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Prof. Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford - Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't (Book)

YouTube, Organizational Behavior Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer spoke about the role power plays and how sometimes hard work doesn't necessarily equal success. Book, On Amazon: "Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't"

Professor Lynda Gratton, Organisational Behaviour, LBS - Book: The Shift, The Future of Work

Professor Lynda Gratton Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School, today at IE Business School

www.lyndagratton.com

Book (Amazon) - The Shift, The Future of Work is already here.

Lynda's new book is for anyone keen to take charge of the future of their work. Through the lens of six people from globally diverse business cultures, Lynda identifies the 32 key trends that are shaping the future of work. Read the book to understand how you can manage the shift.

 

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Glow: bringing energy and innovation to your work - are you going to be a Fred or Frank?

Professor Teresa Amabile (HBS) - importance of "small wins" and management

"analysed 64,000 specific events at work" over 15 years, "doesn´t sound very exotic, but most managers don´t realize it, or don´t do it"

Teresa Amabile (born in 1949 or 1950) is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School.

HBR:  The Power of small wins

If you are a manager, the progress principle holds clear implications for where to focus your efforts. It suggests that you have more influence than you may realize over employees’ well-being, motivation, and creative output. Knowing what serves to catalyze and nourish progress—and what does the opposite—turns out to be the key to effectively managing people and their work.

Financial Times : Tiny bursts of joy pave the way to BHAG, September 12, 2011

progressprinciple.com