Michael Wade

Improve your business performance through digital transformationDigital transformation has become commonplace across public and private sector organizations, and yet most struggle to achieve tangible results from it. Many make avoidable mistakes or fall into simple traps along the way. Written by a team of global digital transformation thought leaders, Hacking Digital provides practical advice and information that you need to successfully transform your organization. Hacking Digital is organized into six easy-to-follow sections:• Initiating Your Digital Transformation• Setting Up the Right Organizational Dynamics • Working with the Outside World• Creating Value in New Ways• Leading People and Organizations• Anchoring and Sustaining PerformanceHow do you create a sense of urgency? How do you set up digital governance? How do you create successful digital offerings? How do you manage the relationship between digital transformation and IT? How do you scale digital initiatives?Hacking Digital answers these and many other questions you need to transform your organization and seize a competitive edge for years to come. www.hackingdigital.org

How do people come up with truly original ideas? The answer is to think outside the box--way outside. For the past decade, Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade, professors of innovation and strategy at IMD Business School, have studied inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs, and artists. These people, or "aliens," as the authors call them, are able to make leaps of creativity, and use five patterns of thinking that distinguish them from the rest of us. These five patterns--Attention, Levitation, Imagination, Experimentation, and Navigation--lead to a fresh and flexible approach to problem-solving. Alien thinkers know how to free the imagination so it can detect hard-to-observe patterns. They practice deliberate ways to retreat from the world in order to see the big picture underlying a problem. And they approach ideas in systematic ways that reflect the constraints of reality. Through surprising and compelling stories, the authors show how readers can use this method to develop out-of-this-world ideas. ALIEN Thinking can help any of us find innovative solutions to the most difficult problems.

This book presents the latest evidence-based approaches to assessing and managing movement disorders in children. Uniquely, the authors have chosen to examine not just children with developmental coordination disorder, but also children with movement difficulties as a co-occurring secondary characteristic of another development disorder, including Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Specific language Impairment and Dyslexia.Guidelines are underpinned by motor learning theory, empiricism and professional practice. The authors have taken an ecological approach to management and show how professionals and carers working together can make relatively simple changes in a child's life that aggregate to substantial support. The book is rich in case studies to demonstrate the adaptability of these guidelines and show how they may be applied to children of different ages, abilities, and environments. The final chapter is comprised of interviews of thirteen notable clinicians and academics with intervention methodologies from around the world.This book will prove a valuable guide for anybody working with children with movement difficulties, including clinicians, teachers and parents.

Company leaders feel the urgency to transform their organizations in the face of digital disruption. New rivals are digitizing whatever can be digitized to attack incumbents' value chains, gaining marketing share, eroding margins, and wreaking havoc to the competitive landscape in virtually every industry.For large and midsized companies, the imperative to transform is clear. How to transform is another matter.The hard truth is that despite leaders' best efforts, and billions spent in pursuit of digital transformation, the vast majority of organizational change programs fizzle, falling well short of their expected impacts. But organizations can ill-afford for their transformation programs to flop. Failed transformation programs put incumbents behind the eight ball when it comes to dealing with disruptive competition.With this important new book, Orchestrating Transformation: How to Deliver Winning Performance with a Connected Approach to Change, the team at the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, an IMD and Cisco initiative, set out a new prescription for getting transformation right.The piecemeal strategies and pilot projects that are hallmarks of conventional transformation programs are hopelessly inadequate for the intricate, sprawling organizational environments found in most companies. Accordingly, transformation practitioners need a different mindset and a new approach to executing change that can handle the complexity and scale of today's market leaders. Orchestration--"mobilizing and enabling so as to achieve a desired effect"--paves the way for a new, more holistic conception of organizational resources and how they work together to drive change synergistically. The follow-up to 2016's award-winning Digital Vortex, the book is packed with quantitative and qualitative insights from years of applied research and engagement with executives around the world.A unique and indispensable guide for practitioners, Orchestrating Transformation moves past traditional change management doctrine to show how a connected approach to change can change everything.

This is the new edition of a book that addresses a pressing need: how to avoid inadvertent communication blunders. It takes little imagination to think of how easily a single thoughtless, stupid or cruel remark can cause enormous damage to a person's career dreams and professional standing. Numerous examples can be found in the newspapers and on the six o'clock news. All I Said Was is an experienced navigator's advice on how to avoid the rocks and shallows of a workplace that is increasingly diverse and confrontational. Written and recently revised by a management consultant and former EEO officer, the book steers a course between being hypersensitive and being indifferent to the feelings of others. Its practical approach can be used by individuals and employers to prevent harassment, avoid public relations disasters, and foster trust.

Random Thoughts is a collection of reflections by management consultant, coach, trainer, and Execupundit.com blogger Michael Wade on business and life. The book, which Wade describes as "a nice hodgepodge," contains 701 pithy and eclectic thoughts, most of which first appeared in separate segments on his Execupundit blog. The blog itself has received wide praise from other bloggers: Three Star Leadership: "Michael Wade writes one of the widest ranging and most consistently stimulating blogs on this or any other planet."Political Calculations: "Michael Wade is a Sherpa in the Himalayas of the business blogosphere." Cultural Offering: " Execupundit.com is] Elvis, Bruce and Frank all rolled up in one blog." Nicholas Bate: "It's smart with insight. It's funny with perception. If you're not reading it, you need to be."Delve into the book at any point and you might discover that the random thoughts of this seasoned observer match (or provoke) your own.

Sugden and Wade, leading authors in this area, comprehensively cover motor development and motor impairment, drawing on sources in medicine and health-related studies, motor learning and developmental psychology. A theme that runs through the book is that movement outcomes are a complex transaction of child resources, the context in which movement takes place, and the manner in which tasks are presented. The core themes of the book involve descriptions of motor development from conception through to emerging adulthood, explanations of motor development from differing theoretical, empirical, and experiential perspectives, and descriptions and explanations of atypical motor development when the resources of the child are limited in some way. Readership: Occupational therapists, physiotherapists, paediatricians, teachers (physical education, early childhood development, elementary education), educational psychologists, kinesiology and sports scientists.

My Power, My pleasure, My pain cuts deep into emotions from the revealings of truths we encounter and relate to in our everyday lives. For instance, the poem Gladiator is a perfect example of how we as people fight our own demons with the struggles of good or bad, right or wrong, and the plethora of difficult choices that could ultimately change our lives for the better or worse. Mizchief's Dead i...s another powerful and riveting poem demonstrating "we reep what we sow" and we can't change what's been done. But when the journey is at the end we must still chose our fate still fighting the evil trying to trap our souls into misery. Then the question remains which road will you take....The light or the dark? In the end the choice is ultimately yours. Great ending for the book

The English-speaking whites of South Africa participate in the larger culture of the English-speaking world while rejecting its unspoken consensual positions on many basic issues. This study analyses texts of different kinds produced by the group to examine the way these deviant English-speakers see themselves, and particularly how this self-image is influenced by the presence of the blacks who constitute a crucial part of their perceptual field. Economically powerful but politically marginal for many years, the English-speaking whites have always been mediators of their community's experience to the world culture of the English language; the study shows how the act of mediation operates in more than one direction, producing a literary tradition that is essentially - and perhaps surprisingly - dissident.

The English-speaking whites of South Africa participate in the larger culture of the English-speaking world while rejecting its unspoken consensual positions on many basic issues. This study analyses texts of different kinds produced by the group to examine the way these deviant English-speakers see themselves, and particularly how this self-image is influenced by the presence of the blacks who constitute a crucial part of their perceptual field. Economically powerful but politically marginal for many years, the English-speaking whites have always been mediators of their community's experience to the world culture of the English language; the study shows how the act of mediation operates in more than one direction, producing a literary tradition that is essentially - and perhaps surprisingly - dissident.