JosseyBass: All New Business Titles

Collaborate: The Art of We

Dan Sanker — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The hands-on guide for the new way to compete: Collaboration

The 21st Century's counterpart to Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Dan Sanker's Collaborate: The Art of We gives a new generation of pioneering business enthusiasts a practical guide to capture tomorrow's opportunities. Globalization, technological advances, and cultural changes have opened the door for a new winning formula that combines traditional competition with contemporary collaborative business

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What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

Gary Hamel — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This is not a book about one thing. It's not a 250-page dissertation on leadership, teams or motivation. Instead, it's an agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world of diminished hopes, relentless change and ferocious competition.

This is not a book about doing better. It's not a manual for people who want to tinker at the margins. Instead, it's an impassioned plea to reinvent management as we know it—to rethink the fundamental

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Have a Nice Conflict: How to Find Success and Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places

Tim Scudder, Michael Patterson, Kent Mitchell — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

How to successfully navigate and prevent conflict

From the publishers of the popular Strength Deployment Inventory, Have a Nice Conflict follows one man's fight to rescue his sinking career. Sales manager John Doyle would consider his career a success—he's his company's top revenue driver, and his take-charge attitude gets the job done. However, when he is passed over for promotion—again—after losing two direct reports, who cite his abrasive style

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Who's in the Room?: How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around Them

Bob Frisch — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Is your company run by a team with no name?

At the top of every organization chart lies a myth—that a Senior Management Team makes a company's critical decisions. The reality is that critical decisions are typically made by the boss and a small group of confidants—a "team with no name"—outside of formal processes. Meanwhile, other members of the management team wonder why they weren't in the room or even consulted ahead of time. The dysfunction that

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Productive Workplaces: Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century, 3rd Edition, 25 Year Anniversary

Marvin R. Weisbord — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Praise for Productive Workplaces

"Weisbord has been a major voice in the theory and practice of organization development (OD) since the early 1970's. This book is a wonderful history and reinterpretation of many of the events, schools of thought, and controversies that have punctuated the field from its beginnings. It should be required reading for every Organization Behavior and Development scholar. Among its many virtues, the book is beautifully

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The Hedgehog Effect: The Secrets of Building High Performance Teams

Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

In The Hedgehog Effect, Manfred Kets de Vries presents the case for leadership group coaching as an experiential training ground for learning to function as a high performance team. His group coaching model, incorporating living case studies, has been developed over more than 20 years of delivering programs to top-level executives and sets the standard in the field of leadership group coaching.

Written for coaches, consultants, leadership development

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The Public Relations Handbook for Nonprofits: A Comprehensive and Practical Guide

Art Feinglass — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Nonprofit organizations must employ effective, professional public relations techniques in order to get the recognition, support and dollars they need to fulfill their missions. The Public Relations Handbook for Nonprofits offers you the first comprehensive guide to all the practices organizations need to do well in their efforts to do good. This title examines all the elements, tools and processes involved in an effective nonprofit PR campaign.

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The Trustworthy Leader: Leveraging the Power of Trust to Transform Your Organization

Amy Lyman — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

How leaders from the best workplaces build trust in their organizations

The Trustworthy Leader reveals the benefits organizations enjoy when trustworthy behavior is practiced consistently by their leaders. Drawing from examples from the Best Companies to Work For, Lyman, cofounder of Great Place to Work Institute, explains that being trustworthy means that leaders' behaviors are rooted in their commitment to the value of trust and not simply in an

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Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT

The authors—noted scholars and researchers—provide an up-to-date guide to qualitative study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting. Step by step, the authors explain a range of methodologies and methods for conducting qualitative research focusing on how they are applied when conducting an actual study. The book includes methods of data collection, specific approaches to qualitative research, and current issues in the field. Specifically

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The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results

Chris Grivas, Gerard Puccio — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT

New tools for tapping the creativity of teams and achieving breakthrough results

The Innovative Team is an engaging business fable that reveals the impact our underlying work style preferences have on our teams and their results. The authors present a breakthrough thinking process for developing successful teams. They introduce a uniquely effective set of tools built on FourSight, a measure of problem-solving preferences field-tested by top consultants

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Through the Eyes of Tiger Cubs: Views of Asia's Next Generation

Mark L. Clifford, Janet Pau — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT

What will Asia look like ten years from now? Find out by taking a look through the eyes of the Asia's next generation of leaders

Following economic booms in Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan—the four Asian Tigers—attention has shifted to success stories in other Asian economies. However, a number of challenges have also emerged that could threaten the region's development over the next decade.

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Assessment Update, Progress, Trends, and Practices in Higher Education, Volume 23, No. 6, November-December, 2011

AU (Assessment Update) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT

The Business of Being the Best: Inside the World of Go-Getters and Game Changers

Molly Fletcher — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT

How the very best get to—and stay at—the top

From the arenas of professional sports to the boardrooms of major businesses, a thin slice of peak performers dominates every field. What is their secret to success? Few people know what drives these world-leaders like sports agent Molly Fletcher. Not only has Fletcher herself risen to the top of a tough, male-dominated field—CNN dubbed her "the female Jerry Maguire

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Renewal Coaching Fieldbook: How Effective Leaders Sustain Meaningful Change

Elle Allison, Douglas B. Reeves — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT

The Renewal Coaching Fieldbook outlines the seven practices that leaders can learn and develop in order to sustain their energy to do meaningful work. These practices enable leaders to bounce forward in the face of loss, create networks of support, make wise and timely decisions, and engage in personal renewal daily. Throughout are compelling stories of leaders who have overcome the challenges that seek to diminish and overwhelm them, and succeeded

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Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying)

David A Owens — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT

A framework for overcoming the six types of innovation killers

Everybody wants innovation—or do they? Creative People Must Be Stopped shows how individuals and organizations sabotage their own best intentions to encourage "outside the box" thinking. It shows that the antidote to this self-defeating behavior is to identify which of the six major types of constraints are hindering innovation: individual, group, organizational, industry-wide, societal

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Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up

Paul Schmitz — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Praise for Everyone Leads

"If America is going to continue to thrive in the twenty-first century, we must strengthen our sense of community. In Everyone Leads, Schmitz lays out the challenges for those of us who have a passion to make a difference and, more important, the strategies to spark lasting change from the grassroots up. His unique perspective and experience make this a must-read for community activists.

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