Ellen: 2931 books
Bridging the Values Gap
How Authentic Organizations Bring Values to Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
**Bridging the Values Gap
Business has a values problem. It's not just spectacular public scandals like Enron (which, incidentally, had a great corporate values statement). Many companies fail to live up to the standards they set for themselves, alienating the public and leaving employees cynical...
by Alexander Taub, Ellen DaSilva
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BUILD REVENUE-GENERATING PARTNERSHIPS
Corporations have profited from strong business development strategies for years. So it's no surprise that of the half-million new businesses created each year, the most successful ones are driven by business development. Now, savvy professionals...
Developing Tenacity
Teaching learners how to persevere in the face of difficulty
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Bill Lucas and Ellen Spencer’s Developing Tenacity: Teaching learners how to persevere in the face of difficulty is a powerful call to action and a practical handbook for all teachers who want to stimulate and strengthen their pupils’ learning tenacity. The UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group...
Mediation Ethics
Cases and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Mediation Ethics is a groundbreaking text that offers conflict resolution professionals a much-needed resource for traversing the often disorienting landscape of ethical decision making. Edited by mediation expert Ellen Waldman, the book is filled with illustrative case studies and authoritative commentaries...
The New CIO Leader
Setting the Agenda and Delivering Results
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Two converging factors--the ubiquitous presence of technology in organizations and the recent technology downturn--have brought chief information officers (CIOs) to a critical breaking point. They can seize the moment to leverage their expertise into a larger and more strategic role than ever before,...
On Becoming an Artist
Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“All it takes to become an artist is to start doing art.”
–from On Becoming an Artist
On Becoming an Artist is loaded with good news. Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer shows us that creativity...
The Graphic Designer's Guide to Clients
How to Make Clients Happy and Do Great Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Here is the perfect volume for graphic designers who want real-life advice for long-term success. Renowned designer Ellen Shapiro reveals time-tested tricks of the trade-for making sure the clients you want to work with know about you, become your clients, and work with you productively. Then, in...
by Ellen M. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Here is the perfect volume for graphic designers who want real-life advice for long-term success. Renowned designer Ellen Shapiro reveals time-tested tricks of the trade—for making sure the clients you want to work with know about you, become your clients, and work with you productively. Then, in...
A Wealth of Possibilities
Navigating Family, Money, and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
What separates financially successful, multigenerational families who flourish from those who languish? With professional knowledge, informed reflection, and poignent and charming anecdotes, Ellen Perry shares her twenty-five years of experience advising more than one hundred wealthy families. A Wealth...
by Michael Cowley, Ellen Domb
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Hoshin is a system which was developed in Japan in the 1960's, and is a derivative of Management By Objectives (MBO). It is a Management System for determining the appropriate course of action for an organization, and effectively accomplishing the relevant actions and results. Having recognized the...
Women Navigating Globalization
Feminist Approaches to Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This up-to-date text offers a clear and cogent introduction to women in development. Exploring the global structures and processes that impede or support the empowerment of women, Jana Everett and Sue Ellen M. Charlton use a feminist lens to understand contemporary gender roles. Without such a lens,...
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism
A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A historical essay on old regimes and modern states
In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a “modern” state and political culture in Continental Europe, signaled the persistence...
Democracy Against Capitalism
Renewing Historical Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference,” and con-tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism...
From Dependency to Independence
Economic Revolution in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
In a sweeping synthesis of a crucial period of American history, From Dependency to Independence starts with the'problem'of New England's economic development. As a struggling outpost of a powerful commercial empire, colonial New England grappled with problems familiar to modern developing societies:...