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Making the Impossible Possible

Kim Cameron

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297 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h43min.
Bestselling author Kim Cameron delivers both a riveting story and a thoroughly researched case study that delves into the spectacularly impossible success of the shutdown and clean-up of Rocky Flats, one of the most notorious nuclear weapons plants in the United States.The most contaminated nuclear weapons plant in the country, Rocky Flats was an environmental disaster and the site of rampant worker unrest. Although estimates projected that cleaning up and closing the facility would take 70 years and $36 billion, the project was completed 60 years ahead of schedule and $30 billion under budget, and most of the site is now on its way to becoming a wildlife refuge. Kim Cameron and Marc Lavine explain how this amazing feat was accomplished and how other organizations can apply the same methods to achieve breakthrough levels of performance. The authors discovered that the Rocky Flats leaders used a distinctive “abundance approach,” identifying and building on sources of strength, resilience, and vitality rather than simply solving problems and overcoming difficulties. Drawing on numerous firsthand accounts and public records, they identify 21 specific leadership practices and key techniques that were fundamental to this innovative approach. This fascinating and thoroughly researched case study provides a complete guide for anyone wanting to better understand and apply the lessons of this remarkable, history-making achievement. AcknowledgmentsAn Introduction to the Impossible1 Explaining the Impossible—Positive Deviance and the Abundance Approach2 Impending Disaster—A Brief History of Rocky Flats 3 The Role of Leaders4 Competing Values and Paradoxical Leadership 5 Key Enablers—Vision, Innovation, and Symbolic Leadership6 Key Enablers—Stability, Discipline, and Process Control7 Key Enablers—Relationships, Human Capital, and Collaborative Culture 8 Key Enablers—Politics, Incentives, and Rigorous Performance Standards9 Leadership Principles for Spectacular Performance Appendix 1: Caveats and Alternative Views of Rocky Flats' SuccessAppendix 2: Research MethodsReferences Photo Credits Index About the Authors About the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship
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Strategic Business Partner

Dana Gaines Robinson

3h45min00

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300 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h45min.
Research clearly indicates that there is a strong need for the Human Resources (HR) function, and the people in it, to adopt a more strategic and business-linked approach. In one study business executives ranked the HR function as third, after sales and customer service, as a function that makes a very significant contribution to a company's bottom line.Unfortunately research also indicates that few HR functions have become strategic. Most still operate in a primarily administrative and tactical manner—the very work that is increasingly being outsourced. Clearly there is a gap between what business leaders and employees need from their HR departments and what HR is providing.HR functions must become more integrated into the business, with some people on the HR team assuming the role of Strategic Business Partner (SBP). Here, Dana and Jim Robinson offer guidance for HR, Organization Development and Learning professionals who aspire to transform themselves into effective Strategic Business Partners. They explain how SBPs build partnerships, based upon credibility and trust, with key organization leaders. These partnerships provide SBPs with opportunities to identify and support projects directly aligned with business goals. The success of these projects deepens the SBPs' credibility, enabling them to be viewed as strategic partners. At this higher level of accountability, SBPs work with business leaders to form long-range business strategies and plans, creating and implementing people initiatives that link into and support the business strategies and plans.This practical guide offers case studies, exercises, tips, and tools you can use to become a Strategic Business Partner in your organization.PrefaceIntroduction: From Value Sapping to Value AddingPart One: Concepts and a Model for Strategic Business Partners1. Key Concepts for Partnering Strategically2. The SBP ModelPart Two: Building Client Partnerships3. Identifying Clients and Developing Access 4. Gaining Credibility and Trust Part Three: Identifying and Partnering on Strategic Projects5. The Logic Used to Identify Strategic Opportunities 6. Reframe Requests to Identify Strategic Opportunities 7. Proactively Identify Strategic Opportunities 8. When the Client Says “Yes”Part Four: Influencing Business Strategies and Direction9. Being at the Table 10. Making the SBP Role RealTools References Resources Index About the Authors
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The Success Case Method

Robert Brinkerhoff

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241 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h1min.
Each year, organizations spend millions of dollars trying out new innovations and improvements-and millions will be wasted if they can't quickly find out what's working and what is not. The Success Case Method offers a breakthrough evaluation technique that is easier, faster, and cheaper than competing approaches, and produces compelling evidence decision-makers can actually use.Because it seeks out the best stories of how real individuals have actually used innovations, The Success Case Method can ferret out success no matter how small or infrequent. It can salvage the few "gems" of success from a larger initiative that is not doing well or find out how to make a partially successful effort even more successful. The practical methods and tools in this book can help those who initiate and foster change, including leaders, executives, managers, consultants, training directors, and anyone else who is trying to make things work better in organizations get the greatest returns for their investments.Preface 1 What is the Success Case Method and How Does it Work?The Basic SCM Questions Uses for the Success Case Approach How the Success Case Method Works2 The Success Case Method: Step by StepThe SCM Steps Where the Steps Came From—The Accidental SCM Study3 Focusing and Planning a Success Case Study4 Envisioning Success: Creating an Impact ModelThe Impact Model Impact Model: The Beginning or the End?Creating Impact ModelsSome Impact Model Examples State Family Welfare Agency ModelImpact Model for Pharmaceutical SalesReps Using Laptops Impact Model for a Beer Distributor Impact Model for Home Healthcare Services A Final Note on Impact Models5 Using a Survey to Search for Best and Worst Cases A High Level Look at the Survey Process Alternatives to the Formal Survey The Formal Success Case Survey Devising a Scoring Scheme Planning the Success Case Survey 6 Interviewing and Documenting Success Cases Step 1: Analyze the Survey Responses to Identify Potential Success Cases Filling Buckets: The Protocol Conceptual ModelBasic Interview ProcessDocumenting Success Cases 7 Communicating Credible and Compelling Results that Tell the StoryThe Six Major Success Case Report Conclusions The Conclusion Types Illustrated Building Interest in SC Study Findings8 Putting the Success Case Method to Work: Strategic ApplicationsMining “Gems” from a Large And and Mature ProgramSalvaging Valuable Parts from a Doomed Program Employing a “Rapid Prototyping” Approach Improving a Vital Support Program Providing Exemplary Role Models to Teach and Motivate Others Marketing an Initiative Pinpointing the Specific Value of “Soft” InterventionsSupporting and Leveraging “Pioneer” Experiences Your TurnA Success Case Study Final ReportReferences Index About the Author
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Organization Development

Mclean Gary

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481 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 6h1min.
Designed for use in undergraduate and graduate programs in organization development, management, human resource development, and industrial and organizational psychology, Organization Development provides readers with an overview of the field and acquaints them with the basic principles, practices, values, and skills of OD. Covering every aspect of the work of an OD professional and featuring numerous illustrative case studies, it shows how OD professionals actually get work and what the first steps in any OD effort should be.Author Gary McLean surveys different ways to assess an organizational situation—including a comparison of the Action Research and Appreciative Inquiry models—and provides forms for devising an action plan based on that assessment. He then looks at how to choose and implement a range of interventions at different levels, as well as how to evaluate the results of an intervention.Organization Development goes beyond the organizational level to look at the application of OD on community, national, regional, and global levels. And it successfully combines theory and practice; process and outcomes; performance and affective results; effectiveness and efficiency.List of FiguresList of Tables Preface 1 What Is Organization Development?2 Entry: Marketing and Contracting 3 Start-up and Systems Theory 4 Organizational Assessment and Feedback 5 Action Planning and Introduction to Interventions 6 Implementation: Individual Level7 Implementation: Team and Interteam Levels 8 Implementation: Process Level 9 Implementation: Global Level10 Implementation: Organizational Level 11 Implementation: Community and National Levels 12 Evaluation of Processes and Results 13 Adoption of Changes and Follow-up 14 Reasons for Separation from the Organization15 Ethics and Values Driving OD 16 Competencies for OD 17 Issues Facing OD and Its Future Glossary References Name Index Subject Index About the Author
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Affiche du document Positive Organizational Scholarship

Positive Organizational Scholarship

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480 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 6h00min.
Scholarship establishes a new field of study in the organizational sciences. Just as positive psychology focuses on exploring optimal individual psychological states rather than pathological ones, Positive Organizational Scholarship focuses attention on optimal organizational states --- the dynamics in organizations that lead to the development of human strength, foster resiliency in employees, make healing, restoration, and reconciliation possible, and cultivate extraordinary individual and organizational performance.While the concept of positive organizational scholarship encompasses the examination of typical and even dysfunctional patterns of behavior, it emphasizes positive deviance from expected patterns. Positive Organizational Scholarship examines the enablers, motivations, and effects associated with remarkably positive phenomena --- how they are facilitated, why they work, how they can be identified, and how researchers and managers can capitalize on them. The contributors do not adopt one particular theory or framework but draw from the full spectrum of organizational theories to understand, explain, and predict the occurrence, causes, and consequences of positivity.Positive Organizational Scholarship rigorously seeks to understand what represents the best of the human condition based on scholarly research and theory. This book invites organizational scholars to build upon and extend the positive organizational phenomena being examined. It provides the definitional, theoretical, and empirical foundations for what will become a cumulative body of enduring work.AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Foundations of Positive Organizational Scholarship——Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, and Robert E. Quinn2 Positive Organizational Studies: Lessons from Positive Psychology —Christopher M. Peterson and Martin E. P. SeligmanPart 1: Virtuous Processes, Strengths, and Positive Organizing 3 Virtues and Organizations—Nansook Park and Christopher M. Peterson4 Organizational Virtuousness and Performance—Kim S. Cameron5 Positive Organizing and Organizational Tragedy—Karl E. Weick6 Acts of Gratitude in Organizations—Robert A. Emmons7 Organizing for Resilience—Kathleen M. Sutcliffe and Timothy J. Vogus8 Investing in Strengths—Donald O. Clifton and James K. Harter9 Transcendent Behavior —Thomas S. Bateman and Christine Porath10 Courageous Principled Action—Monica C. Worline and Ryan W. QuinnPart 2: Upward Spirals and Positive Change 11 Positive Emotions and Upward Spirals in Organizations —Barbara L. Fredrickson12 Positive and Negative Emotions in Organizations—Richard P. Bagozzi13 New Knowledge Creation in Organizations—Fiona Lee, Arran Caza, Amy Edmondson, and Stefan Thomke14 Positive Deviance and Extraordinary Organizing —Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Scott Sonenshein15 Toward a Theory of Positive Organizational Change—David L. Cooperrider and Leslie E. Sekerka16 Authentic Leadership Development—Fred Luthans and Bruce AvolioPart 3: Positive Meanings and Positive Connections 17 The Power of High-Quality Connections—Jane E. Dutton and Emily D. Heaphy18 A Theory of Relational Coordination—Jody Hoffer Gittell19 Finding Positive Meaning in Work —Amy Wrzesniewski20 Fostering Meaningfulness in Working and at Work—Michael G. Pratt and Blake E. Ashforth21 Positive Organizational Network Analysis and Energizing Relationships —Wayne Baker, Rob Cross, and Melissa Wooten22 Empowerment and Cascading Vitality—Martha S. Feldman and Anne M. KhademianConclusion23 Developing a Discipline of Positive Organizational Scholarship—Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, Robert E. Quinn, and Amy WrzesniewskiReferences Index About the Contributors
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The Courage Gap

Margie Warrell, PhD

52min30

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70 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 52min.
The Courage Gap offers on-point leadership advice. —Kirkus ReviewsDo you sometimes hold back when you know you need to speak up or step forward?Fear creates the gap. Courage closes it.This powerful guide from the bestselling author of You've Got This! cuts through the hype to connect the 'why' of courage to the 'how' of courage. Drawing on cutting-edge research woven together with stories that compel head and heart, The Courage Gap will help you bridge the think/do gap between what you've been doing and what you can do; between where you are and where you want to be-in your career, relationships, leadership, and life. Distilling theory and hard-won wisdom spanning from Margie's childhood in rural Australia to her decades of living around the world and coaching ‘insecure overachievers' in Fortune 500 organizations, Margie shares a powerful 5-step roadmap to reprogram the self-protective patterns of thought and behavior that sabotage success to bring your bravest self to your biggest challenges and boldest vision. At a time when courage seems in short supply, in a culture continually stoking insecurity and anxiety, this book will transform your deepest fears into a catalyst for your highest growth and the greatest good. Applying the five steps will:• Ignite passion and unlock the potential fear holds dormant• Rewrite the scripts that have kept you stuck, stressed, and living too safely• Reset your ‘nervous' system and embody courage in critical moments• Transform discomfort as a cue to step forward and expand your bandwidth for bold action• Reset your relationship to failure and make peace with the part of you that wimps out For leaders, The Courage Gap provides a guide to operationalize and scale the courage mindset across your team and organization to deepen trust, dismantle silos, foster innovation, accelerate learning, and unleash collective courage toward a more secure and rewarding future.
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Affiche du document Les Candidats

Les Candidats

Yun Sun Limet

59min15

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79 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 59min.
« Si vous lisez ces lignes, c'est qu'un événement improbable, impensable aura eu lieu : notre mort accidentelle à tous les deux, simultanée ou à peu de temps d'intervalle. C'est pourtant une crainte qui nous hante. Et si un tel malheur devait se produire, c'est à Jean et Marie que nous pensons d'abord. C'est pour eux que nous écrivons cette lettre, afin qu'ils soient confiés à une famille amie qui les élève comme ses propres enfants. [...] Notre tristesse est infinie à l'idée que cette lettre puisse un jour être lue. Nous croyons que Jean et Marie ont été heureux avec nous et espérons qu'ils continuent de l'être malgré notre absence. »Les Candidats, à travers la voix des amis pressentis par les signataires de cette lettre, raconte une histoire de perte, de deuil et de la vie telle qu'elle (s'en) va, d'amitié aussi et d'accomplissement. Un roman à quatre voix qui reprend cette « crainte qui nous hante» tous, d'une manière sobre et entêtante.Yun Sun Limet est née à Séoul, en Corée du Sud. Après avoir longtemps vécu en Belgique, elle s'est installée à Paris. Les Candidats (La Martinière, 2004) est son premier roman. Elle a depuis écrit d'autres romans ou récits (dont le dernier De la vie en général et du travail en particulier, Les Belles-Lettres, 2014) ainsi que des essais et des livres pour la jeunesse (dont le conte Timouk. L'enfant aux deux royaumes, Didier Jeunesse, 2014).
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Les Petits Dieux

Sandrine Willems

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65 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 49min.
Les Petits Dieux sont un ensemble de romans miniatures. Chacun évoque, sous forme de monologue, un personnage mythique ou historique, dont le destin fut marqué par un animal. De l'édition originale, comprenant onze textes, sont repris ici : Abraham et l'agneau, Chardin et le lièvre, Tchang et le Yéti, La Dame et la licorne, Carmen et le taureau. « Les animaux ont l'art de nous ramener au plus primaire, à une brusque effusion de tendresse, une bouffée de joie immotivée, une envie de jouer, un chagrin effroyable qui ne se laisse pas raisonner. Les animaux nous font "sortir de nos gonds", de nos pudeurs et nos habituelles défenses; par eux on retombe en enfance, à ses miracles et ses perplexités. » (Sandrine Willems) Sandrine Willems est née en 1968. Après avoir interprété différents rôles au théâtre et au cinéma, elle fait des études de philosophie. Elle revient au théâtre par la mise en scène, et réalise plusieurs films et documentaires musicaux. Ce mode d'écriture la conduit à la littérature, et elle publie plusieurs romans aux Impressions Nouvelles. également psychologue, elle prête un grand intérêt aux thérapies accompagnées par des animaux, auxquelles elle a notamment consacré un essai aux éditions du Seuil, croisant éthologie, philosophie et psychanalyse. Sandrine Willems est née en 1968. Après avoir interprété différents rôles au théâtre et au cinéma, elle suit des études de philosophie. Elle revient au théâtre par la mise en scène, et réalise plusieurs films et documentaires musicaux. Ce mode d'écriture la conduit à la littérature, et elle publie plusieurs romans. Elle prête un grand intérêt aux thérapies accompagnées par des animaux, auxquelles elle a consacré un essai aux éditions du Seuil, croisant éthologie, philosophie et psychanalyse.
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