What if you could unleash the best in everyone? Most organizations are trapped in the same tiresome habits — presentations, brainstorming sessions and open debates that go nowhere. The result? Frustrated teams, wasted potential and the same people dominating every conversation. Liberating Structures blow all of that up. Featuring 39 practitioners from across the globe — from Tokyo boardrooms and Brazilian hotel ballrooms to Krakow universities and Zoom calls in Latin America — this book is...

"A QUICK BUT THOUGHTFUL LOOK INTO THE PROS AND CONS OF GAMIFICATION…."—Daniel H. Pink, Author, DriveWhy can't life—and business—be fun?For thousands of years, we've created things called games that tap the tremendous psychic power of fun. In a revised and updated edition of For the Win: The Power of Gamification and Game Thinking in Business, Education, Government, and Social Impact, authors Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter ar...

The workplace is changing. Will you adapt or fall behind?"The future of work isn't fixed; it's waiting to be built. Remote, Not Distant offers a tactical blueprint to building a better future for all." **--**Darren Murph, Head of Remote, GitLab"Gustavo Razzetti captures the return to the office/remote debate so well and enables us to understand how we can utilize the benefits of remote working without compromising on having a great company cultur...

Work isn’t broken. It’s just waiting to be better designed.Unlock the hidden patterns that shape how work really works with this groundbreaking framework for designing it to be more adaptive, intelligent, and human.What if the key to how we structure, organize, and lead work is already at our fingertips? Beneath the surface of our organizations lie hidden patterns: structures, rituals, and decisions that shape how work flows, who holds power, and w...

“Marc Prensky—one of the smartest people working in educational reform today—offers us a lucid, inspiring, optimistic, doable, and crucial blueprint for how we can build a future with the schools children desperately need in our modern, high-risk, highly complex, fast-changing, and imperiled world.”—James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor, Arizona State University“Marc Prensky was always ahead of his tim...

Today's radically complex problems require people to lead with design.Changemakers is an essential playbook for designers and nondesigners who want to drive change at work, at home, and in their communities. Groundbreaking designers Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland—armed with insights from some of today's top minds in business, tech, and social justice—offer a pragmatic, people–centered approach to change.Who Should Read This Book?

How best to adapt established companies to a rapidly changing economy has long been a topic of debate in both the corporate and academic worlds. This challenge is especially pressing for large organizations that may have grown top-heavy and rigid with time but now need to be light on their feet to stay relevant and profitable. Until now, the best attempts have consisted of plucking tools and methods from the world of start-ups and applying them wholesale in large corporate environments. Mo...

Team Building and Group Dynamic Management give to management, managers, team leaders, and consultants practical guidance on how to build and manage teams. Individuals wishing to build successful teams in today's complex, highly interconnected, and globally competitive environments. This book helps you put theory into practice.An effective team promise of higher productivity and greater problem-solving ability and Maximize team productivity by encouraging group brainstorming. This ...

PEOPLE IN ORGANIZATIONs of all types-public and private, large and small-have for years had to wrestle with the formidable challenge of successfully planning and implementing changes in how they do business. Today, the demand for faster approaches is increasing across a broad spectrum of organizations in business and society, as they are faced daily with an array of change mandates-new business strategy development and deployment, merger and acquisition integration, work re-design, communi...

Also in the 4th revised and improved edition, published by a government-funded publisher involved in EU programs and a partner of the Federal Ministry of Education, you receive the concentrated expertise of renowned experts (overview in the book preview), embedded in an integrated knowledge system with premium content and 75% advantage. At the same time, you are doing good and supporting sustainable projects.Because office routines can stifle creativity, but bold steps bring fresh ...

In Book 7 of the Prompt Power series, Rorschach Tse takes prompt engineering to the highest level, focusing on how to master ChatGPT for solving complex office challenges. This advanced guide is tailored for experienced professionals who are ready to tackle intricate problems, manage ambiguity, and create specialized, high-precision outputs for a variety of business scenarios.You'll learn advanced techniques for generating innovati...

The use of data and analytics significantly improves project performance, but it requires a cultural foundation that connects and engages people, enables evidence-based thinking and facilitates new capabilities.In an era of rapid change and an ever-increasing flow of information, data is a highly-valued asset.Organizations are transforming business areas into data-driven practices to make better and faster decisions and respond accurately to fast-changing market behaviors a...