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1. |  By: Terry Hawkins Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 06-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 05-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Why Wait to Be Great? Discover Your Super Power!
We all want to change something about ourselves: lose weight, quit smoking, improve our finances, and so on. But change is hard, even painful, and it’s our nature to avoid pain. In this inspiring how-to guide, Terry Hawkins provides exactly what we need: a straightforward way to break free of old habits that hold us back and adopt new ones that move us forward. It’s a process Hawkins herself used to rise above poverty, abuse, and serious health problems.
Two fictional characters—Pitman and Flipman—demonstrate two possible ways of being. As Pitman, we’re trapped...
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2. |  By: Robert L. Jolles Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 05-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Change Minds Persuade, Don’t Push!
Surely you know plenty of people who need to make a change, but despite your most well-intentioned efforts, they resist because people fundamentally fear change. As a salesman, father, friend, and consultant, Rob Jolles knows this scenario all too well. Drawing on his highly successful sales background and decades of research, he lays out a simple, repeatable, predictable, and ethical process that will enable you to lead others to discover for themselves what and why they need to change. Whether you hope to make a sale or improve a relationship, Jolles’s wise...
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3. |  The Truth about Lies in the Workplace By: Carol Kinsey Goman Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Truth about Lies in the Workplace You Work with a Bunch of Liars—Learn What to Do About It
Sure, everyone tells little white lies now and then, but real deception in the workplace is a poison that can destroy relationships, careers, and companies. Carol Kinsey Goman, a leading workplace body language expert, combines her own experiences with the latest research to identify fifty subtle physical and vocal cues that will enable you to spot destructive workplace lies. She analyzes the role we play in supporting lies—how our own vanities, desires, self-deceptions, and rationalizations allow us to be duped. And once you detect a...
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4. |  By: Joyce M. Roché; Alexander Kopelman Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Empress Has No Clothes You Deserve Your Success!
Joyce Roché rose from humble circumstances to earn an Ivy League MBA and become the first female African-American vice president of Avon, president of a leading hair care company, and CEO of the national nonprofit Girls Inc. But despite these accomplishments, she felt like a fraud. She worked more and more, had less and less of a personal life, and was never able to enjoy her success.
In this deeply personal memoir, Roché shares her lifelong struggle with what she now recognizes as “the impostor syndrome,” a condition that plagues successful people in all walks of...
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5. |  By: Peter Block Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 20-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 18-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Stewardship, 2nd Edition Service, Accountability, and Partnership
Stewardship was provocative, even revolutionary, when it was first published in 1993, and it remains every bit as relevant and radical today. Most organizations still rely on patriarchy and hierarchy as their core form of governance, stifling initiative and spirit and alienating people from the work they do. Peter Block asserts that a fundamental shift in how we distribute power, privilege, and the control of money can transform every part of an organization for the better, and he examines the nitty-gritty of implementing these reforms.
This revised...
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6. |  Managers as Mentors, 3rd Edition By: Chip R. Bell; Marshall Goldsmith Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 18-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managers as Mentors, 3rd Edition Leaders Creating Leaders
This latest edition of the classic Managers as Mentors is a rapid-fire read that guides leaders in helping associates grow in today’s tumultuous organizations. Thoroughly revised throughout with twelve new chapters, this edition places increased emphasis on the mentor acting as a learning catalyst with the protégé rather than simply handing down knowledge.
As with previous editions, a fictional case study of a mentor-protégé relationship runs through the book. But now this is augmented with interviews with six top US CEOs. New chapters cover topics such as the role...
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7. |  The Power of Latino Leadership By: Juana Bordas Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 06-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 03-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Power of Latino Leadership One of America’s historic strengths has been our ability to incorporate aspects from many different cultures to create a stronger whole. Our music, literature, language, architecture, food, fashion, and more have all benefitted. But leadership approaches have remained distressingly Eurocentric.
Juana Bordas set out to change this in the first edition of this influential book. She showed that incorporating Latino, African American, and American Indian approaches to leadership into the mainstream can strengthen leadership practices and better inspire today’s ethnically rich workforce.
This...
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8. |  Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration By: Judith H. Katz; Frederick A. Miller Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 01-APR-2013 Insert Date: 03-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration Your people might be your organization’s greatest assets, but their interactions with one another are what determine the quality and the quantity of their contributions. Too many neglect this basic truth and fail to create the sense of excitement, energy, and shared mission that occurs when people truly join together.
In this concise, engaging book, Judith Katz and Fred Miller describe four deceptively simple behavioral guidelines that fundamentally change the way people work together:
? Lean into Discomfort: Encourage yourself and others to move beyond comfort zones, speak up, do new...
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9. |  By: Maren S. Showkeir; James D. Showkeir Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 06-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 03-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Yoga Wisdom at Work In the Western world, the yoga practice associated with doing poses on a mat benefits millions of devotees every day. Yet few people realize that the physical practice is rooted in a larger philosophy offering profound insights that can help people confront the complexities of daily life, especially at work.
Maren and Jamie Showkeir’s unprecedented book brings into crisp focus the full range of yoga’s rich, transformational benefits. Based on the traditional Eight Limbs of Yoga (the postures, or asanas, are only one limb), it offers straightforward, practical suggestions on how to...
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10. |  By: Eric Bing; Marc J. Epstein Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 06-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 03-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pharmacy on a Bicycle Every three minutes, nearly 50 children under the age of five dies. In the same three minutes, 2 mothers lose their lives in childbirth. Every year, malaria kills 655,000 people, despite the fact that it can be prevented with a mosquito net and treated for $1.41.
Sadly, this list goes on and on. Millions are dying from diseases that we can easily and inexpensively prevent, diagnose, and treat. Why? Because even though we know exactly what people need, we just can’t get it to them. They are dying not because we can't solve a medical problem but because we can’t solve a logistics problem.
In...
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11. |  By: Jennifer Kahnweiler Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 15-APR-2013 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Quiet Influence Introverts may feel powerless in a world where extroverts seem to rule, but there’s more than one way to have some sway. As Jennifer Kahnweiler proves in this much-needed book, introverts can be highly effective influencers when, instead of trying to act like extroverts, they use their natural strengths. Kahnweiler shows how you can use those strengths to challenge the status quo, provoke new ways of thinking, effect change, and inspire others to move forward.
Kahnweiler identifies six unique strengths introverts have:
• Taking Quiet Time: The periods of solitude that introverts crave...
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12. |  By: Robert E. Kaplan; Robert B. Kaiser Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 01-APR-2013 Insert Date: 09-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fear Your Strengths Once you’ve discovered your strengths, you need to discover something else: your strengths can work against you. You can have too much of a good thing.
Many leaders know this on some intuitive level, and they see it in others. But they don’t see it as clearly in themselves. Mainly, they think of leadership development as working on their weaknesses. No wonder. The tools used to assess managers are not equipped to pick up on overplayed strengths. Nowhere in most assessments is there language or diagnostics that can reveal when someone is overdoing it—when more is not better.
Nationally...
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13. |  By: Frederick Gilbert Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 01-APR-2013 Insert Date: 09-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Speaking Up If you are in middle management, you live with daily ambiguity, lack of control, and even chaos. To get anything done, you must present your ideas to decision makers, and those presentations can be brutal. Careers and projects can come unwound in a matter of minutes if a presenter at the top level doesn’t know the rules.
Fear in the middle creates fog at the top, and bad decisions are made. The stakes are high—one presentation can make or break a career—but the rules are utterly unclear. Or at least they used to be.
Speaking Up is an indispensable resource for anyone who needs to know how...
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14. |  By: Jonathan Rowe; Peter Barnes Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 01-APR-2013 Insert Date: 09-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Our Common Wealth A huge part of our economy is invisible, invaluable, and under siege. "The commons" is a term that denotes everything we share as opposed to own privately. Some parts of the commons are gifts of nature: the air and oceans, the web of species, wilderness, and watersheds. Others are the product of human creativity and endeavor: sidewalks and public squares, the Internet, our languages, cultures, technologies, and infrastructure. In graceful and down-to-earth prose, Jonathan Rowe illuminates the scale and value of the commons, its symbiotic relationship with the rest of the economy, its...
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15. |  By: Charles F. Kiefer; Malcolm Constable Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 08-APR-2013 Insert Date: 09-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Art of Insight We have all experienced it: the jolt of an insight arriving like a thunderclap, the metaphorical light bulb over your head as you drive to work, take a shower, or unload the dishwasher. These all-too-elusive “aha moments” come sporadically and without warning. But what if insights could be accessed more reliably in everyday life? Charles Kiefer and Malcolm Constable have the tools to make this possibility a reality.
Based on the authors’ years of research, reflection, and experiences with colleagues, friends, and business clients, The Art of Insight presents practical methods for...
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16. |  It's the Way You Say It, 2nd Edition By: Carol Fleming Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 08-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: It's the Way You Say It, 2nd Edition Speak Your Mind Effectively!
The best, most direct way to convey your intelligence, expertise, professionalism, and personality to other people is through talking to them. But most people have no idea what they sound like. And even if they do, they don’t think they can change it. It’s the Way You Say It is a thorough, nuts-and-bolts guide to becoming aware and taking control of how you communicate with others.
Dr. Carol Fleming provides detailed advice and scores of exercises for
• Understanding how others hear you
• Dealing with specific speech problems
• Varying your vocal patterns to...
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17. |  Leadership and the Art of Struggle By: Steven Snyder Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 08-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership and the Art of Struggle All Leaders Face Adversity. Exceptional Leaders Thrive in It.
Leadership is often a struggle, and yet strong taboos keep us from talking openly and honestly about our difficulties for fear of looking weak and seeming to lack confidence. But Steven Snyder shows that this discussion is vital—adversity is precisely what unlocks our greatest potential.
Using real-life stories drawn from his extensive research studying 151 diverse episodes of leadership struggle—as well as from his experiences working with Bill Gates in the early years of Microsoft and as a CEO and executive coach—Snyder shows...
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18. |  By: Bernard Lietaer; Jacqui Dunne Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 04-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 24-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Rethinking Money As the United States struggles and the economies of Europe stagger, we fail to see a way out of this agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. In fact, there are thousands of ways to solve not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. Solutions are already in place where terrible problems once existed. The changes came about not through increased conventional taxation, enlightened self-interest, or government programs but by people simply rethinking the concept of money. With this restructuring, everything changes.
In this visionary...
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19. |  By: Rob Dietz; Dan O’Neill Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 05-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 22-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Enough Is Enough It’s time for a new kind of economy
We’re overusing the earth’s finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth—an economy where the goal is not more but enough.
They explore specific strategies to conserve natural resources, stabilize population, reduce inequality, fix the financial system, create jobs, and more—all with the aim of maximizing long-term well-being instead of short-term profits. Filled with fresh ideas and...
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20. |  I'm Sorry I Broke Your Company By: Karen Phelan Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 05-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 22-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: I'm Sorry I Broke Your Company It’s the People, Stupid!
Karen Phelan is sorry. She really is. She tried to do business by the numbers—the management consultant way—developing measures, optimizing processes, and quantifying performance. The only problem is that businesses are run by people. And people can’t be plugged into formulas or summed up in scorecards.
Phelan dissects a whole range of consulting treatments for unhealthy companies and shows why they’re essentially fad diets: superficial would-be fixes that don’t result in lasting improvements and can cause serious damage. With a mix of clear-eyed business analysis,...
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