Berrett Koehler Publishers: 672 books
So Far from Home
Lost and Found in Our Brave New World
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
We live in a time of increasing polarization and irrationality, like a Tower of Babel with no distinction between fact and opinion, where information no longer changes minds. In cyberspace, we are bombarded with constant distractions and narcissistic self-making activities. Instant judgment and blame...
by Sharif M. Abdullah
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
"We are in deep trouble," writes Sharif Abdullah. "We live a world that works for only a few." The problem, Abdullah asserts, is exlusivity: "I am separate." By practicing exclusivity, he maintains, we have created a soul-starved society. We suffer, both personally and...
Action Inquiry
The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Bill Torbert and associates illustrate how individuals and organizations can progress through more and more sophisticated "action-logics" -- strategies for analyzing the world and reacting to it -- until they will eventually be able to practice action inquiry continually. Offering action inquiry exercises...
The People Equation
Why Innovation Is People, Not Products
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
**The People Equation
Every business leader knows that the key to growth is innovation—if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got. Deborah Perry Piscione and David Crawley argue that ultimately the key to innovation is people. After all, creativity is a uniquely...
The Big Investment Lie
What Your Financial Advisor Doesn't Want You to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2007
The investment advice and management industry is built on fraud: the idea that professional advisors can predictably and consistently help you get a better rate of return on your investments. The industry sells us on this lie using manipulative tactics that are studied, refined, Wall Street minted,...
The Four Conversations
Daily Communication That Gets Results
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Talk is powerful. Engaging in the right conversation at the right time is key to both personal and organizational success. And it isn’t just ‘difficult’ conversations that matter. The Four Conversations clearly demonstrates it is the everyday dialogue we have with one another that is critical....
Practical Project Risk Management
The ATOM Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This second edition of the book reflects the authors' work to continually improve upon the model and to apply the methodology to a broader range of issues. The book includes:
• An entirely new chapter on managing risk in programs, which is an important dimension in today's world of ever more complex...
The Art of Quantum Planning
Lessons from Quantum Physics for Breakthrough Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Planning today is plagued by a lack of imagination. It’s often difficult, when working with a business, organization, or any group of people, to upend traditional thinking and unlock new ideas and new possibilities. If you are a strategic planner, or anyone charged with managing growth or facilitating...
You Don't Have to Do It Alone
How to Involve Others to Get Things Done
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2004
Everyone needs to involve other people in order to accomplish their tasks and achieve their goals. It doesn't matter if you're a CEO leading a major restructuring or a PTA volunteer raising money for after-school programs, you can't do it all yourself-you and the work will suffer if you try. But the...
The Peon Book
How to Manage Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Management books are traditionally written by industry "experts": scholars, consultants, senior managers. They're writing about how to manage workers, but none of these experts really understands the viewpoint of the average worker, the regular grunt in the trenches-the peon. Peons are the...
Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic
How Microlending Lost Its Way and Betrayed the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Very little solid evidence exists that microloans make a dent in long-term poverty. Sadly, evidence does exist for negligence, corruption, and methods that border on extortion. Part exposé, part memoir, and part financial detective story, this is the account of a one-time true believer whose decade...
America As Empire
Global Leader or Rogue Power?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
In America as Empire, Jim Garrison urges us to face up to the complexities and responsibilities inherent in the indisputable fact that America is now the world's single preeminent power. "America", Garrison writes, "has become what it was founded not to be: established as a haven for...
Hands-On Training
A Simple and Effective Method for On-the-Job Training
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
This book presents a systematic approach to training small groups of people in a variety of jobs and skills. Instruction style is based on a pioneering method called Hot Popper, an acronym for Hands-On Training, Prepare for training, Open the session, Present the subject, Practice the skills, Evaluate the performance, and Review the subject.
Pragmatic Project Management
Five Scalable Steps to Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Scale Your Project Management Efforts to Maximize Success!
One size does not fit all in project management. Selecting an approach that is appropriate for the size and complexity of a project is essential to achieving success. Over-managing a small project can bog it down in bureaucracy, while a laid-back...