Organizational Development

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager who has been given 90 days to save his failing factory. If he doesn't improve the plant's performance, corporate headquarters will close it down and hundreds of workers will lose their jobs. It takes a chance meeting...

Since the early 1990s, public sector organisations have been overwhelmed with what has come to be termed New Public Management (NPM) methods. NPM idealises performance, metrics, transparency and marketisation. This book explores some of the tensions...

Organizations are increasingly investing in consulting capabilities to understand what changes they need to make to keep up the pace with the competition and future-proof their business. Consultancy, Organizational Development and Change is a guide for...

Today, every business is talking about digital transformation. With the acceleration of new technologies, every organization knows it must adapt to survive. But by their own admission, 70 percent of businesses are failing to transform. Across industries,...

A legendary performance coach shares his simple, proven and fun methods for cultivating motivation - and keeping it. In Motivation, Stefan Falk is your expert guide to success.'If you're looking for fresh ways to energize your work, you've come to the...

From bestselling author Michael Fullan, wisdom for thriving in today's complex environment Successful organizations adjust quickly and intelligently to shifts in consumer tastes, political climate, and economic opportunity. How do they do it? The Six...

Amazing Benefits, Unique RisksA stellar mentor can change the trajectory of a career. And an enduring mentoring program can become an organization's most powerful talent development tool. But fixing a "broken" mentoring program or developing a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615890777Author Scot B Holliday Ed DFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Scot/HollidayPublisher Scot/HollidayWeight(grams) 86g

FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2020 - An Exceptional Book That Promotes Diversity Category LONGLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2020 - Society Transformed Category A diverse workforce is a business imperative. Without it, companies are made up...

It has never been more essential to support our mental health at work. With one in four people experiencing poor mental health right now, we need to start talking about it. Penguin Business Expert James Routledge has worked with CEOs, HR directors,...

Some companies are great for customers - not only do they care but they change whole markets to work better for the customers they serve. Think of Amazon, easyJet and Sky. They make things easier and improve what really matters - obvious, surely? They...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990526049Author Chris DennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint William & Louis PublishingPublisher William & Louis PublishingWeight(grams)...

"If you want to get bigger, better, and move past all the excuses, this encouraging and practical book will give you hope and a plan."" - David Rendall, author of The Freak Factor and The Four Factors of Effective Leadership ""Grow Regardless is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738413508Author Rachel BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint HR Fusion LtdPublisher HR Fusion Ltd

Change in organizations is all about people: it is people who plan, prepare for and implement change, and who are affected by it in the daily course of their work. Yet there is a tendency to focus on quantifiable and often more easily solved technical...

Learn how to enhance workforce performance, strengthen workforce retention and better your leadership by cultivating and expanding on your company's culture with The Power of Company Culture. This new edition provides detailed insights on the need...

Stress is defined as a feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize. It can occur due to environmental issues, such as a looming work deadline, or psychological, for...

'Fascinating. Gomes provides a practical guide with an analysis of our mindset and the means to grow and strengthen it.' The Financial Times 'Each chapter angles the mirror to your face slightly differently, allowing you to pause, reflect and reposition...

From Design Thinking to Design Doing Innovators today are told to run loose and think lean in order to fail fast and succeed sooner. But in a world obsessed with the new, where cool added features often trump actual customer needs, it's the consumer who...

As remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future. Offering a strategic and practical guide to...

Stay on top of your leadership game.Leadership isn't something you're born with or gifted as a reward for an abundance of charisma; true leadership stems from core skills that can be learned.Get more of the leadership ideas you want, from the authors you...

The Third Edition of this key resource provides a means of understanding and changing organizational culture in order to make organizations more effective. It provides validated instruments for diagnosing organizational culture and management competency;...

As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal discarded a century of management wisdom and pivoted from a pursuit of mechanical efficiency to organic adaptability. In this book, he shows how any organization can make...

Unleash the transformative power of face to face groups The third edition of this ground-breaking book continues to advance its mission to support groups to do their best thinking. It demonstrates that meetings can be much more than merely an occasion...

Discover the vital relationship that will take your company from "What's next?" to "We have liftoff!" Visionaries have groundbreaking ideas. Integrators make those ideas a reality. This explosive combination is the key to getting everything you want out...

'Pay attention' - Jason Fried, founder and CEO of Basecamp, bestselling author of ReWork A revolutionary roadmap for building startups that go the distance Cracks are forming in the myth of the VC-funded, IPO-driven billion-dollar company. They're...

This is the essential guide for HR practitioners who want to gain the statistical and analytical knowledge to fully harness the potential of HR metrics and organizational people-related data. The ability to use and analyse data has become an...

Every leader cares about inclusivity, wellbeing and performance. For technical organizations these issues are especially acute: in the least diverse sectors, with every-increasing issues around mental health and resilience, companies need to realize...

Communicating effectively is crucial to improving employee engagement, organizational culture, and performance. Learn how to focus your time and resources to make the most positive difference to your organization and its people. Successful Employee...

If we needed a reminder that the world is complex and in constant motion, then 2020 certainly delivered. Suddenly, the inherent uncertainties and ambiguities of leadership were starkly revealed for all to see as the dynamics of complexity and change...

A well-designed organization is an effective organization. Decisions about organization design determine the shape and form of the organization - not only the reporting structure and authority relations, but also the number and size of sub-units and the...

New tools for managing complexity Does your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone. According to The Boston Consulting Group's fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold...

Luck is a four-letter-word in business circles. But the truth is that fortune plays a part in every success story - and every failure. In Go Luck Yourself, one of the world's leading brand strategists explains how a hunting trip led to the invention...

"This is one of the most important Agile books since The Phoenix Project." -Charles Betz, Principle Analyst, Forrester ResearchWinner of the Bronze Medal in Leadership from the Axiom Business Book Awards.It's no secret that we are living in the Digital...

WINNER: Goody Business Book Awards 2023 - Leadership - HR and Employee Development How can I make learning part of the overall company strategy? How do I convince key stakeholders of the value of L&D? How can I develop a proactive approach to L&D...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523000050Author Henry MintzbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

The typical structure of today's corporate organization was essentially invented in the nineteenth century and based deliberately on the military's "command and control" model and on the hierarchical pyramid of the Catholic Church. As such, it...

Attracting, hiring, developing and retaining the right people is crucial to an organization's success. The stakes have never been higher: a 2015 study by CAP suggests that the average cost of employee attrition is 20% of a mid-level employee's annual...

Effectively and ethically leveraging people data to deliver real business value is what sets the best HR leaders and teams apart. Excellence in People Analytics provides business and human resources leaders with everything they need to know about...

Reimagine the Role of L&D in the Modern WorkplaceHow can we possibly keep up? This question is front and center in today's workplace thanks to the downright ridiculous pace of change. There's a never-ending stream of new processes, regulations, products,...