Award-winning leadership teacher, lifelong educator, University of Chicago professor, and consumer advocate Dr. Linda Ginzel offers a new and expanded version of Choosing Leadership based on her bestselling workbook. Useful to everyone, from high-level executives to high school students, teachers, and stay-at-home parents, you can choose to be a leader. Choosing Leadership gives readers the tools to sharpen your leadership skills, putting the responsibility for personal growth and professional development in your own hands. It counters stereotypes that lead us to believe it takes a fancy title, big budget, impressive credentials, charisma, or innate leadership traits to be a “leader.� Rather, leadership is a choice; you choose when to manage and when to lead. It provides an opportunity to answer tough questions of yourself, process your own life lessons, reflect on your unique experiences, and create your best future self. This process of self-discovery will help you develop individualized, customized wisdom and be your lifelong companion on the road to being wiser, younger. Now revised, with the addition of Learning Modules for each chapter, Choosing Leadership provides step-by-step guidance to create group experiences designed to enable reflection, explore ideas, and enhance self-understanding. These group experiences create collective wisdom and encourage learners to make better and more thoughtful choices. Through peer discussions, readers learn how to coach themselves. While gaining self-understanding, they also gain confidence. They realize they know how to lead and are wiser, younger.

We’re online and communicating all day but this ever-increasing chatter is also damaging our interpersonal skills at a time when our jobs are at risk from AI. Without care, we are running the risk of turning into human-robots.

Not a Robot will help you rediscover your human skills such as listening, socialising, and storytelling so you can relate better to others and get an advantage in the changing workplace.

Drawing upon research from a variety of disciplines, this volume offers a systematic discussion of the issues and assumptions of the corporate responsibility debate. James J. Brummer provides an extensive review of the relevant literature and develops a methodology for treating specific problems of corporate responsibility, illustrating its use in actual practice. The book also proposes a theory of corporate responsibility and legitimacy that builds upon the concept of accountability and explores the relevance of applying methods of study traditionally associated with the humanities to contemporary problems of corporate ethics. The author begins by addressing general concepts and principles including types of corporate responsibility, relations of accountability, models of the corporation, and theories of institutional legitimacy. Part Two outlines the four theories of corporate responsibility--the classical, stakeholder, social demandingness, and social activist theories--and examines their major premises and supporting evidence. Two chapters treat the specific issue of plant closing or relocation in relation to each of the four theories of corporate responsibility. Finally, the author discusses collective and subordinate responsibility, paying particular attention to the concept of whistleblowing. The concluding chapter summarizes the corporate responsibility debate and analyzes various models of accountability. An ideal supplemental text for courses in business ethics and public administration, this volume is also an invaluable resource for executives confronted with issues of corporate responsibility in their own operations.

Dieses Buch gibt einen fundierten Überblick über Krisen- und Transformationsszenarien im Rahmen der Corona-Pandemie in Wirtschaft, Kultur und Bildung. Den Schwerpunkt bilden konkrete Schilderungen erfolgreicher Maßnahmen und Lösungen in der Krise. Zahlreiche Expert*innen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis erläutern den Umgang mit der Pandemie in Institutionen und Unternehmen, die wirksame Entwicklung von Zukunftsperspektiven sowie ihre Umsetzung in den Alltag. Die Corona-Pandemie hat in vielen Bereichen eine Krise ausgelöst und durch die zwingende Notwendigkeit zum Handeln einen katalytischen Effekt bewirkt. Entwicklungen wurden verstärkt oder beschleunigt und Transformationsprozesse, beispielsweise die Digitalisierung vieler Branchen und Lebensbereiche, in ihrer Richtung und Dynamik beeinflusst.  Anhand von Good Practises bieten die Autoren Lösungsvorschläge, wie die Krise als Chance weiterentwickelt werden kann: von neuen Omnichannel-Lösungen im Vertrieb über innovative New-Work-Ansätze bis hin zu Beispielen aus den besonders schwer getroffenen Branchen Luftfahrt und Tourismus. Weitere Kernbereiche sind die Sektoren Kultur und Bildung mit Beispielen zu konkreten Überlebensstrategien von Künstler*innen sowie innovativen Digitalkonzepten in Lehre und Forschung. Das Buch richtet sich gleichermaßen an wirtschaftlich und gesellschaftlich Interessierte, Studierende und Praktiker*innen. Beitragsautoren (in alphabetischer Reihenfolge): Prof. Diplom-Musiker, Markus Birkle, Hochschule Offenburg Prof. Dr. Simone Braun, Hochschule Offenburg Prof. Dr. Thomas Breyer-Mayländer, Hochschule Offenburg Michael Canz, Hochschule Offenburg Laura Cherkaoui, Hochschule Offenburg Claudia Dehne, SCHNEEWEISS GmbH Annebeth Demaeght, Hochschule Offenburg Prof. Dr. Dirk Drechsler, Hochschule Offenburg Senator Jürgen  Dreher, SCHNEEWEISS GmbH Dipl.-Betriebswirt (BA) Jürgen Eller, Lernraum.Akademie Dan Follwarczny, Uniserv GmbH Sina Fuhrmann, Hamburger Kunsthalle Martina Gschwilm, Hamburger Kunsthalle Fiona Härtel, Stadtmarketing- und Wirtschaftsförderungs-GmbH Kehl  Andreas Heißler, Uniserv GmbH Dr. Katharina Hoins, Hamburger Kunsthalle Dr. Rolf Illenberger, VRdirect GmbH Kai Israel, Hochschule Offenburg Prof. Dr. Andreas Klasen, Hochschule Offenburg Nadine Klasen, Stadt Oberkirch Wirtschaftsförderung M.A. Joana Kling, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Prof. Dr. Britta Klopsch, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Thomas Kortuem, PROiACT Thomas Kortüm Swen Laempe, Vioma GmbH Dr. Stefan Mattern, TECHNOSEUM Thomas Mauthe, TGM interim mangament & consulting Dr. Jan Metzler, Hamburger Kunsthalle Christina Miclau, Hochschule Offenburg Dr. Simon Moser, simonmoserkultur Prof. Dr. Andrea, Müller Hochschule Offenburg Jasmin Nimmrich Dr. Holger Prante, ACASTA GmbH Kai Rahnenführer, umlaut consulting GmbH Beate Ritter, August-Ruf-Bildungszentrum Fritz Schaumann, IMTEX consulting Sandra Schiller, Gut Lilienfein KG  Dr. Daniela Schlemmer, Hochschule Offenburg  Prof. Dr. Anne Sliwka, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Sina Vogt, Hochschule Offenburg Laura Wamprecht, Flying Health GmbH c/o MindSpace Dr. Andrea Weniger, Hamburger Kunsthalle Prof. Dr. Christopher Zerres, Hochschule Offenburg

As a follow-up to the bestseller Visual Thinking and the second book Visual Doing, the author is releasing two workbooks. These books are great tools to help you kick-start your visual journey and gain the confidence to produce amazing, compelling drawings. The books are crammed with tons of visual exercises, ranging from tracing illustrations to drawing hacks. It will inspire you to design and share your own icons! The Visual Thinking Workbook: Drawing people and interactions, highlights simple ways of drawing people, emotions and interactions. It will hone your drawing skills and give you the confidence to use them in meetings or whenever you want to explain something or visualise a situation.

Pedagogical leadership views leadership as something separate from formal authority or qualifications, seeing educators’ understanding, interpretation and passion as the key lever for continuous improvement in early childhood education (ECE). This book shows how effective pedagogical leadership can create the right conditions for quality ECE provision, to increase motivation and engagement among staff, and impact positively on staff recruitment and retention. Written by a team of international experts based in Australia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Greece, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the USA, this book explores pedagogical leadership in ECE in-depth and through an international lens. The chapters address questions including: what is pedagogic leadership?; what does it look like?; what impact can pedagogic leadership have on the everyday work of nurseries and other ECE providers? The contributors cover a range of topics including trauma-responsive pedagogy, child-initiated pedagogies, conflict management, change management theory and social leadership theory.

A comprehensive, up-to-date, insightful, and innovative masterpiece on the Chinese public finance has finally emerged to fill the gap in the field. Considering China's public finance in its entirety, from tax systems, government spending, infrastructure financing, fiscal policies, local government debt, and central-local fiscal relationships to urban and rural social security and healthcare, it analyses China's public finance reforms and examines the reasons and the consequences of these reforms. It explores the challenges to China's public finance, examines its problems, and suggests potential solutions. While covering a broad range of themes, this book remains judicious with the evidence, providing its readers with innovative yet careful conclusions. Using enormous amount of the latest data and illustrative diagrams, the author explains China's public finance with expertise and clarity. This is an indispensable resource for students and scholars from a range of disciplines with an interest in the Chinese economy.

The definitive history of the Porsche 981-series Boxsters and Caymans, with all major markets looked at in detail to cover all variants and to put the story into perspective. Illustrated throughout with contemporary photography sourced from the factory, this book serves as the perfect guide to this generation of open and closed cars in all its forms. Written by an acknowledged Porsche expert, with the full co-operation of the factory.

We humans are social animals, naturally driven to form close-knit groups. All too often, though, these groups become partisan. They start to compete with one another. They become mutually hostile. Why does this happen? And what can be done to counter the tendency In Poles Apart, an expert on polarisation, a behavioural scientist and a professional communicator explain why we are so prone to be drawn into rival, often deeply antagonistic factions. They explore the shaping force of our genetic make-up on our fundamental views and the nature of the influences that family, friends and peers exert. They pinpoint the economic and political triggers that tip people from healthy disagreement to dangerous hostility, and the part played by social media in spreading entrenched opinions. And they help us to understand why outlooks that can seem so bizarre and extreme to us seem so eminently sensible to those who hold them. Above all, by meticulously showing how and why polarisation affects every part of our lives - influencing everything from our friendship circles to our approach to health issues - they show what practical and effective steps we can all take to narrow divisions, build respect for others, and create a greater degree of common understanding.

An organization's work culture and its business success are tightly linked, say the authors of this unique study, yet to understand and manage work culture one must first know how to measure it. The best way to do this is by measuring your employees, but an employee measurement program must be carefully developed and properly implemented. Rollins and Roberts review the major literature, focusing on employee measurement, detail the continuum of corporate cultures, and compile for the first time best practices in employee measurement. They also provide six case studies that give highly detailed accounts of how successful companies have implemented employee measurement programs to examine their work culture and then used the resulting information to improve performance and the bottom line. This book is important reading for corporate executives, specialists, and academics involved in human resource management, change management, organizational behavior and development, organization effectiveness, management theory and techniques, organizational measurement, and employee attitude/opinion measurement.

Chapter 1 introduces the major topics, and provides perspective to the overall discussion. Chapter 2 reviews the evidence for the work culture-performance link, from other authors and HayGroup's research. Chapter 3 summarizes HayGroup's four culture models--functional, process, time-based, and network--and shows why it is important to be aware of the full cultural continuum. The next three chapters present a literature review of employee measurement applications, and in-depth discussion of best practices in employee measurement, followed by six detailed case studies from the authors' own consulting experience. The last chapter concludes with a summary and description of important future trends.

Don't wait for someone else to manage your career. The days of HR-sponsored development plans are over. Managing your career--and the skills you need to be successful--is your responsibility. If you're looking to push yourself to the next level, it can be hard to determine where to start. The HBR Guide to Your Professional Growth will be your coach, transforming your abstract hopes and ideas into a concrete action plan. No matter where you are in your career, this guide will help you: Assess your current skills--and acquire new ones Elicit feedback you can use Set meaningful--and achievable--goals Make time for learning Play to your strengths Identify your next challenge Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

Over the course of a decade, positive psychology authority Dr. Beth Cabrera has surveyed and interviewed more than a thousand women to gather insight into how to effectively balance career and family responsibilities. Beyond Happy: Women, Work, and Well-Being gathers essential findings and offers women proven strategies for living more authentic, meaningful lives. Through the lens of shared experience, Cabrera thoughtfully examines the challenges women face and presents a simple yet powerful model for enhancing well-being that can both improve and transform lives. Helpful self-assessments guide you toward feeling good and doing good, and each chapter delivers tried-and-true tactics that real women have used to manage the difficulties of fulfilling their multiple, often conflicting, roles. Discover pathways to reducing stress, experiencing greater joy, and finding more meaning in your life by employing Cabrera’s solid strategies for thriving based on personal values, developed strengths, and what matters most–enduring family ties and relationships.

In Sticks and Stones, author and CEO Nick Powills shows readers how to figure out their path to success by drawing strength from their past struggles. Nick shows how to do this, sharing his personal struggle with weight and being teased as a kid fueled his drive toward becoming a successful entrepreneur. In addition, Powills' book provides clear formulas that help readers to turn their own struggles into strengths, so that they can achieve more--and define success on their own terms.

During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crip-pling bank run. The story of its final, brutal collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing account of how one bank lost itself to greed and mismanagement, and how the entire financial industry--even the entire country--lost its way as well.
Written as compellingly as the finest fiction, "The Lost Bank" introduces readers to the regulators and the bankers, the home buyers and the lenders who together created the largest bank failure in American history. The result is a magisterial and gripping account of the incredible rise and the precipitous collapse of not only an institution but of trust, fortunes, and the marketplaces for risk across the world.

Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? Likely, they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. So when they do fail, instead of critically examining their own behavior, they cast blame outward--on anyone or anything they can. In Teaching Smart People How to Learn, Chris Argyris sheds light on the forces that prevent highly skilled employees for learning from mistakes and offers suggestions for helping talented employees develop more productive responses. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice-many of which still speak to and influence us today. The HBR Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each volume contains a groundbreaking idea that has shaped best practices and inspired countless managers around the world-and will change how you think about the business world today.

Art is a prerequisite for the progress of society. Corporate Art Initiatives contribute to this progression. Based on extensive research, Viviane Mörmann presents 21 promising corporate art initiatives (CAIs). She introduces different types of art initiatives and provides a standardized scheme to evaluate them. This volume features CAIs from the classic corporate art space to the public art challenge, and the virtual museum. It draws attention to the subject of CAIs to broaden the reader's knowledge and to mediate access to current CAIs. The Corporate Art Index thus addresses art lovers, artists, curators, business and marketing professionals, architects and designers, art historians, art fair organizers and journalists.

How precisely do the Chinese negotiate contracts and other agreements? Do they follow conventions similar to those of European negotiators? To the Japanese? Is there a pattern or style to their negotiations? These are the types of issues examined and resolved in Pye's guide. The volume is based on extensive interviews with Americans and Japanese who have had considerable first-hand experience negotiating with the Chinese, and an effort has been made to highlight the areas in which there has been the greatest amount of confusion and misunderstanding for American business people.

Pye examines each step in the traditionally long negotiating process, from the first contacts to the responses after agreements have been reached. With an emphasis on cultural considerations and troubleshooting techniques, Pye gives solid, practical advice for business firms and individual negotiators. While the emphasis is on practical business negotiations, anyone concerned with Chinese culture will find much to ponder in this book.

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Internets, Intranets, and Extranets: New Waves in Channel Surfing examines cutting-edge research on the strategies and practices for managing electronic channels of information distribution. The leading experts working in Web-enabled marketing technologies address the most pressing topics of channel management, presenting descriptive--and prescriptive--insights into the complex network of virtual links between people and places. This unique book looks at the "death of distance" from a global perspective, offering critical commentary on how to strengthen the connection between Web-linked buyers and sellers.
Internets, Intranets, and Extranets presents a framework for working with e-business technologies that will help you develop electronic distribution strategies to maximize channel efficiency. The book addresses the signaling cues in marketing channels, examining the issues that affect the systemic flow of information, products, and services, including: the mediating role of channel structure on channel performance the transaction costs of cybermediaries the Internet's impact on independent sales agents the effects of brand familiarity and Web site vividness the analysis of electronic intermediaries in conventional distribution channels and the organizational and environmental factors involved in Internet-based marketing channels Internets, Intranets, and Extranets: New Waves in Channel Surfing is an essential resource for distribution managers, logisticians, and researchers interested in cutting-edge principles and practices in electronic distribution channels. The book is also an ideal supplement for academics working in electronic commerce study.

The best of Clayton Christensen’s seminal work on disruptive innovation, all in one place. No business can afford to ignore the theory of disruptive innovation. But the nuances of Clayton Christensen’s foundational thinking on the subject are often forgotten or misinterpreted. To achieve continuing growth in your business while defending against upstarts, you need to understand clearly what disruption is and how it works, and know how it applies to your industry and your company. In this collection of Christensen’s most influential articles—carefully selected by Harvard Business Review’s editors—his incisive arguments, clear theories, and readable stories give you the tools you need to understand disruption and what to do about it. The collection features Christensen’s newest article looking back on 20 years of disruptive innovation: what it is, and what it isn’t. Covering a broad spectrum of topics—business model innovation, mergers and acquisitions, value-chain shifts, financial incentives, product development—these articles illuminate the impact and implications of disruptive innovation as well as Christensen’s broader thinking on management theory and its application in business and in life. This collection of best-selling articles includes: “Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave,� by Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen, “Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change,� by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael Overdorf, “Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure,� by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook, and Taddy Hall, “Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things,� by Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih, “Reinventing Your Business Model,� by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann, “The New M&A Playbook,� by Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck, “Skate to Where the Money Will Be,� by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Matthew Verlinden, “Surviving Disruption,� by Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?� by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald, “Why Hard-Nosed Executives Should Care About Management Theory,� by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor, and “How Will You Measure Your Life?� by Clayton M. Christensen.

Get the most from your electronic marketing resources Internets, Intranets, and Extranets: New Waves in Channel Surfing examines cutting-edge research on the strategies and practices for managing electronic channels of information distribution. The leading experts working in Web-enabled marketing technologies address the most pressing topics of channel management, presenting descriptive and prescriptive insights into the complex network of virtual links between people and places. This unique book looks at the death of distance from a global perspective, offering critical commentary on how to strengthen the connection between Web-linked buyers and sellers. Internets, Intranets, and Extranets presents a framework for working with e-business technologies that will help you develop electronic distribution strategies to maximize channel efficiency.The book addresses the signaling cues in marketing channels, examining the issues that affect the systemic flow of information, products, and services, including: the mediating role of channel structure on channel performance the transaction costs of cybermediaries the Internet's impact on independent sales agents the effects of brand familiarity and Web site vividness the analysis of electronic intermediaries in conventional distribution channels and the organizational and environmental factors involved in Internet-based marketing channels Internets, Intranets, and Extranets: New Waves in Channel Surfing is an essential resource for distribution managers, logisticians, and researchers interested in cutting-edge principles and practices in electronic distribution channels. The book is also an ideal supplement for academics working in electronic commerce study.

START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK?
With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and Singer examine the lessons of the country's adversity-driven culture, which flattens hierarchy and elevates informality-- all backed up by government policies focused on innovation. In a world where economies as diverse as Ireland, Singapore and Dubai have tried to re-create the "Israel effect," there are entrepreneurial lessons well worth noting. As America reboots its own economy and can-do spirit, there's never been a better time to look at this remarkable and resilient nation for some impressive, surprising clues.

Learn to avoid common leadership decision-making traps Despite what you may think, all top leaders make mistakes, simply because they are human. In fact, the more senior and successful they are, the more susceptible they are to making errors-because as confidence increases, hubris often does as well. But, as internationally recognized leadership and decision-making expert Constance Direickx demonstrates, this doesn't have to be your fate. In Meta Leadership, Dierickx draws on a vast body of research from psychology and business to show how great leaders can think differently and improve their judgment, for stronger, more profitable results. Incorporating leading-edge data and research on the science of thinking, emotional regulation, and behavior, Meta Leadership offers fascinating stories, incisive insights, and useful takeaways for better leadership and better outcomes. Dierickx reveals typical patterns of thinking and behavior that trip leaders up, and how you can avoid making potentially costly, sometimes disastrous, decisions. You'll discover how, in split-second decisions, to effectively use a dose of uncertainty to counterbalance overconfidence; how to show courage without being reckless in a crisis; how to demonstrate that different situations call for different types of action; and more. You'll learn how to be a better judge of other people to lead more effectively and empathetically. And just imagine what a 20-percent improvement in decisions on investments could be worth. Whether you are at the start of your leadership journey or have held a senior leadership role for years, Meta Leadership will arm you with the knowledge and insights you need to achieve the highest results from yourself and your team.