Three-Dimensional Leader
Three-Dimensional Leader

Author: Earl C. Wallace

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1606968831

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The Three-Dimensional Leader provides a scalable paradigm to rate and improve leadership, regardless of your type of organization or position you hold. It details how to achieve cohesive strategic planning, get synergy from diversity, improve your culture's core operational success dynamics, franchise values to avoid silos, and propel innovation through the five factors of out-of-the-box thinking! The Three-Dimensional Leader interviews others who model principles and provides insight to improve your focus and channel what is perceived into process steps that achieve long-term performance. Three-dimensional leaders leave legacies of success while vying with organizational vampires and swashbuckling pirates who try to commandeer and undermine the 'missions that matter most.' This book is an entertaining and revealing must-read!

Teaching Computational Thinking
Teaching Computational Thinking

Author: Maureen D. Neumann

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2021-12-21

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0262045052

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A guide for educators to incorporate computational thinking—a set of cognitive skills applied to problem solving—into a broad range of subjects. Computational thinking—a set of mental and cognitive tools applied to problem solving—is a fundamental skill that all of us (and not just computer scientists) draw on. Educators have found that computational thinking enhances learning across a range of subjects and reinforces students’ abilities in reading, writing, and arithmetic. This book offers a guide for incorporating computational thinking into middle school and high school classrooms, presenting a series of activities, projects, and tasks that employ a range of pedagogical practices and cross a variety of content areas. As students problem solve, communicate, persevere, work as a team, and learn from mistakes, they develop a concrete understanding of the abstract principles used in computer science to create code and other digital artifacts. The book guides students and teachers to integrate computer programming with visual art and geometry, generating abstract expressionist–style images; construct topological graphs that represent the relationships between characters in such literary works as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Romeo and Juliet; apply Newtonian physics to the creation of computer games; and locate, analyze, and present empirical data relevant to social and political issues. Finally, the book lists a variety of classroom resources, including the programming languages Scratch (free to all) and Codesters (free to teachers). An accompanying website contains the executable programs used in the book’s activities.

Shaping Written Knowledge
Shaping Written Knowledge

Author: Charles Bazerman

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780299116941

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The forms taken by scientific writing help to determine the very nature of science itself. In this closely reasoned study, Charles Bazerman views the changing forms of scientific writing as solutions to rhetorical problems faced by scientists arguing for their findings. Examining such works as the early Philosophical Transactions and Newton's optical writings as well as Physical Review, Bazerman views the changing forms of scientific writing as solutions to rhetorical problems faced by scientists. The rhetoric of science is, Bazerman demonstrates, an embedded part of scientific activity that interacts with other parts of scientific activity, including social structure and empirical experience. This book presents a comprehensive historical account of the rise and development of the genre, and views these forms in relation to empirical experience.

Proving the Value of Soft Skills
Proving the Value of Soft Skills

Author: Patricia Pulliam Phillips

Publisher: Association for Talent Development

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1950496643

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Showing the Value of Soft Skill Programs As organizations rise to meet the challenges of technological innovation, globalization, changing customer needs and perspectives, demographic shifts, and new work arrangements, their mastery of soft skills will likely be the defining difference between thriving and merely surviving. Yet few executives champion the expenditure of resources to develop these critical skills. Why is that and what can be done to change this thinking? For years, managers convinced executives that soft skills could not be measured and that the value of these programs should be taken on faith. Executives no longer buy that argument but demand the same financial impact and accountability from these functions as they do from all other areas of the organization. In Proving the Value of Soft Skills, measurement and evaluation experts Patti Phillips, Jack Phillips, and Rebecca Ray contend that efforts can and should be made to demonstrate the effect of soft skills. They also claim that a proven methodology exists to help practitioners articulate those effects so that stakeholders’ hearts and minds are shifted toward securing support for future efforts. This book reveals how to use the ROI Methodology to clearly show the impact and ROI of soft skills programs. The authors guide readers through an easy-to-apply process that includes: business alignment design evaluation data collection isolation of the program effects cost capture ROI calculations results communication. Use this book to align your programs with organizational strategy, justify or enhance budgets, and build productive business partnerships. Included are job aids, sample plans, and detailed case studies.

Succession
Succession

Author: Marshall Goldsmith

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2009-02-10

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1422166473

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A leader's greatest challenge can be knowing when it's time to step aside. A great deal has been written for corporate boards on the issue of succession planning. But most executives have few resources to help guide them through the process. How do you start preparing yourself--and your successor--for your inevitable leadership transition? In this concise book, leading executive coach and bestselling author Marshall Goldsmith offers candid advice on succession from the outgoing executive's perspective. From choosing and grooming a successor while sidestepping political minefields, to finally handing over responsibility, Goldsmith walks you through each step in the succession process. Done right, your successor can enter to applause while you gracefully bow out and start the next chapter of your life.