Team Being is a book about creative collaboration—what it is, how it works and how to maximize chances of doing it well. The book is built upon years of experience working with thousands of nascent teams from education, business and government where participants were expected to generate results in formations from two to twenty-five people. The book shares complex insights on collaboration combining direct observations of creative teams in action, extensive reviews of ground-breaking research in the field and insights from leaders of professional creative teams. Team Being goes beyond other teamwork books incorporating compelling insights and perspectives from psychodynamics, neuroscience and quantum physics, all of which help to illuminate the often-hidden forces at work in collaborative environments. The more aware leaders are of these forces, the more empowered they are to lead teams by influence rather than blind authority. Learning how to work well with others is an inconvenience, not unlike what grammar is to writing. Teamwork is an essential skill for the 21st century work force, but there is currently no natural, convenient or effective place to learn it in most institutions of education.

HR and Marketing have transformed themselves into disciplines with a strategic voice. Now it's time they team up for even greater business performance. HR and Marketing: Power Partners will energize a new relationship based on a shared interest in loyalty and engagement. Power Partners is the brainchild of real-life collaborators Patricia Nazemetz, former CHRO, Xerox Corporation and Will Ruch, CEO of Versant, a full-service branding and marketing firm. Nazemetz and Ruch joined forces on internal branding that inspired employee loyalty, commitment and 110% effort. Through in-depth interviews with the nation's top executives, Nazemetz and Ruch share the secrets to HR-Marketing collaboration and the business value it can bring to every organization. & ;& ;Social media has moved branding into the hands of individuals, leaving corporations to participate in, rather than control, their own reputation. How do organizations respond in this changing environment to ensure that customer loyalty and employee commitment will continue? & ;HR and Marketing: Power Partners shines light on the power HR and Marketing have to achieve these business goals by driving their corporate brand together. For HR professionals, Power Partners is a valuable resource on ways to re-invent the employee value proposition to reach today's talent pool. It's also a must-read for marketing executives and corporate leaders who recognize that talent is what ultimately fuels business success.& ;& ;For HR executives and frontline leaders& ;- Power up your talent acquisition and retention& ;- Inspire loyalty, commitment and 110% effort& ;- Drive talent strategy that adds direct business value& ;& ;For Marketing professionals& ;- Make your brand a talent magnet& ;- Engage employees that can reflect the brand& ;- Build customer loyalty& ;& ;For Corporate leaders& ;- Attract the talent that fuels business strategy& ;- Align employees with business goals& ;- Create your competitive advantage

48 page full-color tour of the brain and personality using today's EEG technology.

Mindfulness-based interventions in organizations offer the potential to build individual and organizational resilience, engage employees and address workplace stress. Mindfulness in the Workplace is a practical guide written for practitioners who want to learn how mindfulness can be used as a change management and organizational development strategy. Drawing from the latest research evidence from neuro- and behavioural science, Mindfulness in the Workplace offers a framework and guidance on how to start evolution- not revolution- in the organization. It ensures the greatest chance of success, showing how to identify the key stakeholders and work with them on understanding the power of a mindfulness initiative, how to identify a mindfulness champion, adapt the language of mindfulness to the context of the organization, establish metrics, and measure return on investment. Mindfulness in the Workplace proposes that HR and OD professionals are best placed to understand the complexity of implementing change in organizational systems and, therefore, the practice of mindfulness need to be brought in-house, even if they bring in external mindfulness coaches to train their leaders. Case studies including Capital One Finance and the NHS Mental Health Trust cover the reasoning behind these initiatives, how they were planned, the barriers they faced, the lessons learned, and their results. This book offers a forum for HR and OD practitioners to hear from other practitioners who have implemented organizational mindfulness-based interventions using change management principles so that they can understand how they might be applied to their own practice and their own organizations.

An instant New York Times bestseller, Dan Lyons' "hysterical" (Recode) memoir, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best book about Silicon Valley," takes readers inside the maddening world of fad-chasing venture capitalists, sales bros, social climbers, and sociopaths at today's tech startups. For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. "I think they just want to hire younger people," his boss at Newsweek told him. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the vague role of "marketing fellow." What could go wrong? HubSpotters were true believers: They were making the world a better place ... by selling email spam. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: The party began at four thirty on Friday and lasted well into the night; "shower pods" became hook-up dens; a push-up club met at noon in the lobby, while nearby, in the "content factory," Nerf gun fights raged. Groups went on "walking meetings," and Dan's absentee boss sent cryptic emails about employees who had "graduated" (read: been fired). In the middle of all this was Dan, exactly twice the age of the average HubSpot employee, and literally old enough to be the father of most of his co-workers, sitting at his desk on his bouncy-ball "chair."