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  The People Excellence Star - A...

  Theo H Veldsman

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  Ongoing disruptive innovation has become the key competitive edge in staying ahead of the game in the inimitable, compelling, memorable experience-based economy. The 21st century organisation will be an ideas/imagination business. Within this business, people have moved centre stage in being the only true value unlockers and wealth creators as the source of imagination, creativity, innovation, and invention. 
  
   
  
  Given people’s centrality to the continued viability of organisational performance and success in the present and future, knowing the state of their People Excellence is critical for every organisation. If there is on top of this criticality a global war for top talent, then ‘critical’ turns into mission-critical. It becomes the stark choice between either merely surviving because of a shortage of talent; or thriving because of creating the conditions under which people become the best they can, and want to, be. They flourish and thrive. 
   
  People excellence sits at the confluence of thriving employees, delighted stakeholders, and a viable organisation. When organisations become excellent at helping their people to flourish, they in turn unlock real, amazing value and create worthy, lasting results to the delight of stakeholders, ensuring the organisation’s viability. 
  
  This is why knowing the state of an organisation’s people excellence, as well as becoming smarter at people excellence, has become mission-critical for every organisation.
  
  The People Excellence Star offers you the opportunity to perform an integrated, strategic stress test of the overall people-worthiness of your organisation. You’ll be guided on how to apply the five critical dimensions of People Excellence: Identity, Capacity, Delivery, Outcomes, and Relationships – along with their 20 Excellence elements. 
  
  You’ll discover the best thought-leadership, latest research, and cutting-edge practices regarding People Excellence to help you unleash the synergistic fusion of lasting People Excellence within your own organisation through the appropriate interventions.
  
   WHAT THEY SAY 
  
  “Solidly grounded in the most recent research, vast experience, leading practice, and deep thought leadership, this book provides a compelling, comprehensive and integrated people excellence road-map which is powerful, progressive, ongoing, infused and virtuous. I recommend this read with great enthusiasm, especially now.” Dr Shirley Zinn, Chair and Non-Executive Director on multiple Boards 
  
  “Theo manages to bridge the gap between thinking about how we lead people to what we can practically do. In this book, Theo provides both useful thinking frameworks, but also some practical guidelines on what to DO as we navigate the future.” Dr Anton Verwey, Executive Strategy and Innovation, inavit iQ (Pty) Ltd 
  
  “The People Excellence Star. A Strategic Organisational Stress Test provides an outstanding guide for executives and organisational development practitioners and consultants to achieve people excellence.” Prof Mias de Klerk, Professor: Leadership and Organisational Behaviour, Director: Centre for Responsible Leadership Studies (Africa), University of Stellenbosch Business School

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  The People's Platform - Taking...

  Astra Taylor

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  From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our ageThe Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force, a place where everyone can be heard and all can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In a seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, The People's Platform argues that for all that we "tweet" and "like" and "share," the Internet in fact reflects and amplifies real-world inequities at least as much as it ameliorates them. Online, just as off-line, attention and influence largely accrue to those who already have plenty of both.What we have seen so far, Astra Taylor says, has been not a revolution but a rearrangement. Although Silicon Valley tycoons have eclipsed Hollywood moguls, a handful of giants like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook remain the gatekeepers. And the worst habits of the old media model—the pressure to seek easy celebrity, to be quick and sensational above all—have proliferated on the web, where "aggregating" the work of others is the surest way to attract eyeballs and ad revenue. When culture is "free," creative work has diminishing value and advertising fuels the system. The new order looks suspiciously like the old one. We can do better, Taylor insists. The online world does offer a unique opportunity, but a democratic culture that supports diverse voices and work of lasting value will not spring up from technology alone. If we want the Internet to truly be a people's platform, we will have to make it so.

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  Last Nightshift in Savar - The...

  Doug Miller

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  In April 2005 a factory making sweaters for the European market collapsed like a pack of cards during the nightshift in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The circumstances of this disaster, which caused the deaths of 64 clothing workers and injured a further 84, proved to be a final straw for trade unionists and NGO activists who had long been concerned about the state of factory safety and the inadequacies of social protection in the Ready Made Garment industry in the South East Asian country. Last Nightshift in Savar presents a detailed account of the national and international campaign efforts to bring the owner and his multinational buyers to book. It is also an account of the emergence of two quite different but replicable buyer approaches to the provision of relief for workers in such calamitous circumstances, which hopefully sheds light on some of the contradictions of corporate social responsibility in the globalised economy in which we live today. Finally, it is the story of the efforts of the international trade union, and NGO movement and of two men, in particular, to drive home change in compensation for industrial injury and fatality in the less developed world.

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  The Difference Maker - Making...

  John C. Maxwell

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  What can make the difference in your life today? How can two people with the same skills and abilities, in the same situation, end up with two totally different outcomes? Leadership expert John C. Maxwell says the difference maker is attitude. For those who have ever wondered what may be separating them from achieving the kind of personal and professional success they’ve always dreamt of, Dr. Maxwell has some words of insight: “Your attitude colors every aspect of your life. It is like the mind’s paintbrush.” 
  In The Difference Maker, Maxwell shatters common myths about attitude—what it can do for you and what it can’t. Showing you how to overcome the five biggest attitude obstacles, Dr. Maxwell teaches the skills you need to make attitude your biggest asset. Most importantly, you’ll learn not only how to develop an attitude that will have a tremendous impact on career, family, and daily living, but also how to maintain that attitude for the rest of your life.

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  Lead from the Core - The 4...

  Jay Steinfeld

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  Jay Steinfeld, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and the founder and CEO of Blinds.com (acquired by Home Depot), never planned to create the biggest online window blinds retailer in the world.Against all odds to succeed, Steinfeld's journey in business included failed acquisitions, partnerships gone wrong, perpetual self-doubt, deaths in his family, corporate buy-outs, brutal market competition, and a complete disruption of industry leaders, including Amazon and big-box retailers.  To build something meaningful like Steinfeld, you need to do more than dream about it. You need to Lead from the Core.   Learn Steinfeld's "Four E's"—a set of guiding principles that help overcome any obstacle to your organization's success: Evolve Continuously, Experiment Without Fear of Failure, Express Yourself, and Enjoy the Ride.   In this book, you'll also learn specific, actionable tactics, including: how to start a business with little money and experience; ways to avoid the early failure that plagues many businesses; strategies to scale beyond the startup phase; exactly how to communicate with boards and investors; and proven lessons to attract potential acquirers of your company.

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  Overworked and Overwhelmed - The...

  Scott Eblin

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  Leaders today are overwhelmed by the seemingly non-stop demands  for their time and attention. Operating in environments in which  the expectations for results are always rising, the response of  leaders is to do more of what they have been doing. Becoming a  Mindful Leader will teach leaders to work mindfully in order to  become clear on results that most merit their time and attention.  This book will make the process of becoming a mindful leader easy,  accessible, and relevant.  Part 1: The opportunity-defines the opportunities and benefits  of being a more mindful leader.  Part 2: The Plan and Practice- builds on the self-assessment  work by establishing a simple framework for the routine that build  and reinforce mindful leadership.  Part 3: The Results- supports the reader in identifying results  and outcomes that matter most in the three arenas of life: work,  home, and community.

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