Jo Whitehead: 11 books
Think Again
Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happeining to You
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Why do smart and experienced leaders make flawed, even catastrophic, decisions? Why do people keep believing they have made the right choice, even with the disastrous result staring them in the face? And how can you be sure you're making the right decision--without the benefit of hindsight?
Sydney...
by Jo Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
In any career in business, chances are that the time will come when someone will ask you to do a strategy for something. Too often, this will be a cue for stress at work and sleepless nights.
What You Need to Know about Strategy shows that it doesn’t have to be like this. Taking you step-by-step...
by Jo Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This book is designed for those who wish to encourage and empower through their leadership skills. Facilitation is about managing process - drawing people in, enabling them to contribute and holding the boundaries and values of a context to create a safe and productive place. Many ministry training...
Strategy for the Corporate Level
Where to Invest, What to Cut Back and How to Grow Organisations with Multiple Divisions
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A revised edition of the bestselling classic
This book covers strategy for organisations that operate more than one business, a situation commonly referred to as group-level or corporate-level strategy. Corporate-level strategy addresses four types of decisions that only corporate-level managers...
by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs,...
Strange Enemies
Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, a group of Wari’ Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari’ announced, “We touched their bodies!” Meanwhile the...
The Making of a Human Bomb
An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) launched against Israel during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–06). In so doing, he sheds much-needed light on how Palestinians have...
Unsettling Accounts
Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina’s Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet’s intelligence service reveals on a television show that he took sadistic pleasure in the sexual torture of women in clandestine prisons. A Brazilian military...
Genocide
Truth, Memory, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic “truth” about the...
Living with Bad Surroundings
War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord’s Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been murdered, maimed, and driven into displacement. Thousands of children have been abducted and forced...
by Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune...