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Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior
Broken promises, missed deadlines, poor behavior--they don't just make others' lives miserable; they can sap up to 50 percent of organizational performance and account for the vast majority of divorces. Crucial Confrontations offers the tools for improving relationships in the workplace and in life and for resolving all these problems - permanently.
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Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch: The Secret of Extraordinary Results Igniting the Passion Within
This book is a crash course for turning culture into competitive advantage. Culture isn’t the enemy of strategy and performance, but an equal player in the game, not to be underestimated or overlooked.
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Embracing Cultural Competency: A Roadmap for Nonprofit Capacity Builders
No “how-to” manual exists on cultural competency. And, compared to other topics in nonprofit management, little exists on the skills and strategies needed to address racism and inequity. Building cultural competency is an ongoing journey that nonprofit leaders choose to take because they know the end result will be a more inclusive, connected, and effective organization. Patricia St. Onge and her contributing authors help readers grapple with the urgent issues that can transform capacity builders into change agents in the nonprofit sector.
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Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity
In his book, Fired Up or Burned Out, Michael Stallard shares the three key actions necessary to transform even a lethargic, disconnected organization or office into an impassioned, innovative, and thriving workplace.
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Firing Lousy Board Members…And Helping the Others Succeed
Every organization deserves a good board and effective board members. And every board member deserves a chance to be an effective board member. But too often, things aren’t working. Board members aren’t effective – and staff aren’t helping them to be effective. Or, staff are doing all that is possible – but the board member is causing too many problems. This book tells you how to fix the situation.
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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others.
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Let’s Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done
Ugh―meetings. They’re where productivity goes to die, right? There has to be a better way. According to leading consultants Dick and Emily Axelrod, there is.
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Liquid Leadership: From Woodstock to Wikipedia – Multigenerational Management Ideas That Are Changing the Way We Run Things
We have always had 4 Generations in the workforce -- BUT, for the first time in history we have 4 Generations with very different behaviors, expectations and work ethics. How do you get employees engaged, bridge the generational gap and retain your best talent?
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Match: A Systematic, Sane Process for Hiring the Right Person Every Time
Why is it that so many companies accept mediocre hiring results as the norm? The answer is simple. It doesn't occur to them that, in fact, there is a process that virtually guarantees hiring the right person every time. That's what MATCH is about.
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Negotiating Success: Tips and Tools for Building Rapport and Dissolving Conflict While Still Getting What You Want
Negotiating Success provides expert guidance on how to improve strategies and outcomes in negotiating anything in professional and personal life. With a constant focus on the mind, body, and spirit of the professional negotiator, this easy-to- ready text brings a holistic approach to the hard and soft skills needed for ethical negotiations.
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Nine Minutes on Monday: The Quick and Easy Way to Go from Manager to Leader
Low performance and high turnover is not the result of lazy, apathetic workers. It's not about decreasing budgets. And it's not about a terrible economy. It's about leadership that doesn't engage employees.
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Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age
One of America’s historic strengths has been our ability to incorporate aspects from many different cultures to create a stronger whole. Our music, literature, language, architecture, food, fashion, and more have all benefitted. But leadership approaches have remained distressingly Eurocentric.
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The Abundant Not-for-Profit: How Talent (Not Money) Will Transform Your Organization
It's time to combine two supposedly opposite concepts: abundance and not-for-profit. It's time to replace scarcity with possibility. We've seen it happen. It's a game changer.
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The Charismatic Organization: 8 Ways to Grow a Nonrpofit that Builds Buzz, Delights Donors, and Energizes Employees
The authors offer a framework that allows organizations to go beyond quick fixes and fundraising strategies to a broader paradigm that encompasses community and organization building. The book provides numerous examples of how successful organizations have made this shift, as well as action steps that all organizations can take to perform better.
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The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around.
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The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook: Fully Integrating Online Service into Volunteer Involvement
What is Virtual Volunteering? It’s work done by volunteers online, via computers, smartphones or other hand-held devices, and often from afar. More and more organizations around the world are engaging people who want to contribute their skills via the Internet. The service may be done virtually, but the volunteers are real!
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The Leadership Challenge (4th Ed)
The most trusted resource on becoming a leader is now updated and revised for a new generation. This leadership classic continues to be a bestseller after three editions and twenty years in print. It is the gold standard for research-based leadership, and the premier resource on becoming a leader.
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The Nonprofit Leadership Team: Building the Board-Executive Director Partnership
The Nonprofit Leadership Team is written for nonprofit executive directors and CEOs, senior staff, board members and nonprofit consultants. It focuses on the key leadership team— the board and its chair and the executive director— and shows how the constituents can work in partnership to lead an effective, healthy organization.
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The Nonprofit Organizational Culture Guide: Revealing the Hidden Truths that Impact Performance
Explore the meaning of organizational culture. Review alternative ways of surfacing culture in your organization. Understanding how paying attention to culture can be valuable in the context of managing your nonprofit. Translate your grasp of culture into a more fulfilling role as a board and staff leader.
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Winning with a Culture of Recognition
How do some of the world’s greatest company cultures succeed? The answer: They’re strategically managed using the power of employee recognition.
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Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership
A range of ideas on how to approach generational shifts in leadership so that the contributions of long-time leaders are valued, new and younger leaders' talent is recognized, and groups are better prepared to work across generational divides.
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The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High Character Employees
Questionable character is costly. Employees who lack character cost businesses and nonprofits billions of dollars each year. Unfortunately, employers focus too much on what candidates need to know or do and rarely think about what makes an employee great: character. The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High-Character Employees presents ten qualities that clarify what it means to be a high-character employee. Stories from employers and employees illustrate how these traits are critical to the long-term success of your nonprofit and to the employees who exhibit them. This book contains advice for the employer, the interviewee and employee in search of a character fit.
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