Leading in Turbulent Times

Turbulent times are here to stay. The global recession is today’s current dramatic headline, but accelerating change and economic uncertainty are the hallmarks of twenty-first century business. Sig...

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Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World

A new movement is afoot that promises to save the world by bringing the magic of the market to philanthropy. Nonprofits should be run like businesses, its adherents say, and businesses can find new...

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Managing Hispanic and Latino Employees

Hispanics are the largest minority group and the fastest growing demographic in the United States—they are already 15% of the population and 22% of the workforce, and it’s estimated that by 2050 th...

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Dealing With the Tough Stuff: Practical Wisdom ...

Your business plan is only going to get you so far. When you’re actually running a values-driven business problems come up that you never could have anticipated. And as a mission-driven organizatio...

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The Compromise Trap: How to Thrive at Work With...

Healthy compromise is a fact of organizational life, part of accomplishing any meaningful goal with other people. But when it involves betraying your word, your principles, or other important commi...

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Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time...

Take Back Your Time is the official handbook for TAKE BACK YOUR TIME DAY, a national event. Organizers have enlisted the support of colleges, universities, religious organizations, labor unions, bu...

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Structured On-The-Job Training: Unleashing Empl...

This revised and expanded edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, developing, and using structured on-the-job training in a variety of training situations and org...

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Running Training Like a Business: Delivering Un...

Many of today's business leaders champion learning as essential to business success, backing their belief with massive investments in Training and Development (T&D). In fact, T&D investments reach ...

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Magnetic Service: Secrets for Creating Passiona...

Magnetic Service provides a provocative yet practical blueprint for going beyond mere customer loyalty to create and sustain customer devotion. Devoted customers not only forgive you when you err b...

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Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

The first edition of Affluenza touched a national nerve. It was named one of the eight best nonfiction books of 2001 by Detroit Free Press. The mayor of Telluride, Colorado urged residents to read ...

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Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizatio...

Too many organizations today play follow the leader: the commander articulates a vision and people uncritically go along with it. But this style of leadership is ultimately ineffective and even dan...

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Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transf...

Bill Torbert and associates illustrate how individuals and organizations can progress through more and more sophisticated "action-logics" -- strategies for analyzing the world and reacting to it --...

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The Restoration Economy: The Greatest New Growt...

The Restoration Economy reveals the previously undocumented trillion-dollar global industries that are restoring our natural and manmade environments. Restorative development is rapidly overtaking ...

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Accountability: Freedom and Responsibility with...

Using a wealth of real-world examples, this breakthrough book offers a new freedom-based management paradigm that radically improves every aspect of business-from how we hire, compensate, and motiv...

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The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace

This deeply lyrical book offers perspective for those struggling to hear the quiet voice of the soul over the din of the contemporary workplace. Alan Briskin shows how the modern organization has g...

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Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social...

The two main ways that people try to solve their toughest group, community and societal problems are fundamentally flawed. They either push for what they want at all costs—in it’s most extreme form...

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10 Steps to Successful Teams

Most projects or initiatives in today’s organizations begin with the formation of a team. Indeed, the global nature of doing business today demands that people perform well together as cross-functi...

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Winter/Spring 2010 Catalog

Berrett–Koehler Publishers A community dedicated to creating a world that works for all Winter/Spring 2010 Catalog BK Life BK Currents BK Business Berrett–Koehler Publishers A community dedicat...

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Berrett-Koehler Bestsellers 11-27-09

Thirty-four Berrett-Koehler books have sold over 100,000 copies (including all U.S. and foreign editions), and three have surpassed three quarters of a million copies sold.

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The World Cafe by Juanita Brown, Ken Homer, and...

The World Cafe by Juanita Brown, Ken Homer, and David Isaacs This whitepaper is excerpted from the book The Change Handbook, Second Edition, edited by Peggy Holman, Tom Devane, and Steven Cady.

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