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In 6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses, co-authors Stephen E. Kohn and Vincent D. O'Connell reveal the half dozen indispensable human relations practices used by the bosses everyone admires most, those for whom people love to work. With a combined 50 years experience helping companies resolve "people problems" in the workplace, management coaches and leadership trainers Kohn and O'Connell show managers at every level how to avoid the "flash points" that inevitably cause problems with staffs. Each skill is thoroughly described, and end-of-chapter summaries, exercises, and self-assessment surveys ensure you truly understand not just what each skill means, but how to effectively apply it. For a busy manager seeking effective and timely results from leadership development training, this book will become a springboard to solid professional growth and accelerated success. Book jacket.
In 6 Habits of Highly Effective Teams, management consultants Stephen E. Kohn and Vincent D. O'Connell provide a model of superior team performance that draws on the coauthors' 50 years of combined organizational development experience and research. Highly effective teams, Kohn and O'Connell insist, are characterized less by the technical competencies of individual team members, and more by widespread agreement and alignment with a small but extremely relevant set of team processes, values, and understandings.
In 6 Habits of Highly Effective Teams, management consultants Stephen E. Kohn and Vincent D. O'Connell provide a model of superior team performance that draws on the coauthors' 50 years of combined organizational development experience and research. Highly effective teams, Kohn and O'Connell insist, are characterized less by the technical competencies of individual team members, and more by widespread agreement and alignment with a small but extremely relevant set of team processes, values, and understandings.
Increasingly, organizations count on project teams to develop products and deliver services to their customers. Consequently, effective teamwork and team leadership are integral components of an organization’s success. In 9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Teams, Stephen E. Kohn and Vincent D. O’Connell define the essence of superior performance by project teams at work, and identify nine attributes of team membership and team leadership that set the stage for accomplishment of group objectives. Kohn and O’Connell bring these proven strategies to life with real-world examples drawn from decades of experience.
UPDATED IN MARCH 2013 to include the historic $104-million Bradley Birkenfeld whistleblower case and more! From the nation’s leading whistleblower attorney, comes the third edition of the first-ever consumer guide to whistleblowing. In The Whistleblower’s Handbook, Stephen Martin Kohn explains nearly all federal and state laws regarding whistleblowing. In the step-by-step bulk of the book, he also presents twenty-one rules for whistleblowers.
What do individuals admire most about bosses for whom they love to work? Research shows that it is their people skills that make the difference. Learn a proven, results-oriented "People Management Formula" that prominent management coaches use to build these people-oriented leadership skills. Then practice these skills using sensible training techniques that make the authors' model come to life in the workplace. The People Management Formula -- your recipe for leadership success!
This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, in 1918. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. They were eventually identified as the villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual menace. Around them, in the streets off Shaftesbury Avenue, there swirled a raffish group of seedy and entitled hedonists. Britain was horrified and fascinated, and so the drug problem was born amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail.
Following the theme we espouse in this book, that we can all develop skills that apply both at work and in our personal lives we would like to dedicate this book to the clients from whom we learn so much, and to our families, who inspire us every day about the value of human relationships in a meaningful life....