Organizations turn to multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) to meet challenges that they cannot handle alone. By tapping the resources of diverse stakeholders, MSPs develop the capability to address complex issues and problems, such as health care delivery, poverty, human rights, watershed management, education, sustainability, and innovation. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of MSPs, why they are needed, the challenges partners face in working together and how to design them effectively. Through the process of collaboration partners combine their differing strengths, vantage points and expertise to craft innovative responses to pressing societal concerns. The book offers valuable advice for leaders about how to design and scale up effective partnerships and how to address potential obstacles that partners may face. Drawing on three comprehensive cases and countless shorter examples from around the world, the book offers both practical advice for organization embarking on an MSP as well as a theoretical understanding of how partnerships function. Using an institutional theory lens, it explains how partnerships can effect change in institutional fields by reducing turbulence and negotiating a common set of norms and routines to govern partners' future interactions within the field of concern.

Collaborating for Our Future: Multistakeholder Partnerships for Solving Complex Problems

Business & Money

Gray, Barbara

Purdy, Jill

Management & Leadership

Oxford University Press

The only book of its kind to provide an overview of sustainable street design Today, society is moving toward a more sustainable way of life, with cities everywhere aspiring to become high-quality places to live, work, and play. Streets are fundamental to this shift. They define our system of movement, create connections between places, and offer opportunities to reconnect to natural systems. There is an increasing realization that the right-of-way is a critical and under-recognized resource for transformation, with new models being tested to create a better public realm, support balanced transportation options, and provide sustainable solutions for stormwater and landscaping. Living Streets provides practical guidance on the complete street approach to sustainable and community-minded street use and design. Written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, the book brings insights and experience from urban planning, transportation planning, and civil engineering perspectives. It includes examples from many completed street design projects from around the world, an overview of the design and policy tools that have been successful, and guidance to help get past the predictable obstacles to implementation: Who makes decisions in the right-of-way? Who takes responsibility? How can regulations be changed to allow better use of the right-of-way? Living Streets informs you of the benefits of creating streets that are healthier, more pleasant parts of life: <ul>
<li>Thoughtful planning of the location, uses, and textures of the spaces in which we live encourages people to use public space more often, be more active, and possibly live healthier lives.</li> <li>A walkable community makes life easier and more pleasant for everyone, especially for vulnerable populations within the larger community whose transportation limitations reduce access to jobs, healthy food, health care, recreation, and social interaction.</li> <li>Streets present opportunities to improve the natural environment while adding to neighborhood character, offering beauty, providing shade, and improving air quality.</li> </ul>
If you're an urban planner, designer, transportation engineer, or civil engineer, Living Streets is the ultimate guide for the creation of more humane streetscapes that connect neighborhoods and inspire people.

Living Streets: Strategies for Crafting Public Space

Arts & Photography

Bain, Lesley

Rodgers, Dave

Architecture

wiley

Life's Instruction Book for Women

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Barbara Gray Proactives

Come Grow With Me (Life's Instruction Book for Women)

Relationships

Energy Management: How To Increase Your Positive Energies

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Reference

Barbara Gray's second book about energy is for anyone who wants more 
energy...to be more alive and active, healthier, inspired, and more 
transcendent mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Energy 
heals diseases, lifts depression, and ignites our creativity. The book 
was written to help people realize how we are connected to Universal 
Energy/Universal Mind Energy. Energy is the only force that pervades all 
living and non-living matter. It is the only force that enlivens us. It 
is the glue that holds everything together.\nThe book gives scientific and measurable proof of the existence of 
electromagnetic energy fields around all matter. Understanding how the 
HEF or human electro-magnetic field works gives us great insight into 
how we operate or how we can choose to operate. Secrets of 
Energy gives the scientific information healing practitioners are 
looking for to help them work with the healing energies of the body. 
It proves that energy medicine, also called vibrational medicine, 
works.\nSecrets of Energy has 12 colored pages of GDV (Kirlian 
photography) camera images that show the energy levels of people who 
lack energy, have scrambled energy, who have emotional outbursts, 
energy leaks, or energy cords. Chapter 12 in the book gives you simple 
and easy techniques to integrate into their lives to release blocked 
energy and increase energy flow. Instructions are given on how to open 
and balance your chakras, how to move blocked energy in your 
meridians, muscles, organs, and in the cells of your body. You can 
learn how to have strong, vibrating, and pulsating energy fields.

Secrets Of Energy: Achieving Health, Happiness, and Success By Increasing, Focusing, Directing and Fully Self-Empowering Your Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Energies

AMAZON'S INVASION OF THE RETAIL SHORELINE IS JUST BEGINNING... The tectonic shift in technological, societal and economic forces is giving rise to a new class of highly disruptive companies like Amazon, Uber, Airbnb and WeWork. As these companies push the edges of the consumer value frontier, traditional industry boundaries are blurring and structural fault lines are emerging for companies across a wide range of industries. In this radical business book, Barbara Gray navigates us down the raging Amazon river where we witness the unfolding of the retail apocalypse. By piecing together emerging structural disruption developments, Gray uncovers valuable and timely insights for investors as she reveals the secrets of the Amazon, including the truth about Alexa — Bezos' Amazonian Warrior and Queen. And we learn how companies can escape the coming reckoning as Amazon begins its invasion of the retail shoreline.

Secrets of the Amazon

Industries

Brady Capital Research Inc.

Care of the Elderly Mentally Infirm (Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society)

Medical Books

Isaacs, Bernard

Administration & Medicine Economics

Routledge

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