Culture Blueprint
Author: Robert Richman
Publisher:
Published: 2014-09-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780692274774
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Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company
Author: Kevin Oakes
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 2021-01-12
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1260464377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeize and expand the competitive edge with a smart, well-managed culture “renovation” Most business leaders understand the power of a dynamic, positive culture—but almost every effort to change culture fails. Why? The approach is often all wrong. Rather than attempt to “transform” a new culture from the ground up, leaders need to instead spearhead a culture renovation. It’s all about keeping what works, changing what needs to be changed, and ensuring proper care and maintenance—much like refurbishing and living in a beautiful historic home and improving its overall value. In Culture Renovation, the head of the world’s leading HR research firm—the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp)—Kevin Oakes provides tangible, tactical insights drawn from a robust data set and informed by CEOs and HR leaders at many of the world’s top companies. You’ll find everything you need to rebuild your corporate culture with care and expertise, including: Three phases and detailed action steps for architecting the change you want to see Practical insights and examples from T-Mobile, Microsoft, 3M, and other top companies The traits of a healthy corporate culture Proven talent practices to maintain your new culture for long-term success Oakes identifies 18 proven leadership actions for turning any culture into an agile, resilient, and innovative high-performance organization. You’ll learn how to best understand the culture in place today and set a new cultural path for decades to come; develop a co-creation mindset; identify influencers and blockers; ferret out skeptics and non-believers; measure, monitor, and report progress; and implement “next practices” in talent strategies to sustain the renovation. Culture Renovation delivers everything you need to plan, build, and maintain a corporate culture that drives profits, growth, and business sustainability now and well into the future.
Transformational Culture
Author: David Liddle
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Published: 2021-09-03
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1789661099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2022 - People, Culture & Management category Company culture is the foundation of business success. Strong culture drives an average of four times more revenue growth, 12% more productivity and half the employee turnover rate. Driven by global health, economic and environmental emergencies and rising social justice and employee activism, organizations are urgently seeking a new cultural model which will enable them to thrive. Transformational Culture provides a blueprint for a fair, just, inclusive, sustainable, and high performing organization. With a foreword from Dave Ulrich and expert analysis of the benefits of a people-focused and values lead organization, it provides 8 transformational enablers to deliver individual, team and business success. Guidance is also included on how to tackle toxic cultures and behaviours, how to shift the dial from retributive to restorative justice, and how to develop humane and human HR and management systems. The book offers practical guidance for HR professionals and business leaders on how to redefine their culture and to embed a unique, practical framework to assist with the resolution of concerns, complaints, and conflicts at work. Tried and tested toolkits and templates plus case studies from organizations who have successfully implemented this approach including London Ambulance Service, Aviva, The FT and British Retail Consortium are contained within Transformational Culture making this an invaluable guide for anyone wishing to put their people and their values first.
Built on Values
Author: Ann Rhoades
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-01-18
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0470901926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost leaders know that a winning, engaged culture is the key to attracting top talent—and customers. Yet, it remains elusive how exactly to create this ideal workplace —one where everyone from the front lines to the board room knows the company’s values and feels comfortable and empowered to act on them. Based on Ann Rhoades’ years of experience with JetBlue, Southwest, and other companies known for their trailblazing corporate cultures, Built on Values reveals exactly how leaders can create winning environments that allow their employees and their companies to thrive. Companies that create or improve values-based cultures can become higher performers, both in customer and employee satisfaction and financial return, as proven by Rhoades’ work with JetBlue, Southwest Airlines, Disney, Loma Linda University Hospitals, Doubletree Hotels, Juniper Networks, and P.F. Chang’s China Bistros. Built on Values provides a clear blueprint for how to accomplish culture change, showing: How to exceed the expectations of employees and customers How to develop a Values Blueprint tailored to your organization’s goals and put it into action Why it's essential to hire, fire, and reward people based on values alone, and How to establish a discipline for sustaining a values-centric culture Built on Values helps companies get on the pathway to greatness by showing the exact steps for either curing an ailing company culture or creating a new one from scratch.
Reengineering Yourself
Author: Daniel L. Araoz
Publisher: Wellness Institute, Inc.
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781587411243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany very intelligent people, including managers at all levels are a failure. Why? Their I. Q. is high but their emotional intelligence is low. Reengineering yourself teaches you how to become more productive and happier in the process. How? By practicing different mind exercises 7you raise your awareness ceiling so you are aware of your reactions, 7you become more effective in your thinking and in your communication, you develop your hidden creativity destroying negativism from the past,7you use your talents and time more effectively to make your work better and easier,7you acquire the habit of excellence in your thinking and actions..What Reengineering Yourself presents to you was tested by Araoz and Sutton in their many years of leader formation in the corporate world, in the church and in the U. S. army. The authors have reached thousands of people who believe their lives have changed for the better thanks to the methods of Reengineering Yourself. The approach is eclectic, drawing from diverse sources of proven success in the fields of management training, psychology, sociology, learning theory and philosophy. Therefore this is not a book for you to read once and put back on the shelf. Rather it is ?a blueprint for personal success? that you?ll use as a manual to which you return frequently. Also the ?practices? found throughout its pages are meant to create in you new habits of excellence and power thoughts.Any intelligent person realizes that there is room for improvement in our lives, both professional and personal. Reengineering Yourself is another tool for self-enrichment and improved productivity. The wise person tries and applies a new method that has been successful for manyothers.
Hustle Culture
Author: K A Perkins
Publisher:
Published: 2021-04-03
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781736907405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHustle Culture is a cutting-edge approach to unleashing your full potential and setting yourself up for success. Once you adopt the teachings of this book, you will use your life change for the better. Lose the limitations you set in your mind. Hustle hard and your dreams are guaranteed to come true!As the proud author of this blueprint for success, K.A. Perkins distills complex topics into simple life-changing practices. Utterly devoted to researching how the workplace evolves and what it demands, he draws on the most proven ideas from workforce development.By relying on this guide, you will elevate your self-discipline skills while focusing on the most important principles of the Hustle Culture. Tapping into your power takes time, but this book will take you there in no time. Once you start down the Hustle path, there is no turning back!When you take time to work on yourself, great things are bound to happen. Never forget: "Things may come to those who wait, but they are the things left behind by the Hustler".
Building a Winning Culture In Government
Author: Patrick R. Leddin
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
Published: 2018-04-15
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 163353765X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe strategic consultant and author of Talent Unleashed presents a revolutionary blueprint for organizational success in government. Today’s government organizations face political fallout, media scrutiny, reduced funding, and the challenges of motivating large, highly regulated organizations. In many offices, these challenges have led to a vicious cycle of employee disengagement. As performance declines, scrutiny increases, and employee paralysis sets in. Breaking this cycle requires a new approach. As an Executive Vice President at Franklin Covey, Patrick Leddin helped organizations all over the world transform their culture and unleash their potential with five highly effective practices. In Building a Winning Culture in Government, he shows how government organizations can implement these same practices to inspire their employees, revitalize engagement, and become more responsive to the public interest. In Building a Winning Culture in Government, you will learn to: Lead with purpose and find your organization's mission, mantra, or manifesto. Make the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People your organization's operating system. Inspire people to go beyond your expectations. Build trust withing the organization and with the public. Create loyalty with all stakeholders.
Exposing the "culture of Arrogance" in the Academy
Author: Gail L. Thompson
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781003444749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere generally remains a gulf between the way most Black faculty perceive the racial climate at their institutions and the recognition by non-Black faculty and administrators that there are problems and that these perceptions have merit. This book is intended to promote a productive dialogue.This book weaves the authors' own experiences with the responses of 136 Black faculty to a questionnaire, and a smaller sample who were interviewed, to identify the factors that determine Black faculty's satisfaction or dissatisfaction with their jobs and institutions.Recurring themes underscore the importance of a supportive work environment that is built on mutual respect, full inclusion in the decision-making process, and an institutional climate that does not tolerate cultural insensitivity or racism. The qualitative and quantitative information and the authors' conclusions can help postsecondary institutions improve Black faculty satisfaction levels, and ultimately, retention rates.This book will resonate with any Black faculty who have felt frustrated enough to consider leaving a postsecondary institution and with those who are content at their current institutions. For non-Black faculty and for administrators of all races, the book illuminates the sources of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction, explains the reasons their Black colleagues leave or stay, and offers valuable recommendations for change. For anyone, at any level, interested in the issue of the racial climate at his or her institution, this book offers a constructive framework for discussion and action
The Culture Cycle
Author: James L. Heskett
Publisher: FT Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0132779781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contribution of culture to organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. In The Culture Cycle, renowned thought leader James Heskett demonstrates how an effective culture can account for 20-30% of the differential in performance compared with "culturally unremarkable" competitors. Drawing on decades of field research and dozens of case studies, Heskett introduces a powerful conceptual framework for managing culture, and shows it at work in a real-world setting. Heskett's "culture cycle" identifies cause-and-effect relationships that are crucial to shaping effective cultures, and demonstrates how to calculate culture's economic value through "Four Rs": referrals, retention, returns to labor, and relationships. This book: Explains how culture evolves, can be shaped and sustained, and serve as the organization's "internal brand." Shows how culture can promote innovation and survival in tough times. Guides leaders in linking culture to strategy and managing forces that challenge it. Shows how to credibly quantify culture's impact on performance, productivity, and profits. Clarifies culture's unique role in mission-driven organizations. A follow-up to the classic Corporate Culture and Performance (authored by Heskett and John Kotter), this is the next indispensable book on organizational culture. "Heskett (emer., Harvard Business School) provides an exhaustive examination of corporate policies, practices, and behaviors in organizations." Summing Up: Recommended. Reprinted with permission from CHOICE, copyright by the American Library Association.
Blueprint
Author: Nicholas A. Christakis
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Published: 2019-03-26
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 0316230057
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Bruni, The New York Times), Blueprint shows why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are united by our common humanity. For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all of our inventions -- our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations -- we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society. In Blueprint, Nicholas A. Christakis introduces the compelling idea that our genes affect not only our bodies and behaviors, but also the ways in which we make societies, ones that are surprisingly similar worldwide. With many vivid examples -- including diverse historical and contemporary cultures, communities formed in the wake of shipwrecks, commune dwellers seeking utopia, online groups thrown together by design or involving artificially intelligent bots, and even the tender and complex social arrangements of elephants and dolphins that so resemble our own -- Christakis shows that, despite a human history replete with violence, we cannot escape our social blueprint for goodness. In a world of increasing political and economic polarization, it's tempting to ignore the positive role of our evolutionary past. But by exploring the ancient roots of goodness in civilization, Blueprint shows that our genes have shaped societies for our welfare and that, in a feedback loop stretching back many thousands of years, societies are still shaping our genes today.
