While there are many books specific to change management or continuous improvement, there are few, if any, books that address the intersections between change management and continuous improvement. After 30+ years as a change agent implementing lean and process improvement, the author’s hypothesis on why continuous improvement efforts “stick” sometimes and other times not is that many leaders of these efforts fail to understand the importance of change management and the critical intersect...

Do you feel a disconnection from the traditional values that once defined the American spirit?You're not alone. Kyle A. Stone brings you a deep dive into the virtues, values and traditions that have molded generations.What You'll Discover:The bedrock principles that have shaped the American journey.How destructive ideas are celebrated at the cost of age-old virtues.Strategies to equip your...

The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead entities from the past that will not die, undead traumas that rise up and consume the world, and undead temporalities that can never end. Fifteen origi...

The Divines have shown Their Will.AND IT'S ABSOLUTE.The Order of the Orphys Knights is failing. And this failure bears a cost.After losing its influence and the power and might of its Ancient beasts, what was once an esteemed order of knights became but a tarnished and mocked symbol throughout the continent. Yet neither the Order nor the people seem to notice the shifts brought by the winds.The dreadful promises they bri...

In 1996, John P. Kotter's Leading Change became a runaway best seller, outlining an eight-step program for organizational change that was embraced by executives around the world. Then, Kotter and co-author Dan Cohen's The Heart of Change introduced the revolutionary "see-feel-change" approach, which helped executives understand the crucial role of emotion in successful change efforts. Now, The Heart of Change Field Guide provides leaders and managers tools, frame...

'The Effective Change Manager' is designed for change management practitioners, employers, authors, academics and anyone with an interest in the evolving professional discipline of change management. The first edition, 'The Change Management Body of Knowledge (CMBoK(c))', drew on the experience of more than six hundred change management professionals in thirty countries. This second edition has grown that base to over 900 contributors and reviewers.'The Effective Change Manager' de...

"Steven Rogelberg knows more about how to improve meetings than anyone on earth." - Adam Grant, PhD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife Forbes 5 Must-Read Books to Overcome Setbacks and Achieve Your Goals * SHRM top 12 New Books * The Next Big Idea Club's January 2024 Must-Read Books There are an estimated 200-500 million 1:1 meetings held each day around the world, but are they ...

Go from manager to coach--and motivate your staff to unprecedented success!Since the original publication of this classic guide, organizations have recognized that sales coaching is a sales manager's most important role. Now, author Linda Richardson has completely updated and revised Sales Coaching to include the latest tools and techniques, as well as a refined sales coaching process for increasing performance.Sales Coaching will help you...

A radical approach to growing high-quality talent--fastYou know that winning in today's marketplace requires top-quality talent. You also know what it takes to build that talent--and you spend significant financial and human resources to make it happen. Yet somehow, your company's beautifully designed and well-benchmarked processes don't translate into the bottom-line talent depth you need. Why?Talent management experts Marc Effron and Miriam Ort argue that...

Strength-based Lean Six Sigma is a new way of approaching process improvement that combines the best practices of two established methodologies to generate a new approach in order to help you develop and deliver increased high performance in any organization. It is the first book to use approaches in business improvement as well as organizational change for optimum organizational performance and improved agility.Combining the energy and motivation released through ...

Written from a practitioner viewpoint with case studies and examples from a wide variety of industries, this is a practical text for Learning & Development and Human Resource practitioners, providing an in-depth treatment of all the aspects of people development within today’s organizations. Readers will want more than just the theory – they want to know how to apply it as an internal consultant and what the potential pitfalls can be. Most importantly, they want practical strategies for in...

THE MUST-HAVE GUIDE TO MENTORING For managers. For entry level. For executives. For entrepreneurs. For everyone.With job mobility increasing, globalization expanding, and technology advancing, you need more than a steady job and a solid network to keep your career on track. You need mentors--to learn and to grow--whether you're just starting out, are firmly established, or at the top of your profession. Everyone has something to learn, and everyone has something to teach.