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Author: Jeanenne LaMarsh
Publisher: Agate Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1932841547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGroundbreaking book about developing the critical skills and tools necessary to cope with change: change at work and change in your personal life.
Author: Christopher Musselwhite
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1998-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780787939939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis instrument package can be used for invaluable insight on: team development, career development, conflict management, organization development ...
Author: Christopher Musselwhite
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1998-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780787940096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned to capture an individual's preference in approaching change and in dealing with situations involving change. This text aims to enable people to understand their reactions to change and to learn to improve their response to change. It instructs the trainer step-by-step how to run a training session on change management, as well as containing a bibliography and details about the research that underlies the instrument; this guide also contains Powerpoint overheads on computer disk. The 2-page instrument - scored by NCR is accompanied by a style guide that helps participants to interpret their instrument results. Applications include: individual awareness; team awareness; functional effectiveness; conflict management; and career development.
Author: Chris Musselwhite Mba
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1413434703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDangerous Opportunity: Making Change Work Based on 15 years of research involving over 10,000 managers, Dangerous Opportunity: Making Change Work offers managers new insights into the different ways in which people react to change their Change Styles so they can lead business transitions more effectively. The book presents a powerful four-stage Change Process Model and provides a step-by-step outline to help managers lead change for meaningful, measurable business improvement. Dangerous Opportunity: Making Change Work gives us the language, understanding, and tools needed to address the most difficult of tasks making change in a complex society. Rick Foster, Ph.D. Vice President for Programs W.K. Kellogg Foundation This concise, coherent, and elegant book offers an eminently practical synthesis of years of empirical and theoretical work on how change occurs. It maps and illustrates an original and memorable model against which leaders in all settings can check to see whether they, themselves, and those around them, are adhering to Gandhi's dictum to be the change they want to see. Dianna Chapman Walsh President Wellesley College
Author: Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC.
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide provides over 300 pages of resources suggested by leadership educators in surveys, Center for Creative Leadership staff, and search of library resources. This eighth edition is half-new, including web sites and listserv discussion groups, and it places a stronger focus on meeting the needs of human resources professionals and corporate trainers. An annotated bibliography groups leadership materials in several broad categories: overview; in context; history, biography and literature; competencies; research, theories, and models; training and development; social, global, and diversity issues; team leadership; and organizational leadership (180 pages). Includes annotated lists of: journals and newsletters (9 pages); instruments (21 pages); exercises (41 pages); instrument and exercise vendors (5 pages); videos (29 pages); video distributors (4 pages); web sites (6 pages); organizations (21 pages); and conferences (9 pages). (Contains a 66-page index of all resources.) (TEJ)
Author: Richard Luecke
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1578518741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely guide offers advice on how to recognize the need for organizational change, communicate the vision, prepare for structural change, and address emotional responses to downsizing.
Author: Christopher Musselwhite
Publisher:
Published: 2000-03-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781931194037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA change style preference assessment tool.
Author: Gerald Ponder
Publisher: IAP
Published: 2005-11-01
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 160752676X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents cases of schools (Part One) and programs at the district level and beyond (Part Two) in which reform, while driven by high-stakes accountability, became larger and deeper through data-driven dialogue, culture change, organizational learning, and other elements of high performing cultures. Commentaries on cross-case patterns by Ann Lieberman and Michael Fullan and a chapter on "now what?" first steps provide implications for initiating deep change that results in improved student learning outcomes even in challenging activity settings.
Author: John Lawton Bennett
Publisher: Paw Print Press (NC)
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780967832302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is about doing more than coping with change. It is about developing the capacity to survive and then thrive during the turbulence of change which confront us personally, professionally, and as organizations. This is more than a how-to book although it offers 10 tools and worksheets to help individuals, teams and organizations prepare for and excel through change. -- Not just a how-to book, Leading the Edge of Change summarizes key elements of the widely used models of change styles to illustrate personal responses to change. -- It applies the Herrmann Whole Brain Model to lay a framework for teamwork, leadership and communication. -- Through the eyes and experiences of one employee, this book weaves personal experiences of the central character's growth as a leader of tremendous change into topics covering the nature of change, responses to change, building resilience, leadership, teamwork, project and action planning, and communication. -- The book is beautifully packaged with an eye-catching four-color cover. -- A great gift for members of change leadership teams as well as people in organizations targeted for change.
Author: Tavmjong Bah
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2009-10-20
Total Pages: 668
ISBN-13: 0137051719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program, Third Edition , is the guide to the Inkscape program, with coverage of versions 0.46 and 0.47. This authoritative introduction and reference features hundreds of useful illustrations.With Inkscape, you can produce a wide variety of art, from photorealistic drawings to organizational charts. Inkscape uses SVG, a powerful vector-based drawing language and W3C web standard, as its native format. SVG drawings can be viewed directly in browsers such as Firefox and Opera. A subset of SVG has been adopted by the mobile phone market. Inkscape is available free for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux operating systems. Systematic coverage of the entire Inkscape program begins with eleven tutorials ranging in difficulty from very basic to highly complex. The remainder of the book covers each facet of Inkscape in detail with an emphasis on practical solutions for common problems.The book is filled with valuable tips and warnings about the use of Inkscape and SVG. Find dozens of Inkscape illustrations from the book in the online color supplement available at http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/. Updated for Inkscape v0.47, this new edition includes complete coverage of new features, including updated Pen and Pencil tools with new spiro, polyline, and sketch modes; the new Eraser tool; and the new Snapping toolbar with improved snapping. Advanced topics include the use of Inkscape’s powerful tiling tool, built-in bitmap tracing, and SVG use on the Web. Complete Coverage of New and Improved Inkscape 0.47 Features Complete vector drawing program supporting the W3C SVG standard Three path-drawing tools (Pencil, Pen, Calligraphy) Five shape-drawing tools (Rectangles, Ellipses, Stars, Spirals, 3D Boxes) Linear and Radial Gradients Pattern fills Tweak Tool for fine adjustment of paths and colors Eraser Tool with both Vector and Bitmap modes Sophisticated snapping for precision drawing and aligning objects Extendable through scripting; over a hundred scripts included Live Path Effects for tasks such as adding patterns along a path while maintaining complete editability Over 200 pre-built SVG filters for adding textures, manipulating color, and so forth A tiling tool to create complex tilings with thirteen different symmetries Clipping and Masking objects An integrated spell checker Built-in bitmap-to-vector tracing The ability to export to more than a dozen graphics formats, including PDF and PostScript The ability to import from more than two-dozen graphics formats, including PDF, Adobe Illustrator, Coral Draw, AutoCad, and XFig
