Berrett Koehler Publishers: 672 books
The Critical Few
Energize Your Company’s Culture by Choosing What Really Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
In a global survey by the Katzenbach Center, 80 percent of respondents believed that their organization must evolve to succeed. But a full quarter of them reported that a change effort at their organization had resulted in no visible results. Why?
The fate of any change effort depends on whether...
by Cynthia Snyder PMP, Frank Parth PMP
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Introduction to IT Project Management provides IT project managers the practical tools needed to maintain daily operations while managing multiple projects. This valuable reference helps IT project managers, CIOs, and project sponsors understand the IT project environment so that projects can be managed much more efficiently and successfully. An instructor's guide is available.
by Charles I. Budd PMP, Charlene S. Budd PhD, CPA
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This volume presents practical guidance for the government manager on earned value management (EVM), from basic calculations to how to find the most useful information online. Emphasis is on the relevant reports that contractors are required to submit to the federal government as part of their compliance...
Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration
4 Keys That Change Everything
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Your people might be your organization’s greatest assets, but their interactions with one another are what determine the quality and the quantity of their contributions. Few organizations know how to generate the sense of excitement, energy, and shared mission that occurs when people truly join...
Ideas Are Free
How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2006
The fact is, because they're the ones actually doing the day-to-day work front-line employees see a great many problems and opportunities that their managers don't. But most organizations do very poorly at tapping into this extraordinary potential source of revenue-enhancing, savings-generating ideas....
Glow
How You Can Radiate Energy, Innovation, and Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
For every new project or high-profile assignment, there is a mile-long line of wannabes waiting to grab the brass ring. But those consistently at the forefront have something truly extraordinary in common. You know them at first sight: teammates or colleagues, direct reports or bosses who radiate...
Covert Processes at Work
Managing the Five Hidden Dimensions of Organizational Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Organizational change initiatives often fail because they focus exclusively on the rational, overt aspects of change, overlooking the powerful role played by concealed or irrational factors. It's well known that these covert processes--such as hidden agendas, blind spots, office politics, tacit assumptions,...
Framing the Future
How Progressive Values Can Win Elections and Influence People
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Polls consistently show that most Americans are progressives at heart. By margins of at least two to one, we favor affordable healthcare for all, even if it means raising taxes; want federal action to combat global warming; support stricter gun control; don’t want Roe vs. Wade overturned; and the...
Time and the Soul
Where Has All the Meaningful Time Gone--And Can We Get It Back?
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2003
In Time and the Soul Jacob Needleman uses stories-of a middle-aged psychiatrist going back in time to encounter his younger self; of a mysterious meeting in the Central Asian desert; of the mystic master Hermes Trimegistus; as well as stories from the Bhagavad-Gita, the Bible, and other wisdom traditions-to...
Stick Your Neck Out
A Street-Smart Guide to Creating Change in Your Community and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2005
As President of the Giraffe Heroes Project, which since 1982 has been recognizing people who "stick their necks out for the common good," John Graham has seen what hundreds of average citizens around the world have done to bring about constructive change. He's drawn on their experiences,...
The Sisters Are Alright
Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing!
The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves.
When...
Peace First
A New Model to End War
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2008
Uri Savir has an ambitious, indispensable goal: to bring peacemaking into the 21st century. “Little in today’s world,” writes Savir, “is more progressive than modern warfare. Yet little is more archaic than peacemaking.” We remain trapped in a centuries-old mindset, with leaders bargaining...
Locked Down, Locked Out
Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could foster real collective safety. As she vividly...
by Bill Eddy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Bestselling author, therapist, lawyer, and mediator Bill Eddy describes how dangerous, high-conflict personalities have gained power in governments worldwide—and what citizens can do to keep these people out of office.
Democracy is under siege. The reason isn't politics but personalities:...