Author: Paul C. Light
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: performance, pillars, four
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-12-14
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0071448799
ISBN-13: 9780071448796

How to stay on course and achieve extraordinary performance in a sea of change In today’s change-or-die business environment, organizations that achieve the highest levels of performance are "robust organizations"--those that adapt quickly and without losing their strategic direction. Distilling decades of research conducted by RAND, one of the nation’s most respected business think tanks, The Four Pillars of High Performance explores the strategies to truly manage change. Using examples, author Paul C. Light extracts powerful lessons for managers and executives, and he provide

Author: Paul Charles Light
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: government, size, true
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 1999-06
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0815752652
ISBN-13: 9780815752653

This work addresses a seemingly simple question: just how many people really work for the federal government? According to Paul Light, the true head count is nearly nine times higher than the official numbers, with about 17 million people providing the government with goods and services. Most are part of what Light calls the "shadow of government" - nonfederal employees working under federal contracts, grants and mandates to state and local governments. In this book he explores the reasons why the official size of the federal government has remained so small while the shadow of government has

Author: Paul Charles Light
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: building, evidence, support, capacity, case, nonprofit, performance, sustaining
Number of Pages: 211
Published: 2004-08
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0815752253
ISBN-13: 9780815752257

"The nonprofit sector survives because it has a self-exploiting work force: wind it up and it will do more with less until it just runs out. But at some point, the spring must break." America’s nonprofit organizations face a difficult present and an uncertain future. Money is tight. Workloads are heavy, employee turnover is high, and charitable donations have not fully rebounded from the recent economic downturn. Media and political scrutiny remains high, and public confidence in nonprofits has yet to recover from its sharp decline in the wake of well-publicized scandals. In a

Author: Paul Charles Light
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: diffusion, accountability, hierarchy, federal, government, thickening
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 1995-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815752504
ISBN-13: 9780815752509

Light presents a revealing look at how thick government bureaucracy really is, how and why thickening occurs, what difference it might make, and what can be done to both reverse the process and keep the thickening from growing back. He shows how the management layers between the top and bottom of government-between air traffic controllers and the Secretary of Transportation, food inspectors and the Secretary of Agriculture, and so on-have steadily increased. He explains how a government of managers means the president has very little direct access or control over what happens far below, a basi

Authors:David B. Magleby, Paul C. Light,
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: local, 23rd, state, national, people, government
Number of Pages: 864
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $147.00
ISBN-10: 0136062423
ISBN-13: 9780136062424

Building on decades of authoritative scholarship, this completely updated text continues to offer accessible, carefully crafted, and straightforward coverage of the foundations of American politics, as well consistent focus on the achievements of a government by the people In an increasingly cynical world, GBTP emphasizes that politics matters and encourages, motivates, and even inspires students–with accounts of individual and collective acts of courageousness, intellect, and integrity in the political arena–to be effective and informed citizens. With each chapter now framed

Authors:David B. Magleby, Paul C. Light,
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: brief, people, government
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2008-12-26
List price: $104.20
ISBN-10: 020566637X
ISBN-13: 9780205666379

Building on decades of authoritative scholarship, this completely updated text continues to offer accessible, carefully crafted, and straightforward coverage of the foundations of American politics, as well consistent focus on the achievements of a government by the people   In an increasingly cynical world, GBTP emphasizes that politics matters and encourages, motivates, and even inspires students–with accounts of individual and collective acts of courageousness, intellect, and integrity in the political arena–to be effective and informed citizens.     With each chapter now frame

Authors:Paul Light, Karen Littleton,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cognitive, perceptual, development, studies, cambridge, processes, children, learning, social
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2000-02-13
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521596912
ISBN-13: 9780521596916

This book is about children’s learning and problem-solving behavior. Paul Light and Karen Littleton address, in both theoretical and empirical terms, the ways in which interactions between children influence learning outcomes. The authors describe a series of their own experiments conducted with groups of school children. Many of the studies involve computer-based learning and problem-solving, but the findings are of more general significance. In particular, they have implications both for classroom practice and the understanding of the learning process. This book is a valuable tool for