The ASTD management development handbook innovation for today's manager (ASTD Press, 2012)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Complexity and perseverance -- The way we're working isn't working: more and more, less and less -- Irreverence as a managerial tool: what managers can learn from Tina Fey, Martin Luther, and Bob Dylan -- The five universal themes in business -- Positively using your power -- New evidence of servant leadership's efficacy as a managerial approach -- Two good things about cats and eight more perspectives for results -- The manager's role in creating a learning culture -- Managing scenario projects -- A note on women and power -- Brainpowered tone tools to manage excellence -- Who says there's no crying in leadership? -- The LPK field guide -- an inspiring model for communicating expectations -- Rethinking your organization as a community -- the open source way -- From quality to excellence: essential strategies for building a quality-oriented culture -- The mesh: access over ownership -- Should managers care about employee happiness? -- The manager as extreme leader -- Winning with a culture of recognition -- Creating a sharing society -- Are SMART goals dumb? -- How team building really works -- Get rid of the dotted lines: accountability and authority in managerial relationships -- Performance management at ground level -- The first secret of improvisation -- yes! space -- Engaging management: put an end to employee engagement -- Creating winning teams -- Co-create: building a successfully, enduring organization one project at a time -- You're not the boss of me -- Make talent your business -- Unmanaging the network -- How to fascinate -- ValYouCasting: the new workforce social competencies -- Using social media to create systems of engagement -- How to run a great web meeting -- Convening: the ultimate management app -- The multicultural and multigenerational workplace: what are the future challenges to leaders?
Deftly edited by management expert Lisa Haneberg, The ASTD Management Development Handbook provides insightful thinking from modern management professionals who are in touch with the issues, challenges, opportunities, and dynamics present in contemporary corporate culture