After Atlantis Working Managing And Leading In Turbulent Times

Based on both fundamental theory and practical experience, After Atlantis identifies a broad range of approaches that will better equip individuals and organizations not only to react in time to change but to become pro-active in creating a positive future for themselves and their organizations. It is a practical field guide to understanding and mastering turbulence within organizations and across the global marketplace. After Atlantis takes the position that no single activity will assure success. It is grounded in the most advanced, field-tested, and robust theories about innovation and leadership, and will help organizations to construct their future with meaning and to meet the needs of their customers. The international team of contributors includes Peter Beerten and Kaat Exterbille of Belgium, Tom Lyons of Ireland, and Frank Heckman of the United States. Ned Hamson has been editor of The Journal for Quality and Participation since 1985. His duties as editor there have brought him into close contact with leading organizations, consultants, and practitioners in the fields of quality and participation. Some of the foremost authorities who have contributed to the journal during his tenure include Tom Peters, Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Margaret Wheatley, Peter Senge, George Bush, and Bill Clinton. Mr. Hamson also conducts extensive research on international political economy.

Based on both fundamental theory and practical experience, After Atlantis identifies a broad range of approaches that will better equip individuals and organizations not only to react in time to change but to become pro-active in creating a positive future for themselves and their organizations. It is a practical field guide to understanding and mastering turbulence within organizations and across the global marketplace. After Atlantis takes the position that no single activity will assure success. It is grounded in the most advanced, field-tested, and robust theories about innovation and leadership, and will help organizations to construct their future with meaning and to meet the needs of their customers. The international team of contributors includes Peter Beerten and Kaat Exterbille of Belgium, Tom Lyons of Ireland, and Frank Heckman of the United States. Ned Hamson has been editor of The Journal for Quality and Participation since 1985. His duties as editor there have brought him into close contact with leading organizations, consultants, and practitioners in the fields of quality and participation. Some of the foremost authorities who have contributed to the journal during his tenure include Tom Peters, Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Margaret Wheatley, Peter Senge, George Bush, and Bill Clinton. Mr. Hamson also conducts extensive research on international political economy.

This guide provides over 300 pages of resources suggested by leadership educators in surveys, Center for Creative Leadership staff, and search of library resources. This eighth edition is half-new, including web sites and listserv discussion groups, and it places a stronger focus on meeting the needs of human resources professionals and corporate trainers. An annotated bibliography groups leadership materials in several broad categories: overview; in context; history, biography and literature; competencies; research, theories, and models; training and development; social, global, and diversity issues; team leadership; and organizational leadership (180 pages). Includes annotated lists of: journals and newsletters (9 pages); instruments (21 pages); exercises (41 pages); instrument and exercise vendors (5 pages); videos (29 pages); video distributors (4 pages); web sites (6 pages); organizations (21 pages); and conferences (9 pages). (Contains a 66-page index of all resources.) (TEJ)

The Power of Collaborative Leadership: Lessons for the Learning Organization helps business leaders realize the promise of organizational learning by sharing the lessons, insights, and best practices gained by two veteran managers and organizational learning pioneers. The book makes organizational learning principles and concepts more concrete by grounding them in the practical experiences of two major companies. The Power of Collaborative Leadership helps business leaders realize the promise of organizational learning by sharing lessons, insights, and best practices gained by Bert Frydman and Iva Wilson, two veteran managers and organizational learning pioneers. Together with JoAnne Wyer, a professional learning analyst, they show that in order to be effective leaders of business organizations, we must transform an organization's methods of absorbing new information and its ability to transform it into knowledge and wisdom. This book offers some provocative and practical ways to overcome many commonly held assumptions and practices that can actually impede learning and the improvement of the organization.

Dies ist der Nachfolgetitel des erfolgreichen "The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management", von dem bislang über 70.000 Exemplare verkauft wurden. "The Portable MBA in Project Management" diskutiert die aktuellsten Themen im Projektmanagement und enthält Beiträge von allen führenden Autoritäten auf diesem Gebiet. Die Beiträge dieser Experten verknüpfen wichtige Ideen mit Originalmaterial und decken alle Trends, alle Themen und alle Aspekte des modernen Projektmanagement ab. Autor Eric Verzuh präsentiert eine Vielzahl von erprobten Techniken für das Managen einzelner Projekte und projektbasierter Unternehmen. Hier erfahren Projektmanager, wie sie die Kraft einzelner Projekterfolge miteinander verbinden können, um das Unternehmen so zu einem höheren Maß an Produktivität und Reaktionsfreudigkeit im Kundenkontakt anzuspornen. "The Portable MBA in Project Management" - der umfassende Ratgeber für erfolgreiches Projektmanagement und ein Muss für jeden ambitionierten Projektmanager. Eric Verzuh ist als Consultant für führende internationale Unternehmen tätig, darunter u.a. Adobe, Boeing, GE und Nordstrom.

Unleashing Intellectual Capital reveals breakthrough principles for structuring Knowledge Age organizations. It helps leaders and knowledge professionals better understand how human nature supports or undermines voluntary workplace collaboration and innovation-vital sources of competitive advantage in business. Integrating the latest insights from diverse scientific disciplines, the book reestablishes some very basic truths about human innate behavior that determine how people best work together and are managed, or in some cases "unmanaged." Using understandable and practical models, Unleashing Intellectual Capital explains human nature and offers readers a comprehensive framework they can use to generate sustained high levels of intellectual capital within their own organizations while at the same time reducing workplace violence.

A New Brand of Expertise uniquely clarifies the dynamics of the red-hot "free agent" workplace and teaches the new skills and employment strategies independent professionals must master to succeed. In today's quick and turbulent markets, companies often need specialized professional talent on an interim basis to solve specific business problems, a major trend creating huge opportunities and an alternative career track for many professionals. A New Brand of Expertise clarifies for independent professionals why companies need interim talent and how to develop a skill set that matches market needs. Readers will learn effective methods for uniquely marketing and branding themselves in order to develop a sustainable and successful free agent career.

This book explores the connections between the Jungian concept of time-space relations and how today's business leaders can be aware of sychronistic situations to use them ethically in the workplace. It bridges the Jungian concepts of synchronicity with grounded business applications. It is written in a straightforward accessible style and includes examples from real life business situations. It explores synchronicity and explains how it can be recognized and used in business situations. This book takes the sayings ''timing is everything' and being "at the right place at the right time" and establishes that synchronistic events do occur in the lives of entrepreneurs and others with surprisingly regularity.