Driving Great Results
Driving Great Results

Author: Luke Sheppard

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2021-02-17

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1525579290

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"Just give me the tools I need to run a great business." Driving Great Results will help any entrepreneur or manager become more effective at their most important responsibility—running their business. This easy-to-follow handbook provides 19 practical and immediately applicable tools to help you: • Determine what’s most important to you and your business • Prioritize and make better decisions • Identify and drive the projects worth pursuing • Identify the 3 types of communication and how to deliver the right message • Interview, hire, and empower the right people Running a business is tough, but incredibly rewarding. Driving Great Results addresses the frustration around the core elements of running your business. Don’t reinvent the wheel for tools that have already been proven. Spend your time on the things which really matter: your people, customer satisfaction, market and product differentiation, and doing the things you love to do!

Driving Excellence
Driving Excellence

Author: Mark Aesch

Publisher: Hachette Books

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1401396461

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Driving Excellence tells the inspiring story of one man who, with no formal business training, turned an entire industry on its head. Mark Aesch proves that we really can run government like a business, and provide value to taxpayers and shareholders alike. When Aesch took over the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority in 2004, it was operating with a 27.7-million-dollar deficit, and was poised to raise fares, lay off employees, and slash service. Under Aesch's leadership, those deficits have been eradicated and replaced with multimillion-dollar surpluses; reliance on taxpayer subsidies has been reduced; demand for service has increased at rates three times the national average; and in an unprecedented move, the fare at the Authority's two largest subsidiaries were actually reduced. In Driving Excellence, Aesch shows readers how to create a culture built around selflessness rather than ego, and get employees invested in saving the company. In describing the transition from an ailing business to one that enjoys stunning success--lower fares, multi-million surpluses, and the highest ridership and customer satisfaction levels in twenty years--Aesch offers powerful principles that any organization can implement to achieve exceptional results.

Self-Handicapping Leadership
Self-Handicapping Leadership

Author: Phillip J. Decker

Publisher: FT Press

Published: 2015-11-12

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0134119894

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Every day, millions of employees watch their leaders sabotage themselves. They watch, they learn, and then they do it, too. Next thing you know, everyone’s lost motivation, and nobody takes ownership. That’s how organizations fail. This book will help you break the vicious cycle of self-handicapping leadership in your organization, stop the excuses, and unleash all the performance your team is capable of delivering. Phil and Jordan reveal how and why people handicap themselves even when they know better. Next, they offer real solutions from their own pioneering research and consulting. You’ll find practical ways to strengthen accountability and self-awareness, recognize the “big picture,” improve decision-making, deepen trust and engagement, develop talent, escape micromanagement, and focus relentlessly on outcomes. Your colleagues can be far more effective, and so can you. In fact, it starts with you–right here, right now, with this book. Many leaders inadvertently create cultures of failure. They model and promote “selfhandicapping” actions, where people withdraw effort or create new problems, in order to maintain their own self-images of competence. Self-Handicapping Leadership shines the spotlight on this widespread and destructive phenomenon and presents real action plans for overcoming it.

Driving Results Through Social Networks
Driving Results Through Social Networks

Author: Robert L. Cross

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-01-09

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0470392495

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Driving Results Through Social Networks shows executives and managers how to obtain substantial performance and innovation impact by better leveraging these traditionally invisible assets. For the past decade, Rob Cross and Robert J. Thomas have worked closely with executives from over a hundred top-level companies and government agencies. In this groundbreaking book, they describe in-depth how these leaders are using network thinking to increase revenues, lower costs, and accelerate innovation.

The Driving Force
The Driving Force

Author: Peter Schutz

Publisher: Leadershippublishing.com

Published: 2005-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780977128914

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What makes a company great? After all, management trends come and go. Economic conditions fluctuate and market demands shift. Corporations re-structure and new owners take over. The one constant, the one enduring truth, is that people define the character of a company. They always have and always will. Motivated, passionate people make the difference between ho-hum mediocrity and extraordinary performance. That's the message from Peter W. Schutz, former CEO of Porsche AG and author of this new book. Schutz explains that people are the heart and soul of any business. In The Driving Force, he shares a wealth of insights he learned throughout his career that relate to the successful management of people.

The Culture Engine
The Culture Engine

Author: S. Chris Edmonds

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-09-22

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1118947320

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An organizational "North Star," codifying valued behaviors for optimal performance The Culture Engine shows leaders how to create a high performing, values aligned culture through the creation of an organizational constitution. With practical step-by-step guidance, readers learn how to define their organization's culture, delineate the behaviors that contribute to greater performance and greater engagement, and draft a document that codifies those behaviors into a constitution that guides behavior towards an ideal: a safe, inspiring workplace. The discussion focuses on people, including who should be involved at the outset and how to engage employees from start to finish, while examples of effective constitutions provide guidance toward drafting a document that can actualize an organization's potential. Culture drives everything that happens in an organization day to day, including focus, priorities, and the treatment of employees and customers. A great culture drives great performance, and can help attract and retain great talent. But a great culture isn't something that evolves naturally. The Culture Engine is a guide to strategically planning a culture by compiling the company's guiding principles and behaviors into an organizational constitution. Decide which behaviors and attitudes are desired in the organization Secure leader commitment to planning, drafting, and implementing the document Learn the most effective way to socialize the draft statement and get everyone on board Model desired behaviors to boost employee engagement throughout the process Organizational culture is not an amorphous thing – it comes down from the top, inspired and exemplified by the leadership. It can steer a company up or down, keep it on mission or force it off-course. For an organization to fulfill its potential, the culture must be on-point, truly reflecting the heart of the company from leaders to team members across the company. The Culture Engine helps leaders define the playing field, pushing performance to the next level.

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Author: Kim Scott

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1250103509

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"A high-profile business manager describes her development of an optimal management course designed to help business leaders become balanced and effective without resorting to insensitive aggression or overt permissiveness"--

Drive
Drive

Author: Daniel H. Pink

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-04-05

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1101524383

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The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.

Performance Management
Performance Management

Author: Elaine D. Pulakos

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-03-12

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781444308754

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Performance Management presents an end-to-end practicalmodel of effective performance management that shows how to developand implement performance management systems that yield bottom lineresults. Practical step by step guidance and examples Realities associated with implementing best practices andavoiding common pitfalls Jobs and circumstances where common practices will and will notwork well Proven approaches from leading organizations Insights for everyone involved in performance managementthrough senior leadership

Exemplary Performance
Exemplary Performance

Author: Paul H. Elliott

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-01-04

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1118240766

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Praise for Exemplary Performance "I have seen the transformative power of human performance improvement in the power industry where it has produced measurable results in areas such as safety performance. Executives, managers, and other leaders will benefit from this approach, enabling exemplary performance by replicating the results of their stars." Carl English, vice-chairman (retired), American Electric Power "A must-read for anyone accountable for producing and leading high-performing individuals or teams." Jamie Torchiana, learning implementation leader, Sales Strategy, AstraZeneca "Uniquely captures profound ideas, frames them concisely, and explains how they work in the real world in a powerful way. If you want to link your business's capability development to actual business outcome, this book might be all you need. A fantastic read." Don Shoultz, head of learning and development, BP Upstream Learning