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 ......
Ensuring Civility Online: Professional Etiquette in the Virtual Workplace provides a practical approach with clear guidelines for managing behaviour in a virtual environment.In a world of increasing self-expression and self-promotion, the practice of etiquette seems absent in many everyday encounters, Additionally, the constant connectivity ......
This book is designed to help small businesses thrive in an increasingly competitive world.People are one of the few remaining, reliable sources of sustainable, competitive advantage. Competitors will copy marketing strategies, and technology and process advantages will fade over time, but having the best people for your organization will turn ......
