361.
Series:
The Four Conversations
Daily Communication That Gets Results
Paperback
Jeffery Ford
9781576759202
$28.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 02, 2009
Talk is powerful. And it isn’t just ‘difficult’ conversations that matter— the everyday dialogue we have with one another is critical to both personal and organizational success. Packed with sample dialogues and dozens of personal stories, and backed by solid research and the authors’ firsthand observations, The Four Conversations describes how to get maximum results from conversations that every one of us must use to get things done: initiative conversations introducing something new, understanding conversations to help people relate to ideas ...
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Series:
The Art of Quantum Planning
Lessons from Quantum Physics for Breakthrough Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership
Paperback
Gerald Harris
9781605092652
$18.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 02, 2009
Stale ideas, conformity, and lack of imagination stymie strategic planning. Here, Gerald Harris uses seven concepts from quantum physics to pry open minds, eradicate unhealthy groupthink, spur creativity, and revitalize strategic planning. Explaining quantum concepts in plain language and using real-world examples, Harris inspires innovation while providing practical guidance for applying these ideas in actual planning situations. Just as light has a dual nature—it can be a wave and a particle—so the needs and wants of a customer can be both di...
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Series:
Living in More Than One World
How Peter Drucker's Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life
Hardcover
Bruce Rosenstein
9781576759684
$19.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 02, 2009
For business legend Peter Drucker, the secret to a truly meaningful life was thriving in more than one world—having a diverse set of interests, activities, and pursuits. Drucker managed this despite extraordinary demands on his time. In this inspiring book, journalist and Drucker scholar Bruce Rosenstein reveals how, by following the key principles Drucker lived and taught, you can build a multifaceted life and career for yourself. Replete with all the tools you need to follow Drucker’s example, Living in MoreThan One World is the next best thi...
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Series:
Flight Plan
The Real Secret of Success
Paperback
Brian Tracy
9781605092751
$19.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 02, 2009
The bestselling book by Rhonda Byrne, The Secret, talks about the powerful effects of visualizing success and activating the Law of Attraction. But many people are finding out that just thinking about what they want, while it’s a good start, isn’t enough. In Flight Plan, Brian Tracy reveals the real keys to accomplishing any long-term, meaningful success. Using the metaphor of an airplane trip, Flight Plan helps you chart a course to greater achievement, happiness, and personal fulfillment. Brian has personally gone from rags to riches using ...
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Series:
Managing
Hardcover
Henry Mintzberg
9781576753408
$26.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 30, 2009
A half century ago Peter Drucker put management on the map. Leadership has since pushed it off. Henry Mintzberg aims to restore management to its proper place: front and center. “We should be seeing managers as leaders.” Mintzberg writes, “and leadership as management practiced well.” This landmark book draws on Mintzberg’s observations of twenty-nine managers, in business, government, health care, and the social sector, working in settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra. What he saw—the pressures, the action, the nuances,...
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Series:
The Antideficiency Act Answer Book
Hardcover
William G. Arnold
9781567262445
$57.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Sep 01, 2009
Avoid Violations of the Antideficiency Act! Antideficiency Act (ADA) violations within both the financial and audit communities are now at an all-time high. Violations often result from a lack of knowledge about what is and what is not permissible under the law. The Antideficiency Act Answer Book is an easy-to-understand question-and-answer tool that guides you through all the rules associated with the Antideficiency Act and helps you detect and report violations in a timely manner. • Covers all aspects of the Antideficiency Act, from its hi...
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Series:
The Prompt Payment Act Answer Book
Hardcover
William G. Arnold
9781567262438
$57.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Sep 01, 2009
Find the Answers You Need to Comply with the Prompt Payment Act! It can be challenging for federal agencies to comply with the Prompt Payment Act. Although the basic rules are simple, they can be difficult to interpret and apply properly — until now. Designed as a reference, The Prompt Payment Act Answer Book lays out the prompt payment rules in a question-and-answer format, enabling readers to find answers to hundreds of specific questions. Practitioners will find the information they need to get and stay in compliance with the Prompt Payment ...
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Series:
Surveying Fundamentals for Business Analysts
Paperback
Carol Deutschlander
9781567262551
$43.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Sep 01, 2009
An Easy Approach to Using Surveys to Elicit Requirements! Surveying is an excellent way to elicit requirements, but reliable resources that examine survey methods are hard to find — until now. Surveying Fundamentals for Business Analysts presents the basics of developing and executing efficient and effective surveys. It offers detailed descriptions of the different types of surveys and guidance on how to choose the right survey for your task as well as how to identify stakeholders and participants. Surveying Fundamentals also presents specific ...
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Series:
Out of Poverty
What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
Paperback
Paul Polak
9781605092768
$28.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 07, 2009
In this hard-hitting new book, Paul Polak tells why traditional poverty eradication programs have fallen so short, and how he and his organization developed an alternative approach that has succeeded in lifting 17 million people out of poverty. Based on his 25 years of experience, Polak explodes what he calls the “Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths”: that we can donate people out of poverty, that national economic growth will end poverty, and that Big Business, operating as it does now, will end poverty. Polak shows that programs based on th...
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Series:
A Practical Guide to Earned Value Project Management
Hardcover
Charles I. Budd
9781567262568
$89.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 01, 2009
The Best Resource on Earned Value Management Just Got Better! This completely revised and updated guide to earned value (EV) project management is the go-to choice for both corporate and government professionals. A Practical Guide to Earned Value Project Management, Second Edition, first offers a general overview of basic project management best practices and then delves into detailed information on EV metrics and criteria, EV reporting mechanisms, and the 32 criteria of earned value management systems (EVMS) promulgated by the American Nationa...
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Series:
The Power of Collective Wisdom
And the Trap of Collective Folly
Paperback
Alan Briskin
9781576754450
$25.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 05, 2009
Based on nine years of research, The Power of Collective Wisdom shows how we can reliably tap into the extraordinary cocreative potential that exists whenever human beings gather together. Stories and historical examples illustrate how collective wisdom has emerged in a range of cultures, settings, and traditions, and the authors offer a set of practices to help readers realize the key lessons of the book. Equally important, they describe how to recognize the pitfalls of polarization or false agreement that lead to collective folly. Ultimately,...
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Series:
Women Lead the Way
Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World
Hardcover
Linda Tarr-Whelan
9781605091358
$24.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 05, 2009
Despite enormous gains made in the past decades, women continue to be woefully underrepresented in positions of power. This is a loss for everyone—important priorities are overlooked and organizations miss out on the range of talent and fresh insights that women can offer. Entrepreneur, diplomat, nonprofit and government leader, nurse, and mom Linda Tarr-Whelan marshals eye-opening facts and figures to decisively dispel the myths that still hold women back and shows women how to build their confidence and skills to pioneer a distinctive approa...
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Series:
Leadership and Self-Deception
Getting Out of the Box
Paperback
9781576759776
$22.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 16, 2009
Since its original publication in 2000, Leadership and Self-Deception has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Its sales continue to increase year after year, and the book’s popularity has gone global, with editions now available in over twenty languages. Through a story everyone can relate to about a man facing challenges on the job and in his family, the authors expose the fascinating ways that we can blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage the effectiveness of our own efforts to achieve success and increase happiness....
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Series:
Whale Done Parenting
How to Make Parenting a Positive Experience for You and Your Kids
Paperback
Jim Ballard
9781605093482
$14.95
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Oct 19, 2009
“How is it they can get a killer whale to urinate on cue, and we can’t get our son to pee into the toilet?” Amy Sheldrake, young mother and killer whale trainer-in-training, marvels at the complex behaviors her superiors at SeaWorld are able to coax out of these enormous beasts, while she and her husband struggle to make their beloved—and much smaller—son Josh obey the simplest rules. Using the story approach popularized by Ken Blanchard in his many bestsellers, this unique parenting book draws on the experiences of two of the coauthors—as bot...
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Series:
Federal Acquisition
Key Issues and Guidance
Hardcover
Paula B. Compton
9781567262483
$104.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Nov 01, 2009
Take the First Step Toward Building a Strong Foundation in Federal Acquisition! Federal Acquisition: Key Issues and Guidance is an essential guide to understanding and working within the complex world of federal government contracting. It offers brief but comprehensive explanations of the major phases and essential tasks in the contracting process. Written in a clear and easy-to-understand style, this resource provides the perfect foundation for building a thorough understanding of federal contracting. Author Paula Compton focuses on the most p...
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Series:
Federal Procurement Ethics
The Complete Legal Guide
Hardcover
Terrence M. O'Connor
9781567262773
$89.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Nov 01, 2009
A Comprehensive and Easy-to-Use Guide to the Federal Procurement Ethics Requirements! Revised to include recent changes in procurement ethics rules, such as the significant additions to the False Claims Act made by Congress in 2009, this book is a complete, all-in-one resource. This plain-English guide focuses on exactly what procurement professionals—both federal officials and contractor employees—need to know to be in compliance with the law and to conduct better business practices. Federal Procurement Ethics: The Complete Legal Guide, Revise...
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Series:
The Courageous Follower
Standing Up to and for Our Leaders
Paperback
Ira Chaleff
9781605092737
$33.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Nov 02, 2009
Many significant failures—from FEMA’s response to Hurricane Katrina to the recent economic collapse—could have been prevented or mitigated if those lower in the hierarchy were successful at communicating to leaders the risks they saw in the system. Ira Chaleff’s Courageous Follower model has facilitated healthy upward information flow in organizations for over 15 years. The Harvard Business Review called Chaleff a pioneer in the emerging field of followership—this new edition shares his latest thinking on an increasingly vital topic. The update...
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Series:
The Compromise Trap
How to Thrive at Work without Selling Your Soul
Paperback
Elizabeth Doty
9781576755761
$17.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Nov 02, 2009
Healthy compromise is necessary for accomplishing any meaningful goal with other people. But when your job presses you to betray your word, your principles, or other important commitments, it becomes profoundly unhealthy and deeply stressful. And it can happen even while working for an organization or leader you otherwise respect and admire. Elizabeth Doty offers the antidote: redefining the game. When you feel pressured to play by rules that undermine your integrity, Doty shows how you can tap into six personal foundations that will allow you ...
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Series: SVN
Dealing With the Tough Stuff
Practical Wisdom for Running a Values-Driven Business
Paperback
Margot Fraser
9781576756652
$16.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Nov 02, 2009
Your business plan is only going to get you so far. When you’re actually running a values-driven business, problems come up that you never could have anticipated. The whole experience can be incredibly isolating and draining. Margot Fraser and Lisa Lorimer have been there, and they’re here to help. Together with five of their colleagues—including Stonyfield Farm founder Gary Hirshberg and former Ms. Foundation president Marie C. Wilson—they offer the kinds of personal insights and seasoned advice you just can’t get in business school. It’s lik...
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Series:
Getting to Resolution
Turning Conflict into Collaboration
Paperback
Stewart Levine
9781576757710
$25.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Nov 02, 2009
Adversarial models for dealing with conflict waste time, money, and energy. They satisfy no one, so the conflict ends up resurfacing in a different form. Stewart Levine’s “resolutionary” alternative goes beyond compromise and capitulation. He offers ten guiding principles that stop anger and resentment cold and enable both sides to return to productive, satisfying, functional relationships. Levine’s seven-step conversational process fosters dignity and integrity, optimizes resources, and allows all concerns to be voiced, honored, and woven into...
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Series:
Power and Love
A Theory and Practice of Social Change
Paperback
Adam Kahane
9781605093048
$23.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Dec 26, 2009
The two methods most frequently employed to solve our toughest social problems—either relying on violence and aggression or submitting to endless negotiation and compromise—are fundamentally flawed. This is because the seemingly contradictory drives behind these approaches—power, the desire to achieve one’s purpose, and love, the urge to unite with others—are actually complementary. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. put it, “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.” But how do you combine them? ...
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Series:
Strategic Public Management
Best Practices from Government and Nonprofit Organizations
Hardcover
Howard R. Balanoff
9781567262766
$57.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jan 01, 2010
Real-life Solutions to the Challenges Facing Public Administrators! Complex management issues in the public sector can’t be addressed with limited, short-term fixes. Strategic, well-conceived approaches are critical to meet your organization’s long-term needs. Through expert advice and real-world examples, Strategic Public Management: Best Practices from Government and Nonprofit Organizations presents the solutions that today’s public administrators are putting into practice to address a variety of challenges, including planning and managing co...
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Series:
Small Change
Why Business Won't Save the World
Paperback
Michael Edwards
9781605093772
$16.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jan 04, 2010
A new movement is afoot that promises to save the world by applying the magic of the market to the challenges of social change. But in this hard-hitting, controversial exposé, Michael Edwards shows that business is ill-equipped to attack the causes of poverty, inequality, violence, and discrimination. Achieving fundamental social transformation requires cooperation rather than competition, collective action more than individual effort, and support for long-term, systemic solutions instead of immediate results. With a vested interest in the stat...
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Series:
Managing Hispanic and Latino Employees
A Guide to Hiring, Training, Motivating, Supervising, and Supporting the Fastest Growing Workforce Group
Paperback
Louis E. V. Nevaer
9781576759455
$24.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jan 04, 2010
Hispanics make up the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States. Organizations that don’t know how to make them feel comfortable, recognized, and rewarded risk losing access to this important source of talent and innovation. Drawing on his own ethnic background and years of experience as director of the organization Hispanic Economics, Louis Nevaer identifies elements unique to the Hispanic worldview that often result in behaviors, beliefs, and expectations very different from, and sometimes seemingly at odds with, those o...
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Series:
Pragmatic Project Management
Five Scalable Steps to Success
Paperback
David Pratt
9781567262742
$39.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Feb 01, 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 approach can lead to disaster on a complex project. Pragmatic Project Management: Five Scalable Steps to Success will help you select the methodologies and tools that will enable you to expend minimum effort to achieve maximum gain on your proj...
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Series:
Achieving Project Management Success in the Federal Government
Paperback
Jonathan Weinstein
9781567262759
$52.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Feb 01, 2010
Gain Valuable Insight into the Government’s Project Management Best Practices! Although project management is not new to the federal government, the discipline has taken on renewed importance in the face of the ever-increasing size, complexity, and number of mission-critical projects being undertaken by every branch and agency. This book addresses the key facets of project management, from organization and structure to people and process. A variety of government entities share their best practices in areas including leadership, technology, team...
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Series:
Leading in Turbulent Times
Hardcover
Kevin Kelly
9781605095400
$19.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Feb 08, 2010
Turbulent times are here to stay. The global recession is today’s current headline, but accelerating change and economic uncertainty are the hallmarks of twenty-first century business. Signs like the volatility of commodity prices and fluctuations in currencies are all part of a broader weather system affecting business everywhere. These powerful forces for change are the corporate equivalent of headwinds, which must be faced and navigated by all leaders and those they lead. The challenge of the next few years is learning to maneuver confidenti...
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Series:
Creative Community Organizing
A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice
Paperback
Si Kahn
9781605094441
$25.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 15, 2010
Privatization has been on the right-wing agenda for years. Health care, schools, Social Security, public lands, the military, prisons—all are considered fair game. Through stories, analysis, impassioned argument—even song lyrics—Si Kahn and Elizabeth Minnich show that corporations are, by their very nature, unable to fulfill effectively what have traditionally been the responsibilities of government. They make a powerful case that the market is not the measure of all things, and that a vital public sector is an indispensable component of a heal...
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Series:
Understanding Government Contract Source Selection
Hardcover
Margaret G. Rumbaugh
9781567262735
$180.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Mar 01, 2010
Your Go-to Resource for Government Contract Source Selection! From planning to protest and all the steps in between, Understanding Government Contract Source Selection is the one reference all government acquisition professionals and contractors should keep close at hand. This valuable resource provides straightforward guidance to ensure you develop a firm foundation in government contract source selection. Government acquisition professionals can reference this book for guidance on: • Preparing the acquisition and source selection plans • ...
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Series:
The Circle Way
A Leader in Every Chair
Paperback
Christina Baldwin
9781605092560
$28.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Mar 08, 2010
Collaboration and group cohesion are vital to any healthy enterprise. In collaborative environments, good ideas can come from everywhere. Today’s thoughtful leaders support interpersonal experiences that ensure clear speaking, open-minded listening, and well-grounded decision making. Reintroducing our most ancient social process, the circle, welcomes everyone to equal participation. Here, two international leaders of circle as a modern methodology offer a comprehensive guide to this foundational human interaction. The Circle Way lays out the ba...
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Series:
Standing in the Fire
Leading High-Heat Meetings with Clarity, Calm, and Courage
Paperback
Larry Dressler
9781576759707
$28.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Mar 08, 2010
Real organizational change isn’t brought about by decree, pressure, permission, or even persuasion. Sustained change comes when people are passionately and personally committed to a future that they have helped to shape. If you want to turn your organization’s cynics into owners, give them a voice in the decisions that impact their work. Consensus Through Conversation shows how. Consensus is a cooperative process in which all of a group’s members develop and agree to actively support a decision. It’s not mere acquiescence—consensus goes several...
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Series:
The Power of Appreciative Inquiry
A Practical Guide to Positive Change
Paperback
Diana Whitney
9781605093284
$43.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Mar 08, 2010
The Power of Appreciative Inquiry describes the internationally embraced approach to organizational change that dramatically improves performance by engaging people to study, discuss, and build upon what’s working – strengths – rather than trying to fix what’s not. Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom, pioneers in the development and practice of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), provide a menu of eight results-oriented applications, along with case examples from a wide range of organizations to illustrate Appreciative Inquiry in action. A how-to boo...
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Series:
2048
Humanity's Agreement to Live Together
Hardcover
J. Kirk Boyd
9781605095394
$22.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 05, 2010
In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a deeply inspiring document that has been translated into over 300 languages and dialects. But because its provisions are not enforceable, its promise has not been fulfilled. Human rights violations continue in every corner of the globe, the cause of countless individual tragedies as well as large-scale disasters like war, poverty and environmental ruin. It’s time to take the next step. 2048 sets out a visionary, audacious, but, Kirk Boyd insists, ach...
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Series:
2048
Humanity's Agreement to Live Together
Paperback
J. Kirk Boyd
9781605093307
$15.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 05, 2010
2048 is the story of the most important international social movement in the 21st century: the drafting and implementation of an International Bill of Rights that will be enforceable in the courts of every country on Earth. Written documents have always played a key part in the evolution of human rights—the Code of Hammurabi, the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence. In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but its provisions are not enforceable so its promise remains unfulfilled. It’s time to take ...
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Series:
Bootstrap Leadership
50 Ways to Break Out, Take Charge, and Move Up
Paperback
Steve Arneson
9781605093451
$20.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
May 03, 2010
Steve Arneson, one of America’s top leadership coaches, offers a complete blueprint for designing your own personal leadership development program—an approach proven successful in Steve’s work with executives at Fortune 500 companies like AOL, PepsiCo, and Capital One. Most of these ideas cost nothing to implement, nor do they require elaborate processes or infrastructure—they’re open to anyone with the desire to become a better leader. The fifty concise, to-the-point chapters are entirely self-contained and can be read in any order and at any ...
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Series: The Ken Blanchard Series - Simple Truths Uplifting the Value of People in Organizations
Your Leadership Legacy
The Difference You Make in People's Lives
Paperback
Marta Brooks
9781605095837
$22.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
May 03, 2010
Whatever your position, if you influence change in the lives of those around you, you and engaged in an act of leadership. And if you are a leader in any sense, you are creating a legacy as you live your daily life. Your leadership legacy is the sum total of the difference you make in people's lives, directly and indirectly, formally and informally. Will you consciously craft your legacy or simply leave it up to chance? What can you do to create a positive, empowering legacy that will endure and inspire? Through an insightful parable, Your Lead...
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Series:
Organizational Project Management
Linking Strategy and Projects
Paperback
Rosemary Hossenlopp
9781567262827
$39.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jun 01, 2010
Improve Your Business Results Through Organizational Project Management Organizational project management (OPM) aligns project deliverables with strategy. Understanding this emerging process is essential for all stakeholders, from the corporate sponsor to project team members. OPM is a valuable new tool that can enhance your organization's successful execution of projects in alignment with strategic priorities. Under the editorship of Rosemary Hossenlopp, PMP, ten contributors from around the globe, representing a wide variety of industries, of...
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Series:
Unequal Protection
The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
Paperback
Thom Hartmann
9781605095592
$27.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jun 07, 2010
Unequal taxes, unequal accountability for crime, unequal influence, unequal control of the media, unequal access to natural resources—corporations have gained these privileges and more by exploiting their legal status as persons. How did something so illogical and unjust become the law of the land? Americans have been struggling with the role of corporations since before the birth of the republic. As Thom Hartmann shows, the Boston Tea Party was actually a protest against the British East India Company—the first modern corporation. Unequal Pro...
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Series:
The Female Vision
Women's Real Power at Work
Paperback
Sally Helgesen
9781576753828
$18.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jun 07, 2010
The Female Vision shows why: • What women see matters to organizations • What women notice is what organizations need now • What women value Will Define Organizational Excellence in The Future Women often see the world from a different angle than men. But this fact has been overlooked in most organizations. In this brilliant and strongly argued new book, Sally Helgesen and Julie Johnson demonstrate why “the female vision”—what women notice, what they value, how they connect the dots—constitutes women’s most powerful asset in the workplac...
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Series:
Wander Woman
How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction
Paperback
Marcia Reynolds
9781605093512
$17.95
SELF-HELP
Jun 07, 2010
There is a new generation of high-achieving women: confident, ambitious, and driven yet anxious, discontent, and above all, restless. Constantly juggling multiple roles and reevaluating goals, today’s ”wander women” move from job to job, challenge to challenge, almost on impulse. Drawing on fresh research and extensive interviews, Marcia Reynolds helps you understand the roots of your restlessness and discover how to make your wandering a conscious strategy, not a series of unplanned events. She provides a wealth of exercises and practices so y...
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Series:
Share This!
How You Will Change the World with Social Networking
Paperback
Deanna Zandt
9781605094168
$16.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Jun 07, 2010
Social networks can be so much more than a way to find your high school friends or learn what your favorite celebrity had for breakfast. They can be powerful tools for changing the world. With Share This! both regular folks of a progressive bent and committed activists can learn how to go beyond swapping movie reviews and vacation photos (not that there’s anything wrong with that). At the moment the same kinds of people who dominate the dialog off-line are dominating it online, and things will never change if that doesn’t change. Progressives n...
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Series:
Past Performance Handbook
Applying Commercial Practices to Federal Procurement
Hardcover
Joseph W. Beasusoleil
9781567262803
$119.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jul 01, 2010
The Best Guide to Past Performance Evaluation in Government Contracting Just Got Better! The Past Performance Handbook has long been the resource contracting professionals have turned to for guidance on evaluating contractor performance and making award decisions in competitive acquisitions based on the evaluation results. Now this essential resource has been completely updated and revised to bring readers the most up-to-date information they need to conduct past performance evaluations. Past Performance Handbook: Applying Commercial Practices ...
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Series:
Agenda for a New Economy
From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth
Paperback
David C. Korten
9781605093758
$19.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jul 05, 2010
Nearly two years after the economic meltdown, joblessness and foreclosures are still endemic, Wall Street executives are once again getting massive bonuses, and our leaders in Washington lack the will to make desperately needed fundamental changes to the economy. Change will have to come from below. Agenda for a New Economy is the handbook for that revolution. In this revised and updated edition David Korten has fleshed out his vision of the alternative to the corporate Wall Street economy: a Main Street economy based on locally owned, communit...
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Series:
Interpersonal Skills for Portfolio, Program, and Project Managers
Paperback
Ginger Levin
9781567262889
$69.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 01, 2010
Improve Your Interpersonal Skills to Achieve Greater Management Success! Any formula for management success must include a high level of interpersonal skills. The growing complexity of organizational portfolios, programs, and projects, as well as the increasing number and geographic dispersion of stakeholders and employees, makes a manager's interpersonal skills critical. The frequency and variety of interpersonal interactions and the pressure to perform multiple leadership roles successfully while ensuring customer satisfaction have never been...
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Series:
Accidental Genius
Revolutionize Your Thinking Through Private Writing
Paperback
Mark Levy
9781605095257
$23.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 02, 2010
When it comes to creating ideas, we hold ourselves back. That’s because inside each of us is an internal editor whose job is to forever polish our thoughts so we sound smart and in control and so we fit into society. But what happens when we encounter problems where such conventional thinking fails us? How do we get unstuck? For Mark Levy, the answer is freewriting, a technique he’s used for years to solve all types of business problems and generate ideas for books, articles, and blog posts. Freewriting is deceptively simple: start writ...
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Series:
World Class Diversity Management
A Strategic Approach
Hardcover
R. Roosevelt Thomas
9781605094502
$45.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 02, 2010
Globalization is transforming the very nature of our business relationships, decision-making processes, and interactions, making world-class diversity management more needed than ever before. But until now, the field of diversity had no established standard for evaluating best practices, or even agreement on fundamental philosophies, principles, and concepts. In this pioneering book, the world’s leading diversity authority proposes a framework that will facilitate the development of a truly world-class standard for diversity management. R. Roos...
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Series:
Goals!
How to Get Everything You Want -- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
Paperback
Brian Tracy
9781605094113
$28.95
SELF-HELP
Aug 02, 2010
Why do some people achieve all their goals while others simply dream of having a better life? With over 640,000 copies sold of this classic book on how to set and achieve goals comes the newest edition by bestselling author and motivational speaker Brian Tracy. The path from frustration to fulfillment has already been discovered. Hundreds of thousands—even millions—of people started with nothing and achieved great success. In this book, Tracy presents a simple, powerful, and effective system for setting and achieving goals—a method that has b...
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Series:
Networking for People Who Hate Networking
A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected
Paperback
Devora Zack
9781605095226
$17.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 02, 2010
Would you rather get a root canal than schmooze with a bunch of strangers? Does the phrase “working a room” make you want to retreat to yours? Is small talk a big problem? Devora Zack used to be just like you—in fact, she still is. But she’s also a successful consultant who addresses thousands of people each year, and she didn’t change her personality to do it. Quite the contrary. Zack politely examines and then smashes to tiny fragments the “dusty old rules” of standard networking advice. You don’t have to become a backslapping extrovert or ...
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The One Minute Negotiator
Simple Steps to Reach Better Agreements
Hardcover
Don Hutson
9781605095868
$22.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 30, 2010
Negotiation impacts every aspect of our lives, from the deals we strike on the job, to our relationships with family members and neighbors, to the transactions we make as customers. Yet most people do anything they can to avoid negotiating—it makes them uncomfortable, nervous, even frightened. This plague of negotiaphobia is what Don Hutson and George Lucas are here to remedy. Hutson and Lucas tell the tale of Jay Baxter, who sells more than anyone else in his company but finds himself in trouble because his profit margins are so slim—he’s givi...
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Project Team Dynamics
Enhamcing Performance, Improving Results
Paperback
Lisa Ditullio
9781567262902
$36.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Sep 01, 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 management. Developing the structure for teams to work dynamically at a high level of efficiency and effectiveness is at the heart of this book. The author clearly outlines methods for creating and implementing a structure to deal with the inevitab...
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The New Social Learning
A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media
Paperback
Tony Bingham
9781605097022
$19.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Sep 04, 2010
Most business books on social media have focused on using it as a marketing tool. Many employers see it as simply a workplace distraction. But social media has the potential to revolutionize workplace learning. People have always learned best from one another -- social media enables this to happen unrestricted by physical location and in extraordinarily creative ways. The New Social Learning is the most authoritative guide available to leveraging these powerful new technologies. Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner explain why social media is the ide...
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Built to Love
Creating Products That Captivate Customers
Hardcover
Peter Boatwright
9781605096988
$27.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Sep 06, 2010
Leading companies do more than produce things that work better. Their products and services make customers feel better. They create captivating products that energize the marketplace and set the standard for what customers want and expect. But this isn’t something you can add on after the fact. Your products and services must be built to love from the very start. This book tells you why and shows you how. Peter Boatwright and Jonathan Cagan have worked with market-leading companies ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to niche firms in a varie...
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Engaging Emergence
Turning Upheaval into Opportunity
Paperback
Peggy Holman
9781605095219
$24.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Sep 06, 2010
Change is everywhere these days—at times it seems like barely controlled chaos. Yet within this turmoil are the seeds of a higher order. When a new system arises from the ashes of the old, science calls the process “emergence.” By engaging it, you can help yourself and your organization or community to successfully face disruption and emerge stronger than ever. In this profound book, Peggy Holman offers principles, practices, and real-world stories to help you work with compassion, creativity, and wisdom through the entire arc of change—from di...
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Perseverance
Paperback
Margaret J. Wheatley
9781605098203
$23.95
SELF-HELP
Sep 13, 2010
In this inspiring and beautifully illustrated book, bestselling author Margaret Wheatley offers guidance to people everywhere for how to persevere through challenges in their personal lives, with their families, at their workplaces, in their communities, and in their struggles to make a better world. She provides hope, wisdom, and perspective for learning the discipline of perseverance. Wheatley does not offer the usual feel-good, rah-rah messages. Instead, she focuses on the situations, feelings, and challenges that can, over time, cause us ...
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Practical Ethics In Public Administration
Paperback
Dean Gueras
9781567262957
$69.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 01, 2010
Make the Right Choice - Enhance Your Ethical Decision Making Skills Today! Ethical issues arise in all walks of life, but none have implications as far-reaching and serious as those related to public management. Most people working in the public sector want to do the "right" thing, but the issues can be highly complex or just not lend themselves to easy answers. Practical Ethics in Public Administration, Third Edition, provides the tools, techniques, and methods needed to help meet these challenges. This completely updated third edition provide...
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Project Management Fundamentals
Key Concepts and Methodology
Paperback
Gregory T. Haugan
9781567262810
$52.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 01, 2010
Build on the Right Fundamentals for Project Management Success! To achieve success in any endeavor, you need to understand the fundamental aspects of that endeavor. To achieve success in project management, you should start with Project Management Fundamentals: Key Concepts and Methodology, Second Edition. This completely revised edition offers new project managers a solid foundation in the basics of the discipline. Using a step-by-step approach and conventional project management (PM) terminology, Project Management Fundamentals is a commonsen...
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Integrated Cost and Schedule Control in Project Management
Paperback
Ursula Kuehn
9781567262964
$65.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 01, 2010
The Practical, Precise, and Proven Approach to Integrated Cost and Schedule Control! This trusted project management resource, now in its second edition, includes expanded coverage of how integrated cost and schedule control works within the federal government. With the renewed emphasis on transparency in government, the processes detailed in this book are particularly relevant. Building on the solid foundation of the first edition, this updated second edition includes new material on: • Project planning in the federal government • Integrat...
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Rebuilding Trust in the Workplace
Seven Steps to Renew Confidence, Commitment, and Energy
Paperback
Dennis Reina Ph.D.
9781605093727
$25.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 03, 2010
If so, you may be experiencing the confidence-busting, commitment-breaking, energy-draining patterns consistent with broken trust. We’ve all been there, but few of us know how to rebuild that trust. Dennis and Michelle Reina have spent their careers researching and measuring workplace trust. In this sequel to their award-winning Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace, they offer everyone involved a proven process for healing: the person hurt, the person who hurt someone else, and the person wanting to help others. No matter your vantage point, thi...
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Terms of Engagement
Changing the Way We Change Organizations
Paperback
Richard H. Axelrod
9781605094472
$29.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 04, 2010
Building engagement is crucial for every organization. But the traditional top-down coercive change management paradigm—in which leaders “light a fire” under employees—actually discourages engagement. Richard Axelrod offers a better way. After debunking six common change management myths, he offers a proven, practical strategy for getting everyone—not just select committees or working groups—enthusiastically committed to organizational transformation. This revised edition features new interviews—everyone from the vice president of global citiz...
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Future Search
An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities
Paperback
Marvin R. Weisbord
9781605094281
$29.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 04, 2010
Future Search is among the best-established and most effective methods for enabling people to make and implement ambitious plans. It has been used to redesign IKEA’s product pipeline in Sweden, develop an integrated economic development plan in Northern Ireland, and demobilize child soldiers in Southern Sudan. Written by the originators, this book is the most up-to-date account of this powerful change method. This third edition is completely revised, reorganized, and updated with nine new chapters. It contains new cases and examples, advice on ...
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