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A top business consultant presents an eye-opening guide to fast, effective corporate change, based on successful experiences of organizations such as Marriott Hotel and Seattle Metro. "This approach made a real difference when we needed to move fast".--Donald Petersen, retired CEO, Ford Motor Company.

"The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Never Eat Alone redefines collaboration for the twenty-first century with a radical new workplace operating system in which leadership no longer demands an official title. Many are quick to respond to the mounting pressures facing today's organizations by blaming the pace of technological change. But bestselling author, CEO, and coach to Fortune 100 companies Keith Ferrazzi disagrees. This era of explosive...

Lawyer Angela Perry explains how employee ownership can help business growth. Topics include the basics of employee ownership, best practices, steps towards employee ownership, employee and employer alignment, and employee engagement.

Balance of Power looks at the nature of power in today's companies and asks: What is the right balance between authority (power in the managers' hands) and empowerment (power in the employees' hands)? The perfect equilibrium between these two styles leads to what author James Lucas calls "interdependence"--In which employees have enough decision-making authority to do their jobs well, but are not burdened with the wrong responsibilities. How do you...

A major challenge for any growing organization with multiple outlets is maintaining standards across all sites. In this program, Psychologist Eve Ash talks with Suzanne Dvorak, Australian Businesswoman of the Year, about some of her successful strategies for managing multiple sites. Topics include: ensuring compliance; the value of feedback; the balanced scorecard; understanding the financials; the value of training; implementing 360 degree feedback;...

Entrepreneur Pete Williams shares his strategies on building a successful team, even virtually. Topics include working with A-level people, employee attitude over skill, daily training, practical self-paced learning, training everyone on sales and marketing principles, learning and reporting virtually, daily reporting of achievements and challenges, managing performance, building an efficient business, and getting the balance right.

Challenging times brought a critical emphasis on building successful teams. This program breaks down the four different stages that developing teams go through, and the critical ever-changing roles of the team members. By putting a business team under the microscope in a team-building exercise with Guy Moxley from Team Building Australia, this program exposes the bare-boned mechanics of how teams form, function, and how they can reach new heights...

"Richard Axelrod in Terms of Engagement, presents the engagement paradigm - that provides leaders with a practical, principle-based strategy for creating successful change outcomes." "Axelrod reveals why the old pragmatic approaches to change no longer work. He explains that the increasing availability of information, a highly educated workforce, and rising democracy makes the notion of "the few deciding for the many" not only unacceptable, but nonviable...

"Ideas Are Free shows managers how to tap all the ideas their employees have and gain significant advantage over their competitors. In today's increasingly competitive business world, only companies that are successful at managing ideas will thrive. Robinson and Schroeder have discovered, through extensive research and work with more than 300 companies - in dozens of industries, from agriculture to high-technology - the key factors that influence...