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The White Collar Recession

This series of articles describes the personal experience of a white collar professional working through financial calamity, from initial awareness to discovery of the next great adventure. Origina...
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  • PureSchmaltz published this 08/16/2009
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Know Can Do: Put Your Know-How into Action

Attempting to better themselves—learn new skills, break bad habits, realize their potential—people read books, attend seminars, take training courses. And companies pitch in too, spending billions ...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 03/10/2009
  • 1,803 reads
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Organization Development: Principles, Processes, Performance

Organization development (OD) is more important than ever. Not only is OD a growing field in itself, it is also growing as a component of management, human resource development, industrial and orga...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 03/10/2009
  • 5,460 reads
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Regime Change Begins at Home: Freeing America from Corporate Rule

Since 1980, America has been run by a corporate regime that has co-opted both political parties and shifted sovereignty from "we the people" to trans-national corporations. The result has been job ...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 03/10/2009
  • 670 reads
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The Book of Agreement: 10 Essential Elements for Getting the Results You Want

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 p...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 03/10/2009
  • 1,657 reads
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Hands-On Training: A Simple and Effective Method for On-the-Job Training

On-the-Job Training (OJT) is the single most used training method in organizations today. But it is also the most misused-because very few of those doing OJT are ever trained how to do it. In Hands...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 03/10/2009
  • 2,407 reads
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Working at Warp Speed: The New Rules for Project Success in a Sped-Up World

Everyone is a project manager -- projects are what all of us do day in and day out. Skillful project management is fundamental to survival in today's warp-speed world. Yet it is often misunderstood...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 03/10/2009
  • 9,844 reads
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A Simpler Way

We want life to be less arduous and more delightful. We want to be able to think differently about how to organize human activities." So begins A Simpler Way, an exploration of a radically differen...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 03/10/2009
  • 3,185 reads
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Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help

Helping is a fundamental human activity, but it can also be a frustrating one. All too often, to our bewilderment, our sincere offers of help are resented, resisted, or refused—and we often react t...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 02/04/2009
  • 1,417 reads
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FREE EXCERPT: Just Good Business: The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand

In Just Good Business, Kellie McElhaney shows leaders and managers exactly how to connect their CSR efforts to their company’s overall corporate strategy, business objectives, and core competencies...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 10/30/2008
  • 8,790 reads
  • 3 comments

FREE EXCERPT: Loyal to the Sky: Notes From an Activist

Combining captivating personal memoir and astute political reportage, Marisa Handler offers a fascinating inside look at the burgeoning global justice movement through her own compelling coming-of-...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 10/30/2008
  • 770 reads
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FREE EXCERPT: Ideas Are Free

Outlines how to set up a truly effective system for soliciting, evaluating and implementing employee ideas for improvement --- a proven, low-cost source of potentially millions of dollars worth of ...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 10/30/2008
  • 12,019 reads
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FREE EXCERPT: The Power of Serving Others: You Can Start Where You Are

In The Power of Serving Others, Gary Morsch and Dean Nelson show that everybody has something to contribute and that our ability to transform our lives by transforming the lives of others is within...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 10/30/2008
  • 2,342 reads
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FREE EXCERPT: One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization

VISA co-founder Dee Hock skillfully weaves together the story of VISA with his own remarkable life story and elaborates the visionary philosophy that allowed VISA to thrive. Hock calls his approach...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 10/30/2008
  • 2,816 reads
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FREE EXCERPT: Downshifting: How To Work Less and Enjoy Life More

Who has never wished to step off the ever-accelerating treadmill of work, just to gain some kind of balance in life? Downshifting is a practical, hands-on guide that actually shows how to move from...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 10/30/2008
  • 2,666 reads
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FREE EXCERPT: The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To & For Our Leaders

All of us are, at times, followers-even a president reporting to the CEO or a general reporting to the Commander-in-Chief. And in any organization, there are always more followers than leaders. The...
  • Pdf_16x16 41 pages
  • Berrett-Koehler published this 10/30/2008
  • 2,353 reads
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FREE EXCERPT: The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter

The World Cafe is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, thi...
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 10/30/2008
  • 2,008 reads
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FLASH MOVIE: Are You Living The Good Life?

A parable by Mark Albion, author of More Than Money.
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  • Berrett-Koehler published this 10/13/2008
  • 7,296 reads
  • 7 comments

FREE EXCERPT: Just Good Business: The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand

In Just Good Business, Kellie McElhaney shows leaders and managers exactly how to connect their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts to their company’s overall corporate strategy, business...
  • Pdf_16x16 30 pages
  • Berrett-Koehler published this 10/09/2008
  • 8,001 reads
  • 1 comment

FREE EXCERPT: Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance in a Self-Organizing World

What began twenty years ago as a journey of exploration into the interplay between chaos, order, and the creative process culminates in this capstone work of Harrison Owen’s pioneering career. From...
  • Pdf_16x16 32 pages
  • Berrett-Koehler published this 10/09/2008
  • 2,162 reads
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