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What Happy Companies Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Company for the Better 6 reviews Dan Baker, Cathy Greenberg, ...
Prentice Hall, 2006
Ethical vision for a successful future.
+ Cheerful scientific take on employee contentment + What Happy Companies Know: + What Happy Companies Know
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Culture.com: Building Corporate Culture in the Connected Workplace 10 reviews Peg C. Neuhauser, Ray Bender, ...
Wiley, 2000
Your Corporate Culture Must Be a Connected Workplace
+ A good read + A Good Read! + Culture Com the way to go + This is a top-notch business book
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Harvard Business Review on Culture and Change 2 reviews Bill Munck, Rpbert Kegan, ...
Harvard Business School Press, 2002
Rigorous, Practical, and Eloquent
+ A Good Supplement!
In this volume, one of a series of anthologies of articles previously published in the Harvard Business Review, the reader is provided with eight brilliant analyses of how to establish and then nourish innovative thinking enterprise-wide. No brief commentary such as this can do full justice to the ...
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Organizational Culture and Leadership (The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series) 16 reviews Edgar H. Schein
Jossey-Bass, 2004
How to get leadership in proper alignment with organizational development
+ Schein does a fabuolous job on this topic! + Organizational Culture and Leadership + Great Service + Really a lesson about organization culture
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Results Rule!: Build a Culture That Blows the Competition Away 16 reviews Randy Pennington
Wiley, 2006
Why there are so many unsuccessful companies.
+ Results Rule!: Build a Culture That Blows the Competition Away + Right on Target
The thing that I liked best about this book was it's emphasis on employees. It's employees that make the business work. The Fortune 1 company is Wal-Mart. I know a lot of people who say they won't shop at Wal-Mart because of their policies towards women, they don't pay enough, their health ...
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Leading for Growth: How Umpqua Bank Got Cool and Created a Culture of Greatness 6 reviews Raymond P. Davis, Alan Shrader
Jossey-Bass, 2007
Great Motivation
+ It's all about the Experience + Anyone would benefit from this read + A useful take on leadership + Pick this one up
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Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework (The Jossey-Bass ... 9 reviews Kim S. Cameron, Robert E. Quinn
Jossey-Bass, 2005
The most helpful book...
+ Useful.Practical. + Interesting Model + Great book, plus... + A remarkable tool
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In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work 6 reviews Don Cohen, Laurence Prusak
Harvard Business School Press, 2001
Common sense, uncommon insight
+ Social Capital is the leading edge for HR measurement- pay attention + Work as Social Process + I was glad someone noticed!
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Managing Corporate Culture, Innovation, and Intrapreneurship 1 review Howard W. Oden
Quorum Books, 1997
A wealth of informative thinking.
Oden details processes for integrating culture, innovation, and intrapreneurship for competitive success. The book describes how strategic planning, cultural planning, organizational change, and process reengineering must be done in parallel to achieve an innovative culture. The author proposes ...
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Making Your Company Human: Inspiring Others to Reach Their Potential 2 reviews Le Herron
Lsk Books LLC, 2006
Real life leadership, at its best
+ Voice in the Wilderness
Compare this book from Le Herron with the how-to's written by leadership theorists. There's a place for genuinely smart academics such as Kotter, but this is a leader who has been there, and done it with real people. They market this book with a focus on ethics for today's leaders, but its real ...
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The Culture of Collaboration 9 reviews Evan Rosen
Red Ape Publishing, 2007
A practical guide to collaboration in the workplace
+ Collaboration: The Creative Endevour + How To Succeed In Business (By Working Together) + Going Past the Buzzwords of Collaboration with Effective Strategies and Analysis + A worthy book on how businesses can best tap diverse capabilities in many situations.
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Care Packages for the Workplace: Dozens of Little Things You Can Do To Regenerate Spirit At Work 11 reviews Barbara A. Glanz
McGraw-Hill, 1996
Changing the way you look at work
+ Regenerate with Humor; Read WorkLaughs + Very Pleased Customer from Chicago + Great IDEAS
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Creativity Inc.: Building an Inventive Organization 8 reviews Jeff Mauzy, Richard A. Harriman
Harvard Business School Press, 2003
Cabbages, Kings, and Creativity
+ From The Innovation Road Map Magazine + Exemplary creativity + 40 years of creativity research delivered in a fun package
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Creating We: Change I-Thinking to WE-Thinking Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization 16 reviews Judith E. Glaser
Adams Media Corporation, 2005
It All Begins With You
+ Inclusion, teamwork and happines at workplace + Book supports concept with excellent examples + Really enjoyed reading "Creating We"
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The Soul of an Organization: Understanding the Values That Drive Successful Corporate Cultures 2 reviews Richard S. Gallagher
Kaplan Business, 2002
Spiritual Health and the Emplowered Workplace
Up front, Gallagher informs his reader that the one purpose of this book is "to show how your values, and not your business practices, are what drive your success...[and] knowing this secret is perhaps the most strategic competitive factor in today's marketplace." I agree completely with him that ...
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The Truth About Burnout: How Organizations Cause Personal Stress and What to Do About It 10 reviews Christina Maslach, Michael P. Leiter
Jossey-Bass, 1997
One of the Best Books on a Pervasive Problem
+ The Truth About Burnout + A useful framework to address burnout. + VERY VALIDATING + A Good Read!
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Changing Organizational Culture: The Change Agent's Guidebook Marc J. Schabracq
Wiley, 2007
To alter an organization’s culture, change agents must first understand its attitudes, beliefs and assumptions. Marc Schabracq’s innovative new book is based on a fresh way of thinking that deals with both the functional and structural features of cultures. Focusing on the greatest barrier to organizational change - the attitudes and assumptions of people – it offers three ...
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Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team's Passion, Creativity, and Productivity 76 reviews Michael L. Stallard
Thomas Nelson, 2007
Fired Up or Burned Out
+ Inspired by "Fired Up or Burned Out" + I got burned out by this book + Don't miss this book!
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Organizational Design: A Step-by-Step Approach 2 reviews Richard M. Burton, Gerardine DeSanctis, ...
Cambridge University Press, 2006
A practical guide for understanding organization design.
+ Straight to the point
This small book was a pleasant suprise. Burton and colleagues provide a simple, easy-to-understand and powerful framework for understanding the relationship between organization design and strategy. This book is designed for executives but based on extensive academic research. I found it helpful ...
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Companies Are People, Too: Discover, Develop, and Grow Your Organization's True Personality 4 reviews Sandy Fekete
Wiley, 2003
A Practical Guide to Building Emotional Intelligence
+ Save Millions and spend a few dollars on this Book! + This one is a keeper! + Excellent and helpful new book
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