Posts tagged management

New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant scoops the top award.

Crispin Jessop at Allocate Software says it’s time to future-proof your organization with careful planning and a little help from technology.

Jacques Poma’s ‘The Adam Smith Curse’ is an awakening book written for middle managers – to ensure they are not forgotten or made obsolete by a world where technology and corporate incest are moving faster than any human can keep up with. Calling on the words and works of Scottish moral philosopher, Adam Smith, Poma empowers middle managers to plot a course for their own success and pursue it with gusto.

Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work by Michael Dodd and The Negotiation Book by Steve Gates shortlisted for Management Book of the Year.

A new paper by Professor Martin Kilduff (pictured right) at UCL School of Management has won the prestigious “Best Annals Paper of the Year Award” from the Academy of Management …

Unemployment figures indicate uncertainty for businesses as 69 per cent need more management skills.

Compellingly written by business and management maverick Sheryl Greentree, ‘Every Company Needs a Heart and a Head for Business’ puts today’s bottom-line-driven, goal-obsessed business culture on a pedestal, examining its damaging effects on both people and profits.

When was the idea of implementing holacracy at Zappos originated? Gloria Lombardi interviews Alexis Gonzales-Black who was part of the first pilot group to implement holacracy inside the company.

Sarah Cook’s new book describes the behaviours of leaders who successfully create and execute a clear vision around both customer and employee engagement.

It is not quite the traditional industry, but comedy has much to teach us about leadership and for Maria Kempinska, CEO of Jongleurs Comedy Clubs, it’s no business joke.

Engage for Change’s guru John Smythe puts the notion of employee engagement under the microscope at his 32nd Groucho Club Breakfast event in London this week.

What does ‘sustainable’ employee engagement really mean? And why is it so critical for organisations to get it right? Gloria Lombardi caught up with Emma Donaldson-Feilder, Director and co-founder of Affinity Health at Work, to discuss their recent CIPD study.