Berrett Koehler Publishers imprint: 672 books
by Timothy J. Kloppenborg PhD, PMP, Arthur Shriberg EdD
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
This book traces the development of project leadership as fundamental to completing projects effectively, delineates the leadership tasks that must be accomplished at each step of a project's life, and helps the reader develop wisdom in making decisions both by learning the ramifications of certain decisions and by seeing how those decisions are made in an example project.
Just Good Business
The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
CSR can help companies build customer loyalty, recruit and retain employees, and stand out in a crowded marketplace. But to be most effective CSR must be intimately connected to the corporate brand—it must reinforce a company’s unique identity, be an integral part of how a company tells its story....
We Are All Self-Employed
How to Take Control of Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2003
This is not a book about starting your own business. Then again, it is. By now there is ample evidence that an "employed" attitude-believing that you work for an employer and acting as though by doing your work your job will be secure-is defunct. An employed attitude is the antithesis of...
Rethinking Money
How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
As the United States struggles and the economies of Europe stagger, we fail to see a way out of this agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. In fact, there are thousands of ways to solve not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. Solutions...
The Art and Power of Facilitation
Running Powerful Meetings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
A Volume of the Business Analysis Essential Library Series
The heart of the business analyst's role is to drive various constituencies through processes to achieve consensus on the needs of the business. Successfully facilitating meetings — whether a one-on-one interview or a larger presentation...
The Art of Business
Make All Your Work a Work of Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2005
Stan Davis is author of the bestselling books BLUR (more than 250,000 copies sold), 2020 Vision (more than 100,000 copies sold), and Future Perfect (more than 100,000 copies sold) Shows how bringing an artistic sensibility to business can improve business performance and increase personal work satisfaction...
Collective Visioning
How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
In far too many organizational meetings, equal speaking opportunity seldom results in equal say. Factors such as race, class, and personal history too often inhibit open dialogue within and among groups, which can lead to a sense of disenfranchisement within the organization, and subsequently, disillusionment...
Emotional Discipline
The Power to Choose How You Feel; 5 Life Changing Steps to Feeling Better Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2003
Emotions sometimes get the better of everyone, but it doesnt have to be that way. We can learn how to analyze and control our emotional reactions in any situation. Emotional Discipline outlines an easy-to-learn process and 25 specific tactics that you can use to gain the power to choose how you feel....
by David Pratt PMP
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
**Learn from Other Projects to Avoid Pitfalls on Your Projects!
Projects fail at an alarming rate, whether they are information technology, training, construction, or policy development projects. No matter the focus, each year we experience an abundance of challenged projects that either require...
The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook
For Leaders of Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
One of today’s most popular change methods, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has been used to undertake transformational initiatives in dozens of organizations, ranging from McDonald’s to the U.S. Navy to Save the Children. The assumption of AI is simple. Every organization has things that work right—things...
The Secret
What Great Leaders Know and Do
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED
In this new edition of their classic business fable, Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller get at the heart of what makes a leader successful. Newly promoted but struggling young executive Debbie Brewster asks her mentor the one question she desperately needs...
Out of Poverty
What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Based on his 25 years of experience, Polak explodes what he calls the "Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths": that we can donate people out of poverty, that national economic growth will end poverty, and that Big Business, operating as it does now, will end poverty. Polak shows that programs...
The 3 Keys to Empowerment
Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 1999
As Ken Blanchard, John Carlos, and Alan Randolph clearly demonstrated in their previous bestseller, Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute, empowerment is not a goal that can be achieved in a minute. Empowerment is a process that requires ongoing effort, awareness, and commitment to transforming the...
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life
12 Powerful Tools for Leadership, Coaching, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
**NEW EDITION, EXPANDED AND UPDATED
Great Results Begin with Great Questions
In this new expanded edition of her classic international bestseller, Marilee Adams shows how the kinds of questions we ask shape our thinking and can be the root cause of many personal and organizational problems....