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Tipping Sacred Cows : Kick the Bad Work Habits that Masquerade as Virtues.
Strategies for overcoming the ""sacred cows"" that hold people back at work We all know the ""sacred cows"" at work?the conventional wisdom to try your best, work well with others, and produce excellent work. But these cherished nuggets of advice, in practice,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Wiley,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1 Meet Your Sacred Cows; Unexamined Virtues at Work; The Peril of Sacred Cows; Solving the Virtue Problem; Find Your Hidden Beliefs; Balance; Collaboration; Creativity; Excellence; Fairness; Passion; Preparation; Train Your Cow, Train Yourself; Chapter 2 Bold Balance; Avoid the Allure of Unhealthy Balance; The Power of Bold Balance; Seven Steps to Make Your Balance Bold; 1. Audit for Unnecessary Compromise; 2. Sprint in Intervals; 3. Throw Out Your Leftovers; 4. Hold Strong Opinions Weakly; 5. Build a Portfolio of Options.
- 6. Start a Stop Doing List7. Embrace the Paradox; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Accountable Collaboration; You'd Better Play Well With Others; The Auto-Collaboration Mandate; The Rare, Productive Joy of Working Alone; Seven Steps to Make Your Collaboration Accountable; 1. Audit to Eliminate Automatic Collaboration; 2. Make Teams Temporary; 3. Let Underperformers Sink or Swim; 4. Stay Aligned with the Bigger Picture; 5. Own Your Results; 6. Hunker Down; 7. Unplug; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Useful Creativity; Scratching the Itch of New; Useful Creativity; Seven Ways to Make Your Creativity Useful.
- 1. Understand the Source of Your Creative Energy2. Rechannel Your Creative Energy; 3. Repurpose on Purpose; 4. Make a Remix; 5. Create Analogies; 6. Fill Out the (Right) Form; 7. Curate; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Outcome Excellence; Inside the Secret Messiness of Excellence; A Second-Rate Path to a First-Rate Destination; Seven Steps to Make Your Excellence Meaningful; 1. Lower the Stakes; 2. Ask Dumb Questions; 3. Embrace the Hacker Mentality; 4. Accept the Mess of Progress; 5. Start a Meaningful Journey with a Meaningless Map; 6. Embrace OK; 7. Play Around; Conclusion.
- Chapter 6 Process FairnessFair Minded; Fehr Game; Seven Ways to Train Your Brain to Focus on Process Fairness; 1. Projection Detection; 2. Break the Golden Rule; 3. Vive la Différence!; 4. Discriminate Courageously; 5. Play a Bigger Game; 6. Check Up on Others; 7. Check Up on Yourself; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Harmonious Passion; Good Passion, Bad Passion; The Sustaining Strength of Harmonious Passion; Seven Steps to Make Your Passion More Harmonious; 1. Find Your Shard of Glass; 2. Lead from Behind; 3. Stop Proving Yourself Right; 4. Start Proving Yourself Wrong.
- 5. Stay Healthy with the Buddy System6. Stay Out of Trouble with the Buddy System; 7. Look Outside Yourself; Conclusion; Chapter 8 Onstage Preparation; The Inertia of Preparation; All the World's a Stage; Seven Ideas to Take Your Preparation to Center Stage; 1. Troubleshoot Your Preparation Style; 2. Learn by Doing; 3. Hold (Moot) Court; 4. Pretotype; 5. Practice with Intensity; 6. Be More Human; 7. Apprentice Each Other; Conclusion; Chapter 9 Extinguish Your Backfires; Notes; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Index.