On Purpose Why great leaders start with the PLOT

A witty, insightful guide to rediscovering Purpose and leading like you mean it On Purpose is a modern-day business book for those who want to steer their work — and life — back on course. When your head and heart connect in both, our humanity becomes the hero in the story. Shed the mediocrity tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: James, Karen (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Wiley 2015.
Edición:1st edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629297406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • On Purpose: Why great leaders start with the PLOT; Contents; Foreword; About the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Fable (Back to School); Manifesto; PLOT; PART I The Fable (Back to School); Meet the characters; The adults; The students; Chapter 1 Back to school; Welcome to Ms Molloy; Week one, day one; Purpose-setting; The stampede; Week one, day three; The assignment; New Big Words; Dividing the groups; Betsy's team; Bobby's group; Bobby's house; Week one, day four; Social rewards; Back to Betsy; On Board; Game time; Week one, day five; Bank names; Week two, day one; Candy jar
  • Week two, day twoParental participation; Back to the how; Week two, day three; No time; Week two, weekend; PLOT; Bobby's house; Week three, weekend; Long Beach Island; Week three, day one; PLOT comes to life; Week four, day one; The bank; Week four, day five; Bob's upcoming visit; Week five, day one; Bob's presentation; Reflections; Week five, day two; Customers rule; Week six, day one; Back to Bob; Week six, day five; TGIF; Week seven, day one; Presentations; Bobby's presentation; Betsy's presentation; Ten years on; Epilogue; PART II Manifesto; What's with the story?; The power of our story
  • A bit about Ms MolloyA bit about Bob; Business dialogue in the class(/board)room; PART III PLOT; Chapter 2 Purpose; The core; Your reason to exist; See through vision, direct through strategy; Intrinsic measures of success; Real-life stories; Start with the cause; Find the meaning; Listen to the calling of your employees; Chapter 3 Leadership; Power made by many; Co-creating leadership; Complications; Purpose is circumvented by capital-market disciplines; Icebergs (there's a lot under that tip); Positions of power and perilous pressure; Meaning is catching; So, what to be?
  • Which self are you putting forward?Opening the door; The power of the mind; A word on transformation; Theory U; Do you know your blind spots?; Be the torch-bearer; It all starts with courage; The globalisation groundswell; Step into the collective; Become the learning leader; Become the system leader; Don't be a hero; Big, bad biases exist; Chapter 4 Operations; The heart of everything; The flow-on from purpose-rich operations; Design the shape for your purpose; Money, money, money; Servicing constituents the world over; To lead we must manage; You can control the process
  • How do you keep good people?Creating loyalty in large organisations; Lens of rationalisation; The enquiry model; Purpose-led projects; Dealing with the devil; What we measure matters; Momentum of data; Chapter 5 Technology; Is your technology telling your story?; Technology and your underberg; The last 10 per cent matters; Drilling deeper to put technology into PLOT; Digitisation; Transformation; Foundations; Chapter 6 Action; The PLOT Framework; Quadrant 1: Losing the PLOT; Quadrant 2: Forgetting the Customer; Quadrant 3: Forgetting the Team; Quadrant 4: Manifesting Purpose; Afterword; Notes
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