Games At Work - How to Recognize and Reduce Office Politics

The bestselling guide to motivating and managing every employee—updated for the new world of business!

As a supervisor in today’s highly competitive world, you must not only get more out of each employee— you must also prove your department’s strategic impact on the organization. This popular, highly practical guide helps you make your department shine. The Boss’s Survival Guide, Second Edition, has been updated to help you manage today’s hot-button issues, such as:

• Hiring and retaining the best talent
• Handling layoffs and terminations
• Using social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook
• Managing time and dealing with stress
• Keeping up with the latest changes in employment law
• Maintaining your own marketability and managing your career

Praise for the first edition of The Boss’s Survival Guide

“WOW!!!”
—Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence

“This book has everything you’ll ever need to know about being an effective boss but don’t have time to learn.”
—Ken Blanchard, Ph.D., coauthor of The One-Minute Manager, Raving Fans, and Gung Ho

“At last, a definitive guide for bosses on the hiring, care, and feeding of employees.”
—Richard N. Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?

The Truth About Series offers in each book the collected and distilled knowledge on a topic and shows you how you can use this knowledge in your daily life. With an 'aha' on every page, information is presented in a clear and accessible style that the reader can easily reference. Written in short chapters, each book aims to cover an entire field of knowledge, cut to the gist of each subject in an entertaining way, and when necessary, pull the curtain back and pop the bubble of commonly held assumptions. Each Truth is a tool to make you more successful.

The Truth About Managing People offers real solutions for the make-or-break problems faced by every manager. You'll discover: how to overcome the true obstacles to teamwork; why too much communication can be as dangerous as too little; how to improve your hiring and employee evaluations; how to heal "layoff survivor sickness"; even how to learn charisma. This isn't someone's opinion; it's a definitive, evidence-based guide to effective management: a set of bedrock principles you can rely on throughout your entire management career.

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Build your nonprofit into a high performer with this practical approach to purpose, strategy, operations, and governance

Planning is vital to achieving your nonprofit's purpose-too bad most nonprofits are strapped for time. Not anymore.

Using a lightning-fast and inclusive process, Results Now® puts purpose, strategy, operations, and governance into one user-friendly, comprehensive plan that your board can pass in a single vote and your organization can maintain as a regular part of its business throughout the year.

Results Now for Nonprofits relies on accountability and performance measurement to increase the level of effective decision-making. This "big picture first, details next" planning process helps you:

• Use the Results Now master plan as a centerpiece of board meetings and as a standard part of board meeting advance information

• Foster a welcome climate for give-and-take strategic thinking

• Clarify the organization's story for the community and keep people on point about what's important

• Develop team cohesion

• Orient newer leadership members and recharge seasoned ones

• Attract new funders who reward nonprofits who plan

Given that the world has moved well beyond the period of Western colonialism, and clearly into a durable period in which non-Western cultures have gained their political autonomy, it is long past time that non-Western voices had a higher profile in debates about international relations, not just as disciples of Western schools of thought, but as inventors of their own approaches. Western IR theory has had the advantage of being the first in the field, and has developed many valuable insights, but few would defend the position that it captures everything we need to know about world politics.

In this book, Acharya and Buzan introduce non-Western IR traditions to a Western IR audience, and challenge the dominance of Western theory. An international team of experts reinforce existing criticisms that IR theory is Western-focused and therefore misrepresents and misunderstands much of world history by introducing the reader to non-Western traditions, literature and histories relevant to how IR is conceptualised.

Including case studies on Chinese, Japanese, South Korean, Southeast Asian, Indian and Islamic IR this book redresses the imbalance and opens up a cross-cultural comparative perspective on how and why thinking about IR has developed in the way it has. As such, it will be invaluable reading for both Western and Asian audiences interested in international relations theory.