{"product_id":"upstanding-by-frank-a-calderoni-9781119746492","title":"Upstanding","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe CEO of Anaplan explains how a company’s character is a critical driver of sustained success.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his career as an executive at IBM, Cisco, and now as CEO of Anaplan, Frank A. Calderoni discovered that character is just as vital for companies as it is for individuals. In \u003ci\u003eUpstanding: How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth\u003c\/i\u003e, the author explores the powerful link between corporate strategy, company culture, and individual character, and how activating this link is essential to realizing strong company character—an essential ingredient for organizations to achieve hypergrowth, agility, and loyalty. This innovative resource features real-life examples of how today’s most successful companies are building upstanding character while increasing employee engagement, happiness, and performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is written to help executives, company founders, managers, and other leaders develop strategies that supercharge organizational performance while building a strong and high-engagement culture—providing real-world insights from the author’s own career along with a diverse cross-section of business thought leaders and CEOs of companies both small and large, local and global. The author draws upon his experience leading a $10 billion hypergrowth software company to explain how the fusion of culture and strategy, driven by a company’s character, leads to sustained internal and external success. Designed to empower leaders to make character the cornerstone of corporate culture, this invaluable resource:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eExplores what “upstanding character” means for an organization, and how building a culture based on empathy, courage, authenticity, integrity, respect, and other factors drives higher performance and value creation for employees, customers, partners, and shareholders.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eReviews research on how culture drives performance, and operational practices for building upstanding organizational character and driving value-aligned behaviour.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eFeatures original interviews with Shantanu Narayen, Cy Wakeman, Eric Hutcherson, Kellie McElhaney, Geoffrey Moore, and other leaders inside and outside the tech sector.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eProvides practical tools and approaches for increasing inclusion and belonging, improving communication, strengthening engagement, and rewarding upstanding character in employees.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eDiscusses the “Big 9” cultural values that are essential to creating upstanding company character, such as agility, collaboration, diversity, integrity, and respect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword by Shantanu Narayen, Chairman and CEO of Adobe, \u003ci\u003eUpstanding: How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Growth\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for executives and business leaders interested in strategy, leadership, organizational culture, and management innovation, as well as leadership teams and HR professionals who are responsible for guiding their organization’s culture and developing its character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855407304940,"sku":"9781119746492","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/aa90024956b4bb4d1c377b5f83300671.jpg?v=1759278510","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/upstanding-by-frank-a-calderoni-9781119746492","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}