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21. |  By: Don Maruska; Jay Perry Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 05-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 22-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Take Charge of Your Talent Whether you’re the new kid in a cubicle, the boss in the executive suite, or self-employed, you have huge potential for greater productivity and fulfillment. Even very high performers in excellent organizations—large and small, for profit and nonprofit—report that 30 to 40 percent of their talent is untapped. Imagine what lies waiting for you.
Take Charge of Your Talent details three keys to develop and enjoy your abilities. You’ll discover new ways to identify your aspirations and opportunities, power past obstacles, and translate your intentions into results. Finally, you’ll create a...
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22. |  By: Peter S. Peter S. Cohan Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 05-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 19-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Hungry Start-up Strategy Entrepreneurs are hungry. But it’s not just because they’re living on ramen and adrenaline while they pour their all into their business. Peter Cohan has found it’s something deeper: a hunger to create the kind of world they want to work in. To leave a legacy, they build carefully with limited resources and maintain control of the venture’s direction.
For years, students have told Cohan that the seminal business strategy guide, Michael Porter’s Competitive Strategy, was too big-company focused. So Cohan—who once worked with Porter—has written the first business strategy book to address...
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23. |  Transformative Scenario Planning By: Adam Kahane Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 15-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 07-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Transformative Scenario Planning People who are trying to solve tough economic, social, or environmental problems often find themselves frustratingly stuck. They can’t solve their problems in their current context, which is too unstable or unfair or unsustainable. Nor can they transform the system on their own or by working only with their friends or colleagues—systemic change requires the participation of actors from across the system, including strangers and opponents. But how can people work together if they don’t necessarily like, trust, or understand each other and disagree not only on what the solution is but even on...
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24. |  By: Margaret J. Wheatley Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 08-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 06-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: So Far from Home 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 have replaced rational thinking. Organizations are bloated by bureaucracy and meaningless measures. Those working for positive change become exhausted, ill, and heartsick as their good work is ignored, underfunded, or attacked.
We need to acknowledge that we’re lost in a world far different than...
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25. |  Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go By: Beverly Kaye; Julie Winkle-Giulioni Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 17-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 31-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. Nevertheless, it’s frequently back-burnered. When asked why, managers say the number one reason is that they just don’t have time—for the meetings, the forms, the administrative hoops.
But there’s a better way. And it’s surprisingly simple: frequent short conversations with employees about their career goals and options integrated seamlessly into the normal course of business. Kaye and Giulioni identify three broad types of...
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26. |  Managing for People Who Hate Managing By: Devora Zack Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 27-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing for People Who Hate Managing You’re good at your job and, after years of service and dedication, you finally get that coveted promotion. Congratulations! But there’s a catch: instead of spending the majority of your time doing the job you love—a job you’re still expected to get done, by the way—you’re now also a manager. You weren’t trained for this. Nobody prepared you for having to deal with emotions and conflicts and personalities, all while trying to meet ever-greater goals and more pressing deadlines. Not exactly what you had in mind, is it?
Let’s face it. It’s stressful at the top. But don’t worry; it doesn’t have...
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27. |  By: Danny Kennedy Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 03-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 10-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Rooftop Revolution Solar power’s detractors have been proclaiming that the collapse of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra proves solar is just a hippie pipe dream. But as Danny Kennedy points out, Solyndra’s downfall actually proves the opposite: the company failed because it wasn’t able to compete in a red-hot industry, not because solar isn’t ready for prime time. In this succinct, hard-hitting book, Kennedy proves that solar can save money, create jobs, and protect the environment—and only politics and perception stand in its way.
Signs of solar’s ascendency are everywhere. The industry employs 100,000...
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28. |  Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic By: Hugh Sinclair Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 09-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 10-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic Offering inspiring success stories, the microfinance industry depends on the faith of investors that small loans can transform the lives of the poor. But as Hugh Sinclair points out, very little solid evidence exists that microloans make a dent in long-term poverty. 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 in the industry turned him into a heretic.
Sinclair worked with several microfinance institutions and...
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29. |  Positive Leadership, 2nd Edition By: Kim Cameron Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 06-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 07-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Positive Leadership, 2nd Edition Leadership should be about much more than hitting targets and avoiding mistakes. Kim Cameron shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and what he calls “positively deviant performance”—performance far above the norm. Positive leadership enables thriving and flourishing rather than simply addressing obstacles and impediments. It helps bring out the best in human nature.
Cameron is one of the founders of the new field of Positive Organizational Scholarship, which studies unusually high-performing organizations. In Positive...
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30. |  Repacking Your Bags, 3rd Edition By: Richard J. Leider; David A. Shapiro Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 17-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 07-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Repacking Your Bags, 3rd Edition People everywhere feel overwhelmed today-weighed down by countless responsibilities and buffeted by never-ending changes in their personal and professional lives. Repacking Your Bags shows readers how to climb out from under these burdens and find the fulfillment that is missing in their lives.
With lively and intelligent writing, personal examples, and stories collected in hundreds of interviews, the authors illustrate a comprehensive guide for separating what's weighing you down from what you need to find true fulfillment. They provide a simple yet elegant process to help you balance the...
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31. |  By: Soren Kaplan Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 06-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 07-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leapfrogging Today’s business climate demands breakthroughs, not incremental improvements. What makes one leader or company thrive while others languish in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing marketplace? There’s no doubt hard work is involved, but Soren Kaplan shows you can’t do it by simply creating a big vision and implementing a set plan. In his trailblazing debut, Kaplan gives business leaders the tools to do exactly what they’re taught to avoid: embrace surprise—the new key to business breakthroughs.
Instead of fighting against uncertainty, Kaplan reveals how to use it to break down limiting...
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32. |  Changing Business from the Inside Out By: Tim Mohin Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 06-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 16-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Changing Business from the Inside Out Tim Mohin argues that environmentalists can do as much good for the earth working "inside" the corporate system as by protesting from the outside. This book outlines how to work in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), either as a new career, of as a leader in a CSR initiative.
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33. |  By: Carol S. Pearson Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 04-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 16-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Transforming Leader Outlines a new leadership approach tailored to the realities of the twenty-first century
Features chapters by such leading authors as Matthew Fox, Diana Whitney, and Alan Briskin
Edited and annotated by the author of the bestselling The Hero Within
The traditional model of the heroic leader single-handedly piloting the organization was always something of a myth, but it is especially unrealistic now. We live in a complex, fast-evolving, highly connected world. There is simply too much for a single person to keep track of or to address successfully. Leaders today must not only optimize all...
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34. |  By: Robert Brinkerhoff Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 09-JAN-2003 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Success Case Method
The Success Case Method (SCM) offers a simple, carefully crafted way of determining how well a new organizational initiative is working. Already shown to be effective in dozens of organizations, SCM is based on five steps: focusing and planning the study; clearly defining what outcomes will be considered success; identifying success cases; conducting interviews to learn exactly how success was achieved; and communicating results throughout the organization. Written by an internationally recognized expert in evaluation and training effectiveness, these are fast and foolproof techniques....
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35. |  Leaders Make the Future, 2nd Edition By: Robert Johansen Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 07-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 03-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leaders Make the Future, 2nd Edition Identifies surprising new leadership skills vital to coping with today’s uncertain, rapidly changing world
Includes exercises and assessments for developing and applying these skills
A fully updated and revised edition of a book adopted by leaders at Procter & Gamble, Target, McDonalds, Electronic Arts, UPS, Kraft, and many other companies
We are in a time of disruptive change—traditional leadership skills won’t be enough, noted futurist Bob Johansen argues. Drawing on the latest ten-year forecast from the Institute for the Future—the only futures think tank ever to outlive...
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36. |  By: Lynn A. Stout Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 07-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Shareholder Value Myth Proves that shareholder primacy has no basis in law or economics and does not deliver better bottom-line results
Suggests better ways to think about shareholders and their relationship to corporations
Written by one of America’s most distinguished legal scholars
Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to “maximize shareholder value.” The results have been disastrous. “Shareholder primacy” thinking causes corporate managers to focus myopically on short-term earnings reports at the expense of long-term performance; discourages...
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37. |  By: Chuck Collins Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 14-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 17-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 99 to 1 For over thirty years, we’ve lived through a radical redistribution of wealth—upward, to a tiny fraction of the population. It’s as though we’re undertaking a bizarre social experiment to see how much inequality a democratic society can tolerate.
As a result “We are the 99%,” the rallying cry of the Occupy movement, has spread far beyond its ranks. But who are the 99 percent? Who are the 1 percent? How extensive and systematic is inequality throughout society? What are its true causes and consequences? How is inequality changing in our world? And what can be done about it?...
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38. |  By: Jeffrey Ford; Laurie Ford Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 01-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 07-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Four Conversations
This book shows managers and employees how to use the right conversation at the right time, plan and start each conversation well, and finish each conversation effectively....
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39. |  By: Mark Levy Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 09-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 15-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Accidental Genius A new and thoroughly revised edition of marketing and positioning genius Mark Levy, which helps readers unleash their inner creativity, problem solving skills, while also generating content. This is The Artist's Way for business people and social media people. Accidental Genius uses a similar methodology of freewriting to create business plan, find solutions, and generate new content. Over 10,000 of the original edition sold....
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40. |  By: Christine Pelosi Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 05-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 02-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Campaign Boot Camp 2.0 Detailed, practical advice on how to win any kind of campaign
Written by a veteran activist with a lifetime of experience running campaigns at every level
Updated throughout, including new information on using social media, challenges unique to women, and the power of volunteers
“My political activism began in the stroller,” writes Christine Pelosi. As the daughter of Congresswoman and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Christine is almost literally a born campaigner. She knows politics and policy inside out: she’s served as an attorney in the Clinton-Gore administration, as a...
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