Lisa Haneberg

A popular marine biologist is dead. An octopus named Fred is accused of killing her. Can Xena interrogate Fred and solve the crime before more people die? The investigation tests her mental and athletic prowess, her stash of spy shop gadgets and her assumptions about octopuses. Toxic Octopus is the first book in the Spy Shop mystery series.

Toxic Octopus

There’s always room for improvement. It’s tough to be a great manager, but also fascinating, enriching, meaningful, and fun. Organizations need managers who bring individuals and teams together to do their best work in the service of company goals—make no mistake, management is a people-driven job. Though the barriers to success are many—you could become a victim of circumstances, confuse the need to manage with the need to control, let management become maintenance, fail to tune up and realign—don’t be discouraged. With over 30 years of experience, author Lisa Haneberg has seen it all and is here to guide you with 10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager. From detailing the foundational importance of knowing your business to understanding pull versus push motivation, managing change, and leaving a legacy, Haneberg illustrates how to establish or realign your management habits, describing in each step an area of action you can develop for a healthy management practice. With pointers, examples, tables, tools, and worksheets, this updated second edition is also aligned with ATD survey-based research on social skills crucial to managerial success—so you are better able to build managerial capabilities. Intended for managers of all experience levels, this book will help you to embrace your challenges and triumph over management barriers. Make your current management challenge the best job you will ever have.

10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager, 2nd Edition

Use this set of 20 ""Power Hour"" conversations to develop high-profile managers hungry for learning and management excellence, but seriously short on time. Using the increasingly popular ""informal"" training approach, Haneberg's ""Power Hour"" conversations motivate and focuses participants toward the pursuit of excellence. Replete with a facilitator's guide, handouts, and worksheets, this title is aimed at middle and senior level managers in all fields who seek to improve their own performance.

20 Power Hour Conversations That Build Skill Fast

Developing Great Managers

Most organizations today have a basic hierarchy: the entry-level staff that does the basic work' and the people at the top who make the decisions, enjoy the victories and delegate the failures.

High Impact Middle Management : Solutions for Today's Busy Managers

H.I.M.M.

Organization development (OD) practitioners help companies manage change and align people, processes, and practices for success. This book offers information to gain an understanding of the tools, practices, and core skills of the OD practitioner. It is suitable for training managers wishing to add new knowledge and capabilities to their resume.

Organization Development Basics

Jim Taylor

How do you go about improving leadership team performance, strengthening the connections between leaders, and strengthening the leadership team’s connections with the rest of the enterprise? This book tells you how. Leadership teams, working together, create the culture and set the tone for the entire organization. When leadership teams fail to connect with employees, their organizations fail. Expensive leadership meetings often accomplish nothing, and clashing leadership styles can disrupt the entire business. What do these issues have in common? Simply this: The way leaders work together is crucial, and enormous organization-wide performance improvements can be achieved when they work together more effectively. Readers will first learn how to define what leadership team excellence looks like, and clarify the organizational impact you want your leadership team to have. Next, they’ll learn how to systematically optimize the 5% of time your leaders spend working together–in person, electronically, and through subordinates. This book will help readers magnify their impact, whether they’re already at the top of the organization, or aspiring to a future leadership role.

Developing Executive Teams for Business Success

Connecting Top Managers

An exterminator goes missing. Green iguanas are crapping in boats and falling from trees. Someone is murdered. P.I. and spy shop owner Xena Cali will jump on a cruise ship and negotiate with a romance writer to solve this convoluted case.

Lisa Haneberg

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