Get your best work done, no matter where you do it. Video calls from your couch. Project reports in a coffee shop. Presentations at your kitchen table. Working remotely gives you more flexibility in how and where you do your job. But being part of a far-flung team can be challenging. How can you make remote work work for you? The HBR Guide to Remote Work provides practical tips and advice to help you stay productive, avoid distractions, and collaborate...

It's a fact of life: birds flock, fish school, people "tribe." Malcolm Gladwell and other authors have written about how the fact that humans are genetically programmed to form "tribes" of 20-150 people has proven true throughout our species' history. Every company in the word consists of an interconnected network of tribes (A tribe is defined as a group of between 20 and 150 people in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of everyone

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Do people drive you nuts? Are silos and turf wars challenging the culture? Wondering if it ever gets any easier? The toughest - and best - part of leadership is the people. But let's face it, people dynamics can be tricky. Solutions are within. People Stuff is your map to the complex territory of human behavior and leadership strategies. People Stuff goes well beyond frustrating 'personality clashes' to uncover the dynamics of human interactions at...

Your people might be your organization's greatest assets, but their interactions with one another are what determine the quality and the quantity of their contributions. Few organizations know how to generate the sense of excitement, energy, and shared mission that occurs when people truly join together. This book shows how, describing four simple behavioral keys that fundamentally change how people work together - building greater trust, understanding...

From well-respected human resources and corporate training experts Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd, a must-read guide to the innovative strategies that the best companies are using to create a workplace that the best talent chooses-both today and in 2020. In The 2020 Workplace, Meister and Willyerd offer a battle plan to start winning tomorrow's employees today.

The Only HR Book You'll Ever Need!
"Whether you're a small business owner, a manager in a business without an HR department, or even a seasoned HR professional, this book will help you handle any personnel problem—from on-boarding to outplacement—quickly and easily."—Solutions Review
For more than a decade, busy managers by the tens of thousands have turned to this best-selling book as a handy guide to

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Not every organization or business has the management skills or resources to successfully create a more diverse workplace. This book tells the story of one organization's transformation through diversity and provides 12 lessons that can help an organization, or business, through the diversity workplace process. The 12 lessons to succeed, outlined in the book, include: • establishing the environment for workplace diversity, • who should champion...

The book is a collection of selected essays on labor and technology published in a number of journals since more than a decade. The book aims at exploring the creative and destructive role of technology for employment and displacement of labor. Production of commodities is, taken as the domain that gives and man-transformed resources are that means by which technology is, expressed. Technological progress leads to changing skill requirement, which...

The first comprehensive guide to using executive coaching in organizations; Based on the authors' rigorous original research with dozens of leading companies and includes extensive case studies, examples of coaching tools, advice on measuring ROI, and much more. The field of executive coaching is growing at an astonishing rate. Corporations are increasingly turning to coaching as an intervention, as it offers leaders and managers both on-the-job learning...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 In 1996, the first article on Internet-based training was published in Training Magazine. That year, the e-learning market grew from a few million dollars to $3. 4 billion worldwide. But in 2002, the stock market crashed, and the e-learning industry experienced a trough of disillusionment. #2 The last event in the time flow is the merger in the e-learning industry...