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Wounds Caused by Gossip Ministry has been empowered by kingdom of God to equips, train, inform, educate, that we may bring the body of Christ together as one in the spirit. It is time for the church of the living God to help restore our workplace, churches, families, and communities back to God. We live in a society that is flooded with gossip and conflicts. And we just ignore it, because we as people in general love to gossip and keep up conflicts...
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What is the right leadership approach to transform a company from outdated, sluggish, and unprofitable to an industry darling? When Cheryl Bachelder was named CEO of Popeye's in the Fall of 2007, the stock price had slipped from $34 in 2002 to $13. The brand was stagnant, team members were discouraged, and the franchise owners were just plain angry. By the end of 2016, average restaurant sales were up 45%, operating profits had doubled, market share...
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This balanced guide to Agile transformation gets past all the hype and jargon to help project leaders tailor Agile to their unique organizational setting.
Agile transformations are supposed to make organizations modern, competitive, and relevant. But in the rush to jump on this latest bandwagon, many leaders make the mistake of adapting superficial versions of Agile techniques, only to find that their organizations are just marginally better versions...
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"An essential tool for individuals, organizations, and communities of all sizes to jump-start dialogue on racism and bias and to transform well-intentioned statements on diversity into concrete actions-from a leading Harvard social psychologist. How can I become part of the solution? In the wake of the social unrest of 2020 and growing calls for racial justice, many business leaders and ordinary citizens are asking that very question. This book provides...
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The Purpose Revolution. How Good Leaders Create Engagement and Competitive Advantage in an Age of Social Good We're in the midst of a purpose revolution. Customers, employees, and investors are making it clear that they want companies to do more than provide good products, good prospects, and good profits-they want companies to do some social good too. Ironically, as this extremely timely book demonstrates, purpose-driven companies do better on nearly...
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"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman
A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives from its clutches.
From the moment we ask children what they want to “be” when they grow up, we exalt the dream job as if it were life’s ultimate objective. Many entangle their identities with their jobs, with predictable damage to happiness, wellbeing, and even professional success.
In The Good Enough...
A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives from its clutches.
From the moment we ask children what they want to “be” when they grow up, we exalt the dream job as if it were life’s ultimate objective. Many entangle their identities with their jobs, with predictable damage to happiness, wellbeing, and even professional success.
In The Good Enough...
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If your company is like most, it has a handful of people who generate disproportionate quantities of value: A researcher creates products that bankroll the entire organization for decades. A manager spots consumer-spending patterns no one else sees and defines new market categories your enterprise can serve. A strategist anticipates global changes and correctly interprets their business implications.
Companies' competitiveness, even survival, increasingly...
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A call center company CEO shares how businesses of all sizes can repeat his success by focusing on employee loyalty-and not outsourcing.
How many small businesses have a full-time coworker whose official title is "Queen of Fun and Laughter?" How many have a CEO and COO who dress in matador outfits for a company holiday video version of Dancing with the Stars?
Beryl is a "Top Small Workplace" because of one thing-its focus on people. Visitors report...
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You can grow a business and nurture meaningful relationships.
Balance is not the path to get there.
Integration is.
First-generation entrepreneurs are pulled in a million different directions. Growing a business is all consuming and leaves little time, energy and bandwidth for the people who are most important in your life. Trying to split your time between these worlds only causes stress, resentment and poor business performance.
Fortunately,...
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Networking can be seen as a daunting and intimidating task, yet interpersonal relationships remain at the heart of success for career and business development. In straightforward and simple terms, this book offers a practical approach to developing this core skill. Including chapters on assessing your networks, developing your personal brand, the softer skills of networking, using social media and making networking part of your everyday life, 21st...
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Millions of people are unhappy with their current jobs. They either do not feel like they are properly appreciated or feel that they could do much better. A recent USA Today poll found that only one in ten people actually feel important in their job. In actuality, the number may even be lower than that, as it does not take into account people who aspire to being promoted or feel that they could perform better at their current position. Many people...
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Bestselling author of Who Do We Want to Be gives visionary leaders the tools to create organizations that foster generosity, creativity, and kindness in a chaotic world.
We are living in chaotic and contentious times. Tensions between people are reaching dangerously hateful proportions. Margaret Wheatley calls on leaders to resist, to forge communities that protect people from the destructive dynamics so prevalent today and rediscover and reawaken...
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Most leaders know that employees are an asset, but do they understand how to maximize that asset? Russ Robertson, former vice-president of career development and operational training at the world's largest corporation, discovered the truth to achieving top results through your existing employees. In Leading Regular Folks, you will gain a new understanding of what actually matters most to the people responsible for the actual execution of your business...
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If you want the insights, leadership tools-and inspiration-to create a noble enterprise and lead your people to new heights of performance, then this is the book for you. In it you will learn how to: Strengthen your organization; Awaken and activate the rich array of human energy, wisdom, passion, and purpose in your organization; Revitalize your company; Create and implement a plan for turning around (and turning on) even the most "stuck" operation;...
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WE do the right thing.
WE own our mistakes.
WE pick each other up.
WE challenge each other.
WE obsess over details.
Apathetic. Disengaged. Insecure. Afraid. These are words appropriately associated with many aspects of Corporate America.
In Begin With WE, leadership expert Kyle McDowell examines the root causes of dysfunction in business, highlighting the plague of a "me-oriented" paradigm, and provides the remedy with his framework, The 10 WEs....
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No more "checking for feet." This illuminating guide gets people to tell the truth at the meeting--not in the bathroom afterwards. Almost everybody does it--lie, that is. In one recent survey 93% of people admitted to lying regularly at work! Why? Because it's safer than telling the truth. Sadly, organizations cannot succeed in this poisonous world of half-truths, strategic omissions, and doctored information. To function optimally, businesses must...
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Marcando Diferencias por Pedro David Espinoza y Jorge Titinger es un libro sobre el poder de la diversidad para innovar en el mundo de los negocios. Espinoza y Titinger entrevistaron a más de 100 CEOs como Eric Schmidt (Google), Reed Hastings (Netflix), y Dan Schulman (PayPal).
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Where attention goes, energy follows.
Tired of working in an Every-thing workplace, where you're so busy you can never catch your breath? Or fed up with the frustrations of a No-thing workplace, where getting anything done is impossible?
From personal experience, conversations with clients, and extensive research, Gayle Smerdon PhD recognised how important it is for organisations to stop wasting time, money and people's goodwill by trying to do way...
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