2023
Drawing on their years of experience working at remote companies DuckDuckGo and Automattic, plus dozens of interviews with leading experts, Ali Greene and Tamara Sanderson have written the ultimate playbook for managing remote teams.
This book addresses challenges such as communicating effectively (with fewer meetings!), eliminating frustration over what tools to use, establishing team norms, and focusing on getting things done. You will learn how to work best remotely and create a workplace designed for freedom, flexibility, and focus.
For decades, we've planned our lives around our work. Now it's time to intentionally design work to fit our lives.
There's nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting-except when it leads to another unproductive meeting. Yet every day millions of people conduct meetings-in person or online-without the critical understanding or formal training on how to plan and lead them effectively. This book offers a structured method to ensure that meetings will produce clear and actionable results. Meetings that are profitable and productive ultimately lead to fewer meetings. This book offers leaders a significant edge by
• Empowering readers to help their groups create, innovate, and break through the barriers of miscommunication, politics, and intolerance
• Making it easier for them to help others forge consensus and shared understanding
• Providing them with proven agenda steps, tools,and detailed procedures
Readers will learn how to resolve or manage common problems, inspire creativity, and transfer ownership to their meeting participants while managing interpersonal conflicts and other disruptions that arise. In a world of back-to-back meetings, this book explains the how-to details behind game-changing tools and techniques.
2006
• The latest volume in Berrett-Koehler's Ken Blanchard Series -- books hand-picked and introduced by Ken Blanchard
• Helps readers reduce stress and increase accomplishment, satisfaction, meaning, and fun in both their personal and professional lives
• Uses an entertaining story format to walk readers through a simple, straightforward process that has transformed individuals and organizations
Too much to do! I never get anything done! I have so little control over my life!
These were thoughts Ray had as he headed home later for supper, confident his wife, Carol, would be sympathetic to his problem.
One sentence into unloading his problems on her, he heard, "Too much to do? Tell me about it!" Her problems were as big as or even bigger than his.
When they went to a friend for help, they discovered more than hope, "That sounds like us several years ago. But Coach Eric's Aligned Thinking not only solved those problems, it helped us to do what most people believe impossible: align every action to what we really want.
With mild hope and huge skepticism, Ray and Carol visited Coach Eric and gave him a description of their ideal professional and personal life. Coach Eric assured them that Aligned Thinking could help them enjoy each item on their list. However, when he asked them to add to their list "make every moment count so life becomes a celebration," Ray and Carol became even more skeptical.
Join Ray and Carol as they discover the proven power of Aligned Thinking. You'll find it:
• Simple - Summarized in an elegant nine-word question
• Quick - It takes less than fifteen seconds to implement
• Lasting - Once you understand it, you can use it daily for a lifetime
This book brings together cases from around the world of a breakthrough new approach to strategic planning, empowerment, consensus building, and whole systems improvement. Marvin Weisbord and 35 international coauthors show how all types of business, government, and nonprofit organizations are successfully using this approach to create shared vision, innovation, commitment, and collaborative action that exceed what people thought possible.
In this approach-called "future searches" or "search conferences"-people with diverse interests who have a stake in an organization or issue come together for two or three days to explore their mutual past, present, and future in a global context. Using a self-managing format, they seek common ground among their varied interests, invent ideal futures rather than work old problems, and generate creative strategies, action plans, and commitment.
- Copublished with Industrial Engineering and Management Press
While most of the business world worships size and constant growth, Big Vision, Small Business celebrates the art-and power-of small. Based on over seventy interviews with small-business owners and on her own experiences as a successful small-business entrepreneur, Jamie Walters shows readers how a business can stay small and remain vital, healthy, and successful.
Theres a new category of business owner today whose bottom line combines making a profit and having a personal life with a commitment to socially conscious enterprise. Big Vision, Small Business takes an in-depth look at four key areas necessary to maintain this type of enterprise. Covering growth options, small-enterprise advantages, inspired visioning, communication and right-relationship, mindset issues and expectation management, and wisdom and mastery practices, Big Vision, Small Business is a must-read for every entrepreneur and futurist.
2011
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