Ten-year-old Theo Roman has just moved to Optima City, an incredible place filled with self-driving CyberCabs, intelligent robots, and technology around every corner. For a kid who loves building things and solving problems, it should be the perfect place to call home.But Theo begins noticing something strange.Robots are behaving in ways they shouldn't. Mysterious copper-coil antennas are appearing. And when a thrilling Sky Taxi demonstration suddenly turns dangerous, Theo ...

Two funny, smart, but hopelessly lost teens find love at CVS.Abram and Juliette know each other. They’ve lived down the street from each other their whole lives. But they don’t really know each other—at least, not until Juliette’s mom and Abram’s dad have a torrid affair that culminates in a deadly car crash. Later, when they see each other, it's uncomfortable, to say the least. They don’t speak.Fast forward to the neighborhood pharmacy, a few months later. Abram is on Paxi...

The type of global leadership described in the five principles of this book is effective in any organization. Of course the context changes, but how you manage the context and complexities will determine the effectiveness of your leadership. Working with global organizations, I see the main obstacle to being a successful global leader is the inability to develop a clear strategy. Most of the leaders I work with have a good understanding of managing and following a task or directive, but fe...

The Five Principles of Global Teams analyzes what makes and breaks leadership styles and activities on the global stage. From small working groups to massive international companies, the principles of global teams can be applied to increase leadership awareness, make course corrections, and increase both productivity and accountability. Contained within are clear and concise examples which can be applied to any business leader willing to take a hard look at what may be holding their team b...

Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearBest business book of the week from Inc.comThe author of Power, Stanford business school professor, and a leading management thinker offers a hard-hitting dissection of the leadership industry and ways to make workplaces and careers work better.The leadership enterprise is enormous, with billions of dollars, thousands of books, and hundreds of thousands of blogs and talks focused on improvin...

Are you a slave to your to-do list? At the end of the day, is your list longer than when you started? Are you awash in a sea of sticky notes and memos?Stop! Instead of listing your important tasks, schedule them with a start time and end time. This will help you create a mini-plan for each task, and a workable, productive agenda for your day.This is just one tip from Time Management, Second Edition. And there's more-a lot more. Yo...

This book is about the power of our rational and emotional minds in our work lives. It demonstrates the essential interconnection between them for motivating us to work and for making us effective leaders. Using the metaphor of the Rider for the rational mind and the Elephant for our emotional mind, the reader instantly sees the differences between them in size and power. They serve different but interconnected functions and when they are positively aligned our work engagement and producti...

Positive leaders are able to dramatically expand their people's—and their own—capacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. Here leading scholars—including Adam Grant, author of the bestselling Give and Take; positive organizational scholarship movement cofounders Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn; and thirteen more—describe how this is being done at companies such as Wells Fargo, Ford, Kelly Services, Burt's Bees, Connecticut'...

"A treasure trove of ideas for the new working world." - Jo Youle, Chief Executive, Missing PeopleIn a world still adjusting to the impact of the pandemic, remote and hybrid working is new territory for most people. But many managers can be poorly equipped to deal with it: the more casual ways of managing in a physical office simply don't work with remote teams, and most tasks will be more challenging when conducted at a distance. Aspects of this will be great news...

Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a systemwide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum on your journey. You’ll move beyond isolated pockets of excellence while allowing every person in your school system—from teachers and administrators to students—the opportunity to be an instrument of lasting cultural change.

This forward-thinking book introduces HR leaders to core organization development strategies and skills--providing creative approaches, practical tips, and proven methods to help them succeed.Since the 1990s, a transformation has occurred within the role of human resources departments. HR professionals are being called upon to help determine priorities in running the business, craft organizational development strategies, and shape the culture within their company.