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We Are All Self-Employed: How to Take Control of Your Career
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
This is not a book about starting your own business. Then again, it is. By now there is ample evidence that an "employed" attitude-believing that you work for an employer and acting as though by doing your work your job will be secure-is defunct. An employed attitude is the antithesis of what you...
Lean and Green: Profit for Your Business and the Environment
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
When it comes to believing that business can be profitable and environmentally sensitive, cynics abound on both sides. But in Lean and Green, Pamela Gordon proves that capitalism and environmentalism are not mutually exclusive-quite the contrary. She shows how "green" business practices enable or...
The Big Investment Lie: What Your Financial Advisor Doesn...
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
The investment advice and management industry is built on fraud: the idea that professional advisors can predictably and consistently help you get a better rate of return on your investments. The industry sells us on this lie using manipulative tactics that are studied, refined, Wall Street minte...
Time and the Soul: Where Has All the Meaningful Time Gone...
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
In Time and the Soul, Jacob Needleman uses stories-of a middle-aged psychiatrist going back in time to encounter his younger self; of a mysterious meeting in the Central Asian desert; of the mystic master Hermes Trimegistus; as well as stories from the Bhagavad-Gita, the Bible, and other wisdom t...
The Power of Failure: 27 Ways to Turn Life's Setbacks int...
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
The fear of failure is enough to stop many people in their tracks and lead them to give up without even trying. But best selling author Charles Manz shows that failure is an essential component of personal and professional success. Using real-life examples and stories, Manz shows that: / -Challeng...
Getting to Resolution: Turning Conflict into Collaboratio...
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
Our current models for ending conflict don’t really work. They waste incredible amounts of time, money, and energy and take an enormous emotional toll on participants. The parties remain embittered, relationships are destroyed, and often the conflict just reappears later in a different form. / In ...
The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and t...
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
For the past 20 years, corporations have been receiving huge tax breaks and subsidies in the name of "jobs, jobs, jobs." But, as Greg LeRoy demonstrates in this important new book, it's become a costly scam. / Playing states and communities off against each other in a bidding war for jobs, corpo...
Be Your Own Brand: A Breakthrough Formula for Standing Ou...
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
The art and science of brand building is typically identified with businesses, products, and services, but this book explains how personal and professional relationships can also be seen-and managed-in this very practical and effective light. The authors present "personal brand management" as a r...
The Blind Men and the Elephant: Mastering Project Work
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
If you work, you probably manage projects every day-even if "project manager" isn't in your official title-and you know how frustrating the experience can be. Using the familiar story of six blind men failing to describe an elephant to each other as a metaphor, David Schmaltz brilliantly identifi...
Smart Videoconferencing: New Habits for Virtual Meetings
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
Smart Videoconferencing is the first book to show people how to participate effectively in videoconferences, rather than just how to set them up. The authors offer dozens of solid, easy-to-implement tips and real-life examples showing how to: / * integrate videoconferencing into your business co...
Change is Everybody's Business: Claim Your Change Power!
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
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 wil...
Identity is Destiny: Leadership and the Roots of Value Cr...
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
In this time when "change is everything," leaders and people at all levels of organizations need guideposts to live, work and grow by - unshakable principles that can be relied upon implicitly, irrespective of how much technology and globalization drive people to change. Today, organizations and ...
The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and For Our Leaders
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
Many significant failures—from FEMA’s response to Hurricane Katrina to the recent economic collapse—could have been prevented or mitigated if those lower in the hierarchy were successful at communicating to leaders the risks they saw in the system. Ira Chaleff’s Courageous Follower model has faci...
The Power of Collective Wisdom: And the Trap of Collectiv...
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
If we are to disentangle the extraordinary challenges that we face today in organizations, communities, and nations we must transcend our divisions and develop solutions together. But what enables us to collectively make wise choices and sound judgments instead of splintering apart? / When human...
Responsible Restructuring: Creative and Profitable Altern...
from Berrett-Koehler in Books, Non-fiction
Firms that restructure through downsizing are not more profitable than those that don't, and often end up hurting themselves in the long run. Responsible Restructuring draws on the results of an eighteen-year study of S&P 500 firms to prove that it makes good business sense to restructure respons...
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