 | | | | by Cary Jehl Broussard | Article
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| | | Cary Jehl Broussard discusses the advantages of adopting a customer-focused company structure. | |
 | | | | | Like it or not, taking risks is an inevitable and inescapable part of life. This article by Bill Treasurer outlines the ways you can make risk work for you.
Bill Treasurer is the founder of Giant Leap Consulting, Inc., a courage-building company. Giant Leap’s mission is to help people and organizations be more courageous. Treasurer is also the author of Right Risk: 10 Powerful Principles for Taking Giant Leaps with Your Life. | |
 | | | | by Dave Guerra | Online Book
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| | In this groundbreaking new book, Dave Guerra proposes a stunningly simple way through today's complex world of work, introducing us to a new management science, showing how Superperformance springs from the intersection of an organization's process and its passion. Guerra proposes a simple formula:
Process x Culture = Superperformance.
This book is about the phenomenal year-after-year success of companies who consistently apply this formula. It is about the simple rules that have enabled companies like Toyota, Southwest Airlines, Microsoft, Harley Davidson and others to achieve and sustain super results year after year. | |
 | | | | | | Lead people, manage process. This article from Corpus Optima explains the power of this simple phrase. | |
 | | | | by Joshua Freedman | Article
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| | | Daniel Pink discusses his latest book, A Whole New Mind, with emotional intelligence expert Joshua Freedman, and identifies key skills for leaders in a changing marketplace. | |
| | | | by Joshua Freedman | Article
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| | | Emotions serve to focus our attention on aspects of the world that help us thrive. They provide information about our interior world and about our relationships. For this survival function to operate optimally, we are highly sensitive to emotional signals in the environment. One person’s emotions are affected by others’. This effect is called “Emotional Contagion” and provides important insight into why we must and how to manage emotions for optimal results. | |
| | | | by Joshua Freedman | Article
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| | | When the stakes are high, life and death for the people or the company, change will happen – right? Fast Company senior writer Alan Deutschman was surprised that the answer is “no.” He was attending a conference on the future of healthcare where the dean of Johns Hopkins talked about what happens to cardiac patients when they’re told to “change or die.” The incident led to an in-depth analysis of individual and organizational change with a startling conclusion: While change is possible, the usual approach doesn’t work. | |
 | | | | by Dr. John Copeland | Article
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| | | What’s the good news on business? It’s ability to be both a good corporate citizen and a successful business. This brief by Dr. John Copeland provides positive insights on corporate philanthropy. Corporate giving continues to grow and communities and families see the benefit – corporations see the value. Read this brief to see how many corporations are growing their philanthropic efforts. | |
| | | | by Dr. John Copeland | Article
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| | | Who sets the ethical tone for the organization? Dr. John Copeland’s brief on setting the ethical tone presents facts and figures on how training is deployed or not deployed across organizations and within organizations. Some ethics training effectiveness results are conflicting based on an organizations interpretation of ethics training. Read this brief to gain insights on how companies are setting, or not setting, the tone for corporate ethics. | |
| | | | by Dr. John Copeland | Article
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| | | Dr. John Copeland’s brief presents a sticky topic – the whistle-blower – right or wrong. Dr. Copeland provides some valuable insights for both organizations and employees to consider when wrongdoing is observed. These valuable insights should be considered for anyone that is faced with an ethical dilemma. Read this brief to better understand how to handle any perceived or observed wrongdoing. | |
 | | | | by Christi Youd - Organize Enterprise | Online Book
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| | Discover the secrets of office organizing! Need help getting your office streamlined for greater productivity? This book will help you achieve it. You’ll discover how reducing your office mess reduces your stress levels. What it takes to improve the flow of work that comes across your desk. The best way to deal with interruptions. How you can set up work regions to accomplish your overall work objectives. The cure for all that paperwork. How to make it easier to find all the things you need in your office area.
Length: 222 pages | |
 | | | | by Richard L. Routh | Online Book
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| | | This online book teaches senior business managers how to function and thrive at the executive leadership level through a thorough and constructive understanding of how positive corporate politics should be managed. It is a good tutorial for those who wish to become C-Level executives and a great "How-to" book on how to effectively "manage up" into the corporate executive ranks. Many view corporate politics from the dark-side. This book shows the way to develop a practical, workable, corporate political philosophy that is both refreshingly positive and powerful in its effectiveness. You will learn how to increase your self-respect and the respect of others as you become a skilled corporate executive team-player and effective political artisan. This “how-to” book gives you a practical roadmap to becoming a master at corporate politics. | |
 | | | | by James H. Saylor | Online Book
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| | This Handbook provides guidelines for any organization seeking to achieve excellence through continuous improvement. Specifically, this VICTORY Guide provides step-by-step methods for:- Establishing an excellence policy
- Xpecting continuous improvement by instituting a system
- Creating a process orientation
- Establishing an improvement methodology
- Learning improvement tools
In addition, this book provides an outline of basic continuous improvement tools with examples and templates. You can get started on getting rapid results with the continuous improvement cycle, the improvement methodology and guidance on when and how to use tools.
Finally, we have provided MANAGING FOR VICTORY acrostics for continuous improvement to make it easy to implement and learn the continuous improvement system.
Length: 175 Pages | |
| | | | by James H. Saylor | Online Book
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| | LEARN WHAT IT TAKES TO BECOME A PROGRESSIVE LEADER
This is an introduction to being a progressive leader. Specifically, progressive leaders:Lead by exampleEstablish a common purposeAct to develop a superior organizationDrive excellenceEnhance othersReinforce progressThis VICTORY Guide provides:- definition of progressive leadership
- why progressive leadership
- 6 key elements for progressive leaders
- 6 fundamental questions leaders must ask everyday
- 7 guidelines to lead by example
- 8 considerations to develop a superior organization
- 7 actions to drive excellence
- 7 methods to enhance others
- 7 guidelines to reinforce progress
- 6 step action process to become a progressive leader
- a progressive leader assessment
- and much more!
Length: 27 Pages | |
| | | | by James H. Saylor | Online Book
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| | LEARN THE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS FOR ANY ORGANIZATION
This is an overview of the MANAGING FOR VICTORY System. The system includes practical, proven processes in a simple to understand acrostics based format to dramatically innovate your organization’s management system.
MANAGING FOR VICTORY shows you how:- Visioning creates a common focus
- Involving everyone establishes a superior organization
- Continuously improving achieves excellence
- Training, educating, coaching, facilitating, mentoring develops a learning culture
- Owning the work process fosters empowerment
- Recognizing and rewarding builds high performance
- Yearning for victory ensures success
This VICTORY Guide provides:- 3 major reasons for using MANAGING FOR VICTORY System
- 7 benefit of the SYSTEM
- 10 essential beliefs of the philosophy
- 5 critical element of the foundation
- 9 requirements of the VICTORY framework
- 8 considerations for using customers to drive VICTORY
- 5 actions to create a common focus
- 7 elements to establish a superior organization
- 5 specific methods to achieve excellence
- 5 steps to develop a learning culture
- 3 guidelines to foster empowerment
- 7 critical actions to build high performance
- 7 elements to ensure success
- 6 characteristics of progressive leaders
- and more!
Length: 108 Pages | |
| | | | by James H. Saylor | Online Book
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| | LEARN HOW TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS FOR ANY ORGANIZATION
Whatever you need for success in today’s and tomorrow’s organizations MANAGING FOR VICTORYTM will help you achieve it. This bountiful volume of resources provides practical processes in a simple to understand acrostics based format to dramatically innovate your organization’s management system while creating your personal success system.
MANAGING FOR VICTORY shows you how:- Visioning creates a common focus
- Involving everyone establishes a superior organization
- Continuously improving achieves excellence
- Training, educating, coaching, facilitating, mentoring develops a learning culture
- Owning the work process fosters empowerment
- Recognizing and rewarding builds high performance
- Yearning for victory ensures success
This book is a must have for every person striving for success from frontline associates, first-time supervisors, seasoned managers, senior executives and top-leaders. This management system is for LEADERs that are interested in creating progressive long-term success in your organization, you will find in this book important new leadership and management guidelines, helpful techniques for achieving excellence, tools for success and much more!
Length: 378 Pages | |
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