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  • Teaching Smart People How to Learn

    by Chris Argyris ...
    Series series Harvard Business Review Classics
    Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? Likely, they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. So when they do fail, instead of critically examining their own behavior, they cast blame outward—on anyone or anything they can. In Teaching Smart People How to Learn, Chris Argyris sheds light on the forces that prevent highly skilled ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Organizational Traps : Leadership Culture Organizational Design

    Leadership, Culture, Organizational Design

    by Chris Argyris ...
    Anyone who has spent time in an organization knows that dysfunctional behavior abounds. Conflict is frequently avoided or pushed underground rather than dealt with openly. At the same time the same arguments often burst out again and again almost verbatim. Turf battles continue for extended periods without resolution. People nod their heads in agreement in meetings and then rush out of the room to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Some Causes of Organizational Ineffectiveness Within the Department of State (Occasional Paper #2)

    by Chris Argyris ...
    So vast has the international commitment of our government grown in the last decades, and with this the corresponding increase in the staff engaged in foreign affairs activities, that it is no longer possible to find the channels for personal communications we once had. Yet undoubtedly today’s officers are engaged in a wider variety of experiences than ever before in our history.This series of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Flawed Advice and the Management Trap:How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not

    How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not

    by Chris Argyris ...
    Flawed Advice and the Management Trap: How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not is the first book to show how and why so much of today's business advice is flawed, and how managers and executives can better evaluate advice given to their firms Practitioners and scholars agree that businesses in the coming millennium will be managed differently than firms of the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Integrating the Individual and the Organization

    Edited by Chris Argyris ...
    The emphasis on organizational change in the corporate life of recent years-including job redesign, autonomous groups, high performance work systems, and the redesign of control systems-owes a great deal to the pioneering work of Chris Argyris. This book examines how individuals in organizations can become more effective, in turn making organizations more effective. It explores the conventional ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Leadership and the New Science

    Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

    by Margaret J. Wheatley ...
    The new edition of the bestselling, acclaimed, and influential guide to applying the new science to organizations and management. In this new edition, Margaret Wheatley****describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times.We live in a time of chaos, rich in potential for new possibilities. A ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Fifth Discipline

    The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

    by Peter M. Senge ...
    MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES IN PRINT • “One of the seminal management books of the past seventy-five years.”—Harvard Business ReviewThis revised edition of the bestselling classic is based on fifteen years of experience in putting Peter Senge’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Drive

    The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

    by Daniel H. Pink ...
    The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new perspective on motivationMost people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards—known as the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others.In this provocative and persuasive new book, Pink asserts that the secret to high ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • What the Best College Teachers Do

    by Ken Bain ...
    What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.The short answer is—it’s not what teachers do, it’s what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Top Performer's Guide to Leadership

    by Judith Orloff ...
    Series series Top Performers
    Great Leadership Makes an ImpactBusiness needs great leaders. Of all the skills a top performer can master, this may be the most important.The Top Performer's Guide to Leadership is your essential leadership handbook, giving you the tools and techniques you need to become an authentic, influential leader and come out on top. Discover:--How to inspire and get results--Why integrity is essential to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Transformative Learning in Practice

    Insights from Community, Workplace, and Higher Education

    Edited by Jack Mezirow, Edward W. Taylor ...
    The leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education settings. The book answers relevant questions such as: What are effective practices for promoting TL in the classroom? What is it about TL that is most helpful in informing practice? How ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Social Work Supervision

    by Carlton E. Munson ...
    A comprehensive view of historical and current approaches to social work supervision, which includes one of the most extensive bibliographies ever compiled on the subject.In this overview of historical and current approaches to social work supervision, topics range from the first documented origins of supervision to the field’s future trends, with special emphasis on organizational authority and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD