The Handbook of Large Group Methods Creating Systemic Change in Organizations and Communities

Large Group Interventions are methods used to gather a whole system together to discuss and take action on the target agenda. That agenda varies from future plans, products, and services, to redesigning work, to discussion of troubling issues and problems...

 The Cash Flow Solution A Nonprofit Board Member's Guide to Financial Success

Many nonprofits rely on conventional methods of making and managing money-from donations to cash reserves, endowments, and capital building campaigns-in hopes of securing financial stability for the future. Yet these acquired funds often remain tantalizin...

 Positive Risk How Smart Women Use Passion to Break Through Their Fears

Positive risk is a perspective, an attitude, and a life philosophy that creates a shift away from the negative view of risk that so many of us were taught. This book will help change your perceptions regarding risk so that you can begin to better understa...

 So Smart But... How Intelligent People Lose Credibility - and How They Can Get it Back

This fascinating book demonstrates that to be a good communicator and therefore an effective manager, a person must have five qualities in order to be viewed as totally credible-competence, character, composure, sociability, and extroversion. While some e...

  Facilitating the Project Lifecycle The Skills & Tools to Accelerate Progress for Project Managers, Facilitators, and Six Sigma Project Teams

Step by step, Facilitating the Project Lifecycle guides the project manager/facilitator in making smart choices about when and how to pull key talent together to spell success for the project and ultimately the organization. The authors will help you unde...

 Organization Development A Jossey-Bass Reader

This is the third book in the Jossey-Bass Reader series, Organization Development: A Jossey-Bass Reader. This collection will introduce the key thinkers and contributors in organization development including Ed Lawler, Peter Senge, Chris Argyris, Richard ...

 The Prepared Mind of a Leader Eight Skills Leaders Use to Innovate, Make Decisions, and Solve Problems

Thinking to stay ahead of change In a complex business climate, people need to make informed decisions and learn how to think flexibly. A leader's most important asset is the ability to sense changes in the environment and adapt to them quickly. The ...

 Inside the Box Leading with Corporate Values to Drive Sustained Business Success

How to turn company values into competitive advantage We are inclined, for whatever reason, to treat values like works of art. We view them as nice to hang on the wall, and beautiful to look at, but we don't act as though they truly mean much to us in ...

 Leading organizational learning Harnessing the power of knowledge

"In typical Goldsmith manner, Marshall has brought together a gourmet's list of consultants who offer a banquet of intriguing ideas, succinct stories, and pragmatic practices spiced with nuggets of wisdom." Joel A. Barker, coauthor, Five Regions of the F...

 Rewiring Organizations for the Networked Economy Organization, Managing, and Leading in the Information Age

In Rewiring Organizations for the Networked Economy— a book in The Practicing Organization Development Series— OD expert Stan Herman and a stellar group of contributors have written a definitive resource book for OD practitioners that focuses ...