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Biology of Amphibians

By: William E. Duellman,Linda Trueb

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Biology of Amphibians

By: William E. Duellman,Linda Trueb

Now reissued in paperback with an updated preface by the authors, Biology of Amphibians remains the standard work in its field.

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JHU Press

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080184780X

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9780801847806

Organization Development

A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR

By: Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge,Linda Holbeche

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Organization Development

A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR

By: Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge,Linda Holbeche

Organization Development (OD) is key to ensuring that organizations and their people can adapt to and engage in ongoing change in today's fast-paced and competitive world. How can those responsible for managing change determine the most appropriate course of action for their organization's needs and maximize capability? Written by two of the leading experts in the field, Organization Development is an essential guide to the theories, practices, tools and techniques for achieving success. It explores the role of HR in relation to OD, and connected areas such as organization design, building organizational agility and resilience, and culture change. Alongside international case studies from organizations including Ernst & Young, Nationwide, Lockheed Martin and the University of Sheffield, UK, this revised third edition of Organization Development contains new chapters on building an adaptive culture of learning and innovation and organization health and 'use of self'. With fresh material on digitization, OD in SMEs, and competence profiles, this is an indispensable handbook to understanding, communicating and implementing organization development approaches for both experienced practitioners and students.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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1789667925

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9781789667929

From Capture to Sale

The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century

By: Linda A. Newson

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From Capture to Sale

The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century

By: Linda A. Newson

Based on exceptionally rich private papers of Portuguese slave traders, this study provides unique insight into the diet, health and medical care of slaves during their journey from Africa to Peru in the early seventeenth century.

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BRILL

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9004156798

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9789004156791

Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy

By: Linda Holbeche

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Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy

By: Linda Holbeche

What difference can the aspiring HR strategist really make to business value? In the new and extensively updated edition of her ground-breaking book, Linda Holbeche answers this question and provides the tools and insights to help HR managers and directors add value to the organization by implementing effective HR initiatives that are aligned to core business strategies. This edition includes new chapters, fresh case questions, specific sector ‘twists’ like healthcare, the university sector, travel and tourism, alongside a greater mix of international case studies. Taking a more analytical approach than previous works, Holbeche discusses and explores a number of contemporary academic debates. Learn how you can strengthen and prove the relationship between people strategy and business success through your approach to performance and development and impress at the highest levels with this new edition of an HR classic.

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Routledge

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1000463427

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The High Performance Organization

By: Linda Holbeche

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The High Performance Organization

By: Linda Holbeche

Increased global competition, aided and abetted by technology, has meant that organizations in every sector are having to compete on the basis of speed, cost, quality, innovation, flexibility and customer-responsiveness. If organizations wish to be able to compete successfully in the global marketplace, they need to develop innovative products and services quickly and cost-effectively. The High Performance Organization provides invaluable information and practical tools for people engaged in leading organizational change efforts as an executive, line manager, HR practitioner or change agent. This practical text is grounded in organizational reality as well as having a sound theoretical setting. Illustrative case studies have been drawn from consultancy practice and a wide range of current research.

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1136357696

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More Fearless Change

Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen

By: Mary Lynn Manns Ph.D.,Linda Rising Ph.D.

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More Fearless Change

Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen

By: Mary Lynn Manns Ph.D.,Linda Rising Ph.D.

63 New and Updated Patterns for Driving and Sustaining Change “The hard part of change is enlisting the support of other people. Whether a top manager interested in improving your organization’s results or a lone developer promoting a better way of working, this book will give you tools and ideas to help accomplish your goal.” –George Dinwiddie, independent coach and consultant, iDIA Computing, LLC “Keep the patterns in this book and Fearless Change handy. ... These patterns transformed me from an ineffective ‘voice in the wilderness’ to a valued collaborator.” –Lisa Crispin, co-author (with Janet Gregory) of Agile Testing and More Agile Testing In their classic work, Fearless Change, Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising interviewed successful leaders of change, identified 48 patterns for implementing change in teams of all sizes, and demonstrated how to use these techniques effectively. Now, in More Fearless Change the authors reflect on all they’ve learned about their original patterns in the past decade, and introduce 15 powerful, new techniques–all extensively validated by change leaders worldwide. Manns and Rising teach strategies that appeal to each individual’s logic (head), feelings (heart), and desire to contribute (hands)–the best way to motivate real change and sustain it for the long haul. Learn how to Focus on the best things you can achieve with limited resources Strategize to build flexible plans and go after low-hanging fruit Get help from the right people in the right ways Establish emotional connections that inspire motivation and imagination Create an “elevator pitch” that keeps everyone focused on what truly matters Build bridges, work with skeptics, soften resistance, and open minds Uncover easier paths towards change, and build on what already works Sustain momentum, provide time for reflection, and celebrate small successes More Fearless Change reflects a profound understanding of how real change happens: not instantaneously in response to top-down plans and demands, but iteratively, through small steps that teach from experience. Best of all, as thousands of change agents have already discovered, its patterns are easy to use–and they work.

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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0133966747

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9780133966749

Bang!

Getting Your Message Heard in a Noisy World

By: Linda Kaplan Thaler,Robin Koval

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Bang!

Getting Your Message Heard in a Noisy World

By: Linda Kaplan Thaler,Robin Koval

The founders of one of today's hottest, most innovative advertising agencies explain how to ignite the kind of marketing explosions that will capture customers' attention. Linda Kaplan Thaler, the CEO and Chief Creative Officer of the Kaplan Thaler Group, is the brains behind a host of memorable and highly successful ads, from the irresistibly sentimental "Kodak moment" campaign to Herbal Essences' "totally organic experience" to, most recently, the irrepressible AFLAC duck. In Bang!, Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval of the Kaplan Thaler Group, currently ranked as the fastest-growing ad agency in the country, offer the kind of out-of-the-box thinking and proven strategies that marketers anywhere can use to create loud, clear, attention-grabbing messages about their products and services. Presenting an arsenal of "big bang" ideas, the authors discuss how to create a memorable publicity hook and how to design attention-grabbing packaging that taps into consumers' innermost desires. They interweave entertaining accounts of their successes and failures, as well as those of other companies to suggest specific ways to establish an atmosphere conducive to innovative breakthroughs--why having "enough" time to work on a project can be a disadvantage, and why having a small staff in a cramped space is often the best way to come up with big ideas. Full of colorful anecdotes and inspiring accounts of campaigns that have catapulted revenues and increased market shares, Bang! shows how to create a marketing campaign that rises above the banal barrage of commercials to create a genuine marketing explosion.

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Crown Currency

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0307423514

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Influencing Organizational Effectiveness

A Critical Take on the HR Contribution

By: Linda Holbeche

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Influencing Organizational Effectiveness

A Critical Take on the HR Contribution

By: Linda Holbeche

In this book Linda Holbeche offers an historical narrative on the changing landscape of work since the 1980s and considers how definitions of organizational effectiveness have changed over time. She considers the characteristics and effects of the neo-liberal work culture of new capitalism, and how HRM practices have contributed to shaping this work culture. Influencing Organizational Effectiveness challenges mainstream thinking around business strategy, change and organizational effectiveness, and about the roles of HRM and management. While the overall tone of the book is critical, Holbeche argues that HRM can play an active role in giving voice to employees and advancing organizational effectiveness. Grounded in research, this book includes reflective questions, case studies and helpful guidelines to support HRM and organizational development professionals and master's-level students. It illustrates what ‘better’ might look like and how HRM can contribute to a new definition of effectiveness which is aligned to the needs of modern organizations.

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1317808851

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The Change Leader's Roadmap

How to Navigate Your Organization's Transformation

By: Linda Ackerman Anderson,Dean Anderson

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The Change Leader's Roadmap

How to Navigate Your Organization's Transformation

By: Linda Ackerman Anderson,Dean Anderson

This is the most complete change methodology we have found anywhere." —Pete Fox, General Manager, Corporate Accounts, Microsoft US In these turbulent times, competent change leadership is a most coveted leadership skill, and savvy change consultants are becoming trusted participants at the board table. For both leaders and consultants, knowing how to navigate the complexities of organization transformation is fast becoming the key to a successful career. This second edition of the author?s landmark book is the king of all ?how-to? books on change. It provides a strategic overview of the author?s proven change process methodology, as well as pragmatic guidance and tools for each key step in a complex transformational change process. The Change Leader?s Roadmap is the most comprehensive guide available for building transformational change strategy and designing and implementing successful transformation. Based on thirty years of action research with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, the military, and large non-profit global organizations. Outlines every key step in a transformational change process Provides worksheets, tools, case examples, and assessments that you can immediately apply to all types of change efforts Includes updated information on a wealth of topics including the critical path tasks and how to use the CLR to change minds and cultures The new edition also includes new activities, methods for building change capability, guiding principles for change, and advice for leading the human dynamics in change and creating an organizational vision. This book is specifically written for leaders, project managers, OD practitioners, change practitioners, and consultants seeking greater change results.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470877936

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Crazy Is a Compliment

The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags

By: Linda Rottenberg

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Crazy Is a Compliment

The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags

By: Linda Rottenberg

Reveals how companies like GE and Burberry have broken the corporate mould, and introduces us to entrepreneurs like Leila Velez, who started a multi-million hair-care company from her kitchen sink in Rio.

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1591847990

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Let Go To Grow

Escaping the Commodity Trap

By: Linda S. Sanford,Dave Taylor

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Let Go To Grow

Escaping the Commodity Trap

By: Linda S. Sanford,Dave Taylor

In Let Go To Grow , IBM senior executive Linda Sanford and long-time entrepreneur Dave Taylor show exactly how to do that. Sanford and Taylor systematically review the On Demand Business processes, people strategies, technology shifts, governance practices, and leadership vision you'll need to maximize profitability in tomorrow's business environment. They introduce powerful new techniques for balancing and measuring three key drivers of top-line growth: productivity, collaboration, and innovation. You'll discover how to gain unprecedented flexibility by constructing your business around components, platforms, and standardized interfaces. The authors demonstrate how to expand your growth space, liberate your cost structures, and build profits–not just revenues. Drawing on the experiences of companies ranging from GE to eBay, Toyota to IBM, this book focuses on practical implementation, offering a proven, start-to-finish approach for moving from vision to results.

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Pearson Education

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013279733X

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Understanding Change

By: Linda Holbeche

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Understanding Change

By: Linda Holbeche

Change is now so commonplace that people no longer talk in terms of the "whitewater epoch". Every sector of the economies of the developed world has experienced huge swathes of change in the last decade of the twentieth century alone. Increased global competition, aided and abetted by technological advances, has led many organizations to seek to re-invent themselves in the hope of being able to survive and thrive. In mature sectors in particular, where the pace of consolidation is accelerating, organizations have had little option but to grow through acquisition or be absorbed. Whether the change is labelled "continuous process improvement", "restructuring", "downsizing" or re-engineering", to employees, change usually brings with it added pressures, job insecurity and a consequent loss of commitment to the organization. Understanding Change: theory, implementation and success argues that strategic change in the new millennium will be geared increasingly to achieving sustainable high performance, rather than just short-term gains. Most theorists now agree that the real challenge of change lies in gaining employees" willingness to commit to the change effort. Change leaders at every level need to be able to understand the elements at work in any change process, and to use judgement about the style of leadership required to give the change effort the best chance of success. Understanding Change: theory, implementation and success provides an overview of change and organizational theory, leading in particular to the author"s definition of the "input" elements of the high performance organisation, based on extensive research into UK and international organisations. It also contains a section looking at the management of change, with case studies illustrating approaches to managing change which are conducive to achieving sustainable high performance. In her companion book, The High Performance Organization- creating dynamic stability, the author explores some of the "how to"s" of building an organizational culture which is supportive of high performance in today"s challenging environment.

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1136351957

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Nonprofit Essentials

Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers

By: Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE

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Nonprofit Essentials

Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers

By: Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE

Praise for Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers "Linda Lysakowski brings into focus the realities of enlisting volunteers to ensure success in a campaign. She clearly outlines logical steps that lead to inspiring passion in the volunteer, who is so essential to reaching a goal. I wish such a comprehensive treatise had been available to me forty years ago!" --Milton Murray, Director Emeritus Philanthropic Service for Institutions Adventist World Headquarters (Silver Spring, Maryland) "It was a pleasure to read Ms. Lysakowski's book, which outlines the roles of volunteers in the art of fundraising. Linda has woven the guidance of the great masters of philanthropy and volunteer management partnered with her extensive life experience. This is a must-have resource for development officers and nonprofit leadership essential for both volunteers and management. I especially liked the 'In the Real World' examples of concepts in action that could be implemented locally." --Ann H. Moffitt, CFRE, Vice President of Community Development Keystone Human Services, and CEO, Keystone Partnership (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) "Research and practice tell us that organizations that engage volunteers in fundraising have more sustained success, even in tough times. This book is a substantive contribution to the literature of volunteer fundraisers, and it reminds us of the honorable role of volunteers in fundraising, even in this time of the growing professionalization of staff fundraising." --Timothy L. Seiler, PhD, CFRE, Director Public Service and The Fund Raising School, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University (Indianapolis, Indiana)

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471740071

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The Agile Organization

How to Build an Engaged, Innovative and Resilient Business

By: Linda Holbeche

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The Agile Organization

How to Build an Engaged, Innovative and Resilient Business

By: Linda Holbeche

The key to retaining competitive advantage in a volatile business world is agility. The third edition of The Agile Organization shows how to develop capabilities across the organization to adapt. With helpful checklists, tips and advice, this is a practical blueprint to building both agility and resilience at individual, team and organizational levels. It covers how to design agile organizations as well as how to implement agile models into existing organizations and people practices. There is guidance on how agility can be applied to talent management, flexible working patterns and the importance of mobilizing and energizing employees for change. This edition contains new material on agile mindsets and enterprise agile planning, alongside how hybrid forms of working can enhance resilience. There is also extended material on how inclusion and wellbeing initiatives can support individual resilience and innovation to improve performance across the organization. Case studies include ING, the University of California, Berkeley, the UK National Health Service (NHS) and SNC-Lavalin's Atkins business. This book is an essential read for HR and OD specialists, senior leaders and managers who want transform their organization and build an agile business.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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139860867X

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Capstone Coach for Nursing Excellence

By: Linda Campbell,Marcia A Gilbert,Gary Robert Laustsen

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Capstone Coach for Nursing Excellence

By: Linda Campbell,Marcia A Gilbert,Gary Robert Laustsen

Accelerate your transition to nursing success! Excel in your senior practicum, pass the NCLEX-RN® and flourish in your new nursing career. A streamlined, outline format, case studies, clinical alerts, and quick-reference tables ensure you easily master the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to succeed as an RN.

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F.A. Davis

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0803640889

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9780803640887

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Counseling

By: Linda Seligman

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Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Counseling

By: Linda Seligman

Key features of the third edition: -An overview of the changing face of counseling, from emerging employment opportunities to core competencies for counselors and trainers. -A broad range of qualitative and quantitative assessment tools, with guidelines for their selection and interpretation. -A thorough review of the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, including strategies for multiaxial assessment. -The DO A CLIENT MAP, a comprehensive structured approach to treatment planning. -Expanded coverage of individual, family, and group interventions -An updated chapter on documentation, report writing, and record keeping, with sample reports and forms. -Brand-new chapters on career and organizational development counseling, and ethical standards for counselors. -A predictions chapter identifying trends most likely to influence the future of the field. -Case studies, models, and examples throughout.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441989277

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Total Alignment

Tools and Tactics for Streamlining Your Organization

By: Riaz Khadem,Linda Khadem

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Total Alignment

Tools and Tactics for Streamlining Your Organization

By: Riaz Khadem,Linda Khadem

ALIGN YOUR BUSINESS FOR SUCCESS From overarching vision to individual competency scorecards, Total Alignment arms you with powerful concepts and tools to run a successful, efficient business. No matter what size or type of business you run, business strategy experts Riaz Khadem and Linda Khadem show you how to align your team and operations from the ground up and from the top down. Total Alignment is the result of innovative thinking, solid research, and thirty successful years of consulting experience with major companies. Whether your team struggles most with communication, accountability, or motivation, this book will help you inspire your organization to produce efficiently, engage in the company's vision, and hold each other accountable for solid, sustained progress. Implement these concepts and tools to gain coherence, strength, and value: • Measure and narrow alignment gaps in key areas of your business using the Alignment Survey • Plan for your company’s growth and measure it along the way with the Alignment Map • Define clear roles and responsibilities for each member of your team to ensure accountability with Accountability Assignment worksheets • Eliminate silos, inefficiencies, and redundancies with the one page management strategy • Set short- and long-term goals that add value to each branch of the company as well as the business as a whole Plus, gain access to easy-to-use templates to analyze your company’s alignment, including Business and Individual Scorecards, the Competency Worksheet, an Action Plan Commitment chart, and the Performance and Effort Indexes.

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Entrepreneur Press

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1613083564

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9781613083567

Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador

By: Linda A. Newson

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Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador

By: Linda A. Newson

Historical demography for 16th- and 17th-century Ecuador. The book's regional framework reveals major differences in mortality rates. Calculates that depopulation in the Sierra during the 16th century was four times that of the Coast"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806126973

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9780806126975

Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations

By: Linda E. Swayne,W. Jack Duncan,Peter M. Ginter

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Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations

By: Linda E. Swayne,W. Jack Duncan,Peter M. Ginter

The 6th edition of this established text is streamlined to a more manageable format, with the Appendices moved to the web-site and a significant shortening of the main text. There is a greater focus on the global analysis of industry and competition; and analysis of the internal environment. In consultation with feedback from their adopters, the authors have concentrated on the fundamentals of strategy analysis and the underlying sources of profit. This reflects waning interest among senior executives in the pursuit of short-term shareholder value. As ever students are provided with the guidance they need to strategic planning, analysis of the health services environment (internal and external) and lessons on implementation; with additional discussionssion of organizational capability, deeper treatment of sustainability and corporate social responsibility and more coverageof the sources of organizational inertia and competency traps. This edition is rich in new examples from real-world health care organizations. Chapters are brought to life by the 'Introductory Incidents', 'Learning Objectives', 'Perspectives', 'Strategy Capsules', useful chapter summaries; and questions for class discussion. All cases and examples have been updated or replaced. In this edition the teaching materials and web supplements have been greatly enhanced, with power-point slides, to give lecturers a unique resource.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444300032

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9781444300031

Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators

By: Linda A. Roussel,Patricia L. Thomas,James L. Harris

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Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators

By: Linda A. Roussel,Patricia L. Thomas,James L. Harris

To succeed as leaders of a diverse, multigenerational workforce, nurse managers and executives need to have both traditional management skills and a contemporary, creative mindset. Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators, Ninth Edition provides a comprehensive overview of key management and administrative concepts critical to leading modern healthcare organizations and ensuring patient safety and quality care. With this text, students will be prepared to lead a workplace that is rapidly evolving due to technology, culture, and changes in the U.S. healthcare system. The Ninth Edition features a new Introduction with a review of the current trends and patterns in nursing leadership, along with expanded discussions of translational science focused on implementation and dissemination, workforce well-being, resiliency, work-life balance, healthy work environments, and more timely topics.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284282562

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9781284282566

Designing for Longevity

Expert Strategies for Creating Long-Lasting Products

By: Louise Møller Haase,Linda Nhu Laursen

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Designing for Longevity

Expert Strategies for Creating Long-Lasting Products

By: Louise Møller Haase,Linda Nhu Laursen

Product longevity is one of the cornerstones in the transition towards a more sustainable society and a key driver for the circular economy model. This book provides designers, developers, and creators with five distinctive expert strategies, detailed case studies, action guides and worksheets that support both beginning and advanced design practitioners in creating new product concepts with long-lasting strategic fits. Designing for Longevity shows how expert design teams create original and long-lasting product concepts from the early development phase. It focuses on integrating business knowledge, market conditions, company capabilities, technical possibilities and user needs into product concepts to make better strategic decisions. It demonstrates how, for products to be durable, designers must create a long-lasting strategic fit for the customer, company, and market. Key case studies of products such as Bang & Olufsen’s A9, LEGO Ninjago and Friends and Coloplasts’ Sensura Mio, among others, offer readers inspiration, guidance and real-world insights from design teams showing how the strategies can be applied in practice. Action guidelines and worksheets encourage broad, analytical problem-solving to identify and think through challenges at the early concept stage. Beautifully designed and illustrated in full colour throughout, this book combines original research and the hands-on tools and strategies that design practitioners need to create useful, sustainable products.

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1000686450

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Liberating Leadership Capacity

Pathways to Educational Wisdom

By: Linda Lambert,Diane P. Zimmerman,Mary E. Gardner

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Liberating Leadership Capacity

Pathways to Educational Wisdom

By: Linda Lambert,Diane P. Zimmerman,Mary E. Gardner

During the past quarter century, conceptions of leadership have evolved in concert with breakthrough discoveries in science and generative learning. Liberating Leadership Capacity captures these new ideas through the integration of the authors’ earlier works in constructivist leadership and leadership capacity. What emerges is a pathway through which educators can become the primary designers of their own learning and that of their students, thus creating sustainable systems of high leadership capacity. This vision of leadership reframes professional learning designs and knowledge creation, describing how these ideas are richly manifested in local, national, and international programs. The context is democratic communities; the learning is constructivist; the leadership is shared. The result is wise schools, organizations, and societies. Liberating Leadership Capacity speaks to all adult learners who are engaged in educational improvement. Book Features: A new concept of leadership as fostering capacity through the complex, dynamic processes of purposeful, reciprocal learning.Leadership strategies constructed from the values of learning, democracy, equity and diversity.Professional learning designed to involve community members in building leadership capacity. A timely approach for the effective implementation of the Every Child Succeeds Act (S. 1177).An in-depth analysis of the standards movement through the lens of capacity building.An understanding of systemic change as an organic process arising from practice rather than being imposed on practice—approaches that unleash a sense of agency and wisdom. “This book strikes a chord with those who believe that emerging leadership should define the experiences of students and teachers alike.” —Deborah Walker, Collaborative for Teaching and Learning (CTL) “The authors have designed a model that is at once sustainable, distributive, ecological, and transformational.” —Dean Fink, author and consultant “Describes organizational conditions that promote skillful dialogue, continual learning, building trust, and sharing a common vision among members. In such schools teachers become the leaders of learning and students become the leaders of the future.” —Arthur L. Costa, professor emeritus, California State University, Sacramento

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Teachers College Press

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0807774782

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9780807774786

Business Risk Management Handbook

A Sustainable Approach

By: Linda S Spedding,Adam Rose

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Business Risk Management Handbook

A Sustainable Approach

By: Linda S Spedding,Adam Rose

Provides a practice-oriented overview of risk management issues with particular reference to identifying and measuring risk. Looks at some of the current risk issues and the concept of organisations creating a 'Sustainable Enterprise Risk Management' (SERM) methodology to encapsulate these risk areas with more traditional areas of risk management. Includes examples and case studies. Examines new research on the social and environmental categories of sustainability related risks.

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0750681748

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9780750681742

Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán

By: Amara Solari,Linda K. Williams

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Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán

By: Amara Solari,Linda K. Williams

The first study of Christian murals created by indigenous artists in sixteenth and seventeenth century Yucatán. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Maya artists painted murals in churches and conventos of Yucatán using traditional techniques to depict iconography brought from Europe by Franciscan friars. The fragmentary visual remains and their placement within religious structures embed Maya conceptions of sacredness beyond the didactic imagery. Mobilizing both cutting-edge technology and tried-and-true analytical methods, art historians Amara Solari and Linda K. Williams reexamine the Maya Christian murals, centering the agency of the people who created them. The first volume to comprehensively document the paintings, Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán collects new research on the material composition of the works, made possible by cutting-edge imaging methods. Solari and Williams investigate pigments and other material resources, as well as the artists and historical contexts of the murals. The authors uncover numerous local innovations in form and content, including images celebrating New World saints, celestial timekeeping, and ritual processions. Solari and Williams argue that these murals were not simply vehicles of coercion, but of cultural “grafting,” that allowed Maya artists to shape a distinctive and polyvocal legacy in their communities.

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Mary, Mother and Warrior

The Virgin in Spain and the Americas

By: Linda B. Hall

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Mary, Mother and Warrior

The Virgin in Spain and the Americas

By: Linda B. Hall

A Mother who nurtures, empathizes, and heals... a Warrior who defends, empowers, and resists oppression... the Virgin Mary plays many roles for the peoples of Spain and Spanish-speaking America. Devotion to the Virgin inspired and sustained medieval and Renaissance Spaniards as they liberated Spain from the Moors and set about the conquest of the New World. Devotion to the Virgin still inspires and sustains millions of believers today throughout the Americas. This wide-ranging and highly readable book explores the veneration of the Virgin Mary in Spain and the Americas from the colonial period to the present. Linda Hall begins the story in Spain and follows it through the conquest and colonization of the New World, with a special focus on Mexico and the Andean highlands in Peru and Bolivia, where Marian devotion became combined with indigenous beliefs and rituals. Moving into the nineteenth century, Hall looks at national cults of the Virgin in Mexico, Bolivia, and Argentina, which were tied to independence movements. In the twentieth century, she examines how Eva Perón linked herself with Mary in the popular imagination; visits contemporary festivals with significant Marian content in Spain, Peru, and Mexico; and considers how Latinos/as in the United States draw on Marian devotion to maintain familial and cultural ties.

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0292779240

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Initiating and Sustaining the Clinical Nurse Leader Role

By: James L. Harris,Linda A. Roussel,Tricia Thomas

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Initiating and Sustaining the Clinical Nurse Leader Role

By: James L. Harris,Linda A. Roussel,Tricia Thomas

Initiating and Sustaining the Clinical Nurse Leader Role, Third Edition illustrates the influence of clinical nurse leaders on care coordination, health promotion, and high-performance inter-professional care teams. The Third Edition will move beyond the 2007 American Association of Colleges of Nursing CNL White Paper and incorporate the CNL Competencies introduced in October 2013. This text presents a bold agenda for CNL practice, one that promotes value in the transformation of clinical care redesign. The Third Edition will cover the following: • Moving beyond the triple aim toward the quadruple aim • Increased emphasis on a new healthcare environment where CNLs practice • The clinical value compass for improving care • Care transitions and the CNL • Health policy engagement and advocacy • Population health and management • Inter-professional collaboration • Resource mindfulness • Project management tools, scope, design, and evaluation • Incorporating the 5Ps and models for improvement • Exemplars of CNL impacts across care settings • CNL certification, professional membership, and residency programs value • Vision for CNLs in 2020

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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Breaking New Ground

Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development

By: Linda Starke

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Breaking New Ground

Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development

By: Linda Starke

Mining is fundamental to our lives - we wear and travel in; build, cook and communicate with its products daily. However, it is also one of the most environmentally damaging industries. This study examines how such a huge and multi-facetted industry can be made sustainable, minimizing its harmful impacts and maximizing its social and economic contribution. It analyses the different needs and risks of those affected, as well as issues of supply and demand of minerals throughout the world.

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1134898266

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Organizational Behavior

A Management Challenge

By: Linda K. Stroh,Gregory B. Northcraft,Margaret A. Neale,(Co-author) Mar Kern,(Co-author) Chr Langlands

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Organizational Behavior

A Management Challenge

By: Linda K. Stroh,Gregory B. Northcraft,Margaret A. Neale,(Co-author) Mar Kern,(Co-author) Chr Langlands

A true learning tool for students and scholars alike; the third edition of Organizational Behavior: A Management Challenge has been designed to effectively present an overview of the challenges facing managers and employees in today's competitive organizations. The latest research in organizational behavior has been interwoven with real-life cases and practical applications to provide a highly accessible text for advanced undergraduate and MBA students of management and psychology. To reflect the evolving challenges of today's organizations, this text contains expanded coverage of new technologies and global businesses and brings the sophisticated world into the classroom. A new chapter on Inclusion has also been added. New Features: *Research in Action Boxes--contributions from leading researchers in the field. *Focus On--vignettes and boxed items that emphasize technology issues and international issues. *On Your Own--experimental exercises that can be either completed individually or collaboratively. *The Manager's Memo--a unique format for end-of-chapter cases. Real-life management problems presented through a memo. Provides the opportunity for formal written responses, as well as class discussion. *Photos and NEW Artwork-- with captions that tie the relevancy of the graphics to the text concepts. Supplements: *Instructor's Manual *PowerPoint on CD--packaged automatically with the Instructor's Manual *Text Specific Web site: www.organizationalbehavior.ws **Special Copy for 4C mailer** Below the bios: These three leading scholars in their field have written the new Third Edition of Organizational Behavior to include coverage of technology in the workplace and the challenges of a global market. A NEW chapter on Inclusion (chapter 16) has also been added. The latest research in organizational behavior has been interwoven with real-life cases and practical applications to provide a highly accessible text for advanced undergraduate and MBA students of management and psychology. We at LEA invite you to examine our new exciting learning tool for students and scholars alike. Please preview the wonderful new features of Stroh, Northcraft and Neale's new textbook that will help the reader gain the knowledge to succeed in today's changing work environments. Supplements INSTRUCTOR WEB RESOURCE - www.organizationalbehavior.ws Prepared by Christine L. Langlands, this FREE, text-specific website includes the entire Instructor's Resource Manual, all of the PowerPoint slides described below, the Preface and Table of Contents for the textbook, author biographies and ordering information to obtain a copy of the text. This valuable on-line resource is designed to be completely intuitive and enhances both the live contact course and the virtual classroom. To keep pace with the evolving field of Organizational Behavior, the website will be updated by the author team over the life of the text. INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL Written by Mary C. Freeman-Kerns and Christine L. Langlands, in conjunction with the authors of the textbook, this IM was created in the classroom. This rich resource contains detailed chapter outlines, the answers to the questions in the textbook, and additional case or group exercises for each section of the text. Available directly on the website OR in hardcopy (upon adoption), this IM is a tool that will guide new instructors smoothly through their course. POWERPOINT CD-ROM Containing more than 250 PowerPoint slides, this dual-platform CD-ROM enhances any lecture with interesting and accurate visuals. The CD-ROM will be packaged FREE with the hardcopy Instructor's Manual. Third Edition Features Research in Action Contributions from leading researchers in

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1135648719

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Peruvian Street Lives

Culture, Power, and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco

By: Linda J. Seligmann

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Peruvian Street Lives

Culture, Power, and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco

By: Linda J. Seligmann

For more than twenty years, Linda J. Seligmann walked the streets of Peru in city and countryside alike, talking to the women who work in the informal and open-air markets in Cuzco's Andean highlands. Her combination of ethnographic analysis, insightful and human vignettes, and superb photographs offers a humane yet incisive portrait of the women's lives against the backdrop of globalization and other powerful forces. In Peruvian Street Lives, Seligmann argues that the sometimes invisible and informal economic, social, and political networks market women establish may appear disorderly and chaotic, but in fact often keep dysfunctional economies and corrupt bureaucracies from utterly destroying the ability of citizens to survive from day to day. Seligmann asks why the constructive efforts of market women to make a living provoke such negative social perceptions from some members of Peruvian society, who see them as symbols and actual catalysts of social disorder. At the same time, Seligmann shows how market women eke out a living, combat discrimination, and transgress racial and gender ideologies within the rich and expressive cultural traditions they have developed.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252054229

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The Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations

By: Peter M. Ginter,W. Jack Duncan,Linda E. Swayne

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The Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations

By: Peter M. Ginter,W. Jack Duncan,Linda E. Swayne

A comprehensive guide to effective strategic management of health care organizations. Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations provides essential guidance for leading health care organizations through strategic management. This structured approach to strategic management examines the processes of strategic thinking, consensus building and documentation of that thinking into a strategic plan, and creating and maintaining strategic momentum – all essential for coping with the rapidly evolving health care industry. Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations fully explains how strategic managers must become strategic thinkers with the ability to evaluate a changing industry, analyze data, question assumptions, and develop new ideas. The book guides readers through the strategic planning process demonstrating how to incorporate strategic thinking and create and document a clear and coherent plan of action. In addition, the all-important processes of creating and maintaining the strategic momentum of the organization are fully described. Finally, the text demonstrates how strategic managers in carrying out the strategic plan, must evaluate its success, learn more about what works, and incorporate new strategic thinking into operations and subsequent planning. This strategic management approach has become the de facto standard for health care management as leadership and strategic management are more critical than ever in coping with an industry in flux. This book provides heath care management students as well as health care administrators with foundational guidance on strategic management concepts and practices, tailored to the unique needs of the health care industry. Included are a clear discussion of health services external analysis, organizational internal analysis, the development of directional strategies, strategy alternative identification and evaluation, and the development and management of implementation strategies providing an informative and insightful resource for anyone in the field. This new eighth edition has been fully updated to reflect new insights into strategic thinking, new methods to conceptualize and document critical environmental issues, practical steps for carrying out each of the strategic management processes, industry and management essentials for strategic thinkers , and new case studies for applying the strategic management processes. More specifically, readers of this edition will be able to: Create a process for developing a strategic plan for a health care organization. Map and analyze external issues, trends, and events in the general environment, the health care system, and the service area. Conduct a comprehensive service area competitor analysis. Perform an internal analysis and determine the competitive advantages and competitive disadvantages. Develop directional strategies. Identify strategic alternatives and make rational strategic decisions for a health care organization. Develop a comprehensive strategy for a health care organization. Create effective value-adding service delivery and support strategies. Translate service delivery and support plans into specific action plans. The health care industry’s revolutionary change remains ongoing and organizational success depends on leadership. Strategic management has become the single clearest manifestation of effective leadership of health care organizations and the strategic management framework’s strengths are needed now more than ever. The Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations provides comprehensive guidance and up-to-date practices to help leaders keep their organizations on track.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119349699

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More Dumb Things Churches Do and New Strategies for Avoiding Them

By: Philip Wiehe,Linda McFadden

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More Dumb Things Churches Do and New Strategies for Avoiding Them

By: Philip Wiehe,Linda McFadden

This book focuses on problems in parishes from stewardship to worship to strategic planning and then examines new ideas and solutions. The approach is positive and practical; the tone is conversational and engaging.

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Church Publishing, Inc.

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0819222585

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Careers in Law & Politics

By: Linda R. Wade

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Careers in Law & Politics

By: Linda R. Wade

Examines careers in law and politics from a Latino perspective, focusing on the experience of Hispanic Americans through interviews with successful Latinos in the field.

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1584150807

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