Jossey Bass imprint: 1362 books
The High-Performance Board
Principles of Nonprofit Organization Governance
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
While boards acknowledge they bear ultimate responsibility and accountability for their organizations' affairs, governance quality is often far from optimal. The High- Performance Board offers pragmatic and candid advice about what your board must do to maximize performance and contributions. The...
Arts Marketing Insights
The Dynamics of Building and Retaining Performing Arts Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Audience behavior began to shift dramatically in the mid 1990s. Since then, people have become more spontaneous in purchasing tickets and increasingly prefer selecting specific programs to attend rather than buying a subscription series. Arts attenders also expect more responsive customer service...
Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations
A Strategic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
This book is a comprehensive guide to the essential areas of health care human resources management, and is an immediately useful practical handbook for practitioners as well as a textbook for use health care management programs. Written by the authors of Handbook for the New Health Care Manager and...
Foundations of Health Care Management
Principles and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Foundations of Health Care Management
Leaders and managers throughout the health care system are facing ever more challenging changes in the way care is delivered, paid for, and evaluated. Foundations of Health Care Management: Principles and Methods offers an innovative, concise, reader-friendly...
by Barbara A. Miller Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The book provides a full complement of assessment technologies that enable leaders to measure and evaluate performance using qualitative and quantitative performance indicators and reference points in each of seven areas of organizational performance. While these technologies are not new, applying...
The World Is Open
How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Discover the dramatic changes that are affecting all learners
Web-based technology has opened up education around the world to the point where anyone can learn anything from anyone else at any time. To help educators and others understand what's possible, Curt Bonk employs his groundbreaking...
Getting Smart
How Digital Learning is Changing the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
A comprehensive look at the promise and potential of online learning
In our digital age, students have dramatically new learning needs and must be prepared for the idea economy of the future. In Getting Smart, well-known global education expert Tom Vander Ark examines the facets of educational...
Moving the Rock
Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Advance Praise for Moving the Rock
“The future comes at us fast — which means school reformers don’t have time to wait. They need real tools in real time. That’s why Moving the Rock is so important. Grant Lichtman has guidance for anyone — teachers, parents, administrators, government...
The Responsible Administrator
An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Praise for the Fifth Edition of The Responsible Administrator
"Cooper's fifth edition is the definitive text for students and practitioners who want to have a successful administrative career. Moral reasoning, as Cooper so adeptly points out, is essential in today's rapidly changing and...
Museum Marketing and Strategy
Designing Missions, Building Audiences, Generating Revenue and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This newly revised and updated edition of the classic resource on museum marketing and strategy provides a proven framework for examining marketing and strategic goals in relation to a museum's mission, resources, opportunities, and challenges. Museum Marketing and Strategy examines the full range...
Students Helping Students
A Guide for Peer Educators on College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
This second edition offers a practical training guide for college students who serve as leaders, tutors, counselors, or advisors for their peers. This thoroughly revised and updated volume contains a fundamental discussion on student growth and development and provides learning objectives and self-discovery...
The Listening Leader
Creating the Conditions for Equitable School Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
LISTENING . . . THE KEY TO BECOMING A TRANSFORMATIVE SCHOOL LEADER
The Listening Leader is a practical guide that will inspire school, district, and teacher leaders to make substantive change and increase equitable student outcomes. Rooted in the values of equity, relationships, and listening,...
Mindful Leadership
The 9 Ways to Self-Awareness, Transforming Yourself, and Inspiring Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Become a true leader through Mindfulness
If you thought leading a team or organization meant simply creating and implementing a financial plan, delegating responsibility, and watching the bottom line, well, you're only partly right. True leadership comes from within, a place of deep calm and...
The Executive and the Elephant
A Leader's Guide for Building Inner Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Lessons for leaders on resolving the ongoing struggle between instinct and the creative mind
Kings, heads of government, and corporate executives lead thousands of people and manage endless resources, but may not have mastery over themselves. Often leaders know that right action is important,...