Berrett Koehler Publishers: 672 books
Sustainable Happiness
Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
We're bombarded by messages telling us that bigger and better things are the keys to happiness—but after we pile up the stuff and pile on the work hours, we end up exhausted and broke on a planet full of trash. Sarah van Gelder and her colleagues at YES! Magazine have been exploring the meaning...
by Casey Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
In the 21st Century, people are the competitive advantage. The talent and level of dedication of an organization's workforce make the difference in achieving success.
The traditional command-oriented leadership style is not enough to keep today's employees motivated—they need to be engaged....
Ideaship
How to Get Ideas Flowing in Your Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Innovative, original ideas are a company's most powerful competitive advantage. Nathan Mhyrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, has said that a great employee is worth 1,000 times more than an average one simply because of his or her ideas. In Ideaship, the sequel to his bestselling...
by Sandra R. Rowe PhD, PMP
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
***Important New Tools for Managing Your Small Projects As Part of a Larger Program!
The first edition of Project Management for Small Projects introduced project management processes, tools, and techniques that are scalable and adaptable to small projects. Project managers learned a structured,...
Faster, Fewer, Better Emails
Manage the Volume, Reduce the Stress, Love the Results
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Business communication expert and bestselling author Dianna Booher shares practical wisdom on how to write effective emails that get results and how to organize documents to gain control and increase your productivity.
Today, most business writing is email writing. We handle even our most important...
Who Do We Choose To Be?
Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This book is born of my desire to summon us to be leaders for this time as things fall apart, to reclaim leadership as a noble profession that creates possibility and humaneness in the midst of increasing fear and turmoil.
I know it is possible for leaders to use their power and influence,...
Campaign Boot Camp 2.0
Basic Training for Candidates, Staffers, Volunteers, and Nonprofits
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Christine Pelosi presents leadership lessons from the campaign trail from a diverse array of over forty public figures, lending advice for anyone who wants to run for office, advocate for a cause, or win a public policy issue. This book draws from her leadership “boot...
Making the Good Life Last
Four Keys to Sustainable Living
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
So many of us are beset by anxiety, depression, loneliness, and spiritual malaise, tense and unhappy despite our gadgets and goodies. Michael Schuler, leader of the nation’s largest Unitarian Universalist congregation, says it’s because, urged on by an aggressively materialist culture, we too...
All Together Now
Common Sense for a Fair Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
As the new century unfolds, we face a host of economic and social challenges--jobs lost to "off shoring," a huge and growing number of Americans without health insurance coverage, an expanding gap between rich and poor, stagnant wages, decaying public schools, and many others. These are...
The Influence Effect
A New Path to Power for Women Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Women hold over half of all professional jobs today, yet they represent just four percent of CEOs in the S&P 500. Even worse, that percentage has barely budged in a decade.
That's where *The Influence Effect comes in. Based on recent research by the authors of the New York Times bestseller Break...
by John B. Izzo , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Stop *Seeking Happiness; Just Get Out of Its Way!
Happiness is our natural state, for each of us and for humanity as a whole, argues John Izzo. But that happiness is being stolen by insidious mental patterns that he depicts as thieves: the thief of control, the thief of conceit, the thief of...
On the Brink of Everything
Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
**Aging as a passage of discovery and engagement
*From bestselling author Parker J. Palmer comes a brave and beautiful book for all who want to age reflectively, seeking new insights and life-giving ways to engage in the world. “Age itself,” he says, “is no excuse to wade in the shallows....
Whale Done Parenting
How to Make Parenting a Positive Experience for You and Your Kids
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Offers five simple and effective principles for coping with any parenting challenge • Based on actual killer whale training techniques • Story format makes this an unusual and entertaining approach for a parenting book “How is it they can get a killer whale to urinate on cue, and we can’t...
The Body Is Not an Apology
The Power of Radical Self-Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
“To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves…‘The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace.”
—Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum
“Taylor...