Berrett Koehler Publishers: 672 books
Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go
Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The new edition of the bestselling employee development classic includes advice on talent retention in the gig economy, and a new chapter on creating a career development culture in your organization.
Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers...
Up Is Not the Only Way
Rethinking Career Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
**Up Was Never for Everyone!
Move up or move out. When those two options appear to be the only ones, dissatisfaction grows and engagement suffers. In decades of studying careers around the globe, Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, and Lynn Cowart have found that, in fact, there are *more options....
Bringing Your Soul to Work
An Everyday Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2000
EMPLOYEES TODAY are actively searching for more meaning in the workplace, for work that resonates with their being. How does one dare yearn for something more, when so many workplaces seem aligned solely with financial survival and profit making? How do we get work done amidst the demands and tugs...
Anytime Coaching
Unleashing Employee Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
**Transform Your Workplace with Anytime Coaching
*The Practical Leader series offers a roadmap for individuals striving to achieve leadership effectiveness within the context of today's complex world. Each book explores a different essential element of successful leadership, providing readers...
The Power of Failure
27 Ways to Turn Life's Setbacks Into Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2002
The Power of Failure offers both inspiration and advice on how failure can provide us with the foundation for long-term success. This book is loaded with inspiring real-life examples and stories, and filled with practical strategies that you can put to use immediately to fulfill your dreams.
Project Team Dynamics
Enhancing Performance, Improving Results
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Get to the Heart of Building Productive Project Teams!
Companies that embrace the power of collaboration realize that the best way to solve complex problems is to build cohesive teams made up of members with different skills and expertise. Getting teams to work productively is at the heart of project...
Speechless
The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
A factory worker is fired because her boss disagrees with her political bumper sticker. A stockbroker feels pressure to resign from an employer who disapproves of his off-hours political advocacy. A flight attendant is grounded because her airline doesn't like what she's writing in her personal blog....
The Power of Your Past
The Art of Recalling, Recasting, and Reclaiming
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Most of us don't use our yesterdays very well. With our cultural obsession with living in the moment, we neglect to engage in creative reflection on our personal histories. In The Power Of Your Past, John Schuster systematically demonstrates that our pasts are the biggest, most accessible, and most...
The Driver in the Driverless Car
How Your Technology Choices Create the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Tech experts Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever describe dozens of astonishing technological advances in this fascinating and thought-provoking book, which asks what kind of future lies ahead—Star Trek or Mad Max?
Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, drones, self-driving vehicles, and...
Building a Successful Social Venture
A Guide for Social Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**This is the first book on creating and running a social enterprise to combine theoretical discussions with current cases from around the world, filling a huge gap in the literature. It serves as an eminently practical blueprint for those who wish to build, sustain, and grow social ventures.
*Building...
Managing the Myths of Health Care
Bridging the Separations between Care, Cure, Control, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
**“Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don't want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”
In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his...
by Neal Whitten PMP
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Neal Whitten's Let's Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success focuses on best project behaviors, by answering more than 700 insightful, personal, and sometimes sensitive questions on a broad range of topics from leadership, communication, and culture, to accountability, ethics, and conflict...
by Vicki James, Ron Rosenhead, Peter Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Optimize the Role of the Project Sponsor
The project sponsor is critical to project success, yet it is a role that is often assigned to a member of the organization with little knowledge or training in project management practices. This creates challenges not only for the sponsor but for the...
by Bernardo Tirado PMP
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Acquire the leadership skills that are the hallmark of the successful project manager!
Project management is often defined by processes and methodology, but projects are accomplished by people. Successfully leading those people is the core of a project manager's job. Even the seasoned project...