Authors:Louis Carter, Norm Smallwood, W. Warner Burke, Louis
Publisher: Best Practice Publications, LLC
Keywords: change, leading, organization, tools, strategies, champion, fieldguide
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-06-03
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0974038806
ISBN-13: 9780974038803

Want "best-in-class" instructions on how to lead and champion change? Then look no further. The Change Champion’s Fieldguide, described as a book that will, "become one of the most quoted, referenced, and used business books in the first decade of the 2000’s," by Professor Vijay Govindarajan, of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, contains successful tools, instruments, case studies, and models from the best in the industry that you can immediately apply for initiating and leading change within your social or organizational system.

Authors:Marshall Goldsmith, Louis Carter, The Best Practice
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Keywords: talent, pfeiffer, top, essential, training, professionals, retain, resources, develop, world, management, leading, corporations, manage, practices
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-12-30
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0470499613
ISBN-13: 9780470499610

Praise for Best Practices in Talent Management "This book includes the most up-to-date thinking, tools, models, instruments and case studies necessary to identify, lead, and manage talent within your organization and with a focus on results. It provides it all—from thought leadership to real-world practice." Patrick Carmichael head of talent management, refining, marketing, and international operations, Saudi Aramco "This is a superb compendium of stories that give the reader a peek behind the curtains of top notch organizations who have wrestled with current issues of tale

Authors:Louis Carter, Best Practice Institute,  David
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Keywords: leadership, change, sustainable, franchise, meaningful, non, companies, development, organization, practices, ensure
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2004-12-07
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0787976253
ISBN-13: 9780787976255

In this important book, successful organizations—including well-known companies such as Agilent Technologies, Corning, GE Capital, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, MIT, Motorola, and Praxair—share their most effective approaches, tools, and specific methods for leadership development and organizational change. These exemplary organizations serve as models for leadership development and organizational change because they Commit to organizational objectives and culture Transform behaviors, cultures, and perceptions Implement competency or organization effectiveness mode

Authors:Louis Carter, David Giber, Marshall Goldsmith, Richar
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Keywords: retention, performance, coaching, leadership, culture, organization, development, change, practices
Number of Pages: 547
Published: 2001-09-07
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 078795666X
ISBN-13: 9780787956660

Learn from experts at the world’s top organizations! Best Practices in Organization Development and Change is a state-of-the-art resource that presents the most important ideas and effective strategies from experts and top companies in the field. Comprehensive in scope, the book addresses the five most important organization development or human resource development (OD/HRD) topics--organization development and change, leadership development, recruitment and retention, performance management, and coaching and mentoring--and offers a practical framework for design, implementation, an

Authors:Louis Carter, Phil Harkins, Mark Sobol, David Giber, M
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: non, franchise, leadership, inc, linkage, global, workforce, practices, leading
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-12-02
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0787981702
ISBN-13: 9780787981709

Leading the Global Workforce provides a handy guide for international organizations that must achieve results in managing and sustaining a global workforce. The fourteen illustrative cases outlined address the major concerns—recruiting and developing global leaders, global organizational learning, cross-cultural communication, outsourcing line functions, and managing global careers and transitions—from sixty of the world’s best-practice global organizations.  Each case shows how the organization advanced a global business strategy with a new initiative in the areas of global leadership

Authors:K. Codell Carter, Barbara Carter,
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: ignaz, semmelweis, biography, scientific, fever, childbed
Number of Pages: 143
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1412804671
ISBN-13: 9781412804677

The life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis is among the most engaging and moving stories in the history of science. Childbed Fever places his life, and his discovery (the cause of childbed fever was a result of a spread of infection because medical personnel in hospitals did not wash their hands thoroughly after conducting autopsies), in the context of his times. While everyone in his era rejected his account because his theory was fundamentally inconsistent with existing medical beliefs about how diseases were transmitted, in time Semmelweis was proven to be correct. His work led to the adoption

Authors:K. Codell Carter, Barbara R. Carter,
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: contributions, medical, studies, semmelweis, ignaz, fever, scientific, biography, childbed
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1994-05-30
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0313291462
ISBN-13: 9780313291463

In the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of women died each year from childbed fever. The Carters describe birthing conditions and medical practices in Vienna during the time when young Semmelweis began to work in a maternity clinic there. He discovered that childbed fever arose because medical personnel did not wash adequately after dissecting corpses before doing vaginal examinations of women in labor. After he required students to disinfect themselves, the mortality rate immediately dropped. However, Semmelweis’s views were not accepted by the senior physicians who believed the di