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Daniel T. Bloom SPHR, Six Sigma Black Belt

Although world-class firms like GE and Motorola have relied on Six Sigma to build their performance cultures, these processes are all too often left out of human resources (HR) functions. This lack of Six Sigma principles is even more surprising because preventing errors and improving productivity are so critical to the people management processes of hiring, retention, appraisal, and development.

From the history and evolution of the Total Quality movement to initiatives for introducing a Six Sigma continuous process improvement strategy in your HR department, Achieving HR Excellence through Six Sigma introduces a new way to envision your role within the organization. It explains how this powerful methodology works and supplies a roadmap to help you find and eliminate waste in your HR processes.

Bruce Weinstein

Employers look for two things when hiring or promoting people: knowledge and skill. They rarely, if ever, consider character. Yet character is the key to extraordinary business success. “The Good Ones” presents ten crucial qualities of high-character employees, qualities that enhance employee satisfaction, client relationships, and the bottom line.

You’ll read stories from managers and employees across the U.S. and beyond who reveal how honesty, courage, loyalty, and patience have helped their organizations maintain an edge over the competition. Each chapter is devoted to a single quality of character and ends with questions employers can use to hire and promote the Good Ones — people who are consistently honest, accountable, fair, and grateful.

Whether you’re looking to bring new people into your organization or are seeking a job or promotion yourself, “The Good Ones” will help you appreciate in practical terms why character is the missing link to excellence.

Andrew Keyt

Myths & Mortals provides insights and strategies for successors of family businesses. Successors often find themselves in the shadow of their parents making it difficult to establish credibility in the family business and tap into their own strengths. The stress of emulating a parent begins to clash with who they are and who they want to be as a leader.

Written by internationally known business strategist and succession planning expert Andrew Keyt, this guide shows you how to establish credibility, take your place at the head of the table, and run your business your way. In groundbreaking research, Keyt interviewed more than 25 successors of family business legends including Massimo Ferragamo, Bill Wrigley Jr., Christie Hefner, and John Tyson to find out how they overcame the challenges successors commonly face. The analysis from that study formed the basis for the strategies presented here—to help you win the loyalty of those stuck in the old way of doing business and still focused on their former leader’s vision. You’ll learn how to take charge without sacrificing your own leadership style and how to get everyone on board with your vision for the business.

Growing up in the shadow of legendary family business leaders creates a unique challenge for successors to the leadership position. You cannot remove the emotional power of family dynamics from the business, but you can change how you choose to react to it. To be successful, you need to create a sense of identity and credibility, and step out of the shadows of your forbears. This guide provides strategies for doing just that, so you can take the reins and be the effective leader your business needs.

Satish P. Subramanian

Organizations need to constantly innovate and improve products and services to maintain a strong competitive position in the market place. The vehicle used by organizations for such constant reinvention is a business transformation program. This book illustrates a tested program management roadmap along with the supporting comprehensive frameworks to successfully execute business transformation programs, formulated strategies, and strategic initiatives. It outlines the steps to successfully transform any business and deliver tangible business outcomes.

This breakthrough work establishes the linkage between strategy formulation and strategy execution through the program management discipline. It depicts how program management integrates strategy, people, process, technology, structure, and measurement on cross-functional initiatives. The author details the processes, techniques, and tools that a program management team can customize and easily implement on any type of strategic initiative within the private or public sector environment to deliver and sustain the expected business outcomes and benefits.

This book discusses the ten mandatory steps (or roadmap) needed to lead complex, business transformation programs to success. It showcases program management best practices and lessons learned though real-world case studies spanning different industry sectors and functional domains. Transforming Business with Program Management will equip executives, general managers, and program managers with the core skills necessary to effectively plan and implement business transformation strategies that drive sweeping business change and innovation.

Shirley A. Weis

In this candid, authentic and inspirational book for women, Shirley Weis reveals her principles for winning the game in business. When you read it, you will learn how to:
— Use “Just Respect” (TM) to build relationships throughout your organization
— Gain the experience that leaders require
— Thrive during challenges and survive failures
— Manage family needs while climbing the corporate ladder
— Earn a spot at the management table, even when it is full of men

Shelley Row

For a world of chronic over-thinkers, this book holds the key. In eight easy steps discover the essential role feelings play in creating a more fulfilling life and rewarding career. With wit, stories and a bit of neuroscience, the book shares tips from an executive, engineer and recovering over-thinker on how to live with meaning by thinking less. Built-in exercises allow you to put the tips to work immediately. Don’t over-think it — start reading now!

Dr. Rick Goodman, CSP

What do all championship athletes and teams have in common with the world’s most successful people?
They all have a game plan for the ultimate victory! Whatever you want to achieve is entirely possible, and all it takes is having a strategic game plan, and maintaining your focus-just like the pros.

In living a championship life, Dr. Rick Goodman provide you with just that plan. It includes practical, real-life insights, and easy to implement action step that will dramatically free up your time, increase your wealth, and help you solidify your most important relationships.

Features practical information on how to:
Design a Winning Game Plan for Success
Transform Your Fears and to Victory
Master Your Communication in Any Situation
Create Life Balance and Magic Moments in All Areas of Your Life

Troy Hazard

After years as a consultant to some of the world’s biggest brands and a serial entrepreneur, Troy Hazard has learned crucial lessons on predicting potential business issues before you experience them. He’s discovered how business breakthroughs can only occur when you confront hard truths head-on, then take complete responsibility for your problems and their solutions. Now Troy gives you the full benefit of his experience – the good, the bad and the ugly – so that you can rigorously evaluate any situation and make clear-headed decisions moving forward. Packed with case studies, personal stories and useful anecdotes, Future-Proofing Your Business supplies you with a complete toolkit to guide your business through uncertain times.

Lauran Star

Today women are entering the workforce and leadership field at an extensive rate; however, they are struggling to gain a real perspective on how to get ahead, what is expected, how to build strong alliances, and find work/life strategies. This lack of knowledge is creating a “one step forward two steps back” mentality as the tools required to succeed are hushed. This book focuses on how to pivot into your own empowerment. It explores strategies in leadership, communication, networking, moving forward and success while applying these tools to create harmony at home. Throughout the book, quotes from pivotal women talk about their struggles and how they find solutions both at work and at home.