Third and last post of a 3-post mini-series in which I’m highlighting 9 amazing strategy and business books (part 3). If you are looking for inspiration for this world, any of them can provide you with useful ideas, dynamics, approaches and motivations.
Let’s move on to the third block of 3 recommended books.
The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness
A book by Mike Zani to help us find the perfect person for the job among reams of options. Why do some teams succeed while others, made up of equally talented people, stumble?
If the quality of the workforce is a company’s most important asset, why do its managers still base these critical decisions primarily on interviews and instincts? This book takes a data-driven approach to talent optimization to hire, motivate, and manage people efficiently and effectively.
Win from Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage
A book by James Heskett with a roadmap for achievable and accelerated culture change. An effective culture provides the confidence that makes it easier to manage change of all kinds. It provides a foundation for basing change on strategy.
Examining leading companies around the world, the author details how organizational culture causes employees to be more loyal, more productive, and more creative. He discusses how to quantify its effects to sell the notion of culture change to the organization. In addition, he considers how to preserve an organization’s culture in the face of the trend toward remote work accelerated by the pandemic.
Beyond Digital: How Great Leaders Transform Their Organizations and Shape the Future
A book by Paul Leinwand and Mahadeva Matt Mani that exposes how digital transformation is critical. Winning in today’s world requires more than digitization. It requires understanding that the nature of competitive advantage has changed and that being digital is not enough.
The book lays out the cases of 12 companies that have navigated through this enormous change. From Philips’ reinvention to Cleveland Clinic’s or even Microsoft’s overhaul.
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