The second edition of the "consultant's bible" is here! For over fifteen years, consultants-both internal and external-have relied on Peter Block's landmark bestseller, Flawless Consulting, to learn how to deal effectively with clients, peers, and others. Using illustrative examples, case studies, and exercises, the author, one of the most ...
Despite popular rhetoric lauding quality improvement, visionary leadership, and customer-driven enterprises, says the author, real workplace change has been superficial and limited. In response to such "cosmetic change," as he calls it, Block unveils radical new models of stewardship both for the organization as a whole and for the role of the ...
Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities-businesses, schools, social service organisations, churches, government - do not work together. They exist in their own worlds as do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalised, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions ...
This is one of the most useful and clearly written books on the leading edge of management that I have read. - Warren Bennis Peter Block, the author of the classic Flawless Consulting, is a true visionary. And here he turns his sights on management. Managers and other employees who feel powerless to control their own destinies, who feel stifled by ...
Written by members of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), this book is a comprehensive yet concise review for board certification and recertification exams in interventional cardiology. It covers all the topics that are on the interventional cardiology board examination, including important clinical trials likely ...
This work challenges readers to think more profoundly about the questions surrounding the use of appraisal. The authors separate the five discrete functions of appraisal - coaching, feedback, compensation, employee development, and legal documentation - and clarify the objectives of each. They also examine - relative to each function - the ...
Don't venture into the consulting field without this essential "Fieldbook and Companion"! Following on the heels of the best-selling "Flawless Consulting, Second Edition" comes "The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion". Whether you work as a consultant or you work with consultants, this relentlessly practical guide will be your best friend ...
A classic revised and updated for the twenty-first-century consultant Revised and updated for consulting in the twenty-first century, this new edition is for anyone who wants to know what consulting is really like as a career, as a living, and as a life. Geoffrey Bellman reveals how to make the job rewarding both financially and personally as he ...
According to Peter Block, people keep asking "how?" as a defence against living their life. In this work he puts the "how to" craze in perspective and teaches individuals, workers and managers ways to act on what they know, and reclaim their freedom and capacity to create a world they want to live in. Block raises our awareness of the trade-offs ...
'Flawless Consulting', the best-selling consulting book of all time, has been the consultant's bible for over 15 years. While other books on consulting outline theories for understanding organisations or for implementing interventions, 'Flawless Consulting' actually describes and demonstrates ways of behaving with clients. This new edition ...
Mastery of many sorts emerges in new configurations in Peter Burger's book: as an idea developed by Hegel in the master-slave dialectic in his "Phenomenology of Spirit"; as a quality embodied in the work of certain 20th century "master-thinkers"; and, not least, in the expertise of Burger himself, as he negotiates and clarifies a critical ...
Although Charles Ives has long been viewed as the quintessential American composer, he was also closely linked to the European classical tradition, say the Ives scholars in this book. Contributors explore the influences on Ives of his musical predecessors and the parallels between Ives and his European contemporaries, revealing him as culturally ...
Peter Koestenbaum and Peter Block offer you a new perspective for viewing the workplace through the lens of philosophy so that you may have a better understanding of how to reclaim your freedom and accountability and encourage the same in others. They provide a radical new approach to your work-a-day life that will bring true meaning and power to ...
From the author of "The Empowered Manager" comes a visionary curriculum that re-examines every aspect of the workplace and helps to create a profitable, principle-centered business. Abridged. 3 CDs.
Sane on our Flawless Set! The set includes "Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used, Second Edition" and "The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion: A Guide Understanding Your Expertise". About Flawless Consulting: For over fifteen years, consultants - both internal and external - have relied on Peter Block's landmark ...
Block introduces the path to empowerment and shows managers the inherent pressures that discourage initiative, dull creativity, and dissuade risk taking. Readers learn how to create a strong vision of the future--one that encourages the best in themselves and in those around them.
"Esta es la obra mas importante de las que haya escrito Block, y debemos tomarnosla totalmente en serio por muy divertida que resulte su lectura. Si muchas personas dicen "si" a las ensenanzas de este libro, dejaremos de ir a la deriva y tanto nuestras vidas como nuestro trabajo seran contribuciones importantes para los demas y para nuestro futuro ...
Se quedo sin inspiracion? Esta sin energia creativa? Encontrar ideas nuevas e innovadoras es la clave para el crecimiento de cualquier organizacion y esta guia practica esta llena de consejos para lograrlo. En solo 30 minutos esta practica guia de bolsillo le ensenara como generar grandes ideas una y otra vez. Le muestra como lograr el habito de ...
"Managing in the Media" has been devised for a broad audience. It is based upon the perceived need for a text that amalgamates cultural theories, film and television analysis, management theories and media production practice into one volume. There are many books on film and cultural studies. Similarly, there are copious numbers of texts written ...
In a career spanning forty years, Roger Harrison, consultant, trainer, and theorist, has influenced every phase of the birth and growth of the discipline of organization development (OD) - from its beginnings within the sensitivity training seminars of the fifties to its current role in shaping the way organizations respond to the present chaotic ...
The Opus Pupil Books form part of the new Opus music scheme for 11-14 year olds. Opus fulfils a recognized need for music resources at this level, giving pupils and teachers thorough support for the curriculum whilst providing an engaging environment for pupils? learning. There is an Opus Pupil Book for each of the three years covered by this ...
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