Jeff Hoyt
1) Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together
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This book introduces a new approach to solving any stubborn, intractable conflict, based on the author's experiences bringing people together in international hot spots like South Africa, Columbia, India, and more.
People today face increasing complexity and decreasing control. They need to work with more people across more divides. But the traditional ways of advancing-subsuming individual interests to the good of the whole, or providing total autonomy...
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This encyclopedic guide to meeting facilitation will help any product manager, project manager, or scrum master who needs to find the best tools to design perfect meetings.
This valuable resource lays out a structured method for designing and leading better meetings. Its facilitative approach marks a transition from the leader as "the expert with the answers" to a new world where the leader's job is to ask the right questions and manage context....
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A Leadership Kick in the Ass
How to Learn from Rough Landings, Blunders, and Missteps
Very few great leaders haven't had at least one good ass-whuppin'. Of course, that's cold comfort at the time. When it happens, it feels like the end. But leadership development expert Bill Treasurer says it can be a new beginning.
Treasurer knows what he's talking about. Not only has he worked with thousands of leaders over a twenty-year career, but a boot to...
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This book equips consultants with the knowledge they need to advance to more senior positions in their firms or build successful independent practices. Advanced consultants address applications and audiences that junior consultants cannot-they work with CEOs, boards, and senior executive teams on issues like strategy, organizational design, merger integration, digital disruption, culture change, and system-wide transformation. Bill Pasmore draws on...
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Young Money4 Proven Actions to Design Your Wealth While You Still CanBeing young is the ultimate advantage when it comes to building wealth. It may not seem like it when you look at your student loan debt or when the rent comes due, but you have a huge amount of a priceless resource: time. You just need to know what to do with it. Rising-star financial advisor Dasarte Yarnway offers a simple four-step mastery approach anyone can follow to become a...
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Organizations need innovation, and there is a powerful source right under their noses. Scholar and consultant David C. Thomas says the same forces of globalization that have created today's superheated competitive environment have also provided a potential hidden advantage: the multiculturals in your midst. Thomas cites extensive research and examples showing that multiculturals-people who have deep experience in more than one culture-have developed...
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Discover how to convey the essence of leadership in your every interaction. The impression you make as a leader has the power to build, enhance, or sabotage your authority and your ideas.
Everyone seems to have an opinion about leadership. We know good leaders Eat Last, Lean In, Break the Rules, Dare to Lead, and are Radically Candid as well as extremely aware of their Tribes, Drive, and Principles. But books about these topics overlook the value...
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Most organizations are terrified of conflict, seeing it as a sign of trouble. But clinical psychologist and transformative communication expert Dr. Nate Regier says conflict is really just a kind of energy that can be used for good or ill. With the concepts and tools he shares in this eBook, you can turn conflict into a partner for positive change. Handled incorrectly, conflict becomes drama-people struggle against themselves or each other to feel...
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A longtime broadcast journalist and ABC News Correspondent shows how, rather than try to deny, you can craft an honest and authentic response to any scandal and ultimately bolster your brand.
In twenty years as a television reporter, T. J. Winick covered many scandals, including the British Petroleum oil spill, the Pennsylvania State University football scandal, the Catholic priest molestation scandal, and the Toyota recall of 2009-2010. The biggest...
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It may be hard to believe in an era of Wal-Mart, Citizens United, and the Koch brothers, but corporations are on the decline, says Gerald Davis. The number of American companies listed on the stock market dropped by more than half between 1997 and 2012. In recent years, some of the most storied corporations have gone bankrupt (General Motors, Chrysler, Eastman Kodak) or disappeared entirely (Bethlehem Steel, Lehman Brothers, Borders, Circuit City)....
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Everyone has times in their lives when the results of their behavior don't seem to be meeting their needs. These shortfalls may result in depression, anger, frustration, and relationship struggles, among a host of possible symptoms. It often seems difficult to see a clear path out of the problems. Even when we try to change our behavior, it doesn't stick-before we know it we're right back where we started. In this new book, Hyrum Smith does two things...
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In a recent Fast Company article, nine CEOs said the biggest challenges their companies face are all related to change. Change is a constant need and a constant challenge for every organization-large or small, for-profit, nonprofit, or governmental. Is there a way to make it easier? If you're trying to lift something heavy, it helps to have a lever. In this book, Jake Jacobs provides eight levers that can transform the typical change process into...
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Discover a powerful methodology for bringing communities together to uncover hidden assets and transform deep-rooted challenges.
Veteran community organizer Paul Born's work has contributed to lowering cancer rates in Maine, improving mental health for young people in Florida, and reducing poverty rates in Canada by 20 percent. In this much-needed new audiobook, he shares stories of how he was able to catalyze local communities and guide them to...
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If so, you may be experiencing the confidence-busting, commitment-breaking, energy-draining patterns consistent with broken trust. We've all been there, but few of us know how to rebuild that trust. Dennis and Michelle Reina have spent their careers researching and measuring workplace trust. In this sequel to their award-winning Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace, they offer everyone involved a proven process for healing: the person hurt, the person...
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How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China's takeover?
The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China's economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy. In this shocking exposé, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and...
16) The New Technology Elite: How Great Companies Optimize Both Technology Consumption and Production
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The book contrasts the productivity that Apple, Google and others demonstrated in the last decade to that of the (average) enterprise tech group. It discusses turnaround opportunities for companies to unleash their own internal Apple and Google type technology wizardry. Using examples from several industries and countries it highlights the adaptations enterprises will have to make it work in their unique business settings, how to leverage what companies...
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Project management is the art of making the right decisions. To be effective as a project manager, you must know how to make rational choices in project management, what processes can help you to improve these choices, and what tools are available to help you through the decision-making process. Project Decisions: The Art and Science is an entertaining and easy-to-read guide to a structured project decision analysis process. This valuable text presents...
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The Future of Packaging provides a straightforward solution to tackling the daunting issues of waste in the packaging industry by returning to a "circular economy." Beginning with a critique of the irresponsibility of the packaging industry and its contributions to wastefulness, Tom Szaky and his coauthors illuminate the path towards a waste-free future with lessons from the past. The goal of this book is to serve as a guide for designing a circular...
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Time has become a precious commodity, so business leaders who can save their customers' time more effectively than competitors do will win their loyalty. This book shows how it's done. Business survival requires valuing what customers value-and in our overworked and distraction-rich era, customers value their time above all else. Real-time companies beat their rivals by being faster and more responsive in meeting customer needs. To become a real-time...
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Prisoners of Our Thoughts
Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded
World-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning was named by the Library of Congress as one of the ten most influential books of the 20th century. Frankl's story of finding a reason to live in the most horrible circumstance imaginable-Nazi concentration camps-continues to inspire millions. Urged by...