Jossey Bass imprint: 1362 books
Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs
Early-Stage Funding for Long-Term Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs will give you the information you need to understand how angel investors think, as well as how to identify investor expectations, understand the investment analysis process, and prepare for post-investment requirements. Written by Susan Preston, an experienced angel...
Startupland
How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The real story of what it takes to risk it all and go for broke.
Conventional wisdom says most startups need to be in Silicon Valley, started by young engineers around a sexy new idea, and backed by VC funding. But as Mikkel Svane reveals in Startupland, the story of founding Zendesk was anything...
Never Bet the Farm
How Entrepreneurs Take Risks, Make Decisions -- and How You Can, Too
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
In Never Bet the Farm two leading entrepreneurs, Anthony Iaquinto and Stephen Spinelli, turn much of the so-called expert advice for entrepreneurs on its head. They show that by preparing for setbacks and using a framework that can help reduce risks and simplify decision making, entrepreneurs can...
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
A Leadership Fable
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling...
Death by Meeting
A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Casey McDaniel had never been so nervous in his life.
In just ten minutes, The Meeting, as it would forever be known, would begin. Casey had every reason to believe that his performance over the next two hours would determine the fate of his career, his financial future, and the company he...
by Edgar H. Schein
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
The father of the corporate culture field and pioneer in organizational psychology on today's changing corporate culture
This is the definitive guide to corporate culture for practitioners. Recognized expert Edgar H. Schein explains what culture is and why it's important, how to evaluate your...
The Improvement Guide
A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
This new edition of this bestselling guide offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings. The authors explore their Model for Improvement that worked with international improvement efforts at multinational...
The Ideal Team Player
How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player.
In The Ideal...
Adult Learning
Linking Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Solidly grounded in theory and research, but concise and practice-oriented, Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice is perfect for master’s-level students and practitioners alike. Sharan Merriam and Laura Bierema have infused each chapter with practical applications for instruction which will...
Built to Change
How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
In this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be “built to change” so they can last and succeed in today’s global economy. Instead of striving to create a highly reliable Swiss watch that consistently produces...
Improving Performance
How to Manage the White Space on the Organization Chart
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Improving Performance is recognized as the book that launched the Process Improvement revolution. It was the first such approach to bridge the gap between organization strategy and the individual. Now, in this revised and expanded new edition, Gary Rummler reflects on the key needs of organizations...
Teaming
How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change
Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to...
Getting Even
The Truth About Workplace Revenge--And How to Stop It
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Tripp and Bies educate employees and managers about the right and wrong ways to deal with workplace conflict, specifically revenge. The authors have amassed dozens of lively stories, insights and counter-intuitive truths to bring to the book. Not only will managers and employees find this information...
The Organization of the Future 2
Visions, Strategies, and Insights on Managing in a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
With 26 inspiring chapters, this book celebrates the wisdom of some of the most recognized thought leaders of our day: emerging and established experts who share their unique vision of what the organization of the future should look like and must do to survive in the turbulent 21st Century.
Outsmart...