Berrett Koehler Publishers: 672 books
The Fourth Wave
Business in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1996
Applying the concept of historical waves originally propounded by Alvin Toffler in The Third Wave, Herman Maynard and Susan Mehrtens look toward the next century and foresee a "fourth wave," an era of integration and responsibility far beyond Toffler's revolutionary description of third-wave...
Hungry Start-up Strategy
Creating New Ventures with Limited Resources and Unlimited Vision
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Entrepreneurs are hungry. But it’s not just because they’re living on ramen and adrenaline while they pour their all into their business. Peter Cohan has found it’s something deeper: a hunger to create the kind of world they want to work in. To leave a legacy, they build carefully with limited...
The 3 Keys to Empowerment
Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 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...
Authentic Conversations
Moving from Manipulation to Truth and Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
In this groundbreaking new book, the Showkeirs take something people typically think of as merely functional—ordinary conversations—and show the power they have to create, sustain, and change the very nature of workplace culture. Conversations can lead to an engaged and energized workforce, or...
by Geoffrey M Bellman
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2001
You are not in charge and you want to make a difference: that is the dilemma. You may not know who is in charge in today's changing, temporary, and virtual organizations, but you know you are not! You are searching for ways to contribute through the work you do and gain some personal satisfaction...
Performance Budgeting (with CD)
What Works, What Doesn't
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Improve Your Agency's Performance Budgets and Accountability Reports
Performance Budgeting: What Works, What Doesn't is a must-have resource for government officials implementing performance budgeting within their organizations. The author examines performance budgets and accountability reports...
Benefit Corporation Law and Governance
Pursuing Profit with Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
**Corporations with a Conscience
Corporations today are embedded in a system of shareholder primacy. Nonfinancial concerns—like worker well-being, environmental impact, and community health—are secondary to the imperative to maximize share price. Benefit corporation governance reorients...
In Their Own Hands
How Savings Groups Are Revolutionizing Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Two and a half billion people worldwide, most of them desperately poor villagers, need a better way to save and to borrow. Even the most innovative banking institutions can’t reach them; savings groups can.
In savings groups, members save what they can in a communal pot and loan their growing fund...
The Discomfort Zone
How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
You want people to stretch their limits, but your conversations meant to help them often fall flat or backfire, creating more resistance than growth. Top leadership coach Marcia Reynolds offers a model for using the Discomfort Zone—the moment when the mind is most open to learning—to prompt people...
Pricing and Cost Accounting
A Handbook for Government Contractors
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The essential reference to help federal contractors negotiate and maintain profitable contracts—Now in its third edition!
This is the essential reference to help federal contractors negotiate and maintain profitable contracts—and remain in compliance throughout the life of the contract.
Government...
Managing Federal Government Contracts
The Answer Book
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
You've Got Questions – We've Got Answers
Questions can arise at any point in the process of working with government contracts. Now, you have an accessible resource you can trust for authoritative answers.Managing Federal Government Contracts: The Answer Book covers the contract management process...
by Dean Gueras, Charles Garofalo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Make the Right Choice - Enhance Your Ethical Decision Making Skills Today!
Ethical issues arise in all walks of life, but none have implications as far-reaching and serious as those related to public management. Most people working in the public sector want to do the "right" thing, but the...
The Appropriations Law Answer Book
A Q&A Guide to Fiscal Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Get the Complete Answers to Your Appropriations Law Questions Scrutiny of the use of federal funds—and the people handling those funds—has never been greater. Yet federal personnel often don't know all the rules. What might seem like a logical, efficient action could very well be illegal. Now,...
With Liberty and Dividends for All
How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don't Pay Enough
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future. Therefore, to survive economically, our middle class needs—and deserves—a supplementary source of nonlabor...