Berrett Koehler Publishers imprint: 672 books
by Legette McIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Government Manager's Guide to Contract Negotiation
Federal managers often find themselves at the negotiating table, charged with reaching a solid, fair deal for their agency. Now, you can gain a competitive edge in even the most difficult negotiations with time-tested, effective tactics...
The Pause Principle
Step Back to Lead Forward
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
We live and lead in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. But paradoxically, Kevin Cashman contends that leaders today must not merely act more quickly but pause more deeply. He details a catalytic process to guide you to step back in order to lead forward in three critical...
Conversations Worth Having
Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A Unique Guide to Changing Our World of Conversation.
Conversation is a crucial part of everything we do. It influences our well being—a good conversation can leave us ready for anything, a bad one can ruin our whole day. But most of us are unaware of the nature of our conversations, let alone how...
by Margaret J. Wheatley
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
By the bestselling author of Leadership and the New Science and Turning to One Another Thoughtful, compassionate reflections on how we can carry on with joy despite difficulties, challenges, and disappointments Illuminated by both beautiful original paintings and by poems and quotations from a variety...
Performance Consulting
A Strategic Process to Improve, Measure, and Sustain Organizational Results
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
**NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED
In America, organizations spend $175 billion in training initiatives and more than $500 billion in human resource solutions every year yet often have little to show for it. One reason is that people “jump to solutions” before they identify the causes of the problem....
Breaking Through Gridlock
The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Think about the last time you tried to talk with someone who didn't already agree with you about issues that matter most. How well did it go?
These conversations are vital, but too often get stuck. They become contentious or we avoid them because we fear they might. What if, in these difficult...
Emotional Value
Creating Strong Bonds with Your Customers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Today's consumers demand not only services and products that are of the highest quality, but also positive, memorable experiences. This essential guide shows how organizations can leapfrog their competitors by learning how to add emotional value -the economic value of customers' feelings when they...
Lead More, Control Less
8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn Convention
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
**Unleash Commitment, Initiative, and Innovation
In their decades of leading groups all over the world, Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff discovered they could get superior results by creating an unconventional approach to leadership. Leaders still need to get everyone aligned around the same...
Don't Kill the Bosses!
Escaping the Hierarchy Trap
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2001
The boss/subordinate relationship is an age-old problem cited in almost every management book and on-the-job survey as an area rife with dishonesty and inefficiency. All too often, subordinates spin the truth for those above while bosses fail to establish the conditions required for subordinates to...
The Trance of Scarcity
Stop Holding Your Breath and Start living Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2007
In her own life and through her work with others, Victoria Castle has repeatedly encountered the tragic theme of "not-enough-ness"--both the "I am not enough" and "There is not enough" varieties--and witnessed how it cripples even the most buoyant and passionate people...
Family Activism
Empowering Your Community, Beginning with Family and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
We live in a world that needs radical transformation if our children and grandchildren are to live healthy, peace-filled lives. But where to start? In this inspiring new book, activist Roberto Vargas says the answer lies surprisingly close: at home, with our closest relationships. In our daily lives...
The Power of Latino Leadership
Culture, Inclusion, and Contribution
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Embracing diversity, valuing people, taking action Over 50 million Latinos live in the United States, and it’s estimated that by 2050 one in three of the US population will be Hispanic. What does it take to lead such a varied and vibrant people who hail from twenty-two different countries and are...
Managing Hispanic and Latino Employees
A Guide to Hiring, Training, Motivating, Supervising, and Supporting the Fastest Growing Workforce Group
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
The first book on supporting and developing Hispanic employees in any organization Identifies three overarching concepts that shape Hispanic culture and explores how they influence workplace behavior and expectations Written by a distinguished Hispanic author and authority on Hispanic economic behavior...
Terms of Engagement
New Ways of Leading and Changing Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Building engagement is crucial for every organization. But the traditional top-down coercive change management paradigm--in which leaders "light a fire" under employees--actually discourages engagement. Richard Axelrod offers a better way. After debunking six common change management myths,...