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The dip : the extraordinary benefits of knowing when to quit (and when to stick)
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ISBN: 9780749928308 Year: 2010 Publisher: London Piatkus

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Work Rules! : Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
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ISBN: 9781444792386 Year: 2016 Publisher: London John Murray Publishers

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From the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work-and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed.''We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing.'' So says Laszlo Bock, former head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto that offers lessons including:Take away managers' power over employeesLearn from your best employees-and your worstHire only people who are smarter than you are, no matter how long it takes to find themPay unfairly (it's more fair!)Don't trust your gut: Use data to predict and shape the futureDefault to open-be transparent and welcome feedbackIf you're comfortable with the amount of freedom you've given your employees, you haven't gone far enough.Drawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and a profound grasp of human psychology, WORK RULES! also provides teaching examples from a range of industries-including lauded companies that happen to be hideous places to work and little-known companies that achieve spectacular results by valuing and listening to their employees. Bock takes us inside one of history's most explosively successful businesses to reveal why Google is consistently rated one of the best places to work in the world, distilling 15 years of intensive worker R&D into principles that are easy to put into action, whether you're a team of one or a team of thousands.WORK RULES! shows how to strike a balance between creativity and structure, leading to success you can measure in quality of life as well as market share. Read it to build a better company from within rather than from above; read it to reawaken your joy in what you do.


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The twin star book : a solution-focused approach to improving the psychosocial environment of the work place
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Publisher: Helsinki : Helsinki Brief Therapy Institute,

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Motivating your team: coaching for performance in schools
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ISBN: 9781412921596 9781412921602 Year: 2007 Publisher: London Chapman

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Trust factor : the science of creating high-performance companies
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ISBN: 9780814437667 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York AMACOM

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For decades, alarms have sounded about declining engagement. Yet companies continue to struggle with toxic cultures, and the low productivity and unhappiness that go with them.&#13;&#13;Why is culture so difficult to improve? What makes so many good employees check out? Neuroscientist Paul Zak shows that innate brain functions hold the answers. It all boils down to trust.&#13;&#13;When someone shows you trust, a feel-good jolt of oxytocin surges through your brain and triggers you to reciprocate. This simple mechanism creates a perpetual trust-building cycle--the key to changing stubborn workplace patterns. Drawing on his original research, Zak teases out science-backed insights for building high-trust organizations. Trust Factor opens a window on how brain chemicals affect behavior, why trust gets squashed, and ways to consciously stimulate it by celebrating effort, sharing information, promoting ownership, and more. The Ofactor(TM) survey, data, and examples support the action plans.&#13;&#13;Engagement programs and monetary rewards are Band-Aids on broken bones. To get to the root of the problem, you've got to go deeper. Packed with examples from The Container Store, Zappos, and Herman Miller, Trust Factor harnesses our neurochemistry to effectively cultivate work places where trust, joy, and commitment compound naturally.&#13;&#13;

Retaining valued employees
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ISBN: 0761913068 1452231249 1322417520 076191305X 1452264090 9781452264097 Year: 2001 Publisher: Thousand Oaks ; London ; New Delhi : Sage Publications,

Workforce crisis : how to beat the coming shortage of skills and talent.
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ISBN: 1591395216 Year: 2006 Publisher: Boston Harvard business school press


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The Craftsman
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ISBN: 9780141022093 0141022094 Year: 2009 Publisher: London : Penguin Books Ltd,

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Provocative and enlightening, Richard Sennett's The Craftsman is an exploration of craftsmanship - the desire to do a job well for its own sake - as a template for living. Most of us have to work. But is work just a means to an end? In trying to make a living, have we lost touch with the idea of making things well? Pure competition, Sennett shows, will never produce good work. Instead, the values of the craftsman, whether in a Stradivari violin workshop or a modern laboratory, can enrich our lives and change the way we anchor ourselves in the world around us. The past lives of crafts and craftsmen show us ways of working - using tools, acquiring skills, thinking about materials - which provide rewarding alternative ways for people to utilise their talents. We need to recognize this if motivations are to be understood and lives made as fulfilling as possible.

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