Organizational Learning
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-18 | Author:Salim Ismail & Michael S. Malone & Yuri van Geest [Ismail, Salim]

What if Larry Page and Sergey Brin had stopped pitching after 340 attempts? The world would be a very different place today. Just as intriguing: what magical technologies and businesses ...
( Category: Organizational Learning December 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Hess, Edward D. [Hess, Edward D.]

Managers need to “[t]each and reinforce the merits of mistake-based learning”: We must bring mistakes into the open and analyze them objectively, so managers need to foster a culture that ...
( Category: Organizational Learning November 24,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Guy Kawasaki

• Give early. “Pay it forward” by doing favors before you need favors back—if you ever need favors back at all. It’s obvious and less powerful when there’s a clear ...
( Category: Direct November 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-01 | Author:Joakim Ahlstrom [Ahlstrom, Joakim]

Description of the IT company’s systematic improvement work Analysis of the Results Imagine what would happen if I took you and ten of your colleagues to a junkyard and asked ...
( Category: Quality Control November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dave Logan

PART III Owning Tribal Leadership: Stabilizing Stage Four CHAPTER 9 Core Values and a Noble Cause When we first spoke with Gordon Binder, the former CEO of Amgen, he asked ...
( Category: Leadership November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Eric Schmidt & Alan Eagle

Know when to ring the bell This conflict-based approach works only if it is managed by a single decision-maker who owns the deadline and will break a tie. Often there ...
( Category: Business September 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Bryant, Adam [Bryant, Adam]

10. SURFACING PROBLEMS As a consultant, I learned that you really have to listen to the lowest-level people in a company, because that’s where the answers are. —KEN REES, CEO ...
( Category: Workplace Culture June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Mark Thompson & Brian Tracy [Thompson, Mark & Tracy, Brian]

Ask for Customer Feedback Fred Reichheld of Bain & Company, in his 2006 book The Ultimate Question, has made one of the most important breakthroughs in customer service and business ...
( Category: Workplace Culture April 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-08 | Author:Chip Heath & Dan Heath [Heath, Chip & Heath, Dan]

M O T I V A T E T H E E L E P H A N T Over the following year, turnover decreased by 30 percent. And then ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving April 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-17 | Author:Larry Keeley & Ryan Pikkel & Brian Quinn & Helen Walters

Brand Brand Extension Offer a new product or service under the umbrella of an existing brand. Brand Leverage Allow others to use your brand name to lend them your credibility ...
( Category: Organizational Learning March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Bruce Piasecki

Fast-Forward I experienced a contemporary example of what I refer to as posttraumatic growth while writing this book. Last year I heard Susan Retik, president and cofounder of an organization ...
( Category: Systems & Planning March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-08 | Author:Teresa Amabile & Steven Kramer & Steven Kramer [AMABILE, TERESA]

I asked [a member of the top management team] about an offer I am expecting [to move to one of our R&D units across the country]. I have been waiting ...
( Category: Organizational Learning March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:David A Owens [Owens, David A]

Supplier Constraints: No Organization Is an Island To participate in an industry or sector, organizations typically must negotiate with suppliers that control needed resources, such as raw materials, product modules, ...
( Category: Organizational Learning March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-05 | Author:Lencioni, Patrick M.

Permission-to-Play Values These values are the minimum behavioral standards that are required in an organization. Although they are extremely important, permission-to-play values don’t serve to clearly define or differentiate an ...
( Category: Organizational Learning March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Paul Falcone [Falcone, Paul]

TECHNICAL SKILLS 115 6 Recognize that many of your departmental leaders rose to management positions because of their exceptional technical expertise, not people skills, and accommodate accordingly 6 Leverage your ...
( Category: Training March 26,2014 )