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41. |  Never Mind the Bosses: Hastening the Death of Deference for Business Success By: Robin Ryde Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 11-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 15-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Never Mind the Bosses: Hastening the Death of Deference for Business Success
Over the last few decades, power, information and resources have moved from being concentrated in the hands of a few, to being disbursed across many. We need look no further than events on the world stage to see the heat signature of this – from the arrival of Wikileaks, the Arab Spring of 2011 and the Occupy movements, to the social media revolution and flashpoints such as the British Members of Parliament expenses scandal. All are examples of deep change occurring.
This book is about what this means for the workplace and for management. The proposition offered here is that our...
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42. |  By: Craig E. Runde; Tim A. Flanagan Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 11-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
"An amazingly comprehensive collection of designs, options, examples, and techniques on how to move from conflict avoidance to constructive resolution."
—Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge
Praise for Craig E. Runde and Tim A. Flanagan's Books
Building Conflict Competent Teams
"A comprehensive, thoroughly researched guide to the crucial and inevitable role conflict plays on a team."
—Patrick Lencioni, author, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
"Conflict happens on the best of teams. Building Conflict Competent Teams shows team leaders as well as team members how to...
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43. |  Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance By: Gerard J. Tellis Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 14-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 11-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance
The hands-on guide for fostering relentless innovation within your company
Gerard Tellis, a noted expert on innovation, advertising, and global markets, makes the compelling case that the culture of a firm is the crucial driver of an organization's innovativeness. In this groundbreaking book he describes the three traits and three practices necessary to create a culture of relentless innovation. Organizations must be willing to cannibalize successful products, embrace risk, and focus on the future. Organizations build these traits by providing incentives for enterprise, empowering...
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44. |  Framing Decisions: Decision-Making that Accounts for Irrationality, People and Constraints Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 19-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Framing Decisions: Decision-Making that Accounts for Irrationality, People and Constraints
The economic crisis of 2008–2009 was a transformational event: it demonstrated that smart people aren't as smart as they and the public think. The crisis arose because a lot of highly educated people in high-impact positions— political power brokers, business leaders, and large segments of the general public—made a lot of bad decisions despite unprecedented access to data, highly sophisticated decision support systems, methodological advances in the decision sciences, and guidance from highly experienced experts. How could we get things so wrong? The answer, says J. Davidson Frame in...
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45. |  Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth By: Navi Radjou; Jaideep Prabhu; Simone Ahuja Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-APR-2012 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth
"Jugaad Innovation is the most comprehensive book yet to appear on the subject [of frugal innovation]."
—The Economist
A frugal and flexible approach to innovation for the 21st century
Innovation is a key directive at companies worldwide. But in these tough times, we can't rely on the old formula that has sustained innovation efforts for decades—expensive R&D projects and highly-structured innovation processes. Jugaad Innovation argues the West must look to places like India, Brazil, and China for a new approach to frugal and flexible innovation. The authors show how in these...
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46. |  How Foundations Work: What Grantseekers Need to Know About the Many Faces of Foundations Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 08-APR-1998 Insert Date: 28-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How Foundations Work: What Grantseekers Need to Know About the Many Faces of Foundations
In this groundbreaking book, Dennis McIlnay offers a unique and remarkable look inside foundations--exploring the complex workings of the mysterious and often misunderstood organizations that so often determine the success or failure of a nonprofit's fund raising ventures.
Drawing on his extensive research and on insights from foundations, McIlnay gives the grantseeker an edge in the highly competitive world of foundation grants by both debunking many of the myths and misconseptions surrounding foundations and including more productive strategies for dealing with them.
Structured...
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47. |  Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better By: Doug Lemov; Erica Woolway; Katie Yezzi Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 19-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 20-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better
Rules for developing talent with disciplined, deliberate, intelligent practice
We live in a competition loving culture. We love the performance, the big win, the ticking seconds of the clock as the game comes down to the wire. We watch games and cheer, sometimes to the point of obsession, but if we really wanted to see greatness—wanted to cheer for it, see it happen, understand what made it happen—we'd spend our time watching, obsessing on, and maybe even cheering the practices instead. This book puts practice on the front burner of all who seek to instill talent and achievement in...
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48. |  Strategic IQ: Creating Smarter Corporations By: John Wells Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 13-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 01-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Strategic IQ: Creating Smarter Corporations
In today's world, only the smartest survive. The competitive landscape is littered with graves of well-known firms whose revenues, profits and stock prices rose for decades until they suddenly imploded.
In fast-changing business environments, firms must adapt their strategies and innovate to remain at the top. But many successful firms fail to do so. Instead, they succumb to inertia, hesitate, or stick blindly to their old strategies, until it is too late.
The ability to adapt to change is a measure of intelligence; so why do firms demonstrate such low Strategic IQ? What causes inertia...
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49. |  Technology-Enhanced Assessment of Talent By: Nancy T. Tippins; Seymour Adler Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 26-APR-2011 Insert Date: 01-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Technology-Enhanced Assessment of Talent
This new volume provides research-based guidelines to help practitioners make better decisions on using technology to assess talent at all levels of the organization and for a full range of applications, from entry-level selection to senior-level succession and talent management. The book reviews of the various ways technology can enhance the administrative ease, credibility, validity, and cost effectiveness of assessments used by organizations in selection and other candidate evaluation processes. It also addresses measurement issues, examines case studies of current practice, and...
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50. |  Engaged: Unleashing Your Organization's Potential Through Employee Engagement By: Linda Holbeche; Geoffrey Matthews Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 05-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 01-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Engaged: Unleashing Your Organization's Potential Through Employee Engagement
A non-biased, grounded, and practical approach to employee engagement
For managers and business leaders who want to enhance performance, this easy-to-use guide to employee management offers real solutions for getting workers engaged and increasing productivity. It explains what employee engagement is, why it matters, what the benefits of it are, what helps and hinders it, how to measure it, how to put theory into action when trying to create it. As an added benefit, it offers plenty of advice on how managers can keep themselves engaged, even during the toughest of times.
Praise for...
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51. |  The Finch Effect: The Five Strategies to Adapt and Thrive in Your Working Life By: Nacie Carson Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 22-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 01-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Finch Effect: The Five Strategies to Adapt and Thrive in Your Working Life
Evolve your work strategy and thrive in today's high-pressure economy
As Darwin famously observed, the beaks of each generation of Galapagos Island finches change to accommodate shifting food resources, allowing the birds to survive by adapting their capabilities to the new environment. Today's business people should take note: In the post-crisis economy, traditional career strategies spell professional extinction, but the fluid new "gig economy" offers tremendous potential for anyone willing to adapt. Based on her popular blog and drawing on her leadership development experience, Nacie...
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52. |  By: William N. Zelman; Michael J. McCue; Noah D. Glick Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 28-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 27-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
Thoroughly revised, this third edition of Financial Management of Health Care Organizations offers an introduction to the most-used tools and techniques of health care financial management. Comprehensive in scope, the book covers a broad range of topics that include an overview of the health care system and evolving reimbursement methodologies; health care accounting and financial statements; managing cash, billings, and collections; the time value of money and analyzing and financing major capital investments; determining cost and using cost information in decisionmaking; budgeting and...
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53. |  Statistics for Health Care Professionals: Working With Excel, 2nd Edition By: James E. Veney; John F. Kros; David A. Rosenthal Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 08-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 27-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Statistics for Health Care Professionals: Working With Excel, 2nd Edition
Statistics for Health Care Professionals: Working with Excel (second edition) is written in a clear, easily followed style keyed to the powerful statistical tool, Microsoft Excel 2007. It introduces the use of statistics applicable to health administration, health policy, public health, health information management, and other professions, emphasizing the logic of probability and statistical analysis in all areas. Coverage includes data acquisition, data display, basics of probability, data distributions, confidence limits and hypothesis testing, statistical tests for categorical data,...
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54. |  Transforming Public Health Practice: Leadership and Management Essentials By: Bernard J. Healey; Cheryll D. Lesneski Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 04-OCT-2011 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Transforming Public Health Practice: Leadership and Management Essentials
This text provides students a foundation in public health practice and management, focusing on developing the knowledge and skills required by the real world of public health. The authors of Transforming Public Health Practice explain the drivers of change in public health practice, key success factors for public health programs, dealing with the chronic disease burden, the impact of national health policy on public health practice, and tools for understanding and managing population health.
Transforming Public Health Practice covers core leadership and management skills, covering areas...
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55. |  The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement By: Lloyd P Provost; Sandra Murray Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 04-OCT-2011 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement
The Health Care Data Guide is designed to help students and professionals build a skill set specific to using data for improvement of health care processes and systems. Even experienced data users will find valuable resources among the tools and cases that enrich The Health Care Data Guide. Practical and step-by-step, this book spotlights statistical process control (SPC) and develops a philosophy, a strategy, and a set of methods for ongoing improvement to yield better outcomes.
Provost and Murray reveal how to put SPC into practice for a wide range of applications including evaluating...
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56. |  Value Based Health Care: Linking Finance and Quality Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 02-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Value Based Health Care: Linking Finance and Quality
Value-Based Health Care
Linking Finance and Quality
Yosef D. Dlugacz
Value-Based Health Care?
Value-Based Health Care?concisely explains the mandate to successfully link health care quality and finance and describes the tools to implement strategies for organizational success. Yosef Dlugacz provides many illustrative real-world examples of process and outcomes of the value-based approach, taken from a wide range of health care settings. Perfect for students preparing to enter health care management or for practicing health care leaders and professionals, this book is a vital guide...
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57. |  Forces for Good, Revised and Updated: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, 2nd Edition By: Leslie R. Crutchfield; Heather McLeod Grant Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 23-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Forces for Good, Revised and Updated: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, 2nd Edition
An updated edition of a groundbreaking book on best practices for nonprofits
What makes great nonprofits great? In the original book, authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant employed a rigorous research methodology derived from for-profit books like Built to Last. They studied 12 nonprofits that have achieved extraordinary levels of impact—from Habitat for Humanity to the Heritage Foundation—and distilled six counterintuitive practices that these organizations use to change the world.
Features a new introduction that explores the new context in which nonprofits operate and the...
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58. |  Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations: Aligning Culture and Strategy By: Daniel Denison; Robert Hooijberg; Nancy Lane; Colleen Lief Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 26-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 20-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations: Aligning Culture and Strategy
Filled with case studies from firms such as GT Automotive, GE Healthcare China, Vale, Dominos, Swiss Re Americas Division, and Polar Bank, among others, this book (written by Dan Denison and his co-authors) combines twenty years of research and survey results to illustrate a critical set of cultural dynamics that firms need to manage in order to remain competitive. Each chapter uses a case as a means to illustrate an important aspect of culture change focusing on seven common culture-change dilemmas including creating a strategic alignment, keeping strategy simple, and more.
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59. |  Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership, 2nd Edition By: George Kohlrieser; Susan Goldsworthy; Duncan Coombe Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 10-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 13-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership, 2nd Edition
Have you ever been led by someone who cared for you like family, and dared you to achieve more than you ever thought possible for yourself, your organization, and even society?
Award-winning author of Hostage at the Table, George Kohlrieser, along with his co-authors Susan Goldsworthy and Duncan Coombe, explain how becoming a secure base leader releases extraordinary potential in others.
Part of the Warren Bennis leadership series Care to Dare shows you how to become a Secure Base Leader so that you release your followers from the fears that get in the way of their performance. It...
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60. |  By: David Lewis; G. Riley Mills Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 13-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
Tap into the powerful techniques of professional actors and great communicators
The Pin Drop Principle is a step-by-step master class for anyone wishing to become a more confident and credible communicator. Lewis and Mills believe all business professionals ought to deliver their message in such an engaging way that one could literally hear a pin drop when they speak. The secret to doing so comes from an unusual world: professional acting. By activating "objective" and "intention"—the main tools of actors (and great communicators)—business people can give their messages meaning and...
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