In today's corporate landscape, professionals at every level-from early-career to senior executives-face the challenge of working with difficult managers.Have You Ever Had a Boss That...:Succeeding in a Dysfunctional Workplace provides actionable strategies to help you not only cope but excel in even the most dysfunctional environments. Drawing ......
Humanizing the Workplace for Productivity, Profitability, and Possibilit
A strategic framework for businesses leaders who are grappling with the backlash against the post-pandemic "return to office" demonstrates the strong case for holistic flexibility Forced to allow remote and hybrid work arrangements during the onset of COVID-19, some organizations made the transition to flexibility with great success, but others ......
Today's modern workplace can be an extremely challenging place. Virtually everyone has a story about an impossible boss, a difficult coworker, a challenging deadline, a toxic work environment, a lack of resources, an annoying new policy- leaving today's worker in serious need of trusted advice to navigate the daily challenges they ......
Businesses rise, fall, or stall based on their level of leadership. Businesses that invest the time, energy, and resources to develop leaders enjoy a competitive edge-and by developing leaders who can develop other leaders, unleash the power of rapid and sustainable growth. By developing people with the skills to put team members and customers in ......
How Democratizing Decision-Making Shifts Power to Communities
A new community-based framework assessing the impact of participatory grantmaking on philanthropy Institutional foundations are influential, yet it can be difficult to understand how they operate. How do their staff members make decisions? What impact do these decisions have on nonprofits, civil society, and democracy more broadly? One practice ......
How Democratizing Decision-Making Shifts Power to Communities
A new community-based framework assessing the impact of participatory grantmaking on philanthropy Institutional foundations are influential, yet it can be difficult to understand how they operate. How do their staff members make decisions? What impact do these decisions have on nonprofits, civil society, and democracy more broadly? One practice ......
Leadership, Team Enablement, & Sparking That Inner Flame
Putting a team together is easy. Creating a dynamic team culture is hard.Fusion brings a new world approach to leadership, team enablement, and sparking that inner flame. In this book-written by a team, for teams-Fusion distills proven best practices, methodologies, and frameworks that drive impactful change for small and large teams in the ......
Companies like Theranos, Enron, and the Bernie L. Madoff Investment Securities Company (BLMIS) crashed and burned when their founder's used fraud, deceit, and corruption for short term goals and stock price spikes. Readers will explore the pitfalls of bad ethical practices and learn how to be Values-based Leaders. The book focuses on six themes: ......
A distinctive exploration of how workers see work For more than twenty years, Robert Bruno has taught labor history and labor studies to union members from a wide range of occupations and demographic groups. In the class, he asked his students to finish the question "Work is-?" in six words or less. The thousands of responses he collected provide ......