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During the 2008 election season, politicians from both sides of the aisle promised to rid government of lobbyists’ undue influence. For the authors of Lobbying and Policy Change, the most extensive study ever done on the topic, these promises ring hollow—not because politicians fail to keep them but because lobbies are far less influential than political rhetoric suggests. Based on a comprehensive examination of ninety-eight issues, this volume demonstrates that sixty percent of recent lobbying campaigns failed to change policy despite millions of dollars spent trying. Why? The authors find that resources explain less than five percent of the difference between successful and unsuccessfu...
People have been criticising brainstorming for years, but no one has come up with a truly different, working alternative - until now. In this authoritative and entertaining book, Jeffrey Baumgartner explains why brainstorming does not work and presents an innovative, new creative thinking process: anticonventional thinking. Along the way, he explains: - How and why anticonventional thinking works. - How we build creative ideas in our mind. - How highly creative people think differently to others. - What inhibits creative thinking - and it is not criticism! - A step-by-step process for using anticonventional thinking alone or in teams. - The secret to success in implementing creative ideas. - And much more. Anticonventional Thinking is a book that is rich in explanations, examples and cartoon illustrations.
Second Edition This textbook covers the fundamentals of setting up a coaching business. I share tools and techniques that will assist you in launching and running your thriving coaching business. I approach this topic from coaching, psychology, counseling, marketing, and corporate management perspectives. The following foundational coaching resources are covered in this handbook: Context— Background information, research findings, theory, and contextual material that will give you the background you need. Guidelines— Best practices that will streamline your coaching processes and guarantee you deliver high-quality coaching services to your clients. Planning— Critical planning and decis...
"Innovation Coaching" offers an immersive exploration into the intricate interplay of innovation and mental health while charting the journey of nurturing creativity amidst an ever-changing global landscape. This comprehensive volume combines perspectives from psychology, coaching, entrepreneurship, mental health, and corporate management to integrate a holistic understanding of the innovation ecosystem. Key Highlights: The Power of Failure: Embrace the lessons that setbacks bring. Dive into how businesses can rebound from challenges underpinned by the crucial role of mental well-being. Innovation Fundamentals: Beyond its buzzword status, what truly is innovation? Explore its multi-faceted d...
The organizations of today are longing for sustainable growth, and this book discusses the suitable strategies to attain it. This book will help the readers to better understand the environment, to plan suitable programmes to enhance creativity in the members of the organization, to go for total quality and finally to attain sustainable growth. The book discusses these concepts in three parts, creativity management, quality management, and strategic management with relevant case studies and exhibits.
We are judged by what we finish not what we start. Touchstone of any leadership is whether it can deliver on its promises. Can it execute what it plans? What use is a brilliant strategy that is not executable? Execution makes a leader a leader, a strategy a strategy. To succeed and grow phenomenally, you need to execute 10X. 10X Execution is built on 10X Mindset through a bridge of 10X Paradigm (or shall we say 10X Management) to make exponential growth happen. This book captures what the author learnt, innovated and practiced over four decades of working with Indian & Multi-National Companies that were at various stages of their growth & sizes. This would help you discover what it takes to do things that others find well nigh impossible. Be it in terms of time lines or audacity of the task undertaken. Find a path where none exists! Do whatever it takes! Make It happen! ---- For the author, it’s been an honor to ‘make 10X happen’ at Century (a Birla Group Company), Unilever, Zenith, Honeywell Europe Inc, Continuum and other organizations. He waded into unchartered waters and navigated many firsts in the companies, industries & countries.
In this edgy and romantic follow-up to her "New York Times" bestselling debut memoir, "Chanel Bonfire," Wendy Lawless chronicles her misguided twenties a darkly funny story of a girl without a roadmap for life who flees her disastrous past to find herself in the gritty heart of 1980s New York City.
This series fuses key theories and concepts with applied activities to help managers examine how they work in practice. The books are created with individuals in mind and are designed to help improve management skills. Management Extra can also be used in conjunction with management programmes of study aligned to standards. Each of the books has case studies, self assessments and activities all underpinned by knowledge and understanding of the frameworks and techniques required to improve performance. Management Extra provides managers and trainers with a handbook for action and development. This book explores the concept of spotting good ideas, linking them to the business context and making them work. In doing so you will be reaching, achieving and even exceeding your goals. Key objectives are: to use objectives and goals to help you set direction and monitor outcomes for you and your team; review the organisational context for innovation and how to make things happen; understand the characteristics of successful innovators and your role in championing opportunities for innovation
This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies—over war, slavery, race, the status of women, religion, identity, and immigration. Although Greek tragedy was often initially embraced for its melodramatic possibilities, by the twentieth century it became a vehicle not only for major developments in the history of American theater and dance but also for exploring critical tensions in American cultural and political life. Drawing on a wide range of sources—archival, video, interviews, and reviews—Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage provides the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available.