Retooling on the Run is a profound reminder that while we may be executives, managers, doctors, or teachers we are also human beings whose own well-being is a precondition for global evolution. Heller and Surrenda show how to move through life's challenges and changes. Retooling is a blueprint for enhancing personal effectiveness at work.
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Organizational and individual change is constant—it’s not a race to the finish line. Rapid Retooling explains that organizational change is a cyclical process, and shows readers how to constantly and rapidly adapt—or “retool”—themselves, their employees, and their organization business models to keep pace with technology and economic events. By implementing the strategies and tools presented in the book readers will forge a workplace culture that is flexible, resilient, and aware of events that affect its business. This awareness will allow for faster, more efficient, and more cost-effective change initiatives. You will learn how to: Build employees' business acumen, thereby increasing their ability to spot opportunities for driving revenue, as well as potential organizational threats. Create a culture that encourages innovation Link your organization's business goals to employees' personal goals, increasing their engagement with and dedication to their work.
HR professionals have made major strides toward becoming strategic partners. But they need to do more - by generating value through savvy decisions about talent. HR leaders typically assume that, to make such decisions, they must develop sophisticated analytical tools from scratch. Even then, the resulting tools often fail to engage their peers. In Retooling HR, John Boudreau shows how HR leaders can break this cycle - by adapting powerful analytical tools already used by other functions to the unique challenges of talent management. Drawing on his research and examples from companies including Google, Disney, IBM, and Microsoft, Boudreau explains six proven business tools leaders already use. And he shows how HR can apply these tools to talent management. Examples include: · Using engineering tolerances to find pivot points that job descriptions miss · Using inventory and supply-chain analytics to ensure a ready supply of the right talent · Applying logistics tools to optimize succession planning and leadership development · Adapting consumer research tools to find untapped value in total rewards Retooling HR builds on Boudreau's bestselling book Beyond HR, which traces HR's evolution as a decision science. For HR professionals seeking to sharpen their decision-making prowess, this provocative new book blazes an innovative new path.
If you currently employ knowledge workers who do most of their work on computers or with computers, access the Internet, utilize internal and external databases, use e-mail or other new messaging technology, then this book is for you. Quite simply, this handbook is for any organization with a lot of Web DNA that wishes to cut costs, improve perform
Companies, communities, and individuals fall for many reasons, but one of the most common—and easily avoidable—is the failure to reinvent. When people and organizations rest on prior successes rather than driving purposeful transformation, they discover too late that they have lost their market position altogether to competitors and external forces. The most successful companies, brands, and individuals make reinvention a regular part of their business strategies. Transformation demands an ongoing process of discovery and imagination, and The Road to Reinvention lays out a systematic approach for continually challenging and reinventing yourself and your business. Venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur Josh Linkner identifies six elements in any business that are ripe for reinvention and shares examples, methods, and step-by-step techniques for creating deliberate, productive disruption. Throughout The Road to Reinvention, Linkner also explores the history—the great rise, unprecedented fall, and now rebirth—of his beloved hometown, Detroit. First rising to greatness as the result of breathtaking innovation, Detroit had generations of booming growth before succumbing to apathy, atrophy, and finally bankruptcy. Now, the city is rising from the ashes and driving sustainable success through an intense focus on reinvention. Linkner brings an insider's view of this incredible story of grit, determination, and creativity, sharing his perspective on Detroit's successes and setbacks as a profound example of large-scale organizational and personal transformation. Change is inevitable. You need to decide: Will you drive that change, or be driven away by it? Will you disrupt or be disrupted? By choosing to deliberately reimagine your own status quo, you can secure a strong future for both your company and your career.
As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs. Retooling for an Aging America calls for bold initiatives starting immediately to train all health care providers in the basics of geriatric care and to prepare family members and other informal caregivers, who currently receive little or no training in how to tend to their aging loved ones. The book also recommends that Medicare, Medicaid, and other health plans pay higher rates to boost recruitment and retention of geriatric specialists and care aides. Educators and health professional groups can use Retooling for an Aging America to institute or increase formal education and training in geriatrics. Consumer groups can use the book to advocate for improving the care for older adults. Health care professional and occupational groups can use it to improve the quality of health care jobs.
No one knows better than you just how dramatically change has altered the insurance landscape in the last many years. Maybe you've felt the shudder in your bottom line. Maybe You've lost customers. Maybe you're not even having fun anymore. It doesn't have to be that way! In fact, opportunities to capitalize on those changes and maximize your profits are already within your reach-if you know where to look. This book will help you retool your thinking and strategies to do that. You'll learn from industry expert Troy Korsgaden how to: - Mine the gold that's already in your customer database - Multiply sales with deeper household penetration - Turn every product and every employee into a profit center - Make easy sales without the drudgery of X-date calling - Seize new profits with financial services products The simple strategies in this book have worked for thousands of agents in big and small agencies across the country, whether they're new to the industry or agency veterans. So don't wait for tomorrow to embrace the future. With Troy Korsgaden on your side, you can journey into it with confidence today!
The resident therapist of VH1's hit show Tool Academy shows you how to transform your man and your relationship Millions of people have seen Trina Dolenz inspire couples with surprising ways to improve their troubled relationships on the popular television show Tool Academy. Now Dolenz gives women the tools they need to take charge of the men in their lives and change them for the better-with or without the men's full knowledge or consent. In this groundbreaking guide, she shows you how to change your own perspectives, attitudes, and actions in order to pave the way for dramatic change in his behavior toward you. Trina Dolenz includes a powerful ten-session plan for change that you can implement in your daily life-no special trips to Tool Academy necessary. You'll learn how everyday activities can be transformed into dynamic exercises in communication, positive arguing, and redefining roles, turning Toolish men into great partners. Targets the key relationship problem areas such as arguments, sex, and cheating and shows how to address these issues to retool your relationship for the better Contains a practical ten-session plan you can use to improve your man-without him even knowing it! Features dramatic personal stories of couples Trina Dolenz has worked with both on Tool Academy and off the show Includes interactive exercises to help you change harmful relationship patterns Are Toolish problems driving you crazy? Take charge now with Retool Your Relationship and get him to love you the way you want-and deserve.