Author: Robert I. Sutton Publisher: Currency ISBN: 0385347030 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 368
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Wall Street Journal Bestseller "The pick of 2014's management books." –Andrew Hill, Financial Times "One of the top business books of the year." –Harvey Schacter, The Globe and Mail Bestselling author, Robert Sutton and Stanford colleague, Huggy Rao tackle a challenge that determines every organization’s success: how to scale up farther, faster, and more effectively as an organization grows. Sutton and Rao have devoted much of the last decade to uncovering what it takes to build and uncover pockets of exemplary performance, to help spread them, and to keep recharging organizations with ever better work practices. Drawing on inside accounts and case studies and academic research from a wealth of industries-- including start-ups, pharmaceuticals, airlines, retail, financial services, high-tech, education, non-profits, government, and healthcare-- Sutton and Rao identify the key scaling challenges that confront every organization. They tackle the difficult trade-offs that organizations must make between whether to encourage individualized approaches tailored to local needs or to replicate the same practices and customs as an organization or program expands. They reveal how the best leaders and teams develop, spread, and instill the right mindsets in their people-- rather than ruining or watering down the very things that have fueled successful growth in the past. They unpack the principles that help to cascade excellence throughout an organization, as well as show how to eliminate destructive beliefs and behaviors that will hold them back. Scaling Up Excellence is the first major business book devoted to this universal and vexing challenge and it is destined to become the standard bearer in the field.
Author: Gregory Huszczo Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1473644321 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 209
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Team development is a process, not a program. There is always room for improvement, and in today's competitive marketplace, if you don't continue to improve, you won't survive. Going beyond either the trendy fads or philosophical approaches outlined in most current management literature, Tools for Team Excellence provides a candid look at team based management and a host of hands-on techniques for building, assessing, and improving team performance. Exercises and worksheets, questionnaires and assessment techniques, problem-solving guidelines and troubleshooting tips make this book immediately practical and valuable to team members, managers, consultants, and leaders. Drawn from the author's direct experience in over thirty years of working with teams, Tools for Team Excellence describes and elaborates on seven key components for creating effective teams. It shows how to address each of these key components, ensuring effective teams that will contribute to the success of an organization.
Author: Dr. Willie Jolley Publisher: BenBella Books ISBN: 1946885592 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 156
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You imagine a "new and improved" version of yourself—one who has achieved your goals and reached your definition of success. But you stop at wanting to be better because you don't feel you have the tools to achieve it. You do have the power to make yourself into a winner. Success isn't a matter of chance—it's a matter of choice. It all comes down to your attitude and a mindset to pursue excellence. When you make the conscious choice to develop an attitude of excellence, you will achieve more, enjoy more, have better relationships, take better care of yourself physically and mentally, and vastly improve the quality of your day-to-day life. Armed with a positive attitude and the determination to pursue excellence, plus a coach to help you stay focused, you will become the best version of yourself. Dr. Willie Jolley is a world-renowned speaker and motivational coach. He is the expert Ford Motor Company turned to while on the brink of bankruptcy, and he helped the company go on to reject a government bailout and to reach billion-dollar profits. In this powerful new book, An Attitude of Excellence: Get the Best from Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization, he teaches readers how to achieve more in their lives—both professionally and personally. Dr. Jolley's work has inspired millions with a simple message: The best way to grow your future is to grow yourself, and the best way to grow an organization is to grow the people in that organization. Why? Because great people will give great service, while negative people will kill your future. This eye-opening book features T.I.P.S. (Tips, Ideas, Principles & Strategies) everyone can use to enhance the quality of our relationships and our lives, both at work and at home, using the power of an attitude of excellence.
Author: Dickson Corbett Publisher: Teachers College Press ISBN: 0807776041 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 178
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This timely volume reveals in great detail how educators closed the “performance gap” for low-income students by linking expectations and results. Drawing heavily on the words and experiences of students, teachers, and parents, this book describes how students who traditionally had not succeeded academically in school began to do so. Effort and Excellence in Urban Classrooms demonstrates just how this was done by including: In-depth descriptions of classrooms and schools where students began succeeding when educators assumed the responsibility for their successData-based discussion of teachers’ views on parental involvement in schools and parents’ views of teachers’ and schools’ actions on behalf of studentsIdentification of the kinds of support that schools and districts must provide if educators are to be successfulAn unrelenting emphasis on how educators enabled students to be motivated and to produce high-quality work “At last, a book that helps us see and feel what a ‘no excuses’ approach to teaching is like in urban classrooms! This close look at teachers and students in high-poverty settings gives new meaning to ‘all children can learn.’ A must read for those who are serious about closing the achievement gap.” —Michael S. Knapp, Center for the Study of Teaching & Policy, University of Washington
Author: Katie Pagnotta, MA, LCMHC Publisher: John Catt ISBN: 1036006654 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 234
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Youth mental health challenges are on the rise. The educator attrition rate is leaving schools scrambling to fill positions. And everyone is on information overload. As a school counselor, Katie Pagnotta saw these statistics in action and was compelled to create a resource that would synthesize best practices in a way that not only eased the role of the educators but ignited joy within the job. And in doing so, educators would be more aptly positioned to support the needs of all students! Empowered by the Human Design is the culmination of Katie's passion, experience, and research. It takes historically fragmented best-practice initiatives such as social emotional learning, trauma-responsive care, mental health literacy, and equity and integrates them into one framework, Brain- and Body- Aligned Responsive Systems (BBARS) of Excellence. The BBARS of Excellence framework is grounded in evidence-based approaches and strategies within the fields of education, psychology, and neuroscience. Gathering 18 professionals from these respective fields, the author expertly weaves their interviews throughout the book to showcase a tapestry of collective wisdom. Empowered by the Human Design masterfully highlights the research and science behind the framework and then turns the concepts into simple and practical application strategies that educators can implement immediately. This book is an educator survival guide to emerge from challenges as a more resilient, joyful teacher who fosters connection, belonging, and engagement for students.
Author: Michael L. Sachs Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 153812890X Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 267
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Performance Excellence: Stories of Success from the Real World of Sport and Exercise Psychology provides concise and effective lessons on a variety of psychological skills and broader concepts within the domains of exercise, sport, and performance psychology. These skills and concepts include team cohesion, dynamics, and leadership; goal-setting, motivation, and adherence; exercise identity, athletic identity, transitions, and self-awareness; mental training; mindset; and facing and overcoming challenges such as anxiety, burnout, and rehabilitation. Each chapter includes a short educational piece that centers on the select concept and subsequent examples that highlight how the concept works in real life. At the end of each lesson a few takeaways are provided. Over 60 stories of real-world examples provide poignant and compelling lessons and make the material come alive. These stories show the reader in an accessible and engaging way how to apply the sport and exercise psychology concepts outside the classroom. Ultimately, Performance Excellence serves as a wonderful resource for students, as well as for sport and exercise practitioners.
Author: Hemant Urdhwareshe Publisher: Pearson Education India ISBN: 9788131731543 Category : Languages : en Pages : 412
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Six Sigma for Business Excellence: Approach, Tools, and Applications, based on the author's first-hand experience in quality engineering, provides a comprehensive coverage of the Six Sigma methodology. This book provides the complete study material for students taking the certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Green Belt examinations conducted internationally by the American Society for Quality (ASQ). At the same time, it adequately fills the need of management professionals with numerous application examples and case studies providing an insight into the practical aspect of implementing Six Sigma tools. The book begins with providing an overview of the evolution of Six Sigma, explains the basic concepts and then takes the readers step by step through the process. The focus is more on enabling the implementation of the Six Sigma tools by providing illustrations, tables, application examples, and templates as well as Minitab and Excel data files for project work and exercises in the soft form on a CD accompanying the book. The templates carried in the book include the Sigma calculator, Six Sigma project review checklist, process mapping, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, project charter, and measurement systems analysis (Gauge R & R Study). The CD also contains a 30-day trial version of the Minitab and SigmaXL software programs.
Author: Mukesh Jain Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist ISBN: 9788171569861 Category : Political science Languages : en Pages : 508
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In Every Country Today, We Confront A Host Of Stubborn Problems: Violent Crime, Drug Abuse, Budgetary Constraints, Crumbling Roads, Traffic Congestion, Pollution. Every Community Is Facing Serious Problems. The Problems Differ From Place To Place. But, The Most Serious Problem Of All, However Is Different, It Is The Inadequacy Of The Institutional Mechanisms We Rely On For Making Public Decisions. Government, Our Biggest Institutional Mechanism, Has Failed To Generate Effective Public Responses To The Problems Troubling Us.Anyone Who Tries To Re-Think Government Is Embarking On A Truly Daunting Process, Because Government Is Such A Complex, Multi-Faceted Institution With So Many Relationships And Responsibilities; From Defense To Commerce, Civic Order And Public Health, To Name Just A Few. As Citizens, We All Know That Our Worst Nightmare About Relationship With Government Is To Be Lost In A Bureaucratic Maze; Shuffled From Place To Place, Waiting Hours In Long Queues, Unable To Find Or Learn Anything. Books Have Been Written And Movies Made About These Nightmares.How Do We Solve These Problems? It Is Not Easy. Without Studying Success, It Is Hard To Devise Real Solutions. For Years, The Government Has Studied Failure, And For Years, Failure Has Endured. So The Approach Has To Be Different. We Have To Look For Success. We Have To Search Organizations That Produce Results, Satisfy Customers, And Increased Productivity. We Have To Study The Organizations That Constantly Learn, Innovate And Improve. It Is Not Difficult To Find Effective, Entrepreneurial Public Organizations. The Book Is Full Of Examples Of Such Organizations.In Last Decades Several Governments Have Been Reinventing Themselves, From Australia To Great Britain, Singapore To Sweden, The Netherlands To New Zealand. Everywhere The Need Of Information Age Societies Are Colliding With The Limits Of Industrial Era Government. Britain Has Called It New Public Management Usa Has Named It Reinvention Initiative. Whatever Be The Name, The Movement To Reinvent Government Is Driven By Absolute Necessity. Governments, All Over The World, Have Reached The Same Conclusion: Government Is Broken, And It Is Time To Fix It. The Time Has Come To Set The House In Order. The Administrative Management Of The Government Needs Overhauling.The Book Is About Studying Success In This Reinvention Movement And Exploring Common Characteristics Of Success. This Book Lays Out The Strategies That Have Proven The Most Effective And Describes How The World S Most Successful Re-Inventors Have Used Them.Our Governments Are In Trouble. They Have Lost Their Sense Of Mission; They Have Lost Their Ethic Of Public Service; And, Most Importantly, They Have Lost The Faith Of The People. We Can No Larger Afford To Pay More For And Get Less From Our Government. The Answer For Every Problem Cannot Always Be Another Program Or More Money. It Is Time To Radically Change The Way The Government Operates To Shift From Top-Down Bureaucracy To Entrepreneurial Government That Empowers Citizens And Communities To Change Our Country From The Bottom Up. The Vision The Book Seeks Is That Of A Government That Works For People, Cleared Of Useless Bureaucracy And Waste And Freed From Red Tape And Senseless Rules.
Author: Robert I. Sutton
Author: A R K Sarma
Author: Gregory Huszczo
Author: Dr. Willie Jolley
Author: Dickson Corbett
Author: William Mathews
Author: Katie Pagnotta, MA, LCMHC
Author: Michael L. Sachs
Author: Hemant Urdhwareshe
Author: Mukesh Jain