Dr. Jen Goldman-Wetzler argues that when conflict resolution doesn't work, you can free yourself from conflict instead. The Optimal Outcomes Method helps people change their mindsets and teaches them how to step back from a...
Business and economics
- Author:Goldman-Wetzler, JenniferSummary:
- Author:Glickman, RosaleneSummary:
The author explains the first nine days of a program to optimize personal and professional satisfaction. "Optimal questions" are included to optimize your personal and business success and "optimal affirmations" are also included to...
- Author:Gardner, Donald G., Pierce, Jon L., Steers, Richard M., Black, StewartSummary:
This OpenStax resource aligns to introductory courses in Organizational Behavior. The text presents the theory, concepts, and applications with particular emphasis on the impact that individuals and groups can have on organizational...
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On average, a worker in the USA will change jobs 10 times in 20 years. In order to succeed in this type of career situation, individuals need to be armed with the tools necessary to be life-long learners. To that end, this book is not...
- Author:Bartow, Tom, Rudy, Matthew, Selk, JasonSummary:
With a combined fifty years of experience building, managing, advising, and troubleshooting teams, Jason Selk and Tom Bartow now reveal the common DNA that links the highest performing teams. It takes collective mental toughness to win...
- Author:Roth, Eileen, Miles, ElizabethSummary:
What’s the favorite four-letter word of people who are less than fully organized? “Help!” So many technological, social and economic changes affect your life that you need organization just to keep up, let alone advance. Many people...
- Author:Warzel, CharlieSummary:
The future isn't about where we will work, but how. For years we have struggled to balance work and life, with most of us feeling overwhelmed and burned out because our relationship to work is broken. This "isn't just a...
- Author:Hunter, G. ShawnSummary:
We've entered a new era. Call it the age of imagination, ideation, conceptualization, creativity, innovation--take your pick. Creativity, mental flexibility, and collaboration have displaced one-dimensional intelligence and isolated...
- Author:Couper, DavidSummary:
Does your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, accent, mannerisms, quirky clothing, piercing, or outlook on life make you feel like a fish out of water in your workplace, from the moment your workday begins until you leave at the end...
- Author:Lencioni, PatrickSummary:
Teamwork is the one competitive advantage that corporations across the board have failed to leverage. To counter the five common pitfalls that undermine the ability of companies to team successfully, Lencioni outlines five simple...
- Author:Cline, Elizabeth L.Summary:
This work evaluates the costs of low priced clothing while tracing the author's own transformation to a conscientious shopper, a journey during which she visited a garment factory, learned to resole shoes, and shopped for local,...
- Author:Aronoff, KateSummary:
This damning account examines the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change and offers a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to face the existential threat of global warming head-on. It has become...
- Author:Kelly, MarjorieSummary:
As long as businesses are set up to focus exclusively on maximizing financial income for the few, our economy will be locked into endless growth and widening inequality. But now people are experimenting with new forms of ownership,...
- Author:Messing, KarenSummary:
In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with...
- Author:Mander, JerrySummary:
Author and cultural critic Jerry Mander and coeditor Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a leader of the global Indigenous peoples' movement and chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, have gathered an impressive...
- Author:Hatch, Scott, Hatch, Lisa ZimmerSummary:
Apply important legal concepts and skills you need to succeed Get educated, land a job, and start making money now! Want a new career as a paralegal but don't know where to start? Relax! Paralegal Career For Dummies is the practical,...
- Author:Scicchitano, JerrySummary:
Part Time Income Enterprise will get you focused on how you can earn that extra income you need. It will motivate you to discover your own money earning potential that will enable you to take the first step along the way to certain...
- Author:Clapp, JenniferSummary:
This comprehensive and accessible text fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood gives us a surprising look at the topic of debt -- a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the collapse of a system of interlocking debts. Atwood...
- Author:Tyson, MBA, EricSummary:
Discover a concrete financial plan to finance a college education Financing a college education is a daunting task no matter what your circumstances. Bestselling author and personal finance expert, Eric Tyson offers tried and true...