The Energy Equation
Unlocking the Hidden Power of Energy in Business
1st Edition
Published on 3. December 2019
272 pages
978-1-119-63872-8 (ISBN)
Description
A groundbreaking approach to unlocking the power of energy for professional productivity and business success
The Energy Equation provides a new approach to achieving marketplace success by leveraging the internal workings of your business. The energy of your business is part of a physical system. Just like any other form of energy, it can be drained and wasted or be harnessed and optimized. This book offers a revolutionary contribution to management science that can be used to drive change, improve collaboration, enhance performance, strengthen organizational health and agility, and much more.
Author Greg Baker, CEO of Advance Consulting--a leading management consulting and professional development firm specializing in the transformation of people, teams, and organizations--shows you how to use "enterprise" energy to dramatically increase professional productivity and enhance business performance. The Energy Equation teaches you how to "see" the energy of your company, enabling you to understand why some things work and others don't. The traditional "surface-level management" model no longer works in the 21st century; a much deeper view is needed. The Energy Equation will help you unlock the hidden power of energy in your business:
* Eliminate unnecessary conflict that saps the energy of your business
* Build business agility, boost employee engagement, and establish a positive culture throughout your organization
* Optimize your daily business, manage change, and prepare for the future of work
* View your business through the lens of energy to see what is really happening beneath the surface
The Energy Equation is a powerful resource for any person or business seeking to adapt and thrive in the challenging global business environment.
The Energy Equation provides a new approach to achieving marketplace success by leveraging the internal workings of your business. The energy of your business is part of a physical system. Just like any other form of energy, it can be drained and wasted or be harnessed and optimized. This book offers a revolutionary contribution to management science that can be used to drive change, improve collaboration, enhance performance, strengthen organizational health and agility, and much more.
Author Greg Baker, CEO of Advance Consulting--a leading management consulting and professional development firm specializing in the transformation of people, teams, and organizations--shows you how to use "enterprise" energy to dramatically increase professional productivity and enhance business performance. The Energy Equation teaches you how to "see" the energy of your company, enabling you to understand why some things work and others don't. The traditional "surface-level management" model no longer works in the 21st century; a much deeper view is needed. The Energy Equation will help you unlock the hidden power of energy in your business:
* Eliminate unnecessary conflict that saps the energy of your business
* Build business agility, boost employee engagement, and establish a positive culture throughout your organization
* Optimize your daily business, manage change, and prepare for the future of work
* View your business through the lens of energy to see what is really happening beneath the surface
The Energy Equation is a powerful resource for any person or business seeking to adapt and thrive in the challenging global business environment.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Caption List
- Preface
- Chapter 1 The Dawn of a New Era in Business
- The Current Course of Business
- Our Current Path of Conflict
- The Change Dilemma
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Eroding Employee Engagement
- The Collision of Trends
- The Time Is Now
- How Business Could Be
- A Vision for the Future of Business
- The Language of Energy
- Challenging Traditional Business Norms
- Understanding Business Through the Lens of Energy
- Energy Only Seems Hidden
- How We "See" Energy and Understand Its Messages
- A Broken Business Function
- How Companies Miss the Target
- Misalignment Can Be Everywhere
- Chapter 2 Unintentional Conflict
- Understanding Conflict
- The Two Major Types of Conflict
- There Is No Good Conflict
- Intentional versus Unintentional Conflict
- Intentional Conflict Example
- Unintentional Conflict Example
- Traditional Conflict Management
- Too Little, Too Late
- Current Research Indicators
- An Uphill Battle
- Forms of Unintentional Conflict
- Why Unintentional Conflict Has Been Unseen
- Unintentional Conflict Can Be Anywhere
- The Enterprise Elements Model
- Conflict in Organizations
- Conflict in Operations
- Conflict Among People
- The Cost of Unintentional Conflict
- Calculating the Price Tag
- A Universal Model for Estimating the Cost of Unintentional Conflict
- Implications of the Cost Estimate
- Chapter 3 Shared Space
- The Power of Shared Space
- The Antidote for Unintentional Conflict
- Fixing a Broken Business Function with Shared Space
- Analyze the Problem
- Design Shared Space
- Implement the Changes
- Models for Creating Shared Space in the Enterprise
- Model for Diagnosing Problems and Conflict
- Model for Designing Shared Space
- Model for Designing New Enterprises and Functions
- Model for Implementing and Managing Change
- Strategies for Creating Shared Space in the Enterprise
- Start with How People Need to Work
- Follow the Money
- Target Conflict and Energy Leaks
- Recognize the Whole Organization Chart
- Define Both Reporting and Customer Relationships
- Align Control and Responsibility in Everything
- Build Capability and Capacity
- Make Operational Governance and Decision Making Explicit
- Drive Interpersonal and Collaborative Capability
- Chapter 4 Work and the Dimensions of Energy
- The Dimensions of Energy in Work
- The Dimensions of Energy and Their Ingredients
- Implications of the Dimensions of Energy
- One Thing Affects Another
- It Rolls Downhill
- A Success Story
- Optimizing Work Streams
- Individual Work Streams
- Common Work Streams
- Collective Work Streams
- Optimizing the Dimensions of Energy
- Chapter 5 Collaboration and Interpersonal Services
- The Importance of Collaboration
- The Types of Collaboration
- A Focus on Dynamic Collaboration
- The Collaboration Dynamic
- The Dynamic Overview
- Interaction Ingredients
- Fixed versus Flexible Ingredients
- Interactions in the Collaboration Dynamic
- Applying the Collaboration Dynamic
- The Spiraling-Downward Collaboration
- The Truly Effective Collaboration
- The Power of the Directional Dimension of Energy
- One-on-One Collaboration
- Building Shared Space with Others
- Essential Collaboration Skills
- The Other Conversation
- Group Collaboration
- Defining Group Collaboration
- The Collaborative Group Conversation
- Project-Based Group Collaboration
- Chapter 6 Managing People
- Machiavelli Was Right and Wrong
- What Drives People
- Appealing to the Best Part of People
- The Energy of Leadership
- Align Your Personal Dimension
- Know the Environmental Dimension
- Establish the Energetic Direction
- Align the Environment
- Align People Intellectually and Personally
- Align People Directionally
- Reward and Celebrate
- Avoiding Negative Behaviors
- Putting Me First
- Engaging in Conflict
- Resisting Change
- Bullying
- Playing the Victim
- Gossiping
- Addressing Negative Behaviors
- Chapter 7 Business Transformation, Health, and Agility
- Making Transformation and Change Initiatives Successful
- The Top Ten Real Reasons Why Change Initiatives Fail
- Managing the Energy of Change
- Strategy and Tactics
- Creating Business Agility and Organizational Health
- The Business Imperative
- A Well-Oiled Machine
- Moving Toward Health and Agility
- Chapter 8 Start Your Journey
- References
- About the Author
- Index
- EULA
