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61. |  By: James R. Davis; Adelaide B. Davis Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 11-FEB-2000 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing Your Own Learning Describes seven major ways of learning and shows how each can best be used to maximize self-directed learning
Provides a step-by-step guide to assessing previous learning and designing an action plan for future learning
Reveals how to expand opportunities for learning and use libraries and the Internet more effectively
As the pace of change in the workplace continues to accelerate, individuals are under more pressure to learn new things than ever before. While most people realize they have more to learn, many have trouble translating that anxious need into purposeful action. Managing Your Own...
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62. |  By: Herman Maynard; Susan E. Mehrtens Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 31-AUG-1996 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Fourth Wave Applying the concept of historical waves originally propounded by Alvin Toffler in The Third Wave, Herman Maynard and Susan Mehrtens look toward the next century and foresee a "fourth wave," an era of integration and responsibility far beyond Toffler's revolutionary description of third-wave postindustrial society. Whether we attain this stage of global well-being, however, will depend on how well our business institutions adapt and change.
The Fourth Wave examines the ways business has changed in the second and third waves and must continue to change in the fourth. The changes concern the...
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63. |  By: Belva Davis; Vicki Haddock Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 01-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 14-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Never in My Wildest Dreams As the first black female television journalist in the western United States, Belva Davis overcame the obstacles of racism and sexism, and helped change the face and focus of television news. Now she is sharing the story of her extraordinary life in her poignantly honest memoir, Never in My Wildest Dreams. A reporter for almost five decades, Davis is no stranger to adversity. Born to a fifteen-year-old Louisiana laundress during the Great Depression, and raised in the overcrowded projects of Oakland, California, Davis suffered abuse, battled rejection, and persevered to achieve a career...
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64. |  By: Ken Jennings; Heather Hyde Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 09-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 30-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Greater Goal For decades we have been hearing about how strong organizational purpose drives customer and employee loyalty. Committees draft stirring mission statements and slap them on their websites, stick them on their annual reports, frame them on their lobby walls—and forget about them.
So what does it take to put an inspiring purpose into practice? How can you ensure that the highest values inform every aspect of your company’s operations and sustain high performance for years to come?
Through years of management consulting experiences, Ken Jennings and Heather Hyde have learned what it takes to...
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65. |  By: Jeffrey D. Clements Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 09-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 30-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Corporations Are Not People The January 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision marked a culminating victory for the legal doctrine of corporate personhood. Corporations, as legal persons, are now entitled to exercise their alleged free-speech rights in the form of campaign spending, effectively enabling corporate domination of the electoral process.
Jeffrey Clements uncovers the roots, expansion, and far-reaching effects of the strange and destructive idea, which flies in the face of not only all common sense but, Clements shows, most of American legal history, from 1787 to the...
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66. |  By: Robert Johansen Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 11-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 19-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leaders Make the Future Some leadership skills are enduring. But to be successful in the future, leaders also need an emerging set of skills uniquely suited to dealing with the challenges of the threshold decade we are entering. Today’s businesses and organizations are operating in a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Though they already seemed stressed to the breaking point, Johansen reminds us that we are also more connected than ever before in our history, but we must fully realize the benefits of that connectivity. In the next decade, leaders will not...
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67. |  By: Craig Neal; Patricia Neal Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 07-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 17-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Art of Convening “Meetings are a waste of time” is a sentiment many of us share, which is tragic because meetings bring us together as human beings. To achieve the kind of meaning or breakthrough results most of us really yearn for when we gather, the key quality needed is authentic engagement: a genuine expression of what is true for us, and an attentive listening to what is true for others. Why it so often eludes us can be a matter of habit, distrust, lack of attention, or fear.
As cofounders of Heartland Inc., Craig and Patricia Neal have led over 170 of their acclaimed Thought Leader Gatherings with...
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68. |  By: Bob Seidensticker Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 13-APR-2006 Insert Date: 17-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Future Hype Everyone knows that today's rate of technological change is unprecedented. With technological breakthroughs from the Internet to cell phones to digital music and pictures, everyone knows that the social impact of technology has never been as profound.
Future Hype surveys the past few hundred years to show that many of the technologies we now take for granted transformed society in far more dramatic ways than recent developments so often touted as unparalleled and historic. Seidensticker exposes the hidden costs of technology and will help both consumers and businesses take a shrewder...
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69. |  By: Sarah Ruth van Gelder Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 07-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 15-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: This Changes Everything The Occupy Wall Street Movement named the core issue of our time: the overwhelming power of Wall Street and large corporations—something the political establishment and most media have long ignored. Over the past few decades, wealth and power have been redistributed from the 99% to the 1%. But the movement goes far beyond this critique; it is changing everything—the way people view themselves and the world, the kind of society they believe is possible, and their involvement in creating a society that works for the 99% rather than just the 1%.
Attempts to pigeonhole this radically...
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70. |  What the U.S. Can Learn from China By: Ann Lee Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 09-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 15-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What the U.S. Can Learn from China While America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, a high unemployment rate, and a surge in government debt, China’s economy is the second largest in the world and many predict it will surpass the United States’ by 2020. President Obama called China’s rise “a Sputnik moment”—will America seize this moment or continue to treat China as its scapegoat?
Mainstream media and the U.S. government regularly target China as a threat. Rather than viewing China’s power, influence, and contributions to the global economy in a negative light, Ann Lee asks: What can America learn from its...
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71. |  By: John B. Izzo Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 02-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 15-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Stepping Up More people need to step up. When we take responsibility for making change wherever we can, not only does it make our companies, communities, and the world better, but we are happier and more successful and have more fulfilling relationships. But all too often, we stop ourselves before we start. The problems seem too daunting, it’s another department’s responsibility, other people are the issue and we can’t change them, and so on. And so nothing ever changes.
With his distinctive mix of inspiring storytelling and practical advice, John Izzo compassionately demolishes the most typical...
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72. |  By: Peter Block Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 01-NOV-2003 Insert Date: 15-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Answer to How Is Yes Modern culture’s worship of “how-to” pragmatism has turned us into instruments of efficiency and commerce—but we’re doing more and more about things that mean less and less. We constantly ask “how? and still struggle to find purpose and act on what matters. Instead of acting on what we know to be of importance, we wait for bosses to change, we seek the latest fad, we invest in one more degree. Asking how keeps us safe—instead of being led by our hearts into uncharted territory, we keep our heads down and stick to the rules. But we are gaining the world and losing our souls.
Peter Block puts...
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73. |  By: Marc J. Epstein Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 21-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 15-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Making Sustainability Work The best practices in corporate social responsibility (CSR) are no longer the exclusive domain of companies like Ben & Jerry's or the Body Shop; now even companies like GE and Wal-Mart are making significant financial and organizational commitments to social and environmental issues. But senior executives are realizing that implementing sustainability is particularly challenging. While a lot has been written on ethical and strategic factors, there is a dearth of information on the practical nuts and bolts of implementation and virtually nothing on how to measure the results.
In Making...
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74. |  By: Juanita Brown; David Isaacs; World Cafe Community Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 05-JUN-2005 Insert Date: 15-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The World Café The World Cafe is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization or community's own collective intelligence around its most important questions.
Filled with stories of actual Cafe dialogues in business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, this uniquely crafted book demonstrates how the World Cafe can be adapted to any setting or...
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75. |  By: Henry Mintzberg Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 15-JUL-2005 Insert Date: 15-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managers Not MBAs In his new book, Henry Mintzberg offers a sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how management, as a result, is practiced, and makes thoughtful-and controversial-recommendations for reforming both. Management, Mintzberg writes, is a practice that blends a great deal of craft (experience) with a certain amount of art (insight) and some science (analysis). Because conventional MBA programs are designed almost exclusively for young people with little if any managerial experience, and hence little art and no craft to draw upon, the programs overemphasize science, in the form of...
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76. |  By: Edward Winslow Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 10-MAY-2003 Insert Date: 27-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Blind Faith The risk of investing in the stock market has increased remarkably over the last decade. In this period we've seen tremendous volatility in stock prices, a market bubble and its subsequent pop, a parade of corporate scandals, the demise of a leading accounting firm and proven deception by many so-called investment analysts employed by major brokerage firms. In addition, the realities of ever-increasing geopolitical risks contribute to an uncertain economic future.
Blind Faith offers a cleverly simple yet revolutionary approach for managing investments in this perpetual high-risk environment....
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77. |  By: Ann Salerno; Lillie Brock Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 16-JUN-2008 Insert Date: 27-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Change Cycle Dealing with organizational change is about getting through the emotion and commotion with minimal damage to your blood pressure, career, relationships, and confidence. In The Change Cycle, Ann Salerno and Lillie Brock help readers cope by explaining the six predictable and sequential stages of change—loss, doubt, discomfort, discovery, understanding, and integration—and offer examples, tools, and success strategies so you can move resourcefully through each stage.
Each chapter focuses on a single stage of the Change Cycle, described in a lively, informal style peppered with frequent humor. ...
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78. |  By: Roberto Vargas Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 16-JUN-2008 Insert Date: 25-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Family Activism We live in a world that needs radical transformation if our children and grandchildren are to live healthy, peace-filled lives. But where to start? In this inspiring new book, activist Roberto Vargas says the answer lies surprisingly close: at home, with our closest relationships.
In our daily lives we experience countless opportunities to empower, inspire, and support positive change in those around us. In Family Activism Vargas explains how fostering what he calls familia—close, loving connections with our relatives and with those we choose to call family—can help us develop the skills...
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79. |  By: Ted Nace Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 01-SEP-2005 Insert Date: 24-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Gangs of America
The corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. Designed to seek profit and power, it has pursued both with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of law and even challenging the sovereign status of the state. Where did the corporation come from? How did it get so much power? What is its ultimate trajectory?
After he sold his successful computer book publishing business to a large corporation, Ted Nace felt increasingly driven to find answers to these questions. In Gangs of America he details the rise of corporate power in America through a series of...
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80. |  By: Ibrahim Abdul-Matin; Keith Ellison Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 11-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 24-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Green Deen
“The Earth is a mosque”
Muslims are compelled by their religion to praise the Creator and to care for their community. But what is not widely known is that there are deep and long-standing connections between Islamic teachings and environmentalism. In this groundbreaking book, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin draws on research, scripture, and interviews with Muslim Americans to trace Islam’s preoccupation with humankind’s collective role as stewards of the Earth. Abdul-Matin points out that the Prophet Muhammad declared that “the Earth is a mosque.”
Deen means “path” or “way” in Arabic. Abdul-Matin...
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