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The Toyota Way Fieldbook

6/3/2021

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The Toyota Way Fieldbook
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​By: Jeffrey K. Liker and David Meier

  The Toyota Way Fieldbook is a companion to the international bestseller The Toyota Way. The Toyota Way Fieldbook builds on the philosophical aspects of Toyota's operating systems by detailing the concepts and providing practical examples for application that leaders need to bring Toyota's success-proven practices to life in any organization. The Toyota Way Fieldbook will help other companies learn from Toyota and develop systems that fit their unique cultures.

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Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations

1/8/2021

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Lean Leadership
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By: Susan Fowler and Ken Blanchard

  From The One Minute Manager to Raving Fans, Ken Blanchard's books have helped millions of people unleash their power and the potential of everyone around them. The Ken Blanchard Companies has helped thousands of organizations become more people-oriented, customer-centered, and performance-driven. Now, in Leading at a Higher Level, Updated Edition, Blanchard and his colleagues bring together everything they've learned about world-class leadership. You'll discover how to create targets and visions based on the "triple bottom line", and make sure people know who you are, where you're going, and the values that will guide your journey. 

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The Obstacle is the Way

1/6/2021

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Adversity
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By: Ryan Holiday

  We are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn’t be this way. There is a formula for success that’s been followed by the icons of history—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities. Faced with impossible situations, they found the astounding triumphs we all seek.

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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

12/31/2020

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Made to Stick
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By: Chip Heath and Dan Heath

  Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas–business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others–struggle to make their ideas “stick.”   ​
  • Why do some ideas thrive while others die?
  • And, how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? ​

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

12/28/2020

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team A leadership Fable
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By:  Patrick Lencioni

  In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.

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Humans Are Underrated

12/17/2020

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Humans are underrated
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By: Geoff Colvin

  ​It's easy to imagine a nightmare scenario in which computers simply take over most of the tasks that people now get paid to do. The unavoidable question—will millions of people lose out, unable to best the machine?—is increasingly dominating business, education, economics, and policy.

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The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

11/25/2020

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The Advantage
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By: Patrick M. Lencioni

  There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides.

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Operations Management For Dummies

11/19/2020

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Production Planning
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By: Mary Ann Anderson, Edward J. Anderson and Geoffrey Parker.

  Operations management is an important skill for current and aspiring business leaders to develop and master. It deals with the design and management of products, processes, services, and supply chains. Operations management is a growing field and a required course for most undergraduate business majors and MBA candidates. Now, Operations Management For Dummies serves as an extremely resourceful aid for this difficult subject.

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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

11/17/2020

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Start with Why
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By: Simon Sinek

  In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, including more than 28 million who’ve watched his TED Talk based on START WITH WHY -- the third most popular TED video of all time.

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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t

11/9/2020

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Simon Sinek
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By: Simon Sinek

  Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled. This is not a crazy, idealized notion. As Simon Sinek noticed in his travels around the world, great leaders create environments in which people naturally work together to do remarkable things. Some of these teams trust each other so deeply that they would literally put their lives on the line for each other. 
 
Far more common, unfortunately, are teams that seem doomed to infighting, fragmentation, and failure, no matter what incentives are offered. But why?

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The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development

11/7/2020

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The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership
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By: Jeffrey K. Liker, Gary L. Convis

  The missing link to long-term Lean success! Despite the fact that companies worldwide have adopted Lean production, none has sustained the same levels of excellence as Toyota. Why? Leadership. In The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, Jeffrey Liker and Gary L. Convis, a former executive V.P. and managing officer of Toyota, help executives and senior managers get employees to refocus their efforts--from simply performing their singular function to continuously improving in collaboration across the organization. Case studies from Toyota clearly illustrate the methods that create powerful, effective Lean leadership. Jeffrey Liker, author of the popular Toyota Way books, is the acknowledged expert on Toyota processes. ​

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The Toyota Engagement Equation: How to Understand and Implement Continuous Improvement Thinking in Any Organization

11/2/2020

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Continuous Improvement
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By: Tracey Richardson and Ernie Richardson

  In 1986, Toyota opened a factory in rural Kentucky and unveiled TPS, its revolutionary management system. While most manufacturers and organizations now use Lean methods, the application is almost always superficial and confined within existing management frameworks. Consequently, the groundbreaking transformation that allowed Toyota to flourish against incredible odds has rarely been replicated.

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Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way

4/2/2020

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Toyota Talent
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By: Jeffrey K. Liker and David Meier

Toyota doesn't just produce cars; it produces talented people. In the international bestseller, The Toyota Way, Jeffrey Liker explained Toyota's remarkable success through a 4P model for excellence-Philosophy, People, Problem Solving, and Process. ​Liker, with coauthor David Meier, provided deeper insight into the practical application of the principles in The Toyota Way Fieldbook. Now, these authorities on Toyota reveal how you can develop talented people and achieve incredible results in your company.

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Introduction to Type: A Guide to Understanding Your Results on the MBTI Instrument 6th Edition

3/7/2018

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By: Isabel Briggs Myers - Isabel Briggs Myers grew up in Washington D.C. where she was home-schooled by her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs. Her father, Lyman J. Briggs worked as a research physicist. Briggs Myers had little formal schooling up until she attended Swarthmore College, where she studied political science. During her time at Swarthmore College, she met Clarence "Chief" Myers who was studying law. The two married in 1918 and were together until Clarence's death in 1979.

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