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Khaitan R: The Corporate Chess

The Corporate Chess

This book was written for new, existing, and aspiring plant managers as a practical guideline for understanding what it means to run a manufacturing operation. It clarifies the plant manager's role as the central coordinator of people, processes, equipment, and resources, helping readers grasp how these elements interact to create a safe, efficient, and profitable environment. For someone stepping into the role for the first time, this foundation reduces uncertainty and builds confidence by translating complex responsibilities into clear, manageable concepts.Beyond the basics, the book guides readers through the daily realities of plant leadership. It explains how to manage production flow, maintain equipment reliability, uphold quality standards, and ensure workplace safety, all while balancing cost, deadlines, and customer expectations. Existing plant managers benefit from structured frameworks and best practices that help them refine their approach, identify inefficiencies, and strengthen operational discipline. The goal is to elevate performance, not just maintain it.For aspiring plant managers, the book acts as a career development tool. It highlights the skills, behaviors, and leadership qualities that distinguish effective managers, such as communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and the ability to motivate diverse teams. By illustrating real-world scenarios and common challenges, it prepares future leaders for the pressures and responsibilities they will eventually face, giving them a head start on building the mindset required for success.Finally, the book ties all these elements together by emphasizing continuous improvement and strategic thinking. Manufacturing plants operate in a world of constant change, new technologies, shifting customer demands, and evolving workforce expectations. The book encourages readers to adopt a forward-looking perspective, showing how strong plant managers not only solve today's problems but also anticipate tomorrow's opportunities. In doing so, it becomes a long-term companion for anyone committed to running a plant that is resilient, competitive, and ready for the future.

Achieving Operational Excellence in Plant Management

The Factory Mindset

How do we design for connection?A sense of belonging is not a nice-to-have but a fundamental human need. At work, at home and in our communities, belonging shapes our health, wellbeing and ability to thrive. Yet as society becomes increasingly individualized and workplaces evolve, many people are left feeling disconnected and isolated.The Choir Effect introduces 12 practical principles for building trust, connection and belonging, drawn from scientific research, real-world examples and lived experience. Inspired by the remarkable bonding effects of communal singing, it explores what singing together reveals about human nature and translates those insights into practical tools for application in our everyday lives. Discover how to create environments where people feel safe, valued and connected, whether leading a team, strengthening personal relationships or building a community.At a time when loneliness, polarization and social fragmentation are on the rise, The Choir Effect offers a timely and hopeful response. Combining compelling stories, accessible research and practical exercises, it provides a framework for creating shared experiences that foster trust, connection and belonging.

How to build trust, connection and belonging in a fragmented world

The Choir Effect

Why do some organizations stay aligned as they grow while others descend into confusion, bureaucracy, competing priorities, and inconsistent execution?Because culture is not what companies say they value. It is the operating environment people are expected to work within - and most organizations never design it intentionally. As organizations grow, culture becomes increasingly difficult to sustain through mission statements, good intentions, and informal leadership practices alone. In Inside the Square, Matthew Person challenges conventional thinking by reframing culture as an operating condition that requires mutual fit between employee and organization. He introduces the Square Management System, a practical framework built on four interconnected dimensions - Identity, Instruction, Intercommunication, and Information Feedback - each containing specific elements that leaders can leverage to define the operating environment employees experience every day.At the center of the framework is a simple idea: high-performing cultures emerge when employee autonomy is balanced with clearly defined operating constraints, creating what Matthew Person calls Constrained Independence. When employees not only understand, but agree with what the company stands for, how decisions are made, how communication flows, and where boundaries exist, trust increases, execution becomes more consistent, and organizations move faster. Through a diagnostic assessment, implementation tools, and insights from real-world examples, leaders learn how to use the Square Management System to create the conditions for mutual fit and build organizations where both the company and its employees can succeed together.Written for CEOs, founders, executives, and managers, Inside the Square provides a blueprint for building high-trust, high-performance organizations that consistently execute, adapt, and grow.

How Leaders Operationalize Autonomy at Scale

Inside the Square

The Sylvatica Principle

Modern management is built on a quiet assumption: that continuity equals progress. When systems stall, teams slow down, or growth falters, the response is almost always the same-push harder, optimize further, maintain momentum.
The Sylvatica Principle for Managers challenges that assumption.
Drawing from living systems, organizational dynamics, and structural analysis, Antonio Garrido Caballero introduces a new lens for understanding why growth inevitably reaches a limit-and why interruption is not a breakdown, but a necessary condition for restoring coherence. When systems become rigid, leadership turns managerial, and organizations lose their generative capacity, the problem is not failure. It is saturation.
This is not a book of techniques, formulas, or motivation. It offers no quick fixes or productivity hacks. Instead, it provides a structural framework for recognizing when an organization has reached the natural boundary of its current form-and how interruption, suspension, and reconfiguration are essential phases of sustainable renewal.
Written for managers, leaders, and decision-makers who sense that something is no longer working-not because it failed, but because it has fully expressed itself-The Sylvatica Principle for Managers reframes collapse as intelligence, interruption as movement, and coherence as the true measure of organizational health.
When growth reaches its limit, interruption is not failure.

The Sylvatica Principle for Managers

Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Marketing and Behavioral Science (ICMBS 2026)

New Trends in Marketing and Behavioral Science

If you can choose negativity, you can choose something better.When stress, bitterness, and exhaustion push Aaron King into a cycle of constant complaining and excessive pessimism, he knows something has to change. He recognizes the negativity shaping his days. He just doesn't know how to break the habit. Everything shifts when a longtime friend introduces him to Michelle Chase, a workplace culture expert with a proven framework for transforming negative thinking.Tell Me Somethin' Good! is a modern parable for anyone feeling overwhelmed, hopeless, or stuck in patterns that drain their energy. Aaron, once known as the steady, positive leader in a demanding call center environment, has slowly fallen into habits that affect his work, relationships, and sense of purpose. His awareness of the problem isn't enough. He needs a path forward.Michelle offers exactly that. With a degree in positive psychology and years of experience helping organizations and individuals reshape their mindset, she guides Aaron through a six-part model designed to replace negativity with intentional, empowering choices. Their conversations blend practical wisdom with relatable storytelling, making the lessons easy to understand and even easier to apply.This inspiring book combines personal development, leadership insights, and mindset transformation. Readers will learn: <ul><li>Why negativity is a habit, not a personality</li><li>How constant complaining and excessive pessimism reinforce each other</li><li>How to interrupt negative thinking patterns</li><li>How to build a more positive mindset through intentional choices</li><li>How leaders influence workplace culture through their energy and behavior</li></ul>The book concludes with a twelve-choice application guide - two for each element of the framework - giving readers practical steps they can use immediately in their work, relationships, and daily life.Ideal for readers of personal growth, leadership development, workplace culture, and mindset transformation, Tell Me Somethin' Good! offers a clear, actionable path to breaking negative habits and rediscovering the best version of yourself.If you're ready to interrupt the cycle of negativity and choose something better, this story shows you exactly where to begin.

A Modern Parable About Overcoming Negativity

Tell Me Somethin' Good!

This powerful guide draws on strategies from Black resistance movements and merges historical wisdom with modern technology to combat the DEI backlash and build sustainable workplace equity in today’s hostile climate. As the unprecedented backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion intensifies—with corporations dismantling initiatives, lawmakers passing anti-DEI legislation, and post–George Floyd promises abandoned—this tactical handbook arms advocates with revolutionary resistance strategies drawn from Black historical movements. Dr. Janice Gassam Asare transforms centuries of Black resistance wisdom—from Underground Railroad networks to civil rights organizing tactics—into modern resistance plans, wielding ethical AI as a force multiplier to create sustainable change that outlasts corporate whims and political cycles. Each chapter grounds modern workplace tactics in revolutionary approaches of more than twenty prominent Black historical figures, including the following: <ul><li>Ida B. Wells—Documentation techniques for workplace injustice inspired by her work</li><li>Ella Baker and Fred Hampton—Coalition-building methods from the American civil rights movement</li><li>Toni Morrison and Angela Davis—Narrative control strategies drawn from their celebrated writing</li></ul> Whether you’re a DEI practitioner navigating corporate pushback, an employee experiencing equity rollbacks, or a leader committed to sustainable inclusion, this handbook provides battle-tested strategies for preserving workplace equity—even in hostile environments. This isn’t just about surviving the backlash. It’s about reimagining workplaces where everyone thrives.

How to Reclaim Workplace Equity and Justice

Rise and Resist

Mastering Emotions and Expectations to Cultivate Leadership Opportunities

Overcoming Frustration and Upset at Work

When the plan can’t keep up with changing conditions, strategic judgment must. Strategic leaders increasingly make consequential decisions in the gap between strategic intent and the plan of action. They need to stay oriented toward what they are trying to create while continually deciding what to hold, what to adapt, and what to let go of to meet rapidly changing conditions. The challenge is that pressure can begin shaping those decisions before you realize it. Over time, hundreds of reasonable choices can add up to something no one intended. In this book, strategist and executive coach Karin Blair reveals a hidden lever behind strategic judgment: the inner capacity of the leader making those calls. Through a framework of interconnected agilities, you’ll learn to <ul><li>build emotional agility to recognize when self-protection and reactivity are shaping your judgment,</li><li>develop cognitive agility to widen the perspectives and possibilities you can consider before deciding, and</li><li>strengthen navigational agility to stay oriented and committed as conditions change and results remain uncertain.</li></ul> With practical insights and real-world examples, Blair helps you recognize when pressure is narrowing your judgment and build the agilities that strengthen your capacity over time, so you can draw on it when the stakes are high. You can’t change the terrain. But you can expand your inner capacity to navigate it.

3 Agilities for Strategic Decisions

Capacity Under Pressure

The Overspray Effect: The Unseen Impact of How You Lead
Every leader leaves something behind. Most never see it. The sigh before you answer. The rushed directive. The frustration you thought you were hiding. Your team feels all of it, and it shapes how they think, speak up, and perform long after you've left the room.

James Bathurst calls it Overspray: the unintended emotional impact of leadership. Like paint from a spray can, it never stays where you aim it. It lands on everyone nearby, and it always leaves a mark.

Drawing on more than thirty years of leadership, including a 20-year Navy career and an additional 20 years in the private sector. James Bathurst shows how a leader's Overspray becomes a team's culture, one interaction at a time. You'll learn:
How emotion moves through a team, and why your intentions don't control how it lands
The Overspray Cycle(TM), a clear map of how your moods become your team's reality
How to spot your blind spots, regulate under pressure, and repair tension before it hardens into culture
Practical tools at the end of every chapter you can put to work immediately
25 visual models that make each concept easy to grasp and share with your team



Whether you lead a department, a company, a clinic, or a team of three, this book will change how you see the mark you leave behind.

The Overspray Effect

From one of our most visionary leadership coaches comes a bold new framework for successfully navigating complicated interactions at work, at home, and in all our relationships—featuring a foreword by Brené Brown. “Drawing on her years of coaching experience, Bethea names what is often left unspoken in our workplaces: the dynamics of power, identity, and accountability that shape our relationships.”—Prentis Hemphill, bestselling author of What It Takes to Heal We’ve all had them—awkward interactions at work that could have gone differently, misunderstandings at home that led to avoidable blowups. But what if those uncomfortable moments could become opportunities for personal transformation? Renowned leadership coach Aiko Bethea gives us an innovative and road-tested framework for learning to show up in any situation authentically and not as the people-pleasing or conflict-avoidant versions of ourselves that have become second nature to so many of us. The framework lays out how to successfully navigate moments of conflict: first we must be anchored in our values and purpose, then our actions and principles must be aligned, and finally we must be accountable for our impact. With these three steps, we can remake ourselves and our connections with others, fostering constructive dialogue and creating opportunities for growth. Throughout the book, Bethea draws on decades of real-life experience to show us the many forms that these scenarios can take, offering practical advice to help us lead from our most genuine selves and deepen relationships in every part of our lives. In doing so, she shows us how to transcend the bullshit we constantly encounter and meet each new day grounded in truth, connected to our values, and in control of not just what we do but who we become.

A Framework for Transcending Bullsh*t and Transforming Our Lives and Work

Anchored, Aligned, Accountable

The Corporate Chess

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