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Two top experts on high-performing organizations show you how to reframe your—and your employees’—relationship with fear and anxiety to create a learning culture of engaged workers at the top of their game.Fear and uncertainty have been undermining performance and well-being in the workplace for as long as we have had workplaces. Here’s a little-known fact of business: mismanaged fear is responsible for almost all of the dysfunction that most organizations experience. While fear can drive short-term results, it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. It also undermines long-term business performance. But we can’t eradicate it entirely; it is inherent to the human...
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A step-by-step guide to reestablishing work-life balance Americans love a hard worker. The employee who toils eighteen-hour days and eats meals on the run between appointments is usually viewed with a combination of respect and awe. But for many, this lifestyle leads to family problems, a decline in work productivity, and, ultimately, physical and mental burnout. Intended for anyone touched by what Robinson calls “the best-dressed problem of the twenty-first century,” Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World provides an inside look at the impact of work stress on those who live and work with workaholics—partners, spouses, children, and colleagues—as well as the appropriate techniques fo...
Winner of The Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award! After two decades in the trenches of helping companies design and build better, more efficient operations, Karen Martin has pinpointed why performance improvement programs usually fail: Chaos, the sneaky but powerful force that frustrates customers, keeps business leaders awake at night, and saps company morale. In The Outstanding Organization, Karen offers a toolbox for combating chaos by creating the organizational conditions that will allow your improvement efforts to return greater gains. Proven, practical, and surprisingly simple, Karen's system focuses on four key behaviors for organizational excellence--Clarity, Focus, ...
Given the opportunity to describe Apple as a company in just a word or two, most would respond with adjectives like: Innovative. Design-conscious. Iconic. Some would probably even say: Secretive. But here's another: Soulful. Yes, Apple has a soul, and it is not alone in that respect. A select few organizations can similarly be said to exhibit similar qualities of soul that inspire passion in their employees and set them on the path to high levels of sustained organizational performance. But, given that most organizations are plagued by low levels of employee engagement and lackluster organizational performance, how do high-performing organizations do it? How do they ignite and sustain employ...
A groundbreaking and revolutionary book that will transform how lean is understood, practiced, and used within organizations A lean strategy is about gaining a competitive edge by offering better quality products at competitive prices and making a sustainable profit by eliminating waste through engaging employees in discovering deeper ways to think about their own jobs and smarter ways of working together. In its current form, lean has been radically effective, but its true powers have yet to be harnessed. Lean Strategy harnesses that power and delivers a new way of creating value from lean. Leading lean experts address popular misconceptions about the basics of lean/TPS, showing the true purpose of tools, methods, and attitudes that leverage the intelligence of every employee doing the work. You’ll learn how to think—and then act—differently, tapping the power of every person in your organization in a disciplined manner that generates unparalleled, sustainable success that is responsive to today’s most pressing challenges
Jeder von uns kennt exzellente Teams: Wir gehen mit Vorfreude und Leichtigkeit zur Arbeit. Wir bringen Motivation und Ideen mit. Es gibt dort eine fröhliche, offene und robuste Kommunikation. Gute Leistung entsteht so fast von allein. Das macht die Magie großartiger Teams aus. Aber wie baut man ein exzellentes Team auf? Exzellenz und Hochleistung sind kein Geheimnis - wenn Führungskräfte und Teams das dafür nötige Wissen und Können haben: ? Wissen: Wie verhalten sich Menschen in Organisationen? Neurobiologie und Sozialwissenschaften haben mittlerweile gut erforscht, welche Muster menschlichen Verhaltens in Teams und Organisationen immer wiederkehren. Zu verstehen, wie wir in der Grupp...
Award-winning business performance improvement and Lean management expert Karen Martin diagnoses a ubiquitous business management and leadership problem—the lack of clarity—and outlines specific actions to dramatically improve organizational performance. Through her global consulting projects, keynote speeches, and work with thousands of leaders, Karen has seen first-hand how a pervasive lack of clarity strangles business performance and erodes employee engagement. Ambiguity is the corporate default state, a condition so prevalent that “tolerance for ambiguity” has become a clichéd job requirement. It doesn’t have to be this way. In Clarity First, Karen provides methods and insigh...
El empleado que trabaja dieciocho horas diarias y come a la carrera entre una cita y otra suele ser admirado y respetado. Pero para muchos, este estilo de vida conduce a problemas familiares, a un descenso de la productividad laboral y, en última instancia, al agotamiento físico y mental. Destinado a cualquier persona afectada por lo que Robinson denomina "el problema mejordisfrazado del siglo XXI", este libro ofrece una visión del impacto del estrés laboral en las personas que viven y trabajan con adictos al trabajo: compañeros, cónyuges, hijos y colegas. Tras la pandemia del COVID-19 y el auge del trabajo desde casa, Robinson constata que la agoníadel estrés laboral no ha hecho sino agravarse. En los últimos años se ha producido un cambio sin precedentes hacia el trabajo a distancia, lo que ha hecho mucho más difícil mantener el ya de por sí delicado equilibrio entre la vida laboral y personal. Workaholic proporciona una guía paso a paso para ayudar a los lectores a detectar, comprender y, en última instancia, recuperarse de la adicción al trabajo.