Bøger af Carol Sanford

Award-winning author, expert speaker and executive coach, Carol Sanford, borrows the concept of regeneration from biology and uniquely applies it personal growth to reveal a new way to produce and inspire change in the world.

Award-winning author, expert speaker and executive coach, Carol Sanford, borrows the concept of regeneration from biology and uniquely applies it to business strategy with an emphasis on: human potential, work systems,resilience and growth.

Feedback is the Foundation for Improving Employee Performance...but does it help employees realize their full potential?  Does it even improve a company’s bottom line?Business educator Carol Sanford has spent 40 years developing people and systems to embed lasting innovation into daily work. Fortune 500 companies like Google, P&G and DuPont hired her to developo executives to rethink strategy, leadership, management and work design. By popular demand, her new book series takes on the most common toxic practices hurting business today and presents the surprising remedies to achieve extraordinary outcomes. Management depends on feedback to improve employee performance and the company’s bottom line. Peer reviews are often foundational to this process. But is this decades-old tradition getting the results you need? No More Feedback: Cultivating Consciousness at Work, Book 1 in Carol Sanford’s new Toxic Practice book series, breaks down the misconceived notions on feedback and reveals the systems needed to achieve the results business really want: employees fulfilling their potential.This book disrupts commonly-held beliefs by explaining:How feedback can (and often does!) ruin employee development.The impact of feedback on 3 core human capacities.The 6 premises to develop effective work systems and the people in them.How to see business as a living ecosystem set up for accelerating growth and success.The developmental alternative to feedback that leads to flourishing, self-regulating employeesPacked with true examples from Carol’s extensive career and personal stories, No More Feedback: Cultivating Consciousness at Work identifies the flaws in the feedback trap, why employees should be given the power to self-regulate and the tools essential to long-term developmental success. 

Cultivate a new generation of self-reliant thinkers in this powerful approach to education and learning.Nothing short of a re-alignment of the heavens. Virtually a new and liberating way of looking at civilization. A BIG IDEA for big challenges.-Tom Peters, best-selling author of In Search of ExcellenceIn this groundbreaking shift to how we approach learning, best-selling author and business educator Carol Sanford offers a systemic, introspective approach to education and critical thinking.From the time we're able to learn, we take in knowledge from others. From our education system to how we work, we accept what leaders, experts, and the authorities tell us as fact. We are taught that others with more training and specialty degrees are the gatekeepers of truth. Yet, this practice of acceptance without validation leads us to design systems that feed polarization, faulty decision making, and poor leadership.No More Gold Stars answers the important question "How do we stop letting others think for us and instead learn to examine knowledge for ourselves?" If our current approach to learning undermines learning itself, it's time to dismantle the flawed behaviorism theory fueling such errors in our schools, families, and businesses and instead turn inward to be self-directed, critical thinkers.Discover:Six disciplines for fostering independent thought and creativity, crucial in tackling big challenges like climate change and social injustice.Engaging case stories demonstrating profound, sustainable learning in business and community contexts.Interactive workbook sections after each chapter, personalizing the journey of learning and application.24 specific developmental practices to revolutionize your approach to education, learning, and change.Insights to challenge and overcome the pervasive issues entrenched in our education systems, institutions, and business organizations.Rooted in ancient approaches found in indigenous cultures, spiritual communities, and quantum disruptors of modern science, No More Gold Stars is an essential instrument for those ready to challenge popular wisdom and embrace a more effective, systemic way of thinking and learning. No More Gold Stars offers an approach to developing human critical thinking skills where each human can think for themselves and become more creative, complete, and wise, at a time when we need it most.

"Individuals, acting on deeply held beliefs and passion, are boldly imagining and bringing into existence a different world. Whether you're a business entrepreneur, a social entrepreneur, an investment entrepreneur, or an academic, artistic, or civil servant entrepreneur, devour this important and wise book.

"When most people think of corporate responsibility, they are focusing on a business's effect on and relationship to stakeholders. A Responsible Business sees stakeholders as full partners and meaningful instruments for the evolution of healthier communities and more successful businesses.