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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Chapter 1: This Thing We Call Work; What Is the Problem?; Starting a Work Revolution; The Three Channels of Change; Tying It All Together; Chapter 2: Signs We Have It Wrong; The Deluxe Job-Shove-It Quiz; Interpreting Your Answers; Chapter 3: The New Rules; What Is Our Reality?; Putting It All Together; Breaking the Old Rules; The New Rules; Chapter 4: Impact, Not Activities; Roots of Management by Activity; Organizations as Problem Statements; Leaders Asking Questions; Individuals as Instigators; More on Impact to Come; Summary. |
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Chapter 5: Energy, Not SchedulesRivers of Energy; The Energy of Individuals; The Energy of Value; Eliminating Bad Energy; Summary; Chapter 6: Strengths, Not Job Slots; Strengths, Talents, Passions; Naming Your Strengths; Strengths of a Team; Building an Organization on Strengths; Summary; Chapter 7: The Right Things, Not Everything; And the Number One Leadership Skill Is ... ; Strategy Is Prioritization; Eliminate the Bottom, Push to the Top; Team Prioritization; Summary; Chapter 8: Grassroots, Not Top-Down; The Power of Small; Empowerment through Collective Intelligence. |
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Letting Go of Control in OrganizationsIndividuals Inspiring Differentiation; Summary; Chapter 9: Conclusion; Fears of Leaders; Fears of Individuals; It's the System, Stupid; Trust versus Fear; What Success Looks Like; Epilogue; Grassroots, not Top-Down; The Right things, not Everything; Energy, not Schedules; Strengths, not Job Slots; Impact, not Activities; Putting it all Together; Appendix; Universal Principles; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Index. |
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Embrace connectivity, increase empowerment, and achieve better work-life blendingWe live in a new age of global companies, hyper-access to information, and accessibility to tools that enable us to bring any idea life. Strangely, our workplaces are lagging behind the promise of this open and collaborative world. Most organizations are rule-based, top-down, dreary environments optimized for conformity and little else. The Work Revolution creates a compelling portrait of a different kind of work."I believe that freedom in the workplace is worth fighting for and that every person and every organiz. |
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Corporate culture.
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Organizational behavior.
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Organizational change.
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Job satisfaction.
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Culture organisationnelle. |
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Comportement organisationnel. |
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Changement organisationnel. |
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Satisfaction au travail. |
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Corporate culture |
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Job satisfaction |
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Organizational behavior |
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Organizational change |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Clow, Julie, 1974- Work revolution. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2012 9781118172056 (DLC) 2012003555 |
| ISBN |
9781118239841 (epub) |
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1118239849 (epub) |
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9781118226810 (adobe pdf) |
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111822681X (adobe pdf) |
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9781118264546 (mobipocket) |
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1118264541 (mobipocket) |
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1118172051 (cloth) |
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9781118172056 (cloth) |
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9781283735490 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283735490 (MyiLibrary) |
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(cloth) |
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EB00066635 Recorded Books |
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