Most modern managers know much of what there is to know about change management. Still, things often go wrong in practice. This is almost entirely because our actions are not always steered by our knowledge. Without realizing it, we make assumptions about our employees that end up causing trouble for us. And we tend to subconsciously behave in a way that undermines employees’ initiative and sense of responsibility. To be able to break out of such sticky situations, you need to understand ho...

Our societies, institutions and social fabric are currently in the early stages of the third revolution of humanity, the Digital Civil Revolution. Disruption is not restricted to markets. The same technologies that cause and fuel it are giving citizens more knowledge and information, more public and political influence, and tools to organize themselves and so to disrupt politics, democracy and public services. This totally transforms the media landscape, public opinion, political debate, and ...

How can today’s managers concentrate on what really matters to improve the performance of their organization, to reach outstanding goals?

The answer is in What Makes an HPO. The five critical factors of the HPO Framework – Management Quality, Openness & Action-Orientation, Long-Term Orientation, Continuous Improvement & Renewal and Employee Quality – will help you turn your organization into an HPO. This book shows you what to concentrate on, how others have done it, and how to achieve ...

In this book, Farid Tabarki describes how the middle disappears. Travel agents and record companies, as middle men in an antiquated production process, are certainly on the way. However, as Tabarki claims, the entrepreneur, HR manager, civil servant and school teacher also may see themselves falling into oblivion.

In his book, Farid describes three megatrends that bring about the liquid society and the disappearance of the middle. Firstly, surging online platforms are taking over the jobs of ...

Nowadays, job positions are not as clearly defined as they used to be. Increasingly, work is carried out in varying roles where the only constant is the employee – but even he or she has to keep growing and adapting. Our current systems of remuneration are the one thing that has not been moving along. Not only are they unable to keep pace with the dynamics of modern business but they are time consuming and expensive. If you want to abandon them, however, you first have to change the basis f...

Success awaits those who can execute a powerful strategy; this book will show you how to unlock this ultimate competitive advantage

The Execution Advantage reveals the secrets of organisations that excel at strategy execution, by putting people at the heart of it.

Discover how these exceptional companies prioritise effectively, empower for action, embrace learning by doing, and successfully adapt to change. They acknowledge that humans do not always act rationally and that each organisation i...

Engage! is the Lonely Planet for organizational change. This practical and accessible travel guide for change agents offers a unique mix of scientific and practical insights. After all, action without knowledge is reckless and knowledge without action is impactless. Engage! offers help and encouragement at every stage of the change adventure, centering on shared inspiration, co-creation, experimentation, and especially on how to quickly get down to ‘learning to learn’ together. The author...

Design thinking is on the rise among managers. And for good reason: design-driven organisations have higher revenue growth, more loyal customers and a higher competitive advantage than organisations that mainly focus on control. They are promising organisations that are focused on opportunities rather than bottlenecks. But, within organisations, design thinking does not happen all by itself. After all, organisations are like living tissue, they are only partly makeable, and usually have a str...

'The 6 Disciplines of Leadership – How to Run Your Company like a Tight Ship' is intended for anyone starting out in general management, or aspiring to become a CEO someday. This book is a tutorial to help leaders to quickly frame complex problems. It will increase your business acumen and provide practical advice on how to handle common CEO challenges. All concepts are illustrated with real-life examples from companies such as Blackberry, IKEA, Adyen, Aetna, IBM and Just Eat Takeaway.com. ...

Organizations become more agile and teams more self-organizing. Insight into yourself and others is therefore more important than ever. The Enneagram is a proven model that describes nine personality types. It offers tools with which you can communicate more effectively, manage more consciously and achieve better results with teams.

The Enneagram theory clarifies which of the nine types applies to you the most. Each type uses a specific strategy as a means to success, but each approach also e...