BOOK DESCRIPTIONTitle: Mind Wars: Confronting the Global Depression EpidemicThis is not tactical therapy or pop-psych fluff. This is a declaration of insurgency against the silent siege on human minds. When the world tells you that melancholy is "natural" or "just a phase," it sells you a lie. We ignite a rebellion against despair that has strangled ambition, stifled creativity, and hollowed out hope in every corner...

A Forbes Best Business Book“Vital reading for today’s and tomorrow’s leaders.” —Arianna Huffington“Burnout seems to be everyone’s problem, and this book has solutions. As trailblazers in burnout research, Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter didn’t just clear the path to study the causes—they’ve also discovered some of the cures.” —Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again

Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more traditional diagnostic control systems, Simons identifies three new control systems that allow strategic change: belief systems that communicate core values and provide inspiration and direction, boundary systems that frame the strategic domain and...

This book develops a new model for lean management. The intent is to demonstrate a model framework consisting of four critical components: leadership, culture, team and tools. The development of the model and these four components will be built from empirical theories reported in the research literature and in successful applications. This framework will offer a path to develop lean leaders with practical, actionable guidelines. The model framework is suited to broad applications offering ...

This book includes contributions from top scholars who outline the best leadership practices for the benefit of the practicing leader. Each chapter focuses on a specific area of leadership practice and ends with a set of "take away" best practices in each area—an executive summary in reverse—that will serve as a quick reference for those who might want to peruse chapters, but still extract the best practices, as well as a summary for those who thoroughly read each chapter."Jay Alde...

Project Management Implementation as Management Innovation: A Closer Look investigates the processes involved in implementing one particular type of management innovation—project management—and how these innovations must evolve and be modified in order to deliver value. The book was written by three internationally recognized project management researchers/practitioners. Their extensive experience in the classroom and in the field shows through in how they are able to present complex conce...

This book is dedicated to pioneers of change and the champions of tomorrow, to educators who inspire beyond boundaries, to learners who thirst for growth in every experience, to all who are committed to the transformative journey of learning, to those who embrace innovation with courage, empathy, and purpose, to everyone who believes that by empowering minds, we illuminate the future, and to visionaries who believe that education is not just a pathway but a powerful instrument for shaping ...

This book offers suggestions on creating an advocacy campaign at a high level. Through a comprehensive look at the road map of designing a large scale advocacy campaign, the reader will walk away with tools to sharpen advocacy efforts regardless of the scale of organization or impact.The author has over 25 years of experience in disability rights advocacy and uses personal experience along with research and knowledge gained by peers and mentors from many levels of advocacy. In our ...

Transformative Strategies is based around the idea that strategic thinking is critical for organizational success in today’s environment. The financial crisis, continuing economic uncertainty, digitalization, environmental issues, and social issues involved in globalization present strategic problems for enterprises. Unlike other textbooks that take a standard solutions-based approach, Transformative Strategies provides readers with a way to develop strategies that fit th...

Welcome to the world of educational management and administration, a dynamic and vital field that plays a crucial role in shaping the future of our educational institutions and the learners within them. This book seeks to provide a comprehensive exploration of the principles, practices, and challenges of educational management and administration, with the goal of equipping educators, administrators, and policymakers with the tools they need to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of ed...

Throughout history, our nation has sought to find the most ethical way to deliver government contracts. In an effort to find a balance between normal expectations of government contracting and personal benefits, the government has enacted endless rules and regulations; however, those codes of ethics have not deterred government contracting employees from behaving unethically when doing their jobs.Ethical Occurrences in Government Contracting: Principled or Corrupt chronicl...

Research shows that corporate life expectancy and performance have declined 75% in the last 50 years - organizations need a different approach if they are to survive, let alone thrive. While people are often stated as a company's greatest asset, few businesses have a clear model of leadership that improves engagement, removes barriers to innovation, and uncovers hidden strengths in people and the organization. This book addresses that need and, more importantly, demonstrates HOW organizati...