Books like Leading with cultural intelligence by David A. Livermore

A practical guide that outlines a rule for eliminating toxic behavior in the workplace, explaining how to identify, confront, and prevent the presence of "assholes" in organizations.

Every day organizations around the world launch change initiatives--often big, expensive ones--designed to improve the status quo. Yet 50 to 70 percent fo these change efforts fail. A few perish suddenly, but many die painful, protracted deaths that drain the organizations’s resources, energy, moral.So, Who or what is killing change? That’s what you’ll find out in this delightful whodunit. The story features a Columbo-style detective named Agent who’s investigating the murder of yet another Change. One by one, Agent interviews thirteen prime suspects, including a myopic leader named Vision; a chronically tardy manager named Urgency; an executive named Communication whose laryngitis makes communication all but impossible; and several other dubious characters. The suspects are shure to sound familiar, and you’re bound to relate them to your own workplace. In the end, Agent solves the case in a way that will inspire you to become an effective Change Agent in your own organization.

In yet another page-turner, New York Times best-selling author and acclaimed management expert Patrick Lencioni addresses the costly and maddening issue of silos, the barriers that create organizational politics. Silos devastate organizations, kill productivity, push good people out the door, and jeopardize the achievement of corporate goals. As with his other books, Lencioni writes Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars as a fictional--but eerily realistic--story. The story is about Jude Cousins, an eager young management consultant struggling to launch his practice by solving one of the more universal and frustrating problems faced by his clients. Through trial and error, he develops a simple yet ground-breaking approach for helping them transform confusion and infighting into clarity and alignment.

Discover how to boost your cultural intelligence and sharpen business skills with case studies and practical strategies for working across borders.

Three successful black women executives reveal practical strategies for building confidence, effective communication, collaboration, and courage, while navigating stereotypes and self-victimization to advance careers.

Discover how to generate and sustain the positive energy that fuels high-performing organizations, with proven leadership strategies to boost employee motivation and achieve lasting results.

Explore how the hidden tribal structure of any organization—groups of 20 to 150 people—impacts success, and learn practical tools to upgrade your company’s tribal culture from one to five, boosting teamwork, productivity, and profit.

"Written for anyone who is serious about ministry, this book explains why cultural intelligence is essential and what one must do to develop and employ it in the practice of ministry." - Sherwood Lingenfelter, author of Ministering Cross-Culturally. As twenty-first-century society grows increasingly complex, pluralistic, and multicultural, it behooves Christians to communicate effectively between and among diverse populations. Research indicates that missions often fail because of cultural collision and lack of empathy and understanding between different peoples. David Livermore proposes a meta model--based on sound research principles and social science methodology--for helping Christians intelligently navigate the multicultural maze in Cultural Intelligence. The much-needed skill of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) both at home and abroad is the ability to work effectively across national, ethnic, and even organizational cultures. Livermore explains that CQ is not simply learning how to externally modify behavior but is based on inward transformation. His work is replete with assessment tools, simulations, case studies, and reflective exercises. Professors and students of missiology, practical theology, ministry leadership, intercultural studies, and sociology in Christian colleges, seminaries, and lay training programs will glean needed knowledge to become culturally sensitive, aware, and intelligent. This addition to the Youth, Family, and Culture series will help individuals and organizations share the Christian message with those of different backgrounds. - Publisher.