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Discover the surprising truth about what creates and destroys peak-performing teams.
Teams power the majority of work around the world, yet lack of effective collaboration is a leading cause of workplace failure. Dr. Britt Andreatta synthesizes the latest findings from neuroscience and what differentiates high-performing teams from the rest. Wired to Connect provides a new understanding of how unconscious bias, inclusion, trust, and purpose impact...
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
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xiv, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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"In Reinventing Diversity, one of America's leading diversity experts explains why most diversity programs fail and how we can make them work. In this inspiring guide, Howard Ross, uses interviews, personal stories, statistics, and case studies to show that there is no quick fix, no easy answer. Acceptance needs to become part of the culture of a company, not just a mandated attitude. People still feel alienated because of their race, language, gender,...
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2012
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viii, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Explains how to create strong, support-oriented teams that protect vulnerable areas and secure opportunities, revealing the benefits of recognizing and rewarding non-leader individuals and groups that fill lower-profile but important gaps.
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Beautiful series volume 1
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
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308 p. ; 21 cm.
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Chloe, a hard-working MBA student, is hopelessly attracted to her exacting manager Bennett, prompting them to break office dating rules despite their clashing personalities.
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Portfolio/Penguin
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[2015]
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ix, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal discarded a century of management wisdom and pivoted from a pursuit of mechanical efficiency to organic adaptability. In this book, he shows how any organization can make the same transition to act like a team of teams -- where small groups combine the freedom to experiment with a relentless drive to share their experience."--
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Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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vi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Analyzes how groups make decisions, the reasons why such decisions can often be incorrect and even harmful, and the strategies that can be adopted by group leaders to improve such decisions.
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Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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vii, 132 p. ; 20 cm.
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A powerful story about the African philosophy of teamwork and collaboration that has the power to reshape our workplaces, our relationships with our coworkers, and our personal lives. John Peterson, a new manager in the credit department at a major big-box retailer, is struggling in his job. The people under him are not working as well or effectively as they need to, and his department is falling behind in meeting its goals. His only solution is to...
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" The highly anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed bestseller Start With Why Simon Sinek's mission is to help people wake up every day inspired to go to work and return home every night fulfilled by their work. His first book, Start With Why, offered the essential starting point, explaining the power of focusing on WHY we do what we do, before getting into the details of WHAT and HOW. Start With Why became an instant classic, with a loyal following...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2017.
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214 pages ; 22 cm
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"Equally useful and entertaining, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan. Sutton starts with diagnosis?what kind of asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, he provides field-tested, evidence-based, and sometimes surprising strategies for dealing with assholes?avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, sending them packing, and developing protective psychological armor. Sutton even teaches readers...
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[2020]
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224 pages ; 21 cm
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"University of Michigan Professor and cofounder, with Adam Grant, of Give and Take Inc, shows us how to master one of life's most critical skills: the ability to ask for help. Often, there is a simple and seemingly obvious act standing between us and success: asking for the help and resources we need to succeed. Imagine you're on a deadline for a big project, and feeling overworked and overwhelmed. Or you're looking for a job, but can't seem to get...
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Crown Business
Pub. Date
[2015]
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xii, 238 ; 22 cm
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"In his new book, The Heart-Led Leader, Spaulding turns his focus to ourselves ? to who we are. Authentic leaders, Spaulding says, live and lead from the heart. The values and principles that guide our lives and shape our ability to lead others is far more important than our title, or our ability to crunch numbers, or the impressive degrees we display on our walls. To effect true transformational change, heart-led leaders draw on the qualities...
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2018]
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xiii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In Dream Teams, Snow takes us on an adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, and business, exploring what separates groups that simply get by together from those that get better together."--Amazon.com.
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From Nicole Flockton comes the intense, emotional conclusion of her bestselling Bound trilogy...
Reclusive, exclusive and world renowned, Jeffrey Courteux might get a lot of attention for his exquisite jewelry, but he keeps his personal life under tight wraps. His solitary life fuels his creativity and keeps him sane, and he's not willing to give it up, until a pair of sexy legs in killer heels makes hiding away less appealing than it used to be...
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Bluff City volume 2
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One little white lie…one big explanation! Okay, pretending her sexy boss is her boyfriend is more like a huge white lie. But electrician Leah Santino will take the risk. If her parents think she has someone, they won't go back to smothering her, and they can all be a family again. Problem is, Jacob McKnight isn't just her boss-he's her friend. And faking a relationship when the Santinos come to visit means those sparks she's always tried to ignore...
16) Disclosure
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997], c1994
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1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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When an executive in a large company resists the advances of his new boss who is also a former love, she charges him with sexual harassment. Suddenly his marriage and his career are at risk, and his struggle to extricate himself leads to the exposure of an executive conspiracy.
18) Ms. Lead
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Opposites attract, but similarities bind. And to find out those similarities, you need to communicate. Bianca Torino is the hotheaded Italian Lead Driver for Mischief Motors, the most elite private car service in Las Vegas. Their newest client, reclusive British author Oliver Bellamy, is in town to research Sin City for his next book, and much to her chagrin, Bianca is nominated to be his tour guide. Oliver is the stereotypical Brit, stoic, brooding,...
19) Snowed In
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A major winter storm lands on a small mountain town. Hugo works in a coffee shop, dreaming of using his college degree someday. Little does he know, a different dream is heading his way. Sasha is striking out on her own, starting a new semester in a new state. But this warm weather girl can't stand the frigid temps. To pay rent, she gets a job making coffees. Two coworkers find that there's more brewing than just another round of drip. The latest...
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Before summer ends: Nissa Lang knows Desmond Stilling is out of her league. He's a CEO, she's a teacher. He's gorgeous, she's...not. So when her house-sitting gig falls through and Desmond offers her a place to stay for the summer, she vows not to reveal how she's felt about him since their first--and only--kiss. Desmond should've known better than to bring temptation into his house. He decided long ago that his best friend's sister was too sweet,...
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