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Hiring and firing are hard to get right - and potentially costly to get wrong. Two of the most crucial tasks you face as a manager, they are vital to both the success of the enterprise...and your own career. No need to worry. This handy guide breaks down the simple but powerful strategies you can use to bring better employees onboard - and weed out the weaker ones.

Based on Harvard’s most popular professional development program, a practical, personal guide to harnessing the power of self-understanding to become a more successful leader What is the “best” way to lead others? The answer may surprise you. The basis for powerful, effective leadership...

This brilliant adaptation of the ancient masterpiece The Art of War shows women how to use Sun Tzu's philosophy to win in every aspect of life. In the West, when we think of war, we imagine battle, casualties, brutality. But Sun Tsu, who wrote The Art of War 2,500 years ago, was Chinese, and their view of war is not about fighting. It is about determining the most efficient way of gaining victory with the least amount of conflict.

Unabridged CDs * 4 CDs, 4 1?2 hours The Ten Commandments for Business Failure is a cautionary bible for business leaders, from a widely admired elder statesman who has seen and heard it all...

ITIL 4 Unplugged breaks down ITIL concepts, best practices, and real-world applications in a way that’s engaging, easy to understand, and fun! Whether you’re preparing for the ITIL Foundation exam or looking to improve your IT service management skills, this podcast helps you turn ITIL theory into real-world success—without the boring textbook talk. This podcast is for educational and awareness purposes only and is based on ITIL® 4 best practices. ITIL® is a registered trademark of PeopleCert. All rights reserved.

Most company's change initiatives fail. Yours don't have to.

In the mode of other best selling business fables, The Energy Bus takes listeners on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment - at work and at home. Everyone faces challenges. And every person, organization, company, and team will have to overcome negativity and adversity to define themselves and create their success.

In this book, author Will Larson shows you ways to obtain your first executive job and quickly ramp up to meet the challenges you may not have encountered in non-executive roles: measuring engineering for both engineers and the CEO, company-scoped headcount planning, communicating successfully across a growing organization, and figuring out what people actually mean when they keep asking for a "technology strategy."

Robert Jackall's Moral Mazes offers an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Based on extensive interviews with managers at every level of two industrial firms and of a large public relations agency, IMoral Mazes takes the reader inside the intricate world of the corporation.

Insider Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology, with analyst perspectives, executive interviews, and in-depth vendor analysis.

The Oz Principle is the groundbreaking work that demonstrates the vital role of accountability in the achievement of business results and the improvement of both individual and organizational performance. With more than a half million copies sold, The Oz Principle has emerged as one of the most influential and useful business ideas of recent times. The Oz Principle shows how to overcome The Blame Game that is so prevalent in organizations today.

Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth, tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they've grown from small companies to global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, a set of common patterns has evolved into a repeatable playbook that Gil has now codified in High Growth Handbook.

When Hanna and Jack receive an ultimatum from the only investor in their struggling tea supply company, they must learn how to employ Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with radical focus to get the right things done. Using Hanna and Jack’s story, Wodtke walks listeners through how to inspire a diverse team to work together in pursuit of a single, challenging goal, and how to stay motivated despite setbacks and failures.

Welcome to GEA Dairy Farming Insights - the infotainment podcast for the dairy farming network!Whether you are experienced farmer, just starting out or interested in the world of dairy, join us as we explore the ever-evolving field of farming and tell stories of success, challenges, and innovation. We will be talking about modern and future oriented milk production, based on our Next Generation Farming pillars: animal welfare, flexibility and sustainability for the better. Join our cowmunity that takes you on a journey through the vastness of milk production - your source of knowledge and ...

Rated in the top 10% globally, this is a leadership and personal growth podcast heard by millions of people. It's the only podcast that gets you to be a transformed leader and grow at your work. Focussed on helping you live a successful and fulfilled work-life, this podcast is hosted by Payal Nanjiani, a world-renowned leadership expert. Each episode is designed to help you grow at your work, improve your performance and be a better leader. You will find a blend of leadership and inspiration, interviews of women and men who have made it, and what it takes to reach your goals.

McKinsey experts discuss the latest trends and the most pressing challenges for leaders in the retail and consumer-goods industries. Hear about the immediate and longer-term moves that matter most for business success. Topics covered include strategy, technology, marketing, operations, and organization.

Softeon CEO Jim Hoefflin and CTO Mark Fralick team up in this limited podcast series to share stories, anecdotes, and lessons learned over the last 35 years in the warehousing industry. The two friends and colleagues specifically discuss their role in creating one of the first warehouse management systems (WMS). Watch all the episodes at https://www.softeon.com/wms-pioneers.

Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both simultaneously. How do you meet the performance requirements of the existing business-one that is still thriving-while dramatically reinventing it?

A sly send-up of the successful What Would Jesus Do? books, here is a satisfyingly mean light-hearted approach to business success—the Machiavellian way. Machiavellians may not get to heaven, but on earth they have a definite edge on the competition. In this pithy and discretely vicious guide...

Decision-making is a critical part of management, and bad choices can damage careers and the bottom line. This book offers the tools and advice managers need to avoid common biases and arrive at and implement decisions that are both sound and ethical.