonable expectations?...

Master corporate governance and ethical leadership to navigate boardroom power dynamics and build accountable companies. Perfect for your morning commute, this clear-cut business guide empowers early-career professionals and startup founders alike to step into any meeting with total confidence...

One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2023 The secrets to successfully planning and delivering ambitious, complex projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world's leading expert on megaprojects. Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a...

We live, say Edgar and Peter Schein, in a culture of “tell". All too often we tell others what we think they need to know or should do. But whether we are leading or following, what matters most is we get to the truth. We have to develop a commitment to sharing vital facts and identifying faulty assumptions - it can mean the difference between success and failure. This is why we need Humble Inquiry more than ever.  

What Does Humility Look Like in Leadership? is a reflective and practical guide that redefines humility as a core strength for effective leadership. This book explores how leaders who practice humility inspire trust, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful impact without ego or arrogance...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A practitioner's handbook for designing, governing and operating enterprises where a growing share of decisions and recovery actions are executed by machines rather than people. Written for CxOs, board members, enterprise architects and transformation...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The spend is precise. The return is a slide. Every board has approved artificial intelligence spending it cannot yet defend. The invoices are exact to the cent. The benefits arrive as a slide. That gap is not a technology failure and it is not a...

In The Plus One Culture, leadership coach and storyteller Donnie Johnson uses the game of baseball to reveal a powerful truth: extraordinary teams are built when individuals consistently choose to make the people around them better.Through the journey of Jake Lawson and the Oak Ridge baseball...

Interactuar con personas en el trabajo puede ser una de las mayores alegrías de la vida… y también una de las mayores frustraciones. Algunos compañeros nunca confían en que hagamos bien nuestro trabajo, o nunca responden a solicitudes de información, o nos hacen perder el tiempo con decenas de correos innecesarios. El costo: nuestros resultados laborales y nuestra salud mental.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of the Work Clean, written and read by Dan Charnas. Night after night, chefs and their crews are able to multitask and produce in a way that puts deskbound workers to shame. In Work Clean, Dan Charnas uncovers their secret...

Brought to you by Penguin. A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back. Is AI going to take...

The traditional hierarchical organization is dead, but what replaces it? Numerous new models - the agile organization, the networked organization, and holacracy, to name a few - have emerged, but leaders need to know what really works. How do you build an organization that is responsive to fast-changing markets? What kind of organization delivers both speed and scale, and how do you lead it? Arthur Yeung and Dave Ulrich provide leaders with a much-needed blueprint for reinventing the organization.

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Rapid change defines the world around us, requiring a more effective type of organization. New discoveries change our understanding of how the world works, and Margaret J. Wheatley shows us how the “new science” can lead to a powerful new view of the business world. Our world has become nonlinear and filled with constant transition, and this new understanding can be applied to the way we organize work, people, and our lives. Wheatley invites us to transform our way of thinking and adapt ourselves—and our companies—to the 21st century by offering a new way of thinking.

Brought to you by Penguin. Based on the No 1 hit podcast 'The Lazarus Heist' 'You'll never see North Korea the same way again' Oliver Bullough, Sunday Times bestselling author of Moneyland 'One of the most incredible cyber-espionage stories I've ever heard, told by one of the UK's best tech...

Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily Truelove, and Being the Boss coauthor Kent Lineback, found among leaders a widely shared, and mistaken, assumption: that a "good" leader in all other respects would also be an effective leader of innovation. The truth is, leading innovation takes a distinctive kind of leadership, one that unleashes and harnesses the "collective genius" of the people in the organization.