Building Organization

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods.

Don Wenner is a master of scaling high-growth, high-profit entrepreneurial companies. In ​Building an Elite Organization​, he walks you through the Elite Execution System his company and other highly successful organizations use to drive growth and improve profitability.  

In AI and the Octopus Organization: Building the Superintelligent Firm, leading futurist Jonathan Brill and innovation expert Stephen Wunker unveil a groundbreaking vision for how organizations must evolve to survive and thrive in the age of artificial intelligence. Drawing inspiration from the octopus, an ancient creature noted for both rapid adaptation and distributed intelligence, the authors show that only businesses that rewire their structure, leadership, and decision-making can unlock AI's full potential.

Every leader and team can use Building Strategic Organizations to deepen their understanding of essential strategy topics. You can also use these five tools to quickly develop a robust strategic plan that aligns your on-the-ground work with your strategy, priorities, and vision. Build the strategic capacity and employee engagement of your entire workforce by making sure they know why they come to work, what is most important, and what progress is being made.

Master continuous improvement and eliminate workplace workflow chaos without launching exhausting corporate initiatives. Whether you are commuting to the office or gearing up to lead your next team meeting, this empowering audio experience provides actionable strategies to streamline daily...

The business of creating our built environment remains largely siloed and disconnected today. Owners, designers, construction managers, and trade contractors each defend their profit margins by shifting risk to others and focusing on their own piece of the puzzle. Lean thinking promises to change all this, yet has proven particularly difficult to implement in the building industry. Better Building provides a practical model for putting lean thinking into action and improving the experience of project work. Based on years of experience shifting mindsets and behaviors, this model answers the ...

An authentic brand community is more than just people buying your product or working alongside one another. This audiobook articulates the critical roles of mutual concern, common values, and shared experiences in creating fiercely loyal customer and collaborator relationships. Carrie Melissa Jones and Charles Vogl argue that in an authentic and enriching community, members have mutual concern for one another, share personal values, and join together in meaningful shared experiences, whether online or off. On the deepest level, brands must help members grow into who they want to be.

Struggling with clutter, missed deadlines, and an overwhelmed mind? This audiobook is your roadmap to real, lasting change. ADHD Organization for Adults by Danny Chenoch is a compassionate, step-by-step guide designed specifically for adults with ADHD who want to take control of their daily lives. Whether you've tried every planner and app out there or you're just starting your journey toward better structure, this book meets you where you are.

What if the key to transforming your workplace, home, and relationships isn’t working harder—but simply changing what you notice first? In a world driven by autopilot criticism, most of us have been trained to spot errors instantly. We notice the misplaced file before the brilliant insight, the messy bedroom before the effort to help, and the single delay before weeks of quiet dedication. We think we’re fixing problems, but without realizing it, we end up defining people by their flaws. What you focus on expands. What you highlight grows. Created by Priamo Rodriguez, What You ...

Do you have a vision to make a difference in the world, but don't know where to start? Founding a nonprofit organization can be a rewarding but challenging journey. The process involves understanding complex legal structures, sustainable fundraising, building a powerful network, and so much more. Without the right guidance, aspiring nonprofit founders often feel overwhelmed or unsure of their next steps. 'Building a Mission-Driven Organization' is an essential guide for anyone looking to transform their passion into a successful nonprofit.

Transform the mundane tasks of daily life into intentional moments of Magical self-care, with spells, rituals, and exercises that work with your brain, not against it—from the co-host of the Demystify Magic podcast Are the dust bunnies and clutter in your house getting out of control? Do you...

AI agents are no longer side experiments or productivity hacks. They are becoming core infrastructure inside modern organizations. Yet most teams are still building agents the wrong way. They start with models. They overuse fine-tuning. They burn tokens, budgets, and months of engineering time, only to end up with systems that are fragile, expensive, and impossible to scale. This book shows a different path. “AI Agent Skills: The New Standard…” explains why skills, not models, are the real foundation of effective AI agents. Instead of treating agents as black boxes powered by ever-...

Financial freedom isn't about willpower. It's about designing systems that work with your ADHD brain, not against it. If you're tired of financial advice that ignores how your brain actually processes money, rewards, and time, this book offers a radically different approach. Based on cutting-edge neuroscience of dopamine signaling, executive function, and impulse control, Mastering Your Money with Adult ADHD provides practical systems designed specifically for how ADHD brains make financial decisions. Forget generic budgeting advice that assumes perfect self-control and linear thinking. ...

Regardless of your position, learn how to lead with impact by utilizing John C. Maxwell's thirty years of experience teaching people how to make a significant difference in their organizations. As one of the most trusted leadership mentors, John C. Maxwell debunks the myths that hold people back...

After two decades in the trenches of helping companies design and build better, more efficient operations, Karen Martin has pinpointed why performance improvement programs usually fail: Chaos, the sneaky but powerful force that frustrates customers, keeps business leaders awake at night, and saps company morale. In The Outstanding Organization, Karen offers a toolbox for combating chaos by creating the organizational conditions that will allow your improvement efforts to return greater gains.

We live, say Edgar and Peter Schein, in a culture of “tell". All too often we tell others what we think they need to know or should do. But whether we are leading or following, what matters most is we get to the truth. We have to develop a commitment to sharing vital facts and identifying faulty assumptions - it can mean the difference between success and failure. This is why we need Humble Inquiry more than ever.  

In a tight market, your most powerful growth engine - and your best protection from competitive inroads - is this: Put everything you can into cultivating true customer loyalty. Loyal customers are less sensitive to price competition, more forgiving of small glitches, and, ultimately, become "walking billboards" who will happily promote your brand.

In Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit, insiders Leonardo Inghilleri and Micah Solomon reveal the secrets of providing online and offline customer service so superior it nearly guarantees loyalty.

In The Soul of Strategy, two veteran strategists and academics deliver a straightforward new approach to business strategy―one that builds and expands on the classic work of Peter Drucker―recognizing the inescapable reality, faced by every organization, that a firm's primary job is to create and keep customers.

16X Best-Selling & Award-Winning Author and Podcaster; Leadership, HR, Innovation, Future of Work, Diversity and Inclusion, and Workplace Culture Global Thought Leader; Chair/Professor of Organizational Leadership; Change/OD/HR/Social Impact Consultant; Ranked in the top 20 of global researchers in the following topic areas - "Future of Work," "Global Leadership," "Organizational Development, "Public Service Motivation," and "Social Impact" (Google Scholar); ScholarGPS has ranked him the #18 scholar in the world for job satisfaction research. In his latest work, Building High-Performing ...

This essential playbook shows how companies can scale success by coupling digital strategies with an investment in the health of their organizations and the people within. To scale and grow, a company must get the organizational elements right. That begins with having the right strategy, the right leadership to drive it, and the right talent, culture, and organizational design to realize a company’s potential. This is especially true in the AI era, where a company’s most valuable assets are its people.