Palgrave Macmillan imprint: 14111 books
Digital Insurance
Business Innovation in the Post-Crisis Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This book explores the ways in which the adoption of new paradigms, processes, and technologies can lead to greater revenue, cost efficiency and control, as well as improved business agility in the insurance industry.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Expanding upon Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice and Leadership and Collaboration, the third installment to this original and innovative collection of books considers a variety of research models and theories. Emphasizing research and evaluation in leadership...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
The first cross-cultural analysis of the differences in career trajectories and experiences between a senior group of women academics and a younger group who are at early and mid-career stages. Major themes in the autobiographical stories of these women were national context; organisational context; family, class and location; and agency.
Learning Leadership in a Changing World
Virtue and Effective Leadership in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Learning Leadership in a Changing World provides direction and support in the form of the 4R Model of Leadership—a theoretically sound, conceptually straightforward, and educationally powerful framework.
by David Pendleton, Adrian Furnham
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Leadership successes and failures are in the media every day. We are in a global political and financial crisis which is changing how we think about our lives and our futures. The authors present a leadership model for the future which creates the right conditions for people to thrive, individually and collectively, and achieve significant goals.
Mindful Leadership Coaching
Journeys into the Interior
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Mindful Leadership Coaching takes an in-depth look at the coaching processes. The insights provided here will help coaches and executives to use frameworks for transforming attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. It advises on how the best leadership coaches help their executive clients create significant personal and professional change.
Tricky Coaching
Difficult Cases in Leadership Coaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Bringing together cases written by experienced leadership and executive coaches from all over the world, this project explores the most demanding and challenging situations they have faced in their professional practices. By analysing and reflecting on the real life case studies the authors show how to deal with these situations in daily life.
Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom
How to Make Sure Your Organization Lives Happily Ever After
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
We know where we are with a fairy story. There is a cast of predictable characters, the hero or heroine is submitted to terrible trials, cruelty, and injustice but in the end the baddies get their comeuppance, good triumphs, and everyone lives happily ever after. In this book Manfred Kets de Vries,...
The Coaching Kaleidoscope
Insights from the Inside
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Through sharing the research methodologies, and describing intervention and change techniques used in leadership development, this book, written by IGLC-INSEAD professors and leadership coaches, contributes to a better understanding of how organizations may go beyond coaching in order to create best places to work.
Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State
From Social Engineering to Governance?
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume explores the ongoing transformations taking place in the Swedish welfare state.
Cities and the Super-Rich
Real Estate, Elite Practices and Urban Political Economies
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
With the rise of wealth inequalities, our cities are changing dramatically. This collection critically engages with and advances existing debates on the super-rich and their roles in these transformations. An interdisciplinary range of contributions from international experts including sociologists,...
People, Risk, and Security
How to prevent your greatest asset from becoming your greatest liability
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Lance Wright shows why business in the 21st century requires a new understanding of the intersection of risk, security, and human resource management. He argues that these areas should no longer be considered separate processes, handled by technical specialists with limited spheres of expertise. People,...
The Workplace Community
A Guide to Releasing Human Potential and Engaging Employees
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The Workplace Community offers a structured, practical guide to developing collaborative knowledge-based communities in the workplace, from introducing employees and managers to new ways of working, to measuring effectiveness and providing corrective interventions for those who haven't achieved the desired results.
Global Civil Society 2012
Ten Years of Critical Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Activists and academics look back over ten years of 'politics from below', and ask whether it is merely the critical gaze upon the concept that has changed – or whether there is something genuinely new about the way in which civil society is now operating.