Authors:Flora Jessop, Paul T. Brown,
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: lies, church
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-01-27
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0787994626
ISBN-13: 9780787994624

From the Preface: "My name is Flora Jessop. I’ve been called apostate, vigilante, and crazy bitch, and maybe I am. But some people call me a hero, and I’d like to think they’re right too. If I am a hero, maybe it’s because every time I can play a part in saving a child or a woman from a life of servitude and degradation, I’m saving a little piece of me, too. I was one of twenty-eight children born to my dad and his three wives. Indoctrinated to believe that the outside world was evil, and that I resided among the righteous, I was destined to marry a man chosen

Author: Karlin Sloan
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: fulfilled, leadership, enduring, effective, faster, strategies, smarter
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-06-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0787982687
ISBN-13: 9780787982683

In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed executive coach Karlin Sloan offers leaders a variety of self-assessments, habits, strategies, and sustainable practices that they can use to become what today’s marketplace demands; smarter, faster, and better. Karlin Sloan shows what it takes to make the move to the next level to become a leader who both grows the bottom line and contributes to stakeholders and the world in a positive way. Based on research, study, and the author’s extensive experience as a coach to leaders of top organizations, this book shows how to become smarter, faster,

Authors:Thomas M. Tripp, Robert J. Bies,
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: stop, revenge, workplace, truth, getting
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-01-27
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0470339675
ISBN-13: 9780470339671

Tripp and Bies educate employees and managers about the right and wrong ways to deal with workplace conflict, specifically revenge. The authors have amassed dozens of lively stories, insights and counter-intuitive truths to bring to the book. Not only will managers and employees find this information useful and entertaining, but most readers will find applications in their home lives as well as in their work lives. The core argument is that revenge is about justice. Avenging employees are not unprofessional, out-of-control employees; rather, they are victims of offenses who feel compelled t

Authors:Mary Jo Hatch, Majken Schultz,
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: culture, identity, corporate, branding, strategy, align, brand, initiative, companies, taking
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-03-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0787998303
ISBN-13: 9780787998301

Taking Brand Initiative offers a revolutionary approach to corporate branding that looks beyond the marketing value of brands company-to-customer and the HR significance of brands company-to-employee. It places the management of brands at the senior level of management as it radiates throughout the organization. In this groundbreaking book, international branding thought leaders, Mary Jo Hatch and Make Schultz explain how a company’s brand is just as important to OoutsidersONpoliticians, suppliers, and analysts as it is to company insiders. They show how only the corporate brand can inte

Author: Michael Gurian
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: teachers, parents, guide, differently, girls, learn, boys
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-02-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0787961175
ISBN-13: 9780787961176

In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian synthesizes this current knowledge and clearly demonstrates how this distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a new way to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal disparities.

Authors:Roger Soder, John I. Goodlad, Timothy J. Mcmannon,
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: character, democratic, developing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-02-27
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0787956856
ISBN-13: 9780787956851

Sponsored by the Institute for Educational Inquiry How are students going to function effectively in a democratic society? This collection of original essays outlines the critical role of our schools in helping create the conditions necessary for a democracy--and helping create in students the characteristics or dispositions critical to maintaining a democracy.    

Author: Sean Stephenson
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: yourself, stand, sabotage
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0470399937
ISBN-13: 9780470399934

"Sean is an amazing person with an important message."—President Bill Clinton "Sean Stephenson is the Yoda of personal development, with less pointy ears."—Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live "As we struggle with inertia to become the best that we can be, Sean Stephenson’s book informs and inspires us to stand up and keep moving forward. Thank you, Sean, for your life, your work, and your abundant sharing."—Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager "Sean Stephenson is a hero to me. When you read his book, he will be a hero to you as well. His