Ledelse og strategi

Lurer du på hvordan du kan få teamet ditt til å levere bedre? Havner du stadig i uventede problemer med dine relasjoner? Har du medarbeidere du bare ikke forstår?Leder, kjenn deg selv! gir deg økt selvinnsikt og gjør deg bedre kjent med dine medarbeidere. Selvinnsikt innebærer å kunne se seg selv utenfra - og andre innenfra - og gir mot, tydelighet og ydmykhet.Boken hjelper deg til å se og forstå egne reaksjonsmønstre, finne veien ut av blindsonene, oppnå balanse mellom talentene dine, og skape bedre møter med dine medarbeidere.Noen medarbeidere er enkle for deg å lede, mens andre er krevende og vanskelige å forstå. Når dine medarbeidere handler på en måte som stresser deg, aktiverer det ubevisste negative adferdsmønstre hos deg. Dine medarbeidere ser dette tydelig, likevel kan det være umerkelig for deg. Boken tilbyr verktøy som gir selvinnsikt og kan hjelpe deg ut av stress og negative tanke- og handlingsmønstre.Målet er å kunne møte kritiske innspill på en konstruktiv måte og være fleksibel og imøtekommende overfor medarbeidere. Slik skaper du bedre samarbeidsklima, økt måloppnåelse og arbeidsglede.Boken passer for studenter på etter- og videreutdanning i ulike profesjonsfag. Også ledere på alle nivåer vil ha nytte av boken.

Det er fullt mulig å utvikle organisasjoner som er gode på endring og innovasjon, samtidig som de er attraktive for dem som jobber der. Hvordan ser en slik organisasjon ut? Drømmeorganisasjonen har åtte trekk, som presenteres i hvert sitt kapittel. Ambisjonen er å vise hvordan og hvorfor disse trekkene styrker evnen til endring og innovasjon. I boken kombineres forskningsbasert kunnskap med praktiske eksempler fra konkrete virksomheter. Fagstoffet presenteres i en lett tilgjengelig form og er relevant på tvers av bransjer og sektorer. Boken vil være et nyttig verktøy for alle som vil bidra til bedre organisasjoner. Dette gjør den aktuell for ledere, medarbeidere, konsulenter og studenter.

Forretningsutvikling og digitalisering gir leseren innsikt i anskaffelse og implementering av digitale forretningssystemer. Boken behandler såkalt Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) fra ulike perspektiver og beskriver status og trender i markedet, med særlig vekt på overgangen til skybaserte løsningskonsepter (SaaS). I tillegg tar boken for seg rådende praksis når det gjelder valg og implementering av systemer, inkludert dialogbaserte anskaffelsesprosesser og agile metoder.I denne boken søker forfatteren å skape orden og struktur i ERP-faget. Teknologi, økonomi og forretningsutvikling behandles i sammenheng. Den pedagogiske modellen kalles P7-rammeverket der de syv p-ene er penger, produkt, prosess, prosjekt, perspektiv, persepsjon og partner. Anskaffelse og implementering av digitale forretningssystemer er risikofylt og kostnadskrevende. Boken har en praktisk vinkling og inneholder konkrete hjelpemidler som kan anvendes når bedrifter skal bygge en ny digital plattform.Bokens målgruppe er alle som er involvert i å anskaffe og implementere ERP-systemer. Den er også relevant for alle som jobber med prosessforbedring og forretningsutvikling, dvs. digitalisering. Boken er egnet for studenter som tar kurs som behandler organisasjoners anvendelse av informasjonsteknologi.

Introduksjon til tjenestedesign er den første norske boken om tjenestedesign. I tillegg til å gi en generell introduksjon til temaet, er den spekket med praktiske verktøy og metoder. Boken henter inspirasjon fra en rekke velkjente prosessrammeverk og tilbyr samtidig flere praktiske tjenestedesignverktøy i alt fra planlegging og datainnsamling til prototyping og implementering. I boken går vi blant annet igjennom: forberedelser til prosjektgjennomføring, hvordan man gjør innsiktsarbeid, idéutvikling, prototyping og testing, og implementeringBokens målgruppe er tredelt: studenter, faste/internt ansatte i offentlig eller private virksomheter og konsulenter/selvstendig næringsdrivende. Gjennom boken vil du kunne følge eksempler og tilpassede tips til de tre ulike målgruppene.Selv om boken har et grundig teoretisk fundament, tilbyr den mange praktiske verktøy og metoder som vil gjøre deg i stand til å starte din egen reise inn i tjenestedesignfaget.

"Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progressΓÇöand what it takes to make it a real part of your culture."ΓÇöJeffrey K. Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way"[Toyota Kata is] one of the stepping stones that will usher in a new era of management thinking."ΓÇöThe Systems Thinker"How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way."ΓÇöJames P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute"Practicing the improvement kata is perhaps the best way we''ve found so far for actualizing PDCA in an organization."ΓÇöJohn Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise InstituteThis game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker''s management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower.Drawing on six years of research into Toyota''s employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company''s organizational routines--called kata--that power its success with continuous improvement and adaptation. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations and provide specific answers to questions such as:How can we make improvement and adaptation part of everyday work throughout the organization?How can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work toward and achieve new levels of performance?How can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers? Mike Rother explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: Improvement Kata--a repeating routine of establishing challenging target conditions, working step-by-step through obstacles, and always learning from the problems we encounter; and Coaching Kata: a pattern of teaching the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure it motivates their ways of thinking and acting.With clear detail, an abundance of practical examples, and a cohesive explanation from start to finish, Toyota Kata gives executives and managers at any level actionable routines of thought and behavior that produce superior results and sustained competitive advantage.

The guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to twelve weeks Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking.

A provocative look at what has worked - and what hasn't - in East Asian economics. It explores how policies ridiculed by economists created titans in Japan Korea and Taiwan, and are now behind the rise of China, while the best advice the West could offer sold its allies in south-east Asia down the economic river.

Provides a revolutionary approach to project management that helps to transform everything from software companies to the US military to healthcare in major American hospitals. This book explains how it operates and how it can be made to work for anyone, anywhere? It tells how to how to define, what it is that you are seeking to achieve?

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. Today, in many successful organizations,great leaders are creating environments in which people naturally work together to do remarkable things.In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek, internationally bestselling author of Start With Why, investigates these great leaders from Marine Corps Officers, who don't just sacrifice their place at the table but often their own comfort and even their lives for those in their care, to the heads of big business and government - each putting aside their own interests to protect their teams. Sinek argues that this is what it means to be a leader and asks are you a leader?'As refreshingly simple and easy to follow as it is thought-provoking' Management Today

This new and fully updated edition of International Financial Management blends theory, data analysis, examples and practical case situations to equip students and business leaders with the analytical tools they need to make informed financial decisions and manage the risks that businesses face in today's competitive global environment. Combining theory and practice, the authors offer the reader a multitude of real-world examples and case studies, emphasising fundamental concepts, principles and analytical theories to enable students to understand not only what to do when confronted with an international financial decision, but why that choice is the correct one. Features include: real data analysis - all fully updated for the third edition; extended cases illustrating practical application of theory; point-counterpoints offering insight into contentious issues; concept boxes that explore and illustrate key concepts; and end-of-chapter questions. Suitable for M.B.A and advanced undergraduate business students taking a course in international financial management or international finance.

Designing Your Life is an inspiring book by Dave Evans. Published by Vintage Publishing in 2017, the book falls under the self-help genre. This book is more than just a read, it's a journey that encourages you to rethink your life and career. It provides practical, actionable tools and exercises to help you design your life in a way that is most meaningful to you. The author, Dave Evans, uses his expertise to guide you through the process of building a satisfying, joyful life. Designing Your Life is a must-read for anyone looking to make a change or find direction in their life. Published by Vintage Publishing, it's a testament to their commitment to publishing books that make a difference in people's lives.

Over the past seven years, she found that leaders in organisations ranging from small entrepreneurial start-ups and family-owned businesses to non-profits, civic organisations and Fortune 50 companies, are asking the same questions: How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders?

'The Bible of business and personal productivity' Lifehack'A completely revised and updated edition of the blockbuster bestseller from 'the personal productivity guru' Fast CompanySince it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen's Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. 'GTD' is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, and offshoots.Allen has rewritten the book from start to finish, tweaking his classic text with important perspectives on the new workplace, and adding material that will make the book fresh and relevant for years to come. This new edition of Getting Things Done will be welcomed not only by its hundreds of thousands of existing fans but also by a whole new generation eager to adopt its proven principles.

Featuring a new preface, afterword and Radically Candid Performance Review Bonus Chapter, the fully revised & updated edition of Radical Candor is packed with even more guidance to help you improve your relationships at work.'Reading Radical Candor will help you build, lead, and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives.' Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In.If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all . . . right?While this advice may work for home life, as Kim Scott has seen first hand, it is a disaster when adopted by managers in the work place. Scott earned her stripes as a highly successful manager at Google before moving to Apple where she developed a class on optimal management. Radical Candor draws directly on her experiences at these cutting edge companies to reveal a new approach to effective management that delivers huge success by inspiring teams to work better together by embracing fierce conversations.Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism - delivered to produce better results and help your employees develop their skills and increase success.Great bosses have a strong relationship with their employees, and Scott has identified three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees: make it personal, get stuff done, and understand why it matters.Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Drawing on years of first-hand experience, and distilled clearly to give practical advice to the reader, Radical Candor shows you how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. Radical Candor is the perfect handbook for those who are looking to find meaning in their job and create an environment where people love both their work and their colleagues, and are motivated to strive to ever greater success.

Through a blend of compelling exercises, illustrations, and stories, the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets will train you to combat your own biases, address your weaknesses, and help you become a better and more confident decision-maker.What do you do when you''re faced with a big decision? If you''re like most people, you probably make a pro and con list, spend a lot of time obsessing about decisions that didn''t work out, get caught in analysis paralysis, endlessly seek other people''s opinions to find just that little bit of extra information that might make you sure, and finally go with your gut. What if there was a better way to make quality decisions so you can think clearly, feel more confident, second-guess yourself less, and ultimately be more decisive and be more productive? Making good decisions doesn''t have to be a series of endless guesswork. Rather, it''s a teachable skill that anyone can sharpen. In How to Decide, bestselling author Annie Duke and former professional poker player lays out a series of tools anyone can use to make better decisions. You''ll learn:  •  To identify and dismantle hidden biases.  •  To extract the highest quality feedback from those whose advice you seek.  •  To more accurately identify the influence of luck in the outcome of your decisions.  •  When to decide fast, when to decide slow, and when to decide in advance.  •  To make decisions that more effectively help you to realize your goals and live your values.Through interactive exercises and engaging thought experiments, this book helps you analyze key decisions you''ve made in the past and troubleshoot those you''re making in the future. Whether you''re picking investments, evaluating a job offer, or trying to figure out your romantic life, How to Decide is the key to happier outcomes and fewer regrets.

Are you just playingor playing to win?Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. Its hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices about their futuresomething that doesnt happen in most companies.Now two of todays best-known business thinkers get to the heart of strategyexplaining what its for, how to think about it, why you need it, and how to get it done. And they use one of the most successful corporate turnarounds of the past century, which they achieved together, to prove their point.A.G. Lafley, former CEO of Procter & Gamble, in close partnership with strategic adviser Roger Martin, doubled P&Gs sales, quadrupled its profits, and increased its market value by more than $100 billion in just ten years. Now, drawn from their years of experience at P&G and the Rotman School of Management, where Martin is dean, this book shows how leaders in organizations of all sizes can guide everyday actions with larger strategic goals built around the clear, essential elements that determine business successwhere to play and how to win.The result is a playbook for winning. Lafley and Martin have created a set of five essential strategic choices that, when addressed in an integrated way, will move you ahead of your competitors. They are:• What is our winning aspiration?• Where will we play?• How will we win?• What capabilities must we have in place to win?• What management systems are required to support our choices?The stories of how P&G repeatedly won by applying this method to iconic brands such as Olay, Bounty, Gillette, Swiffer, and Febreze clearly illustrate how deciding on a strategic approachand then making the right choices to support itmakes the difference between just playing the game and actually winning.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a compelling, insightful book by Patrick M. Lencioni. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc in 2002, this book has made waves in its genre. The book delves into the fundamental causes of organizational politics and team failure. Lencioni, with his profound understanding of the subject, presents a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team. This is a must-read for anyone looking to improve team dynamics and foster an environment of trust and productivity. Don't miss out on this enlightening read from John Wiley & Sons Inc.

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive. At the beginning of 2022—after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one satellites, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth—Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. “I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,” he said. It was a wistful comment, not a New Year’s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world’s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground.For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?

Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity.