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Creating Your Strategic Plan
A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan is the companion workbook to Bryson's landmark book, Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, a step-by-step guide to putting strategic planning into effect. Using revised, easy-to-understand worksheets, the authors provide clear instructions...
The Responsible Administrator
An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Those who serve the public trust must take special care to ensure they make ethical and responsible decisions. Yet the realities of bureaucracies, deadlines, budgets, and demands for quick results make the payoffs for dealing formally with ethics seem unclear. Since its original publication, The Responsible...
From Smart to Wise
Acting and Leading with Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A fresh and timely approach to nurturing wise, resilient, and flexible leadership in a world of growing complexity
Leaders tend to obstinately stick to the leadership style that brought them most success in the past, usually one of two extreme styles: functional leadership that focuses on operational...
by Kent D. Peterson, Terrence E. Deal
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
When the bestselling books Shaping School Culture and The Shaping School Culture Fieldbook were first published, Kent D. Peterson and Terrence E. Deal described the critical elements of school culture—the purposes, traditions, norms, and values that guide and glue the community together. The authors...
Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today
Insights from Corporate India
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Today's large business organizations in India have a voracious need for effective managers and talented leaders; but demand far exceeds supply. This timely and practical book offers thoroughly-researched pointers on how Indian managers can become high-performing business leaders.
The leadership...
The Blue Line Imperative
What Managing for Value Really Means
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
A groundbreaking guide to making profitable business decisions
Do you wonder why your value initiatives aren't providing the payoff you'd hoped for? Could it be because you've been thinking about value all wrong? According to the authors of this groundbreaking guide, there's a very good chance...
Leading Out Loud
A Guide for Engaging Others in Creating the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The newest edition of the bestselling guide to authentic leadership communication
Much has changed in the world since the original publication of Leading Out Loud, Terry Pearce's book on authentic leadership communication. Now, more than ever, the development of a leader's message is as crucial...
Well Connected
An Unconventional Approach to Building Genuine, Effective Business Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Achieve your goals by selectively engaging the right people and connecting well with them
Smart executives who want to reach virtually any business goal-from raising capital to finding sales leads to finding the perfect job-know that networking is the key to their success. But traditional networking...
Decoding the New Consumer Mind
How and Why We Shop and Buy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Take a glimpse into the mind of the modern consumer
A decade of swift and stunning change has profoundly affected the psychology of how, when, and why we shop and buy. In Decoding the New Consumer Mind, award-winning consumer psychologist Kit Yarrow shares surprising insights about the new...
The Writing Revolution
A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
"HELP! My Students Can't Write!"
Why You Need a Writing Revolution in Your Classroom and How to Lead It.
The Writing Revolution (TWR) provides a clear method of instruction that you can use no matter what subject or grade level you teach. The model, also known as The Hochman...
The 85% Solution
How Personal Accountability Guarantees Success -- No Nonsense, No Excuses
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
A guide to personal accountability-the fundamental key to leadership success
With the toughest economic downturn in recent history, the issue of accountability has taken center stage. However accountability is often confused with punishment, fault, blame and guilt. In this book, the author...
The Triple Bottom Line
How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success - and How You Can Too
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The classic guide to sustainability strategy and implementation—updated for today's businesses
To ensure business success, companies must embrace sustainable management. Firms need to find the overlap between business interests and the interests of society and the environment before they...
Talent Intelligence
What You Need to Know to Identify and Measure Talent
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
The challenge with most companies' talent intelligence is that it is just not that intelligent.
Having good talent intelligence—an accurate understanding of the skills, expertise, and qualities of people—is essential for the people decisions that all businesses make. Yet despite its vital...
Extraordinary Groups
How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Two leading experts present a new approach to help teams nurture extraordinary experiences and excel
Occasionally we participate in a group that inspires us to describe the experience as "powerful" or simply "wow." Why are some teams described in such exceptional terms,...