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"Updated to reflect the lessons learned during the last decade - a time that has seen failures as well as successes in self-directed workplaces - this seminal work provides step-by-step guidance on such crucial team leadership skills as coaching, business analysis, barrier busting, facilitating groups, and more. Included are new chapters on creating accountability, motivating and coordinating knowledge teams, and leading virtual teams."--Jacket.
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As the world eagerly looked forward to the dawn of a new millennium, the turning of the calendar also represented an opportunity to pause and reflect on the tremendous ingenuity and invention that marked the previous hundred years. Electricity, automobiles, telephones, radio, television, computers? these are a just a few of the innovations the decades had introduced - all compliments of the world's engineers.
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What do Enron, the Space Shuttle Columbia and 9/11 have in common? How a chain of mistakes can lead to disaster if they go unrecognised. How to build internal systems that prevent failure chains from spiralling out of control. Practical techniques for avoiding business failures - whether they arise from preparation, strategy, execution, or culture.
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"Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract theory - the learning organization as an ideal - into hands-on implementations. For the first time in Learning in Action, David Garvin helps managers make the leap from theory to proven...
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"For the first time in history, says Malone, it will be possible to have the best of both worlds - the economic and scale efficiencies of large organizations, and the human benefits of small ones: freedom, motivation, and flexibility. Based on twenty years of groundbreaking research, this book provides compelling models for actually designing the "company of the future"."--Jacket.
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"Your company may not now, or ever, be ready to apply for the Baldrige Award, the Deming Prize, or ISO 9000 certification - but these three standards, some times dubbed the "Quality Trinity," can still boost your company into the higher realms of quality achievement." "In The TQM Trilogy, quality experts Frank Mahoney and Carl Thor provide you with a clear, detailed explanation of what can be learned from the Big Three standards and incorporated into...
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"Today's workplace is already a tapestry comprising people of countless different backgrounds, ethnicities, age groups, religions, and more. But that diversity is just the beginning of a radical shift in the makeup - and requirements - of tomorrow's workforce." "The New Workforce gives you a clear picture of the rapid changes now under way - along with the steps required to attract and retain motivated, loyal, and productive employees. Based on a...
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"Profiles minority executives at three different firms who encountered and conquered barriers throughout their careers. It then contrasts their successes at the same companies with the experiences of white executives who reached upper management, and with white and minority middle managers coming to grips with stalled careers"--Jacket.
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Executives today recognize that their firms face a wave of retirements over the next decade as the baby boomers hit retirement age. At the other end of the talent pipeline, the younger workforce is developing a different set of values and expectations, which creates new recruiting and employee retention issues. The evolution from an older, traditional, highly-experienced workforce to a younger, more mobile, employee base poses significant challenges,...
13) Work in America: report of a special task force to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
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Reports on the personal, social, and economic function of work, citing job repetition and monotony as the major source of worker dissatisfaction in the U.S.
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Built to Last showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity...
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