Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization

Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization
By Lowell L. L Bryan, Claudia L. I. Joyce

Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Pages: 300
Publication Date: 2007-05-29
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0071490825
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780071490825

Based on a decade of exclusive research, Lowell Bryan and Claudia Joyce of McKinsey & Company have come up with a simple yet revolutionary conclusion: Your workforce is the key to growth in the 21st century. By tapping into their underutilized talents, knowledge, and skills you can earn tens of thousands of additional dollars per employee, and manage the interdepartmental complexities and barriers that prevent real achievements and profits.

This can only be accomplished through organizational design and redesign. That's the new model for survival in the modern, digital, global economy. With the right design, your organization will have the capabilities to pursue whatever strategy is necessary to compete on any scale, react to any market change, leverage any opportunity, and sail past the competition.

In Mobilizing Minds, the authors distill their research into seven strategic ideas that shatter the complexity frontiers, have the potential to unleash enormous profits, and enable long-term success for every company. Bryan and Joyce outline innovative principles that enable corporations to:

• Manage complexity, bureaucracy, and redundancy
• Use hierarchical authority to strengthen the authority of key managers and drive performance
• Deliver operating earnings while implementing wealth-creation strategies
• Allow formal networks, talent, and knowledge marketplaces to work in a large company
• Motivate and reward wealth-creating behavior
• Pursue organizational design as a corporate strategy
• Increase worker satisfaction

It is imperative for corporations to put the same energy used for new products and processes into organizational design. That's where the money is. That's where the opportunities lie. That's the key to surviving and prospering in the 21st century.

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High Impact Speeches: How to Create & Deliver Words That Move Minds

High Impact Speeches: How to Create & Deliver Words That Move Minds
By Richard Heller

Publisher: Financial Times Management
Number Of Pages: 206
Publication Date: 2003-04
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0273662023
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780273662020

Sooner or later, we all find ourselves in front of an audience with nothing more to rely on than the power of our words. To lead today is to be a great persuader. We need the ability to mobilize ideas, appeal to values and inspire action. To find the right words, and the memorable words, to carry an audience and change things in the business world it is no longer enough for executives to be good at making things or selling them or keeping costs down. They are also expected to explain things and persuade people to do things, and so crafting good speeches has become an essential business skill and a component of any successful career. A good speech is a good career move. More and more of us, in life and work then, can expect to find ourselves in front of an audience hoping to move hearts and minds. If you want to shape a collective vision, craft a compelling case or simply explain your plans with clarity and purpose, this book will help you write and deliver a memorable speech. There are many different skills involved in speaking well, but ultimately you need to know how to choose and organize words - you need to be able to write.

High Impact Speeches will teach you how. It will also help you to develop a unique style and a unique command of your subject, with techniques that have worked for some of the greatest speakers in history. A good speech can inform, persuade, win a debate, make money or make news. It can advance your career and enhance your reputation. A bad one can only bore or make enemies. Whether the speech that you are writing is for you or for your boss, this book will teach you how to deliver a winning speech - from scratch.

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The Beermat Entrepreneur: Turn Your Good Idea into a Great Business

The Beermat Entrepreneur: Turn Your Good Idea into a Great Business
By Mike Southon, Chris West

Publisher: Financial Times Management
Number Of Pages: 148
Publication Date: 2002-06
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0273659294
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780273659297

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The Million-Dollar Idea in Everyone: Easy New Ways to Make Money from Your Interests, Insights, and Inventions

The Million-Dollar Idea in Everyone: Easy New Ways to Make Money from Your Interests, Insights, and Inventions
By Mike Collins

Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2008-03-28
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0470193360
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780470193365

Join the innovation revolution--and turn your BIG ideas into BIG money!

Before the Internet made instant communication and collaboration possible, inventing a new product or starting a new business was risky. Innovators and entrepreneurs were often faced with the daunting task of doing it all on their own--discovering a market opportunity, thinking of the solution, getting funding, lining up manufacturers and distributors, marketing, and eventually selling the goods. Success hinged on having enough time and money to launch and grow the venture quickly--something many first-time entrepreneurs are unprepared for.

But today is the era of the amateur. Thanks to the Internet and the emerging phenomenon of open-source innovation, making money from your creative ideas and expertise is easier than ever. No longer do big ideas only come out of corporate R&D labs or from people willing to quit their jobs and go into debt to fulfill their entrepreneurial dreams. Today, big ideas come from everyday experts just like you--schoolteachers, construction workers, college students, computer-savvy teenagers, almost anyone.

Yet people with big ideas can't do it alone. The Million-Dollar Idea in Everyone is your guide to making a difference and a dollar. This information-packed resource includes practical, real-world advice to help you explore your ideas, test-drive them, put them into action, and turn them into long-term income--without risking everything. Whether you dream of becoming a millionaire inventor or just want to earn a little extra on the side, this revolutionary guide will inspire you, inform you, and help you turn your BIG ideas into BIG money.

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Think Like a Genius

Think Like a Genius
By Todd Siler

Publisher: Bantam
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 1999-01-05
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0553379283
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780553379280

Learn the easy steps to harnessing the incredible creative power of your mind that can enable anyone to Think Like A Genius.

• How you already think like a genius without even knowing it--page 6
• The secret formula for genius: C.R.E.A.T.E.--page 22
• Ways to overcome the fear that inhibits the genius within you--page 58
• How to transform the cynicism of I can't do it to the confidence of I can do anything--page 66
• Breaking out of mental ruts and daily routines that block your road to genius--page 77
• How to turn the obvious into a work of art, a new insight, or a multimillion-dollar creation--page 92
• Getting unstuck from the quicksand of indecision and procrastination--page 106
• The secret essence of every stroke of genius--page 165
• And much more!

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50 Activities for Creativity & Problem Solving

50 Activities for Creativity & Problem Solving
By Geof Cox, Chuck Dufault, Walt Hopkins

Publisher: HRD Press
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date: 1992-05
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0874251842
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780874251845

A complete guide outlining the process of accepting change, demonstrate the need for change, reducing conflict, improving communication skills and more.

• Training Objective
• Develop creative thinking
• Offer new approached to problem solving
• Develop approaches to problems that will not respond to traditional problem-solving methods
• Activities Cover
• Problem analysis
• Thinking process
• Finding solutions
• Implementation of creative problem-solving methods

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Teaching With The Brain In Mind, 2nd Edition

Teaching With The Brain In Mind, 2nd Edition
by Eric Jensen

Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
Number Of Pages: 187
Publication Date: 2005-05-30
ISBN/ ASIN: 1416600302
EAN: 9781416600305

When the first edition of Teaching with the Brain in Mind was published in 1998, it quickly became a bestseller, and it's gone on to inspire thousands of educators to apply the latest brain research in their classroom teaching. Now, author Eric Jensen is back with a completely revised and updated edition of his classic work.

In easy to understand, engaging language, Jensen provides a basic orientation to the brain and its various systems and explains how they affect learning. After discussing what parents and educators can do to get children's brains in good shape for school, Jensen goes on to explore topics such as motivation, critical thinking skills, environmental factors, the "social brain," emotions, and memory and recall.

He offers fascinating insights on a number of specific issue, including:

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  How to tap into the brain's natural reward system.
• The critical link between movement and cognition.
• The impact on learning of environmental factors such as lighting, temperature, and noise.
• The value of feedback.
• The importance of prior knowledge and mental models.
• Why stress impedes learning.
• How social interaction affects the brain.
• How to help students improve their ability to encode, maintain, and retrieve learning.

The repeated message to educators is simple: You have far more influence on students' brains than you realize. And you have an obligation to learn as much as you can to take advantage of the incredible revelations that science is providing. The revised and updated Teaching with the Brain in Mind, 2nd edition helps you do just that.

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Skill and Strategy in Memory Use

Skill and Strategy in Memory Use (The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 48)
By Aaron S. Benjamin, Brian H. Ross

Publisher: Academic Press
Number Of Pages: 410
Publication Date: 2007-10-03
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0123736072
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780123736079

Chapters in this volume discuss strategies people use in responding to memory queries- whether and how to access memory and how to translate retrieved products into responses. Coverage includes memory for ongoing events and memory for prospective events-how we remember to do future intended actions. Individual differences in memory skill is explored across people and situations, with special consideration given to the elderly population and how strategies at encoding and retrieval can offset what would otherwise be declining memory. The final chapters explore individual differences from an expertise angle-how expertise can both facilitate and obstruct efficient use of memory and how memory skills evolve with expertise in specific domains.

• An intergrative view of memory, metamemory, judgment and decision-making, and individual differences
• Relevant to both applied concerns and basic research
• Articles written by expert contributors

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Planning and Managing Human Resources, Second Edition

Planning and Managing Human Resources, Second Edition
By William J. Rothwell, H. C. Kazanas

Publisher: HRD Press
Number Of Pages: 582
Publication Date: 2002-11
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0874257182
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780874257182

Sharpen your strategic thinking and planning skills. Anticipate problems, rather than merely react to them. Craft HR programs and other initiatives designed to meet your organization's needs for knowledge capital. The completely revised and updated new edition of Planning & Managing Human Resources will help you successfully implement the steps of strategic planning for human resources. Learn how to establish a strategic human resources plan that will contribute to your organization's business plan and ensure you outperform your competitors.

There is no better guide to continuously improving your personnel department.

Planning and Managing Human Resources is the most comprehensive book available on Human Resources and all its functions. Packed with exercises and case studies, the book will be useful to HR practitioners, HR or personnel managers, specialists in HR planning—any HR practitioner, regardless of title.

The authors explore the important roles practitioners play in the continuous improvement of their organization's HR departments—organizational coordinator, work analyst, workforce analyst, auditor, environmental scanner, forecaster, planning formulator, integrator, planning manager and planning evaluator.

The book also sheds new light on HR "practice areas" as ways to implement an HR grand strategy:

• Career planning and management
• Recruitment and selection
  
• Training
• Organization development
• Job redesign
• Employee assistance programs
• Labor relations
• Compensation and benefits

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Change Your Mind and Keep the Change: Advanced NLP Submodalities Interventions

Change Your Mind and Keep the Change: Advanced NLP Submodalities Interventions
By Connirae Andreas, Steve Andreas

Publisher: Real People Press
Number Of Pages: 195
Publication Date: 1987-10
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 091122629X
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780911226294

This advanced NLP book builds on the foundation established in Heart of the Mind, by the Andreases, and Using Your Brain--for a CHANGE, by Richard Bandler. Presented in "live seminar" format, this book offers rich information and specific examples of how to work successfully in helping people change. Specific methods are presented for changing habits, for congruently finally saying "no" when that is appropriate, eliminating compulsions, building self-concept, becoming more self-referenced and less vulnerable to others' opinions, utilization of timelines and time frames for planning and motivation, shifting the relative importance of criteria/values, and much more.

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Turtles All the Way Down: Prerequisites to Personal Genius (NLP)

Turtles All the Way Down: Prerequisites to Personal Genius (NLP)
by John Grinder and Judith Delozier

Publisher: Grinder, DeLozier & Associates.
Number Of Pages: 424
Publication Date: 1995-09
ISBN/ ASIN: 1555520227
EAN: 9781555520229

Rich with humor and metaphors from other cultures and disciplines, Turtles develops the characteristics common to the geniuses whose patterning formed the initial body of NLP techniques. You will learn how these skills are readily available for cultivating your own personal genius in a way that is respectful of the power of the unconscious.

This book is the documentary, with added notes and stories, of Grinder/Delozier's five day seminar called "Prerequisites To Personal Genius". John Grinder and Judith Delozier get their participants to think about the structure of thinking; how our thought patterns become our beliefs about reality. The limitations of those thought patterns can be overcome, however, when a person is able to expand his/her perceptual filters and model "geniuses" -- this is the process which has been shown in the lives of people such as Einstein, Milton Erickson, and Gregory Bateson.

Throughout the book, the authors challenge you to reexamine the structures of your "mind" and the ways that all parts can be integrated in an internal dance.

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Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas
By Edward De Bono

Publisher: HarperBusiness
Number Of Pages: 338
Publication Date: 1992-07
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0887305660
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780887305665

ALTERNATE ISBN:
Publisher: HarperBusiness
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 1993-05
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0887306357
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780887306358

De Bono's term "lateral thinking" (the title of a previous book) refers to problem-solving by apparently illogical methods. In a fertile user's manual to the mind, de Bono, a prolific author and business consultant, tackles creative thought as a skill that can be taught, a systematic process of breaking free of old concepts and finding alternatives. In an informal, discursive style, he presents an arsenal of techniques for cultivating ideas and harvesting the usable onesto avoid mixed metaphor; also, harvest is late stage of agricultural process, so should come after 'nurture' or 'cultivation' . Rooted in his theory that creativity flows out of the way human perception works as a self-organizing information system, these techniques include random word generation, multiple focuses, "provocations" that provide a novel framework through which to look at things, and the "six hats method" encouraging cooperative exploration instead of adversarial thinking. His insights seem broadly applicable to business, education, law and other fields.

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The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business

The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business (The Wharton Press Paperback Series)
by Yoram (Jerry) Wind, Colin Cook

Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
Number Of Pages: 290
Publication Date: 2006-01-30
ISBN/ ASIN: 0131877283
EAN: 9780131877283

The world you live in is all in your mind, according to Wharton Business School Professors Yoram Wind and Colin Crook. The Power of Impossible Thinking is a witty and lucid translation of neuroscience research about "mental models"--the deeply ingrained assumptions and images that shape our reality and influence opportunities for success and failure. "Our models are gated communities," say Crook and Wind, who offer a superb crash course on the power and limit of mental models. The key questions: How do you know when an old model is worn out? How do you avoid "cognitive lock," filtering out information that conflicts with your model? How do you know a new model will live up to its hype? Many of the answers lie in "Mind R&D"--developing an inventory of new and old models and refining your intuition to fit your current reality. These engaging ideas are detailed with portraits of three impossible thinkers (Oprah Winfrey, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Intel's Andy Grove) and vivid examples (The music industry vs. Napster, a French fry cancer scare, O-rings on the Challenger). Wind and Crook make such a brilliant case for new ways of seeing that readers may wish for more coaching to recognize the obsolete models that keep us from changing our minds. --Barbara Mackoff

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