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A Transformation Lens: The Savvy Business Leader's Approach To Transformational Change
Gary Burke Mr
Companies spend fortunes transforming their businesses, changing what and how they do things: developing and improving products and services, introducing new technology and ways of working, reducing costs, enhancing productivity and customer satisfaction. But it’s all too common for transformation programmes to fail to deliver expected outcomes and benefits, to the detriment of the business, staff, investors and, most importantly, customers. The leadership team is ultimately accountable for the success of any transformation but often has little experience of transformational change, so can easily underestimate what's really involved and the impact on the business – so approach it in the wrong way – and months later need a board meeting to discuss the millions spent and how to get the programme back on track! A Transformation Lens enables business leaders to better understand transformational change, make better informed decisions and approach it in the right way, to everyone’s benefit.
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The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health
Marie-Helene Pelletier PhD
Leaders and business professionals handle grueling hours and exceed high expectations. They are undaunted by challenges and embrace opportunities for growth. They assume they are resilient.
But given enough demands, anyone can burn out. This makes logical sense, yet you likely still think it could never be you. You are fabulous and at risk of burning out.
Resilience is not an innate character trait. Whether you’re in a leadership role or working as part of a team, you need to implement strategies that build and nurture resilience. You need a resilience plan.
I draw on experience from my clinical practice and extensive knowledge in therapeutics and business practices to explore how resilience is the best defense against burnout and how everyone can build it in themselves―not with a one-size-fits-all plan but with strategies to help you create a custom plan.
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Mastering the Data Paradox
Nitin Seth
Data has been the driving force behind many advancements in the digital age. And as we move into the AI age, the urgency and importance of building a solid understanding of data has risen manifolds. However, data is not an easy puzzle to solve as it poses many paradoxes. Through his new book, “Mastering the Data Paradox,” Incedo’s Co-founder and CEO Nitin Seth, addresses these paradoxes to help any individual looking to gain a comprehensive understanding of this subject. This book demystifies the complexities of the world of data and provides a practical approach to unlock its transformative potential for organizations, individuals, and nations to win in the AI age. The relevance and timeliness of this book are evident from the overwhelming response it received within days of its release. The book is already an Amazon and Penguin National Bestseller! Since its release in March 2024, we have printed over 70,000 copies and sold over 40,000 copies across the globe.
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Unmanaged: Master the Magic of Creating Empowered and Happy Organizations
Jack Skeels
Managing less can be the key to managing better. An agile, "Unmanaged" style of managing boosts everything from project success rates to organizational productivity, profitability, and happiness.
Unmanaged provides both the rationale and several battle-tested methods for implementing better managment, including over ten practical new models of managing, ranging from better ways to kick off and scope projects, boost team skills growth, align better with stakeholders and clients, and ensure worker and team productivity.
The project-driven work that modern teams perform (complex, unique, innovative, or complex projects) represents the future of human work as AI and other forms of automation displace simpler factory and service style workers. The future of knowledge work is project work, and the future of managing project work is "Unmanaged."
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Future Normal: 8 Questions to Create Businesses Your Children Wil be Proud Of
Christopher Mark Fleming
Nick Barter
The why of this book is to help business leaders create change. The focus is on business leaders because businesses are the tools we use to shape our world, and those that lead them can effect significant change and leave a legacy that future generations will thank us for … or not. The choice is ours. Thus, this is a book for leaders who think about legacy, their own and the one their business is leaving. This book and the lessons within will enable them to improve their legacy, shift their business towards it becoming one that their children will be proud of and one that has optimal value over the long term.
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Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
Seeking Fairness at Work helps executives, managers and entrepreneurs see how the unwritten rules at work, when broken, keep employees from doing their best work and companies from reaching their full potential. Using real life stories it reveals the fundamental unfairness and hidden conflicts that slowly crush trust and employee engagement. It also tackles managers' misconceptions and concerns about fairness head-on as it takes the reader through a practical five-step framework that includes concrete ways to dramatically elevate the employee experience – and business results. It’s been called an “eye-opening game changer” and “must read” for every emerging and existing leader, at every level, who wants to immediately make a positive impact on their team.
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Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life
John R. Miles
Creating change demands courage. Fear and uncertainty may attempt to hold us back, yet envision having the audacity to take action despite these challenges. What kind of life could you shape for yourself? In Passion Struck, personal mastery expert John R. Miles combines behavior science research, peak performance strategies, and compelling real-life narratives from industry titans to empower you to confront and transcend your limiting beliefs, ultimately paving the way for an existence without boundaries. Through the transformative passion-struck framework, Miles leads you along an interactive journey, equipping you with the tools to achieve your most cherished aspirations and break free from the constraints of your current reality. Whether you’re reaching for extraordinary success or simply seeking that initial step toward a more fulfilling life, this book is an indispensable read for anyone prepared to ignite change and embrace the profound significance of mattering in their journey.