High Potential Employee Development Best Practices - April 2024

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

"An immersive play-by-play of the company's ascent.... It's hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story." -- Laura Bennett, New RepublicAmazon.com's visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now.Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, and his bo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316219282
• ASIN: 0316219282
• ISBN: 0316219282
• Brand: Back Bay Books
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization

A Radical New Model for Unleashing Your Company’s PotentialIn most organizations nearly everyone is doing a second job no one is paying them for—namely, covering their weaknesses, trying to look their best, and managing other people’s impressions of them. There may be no greater waste of a company’s resources. The ultimate cost: neither the organization nor its people are able to realize their full potential. What if a company did everything in its power to create a culture in which everyone—not just select “high potentials”—could overcome their own internal barriers to change and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1625278624
• ASIN: 1625278624
• ISBN: 9781625278623
• Brand: Harvard Business School Publis
• Manufacturer: Harvard Business Review Press

The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential

• ASIN: B004QZ9P7O
• ASIN: B004QZ9P7O
• Manufacturer: Center Street

Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

To get the best from your employees, you need to be more than a manager. You need to be a coach.You’re a leader because you possess expertise in your field. You have the training and experience. You understand your business…but can you fully motivate and engage your team?Michael K. Simpson, a senior consultant to FranklinCovey, has spent more than twenty-five years training executives to become effective coaches, mentoring and guiding leaders and managers to encourage and develop the talent of their people—the most important asset in any organization. In this guide, you will acquire the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00IO7QAI2
• ASIN: B00IO7QAI2
• Manufacturer: Grand Harbor Press

The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace

For readers of Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Pink, and Freakonomics, comes a captivating and surprising journey through the science of workplace excellence.   Why do successful companies reward failure?  What can casinos teach us about building a happy workplace?  How do you design an office that enhances both attention to detail and creativity?   In The Best Place to Work, award-winning psychologist Ron Friedman, Ph.D. uses the latest research from the fields of motivation, creativity, behavioral economics, neuroscience, and management to reveal what really makes us successful at work. Com... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00INIYFTS
• ASIN: B00INIYFTS
• Manufacturer: TarcherPerigee

Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being

Bestselling author Shawn Achor shows how to unlock hidden sources of potential in ourselves and others.In a world that thrives on competition and individual achievement, we are measuring and pursuing potential all wrong. By pursuing success in isolation - pushing others away as we push ourselves too hard - we are not just limiting our potential, we are becoming more stressed and disconnected than ever.In his highly anticipated follow-up to The Happiness Advantage, Achor reveals a better approach. Drawing on his work in 50 countries, he shows that success and happiness are not competitive spo... [Read More]

• ASIN: B072SSCPKX
• ASIN: B072SSCPKX
• Brand: Currency
• Manufacturer: Currency

MOVING The MIDDLE: Transforming Middle Performers into High Achievers

Moving the Middle is a must-read for any leader, manager or coach looking for a way to tap into the unrealized potential of their middle performers. Why the Middle? Your Customers – Your Culture – The Economics – The Physics – Your Potential This book was written to change the way you think about solving your greatest opportunity and challenge – your middle performers. Ask yourself this simple question, and your answer explains why so many companies and teams struggle to reach their potential. The question is: “do you have a strategy for moving your middle performers?” Middle per... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1732215219
• ASIN: 1732215219
• ISBN: 1732215219
• Manufacturer: John F Spartz

Low-Hanging Fruit: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits

Management guru, Peter Drucker once observed, "So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work." His observation rings true all across the corporate world: poor or non-existent decision-making processes, endless meetings, and layers of management between the worker bees and the power-elite. Meanwhile, executives, supervisors and those closest to the work and closest to the customer all struggle with broken processes, unnecessary complexity and the feeling that they are running as fast as they can. How can anyone, from the shop floor up to the C-suite, mak... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1118857925
• ASIN: 1118857925
• ISBN: 9781118857922
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Mentoring im Talent Management: Win-win-Programme für Mitarbeiter und Unternehmen (German Edition)

Dieser Praxisleitfaden stellt Mentoring als essenzielles Instrument des Talent Management vor und kombiniert fundiertes Fachwissen mit nützlichen Tools und aktuellen Best Practices. Die Autorinnen erläutern, wie Mentoring die strategischen Ziele von Unternehmen unterstützt und sich in die vielfältige Landschaft der HR-Instrumente eingliedern lässt. Sie beschreiben, wie Unternehmen in allen Phasen des Employee Life Cycles und besonders bei der Mitarbeiterentwicklung von Mentoring profitieren und wie die organisatorische Einführung und Evaluation von Mentoring-Programmen sowie das Matching... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3658165839
• ASIN: 3658165839
• ISBN: 3658165839
• Manufacturer: Springer Gabler

BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development - eBook

This book is aimed at architects and developers building applications in Service Oriented Architecture. The book presumes knowledge of BPEL, SOA, XML, web services, and multi-tier

• UPC: 430638619
• Rating: 4.0

Best Practices: Motivating Employees - eBook

In today's high-pressure workplace, motivating all employees to consistently contribute their best can mean the difference between success and failure. Motivating Employees, a comprehensive and essential resource for any manager on the run, shows you

• UPC: 236556251

Leadership Best Practices and Employee Performance - eBook

This phenomenological study explored leadership best practices among senior managers in the telecommunications industry to determine the perceived effects that such routines had on actual employee performance. The study took place in Southern Georgia in

• UPC: 815342530

What Are Your Staff Trying to Tell You? - Revealing Best and Worst Practice in Employee Surveys - Revised Edition - eBook

best employee surveys, best employee research, employee attitude surveys book, employee survey questions, how to do employee surveys,staff surveys, Likert scales, attitude scales, critique of employee survey methodology, critique of Gallup methodology, critique of Best

• UPC: 255177590

Leadership Development: If Steve Jobs Was Coaching You - Charismatic Leadership Lessons Borrowed from Steve Jobs for High Potential People and Leaders. - eBook

Leadership development has become a trendy and important topic for millions facing leadership challenges and wanting to succeed despite competition, in their career or in life in general. How successful people think and lead has

• UPC: 978398444

Permanent Employee: Best Practices Handbook - eBook

The Only Book That will Impact Your Workplace Environment, Career and LivelihoodPermanent Employee: Best Practices Handbook is a MUST READ for anyone who wants to change from being a mediocre level employee to becoming a

• UPC: 197462275

42 Rules for Creating We (2nd Edition) : A Hands-On, Practical Approach to Organizational Development, Change and Leadership Best Practices.

For 200,000 years, human beings have moved back and forth between I-Centric and We-Centric societies. Glaser offers new insights from thought leaders in neuroscience, organizational development, and brand strategy, introducing groundbreaking practices for bringing the

• UPC: 53265757

Towards Best Practice in the Archetype Development Process - eBook

The Archetype Development Process (ADP) is a technique where clinicians participate in order to define the structure of composite clinical concepts as they are used in an EHR system and the relationships between them.  This

• UPC: 532279259

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python : Best Practices for Development

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python takes the journeyman Pythonista to true expertise. More than any other language, Python was created with the philosophy of simplicity and parsimony. Now 25 years old, Python has become the

• UPC: 51981698

Improving Employee Development : Perspectives from Research and Practice

Improving Employee Development: Perspectives from Research and

• UPC: 921127378