There is one personality characteristic that all leaders share: They possess the ability to take aligned action quickly. When they have an idea that appears in their awareness, they quickly analyze the best outcome and take aligned action. Granted, some ideas just are never born, or they are deemed not useable, but great ideas are born, acted upon, and change the world. In Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich he speaks of a man who stopped 3-foot short of gold, and because of his decision to stop before he reached his desired goal, he lost everything. A great thinker will apply knowledge, rather than hoarding it. In the practice of applying knowledge faster, action is taken sooner, and the solution appears clearer. The Habit of Overthinking is Chronic The habit of overthinking is an idea stealer and a dream killer. This book was written to bridge the gap between thinking and acting, jumping and falling. It is written for business people, college students, athletes, mothers, fathers, daughters, grandmothers and entrepreneur dreamers. This book is for creative visionaries and political leaders. Breaking the habit of overthinking will open the space for quick resolutions to daunting problems. I will increase your human potential element of conflict resolution, and it will free your body of unwanted stress.

Make. More. Future.

Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable than we've allowed ourselves to see.

Now that technology is enabling us to take advantage of all the chaos it's revealing, our understanding of how things happen is changing--and with it our deepest strategies for predicting, preparing for, and managing our world. This affects everything, from how we approach our everyday lives to how we make moral decisions and how we run our businesses.

Take machine learning, which makes better predictions about weather, medical diagnoses, and product performance than we do--but often does so at the expense of our understanding of how it arrived at those predictions. While this can be dangerous, accepting it is also liberating, for it enables us to harness the complexity of an immense amount of data around us. We are also turning to strategies that avoid anticipating the future altogether, such as A/B testing, Minimum Viable Products, open platforms, and user-modifiable video games. We even take for granted that a simple hashtag can organize unplanned, leaderless movements such as #MeToo.

Through stories from history, business, and technology, philosopher and technologist David Weinberger finds the unifying truths lying below the surface of the tools we take for granted--and a future in which our best strategy often requires holding back from anticipating and instead creating as many possibilities as we can. The book's imperative for business and beyond is simple: Make. More. Future.

The result is a world no longer focused on limitations but optimized for possibilities.

Elegant and simple. It's a teacher's best companion--a lesson plan for teaching the theory of performance. --Adm. John Richardson (ret.), from his foreword to the book

This book is a must-read that deeply informs leaders on how to create great systems for outstanding performance and to win. --Jeffrey K. Liker, PhD, author of The Toyota Way, 2nd edition

A 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist and Shortlisted for the 2024 Business Book Award.

Forget vision, grit, or culture. Wiring the Winning Organization reveals the hidden circuitry that drives organizational excellence.

Drawing on decades of meticulous research of high-performing organizations and cross-population surveys of tens of thousands of employees, award-winning authors Gene Kim and Dr. Steven J. Spear introduce a groundbreaking new theory of organizational management. Organizations win by using three mechanisms to slowify, simplify, and amplify, which systematically moves problem-solving from high-risk danger zones to low-risk winning zones.

Wiring the Winning Organization shines an investigative light on some of the most famous organizations, including Toyota, Amazon, Apple, and NASA, revealing how leaders create the social wiring that enables exceptional results.

This is not feel-good inspiration or armchair philosophy but a data-driven prescriptive playbook for creating excellence grounded in real-world results and proven theory. This is the rare business book that delivers concrete tools--not platitudes--to convert mediocrity into mastery.

All organizations, large and small, public and private, are overwhelmed by complexity, multiple priorities, conflicting goals, shifting landscapes, and constrained resources. Kim and Spear lay out an amazing vision of the social circuitry for organizations to not only handle this but thrive while doing so. --Phil Venables, Chief Information Security Officer, Google Cloud; former Board Director, Goldman Sachs Bank

This book clearly teaches you how to rewire your organization to move with focused, sustained urgency and win! --Courtney Kissler, SVP Customer and Retail Technology, Starbucks

In a world where complexity is the norm, Kim and Spear provide the essential guide for those in need of a compass for the maze of today's business environment. --David Silverman, CEO of CrossLead, co-author of Team of Teams

How do some Companies Multiply their Market Cap several times over?

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Everything in nature evolves by trial and error. We cannot avoid this fundamental method of natural evolution, but our human advantage is that we can think about and learn from the errors before trying again.

Trial, Error, and Success helps boost that advantage with 10 insights into realistic knowledge, thinking, and emotional intelligence

The authors use real-life examples to show how successful thinking avoids overgeneralization traps-the key trick is to focus on the differences between a new circumstance and existing knowledge. You'll discover

- How the right thinking about a new circumstance creates new knowledge by alternating sharp analyses and broad analogies.

- How to use this knowledge to grasp both the risks and the benefits of the new circumstance and to make the best decisions.

- How to reduce personal risk and maximize benefits by collective applications of the trial-and-error method.

It becomes obvious why machine learning and automatic actions cannot replace human intelligence and decision making

What if companies made developing their people's capabilities core to their mission?

And what if equipping people with the intellectual, emotional, and social capabilities they need to thrive and contribute in the world was a recognized and incentivized form of social contribution? Leadership development experts Ed Offterdinger and Catherine Allen know from years of professional experience that higher profits, happy, engaged, and productive employees, better relationships away from work, and a better world are the result when companies put people development at the center of their strategy.

And now more than ever, employers and employees know that embracing continuous learning and development is the single most important way to adapt and succeed in a fast-changing, complex, and technically driven world. But the challenge for leaders is how to change their organization's culture and practices to support more conscious people development in the flow of everyday work. This book is the inspiration to change and a practical guide to show you how to connect all the dots and make real culture change happen at your organization. Your team is already spending more time at work than just about anywhere else--why not harness that time for the betterment of your company, people, community, and world?

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Ed Offterdinger is a catalyst and leader who has brought Conscious Capitalism to our nation's capital at a time when we all have desperately needed it! I deeply admire his perspective, and recommend his and Catherine's work here for your personal and professional development. David Gardner, Cochairman, The Motley Fool

Developing consciousness at work is the work of our time. Ed and Catherine remind us of the potential of human development at work and how it will soon transform business as we know it. Bryan Ungard, Chief Purpose Officer at the Decurion Corporation, Cofounder of the Decurion Institute for Wholeness and Development

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The scene: What if you woke up one day to find your award-winning company crumbling? Andrew Hyde experiences just this kind of wakeup call, and in the face of an attempted takeover of the company he started with his partner, Patricia Carter, he dares to ask bigger questions: since most workers spend more time at work than they do with friends or family, what would happen if companies used the time to develop the capabilities their people need to thrive in today's modern world? What if employers consciously invested in creating the conditions that develop their employees' full potential and encouraged them to use those capabilities to contribute to their communities, families, and the world? Andrew discovers that consciously developing his employees is more than just good business; it is a way companies can make the most difference in our world. Working closely with a diverse group of team members in his company, Andrew fights the odds (and the forces conspiring to make him fail) to save the company and truly empower his team.

Chances are that you, like the rest of the world, are busy and constantly on the move. Our lives are filled with work, family, responsibilities, and relationships that require management for optimum success. Amidst the noise, it is often hard to hear the voice inside that whispers divine directions and guidance about how to become the best version of yourself. Tangela W. Johnson, Leadership Development and Corporate Culture Expert, and Author of Relaxed Power exposes you to strategies, skills and mindset shifts that empower you to honor your best self and your highest power, purpose and calling from which to shape your destiny. From recognizing practical ways to live a vibrant life to taking ownership of your narrative, this book proves time and time again that all the power that you will ever need lives and breathes inside of you.

Not Sure What the Future Holds? No Problem.

It's hard not to be worried about the future, especially if you just lost your job, are trying to plan your career, or are suddenly missing thousands of dollars from your retirement account.

In Optionality, finance journalist Richard Meadows lays out a guide for not only becoming resilient to shocks, but positioning yourself to profit from an unpredictable world.

Learn how to:

◆ Find investment opportunities with open-ended upside, and maximise the chances of a 'moonshot' success

◆ Make life-changing choices under conditions of uncertainty

◆ Achieve the kind of financial freedom that lets you live life on your own terms

◆ Protect against disaster, build support networks, and create a safety buffer of resilience in every area of life

◆ Develop a systems approach to making your own luck

Optionality is the key to navigating an uncertain world.

In this entertaining and insightful debut, Meadows delivers a timely message: optionality has never been so valuable, and only those who have it will survive and thrive.

An incisive history of American education--its great success in creating prosperity and equality during the twentieth century and its relative decline since the 1970s.

As Goldin and Katz have argued, the 20th century was the American century in large part because it was the human-capital century. Education--knowledge--can help people live better by allowing them to learn from past errors and make new discoveries. --David Leonhardt, New York Times

This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America the richest nation in the world. Its educational system had always been less elite than that of most European nations. By 1900 the U.S. had begun to educate its masses at the secondary level, not just in the primary schools that had remarkable success in the nineteenth century.

The book argues that technological change, education, and inequality have been involved in a kind of race. During the first eight decades of the twentieth century, the increase of educated workers was higher than the demand for them. This had the effect of boosting income for most people and lowering inequality. However, the reverse has been true since about 1980. This educational slowdown was accompanied by rising inequality. The authors discuss the complex reasons for this, and what might be done to ameliorate it.

Knowledge Management Matters: Words of Wisdom from Leading Practitioners is a collection of works penned by this amazing and diverse group of thought leaders. Each of these trailblazers has generously shared their knowledge with a view to helping you and your organization succeed in the knowledge environment. The tips, tactics, and techniques they suggest are time-tested and proven concepts that will help you achieve your organizational objectives. Their collective works are based on decades of experiences with real-world organizations. This is not a book of untested theories that might work, but rather a compilation of genuine words of wisdom from experienced KM practitioners who know knowledge management. Knowledge Management Matters starts with a brief overview of the evolution of knowledge management. Building on this historical foundation, we launch a wide-ranging exploration of the domain. Throughout the book are excellent examples of what works, what doesn't, and some thought-provoking teases about the future. The authors offer great advice on a variety of subjects including storytelling, big data, creativity & innovation, leading communities, knowledge assets, co-creation, catering for a transient workforce and so much more.The contributing practitioners, in alphabetical order, are: - Stephanie Barnes, Director of Doing Things Differently at Art of Innovation- Shawn Callahan, Founder of Anecdote- Paul Corney, Founder of knowledge et al- Nancy M. Dixon, Author of Common Knowledge, HBSP- Stan Garfield, Knowledge Management Author, Speaker, and Community Leader- Anthony J. Rhem, President/Principal Consultant of A.J. Rhem & Associates, Inc.- Arthur Shelley, Founder of Intelligent Answers- Douglas Weidner, Chairman & Chief Instructor of KM Institute- Ron Young, Founder of Knowledge Associates International

Can spirituality unlock the full potential of your organisation?

Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics offers a groundbreaking exploration of how spiritual practices, wisdom traditions, and contemplative approaches can revolutionise organisational effectiveness and well-being. This seminal work brings together cutting-edge research from a distinguished panel of sixteen scholars across fourteen nations, illuminating the transformative power of integrating spirituality into knowledge management and strategies.

Divided into two thought-provoking sections, the book first delves into the theoretical underpinnings of knowledge fields, spiritual knowledge management, and spirituality as a meta-story. The second section presents empirical insights across diverse contexts, including communities, the workplace, higher education, and entrepreneurship. Through its profound and multifaceted content, this book challenges readers to reimagine the role of spirituality in driving organisational success and personal growth.

Whether you are a researcher, practitioner, or educator in management, knowledge management, or higher education, Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics offers invaluable perspectives on harnessing the power of spirituality to enhance knowledge dynamics and create thriving, purpose-driven organisations. Embark on a transformative journey that will reshape your understanding of the intersection between spirituality and organisations.

Does Business sense trump business school dogma? Are there any obvious management truths and tools that are not found in popular management books? Here's a selection of 91 common sense and down to earth lessons that flow from 40 years of mistakes (called 'experience'), recoveries (called 'successes') and accidental breakthroughs (called 'innovations') plus plain slap-in-the face obvious decisions.It take three continents, six industries and thirty years of being a CEO for the author to realize that many if not most, of the principles that make good business sense are not taught in management science or a Business Schools.The wisdom of such principles are learned and earned the hard way, without forewarning and mostly with an audience of apprehensive and unforgiving staffers. A single mistake can ruin a career as easily as a single insight can transform a business.'The Unconventional CEO' traverses wide areas of business; covering issues as how to demote loyalty, undermine profits with cash, use three-letter words for success and apply Machiavelli to focus.For aspiring and seasoned CEO's alike, applying common sense and a deft touch of experience gained here will steady the unstable corporate ship while at its helm. The captain lives and dies by his many unending decisions. This book should add a little knowledge about the shallows and perils of that voyage to profits and success.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution while creating many new opportunities, is inevitably going to lead to uncertainty around specific jobs and roles, particularly those of knowledge workers and in the innovation economy.

To understand which jobs will be uncertain as society moves towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Johannessen adopts three time-perspectives. The short-term perspective, five to fifteen years. The medium-term perspective, fifteen to thirty years. Currently there is little interest in the long term-perspective, but this time perspective extends from approximately thirty to fifty years ahead. In the short and accessible text, Johannessen answers the question of which jobs will be uncertain regarding these timelines with the main focus on the short and medium-term perspectives.

A forewarning of possible future competences, by means of expectation signals, will enable people to acquire the competences that will be demanded by the new technology. This can be of benefit to students when planning their studies, so they can adapt their education to future changes; it can also be of benefit to schools and universities, so they can make changes to their curricula. In addition, it will also be of relevance to the authorities, so that they can provide more high-tech educations, with a focus on the new technology that is emerging.

Our global economy is going through a major transformation, from an industrial economy, to a knowledge economy, rendering knowledge a primary factor in production. In this practical, real-world focused book, expert authors Bill LaFayette, Wayne Curtis, Denise Bedford and Seema Iyer come together to define and discuss knowledge work.
A common misconception claims that knowledge work is limited to high-skill and technology occupations. The truth is that this growing field applies across all aspects of the economy, which has critical implications on not only macro-, but also micro-levels. As the nature of work is changing, the functions of managing work must also change, as well as our approaches to education and educational organizations. Through a thorough exploration of the functions and structures required to adapt to this change, as well as a close examination of the geography of knowledge, this first book in the Working Methods for Knowledge Management series helps leaders leverage knowledge to better serve their communities, workplaces, and organizations.
This practical book serves as a guide for corporate leaders and managers, knowledge managers, workforce professionals, policy makers, labor economists, human capital researchers, and educators. It helps diverse audiences understand the implications of this transformation and helps them navigate this new economy.

Professor of Entrepreneurship at Bayes Business School provides his masterclass on how accomplished individuals use their curiosity to reach challenging goals and provides nine common practices to push boundaries and make new discoveries.

We have a love affair with people who plunge into new experiences and push limits. We admire those who imagine the unimaginable, solve enduring mysteries, who turn the impossible into possible, and help us evolve. In Purposeful Curiosity, Dr. Constantine Andriopoulos lifts the veil on how accomplished individuals channel their curiosity to a particular purpose--toward advancing science and human understanding, discovering new lands and opportunities or reaching a significant goal. Purposeful curiosity gets you off the couch and propels you to solve complex puzzles, and teaches you how to immerse yourself in the unknown with clarity, passion, courage, and positivity.

Dr. Andriopoulos interviews Formula One engineers, scientists working to grow food on Mars, opera singers, visual special effects artists, storm chasers, venture capitalists, Michelin-starred chefs, and many others to learn how they used their curiosity to achieve challenging goals. Although not everyone aspires to explore Antarctica or found a factchecking website, we all search for meaning and progress. Whether we're trying to be better or the best in what we do, prepare for a new job or leave our current career for something more fulfilling, see through the noise of fake outrage and information overload, commercialize an innovation, improve health, or teach children the value of solving a puzzle, all of us can benefit from thinking like a purposefully curious person.

Purposeful Curiosity offers nine essential lessons that allow us to make use of our curiosity, to empower and help you replicate the experiences of others in order to reach your goals and thrive.

The Ultimate Leader: Learning, Leading and Leaving a Legacy of Hope is a guidebook to performing at your optimum level. It will Energize your Mind, Body & Soul and strengthen you for the journey ahead. The best leaders lead from the inside out. They practice holistic leadership. They lead with Authenticity, Humility, Integrity and Hope--The Pillars of Leadership. Long after they have gone, they still continue to live on, in the hearts and minds of followers. Leadership skills are perishable, so how does one create a lasting legacy? It's through sowing seeds of hope. Hope is the lifeline that keeps people holding on. You too, can carve your footprints in stone by implementing the techniques and strategies outlined in this book. It is an impeccable roadmap to building and maintaining leadership effectiveness.

Knowledge Management in Organizations is the most comprehensive and critical textbook on the subject. Encompassing a number of perspectives - including organizational behaviour, HRM, systems, and sociocultural factors - the text introduces the concept of knowledge before examining how it can be effectively managed within the organizations in which we work.

The international author team ensure the broad theoretical coverage is brought to life with practical illustrations and case studies exploring topics such as knowledge sharing via social media, knowledge transfer in different cultural contexts, and the interaction of leadership, culture, and knowledge management in Australian SMEs. Examples are diverse, international, and highly relevant to each chapter, showcasing the significance of knowledge management in all types of organizational settings.

'Time to Reflect' boxes, review and discussion questions, and a question or activity to accompany every illustration and case study ensure students are challenged to engage with the subject critically and reflectively. Despite the critical approach and depth of coverage, the text remains accessible through its widely praised writing style, coherent structure, in-chapter definition boxes, and manageable size.

This book is accompanied by a selection of online resources:

For students:
Extra online cases
Web links to additional resources and relevant websites
Extension questions

For lecturers:
Suggested exam questions
Suggested essay/coursework questions
Suggestions for classroom activities
Figures and tables from the book

This book details the battle one must fight to be an independent thinker, showing how an honest reassessment of what it means to be a professional in today's corporate society can be remarkably liberating. Poignant examples from the world of work reveal the workplace as a battleground for the very identity of the individual. Schmidt contends that professional work is inherently political-that the unstated duty of professionals is to maintain strict ideological discipline. Career dissatisfaction evolves as workers lose control over the political component of their creative work. After reading this insightful book, no one who works for a living will ever think the same way about their job. Jeff Schmidt lives in Washington, D.C., where he is an editor for Physics Today.

Pearls of Perspicacity more resembles a box of chocolates than it does a traditional business or career book. Each chapter delivers its unique tidbit of knowledge and insight in a manner best suited to the ideas presented. The chapters differ in length, tone, and depth, but all have one characteristic in common: They all present nuggets of insight to help you immediately achieve better performance and greater fulfillment in your life. Why perspicacity you ask? Why couldn't you just say pearls of wisdom? Or even something more straightforward like good ideas? The answer is simple. None of those words sufficiently describe the book's broad range of content and the true nature of the ideas presented. Take wisdom for example. Wisdom implies a soundness based on knowledge, experience, or understanding that leads to good judgment. Fair enough; the ideas in the book would pass this test. But the nature of these pearls extends beyond mere soundness. Perspicacity implies a special keenness or acuity applied to insight. It implies a cleverness, perceptiveness, or acuity that takes the basic notion of wisdom one step deeper. This deeper level internalization of certain truths will give you a noticeable advantage in your career.

A provocative new analysis of immigration's long-term effects on a nation's economy and culture.

Over the last two decades, as economists began using big datasets and modern computing power to reveal the sources of national prosperity, their statistical results kept pointing toward the power of culture to drive the wealth of nations. In The Culture Transplant, Garett Jones documents the cultural foundations of cross-country income differences, showing that immigrants import cultural attitudes from their homelands--toward saving, toward trust, and toward the role of government--that persist for decades, and likely for centuries, in their new national homes. Full assimilation in a generation or two, Jones reports, is a myth. And the cultural traits migrants bring to their new homes have enduring effects upon a nation's economic potential.

Built upon mainstream, well-reviewed academic research that hasn't pierced the public consciousness, this book offers a compelling refutation of an unspoken consensus that a nation's economic and political institutions won't be changed by immigration. Jones refutes the common view that we can discuss migration policy without considering whether migration can, over a few generations, substantially transform the economic and political institutions of a nation. And since most of the world's technological innovations come from just a handful of nations, Jones concludes, the entire world has a stake in whether migration policy will help or hurt the quality of government and thus the quality of scientific breakthroughs in those rare innovation powerhouses.