Innovative Ideas for School Business Officials
Innovative Ideas for School Business Officials

Author: David A. Ritchey

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1578860865

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School business officials are known for their innovative, meaningful contributions to the improvement of their profession and the efficiency of school entities. The ASBO International Pinnacle Awards were established to recognize outstanding practices and new ideas that result in significant contributions to school entities. Successful applications have focused on areas such as budgeting, construction, cost savings, energy conservation, resource reallocation, safety, transportation, and technology. The profiles of Pinnacle Award applications in Innovative Ideas for School Business Officials are intended to provide school business officials with specific ideas to save money or improve processes in a variety of areas related to the day-to-day operation of schools. The money and time saved by implementing these ideas can then be applied where needed most, whether for classroom instruction, additional teacher preparation, other human resources needs to guarantee all students are taught by highly qualified professionals, to balance budgets in maintenance or other areas, or to replenish a rainy day fund. As one of the applicants said, utilizing ideas here may help school business officials to do "what is best for the children."

Building the Right Team
Building the Right Team

Author: Louis J. Pepe

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-07-14

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1475854501

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Louis Pepe does not shy away from providing insight into the more challenging sides of leading a team —what he calls “the tougher side of HR”—including delivering honest and critical feedback to allow for growth and suggesting someone leave the team to be successful elsewhere. With relevant anecdotes and a fresh perspective, this book provides leaders a path to getting the best out of their team.

Pathways to Leadership
Pathways to Leadership

Author: Louis J. Pepe

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-02-12

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1475854358

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Pathways to Leadership delivers strong advice, valuable guidance, and successful strategies to equip any leader to become better at leading teams and managing organizations. The resources found in this book are geared toward new as well as seasoned leaders. Individuals looking for ways to becoming more adept at developing the skills necessary to lead, survive, and thrive within companies and organizations.

Smarter Decision-Making
Smarter Decision-Making

Author: Louis J. Pepe

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-11-08

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 1475854560

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Avoiding poor decisions in any facet of life starts by truly listening for the meaning in the messages we receive. In today’s fast paced business environment: executives, managers and supervisors alike need to master the skill of effective listening to engage in smarter decision making. Smarter Decision-Making demonstrates the power of applied listening through focus, meaning and understanding context. The second part of the book gives depth to the importance of meaning. These practical insights are invaluable to any leader intent on achieving success and growth in their career.

Problem-Solving Today
Problem-Solving Today

Author: Louis J. Pepe

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-03-13

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1475854536

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This book is meant to provide a glimpse into differing facets of organizational management that allows for continued success through refinement of skills promoting operational awareness in today’s rapidly evolving world of business.

Why Startups Fail
Why Startups Fail

Author: Tom Eisenmann

Publisher: Currency

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0593137027

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If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.