"There are millions of boards of directors for small nonprofits or small businesses-yet, introductory materials for new board members are hard to find and not always right for the task. The IRS requires every nonprofit and most corporations to have a board, and we know millions of helpful citizens join local charities and social ventures to provide help and support. Yet most books on board governance are highly technical and seem better suited to the Fortune 500. For the first time, a book uses the simple idea of "table manners" to make board culture easy to understand and practice for new board members. With a special emphasis on diversity and inclusion, the authors of this new book provide simple tools to make all organizations work better through board work"--
"Now with additional chapters and guidance on hybrid workplaces, this foundational bestseller has new rules and timeless insights for leading others at a distance. Leadership First, Location Second. As more organizations adopt a remote workforce, the challenges of leading at a distance become more urgent than ever. The cofounders of the Remote Leadership Institute, Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel, show leaders how to guide their teams by recalling the foundational principles of leadership whether their teams are scattered globally or just working from home a few days a week. To make leadership happen today we must rely more on technology and far less on face-to face communication. This can make the work of leaders and team members more isolating, frustrating, and stressful. This book is for motivated leaders who want to get a handle on their remote work and teams. The book is built around the authors' 3O model: Ourselves, Others, and Outcomes. They explain how to cultivate the mindset and attitude needed to lead oneself effectively at a distance; how to engage others when you're not physically present; and what processes and tools to use to make sure dispersed teams achieve the desired outcomes. In some ways the job of a leader has changed less than we think. Leadership is leadership and people are people. But (and it is a pretty big but) how we do it needs to evolve if we want the results and outcomes our organizations demand, leaders need, and their team members deserve"--
Discover the science-based secrets to reducing workplace stress, building unwavering resilience, and achieving success through the power of conversation.Technology, isolation, and increasing demands for productivity are making the workplace a hotbed for stress—it's no surprise employees are abandoning traumatic workplaces in unprecedented numbers.Ed Beltran, the CEO of a powerhouse leadership communication company, believes the antidote to stressed-out workplaces starts with conversation.Beltran has developed a science-based model to reduce stress and help people build what he calls fierce resilience. By leveraging the power of conversations, individuals discover:their unique stressorsmaster skills to neutralize stressorsbuild unwavering resilience that elevates their emotional well-being.This is no ordinary self-help book. The transformative process of fierce resilience goes well beyond developing mere coping skills. It helps people take control of their emotional health, become more resilient, and build organizations with resilience as a core part of their DNA.
"As the saying goes, hurt people hurt people. Leaders who place harsh pressure and expectations on themselves are bound to let others down and disconnect from their teams. Self-compassion is the way out. Through adopting a practice of self-compassion, we can begin to develop greater self-awareness, self-management, and personal accountability so that leaders can foster the cultures of compassion, flourishing, and productivity they desire. They'll see less attrition, more employee engagement, and greater markers of success"--
Leave the power tie at home. The old rules of influence don’t work anymore.It’s time to throw out the old rules of influence and become the leader you’ve always wanted to be.A new type of leader is emerging—one with a bold mission who empowers others through transparency and unwavering passion. Modern-day executive presence mandates levels of authenticity and honesty never before seen in the C-suite.Personal branding and reputation management expert, Lida Citroën guides leaders through this new paradigm of executive presence and influence. Through inspiring examples, compelling stories, and practical exercises, Citroën helps leaders tap into their passion, connect authentically with others, and create space for inclusivity and community.Greta Thunberg is a powerful example of a new paradigm leader. The Swedish teenager ‘s influence arguably exceeds that of most CEOs or political leaders. The youngest person to be named Time’s Person of the Year, she radically upended Swedish politics and world climate policy. Nothing about her conforms to the typical expectations of a leader’s executive presence—her power comes from her absolute honesty and genuine passion to make the world a better place.
"Breakthrough strategies to help Asian Americans in the workplace build their personal leadership acumen and map a career advancement path that is achievable, authentic, and culturally relevant. 17 years after Jane Hyun wrote her groundbreaking book, Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, Asians remain grossly underrepresented in the upper ranks of American organizations. Asians are 12% of the workforce, but just 1.5% of Fortune 500 corporate officers. Hyun says for Asians to lead authentically, they need to move away from "code switching" and "getting along by going along." This workbook is built around her three-part framework for developing an intentional, courageous, culturally grounded approach to working and leading: ASSESS: Identify your personal and professional values, assets, and style. EQUIP: Learn to navigate the organizational environment-push back against stereotypes, find mentors and advisors, develop your professional networks, and more. TRANSFORM: Pull it all together to create your own leadership blueprint. The Toolkit is full of activities to help readers put ideas into action. It also includes inspiring real-life lessons from Asian executives and leaders. The Asian Leadership Toolkit acknowledges the wide range of cultures, identities, and experiences that exist within Asian America, and sees the particulars of identity not as impediments but as integral to crafting a bespoke leadership journey"--
"The Canary Code is a groundbreaking framework for intersectional inclusion and belonging at work that embraces human cognitive, emotional, and neurobiological differences-neurodiversity. Despite their skills and work ethics, members of autistic, ADHD, Tourette Syndrome, learning differences, and related communities face barriers to hiring and advancement. In the U.S., 30-40% of neurodivergent people and 85% of autistic college graduates struggle with unemployment. Yet, like canaries in the coal mine, they are impacted by issues that ultimately harm everyone. Lack of flexibility, transparency, and psychological safety exclude neurodivergent, disabled, and multiply marginalized talent-and leave most employees stressed and disengaged. This book helps CEOs, human resources and DEI leaders, managers, and consultants design neuroinclusive and thriving workplaces where everyone can do their best work. It draws on examples of pioneering organizations, human stories, academic research, and the author's decades of experience. Organizational psychologist and member of the autistic community, Ludmila N. Praslova, PhD., offers a comprehensive framework for building neuroinclusive workplaces. Embedding the 6 "Canary Code" principles across the talent cycle can unlock human thriving and productivity: Participation; Outcome focus; Flexibility; Organizational justice; Transparency; Valid Measurement. This unique book combines the lived autism experience with cutting-edge organizational thinking, academic rigor, and passionate, artful writing. Readers will experience organizational life through the eyes of neurodivergent individuals and find many tools for human-centric talent management and the inclusive future of work"--
"A top mental health writer, trauma researcher, and survivor illuminates the dual nature of loss-the science behind it and art of transforming it with a breakthrough book and truly holistic approach. After experiencing two rare heart attacks at the age of 33-and a third a decade later, DeMarco knows trauma intimately. Trauma breaks your relationship with time by upending your expectations, fracturing your memories and identity, and destroying your innocence. With poignant wisdom and refreshing insight DeMarco explodes traditional myths of resilience and shows what it takes to thrive through any of life's challenges. DeMarco situates meaningful challenge and loss specifically in the context of "lost innocence," and challenges common notions that we can think our way out of despair and back to a "normal" happy life when the unimaginable shatters it. Leveraging advances in emotion science, somatic psychology, neuroscience, and trauma, Holding Onto Air brings the body and spirit into the solution, as much as the mind, and so presents a truly integrated, "whole person" approach to recovering from lost innocence and building resilience. It also makes spirit accessible for anyone of any background or belief-or no aligned belief. More than a rudimentary map for navigating grief and loss' rocky terrain (with tired tropes and shop-worn strategies), DeMarco offers a unique and trusted guide for an arduous journey every human being will have to face-the realization of evil, pain, or mortality that occurs after a person experiences trauma"--
Winner of the Thinkers50 2023 Leadership AwardOne of Thinkers50’s Ten Best Management Books of 2023“A timely, actionable book on the virtues that every great leader needs to learn.” —ADAM GRANT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLifeLeadership is simply a series of moments, and this book gives you the tools to turn each moment into an opportunity to leave a positive legacy for those you lead.In this ground-breaking book, award-winning leadership expert and business leader Kirstin Ferguson has written a much-needed practical guide for every modern leader. Whether you are the head of one of the largest companies in the world, supervising a small team, or guiding your family, it will be your ability to integrate your head and heart that will influence your success in leading others and navigating our complex world.Combining studies from leading thinkers in the field with her own research, and more than three decades of personal experience, Kirstin explains the 8 key attributes of a head and heart leader and provides the tools to measure your own approach. Along the way, she shares her conversations with modern leaders from a broad range of backgrounds whose stories will surprise you, challenge your thinking and inspire you to be the type of leader the world needs.More Honors for Head & Heart:Royal Society of Arts Career Book AwardNext Big Idea Club ‘Must Read’Shortlisted in the 2023 Porchlight Business Book AwardsShortlisted in the 2023 Australian Business Book AwardsNamed in HR Magazine Winter Reading list
"A powerful, inspiring, and achievable vision of a society based on cooperation and community instead of competition and commodification. This book counters the dominant and destructive story that we are polarized, violent, selfish, and destined to consume everything in sight. That is not who we are. The challenge, Peter Block says, is that we are suffering under an economic theology that is based on scarcity, self-interest, competition, and infinite growth. We're told we can purchase and outsource all that matters. Block calls this the "business perspective narrative." It dominates not only the economy but also architecture, faith communities, journalism, arts, neighborhoods, and much more. Block offers an antidote: the "common good narrative." It embodies the belief that we are basically communal and cooperative. And that we have the capacity to communally produce what we care most about: raising a child, safety, livelihood, health, and a clean and sustainable environment. This book describes how shifts to the common good perspective could transform many areas, fostering journalism that reports on what works, architecture that designs habitable spaces creating connection, faith collectives that build community, a market that is restrained and local, and leadership and activism that build social capital by creating trust among citizens. With these shifts, we would fundamentally change the world we live in for the better"--
"A key purpose of this book is to introduce a fundamentally different approach to business transformation. It is fascinating to see that without exception, all existing publications on business process transformation don't just foster the one-time deal approach, but also take a sequential, step by step design (i.e., start with business strategy, then assess the landscape of current transformation projects in the company, then create a portfolio of ideas/projects, then execute with the latest methods like Agile, then finally, plan to make the new culture systemic). If we were to draw an analogy, this would be like the national economic development approaches of the old 5-year plans made famous by Soviet Union planners in the previous century. As it turned out, the real-world, occasionally chaotic but dynamic, open market, capitalism-based plans fared much better. The equivalent in business process change is "Dynamic Business Transformation." There is a need for a dynamic, living model for constant, ongoing process evolution and optimization. The Dynamic Business Transformation model achieves that. It addresses the issue because it gets to the root causes underlying the recurring obsolescence of work processes. First, even the best work process design can get stale if it does not constantly compare itself with the most disruptive new ideas across companies, and more importantly across industries. Second, functional work processes tend to be optimized within their own siloes. That leads to sub-optimization at an end-to-end level. And finally, unless there is a disciplined methodology to organically drive this constant re-optimization to every person in the operation, it leads to the jerky fits-and-starts model of business transformation"--
"Financial advisor and founder of RUNWAY lifts up historically undervalued Black entrepreneurs and proves the worth of eschewing traditional venture capitalist for community-based investors and partners. Believe-in-You Money is a call to action to move away from extractive, individualistic, exploitative approaches to capital and entrepreneurship. It asks us to instead move toward transformational, restorative, regenerative, interdependent relationships, to repair the impacts of the systemic racism and implicit biases that create barriers for Black entrepreneurs' success and widen the wealth gap. This book is for Black founders who keep running up against a process that is secretive and won't allow them to reach their potential and for the people wanting to invest in them as an act of racial justice and repair. It is an exploration of imagination and joy as much as it is about finance, offering a shift in the way we think about who can be an investor and aiming to change our personal relationships with money"--
"Keep from inadvertently offending or alienating anyone by following six straightforward guidelines developed by a down-to-earth linguistic anthropologist and business consultant. In today's polarized and highly contentious climate, language is seen by many as a minefield. People are afraid of "getting cancelled." Of making embarrassing mistakes. Of sounding outdated or out of touch. They have questions and The Inclusive Language Field Guide has the answers. This book is filled with real-world stories, foundational principles, and easy exercises to guide people into new habits. It is grounded in rigorous social science and draws on original analysis to teach people exactly how to make better choices"--
Revised edition of Subtle acts of exclusion, [2020]
"Find out how bold actions by visionary leaders can inspire powerful stories that drive culture change. Data indicates that most strategic efforts to change a company's culture fail. So how do companies succeed in this endeavor? A top strategy professor and two highly successful CEOs found that, in companies that had successfully changed their culture, leaders had taken dramatic actions that embodied the new cultural values. These actions inspired stories that became company legends, repeated in every department and handed on to new employees. Through compiling and analyzing 150 stories from business leaders who have achieved change, they identified 6 attributes that every successful culture change story has in common: 1. The actions are authentic; 2. They revolve around the CEO; 3. They signal a clean break with the past, and a clear path to the future; 4. They appeal to employee heads and hearts; 5. They're often theatrical or dramatic; 6. They're told, and re-told, throughout the organization. With extensive and inspiring examples of stories containing these attributes, the authors illustrate how readers can harness the power of stories within their company in order to change or create a winning culture to align with any strategy"--
"Facing urgent social problems, we are drawn to quick fixes. This book, however, shows that slowing down to listen closely, build broad support, and explore unconventional ideas leads to lasting solutions. Society celebrates leaders who promise fast, easy solutions to the world's problems-but quick fixes are an illusion. The truth is, companies, relationships, and the world are all changed with slow, intentional actions. The author, a globally acclaimed social entrepreneur, offers a five-step process for taking the slow lane to change-the lane that gets you to the right place faster: Listening-to build trust, which can change hearts and minds and allow for something new to emerge; Holding the urgency-to accept that even in moments of crisis you can move only at the speed of trust instead of rushing into action; Sharing the agency-to create an inclusive environment where everyone can lead; Healing democracy-to build bridges that allow marginalized people to participate; Maintaining curiosity-to be inspired by nontraditional sources. The Slow Lane teaches that quick fixes are just mirages that fade, leaving us with the same broken systems. By following the principles taught in this book, readers can create lasting change through intentionality"--
"America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann paves the way to saving our democracy. In this powerful, sweeping history and analysis of American democracy, Thom Hartmann shows how democracy is the one form of governance most likely to produce peace and happiness among people. With the violent exception of the Civil War, American democracy resisted the pressure to disintegrate into factionalism for nearly two centuries, and now our very system of democratic elections is at stake. So how do we save our democracy? Hartmann's newest book in the celebrated Hidden History Series offers a clear call to action and a set of solutions with road maps for individuals and communities to follow to create a safer, more just society and a more equitable and prosperous economy"--
"This book proposes a radical but rigorous rethinking of the traditional MBA program that combines solid business principles with a commitment to environmental and social justice. Many current and aspiring entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs are looking for an education that provides an understanding of the fundamentals of business but also deeply aligns with their progressive values. The Next Economy MBA fills that gap. Based on a course field-tested with over 250 students, it covers traditional MBA topics like such as business strategy and structure, finance, marketing, recruiting, and branding, etc. from a socially just and environmentally regenerative perspective. Traditional MBA programs are based on outdated principles that were developed during the Industrial Revolution. And they can be hugely expensive. Sustainable MBA programs, while laudable, are too timid and incremental to make a lasting impact. The Next Economy MBA is for entrepreneurs seeking to make business an active force for good. It touches on topics like such as Indigenous values, self-managing organizations, comprehensive strategies to reverse climate change, non-violent communication, locally self-reliant economies, racial justice, and more. This book answers the question, "What would an essential business education look like if we wanted to completely redesign the economy for the benefit of all life?""--
The Least Retraumatizing Read on Childhood Sexual Abuse. For Survivors, by a Survivor.Healing Honestly is a candid, poignant, and often funny survivor-to-survivor guide to navigating the salty waters of untrue stories and victim-blaming narratives that survivors of child sex abuse hear every day.Survivors of child sex abuse (CSA) are inundated with untrue stories of their abuse, the aftermath, and what their healing journey should look like. The truth is those stories are a bunch of hot garbage. Healing Honestly is a guide for survivors, written by a survivor, helping to break through the negative self-talk and debunk the myths that impact victims of CSA, such as: There is a “real” survivor out there, and we are not it. It happened so long ago that we should be over it by now. We are having too much sex because of our trauma, and also, we are having too little sex because of our trauma. With an approachable style that makes heavy topics not so damn scary, this book shows how trauma survivors can learn to identify these untrue stories that often come up in dating, in friendships, in families, at work, and more. Readers will discover strategies for turning down the volume on the bullshit so that they can hear their own wisdom and inner truth more clearly. Full of wit and humor, Healing Honestly offers practical strategies for survivors of sex abuse to support themselves in living full and vibrant lives.
"A leading expert on risk management describes how to steer your company through a "risk hurricane"-the extreme risk exposure that can lead to major disruption for your business. Risk management has become a standard part of the strategic tool kit, providing senior leaders with a forward-looking radar to scan the future and give early warnings of approaching threats and opportunities. However, even best-in-class organizations can falter in the face of extreme risk exposure. Special circumstances demand special responses, and extreme risk exposure needs very careful handling. Routine risk management approaches will fall short, but businesses that demonstrate a high degree of flexibility and resilience will have the competitive advantage and the ability to thrive where others fail. The causes and consequences of meteorological hurricanes have parallels in the way uncontrolled risk exposure can develop in organizations. Both are caused largely by predictable factors, but both are characterized by sustained uncertainty and severe impact once they develop. If we can learn to predict a risk hurricane, prepare for it effectively, and survive its effects, then our organizations will be well placed to address the challenge of extreme risk exposure, if and when we are unfortunate enough to face it"--
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