Berrett Koehler Publishers: 672 books
Collaborative Intelligence
Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Intelligence professionals are commonly viewed as solo operators. But these days intelligence work is mostly about collaboration. Interdisciplinary and even inter-organizational teams are necessary to solve the really hard problems intelligence professionals face. Tragically, these teams often devolve...
Got Your Attention?
How to Create Intrigue and Connect with Anyone
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
GOLD MEDALIST IN THE 2015 FOREWORD REVIEWS' INDIEFAB AWARDS IN CAREER!
**Did you know:
• Goldfish, yes, goldfish, have longer attention spans than we humans do?
• One in four people abandons a website if it takes longer than four seconds to load?
Imagine if there...
Trauma Stewardship
An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Offers those who care for others and the planet a way to stay engaged, hopeful, balanced, and healthy when dealing with hardship, suffering, and trauma • Deepens readers’ understanding of the many ways they and their organizations may be impacted by dealing with trauma and suffering • Uses moving...
by Gregory T. Haugan PhD, PMP
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
At last - the first comprehensive and practical guide to the work breakdown structure (WBS) in 45 years! This book offers vital new perspectives on how to apply the WBS to today's different types of projects that produce products, services or results. You'll learn how to use WBS throughout the...
by Kim Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Introducing a new leadership field of the same name, "Positive Leadership" presents a concise, accessible, and practical guide to strategies that can help leaders reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness.
Leadership and Self-Deception
Getting out of the Box
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This third edition of an international bestseller—over 2 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 33 languages—details how its powerful insights on motivation, conflict, and collaboration can benefit organizations as well as individuals.
Since its original publication in 2000,...
by Timothy J. Kloppenborg PhD, Joseph A. Petrick PhD, SPHR
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Make breakthroughs in project quality by combining project management with quality management - this books shows you how. Guiding you from project initiation through closure, the book provides a detailed stage-specific flowchart of activities correlated with appropriate tools to give you new power to meet customer expectations and institutionalize project quality.
The Abundant Community
Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
" We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase...
Dignity for All
How to Create a World Without Rankism
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
In his books Somebodies and Nobodies and All Rise, Robert Fuller exposed rankism—abuse of the power inherent in rank to exploit or humiliate someone of lower rank. In Dignity for All, Fuller and Pamela Gerloff offer a concise, action-oriented guide to the concrete steps we can take to eradicate...
Strategic Analytics
Advancing Strategy Execution and Organizational Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
More than ever, data drives decisions in organizations—and we have more data, and more ways to analyze it, than ever. Yet strategic initiatives continue to fail as often as they did when computers ran on punch cards. Economist and research scientist Alec Levenson says we need a new approach.
The...
The Book of Agreement
10 Essential Elements for Getting the Results You Want
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2002
Crafting agreements with others is a fundamental life skill. Unfortunately, we were never taught how to do it. The agreements most people make are incomplete and ineffective-they usually focus on protecting against what might go wrong instead of figuring out how to make things go right. The Book of...
The Art of Community
Seven Principles for Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Create a Culture of Belonging!
Strong cultures help people support one another, share their passions, and achieve big goals. And such cultures of belonging aren't just happy accidents - they can be purposefully cultivated, whether they're in a company, a faith institution or among friends and...
by Patricia McLagan
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2002
Change Is Everybody's Business challenges readers to realize the power they have to make things happen-to support, stymie, or redirect change. Pat McLagan draws on her thirty years of experience consulting on change projects worldwide to outline the beliefs, character traits, and actions that will...
Chess Not Checkers
Elevate Your Leadership Game
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
As organizations grow in volume and complexity, the demands on leadership change. The same old moves won't cut it any more. In *Chess Not Checkers, Mark Miller tells the story of Blake Brown, newly appointed CEO of a company troubled by poor performance and low morale. Nothing Blake learned from his...