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This professional development resource for teachers is intended as a tool to help improve student success and achievement in mathematics. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for mathematical practi

Osborne (rhetoric, leadership, and mass communication; Gonzaga U., Spokane) examines how office life has been portrayed in US popular culture through a mix of both mainstream and submerged voices from

Prove the financial value of your programs—so funders can’t say no“Not measuring the impact of leadership development is like dieting without weighing-in. This outstanding book offers a very logical a

The book you hold resonates with this conviction: that leaders such as you have the potential to be the most influential forces on planet Earth. Yours is the staggering responsibility and the matchles

How do presidents lead? If presidential power is the power to persuade, why is there a lack of evidence of presidential persuasion? George Edwards, one of the leading scholars of the American presiden

Urban education is an interdisciplinary field, characterized by introducing many perspectives to research pertaining to educational policy and to the practice of educating youth whose lives unfold in

What is ‘intellectual leadership’ and how might this concept be better understood in the modern university? Drawing on research into the role of full or chair professors, this book argues

Climate change can have major impacts on business (and business can have major impacts on climate change). Risk management is a valuable way of framing climate change issues and for grappling with the

John Brekke is one of the nation's most veteran executive coaches. He has worked with the top executives in some of the world's most prestigious companies including, 3M, General Growth Properties, Pfi

Bigger Isn't Always Better is designed to provide a practitioner's viewpoint of the challenges and issues lacing school administrators – particularly those who work in small districts. Based upon a co

Bigger Isn't Always Better is designed to provide a practitioner's viewpoint of the challenges and issues facing school administrators – particularly those who work in small districts. Based upon a co

Is it possible for church leaders to use biblical and secular leadership concepts in a way that keeps Christ—not the marketplace—at the center of their mission? Drawing on biblical materia

Sustainable Investing is fast becoming an essential method of generating long-term returns, moving beyond the negative approaches to socially responsible investing that have dominated the field. This

This volume is the first to bring together analysis of contemporary female religious leadership in ideologically-diverse Muslim communities in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America,

Provocative, illuminating, and based on a lifetime of research, The Lost Peace is a penetrating look at the misjudgments that caused enormous strife and suffering during a most critical period in hist

Contagious Leadership is a book that helps you as a leader become more contagious individually or collectively. Contagious Leadership has 13 Principles to Help you Spreading a Winning Culture.

This is a study manual to assist others in passing the principalship exam.

True leadership isn't a matter of having a certain job or title. In fact, being chosen for a position is only the first of the five levels every effective leader achieves. To become more than "the bos

Edmund Burke, the British Statesman and philosopher, said that those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. In this book, at least as far as educational leadership is concerned, Robert Pale

Fundamental principles for how Girl Scouts USA is run and why it's so successfulMillions of American businesswomen, thought leaders, and politicians received their first lessons in salesmanship, money

This book is intended as a foundational reference for educators who teach primarily in traditional classroom settings. Contributors from the fields of business policy, leadership development, organiza

As China’s political and economic influence in the world is rapidly increasing, it is essential to understand how China’s domestic politics affects its foreign political and economic policy. This book

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In this incisive new book, Michael Mandelbaum argues that the era marked by an expansive American foreign policy is coming to an end. During the seven decades from the U.S. entry into World War II in

"The New CEO Corporate Leadership Manual is to give a new CEO a hard, quantitative view of the systems and techniques needed to run a company. It provides a recently appointed CEO with the tools that

Every organization is composed of tribes?naturally occurring groups of between 20 and 150 people. Until now, only a few leaders could identify and develop their tribes, and those rare individuals were

The relationship between environmental regulation and economic growth has gone from dysfunctional to disastrous under the leadership of Barack Obama’s EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. Jackson’s EPA has

Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this strikingly original analysis of the complex dynamics of high-risk fields demonstrates that teamwork is more important than technical prowess in averting disasters. Thinking Through Crisis narrates critical incidents from initiation to resolution in five elegantly constructed case studies: the USS Greeneville collision, the Hillsborough football crush, the American Airlines flight 587 in-flight break-up, the Bristol Royal Infirmary pediatric fatalities and the US Airways flight 1549 Hudson River landing. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and real-world perspectives, this vivid, well-documented book provides innovative ways to understand risk management, develop new models of crisis decision making, enhance socially responsible leadership and encourage deep questioning of the behavior of individuals and groups in complex systems. Its insights will resonate with professionals in a wide range of fields and with a general audience interes

"This book should be required reading for all who work in care settings and the text used for leadership and health care administration courses in colleges....Farrell's personal journal is as compelli

Numerous studies have provided conclusive evidence that EI is crucial in leadership in the business environment. It is even more crucial in Asia where there is a higher tendency for emotions to be hid

This book provides a new process to greatly improve the performance of organizations. It is purposely designed to enhance the strategic planning processes of large organizations and may replace the pr

How are women transforming the practice of leadership in the 21st century? Enlightened Power is a first-of-a-kind book that answers this question--and forever changes the traditional notions involvin

What do a person’s knowledge, expressiveness, history, character, and attraction have in common? Or his or her role resources, information, network, and reputation? Each is a key to either perso

The extraordinary life of an extraordinary leader: Frances Hesselbein Leadership is a Journey is written in a personal, intimate tone that delivers key leadership lessons applicable to leaders in

There is an acute sense that the 2010 financial crisis was a crisis of leadership, both at the government level and at the corporate level. The meltdown of financial markets and the fall of very powe

The voluntary sector is made up primarily of not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations that engage with social issues. Voices from the Voluntary Sector contains reasoned reflections by practit

Horse Sense for the Leader Within is an excellent resource and must read for people interested in the Horse as Healer/Teacher professions, nature based learning and self development! With innovative v

Good planning is more than just thinking ahead-- businesses need a strategic approach to ensuring their success. Keeping the Family Business Healthy provides readers with a guide to strategic t

`Voices from the Voluntary Sector is a serious advance in state-of-the-art research, providing an exceptionally thoughtful analysis of current trends in social innovation, community engagement, and k

This is the first account in English of the entire, forty year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Challenging the boundaries between military and gender history, it