Derek: 1655 books
The Home Stay Guide
Practical advice for Airbnb and homeshare hosts
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
'THESE SUPERHOSTS UNDERSTAND HOMESHARING BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR HOMESHARE HOSTS'
Chip Conley, Strategic Adviser for Hospitality and Leadership, Airbnb
Learn how to build a profitable, professional and sustainable homeshare business.
Home Stay, also...
Collaborative Resilience
Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention.
Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration,...
by Derek L. Waller
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Statistics for Business explains the fundamentals of statistical analysis in a lucid, pragmatic way. A thorough knowledge of statistics is essential for decision making in all corners of business and management. By collecting, organizing and analyzing statistical data you can express what you know,...
by Derek McCormack, Kim McNamara, Donald McNeill
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
"This extraordinary collage of sophisticated essays on key terms in urban geography both provides a conventional basis to and recasts innovatively a burgeoning field in the discipline."
- Roger Keil, co-Editor, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
"The city is...
Building a Culture of Innovation
A Practical Framework for Placing Innovation at the Core of Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
SHORTLISTED: 2017 Chartered Management Institute Management Book of the Year.
Being a truly innovative company is more than dreaming up new products and services by external consultants and internal taskforces. Staying one step ahead of the competition requires you to embed innovation into...
by Jill Dann, Derek Dann
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Do you want to be able to persuade, influence, or empathise with people in any situation? Do you want to be able to click with people instantly? Do you want people to trust you?
This new Teach Yourself Workbook doesn't just tell you what emotional intelligence is. It accompanies you every step of...
Managing to Manage
The Essential Guide to People Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Today's managers often find themselves thrust into HR-type situations presenting both challenge and opportunity, often struggling to make the right decisions for the business and for the people involved.
Managing to Manage provides the essential understanding to cope with the core demands of...
How to Manage an Aid Exit Strategy
The Future of Development Aid
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
After almost forty years of development aid most commentators agree that aid as we know it has not worked. Aid fatigue is suffered on both the donor and recipient sides, with a wide divergence between those who call for a radical overhaul of aid delivery methods, those who advocate a complete end...
Tougher Times Leaner Measures
Eliminate Wastes in Business & Lifestyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Where do you go to when tough times affect both your business and lifestyle? Is there a quick fix to the issues that youre facing now? This book will unravel the secrets to fixing your problems, be it your business or lifestyle. The basic Lean principles have long been in existence for several decades...
Lessons from the Road
Musicians as Business Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Todd Pasternack was a professional, touring musician for 10 years
He made a living at being a musician even though he wasn't famous
Lessons from the Road is both an advice manual for musicians on how to make money while touring, whether or not your band is famous, as well as an advice...
Committed Teams
Three Steps to Inspiring Passion and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Build high-performing teams with an evidence-based framework that delivers results
Committed is a practical handbook for building great teams. Based on research from Wharton’s Executive Development Program (EDP), this concise guide identifies the common challenges that arise when people work...
Roadmap to Reconciliation
Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2015 We can see the injustice and inequality in our lives and in the world. We are ready to rise up. But how, exactly, do we do this? How does one reconcile? What we need is a clear sense of direction. Based on her extensive consulting experience with churches,...
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.
Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
by Glover, Derek (Research Associate, Department of Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
This work evaluates and attempts to produce a model for effective professional development. It contrasts the work in Britain with that in other countries, with case studies and exercises to illustrate points, highlighting good practice.