Administration category: 6852 books
If Disney Ran Your Hospital
9 1/2 Things You Would Do Differently
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2004
The 9 1/2 principles in this highly personal and refreshingly written book will help any hospital team gain the extraordinary competitive advantage that comes from being seen as “the best” by their own employees, consumers, and community. It takes profound knowledge, not usually taught in business...
by Donald F. Kettl
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Politics of the Administrative Process shows how efficient public administration requires a delicate balance—the bureaucracy must be powerful enough to be effective, but also accountable to elected officials and citizens. Author Don Kettl gives students a realistic, relevant, and well-researched...
Audacity
How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America’s best and most accomplished presidents.
Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse,...
Memos to the Governor
An Introduction to State Budgeting, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
This revised and updated edition of Memos to the Governor is a concise and highly readable guidebook that explains in clear, understandable prose the technical, economic, and political dynamics of budget making. Updated with many new examples of budget quandaries from recent years, this book helps current...
by Thomas L. Hollowak
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2000
Since its founding in 1925, the University of Baltimore has become one of Maryland's premier educational institutions. Originally organized as a practical solution for working men and women seeking a college degree, the institution developed rapidly-the School of Law and the College of Business Administration,...
Worth It
The Path to an Mba Abroad … and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Brazilian educational advisor and career coach Ricardo Betti helps people achieve their dreams. In Worth It, he shares the inspiring collection of stories of his clients who embarked on the adventure of taking time off from their careers to study abroad and gain international experience to earn an...
Never Be Afraid to Do the Right Thing
A Leadership Guide in an Age of Change and Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In this business memoir, Dr. Levey shares with the reader lessons learned from many years of experience.
A trained internist and endocrinologist, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute while at the University of Miami, a senior vice president for one of the world’s leading...
by Journal of School Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The Journal of School Public Relations is a quarterly publication providing research, analysis, case studies and descriptions of best practices in six critical areas of school administration: public relations, school and community relations, community education, communication, conflict management/resolution,...
by Margaret J. Barr, George S. McClellan
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This book will help new administrators (department chairs, directors, deans) understand and become more proficient in their financial management role within the institution. Highly accessible, practitioners will be able to put the book's guidance to immediate use in their work. It is also grounded...
by Chris Mares
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Whether you’re new to the position or a seasoned professional, you can find ways to make your work as an administrator more effective and require less effort. 50 Ways to Be a Better Administrator offers practical, common sense advice on how to improve your professional performance. The examples...
Treasured Past, Golden Future
The Centennial History of the University of Southern Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Originally established March 30, 1910, as Mississippi Normal College, The University of Southern Mississippi was built on 120 acres of cutover timber land and created to provide training for public school teachers. Chester M. Morgan outlines the evolution of the institution and tells the story of...
Tear Down This Myth
How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
In this provocative new book, award-winning political journalist Will Bunch unravels the story of how a right-wing cabal hijacked the mixed legacy of Ronald Reagan, a personally popular but hugely divisive 1980s president, and turned him into a bronze icon to revive their fading ideology. They succeeded...
by Nicholas deB Katzenbach
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
A lively, intimate memoir that vividly recalls the idealism of the Kennedy administration.
As deputy attorney general under Bobby Kennedy and then attorney general and under secretary of state for Lyndon Johnson, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach offers a unique perspective on the civil rights movement,...
by Stanley Kutler
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1999
Richard Nixon said he wanted his administration to be "the best chronicled in history." But when Alexander Butterfield disclosed the existence of a voice-activated taping system to a Senate committee in July 1973, Nixon's White House and its recordings quickly became the most infamous in American...