Most Popular Books by David Ulrich

The author argues that the roles of human resource professionals must be redefined to meet the competitive challenges organizations face today and into the future. He provides a framework that identifies four distinct roles of human resource professionals: strategic player, administrative expert, employee champion, and change agent. He includes many examples to demonstrate that human resource professionals must operate in all four areas simultaneously in order to contribute fully. He urges a shift of these professionals'' mentality from "what I do" to "what I deliver" and makes specific recommendations for how individuals in human resources can partner with line managers to make organizations more competitive.

The authors provide practical tools to build organizational capabilities, design HR strategy, and marshal resources that create value for customers, investors, executives, and employees.

u003cpu003eu003cbu003eDiscover your voice, cultivate mindful awareness, and inspire creative growth with photographyu003c/bu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003eIn u003ciu003eThe Mindful Photographeru003c/iu003e, teacher, author, and photographer David Ulrich follows up on the success of his previous book, u003ciu003eZen Camerau003c/iu003e, by offering photographers, smartphone camera users, and other cultural creatives 55 short (1-5 pages) essays on topics related to photography, mindfulness, personal growth, creativity, and cultivating personal and social awareness. Whether you’re seeking to become a better photographer, find your voice, enhance your ability to “see” the world around you, realize your full potential, or refine your personal expression, u003ciu003eThe Mindful Photographeru003c/iu003e can help you. You will learn to:u003c/pu003e u003culu003e • Awaken your creative spiritu003c/ulu003e u003culu003e • Find joy and fulfillment with a camerau003c/ulu003e u003culu003e • Improve your photographyu003c/ulu003e u003culu003e • Express your deepest vision of the worldu003c/ulu003e u003culu003e • Learn to be more present in the momentu003c/ulu003e u003culu003e • Deepen your capacity for observationu003c/ulu003e u003culu003e • Gain insight into your self and othersu003c/ulu003e u003culu003e • Cultivate mindful seeingu003c/ulu003e u003culu003e • Use your camera as a tool for changeu003c/ulu003e u003culu003e • Enhance your visual literacyu003c/ulu003e u003culu003e • And much moreu003c/ulu003e u003cpu003eYou can read this beautiful, richly illustrated book in order, following its inherent structure, or you can dive into the book anywhere that appeals to you, following your own stream of interest. No matter how you read and work through the book—many of the essays contain exercises, working practices, and quotes from well-known photographers—you will learn to deepen your engagement with the world and discover a rich source of creativity within you through the act of taking pictures.u003c/pu003e u003cbru003e TABLE OF CONTENTSu003cbru003e Introductionu003cbru003e Seek Resonanceu003cbru003e Camera Practiceu003cbru003e Avoid the Merely Pictorialu003cbru003e Pictures are Not About Picturesu003cbru003e Visual Learningu003cbru003e First Sight; Beginner’s Eyeu003cbru003e The Camera in Your Handu003cbru003e Seeing from the Bodyu003cbru003e It’s All About Hormonesu003cbru003e Attention and Distractionu003cbru003e Keep the French Friesu003cbru003e Becoming Goodu003cbru003e Audienceu003cbru003e Fitting into the Flow of Timeu003cbru003e Catch the Wave, Not the Rippleu003cbru003e Of Time and Lightu003cbru003e In Spaceu003cbru003e Finding Your Mojou003cbru003e River of Consciousnessu003cbru003e Why Selfies?u003cbru003e When to Put the Camera Downu003cbru003e Mindful Sightu003cbru003e Creative Timeu003cbru003e Minding the Darknessu003cbru003e Potency of Metaphoru003cbru003e Mapping the Internal Terrainu003cbru003e What Helps?u003cbru003e Analyzing Your Imagesu003cbru003e Sift, Edit, and Refineu003cbru003e Sequencingu003cbru003e Experimentu003cbru003e Become the Camerau003cbru003e Music of the Spheresu003cbru003e InSeeingu003cbru003e Fifty/Fiftyu003cbru003e Creative Mind and Not Knowingu003cbru003e Trust Your Processu003cbru003e Digital Lifeu003cbru003e Steal Like an Artistu003cbru003e Art is a Lie that Tells the Truthu003cbru003e Use Irony Sparinglyu003cbru003e Embrace Paradoxu003cbru003e When to be Tender, When to Snarl, When to Shout, and When to Whisperu003cbru003e Sharpness is a Bourgeois Conceptu003cbru003e Learn to Love the Questionsu003cbru003e The Wisdom of Chanceu003cbru003e Awake in the Worldu003cbru003e The Cruel Radiance of What Isu003cbru003e Hope and Despairu003cbru003e Companions on the Wayu003cbru003e Coherence and Presenceu003cbru003e Wholeness and Orderu003cbru003e Creative Intensityu003cbru003e Sea of Imagesu003cbru003e The Power of Artu003cbru003e

Zen Camera is an unprecedented photography practice that guides you to the creativity at your fingertips, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera, even the one embedded in your phone. David Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching photography to offer six profound lessons for developing your self-expression. Doing for photography what The Artist’s Way and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain did for their respective crafts, Zen Camera encourages you to build a visual journaling practice called your Daily Record in which photography can become a path of self-discovery. Beautifully illustrated with 83 photographs, its insights into the nature of seeing, art, and personal growth allow you to create photographs that are beautiful, meaningful, and uniquely your own. You’ll ultimately learn to change the way you interact with technology—transforming it into a way to uncover your innate power of attention and mindfulness, to see creatively, and to live authentically.

“This definitive work on HR competencies provides ideas and tools that help HR professionals develop their career and make their organization effective.” —Edward E. Lawler III, Professor, University of Southern California “This book is a crucial blueprint of what it takes to succeed. A must have for every HR professional.” —Lynda Gratton, Professor, London Business School “One single concept changed the HR world forever: ‘HR business partner’. Through consistent cycles of research and practical application, Dave and his team have produced and update the most comprehensive set of HR competencies ever.” —Horacio Quiros, President, World Federation of People Management Associations "Packed with facts, evidence, and prescriptive advice. It is about being a business leader first, and an HR professional second.” —Randy MacDonald, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, IBM Corporation "The concepts and competencies presented in this book provide HR leaders with new insights." —Gina Qiao, Senior Vice President, HR Lenovo “Powerful, relevant and timely! Defines "new HR" in a pragmatic way. This book is a must for leaders and HR folks who seek to create sustainable competitive advantage.” —Satish Pradhan, Chief, Group Human Resources, Tata Sons Limited “You can’t argue with the data! This book is a definitive and practical guide to learning the HR competencies for success.” —John Lynch, Senior Vice President, HR, General Electric “A must read for any HR executive. This research-based competency model is particularly compelling because it is informed by the perspective of non-HR executives and stakeholders.” —Sue Meisinger, Distinguished speaker and author, former CEO of SHRM "Read this book for a unique long-term perspective on where HR competencies have brought us and must take us in future." —John Boudreau, Professor, University of Southern California and Research Director, Center for Effective Organizations

Many people long to fulfill their creative potential yet don''t know how. Using the stream as a metaphor, author David Ulrich takes readers through the full range of creative activity and shows that creativity is accessible to everyone who wishes to nourish and develop their artistic spirit. In Part One, he explores the seven stages of the creative process, from Discovery and Encounter through Responsibility and Release. In Part Two, he discusses the three guiding principles of creativity. Each chapter in Part One includes questions, exercises, and suggestions to help readers achieve each step in the process. The book also includes anecdotes and quotations from many artists, writers, and scientists.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER! ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE WHY OF WORK: "Principled, timely, and engaging, The Why of Work teaches that building a culture of abundance and common purpose is essential to organizational success." --Stephen R. Covey, bestselling author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People "Will have a major impact on how individuals shape their attitude to work, how organizations create abundant cultures, and how leaders turn personal meaning into public good." --Jigmi Y. Thinley, Prime Minister of Bhutan "The Why of Work shows a better, different way to build and lead organizations. It is an insightful guide to how leaders can infuse meaning into their organizations." --Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business and author of Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don''t "This book brings the question ''why'' to the place in which we spend most of our adult lives, giving us insightful tools to help make a meaningful difference in people''s lives." --Don Hall, Jr., president and CEO, Hallmark Cards, Inc. "This is a must read for anyone who works, leads others at work, or works to build a supportive environment." --Beverly Kaye, founder/CEO, Career Systems International, and coauthor of Love ''Em or Lose ''Em: Getting Good People to Stay "The Why of Work opens the door to significant employee engagement. The alignment between company values and those of customers and communities can indeed give employees a sense of purpose while delivering great results to customers!" --Paula S. Larson, Chief HR Officer, Invesys "Blackstone has proved that finding superior leaders produces superior results. Dave Ulrich has brought this thinking to a new level at Blackstone. Every private equity investor and senior manager must read this book." --James Quella, Senior Operating Partner, The Blackstone Group According to studies, we all work for the same thing--and it''s not just money. It''s meaning. Through our work, we seek a sense of purpose, contribution, connection, value, and hope. Digging down to the meaning of work taps our resilience in hard times and our passion in good times. That''s the simple but profound premise behind this groundbreaking book by renowned management expert Dave Ulrich and psychologist Wendy Ulrich. They''ve talked to thousands of people--from rank-and-file workers to clients and customers to top-level executives--and synthesized major disciplines to identify the "why" behind our most successful experiences. Using the model of the "abundant organization," they provide you with the "how" to create meaning and value in your own workplace. Learn how to: Ask the seven questions that drive abundance Understand the needs of your customers and staff Personalize the work to motivate your employees Build and grow your business in any economy By following the Ulrichs'' step-by-step guidelines, you will set off a chain reaction of positive and enduring effects. Employees who fi nd meaning in their work are more competent, committed, and eager to contribute—and their contribution will result in increased customer commitment, which delivers a winning performance on the bottom line. The Why of Work includes targeted checklists, questionnaires, and other useful tools to help you turn aspirations into action. Using the proven principles of abundance, you can coordinate your needs with those of your employers, your employees, and your customers--and create a vision that resonates for years to come. When you understand why we work, you know how to succeed.

The journey of HR -- The state of the HR profession -- Credible activist -- Culture & change steward -- Talent manager/organization designer -- Strategy architect -- Operational executor -- Business ally -- Building an HR department -- Summary and implications.

A landmark book, Results-Based Leadership challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding leadership. Authors Ulrich, Zenger, and Smallwood--world-renowned experts in human resources and training--argue that it is not enough to gauge leaders by personal traits such as character, style, and values. Rather, effective leaders know how to connect these leadership attributes with results. Results-Based Leadership shows executives how to deliver results in four specific areas: results for employees, for the organization, for its customers, and for its investors. The authors provide action-oriented guidelines that readers can follow to develop and hone their own results-based leadership skills. By shifting our focus to the connection between the attributes and the results of leadership, this perceptive new guide fundamentally improves our understanding of effective leadership. Results-Based Leadership brings a refreshing clarity and directness to the leadership discussion, providing a hands-on program to help executives succeed with their leadership challenges.

This title answers one of the most timeless questions around leadership - what makes an effective leader? It presents the essentials of good leadership and shows how to develop these elements in oneself as well as in others.

Famous "Work-Out" change-management tool explained by the people who helped develop it. GE''s legendary Work-Out program played a key role in the company''s phenomenal success over the past decade and has been implemented in many other organizations. Now three executives and consultants who developed the original Work-Out approach at GEoften working directly with CEO Jack Welchdiscuss the inner workings of Work-Out and their experiences at successfully implementing the program at GE. Filled with effective assessment and decisionmaking tools, The GE Work-Out provides concrete and realistic guidance for anyone who wants to implement Work-Out and break down bureaucracy and hierarchy within an organization.

Introduces a new way of measuring and thinking about the contributions of individuals to business success. Makes the case that the role of Human Resources is increasingly important, as company assets become more intangible and reliant on intellectual capital. Provides a framework that focuses on identifying where Human Resources issues are performance drivers--or impediments--to strategy implementation. Develops a measurement system that provides valid, reliable indicators of Human Resources'' contribution to the success of strategy implementation, and ultimately to firmperformance. Includes recommendations supported by clear and persuasive examples, as well as the authors'' unique survey of 2,800 firms.

"The Change Champion''s Fieldguide" contains successful tools, instruments, case studies, and models from the best in the industry that readers can apply for initiating and leading change within a social or organizational system.

Tomorrow’s HR Management In the future, will human resource management emerge as an even more critical factor in developing and maintaining a company’s competitive edge, or will it become just one more outsourced function overseen by managers busy juggling several other responsibilities at the same time? Will HR departments buckle under the constant pressure to do more with less, or will inspired leaders develop practices that link HR to overall business strategies and improved organizational capabilities? Tomorrow’s HR Management is about creating the future right in your own company—adapting to meet the needs of your enterprise and the demands of a changing business environment. In this remarkably visionary volume, 48 of the most perceptive and imaginative HR executives, consultants, and scholars from around the world offer their views on the future of the field and prescribe courses of action that will help CEOs and HR managers shape that future. Each of the book’s six sections advocates a strategic goal designed to increase HR’s productivity, efficiency, and adaptability. Each chapter analyzes obstacles and formulates tactics designed to help reach these goals. This book helps HR managers and business leaders to: Manage HR like a business—define and deliver clear outcomes Play new roles in the competitive environment of the future Prepare for the future Build an infrastructure and discover how to measure progress Remember the human in Human Resources Go global through advances in technology Whether the future brings a steady and gradual curve of change or dramatic events that require drastic, overnight adjustments to radically new business environments, Tomorrow’s HR Management will help lead the way in meeting these challenges and can be used by anyone from the CEO to the newest HR professional to create a more competitive organization.

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"Structured like a multiple-choice quiz, this easy-to-read, easy-to-reference book will allow you to test your knowledge on people process issues and become more effective in designing HR initiatives." - cover.