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Mindful Leadership Coaching
Journeys into the Interior
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Mindful Leadership Coaching takes an in-depth look at the coaching processes. The insights provided here will help coaches and executives to use frameworks for transforming attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. It advises on how the best leadership coaches help their executive clients create significant personal and professional change.
Tricky Coaching
Difficult Cases in Leadership Coaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Bringing together cases written by experienced leadership and executive coaches from all over the world, this project explores the most demanding and challenging situations they have faced in their professional practices. By analysing and reflecting on the real life case studies the authors show how to deal with these situations in daily life.
Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom
How to Make Sure Your Organization Lives Happily Ever After
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
We know where we are with a fairy story. There is a cast of predictable characters, the hero or heroine is submitted to terrible trials, cruelty, and injustice but in the end the baddies get their comeuppance, good triumphs, and everyone lives happily ever after. In this book Manfred Kets de Vries,...
The Coaching Kaleidoscope
Insights from the Inside
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Through sharing the research methodologies, and describing intervention and change techniques used in leadership development, this book, written by IGLC-INSEAD professors and leadership coaches, contributes to a better understanding of how organizations may go beyond coaching in order to create best places to work.
Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State
From Social Engineering to Governance?
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume explores the ongoing transformations taking place in the Swedish welfare state.
People, Risk, and Security
How to prevent your greatest asset from becoming your greatest liability
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Lance Wright shows why business in the 21st century requires a new understanding of the intersection of risk, security, and human resource management. He argues that these areas should no longer be considered separate processes, handled by technical specialists with limited spheres of expertise. People,...
The Workplace Community
A Guide to Releasing Human Potential and Engaging Employees
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The Workplace Community offers a structured, practical guide to developing collaborative knowledge-based communities in the workplace, from introducing employees and managers to new ways of working, to measuring effectiveness and providing corrective interventions for those who haven't achieved the desired results.
Global Civil Society 2012
Ten Years of Critical Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Activists and academics look back over ten years of 'politics from below', and ask whether it is merely the critical gaze upon the concept that has changed – or whether there is something genuinely new about the way in which civil society is now operating.
by L. Blaj-Ward
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
This book is a point of reference for EAP professionals planning to conduct or commission research into learning, teaching, professional development or quality assurance in EAP. It draws on academic and professional debates to inspire further research and practical initiatives to enhance EAP provision.
Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy
The Grand Tour of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Italy faced a number of catastrophes in the long sixteenth century. This economic and demographic history follows the consequences of these catastrophes - the action of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine and Plague, all followed by Death.
Marine Insurance
Origins and Institutions, 1300-1850
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Since its invention in Italy in the fourteenth century, marine insurance has provided merchants with capital protection in times of crisis, thus oiling the gears of trade and commerce. With a focus on customs, laws, and organisational structures, this book reveals the Italian origins of marine insurance,...
by G. Rowlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the demands of war that a massive banking crash resulted.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the long eighteenth century, from the East to the West Indies.
The Art of Public Space
Curating and Re-imagining the Ephemeral City
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
A journey through Johannesburg via three art projects raises intriguing notions about the constitutive relationship between the city, imagination and the public sphere- through walking, gaming and performance art. Amid prevailing economic validations, the trilogy posits art within an urban commons in which imagination is all-important.