Raymond Andrew Noe

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Business & Economics

Raymond Noe’s Employee Training and Development sets the standard in this course area. First introduced in 1998, ETD became the market-defining text within 6 months of publication. Its popularity is due to its lively writing style and relevant examples of the most up-to-date developments in training, research and practice, including the strategic role of training and the use of new technologies in training. Employee Training and Development strikes a balance between research and real company practices. It provides students with a solid background in the fundamentals of training and development such as needs assessment, transfer of training, learning environment design, methods, and evaluation. To help students better understand the relationship between the main elements of the book, the book is now organized into five different parts. Part I focuses on the context for training and development and includes a chapter devoted to strategic training. Part II includes coverage related to the fundamentals of designing training programs. Chapters in Part II focus on needs assessment, learning theories and program design, transfer of training, and training evaluation. Part III focuses on training and development methods and includes chapters devoted to traditional training methods, e-learning and the use of technology in training, employee development, and special issues in employee development, such as managing diversity, succession planning, and cross-cultural preparation. Chapters in Part IV cover career issues and how companies manage careers, as well as challenges in career management, such as dealing with work-life conflict, retirement, and socialization. Finally, Part V provides a look at the future of training and development.

Employee Training and Development

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Thomas G. Cummings

Christopher G. Worley

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Market-leading ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, 9th Edition blends theory, concepts and applications in a comprehensive and clear presentation. The authors work from a strong theoretical foothold and apply behavioral science knowledge to the development of organizational structures, strategies, and processes.

Organization Development and Change

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Chris McGoff

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

How Any Group Can Solve Any Problem

Discover fundamental principles of high-stakes change and organizational transformation The "primes" are universal and unavoidable patterns of group behavior that emerge whenever people attempt to transform systems or collaborate to solve complex problems. Every change agent has felt their effect, but few can recognize, anticipate, and manage them. Unacknowledged, the primes can put any leadership agenda at risk. Once mastered, the primes become a force that drives intended outcomes. The Primes is a field manual for anyone ready to step up to serious challenges, predict and manage inevitable problems, create a brighter future, and produce extraordinary results. An essential guide for 21st century problem solvers and change agents, The Primes unveils 46 universal secrets of how to: Tackle complex problems successfully and deliver extraordinary results on time Forge lasting consensus among competing interests and keep teams focused and productive Recognize and eliminate the most destructive forces in an organization Establish cultures of integrity The Primes gives leaders the edge they need to succeed. Once the primes are revealed, you'll see them everywhere!

The Primes

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David Cawthorn

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Philosophy

A study of the nature of leadership and the human qualities that promote or inhibit it. David Cawthon examines classical thinkers from Plato to Nietzsche to offer a historical and philosophical perspective on leadership qualities and how these are coded in the souls of some, but not others.

Philosophical Foundations of Leadership

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Jeanenne LaMarsh

Survive - and Thrive - During Change at Work and Throughout Life

Groundbreaking book about developing the critical skills and tools necessary to cope with change: change at work and change in your personal life.

Change Better

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Joanne B. Ciulla

The study of ethics and leadership can be traced back to Aristotle and the Ancient Greeks. In this updated and expanded edition of Ethics, The Heart of Leadership, Joanne Ciulla presents a unique collection of essays by philosophers, leadership scholars with backgrounds in industrial and organizational psychology, and management theorists.

Ethics, the Heart of Leadership

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Frances Fowler

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Social Studies

An Introduction

For courses in Educational Policy and Educational Leadership; For potential and current K-12 administrators From a leader in the field-a comprehensive text covering education policy and the policy process that encourages future educational leaders to be proactive-and gives them a firm understanding of educational policy and the important political theories upon which it is based. While expressing the belief that it is important for today's school leaders to know how to track educational policies and to seek to influence them, Frances Fowler, a well respected authority in the field of educational policy, recognises that most leaders have little or no background in political science or policy studies and even less experience with the state politics of education. For these future and current administrators, Professor Fowler presents essential background information about the cultural, economic, demographic, and institutional roots of educational policy. She identifies and describes the major policy actors, and gives educators in depth descriptions of each stage of the policy process, complete with numerous examples of how policy unfolds in the development of educational policy. A goal of the book is to ensure that educational leaders understand the basic political theories that underpin educational policy development. To that end, the author provides example of how to apply this knowledge in everyday practice.

Policy Studies for Educational Leaders

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Michael M. Lombardo

Robert W. Eichinger

Leadership Machine

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Lee G. Bolman

Terrance E. Deal

Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

First published in 1984, Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal?s best-selling book has become a classic in the field. Its four-frame model examines organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples:
 * The Structural Frame: how to organize and structure groups and teams to get results
 * The Human Resource Frame: how to tailor organizations to satisfy human needs, improve human resource management, and build positive interpersonal and group dynamics
 * The Political Frame: how to cope with power and conflict, build coalitions, hone political skills, and deal with internal and external politics
 * The Symbolic Frame: how to shape a culture that gives purpose and meaning to work, stage organizational drama for internal and external audiences, and build team spirit through ritual, ceremony, and story

This new edition is filled with new case examples such as Hurricane Katrina and profiles of great leaders such as Mother Theresa, Thomas Keller, and others. In addition, the book updates the "Organizational Theory's Greatest Hits" text boxes throughout, and increases geographic, cultural and gender diversity in examples and text. It also features an enhanced online teacher's guide with a new test bank, as well as updated PowerPoint slides, teaching ideas and experiential activities, and links to resources.

Reframing Organizations

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Prem Ramburuth

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Brings the challenges of contemporary international business into the classroom through cases studies from a diverse range of industries.

Dynamics of International Business: Asia-Pacific Business Cases

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Sheryl Sandberg

Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

The Facebook chief operating officer and Fortune top-ranked businesswoman shares provocative, anecdotal advice for women that urges them to take risks and seek new challenges in order to find work that they can love and engage in passionately.

Lean In

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Malcolm Gladwell

The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blink

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Marc Gonsalves

Tom Howes

Keith Stansell

Gary Brozek

Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle

On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American civilian contractors--Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Tom Howes--crash-landed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they emerged from the plane bloodied and injured as gunfire rained down around them. As of that moment they were prisoners of the FARC, a Colombian terrorist and Marxist rebel organization. In an instant they had become American captives in Colombia's volatile and ongoing conflict, which has lasted for almost fifty years.

In Out of Captivity, Gonsalves, Stansell, and Howes recount for the first time their amazing tale of survival, friendship, and, ultimately, rescue, tracing their five and a half years as hostages of the FARC. Their story takes you inside one of the world's most notorious terrorist organizations, going behind enemy lines with vivid and haunting imagery. Their words conjure a reality that few people have ever encountered--from sleeping on beds literally carved out of the jungle to escaping Colombian military air strikes under the cover of darkness to being bound with steel chains by their captors. Describing backbreaking starvation marches and forced isolation, the authors chronicle their confrontations and interactions with the FARC guerrilla soldiers--a motley crew of brainwashed, idealistic teenagers and seasoned vet-erans who've been around long enough to realize that the only way out of the FARC is in a body bag.

Though the physical punishments their bodies endured were unrelenting, the psychological battles they waged were the ultimate test of their resolve. With candid detail, Gonsalves, Stansell, and Howes relate the perilous mental struggles they each experienced, as they grappled with feelings of guilt, fear, and anxiety for the families and lives they'd left behind. Exposing the transformative power of captivity, they show how they turned these fears into strengths, using their memories and their families, their pasts and their futures, to motivate them in their quest for survival.

Despite the odds and the conditions, despite the chains and the silence, and despite the often tense relationships they experienced with their fellow Colombian hostages, they had one another, forging a bond that allowed them to cope with the horrific conditions of their confinement. This brotherhood enabled them to persevere through the worst that the FARC threw at them while always reminding them of their ultimate goal: freedom.

A harrowing account of one of the longest civilian hostage crises in United States history, Out of Captivity is a remarkable and compelling exploration of how far three Americans were willing to go as they fought to stay alive for themselves, their families, and one another.

Out of Captivity

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Robert G. Allen

Kurt W. Mortensen

The 12 Universal Laws of Power Persuasion

Reveals twelve secrets of expert influencers, explaining the laws of dissonance, contrast, and expectations, and offers strategies and tactics for developing persuasion skills to achieve success and prosperity.

Maximum Influence

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Michael E. D. Koenig

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

What Works and What Doesn't

Text surveys recent applications and innovations in knowledge management (KM). Demonstrates KM in practice; revealing what has been learned, what works, and what doesn't. DLC: Knowledge management.

Knowledge Management Lessons Learned

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Judy Aanstad

Pamela Corbett

Catherine Jourdan

Roger Pearman

Action Tips for Increasing Your Emotional Intelligence

494 page book on emotional intelligence and competencies for effectiveness

People Skills Handbook

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Stanley McChrystal

Tantum Collins

David Silverman

Chris Fussell

New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Share of the Task and Leaders, a manual for leaders looking to make their teams more adaptable, agile, and unified in the midst of change. When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2004, he quickly realized that conventional military tactics were failing. Al Qaeda in Iraq was a decentralized network that could move quickly, strike ruthlessly, then seemingly vanish into the local population. The allied forces had a huge advantage in numbers, equipment, and training—but none of that seemed to matter. To defeat Al Qaeda, they would have to combine the power of the world’s mightiest military with the agility of the world’s most fearsome terrorist network. They would have to become a "team of teams"—faster, flatter, and more flexible than ever. In Team of Teams, McChrystal and his colleagues show how the challenges they faced in Iraq can be rel­evant to countless businesses, nonprofits, and or­ganizations today. In periods of unprecedented crisis, leaders need practical management practices that can scale to thousands of people—and fast. By giving small groups the freedom to experiment and share what they learn across the entire organiza­tion, teams can respond more quickly, communicate more freely, and make better and faster decisions. Drawing on compelling examples—from NASA to hospital emergency rooms—Team of Teams makes the case for merging the power of a large corporation with the agility of a small team to transform any organization.

Team of Teams

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Jeffrey Pfeffer

How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance--And What We Can Do about It

In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying from overwork. People are literally dying for a paycheck. And it needs to stop. In this timely, provocative book, Jeffrey Pfeffer contends that many modern management commonalities such as long work hours, work-family conflict, and economic insecurity are toxic to employees—hurting engagement, increasing turnover, and destroying people’s physical and emotional health—and also inimical to company performance. He argues that human sustainability should be as important as environmental stewardship. You don’t have to do a physically dangerous job to confront a health-destroying, possibly life-threatening, workplace. Just ask the manager in a senior finance role whose immense workload, once handled by several employees, required frequent all-nighters—leading to alcohol and drug addiction. Or the dedicated news media producer whose commitment to getting the story resulted in a sixty-pound weight gain thanks to having no down time to eat properly or exercise. Or the marketing professional prescribed antidepressants a week after joining her employer. In Dying for a Paycheck, Jeffrey Pfeffer marshals a vast trove of evidence and numerous examples from all over the world to expose the infuriating truth about modern work life: even as organizations allow management practices that literally sicken and kill their employees, those policies do not enhance productivity or the bottom line, thereby creating a lose-lose situation. Exploring a range of important topics including layoffs, health insurance, work-family conflict, work hours, job autonomy, and why people remain in toxic environments, Pfeffer offers guidance and practical solutions all of us—employees, employers, and the government—can use to enhance workplace wellbeing. We must wake up to the dangers and enormous costs of today’s workplace, Pfeffer argues. Dying for a Paycheck is a clarion call for a social movement focused on human sustainability. Pfeffer makes clear that the environment we work in is just as important as the one we live in, and with this urgent book, he opens our eyes and shows how we can make our workplaces healthier and better.

Dying for a Paycheck

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Tom Rath

How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes

Once in a while, a book comes along that changes how you think, feel, and act every day. In Eat Move Sleep, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath delivers a book that will improve your health for years to come. While Tom’s bestsellers on strengths and well-being have already inspired more than 5 million people in the last decade, Eat Move Sleep reveals his greatest passion and expertise. Quietly managing a serious illness for more than 20 years, Tom has assembled a wide range of information on the impact of eating, moving, and sleeping. Written in his classic conversational style, Eat Move Sleep features the most proven and practical ideas from his research. This remarkably quick read offers advice that is comprehensive yet simple and often counterintuitive but always credible. Eat Move Sleep will help you make good decisions automatic — in all three of these interconnected areas. With every bite you take, you will make better choices. You will move a lot more than you do today. And you will sleep better than you have in years. More than a book, Eat Move Sleep is a new way to live.

Eat Move Sleep

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Simona Hadjigeorgalis

SiVantage Media

When we are really busy, the kind of busy that makes us feel like self-care is a luxury that couldn't possibly fit on the to-do list, we need fast (and body-loving!) solutions.Imagine having more energy and more time for the things that bring you the most joy and vitality. What would that look like? What would that feel like? Would you hop out of bed every morning without an alarm? Who would you be spending your extra time with? Are you up for inviting more vitality into your life?Incorporating the right tiny routines and techniques into your life can make a really big difference in how much energy you have. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true. When our lives are really busy and we experience modern stress, if we don't communicate to our bodies that we are safe, then our bodies divert our internal resources as if we were in mortal danger. The way that shows up can be having less energy, less patience, less resourcefulness, and maybe even holding onto a few stubborn and unwanted pounds. The key is knowing which techniques can have the most impact. Let's honor the fact that we are busy, and then focus on how to make the most of whatever moments we do have. It can be challenging to prioritize our self-care when we have so many other things that demand attention. The irony is if we don't prioritize our wellness, we won't have the energy we need to thrive.The Busy Woman's Guidebook to Vibrant Vitality is designed knowing how busy you can get. The information in this book is designed to be bite-sized and designed to work around your schedule. Learn how to amplify vitality and eliminate wellness blockers so you can transform BUSY into full and VIBRANT.

The Busy Woman's Guidebook to Vibrant Vitality

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Discover How You Contribute to the World

"Includes code for Contribify profile"--Cover.

Life's Great Question

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Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Richard L. Hudson

A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward

The originator of "fractal geometry" applies his theory to the stock market, revealing the chaos underneath commonly accepted patterns of rise and fall in the market, creating the foundations for a new "science of finance" in the process. 100,000 first printing.

The (Mis)Behavior of Markets

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Susan Bauer-Wu

Stephanie Higgs

How We Can Reverse the Climate Crisis with the Power of Our Hearts and Minds

Discover wisdom and guidance to face the climate emergency from the most influential spiritual and environmental leaders of our time, including the Dalai Lama, Greta Thunberg, Jane Goodall, Matthieu Ricard, Joanna Macy, Rebecca Solnit, and Paul Hawken. When the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg spoke for the first time in January 2021, millions of people around the world took notice. “It is encouraging to see how you have opened the eyes of the world to the urgency to protect our planet, our only home,” the Dalai Lama wrote to Greta before their meeting. A Future We Can Love shares the words of these two great figures, generations apart, bringing them into dialogue with dozens of visionary scientists, activists, and spiritual luminaries. These include Jane Goodall, environmentalist Paul Hawken, Buddhist teacher Matthieu Ricard, indigenous scholar and artist Lyla June, environmental activist and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy, and writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit. Through this world-changing conversation, readers embark on a four-part journey toward active hope in the face of the climate crisis: from knowledge of climate science through the capacity for change, to the will that is needed and the actions we can take. The book will help you: recognize interdependence as key to our well-being and as a lens for understanding both the climate crisis and its solutions clarify why feedback loops leave us no time to wait on climate action comfort your climate anxiety and metabolize grief or burnout into wonderment and useful energy develop your own rituals and practices for connecting to Earth and renewing hope overcome common obstacles to speaking and acting clearly on behalf of the human and wild communities most affected by the climate crisis A Future We Can Love inspires each of us to rise to the occasion to ensure a brighter future for generations to come.

A Future We Can Love

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Daniel H. Pink

The instant New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller Instant Washington Post Bestseller "Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street Journal Daniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, unlocks the scientific secrets to good timing to help you flourish at work, at school, and at home. Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Timing, it's often assumed, is an art. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is really a science. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? Why should we avoid going to the hospital in the afternoon? Why is singing in time with other people as good for you as exercise? And what is the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married? In When, Pink distills cutting-edge research and data on timing and synthesizes them into a fascinating, readable narrative packed with irresistible stories and practical takeaways that give readers compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives.

When: the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

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Raymond Andrew Noe

Employee Training and Development

Thomas G. Cummings; Christopher G. Worley

Organization Development and Change

Chris McGoff

The Primes

David Cawthorn

Philosophical Foundations of Leadership

Jeanenne LaMarsh

Change Better

Joanne B. Ciulla

Ethics, the Heart of Leadership

Frances Fowler

Policy Studies for Educational Leaders

Michael M. Lombardo; Robert W. Eichinger

Leadership Machine

Lee G. Bolman; Terrance E. Deal

Reframing Organizations

Prem Ramburuth

Dynamics of International Business: Asia-Pacific Business Cases

Sheryl Sandberg

Lean In

Malcolm Gladwell

Blink

Marc Gonsalves; Tom Howes; Keith Stansell; Gary Brozek

Out of Captivity

Robert G. Allen; Kurt W. Mortensen

Maximum Influence

Michael E. D. Koenig

Knowledge Management Lessons Learned

Judy Aanstad; Pamela Corbett; Catherine Jourdan; Roger Pearman

People Skills Handbook

Stanley McChrystal; Tantum Collins; David Silverman; Chris Fussell

Team of Teams

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Dying for a Paycheck

Tom Rath

Eat Move Sleep

Simona Hadjigeorgalis; Simona Hadjigeorgalis; SiVantage Media

The Busy Woman's Guidebook to Vibrant Vitality

Tom Rath

Life's Great Question

Benoit B. Mandelbrot; Richard L. Hudson

The (Mis)Behavior of Markets

Susan Bauer-Wu; Stephanie Higgs

A Future We Can Love

Daniel H. Pink

When: the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

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