David Burkus

This provocative business management book profiles highly successful companies that are experimenting with new strategies and tactics to better engage their employees and customers. The strategies may seem counterintuitive at first, but they are backed by solid, evidence-based behavioral science and are an integral contributor to these companies high performance and customer loyalty. The author provides significant and timely research to bolster his contention that many traditional management approaches need to be upgraded."

How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business As Usual

Under New Management

The ultimate guide to leading remote employees and teams, tackling the key challenges that managers face-from hiring and onboarding new members to building culture remotely, tracking productivity, communicating speedily, and retaining star employees

The Essential Guide to Managing Remote Teams

Leading from Anywhere

What if all the advice we’ve heard about networking is wrong? What if the best way to grow your network isn’t by introducing yourself to strangers at cocktail parties, handing out business cards, or signing up for the latest online tool, but by developing a better understanding of the existing network that’s already around you? We know that it’s essential to reach out and build a network. But did you know that it’s actually your distant or former contacts who will be the most helpful to you? Or that many of our best efforts at meeting new people simply serve up the same old opportunities we already have? In this startling new look at the art and science of networking, business school professor David Burkus digs deep to find the unexpected secrets that reveal the best ways to grow your career. Based on entertaining case studies and scientific research, this practical and revelatory guide shares what the best networkers really do. Forget the outdated advice you’ve already heard. Learn how to make use of the hidden networks you already have.

Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Your Career

Friend of a Friend . . .

Debunking 10 common myths, and drawing on the latest research into how creative individuals and firms succeed, this authoritative resource to overcoming creative obstacles demystifies the processes that drive innovation.

The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas

The Myths of Creativity

"Handing out business cards? Or just joining LinkedIn? Not anymore. This is a new and startling look at the art and science of networking. Everybody knows that in order to expand your business opportunities, it's essential to reach out and build your network. But did you know that it's your secondary, or dormant, contacts who will be the most helpful to you? Or that too many of us inadvertently run the risk of isolating ourselves into corporate silos? And what do the very best networkers do that most of us do not? Business school professor David Burkus digs deep to find the unexpected networking secrets that provide both a unique and science-based explanation on how best to grow your universe. Based upon entertaining case studies and research, this is the most up-to-date, practical, and revelatory guide for building one's professional and personal connections in today's fast-paced world. Forget the outdated advice in all the other networking books and learn how to make use of the hidden networks you already have."--

"Burkus shows that most of your best connections do not come from close friends but rather from distant, even long-forgotten contacts; that it's the colleagues and influential acquaintances of your best friends who will play a major role in developing your connections; and that your most valuable network in business has much more to do with how you develop these secondary sources in order to springboard your career"--

understanding the hidden networks that can transform your life and your career

Friend of a friend .

“Makes a provocative case that you should put customers second, close open offices, and ditch performance appraisals.”—Adam Grant, best-selling author of Originals “Under New Management is a lively, provocative must-read.”—Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself. Why accepted management practices don’t work—and how innovative companies are changing the rules Should your employees know each other’s salaries? Is your vacation policy harming productivity? Does your hiring process undermine your team? David Burkus argues that the traditional management playbook is full of outdated, counterproductive practices, and he reveals how the alternative management revolution has already started at companies like Netflix, Zappos, Google, and others. Burkus investigates behind their office doors to show how these companies are reevaluating and reinventing the most basic management principles, like hiring, firing, vacation policy, and even office floor plan, and enhancing their business’s success as a result. “Is your company ready for a radical departure from twentieth-century management standards? David Burkus has collected the stories of dozens of companies that are standing the old rules on their heads. Even better, Burkus shows how you can do it, too.”—Daniel H. Pink, best-selling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human ? “If you are going to read one book on being a better manager in the next year, start here. David Burkus has assembled the most practical research and provocative ideas into an incredibly quick read.”—Tom Rath, best-selling author of StrengthsFinder 2.0

How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual

Estamos entrando en una nueva era de trabajo remoto, pero ¿cómo pueden los líderes asegurarse de que su negocio funcione como antes cuando la manera de trabajar se ha vuelto tan diferente? Los más recientes estudios demuestran que las personas son más productivas y comprometidas cuando tienen la libertad de trabajar desde cualquier lugar, lo que significa que los líderes deben desarrollar habilidades de liderazgo en todo terreno. David Burkus ha realizado una profunda investigación sobre equipos virtuales y casos de estudio de compañías que no sólo han sobrevivido, sino que han triunfado en el trabajo a distancia. Como resultado, ha desarrollado una guía para para dirigir equipos remotos que ayudará a los líderes a enfrentar los retos del nuevo panorama laboral: desde contratar e introducir a nuevos miembros a tu equipo, crear una cultura remota y asegurar la productividad, hasta comunicar rápidamente, retener a tus colaboradores más valiosos y lograr que tus colegas alcancen el equilibrio entre la vida personal y el trabajo. En Dirige desde cualquier lugar encontrarás todo lo que necesitas para triunfar como líder remoto, lo cual será imprescindible de ahora en adelante para todos los que estén al frente de un equipo.

Dirige desde cualquier lugar

How to get past the most common myths about creativity to design truly innovative strategies We tend to think of creativity in terms reminiscent of the ancient muses: divinely-inspired, unpredictable, and bestowed upon a lucky few. But when our jobs challenge us to be creative on demand, we must develop novel, useful ideas that will keep our organizations competitive. The Myths of Creativity demystifies the processes that drive innovation. Based on the latest research into how creative individuals and firms succeed, David Burkus highlights the mistaken ideas that hold us back and shows us how anyone can embrace a practical approach, grounded in reality, to finding the best new ideas, projects, processes, and programs. Answers questions such as: What causes us to be creative in one moment and void in the next? What makes someone more or less creative than his or her peers? Where do our flashes of creative insight come from, and how can we generate more of them? Debunks 10 common myths, including: the Eureka Myth; the Lone Creator Myth; the Incentive Myth; and The Brainstorming Myth Written by David Burkus, founder of popular leadership blog LDRLB For anyone who struggles with creativity, or who makes excuses for delaying the work of innovation, The Myths of Creativity will help you overcome your obstacles to finding new ideas.

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