Profiles women CEOs & presidents of companies with annual revenues of $10 million or more. Gives recognition to women s achievements in business & life. Through personal interviews & photos, these business leaders reveal how they broke through the gender barrier to achieve top executive positions. Their experiences cover a wide range of issues, including: career planning, customer service, employee communications, child day care, growing a business, & managing work & family life, & more. Their businesses are varied -- from railroads to television. Will inspire other women in their own quests for challenging & balanced lives.

On Our Own Terms: Portraits of Women Business Leaders

Karen Olsen

Liane Enkelis

Marion Lewenstein

Business & Money

Berrett-Koehler Pub.

Open Space Technology (OST) is an effective, economical, fast, and easily repeatable strategy for organizing meetings of between 5 and 1,000 participants. First developed in 1984, it has now been used around the world with all types of organizations including corporations, community groups, government agencies, schools, and churches. OST produces better meetings and helps groups achieve such organizational goals as self-managed work groups, distributed leadership, and utilizing diversity quickly and without training. In Expanding Our Now, OST creator Harrison Owen offers numerous examples to illustrate the evolution of OST and explores what it is, how it developed as a process for meeting management, and how and why it works all over the world, for groups of all sizes dealing with a vast range of issues. Owen shows how OST can move organizations to higher levels of performance, without elaborate training or professional facilitators.

Expanding Our Now: The Story of Open Space Technology

Owen, Harrison

Management & Leadership

Corporate Creativity consistently connects creative outcomes to the actions that really made a difference to them. Through detailed real-life examples from organizations around the world - including British Airways, Du Pont, Fujitsu, General Motors, Hallmark, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Japan Railways East, Kodak, Universal Studios, the United States Forest Service, and enterprises in the USSR - the authors show how improvements and breakthroughs actually happen in organizations.

Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen

Robinson, Alan G.

Stern, Sam

Biography & History

Telecommuting can have a tremendously positive impact on an individual's quality of life, productivity, and peace of mind. But all of the advantages are contingent on being a well-informed telecommuter. Author Debra Dinnocenzo offers specific strategies for successful telecommuting that will enhance effectiveness and prosperity, both personal and professional. Easy-to-implement suggestions offer ways to transfer the knowledge and take the steps necessary to change and improve relationships, processes, resources, and systems, at work and at home. Sections address working well alone, with the family, with a team, and with external partners.

101 Tips for Telecommuters: Successfully Manage Your Work, Team, Technology and Family

Debra A. Dinnocenzo

Job Hunting & Careers

This 1985 best-selling book introduced the concept of intrapreneur, defined as a person in a large corporation empowered to create new products without being constrained by standard procedures.Large corporate structures dominate in business, and the ability to compete in a global marketplace is crucial to success. Intrapreneuring shows business leaders how large organizations can develop innovative talent from within their tanks with the speed and productivity that the coming years will demand.

Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur

Pinchot, Gifford

Today's organizations put extraordinary pressure on their employees to work harder and longer. This book shows readers how to resist this pressure and actually spend less time in the office. John Drake, who successfully downshifted his own work life, examines the frantic pace of today's business environment, helps readers overcome the fear of working less, and shows them how to make the change. He uses real-life examples to provide practical strategies for freeing up personal time and for using that time to create a happier, more satisfying life.

Downshifting: How to Work Less and Enjoy Life More

JOHN D. DRAKE

Business Culture

Love 'Em or Lose 'Em

Jordan-Evans, Sharon

Kaye, Beverly L.

""Failure"" is one of the most dreaded words in the English language. The very idea of failing is enough to stop most people in their tracks. It can cause the majority to simply pack up, turn around and retreat without even trying. Yet it is through seeming failure that most of life's greatest successes are achieved. The Power of Failure is designed to provide simple yet profound ways to turn what appear to be failures into successes. It contains practical prescriptions for successfully meeting some of life's most common setbacks. The lessons of this book can help us all find the opportunities that are just waiting to be discovered in the challenges we face every day. This book is about failure, but failure in a whole new light. It is about how to Fail To Succeed.

The Power of Failure: 27 Ways to Turn Life's Setbacks Into Success

Manz, Charles C.

Authors Rob Lebow and Randy Spitzer show how to transform a business by replacing the control and manipulation that typically characterize the workplace with personal accountability. The book helps readers determine the level of accountability that exists in a company, discusses the ""Seven S's of Accountability, "" and introduces the ""member citizen"" concept and the metaphor of the Wise Counsel -- a coach, mentor, and leader who functions as a resource, not a controller.

Accountability: Freedom and Responsibility without Control

LeBow, Rob

Spitzer, Randy

Change is happening all the time, both planned and unplanned. It's how people respond to change that determines their personal success and, ultimately, the success of their entire organization. Change Is Everybody's Business provides insights and action ideas for people in all workplace roles so they can be conscious and influential participants in change.
The author points out that executives can formulate strategy but it's the everyday actions of lower-level employees that make change happen. She demonstrates how everyone in an organization has the ability to make positive changes, beginning by acknowledging the power they already have. Written in a conversational and supportive style, the book outlines the beliefs, skills, and actions that will enable anyone to welcome and take advantage of change rather than fear and resist it.

Change Is Everybody's Business: Claim Your Change Power

McLagan, Patricia

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