Bøger af Jocelyn Davis

A recognized leader in the learning industry, The Forum Corporation "pulls back the curtain" to reveal not only their research data and case studies, but many of the practices they use with clients to help them cohesively integrate learning into everyday work, and drive business results through learning. With such robust data, strategies, and tools, Forum's Principles of Learning: A Guidebook for Advancing Performance in Today's Workplace is an indispensible tool for L&D and line leaders alike.

Mindfulness meets execution . . . at work. The wisdom of 12 Eastern sages, augmented by modern research on workplace influence, is the basis for profound yet practical advice on getting things done without force.

Advance Praise"What a marvel this book is. In taut, lyrical prose shot through with moments of wry humor, Jocelyn Davis brings ancient India to life so thoroughly that the gulf between past and present disappears completely: we feel as if she is telling our own story. Riveting and deeply moving, The Age of Kali is the work of an immensely gifted novelist."-Abigail DeWitt, author of News of Our Loved Ones, Lili, and Dogs"To lovers of the Indian epics, this book is a devious, heretical topsy-turvying of the Mahabharata; to Hindu fundamentalists, dangerous, blasphemous, a book to be burnt; to the general reader, a brilliant, enthralling, complex fantasy that will linger in your mind long after you have finished it."-Krishnan Venkatesh, author of Do You Know Who You Are? Reading the Buddha's DiscoursesIndia's greatest epic, reimagined.The Mahabharata, often called "India's Iliad," tells of several generations of the royal family of Kuru: their ambitions, loves, moral dilemmas, and battles for a kingdom. As tradition has it, the heroes are the five Pandava brothers and their shared wife, Draupadi; the villain is their power-mad cousin, Duryodhana.But what if tradition got it wrong? What if Duryodhana, despite his flaws, were the real hero-with a passionate heart buried under his emotional and physical scars-and the supposedly noble Pandavas were the evil ones? What if Draupadi and the many other women of the tale were rebels behind the scenes? And what if, thanks to a young girl who ferreted out the family secrets and kept them hidden for years, the truth could at last be told?Sweeping, fast-paced, and packed with gripping characters, THE AGE OF KALI turns a famous work of world literature inside out, bringing forth voices long silenced. In the end, three questions remain: Who won? Who lost? And who was to blame?

From Plato to Plutarch, Shakespeare to Churchill, Machiavelli to Melville, Jane Austen to Carl Jung, Pericles to Peter Drucker... and many more - here are the best leadership ideas of the past 25 centuries.

Only 30 percent of strategic initiatives are successfully executed. Of those that are, most CEOs view the process as too slow. Whats going on? And how can you accelerate execution in your company?In Strategic Speed, the authors provide the answers. Start by understanding the barriers to execution: Employees dont grasp where an initiative is going. They dont adopt new behaviors. Theyre not committed to working together to achieve results.Most leaders try to speed things up by changing processes or installing new technologies. But better processes and systems wont remove the barriers. Instead, you need to unleash three people factorsclarity (understanding the goal), unity (collaborating across work groups), and agility (adapting quickly).The authors explain how to unleash these factors by exercising four leadership abilities: Affirming strategies: Ensuring everyone knows the destination and wants to go there Driving initiatives: Accelerating projects called for by your strategy Managing climate: Controlling what it feels like to work in your team Cultivating experience: Harnessing employees knowledge and expertiseStrategic Speed provides real-world examplesfrom companies as diverse as Tata Sky, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Ameriprise, and Fender Guitarsshowing these practices in action. And its packed with tools and assessments for diagnosing where your execution efforts are in trouble and choosing specific actions for accelerating results in your firm.