Build an A-Team | Book Series

Overview:

What’s the secret to having an engaged and productive team? It’s having a plan for developing all employees–no matter where they are on their personal learning curves.

Better morale and higher performance happen through learning, argues Whitney Johnson. In over twenty years of coaching, investing, and consulting, Johnson has seen that employees need continuous learning and fresh challenges to stay motivated.

The best bosses know this, and they know how to make it happen by thoughtfully designing people’s jobs around the skills they have today as well as the skills they’ll need to be even more valuable tomorrow. That’s how entire organizations stay competitive in an unpredictable, rapidly changing business environment.

In this book, Johnson explains how to become one of those bosses and how to build your A-team by:

  • Identifying what your employees already know and what they need to learn
  • Designing their jobs to maximize engagement and learning
  • Applying a seven-step process for leading each person up their learning curve

We all want opportunities to learn, experiment, and grow in our jobs. When our bosses work withus to help us leap to new challenges, the result is a team that knows how to thrive, no matter what the future holds.

Authors:   

Whitney Johnson

Published In:

1 May  2018   

The Excellence Dividend  | Book Series

Overview:

Peters (The Little Big Things), a veteran business writer, delivers a superb business tome intended to capture his “thinking over the past five decades” and show its applicability to the 21st century. Peters does a commendable job of parsing an impressive amount of material into easily digestible bites, beginning with simple and elegant definitions of what excellence looks like at work—a tucked-in shower curtain in a hotel bathroom, for example— proceeding to such varied topics as the importance of lunch in the workplace and why women are crucial to any corporation’s success. Peters includes a bounty of reading lists throughout and repeatedly exhorts his audience to “read!” and “study!” Addressing the move toward automation, Peters urges businesses to put their workforces first. Notable stories from Peters’s career begin each chapter, though some of the more dated material, such as a 1978 anecdote about dealing with a computer crash at McKinsey & Co., can feel far removed from today’s business environment. Those who persevere, however, will find Peters a font of management wisdom germane to “surviving and thriving in the unruly times ahead.”.

Authors:       
Tom Peters

Published In:

3 April  2018