Change - the rule rather than the exception in organizational survival and success. But what is the inside story? How have companies like AT&T, Corning, Lever, Weyerhauser, and Xerox successfully managed to transform the way they operate? How have CEOs and managers created change-adaptive organizations that deliver sustainable competitive advantage? In Discontinuous Change, authors David A. Nadler, Robert B. Shaw, A. Elise Walton, and their colleagues share their insights into the dynamics of organizational transformation and offer a diagnostic framework for leading organizations through...
Change - the rule rather than the exception in organizational survival and success. But what is the inside story? How have companies like AT&T, Cornin...
A Publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities
Top practitioners and scholars detail a range of philosophies, frameworks, program designs, instructional strategies, and assessment methods being used to strengthen and transform the curriculum. They examine both the current state of knowledge and teaching in the disciplines and the forces that will reshape the curriculum in the coming years.
A Publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities
Top practitioners and scholars detail a range of philosophies, fra...
This book presents the findings of a five-year, federally funded study that examined the connection between school restructuring and student achievement. Using a wealth of examples, the authors provide a vivid picture of the conditions under which innovations in a school's organization contribute to achievement. They recommend standards for reaching student intellectual quality and offer evidence of how these standards work.
This book presents the findings of a five-year, federally funded study that examined the connection between school restructuring and student achieveme...
An intimate look at how twelve mediators achieve extraordinary results.
At last, Deborah Kolb's collection of interview-based profiles of mediators at work is available in paperback. Written in the style of the New Yorker, the book consists of twelve personal and compelling stories of successful mediators for all areas of our society. Kolb reveals who they are and what techniques they use to achieve results.
-The best examination of what mediators actually do. Anyone who wants to settle a dispute will learn from these profiles.- --Roger Fisher, coauthor,...
An intimate look at how twelve mediators achieve extraordinary results.
At last, Deborah Kolb's collection of interview-based profiles of me...
One of few books to address the management issues of team-based companies, this work shows how to build an organizational infrastructure conducive to superior team performance. The work dispenses with the usual one-model-fits-all approach to identify six distinct types of teams?production, service, management, project, action, and advisory?and explain in detail how to design, implement, and manage the unique systems, policies, and practices that support each. The contributors?all leading consultants and researchers?draw from...
A Guide For Managers Of Team-Based Organizations
One of few books to address the management issues of team-based companies, this work sho...
-The single most important contribution to our field's knowledge base in the past two decades. The authors have managed to shift the focus of adult education back to the social concerns that were taken for granted when the field was founded. We are ready for this long overdue book. Indeed, we have been yearning for this book. It will tilt our field back towards its moral center.- --B. Allan Quigley, chair, Department of Adult Education, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia
-Power in Practice is a wonderful book--full of case studies, updated theories, new perspectives,...
-The single most important contribution to our field's knowledge base in the past two decades. The authors have managed to shift the focus of adult ed...
This important book explores the various ways that higher education contributes to the realization of significant public ends and examines how leaders can promote and enhance their contribution to the social charter through new policies and best practices. It also shows how other sectors of society, government agencies, foundations, and individuals can partner with institutions of higher education to promote the public good. Higher Education for the Public Good includes contributions from leaders in the field--many of whom participated in dialogues hosted by the National Forum on...
This important book explores the various ways that higher education contributes to the realization of significant public ends and examines how leaders...
Involving Colleges details the extracurricular environments of fourteen diverse involving colleges and universities and shows how and where successful conditions and characteristics can be adapted to institutions to complement the institution's unique educational purpose and mission.
Involving Colleges details the extracurricular environments of fourteen diverse involving colleges and universities and shows how and where successful...
Based on over ten years consulting with such organizations as AT&T, Citicorp, Corning, American Express and PepsiCo, the authors reveal techniques for dealing with the range of strategic issues facing organizations.
Based on over ten years consulting with such organizations as AT&T, Citicorp, Corning, American Express and PepsiCo, the authors reveal techniques for...
