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The business world is only now beginning to open its eyes to the fact that a powerful corporate culture can generate hard-currency results. But Marty Parker has known this for years. Since 2003, his executive search and cultural assessment firm, Waterstone Human Capital, has focused its recruiting strategy on employee fit and on the best corporate cultures. Each year, the firm’s “Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures” program singles out companies whose cultures have led to measurable growth, increased profits, and a distinct competitive advantage. Now, Parker reveals the best practices of some of the world’s top companies to help you generate extraordinary business results b...
Culture is no longer a factor in the high performance equation: it is the equation We are in the midst of a seismic shift in leadership and company culture-one accelerated by the recent pandemic. In an era of remote work and online communications, company culture isn't bounded by walls or the type of business it does. It is tied to the attitudes, behaviors, and values of the people who create it. Throw in the increasing competition for talent, and the increasing desire for employees to find a shared purpose or connection with their employer, and it's clear that true leadership requires a new set of skills and a new way of thinking. It requires you to become a culturepreneur-putting culture a...
A clarion call to shut down the business school!
The author's first book dives into the mind and body of Bruce, a war hero, a multiple Purple Heart winner, and a legal drug abuser. His journey is marked by turmoil behind a carefully crafted façade that could crumble at any minute. Despite a chest full of medals, is Bruce brave enough to take a leap of faith for the woman who loves him?
This book focuses on the element of leadership that has largely been neglected in the literature: character. Often thought to be a subjective construct, the book demonstrates the concrete behaviors associated with different character dimensions in order to illustrate how these behaviors can be developed, and character strengthened. Based on research involving over 300 senior leaders from different industries, sectors and countries, Crossan, Seijts, and Gandz developed a model for leadership character that focuses on eleven dimensions. The book begins by setting the context for the focus on character in business, asking what character is and whether it can be learned, developed, molded or cha...
Through close readings of these three figures, Robinson argues that more is going on among American men than meets the casual eye - and that much of what is going on is reflected in the most popular of our art forms, detective novels, action movies, and rock music.
A guide to transforming leadership for the 21st century, this is a book about a powerful and practical framework that leaders can use to help their organizations thrive, prosper, and improve the world around them: leader character. Developed through extensive research, teaching, and outreach over the past decade, leader character is the foundation that leaders rely upon to help them make their most critical judgments. This book carries forward the authors’ important work to the implementation stage on both the individual and organizational levels. Based on the authors’ interactions with organizations in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors around the world, they offer practica...
Exposes the secret history of drink and drugs, from creative stimulant to addictive poison.
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Ash Harbor embodies the definition of corruption and human disdain as the city naturally attracts the souls of the wicked. Amongst the malice that the city had been nurtured with, a task force is created with the sole purpose of bringing down the source of Ash Harbor's bane, Danny Cannon. Jack and Parker face a force that will question what they know and leave them in the aftermath of the chaos, clawing at any chance of surviving the storm without losing their way.