Katherine: 2489 books
Working With You is Killing Me
Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
"For anyone trapped in an energy-zapping relationship with a co-worker, boss, or subordinate, Crowley and Elster offer an exit strategy - a highly practical and easily implemented guide to making the situation workable." - Publishers Weekly
If you find yourself frustrated with a colleague...
Where to Draw the Line
How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
From the acclaimed author of the perennial favorite Boundaries, Where to Draw the Line is a practical guide to establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries in many different situations.
With every encounter, we either demonstrate that we’ll protect what we value or that we’ll give ourselves...
Who Cares?
Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Americans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares? challenges this story by examining opinion polls and...
Becoming a Strategic Leader
Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
In the second edition of the best-selling Becoming a Strategic Leader, Richard L. Hughes, Katherine Colarelli Beatty, and David L. Dinwoodie draw from the Center for Creative Leadership's (CCL) acclaimed Leading Strategically program to offer executives and managers a comprehensive approach to strategic...
by Randolph H. Pherson, Katherine H. Pherson
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
With this second edition of* Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence*, Randolph H. Pherson and Katherine Hibbs Pherson update their highly regarded, easy-to-use handbook for developing core critical thinking skills and analytic techniques. This indispensable text is framed around 20 key questions...
The Quiet Copywriter
An introvert’s guide to surviving and thriving in business
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Some of us are sensitive souls. We feel so very deeply. We think somewhat abstractly. We observe when others chatter. We retreat when others revel. And while introversion is now better understood and appreciated, it can still be tricky being a quiet business owner in a noisy world. And so we...
by Katherine Hawley
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Trust is indispensable, yet it can be dangerous. Without trusting others, we cannot function in society, or even stay alive for very long, but being overly-trustful can be a bad strategy too. Trust is pragmatic, but it also has a moral dimension: trustworthiness is a virtue, and well-placed trust...
Humility Is the New Smart
Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Humility Is the New Smart
Your job is at risk—if not now, then soon. We are on the leading edge of a Smart Machine Age led by artificial intelligence that will be as transformative for us as the Industrial Revolution was for our ancestors. Smart machines will take over millions of jobs in...
No Shame in My Game
The Working Poor in the Inner City
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
"Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
In No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
How Games Move Us
Emotion by Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players, with examples from popular, indie, and art games.
This is a renaissance moment for video games—in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they...
by Phil Wade, Katherine Bilsborough, Cecilia Lemos
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Step out of your ELT comfort zone by trying some PARSNIP lessons.This ebook has 7 lesson plans for ELT teachers that cover Politics, Alcohol, Religion, Sex, Narcotics, Isms and Pork in an engaging and enjoyable style.Written by Mike JC Smith, Cecilia Lemos, David Petrie, Adam Simpson,...
Revolutionizing Innovation
Users, Communities, and Open Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
A comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of the emerging paradigm of user and open innovation, offering both theoretical and empirical perspectives.
The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes...
The Missing Class
Portraits of the Near Poor in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Fifty-seven million Americans-including 21 percent of the nation's children-live a notch above the poverty line, and yet the challenges they face are largely ignored. While government programs assist the poor, and politicians woo the more fortunate, the "Missing Class" is largely invisible...