Courage goes to work : how to build backbones, boost performance, and get results / Bill Treasurer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Treasurer, Bill, 1962-

Series:

0

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Psychological aspects.

Management.

Personnel management--Psychological aspects.

Personnel management.

Employees--Attitudes.

Employees.

Courage.

Organizational change--Management.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

How to build backbones, boost performance, and get results

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Courage Goes to Work is for every manager who has ever struggled with how to get their employees to have more backbone. This book helps managers inspire their workers to move out of their comfort zones and harness their fears so they can step up to challenges more readily and embrace company changes more wholeheartedly. When each and every worker goes to work each day with more courage, the capacity of the entire organization to be courageous is enlarged.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Too Much Comfort, Too Much Fear; Part I: Setting a Foundation for Courage; Chapter 1 Look Before You Leap; Chapter 2 Jumping First; Chapter 3 Create Safety Nets; Chapter 4 Harness Fear; Chapter 5 Modulate Comfort; Part II: Three Buckets of Courage; Chapter 6 Fillers and Spillers; Chapter 7 TRY Courage; Chapter 8 TRUST Courage; Chapter 9 TELL Courage; Part III: Committing to Giant Leaps; Chapter 10 The Courageous Choice; Chapter 11 Courageous Living; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

About the AuthorAbout Giant Leap Consulting; Visit the Courage Goes to Work Web Site; Other books by Bill Treasurer

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612300196

9781282300194

1282300199

9781576759820

1576759822

OCLC:

476226308