Organisational Growth

In the Good is the New Cool Guide to Conscious Business, conscious capitalism experts Afdhel Aziz and Bobby Jones deliver all of the knowledge and tools needed to discover, design, and deploy sustainable and inclusive growth within any organization. This book draws on stories, insights, and case studies from leaders at successful purpose-driven corporations around the world, from Fortune 500 giants like Unilever and Procter to tech disruptors like Tesla, Microsoft, and Airbnb, as well as beloved brands like Lego, Adidas, and Patagonia.

The Fearless Organization offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent, but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of "fitting in" and "going along" spells doom in the knowledge economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule, or intimidate.

Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal - especially when there are few tools, texts, and frameworks to help you. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned CTO) takes you through each stage in the journey from engineer to technical manager.

What if a company did everything in its power to create a culture in which everyone could overcome their own internal barriers to change and use errors and vulnerabilities as prime opportunities for personal and company growth? Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey have found and studied such companies - deliberately developmental organizations. A DDO is organized around the conviction that organizations will best prosper when they are more deeply aligned with people's strongest motive, which is to grow.

In The Gospel at Work, Sebastian Traeger and Greg Gilbert unpack the powerful ways in which the Gospel can transform how we do what we do, releasing us from the cultural pressures of both an all-consuming devotion and a punch-in, punch-out mentality - in order to find the freedom of a work ethic rooted in serving Christ. You'll find answers to some of the tough questions that Christians in the workplace often ask: What factors should matter most in choosing a job?

Overcoming Ageism offers stories, research, and advice about navigating gendered age discrimination and bias at work. From advocating for yourself to ensuring continual learning and curiosity, you'll learn how to show others the unique expertise you bring to the organization and take back control of your career growth.

As the chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Consolidated, J. Frank Harrison III knows firsthand the importance of not only prioritizing culture but also living out and modeling the values that drive it. He believes every person in an organization matters and how they are led matters just as much. In The Transformation Factor: Leading Your Company for Good, for God, and for Growth, Harrison profiles his company and his own personal journey to show you the radical transformation and amazing ripple effects that come from a purpose-driven, people-focused culture.

Transform your workplace with six proven power moves that create a thriving, growth-focused culture where people do more than show up—they light up with purpose and passion every single day. In this practical guide, Dr. Joey Faucette reveals how HR leaders and business owners can build environments that boost both engagement and profits consistently. Drawing from decades of experience and real success stories, he shows how small, intentional changes create massive cultural shifts that last.

The Business of Character offers new business owners, leaders, and those going through difficult transitions more than just the systems and decisions. It gives you the deeper values and frameworks behind those systems and decisions from someone who has struggled through them and found success.

Many factors shape the success or failure of a new business, whether it's a stand-alone start-up or a venture inside a larger corporation. But the most important and least understood of these factors is the personality of the entrepreneur - the particular combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. And your builder personality is the one resource you can directly control in growing a business that wins. Simply put, who you are shapes how you build for growth.

Inclusive Growth provides a practical framework that enables you to deliver a sustainable, diverse and inclusive workplace that allows your organisation to grow.You will understand how to: strategically align diversity and inclusion to organisational growth, change the culture and motivate senior leaders to 'walk the talk' for inclusivity, design and implement a sustainable inclusivity infrastructure, work as a whole organisation rather than in HR isolation, celebrate your inclusivity to become an employer of choice in your industry.

Entrepreneur Voices on Growth Hacking shares the inspirational stories of unconventional entrepreneurs who retooled companies and industries and were rewarded handsomely for it while giving you the tools you need to do the same.

Beyond Integrity offers a balanced approach to a number of concrete ethical issues. Readings from a wide range of sources present competing perspectives on each issue, and real-life case studies further help the listener grapple with ethical dilemmas. The authors want to help the listener arrive at his or her own conclusions. To this end, they provide a decision-making model. They also present, in addition to several views on each topic, a distinctly Christian perspective on each issue under discussion.

Economic injustice caused by wealth disparity is quickly becoming the hottest debated topic in America. Employee ownership is not the only answer for economic justice, but it can be a critical puzzle piece for tens of millions of Americans where the current inherent disadvantage of circumstance stands in their way. Create Amazing demonstrates how ownership can provide the ultimate competitive advantage to a growing company - and the nation.

Part memoir, part practical guide, and part leadership journey, Love as a Change Strategy takes listeners inside one company's brutally honest transformation story. Through powerful storytelling and actionable tools, the authors reveal what happens when you lead change from a place of love―not fear.

Change Your Space, Change Your Culture is a guide to transforming business by rethinking the workplace. Written by a team of trail-blazing leaders, this audiobook reveals the secrets of companies that discovered the power of culture and space. This insightful guide reveals what companies lose by viewing office space as something to manage or minimize.

Ten years of research uncover the secret source of growth and profit...Those who center their business on improving people’s lives have a growth rate triple that of competitors and outperform the market by a huge margin. They dominate their categories, create new categories, and maximize profit in the long term. Pulling from a unique 10 year growth study involving 50,000 brands, Jim Stengel shows how the world's 50 best businesses have a cause and effect relationship between financial performance and their ability to connect.

Like a jigsaw puzzle, a healthy business needs all the right pieces assembled properly in order to see the entire picture. In his latest book, Fit to Grow, Mark Richardson introduces those pieces through a comprehensive collection of simple yet effective business themes that will help you establish a strong foundation and enable you to grow a sustainable business.

Your relationship with yourself is doubtlessly the most important relationship in your life. Our relationship with other people, on the other hand, can be very volatile, erratic, fulfilling, pleasurable, and quite baffling at times. We all have our own unique ways of interpreting the world around us and certain ways in which we act upon what we perceive to give us a greater understanding on how to deal with our emotions and stressful situations.

Starting a business is no easy task and figuring out how to package and present your idea can be even harder. You will need time, dedication, investment money, and, most importantly, the ambition to get through the first steps of the process. Luckily, you've already completed one of the most difficult steps: recognizing that a stellar business plan is crucial to the future success of your business. This audiobook provides the tools and techniques that are needed to form a business plan that will have investors begging to give you their money.