Personal, useful, actionable, and grounded in research, this book will shift your thinking from ‘strategy development’ to ‘strategy discovery’ to enable you to deal with today’s business challenges, engage your staff, and boost your business performance.

Bringing together the foremost experts in climate change leadership, this book proposes models of how climate change leadership capabilities can be developed in organisations, and sets out the qualities and approaches needed by leaders to successfully develop and implement climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.

Learn to retrain your mind and become more creative and productive with this step-by-step guide to replacing habitual thinking with free thinking.

The intent of this book is to equip all healthcare delivery organizations with a guide for putting the value-based concept into practice. With updated material and case studies, this book defines the practice of value-based health care as Value Management.

The goal of this book is to help health care organizations (HCOs) understand, prepare, implement, and leverage digital transformation. The book opines that, to be successful, digital transformation must be led, and supported, by senior management.

Discover the secrets of world-class leadership!When it comes to refined service and exquisite hospitality, one name stands high above the rest: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. With ceaseless attention to every luxurious detail, the company has set the bar for creating memorable customer experiences in world-class settings. Now, for the first time, the leadership secrets behind the company's extraordinary success are revealed.

The New Gold Standard takes you on an exclusive tour behind the sce...

Fundamentals of Workplace Learning is a comprehensive guide to how people learn in the workplace, and the issues and challenges involved. Examining the essential aspects of workplace learning and unravelling the various influences which affect the success of work-based learners, Knud Illeris presents a holistic model to explain how diverse individuals can be encouraged and invited to learn at work. Approaching workplace learning from the perspective of learners as human beings, with complex s...

Soil and Water Contamination, Second Edition gives a structured overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contaminants. Dealing with all topics essential for understanding and predicting contaminant patterns in soil, groundwater and surface water, it contributes to the formation of a solid basis for adequate soil and water pollution control and integrated catchment management. A unique feature of this work is that it does not treat water and soil pollution as independent proce...

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage.

He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done. Described by Fortune as a 'guru to industry' and by Businessweek as a '...