The Performance Culture gives leaders a set of practical tools for building and sustaining an environment that support high performance teamwork. How to integrate organizational culture and teamwork is a key concept throughout the book. Chapters deal with leader behaviors, team disciplinary procedures, tips on how to intervene and develop teams and much more.

The Performance Culture : Maximizing the Power of Teams

Business & Money

Howard Bronstein

Darrel Ray

Management & Leadership

ODT, Inc.

World Map - laminated and tubed (includes 4-page Explanation) Who said North was up? The world, like a ball, has no top. We can look at it from any point of view. Top is a matter of habit, convention, and emphasis. This What's Up? South! map teaches us to question our assumptions. No single map can give you the full picture of our amazing and bountiful planet. If you look at the world from only one vantage point, you risk missing so much. Our lives are enriched when we see things from a different point of view. This map is a profound reminder of that simple truth. This oversize high quality map has South on top. Remember the West Wing episode where cartographers turned the world upside down and C.J. Cregg had her mind blown; Well, this is not a Peters Map but a VanderGrinten projection and it accomplishes the same end: IT MAKES YOU THINK!! Its visually provocative and includes 7 additional world images at the bottom to further stretch your mind. Each map is laminated with a sturdy 3-mil lamination film (two-sided, edge-seal)and enclosed in a tube. It also includes a detailed 4-page Explanation. The map is also available in a smaller 24x36 inch size - paper folded version available from AMAZON at What-s-South-World-paper-folded/dp/1931057540 and a paper rolled version for framing at Whats-South-World-24x36-Rolled/dp/B00RWT1OIY ODTmaps also has other Suuth-on-top maps like the paper Hobo-Dyer map at gp/offer-listing/193105732X and a laminated Hobo-Dyer map at amazon.com/Hobo-Dyer-Mead-Museum-Version-Laminated/dp/1931057311 Also a desktop Hobo-Dyer map at Hobo-dyer-Equal-Placemat-updated-version/dp/1931057427 and a McArthur's Universal Corrective World Map laminated at amazon.com/dp/1931057265 and McArthur's Universal Corrective World Map paper folded at McArthurs-Universal-Corrective-folded-version/dp/1931057583

What's Up? South! 36x56 inch; laminated map

ODTmaps.com

Lovell Johns

World Map - paper - folded - includes 4-page Explanation  Who said "North" was "Up"? The world, like a ball, has no top. We can look at it from any point of view. Top is a matter of habit, convention, and emphasis. This "What's Up? South!" map teaches us to question our assumptions.  No single map can give you the full picture of our amazing and bountiful planet. If you look at the world from only one vantage point, you risk missing so much. Our lives are enriched when we see things from a different point of view. ***** This map is a profound reminder of that simple truth.   This oversize high quality map has South on top. Remember the West Wing episode where cartographers turned the world upside down and C.J. Cregg had her "mind blown?" Well, this is not a Peters Map but a VanderGrinten projection and it accomplishes the same end: IT MAKES YOU THINK!! Its visually provocative and includes 7 additional world images at the bottom to further stretch your mind. This paper version comes folded. It also includes a detailed 4-page Explanation. If you wish to order a laminated version Amazon.com also carries that format for $33.00

What's Up? South! 36" x 56" paper folded map

Reference

Atlases & Maps

A basic introductory handbook to the Peters Projection map. Includes: Maps and What They Represent, The Hidden Messages Maps Send, Questions People Ask, and Teaching Strategies (activities and exercises for the classroom).

A New View of the World: Handbook to the Peters Projection World Map

Kaiser, Ward L.

The Self-Esteem Passport is a thirty page self-study course in self-esteem, published by ODT, Inc. of Amherst Massachusetts. Many corporations give Passports out to employees as a tool -- assisting workers to increase their confidence and self-esteem. Other firms use them as part of management training courses to reinforce the link between the manager's self-esteem and his/her use of effective management practices. With an original passport-look, the Self-Esteem Passport leads the passport holder step-by-step through the process of creating a positive self-image. Acceptance of Faults, Sense of Humor, and the Power of Failure are three of its nineteen empowering sections. The Passport is an easy, cost effective way for any company to make a positive impact on their employees and the bottom line. The Passport is used in high schools, universities, welfare-to-work programs, and corporate training events. It serves as a great diversity training follow-up activity. Low self-esteem is direct

Self-Esteem Passport

Self-Help

Krawetz, Michael

Personal Transformation

The Hobo-Dyer Projection (HDP) takes its place among important map projections. This new HDP map belongs to the family of Cylindrical Equal Area projections in which the latitude and longitude lines form a rectangular grid. Other projections in this family include the Lambert, Gall, Behrmann, Edwards and Peters. The HDP retains qualities of the other equal area cylindrical projections, but is more visually satisfying. The map was derived by modifying the 1910 Behrmann projection. The HDP is in an 11" x 17" placemat size. Due to the unusual proportions of the new map, ODT also printed eight other map projections for comparison purposes on the border of the map. The reverse side of the HDP map shows the exact same projection, but with two somewhat startling changes: south is on top; and Australia is shown in the middle of the map. How does such a simple thing as reversing the poles or changing the "centering" influence your impression of what’s important? Include! d on this innovative map are comparison panels as thumbnails across the bottom (or top) of the map. Side A has Africa at the center and north at the top. Comparison panels on the bottom include: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World Map (new satellite composite version - 2002), The Eckert II projection, Leonardo da Vinci's mappamundi (from 1514, the first map of its kind and one of the first world maps that used the name "America"), and a Population cartogram. Side B is the exact same map with the poles reversed (South on top) and Australia-centered. The comparison panels on the top of side B include: Van Sant's GeoSphere (on a Robinson projection), Guelke's Toronto-centered projection, the Oxford Globe and Goode's Homolosine.

The Hobo-Dyer equal area projection: [world map]

Paper folded map. Laminated map available elsewhere. This map brings your visual focus onto the oceans instead of the land and feels quite different from the Africa-centered Peters Map. This map will challenge students to think about the world, and USA-centrism, in a whole new way, providing an entree into many topics of discussion. This Pacific-centered version is color-coded as a physical relief map showing mountain ranges, different types of terrain, etc. It uses a proprietary technique of Oxford Cartographers known as 3-D hill-shading. Important features of the Peters Map: The Peters Map is an equal area map; the map shows all areas - whether countries, continents or oceans - according to their actual size. Accurate comparisons become possible; on the Peters Map all North-South lines run vertical on this map. Thus, geographic points can be seen in their precise directional relationship. This is a paper folded map….and a durable laminated version is also available on AMAZON or in your local map store.

World Peters Projection Map, Pacific-centered -paper folded

Oxford Cartographers

Inc. ODT

Arno Peters

This book challenges the popular world-view by questioning a number of map images and the specific messages they communicate. Maps imply a truth, but that truth can be quite skewed depending on the viewpoint of the map creator. This book takes a hard look at truth by carefully inspecting some familiar, and not-so-familiar, map images and exploring their significance. The normally staid world of geographers is unusually excited by this dramatic new approach to the meaning of images. Seeing Through Maps, however, extends beyond cartography. The book discusses how map projections provide information about countries, cultures, the world's peoples and their history. It also explains the principles and hidden messages contained in a number of unique maps and provocative images: Peters' Equal Area Projection, Van Sant's GeoSphere Map; Fuller's Dymaxion Map; a Toronto-centered world map; Minard's map of Napoleon's march on Moscow; Petit's map of African slave trading routes; a global warming map; and some intriguing, mind-stretching maps with south on top. "This [book] will encourage a spirited discussion of perceptions, world views, and the importance of…seeing things differently," says Government Training News. Ivor Miller (African Diaspora Studies, DePaul University) says it is "a beautiful study that prepares students to think using multiple perspectives." The book is suitable for social studies, global studies, and psychology courses in universities. THIS REVISED edition includes a cartogram of 2004 USA Election Results, Hobo-Dyer Projection maps, selected Chronology of Map Development, a new chapter(8)called, "Are Maps TALK instead of Pictures" which challenges the conventional notion that maps are representations of reality. Instead, the authors assert that maps are propositions or arguments, and used as tools of persuasion or exploitation.

Seeing Through Maps: Many Ways to See the World

Denis Wood

Ward Kaiser

Bob Abramms

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