English | 2022 | ISBN: 1684427894 | 122 Pages | PDF Evaluation is vital and beneficial to any nonprofit organization. An effective evaluation can help identify an organization's successes, share information with key audiences, and improve services. It can confirm that an organization is truly making a difference, or what changes an organization needs to make in order to improve. This book describes what types of information to collect and what questions this information can answer, details the four phases of evaluation and the steps involved in each phase, and provides information on various types of research consultants and advice on selecting one. If you are an organization manager, decision maker, policymaker, funder, researcher, or student studying applied social service research, this guide is an essential resource for your knowledge of effective organizational management.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1684427894 | 122 Pages | EPUB | Evaluation is vital and beneficial to any nonprofit organization. An effective evaluation can help identify an organization's successes, share information with key audiences, and improve services. It can confirm that an organization is truly making a difference, or what changes an organization needs to make in order to improve. This book describes what types of information to collect and what questions this information can answer, details the four phases of evaluation and the steps involved in each phase, and provides information on various types of research consultants and advice on selecting one. If you are an organization manager, decision maker, policymaker, funder, researcher, or student studying applied social service research, this guide is an essential resource for your knowledge of effective organizational management.

2006 | English | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0750663693 | PDF | The Trainer's Workshop Series is designed to be a practical, hands-on roadmap to help you quickly develop training in key business areas. Each book in the series offers all the exercises, handouts, assessments, structured experiences and ready-to-use presentations needed to develop effective training sessions. In addition to easy-to-use icons, each book in the series includes a companion CD-ROM with PowerPointT presentations and electronic copies of all supporting material featured in the book.Leadership Training offers both background knowledge and the practical help you need to create strong leadership training at all levels within the organization. Presenting the most up-to-date training methodologies such as accelerated learning, this guide also provides methods for assessing leadership strengths and weaknesses. Contains exercises, handouts, assessments and tools to help you:.develop strong leaders at all organisational levels.encourage growth of key leadership competencies.become a more effective and efficient facilitator.ensure training is on target and gets results

English | 2026 | ISBN-10: 3032261791 | 295 pages| Epub PDF This book explores how leaders can master the paradox between autonomy and alignment to foster sustainable innovation. It introduces the InnoLEAD model, emphasizing the relational dynamics between leaders and teams as they navigate strategic, structural, and cultural challenges. Combining theory with practice, the text offers actionable tools, reflection exercises, and real-world case studies to strengthen existing capabilities while creating space for creativity and organizational learning. Updated with the latest research and examples, this pragmatic work is an essential resource for innovation managers, leadership professionals, and students seeking to understand and implement innovation-oriented leadership in rapidly changing environments.

English | 2026 | ISBN-10: 3032109051 | 193 pages| Epub PDF This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to industrial economics, designed to help readers understand how markets and firms operate in theory and practice. Beginning with the benchmark model of perfect competition, the book explains why economists use this idealized structure to assess efficiency and consumer welfare. The book examines real-world market structures—monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition—where firms exercise strategic power over prices and output. Chapters explore how companies compete, cooperate, and innovate, drawing on case-based examples to illustrate the dynamics of market behavior. The text also addresses regulation and competition policy, tracing the origins of antitrust legislation and presenting tools for measuring market power. These chapters equip readers to evaluate policy interventions and their implications for business strategy and consumer outcomes.

Deutsch | 2026 | ISBN: 3658515848 | 68 Pages | PDF Dieses Buch stellt die moderne Managementmethode des Creative Leadership vor. Sie überträgt künstlerisches Denken auf moderne Führung und dient als Anregung, um durch mehr Kreativität innovieren zu können. Denn immer weniger Unternehmen in Deutschland innovieren. Kreativität ist aber die Voraussetzung für Innovation und unabdingbar, um wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben und wachsen zu können. Die Transformation benötigt neue Umgangsweisen mit Teams. Die Creative Leadership-Methode zeigt, wie Führungskräfte mit kreativem Potenzial mutiger entscheiden, Teams inspirieren und Innovationen vorantreiben. Praxisnahe Beispiele, klare Prinzipien und inspirierende Impulse machen deutlich: Wer wie ein Künstler denkt, gestaltet die Zukunft kreativer und innovativer.

English | June 16th, 2026 | ISBN: 196993526X | 172 pages | True EPUB | 2.61 MB Bridge the gap between ancient ethics and modern leadership and learn how self-awareness is the ultimate competitive advantage in business. What if the secret to a smoother, more ethical business didn't start with a strategy session, but with self-awareness? In Yamas and Niyamas, a seasoned corporate strategist and yoga teacher, Kimberly Kayler, reveals how ancient yogic principles can solve the most pressing challenges of the modern professional. Whether you're a burned-out C-suite executive managing a global brand, a startup founder dreaming your way from the ground up, or someone looking to align your work with greater clarity and purpose, this book is your roadmap. Join Kayler as she shows you how to bridge the gap between the work you do and the yoga mat, translating the Yamas (restrains) and the Niyamas (observances) into a practical toolkit. In this guide, you will discover how to • Approach communication with honesty and care • Build trust with transparency and ethical decision-making • Let go of the excess, inefficiency, and unnecessary complexities • Develop self-discipline and focus without burnout • Create awareness that strengthens the culture in the work you do With personal stories, practical examples, and guided reflection prompts, this book is designed for both solo leaders and entire teams to ground your organization's success. Wherever you're at—leading a company, building something new, or wanting to work with greater clarity—Yamas and Niyamas offers you a path forward. Start your journey ethically, purposefully, and with heart.

English | 2026 | ISBN: 160649631X | 266 Pages | In Fear in Organizations, David D. Van Fleet examines fear not simply as an individual emotion, but as a systemic organizational force that shapes behavior, leadership, and outcomes. Drawing on decades of research, teaching, and real-world experience, he explores how fear develops, how it escalates under conditions of control, uncertainty, and high-stakes objectives, and how it silently erodes workplace effectiveness.

English | June 13th, 2026 | ISBN: 1977287522 | 148 pages | PDF If You're Invisible, You're Replaceable: How to Stop Being Treated Like a Commodity and Become the Obvious Choice In a marketplace defined by noise and comparison, competence alone no longer guarantees relevance. When products and services appear interchangeable, price becomes the only differentiator - and that is a race few can win. In You Are STILL The Brand, Stupid!, Tracy E. Myers reveals why sustainable advantage begins with personal brand. In an era of shrinking attention spans, algorithm shifts, and increasing skepticism, visibility and trust are no longer marketing luxuries - they are business necessities. Drawing on decades as a fourth-generation entrepreneur operating in one of America's most scrutinized industries, Myers shares practical principles forged through economic downturns, regulatory change, and digital transformation. This is not branding theory; it is applied strategy from someone who has consistently tied reputation to results. Inside, you will learn • Why personal brand drives modern market leadership • How strategic visibility builds durable trust • Why disciplined consistency outperforms sporadic brilliance • How credibility compounds over time • What most businesses misunderstand about social media and AI • How to move from price-based competition to value-based preference Markets reward the visible. Customers choose the trusted. If you want to lead in your category rather than compete within it, this book provides the blueprint.

English | ASIN: B0GGJ6ZJ5S | 2026 | 8 hours and 23 minutes Discover the simple principles that took a team from mediocrity to Olympic gold, and which you can use every day in work, life and play. How do you go from ordinary to exceptional? This bestselling coaching classic will show you how. Ben Hunt-Davis shares the inspiring story of how he and the British men’s rowing Eight went from never winning an international race to becoming the best in the world just two years later. Performance Coach Harriet Beveridge then highlights the wealth of transferable strategies we can use to pursue our own ‘gold medals’ for ourselves, our workplaces and beyond. Ben’s firsthand account transports readers into the boat with him: the intensity of training, the emotional rollercoaster of setbacks, the thrill of success. Harriet distils the lessons from each gripping story into easy-to-implement strategies to apply to your everyday: from how to keep yourself motivated day-in-day out to how to bounce back from failure; from how to build resilient teams to cultivating a learning mindset. This 15th anniversary edition of Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? Includes new examples of people from all walks of life applying these Olympic-winning strategies to their contexts to make their own boats go faster. Whether you’re a business leader wanting better results, an individual with a dream, or a coach guiding your team to unlocking their potential, this book is jammed-pack with tried and tested methods to help you achieve your own gold medals. The book is a winning mix of gripping narrative and practical performance-raising tips.

English | June 16th, 2026 | ISBN: 1722528710 | 276 pages |PDF We've all felt trapped in a place where options seem endless, yet none lead forward. In his 1974 classic, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, author Robert M. Persig describes a condition he calls "stuckness" – that place where things break down and we are at our wits' end to find solutions. Persig encourages us to get unstuck: moving from the familiar to the unfamiliar through an "inquiry of values" that leads us to think about and resolve the problems we are facing. In a world filled with choices but lacking direction, getting unstuck can feel impossible. Now help has arrived. For decades, Sandy Gallagher, co-founder of Proctor Gallagher Institute has helped millions achieve more successful professional and personal lives. While the principles Gallagher teaches are timeless, the moment has come to apply them to a world of stuckness. In How I Magically Unstuck My Life In Thirty Crazy Days with Bob Proctor The Trilogy, Gallagher blends wisdom from her mentor, the late Bob Proctor, with a compelling fictional story that reveals twelve transformative life lessons. Through the journey of Chloe, a young journalist at a personal and professional impasse, Gallagher shows readers how to break free from limitations and unleash their true potential. Set against the lush backdrop of Kentucky's horse country, this inspiring parable is a guide for anyone looking for an inspirational voice to help them out of stuckness. It is both a call to action and a testament to the power of courage, resilience, and the unstoppable spirit within us all.

English | August 4, 2015 | ISBN-10: 1451697392 | 576 pages | The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The status quo is no longer an option. In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It’s an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies. She exposes the ideological desperation of the climate-change deniers, the messianic delusions of the would-be geoengineers, and the tragic defeatism of too many mainstream green initiatives. And she demonstrates precisely why the market has not—and cannot—fix the climate crisis but will instead make things worse, with ever more extreme and ecologically damaging extraction methods, accompanied by rampant disaster capitalism. Klein argues that the changes to our relationship with nature and one another that are required to respond to the climate crisis humanely should not be viewed as grim penance, but rather as a kind of gift—a catalyst to transform broken economic and cultural priorities and to heal long-festering historical wounds. And she documents the inspiring movements that have already begun this process: communities that are not just refusing to be sites of further fossil fuel extraction but are building the next, regeneration-based economies right now. Can we pull off these changes in time? Nothing is certain. Nothing except that climate change changes everything. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. Bookmark my blog to get more stuff every day!

English | ASIN: B0GYYLZM7F | 2026 | 9 hours and 33 minutes | Why do you need a brain instruction manual? You know what good leadership looks like. You've learned the models, tools, and techniques. And yet, under pressure, everything slips: conversations derail, tension builds, people resist. You fall back into old patterns, even when you know better. Why? Because most leadership advice focuses on behaviour, without explaining what's actually driving it. This book gives you that missing piece. First, you'll understand how the brain works, cutting through the myths. Then, how to use it to solve real leadership challenges. It translates modern neuroscience into clear, practical insight you can use immediately. Instead of remembering techniques, you understand what's happening and know how to respond. Through real stories, brain-based insights, and pressure-tested tools, you'll understand what's driving behaviour. Then use it. That's the advantage nobody told you about.

English | ASIN: B0GYYLZM7F | 2026 | 9 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 521 MB Why do you need a brain instruction manual? You know what good leadership looks like. You've learned the models, tools, and techniques. And yet, under pressure, everything slips: conversations derail, tension builds, people resist. You fall back into old patterns, even when you know better. Why? Because most leadership advice focuses on behaviour, without explaining what's actually driving it. This book gives you that missing piece. First, you'll understand how the brain works, cutting through the myths. Then, how to use it to solve real leadership challenges. It translates modern neuroscience into clear, practical insight you can use immediately. Instead of remembering techniques, you understand what's happening and know how to respond. Through real stories, brain-based insights, and pressure-tested tools, you'll understand what's driving behaviour. Then use it. That's the advantage nobody told you about.

English | 2007 | pages: 426 | ISBN: 0787983055 | PDF | 14,8 mb This book includes contributions from top scholars who outline the best leadership practices for the benefit of the practicing leader. Each chapter focuses on a specific area of leadership practice and ends with a set of "take away" best practices in each area―an executive summary in reverse―that will serve as a quick reference for those who might want to peruse chapters, but still extract the best practices, as well as a summary for those who thoroughly read each chapter. "Jay Alden Conger and Ronald Riggio have brought together a galaxy of sophisticated yet practical experts on leadership, stressing both the complexity and indispensability of both transactional and transforming leadership, with the blessing of the pioneering student of leadership, Bernie Bass." ―James MacGregor Burns, professor emeritus, Willams College, and Pulitzer Prize winner

English | 2026 | ISBN: 9781036008239 | 146 pages | PDF Rooted in thirty years of classroom experience this book is packed with proven time saving practical pedagogical tips and techniques designed to make lessons tick. It's a treasury of authentic, carefully curated, easy to implement ideas which lead to smooth, running classroom experiences for you and your students. The book aims to reconnect macro research with micro classroom interactions. There are impactful takeaways that you can trial yourself using chapter-based templates which encourage you to quickly make a positive difference in your setting. There are suggestions here to help you pare back your practise, and you might even find you are doing less - give them a try!

English | 2026 | ISBN: 1966280238 | 310 pages | PDF EPUB | In the Age of AI, the constraint has shifted from producing outputs to delivering outcomes. As AI automates knowledge work at unprecedented scale, most organizations remain trapped measuring the wrong things—lines of code, features delivered, and other outputs that AI can now produce almost for free. The real constraint has shifted to organizational structure and the ability to turn strategy into measurable business outcomes. In Output to Outcome, Dr. Mik Kersten—bestselling author of Project to Product and CTO of Planview—reveals why AI productivity gains are failing to materialize for most companies and provides a comprehensive operating model to unlock AI's transformative potential. Drawing on data from over 8,000 value streams, Kersten shows that success in the Age of AI depends entirely on how effectively organizations can connect inputs to outcomes through continuous feedback loops. The book introduces the Product Operating Model built around the Outcome Loop that connects strategy to results, the Outcome Tree that scales this approach across organizations, and seven critical shifts including moving from functional silos to flow-optimized value streams, from vanity metrics to meaningful measurement, and from chaotic structures to unified planning cadences. With detailed implementation guidance including Flow Metrics, Outcome Roadmaps, and practical tools for restructuring organizations into modular value streams with clear ownership, Output to Outcome provides both the strategic framework and tactical playbook executives and technology leaders need to transform their organizations from output factories into outcome engines—before their competitors do.

English | 2026 | ISBN: 1394383185 | 291 pages | PDF,EPUB | The pioneering leader in corporate team building reveals the science and strategy behind why play drives real business results Surrounded by Slack channels, Zoom calls, shared docs, and project dashboards, your team is more connected than ever. Yet, something is still clearly broken. Engagement keeps sinking. Turnover keeps climbing. People show up, log in, and quietly check out. The problem, it turns out, isn't technology or policy. It's disconnection. And the fix is older than civilization itself. Beyond Trust Falls is the first comprehensive guide to building real team connection through strategic, intentional play. Within these pages, David Goldstein―founder and CEO of TeamBonding―draws on 35+ years of designing transformative experiences for companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft to deliver a field-tested playbook that goes far beyond trust falls and forced fun. Backed by neuroscience and built from thousands of real-world events reaching nearly 100,000 participants annually, his approach shows exactly how play triggers the brain chemistry that unlocks creativity, deepens trust, and drives measurable performance gains. Inside, you'll discover A proven framework for designing team experiences that engage even the most skeptical participants Field-tested activities for in-person, remote, and hybrid teams of every size Hard metrics and compelling data that prove connection drives retention, productivity, and bottom-line results Daily practices that keep the team building spirit alive long after the offsite ends How purpose-driven charity activities create meaning that strengthens internal bonds Featuring insights from Hall of Fame facilitators, leadership coaches, and seasoned team building professionals, Beyond Trust Falls is equal parts science, story, and strategy.

English | 2026 | ISBN: 1394412282 | 387 pages | PDF | Master the big picture of economics with clear explanations Macroeconomics For Dummies, 2nd U.S. Edition brings the world of economic theory down to earth with accessible explanations that anyone can follow. This comprehensive guide tackles the intimidating subject of macroeconomics – the study of entire economies – and breaks it down into digestible, practical lessons that show how economic forces shape your daily life. This guide delivers real-world insights into inflation, unemployment, economic growth, and monetary policy. It also covers topics such as pandemic economics, international trade impacts, labor force dynamics (including immigration), and the macroeconomic implications of artificial intelligence. You’ll find Information on pandemic economics that explains how global health crises reshape entire economic systems Comprehensive coverage of international trade and its effects on national economies In-depth analysis of long-run labor force trends A discussion on artificial intelligence and its macroeconomic implications Easy-to-follow explorations of the sustainability of national debt and how federal deficit management works If you’re a business or finance student taking a required macroeconomics course, a professional trying to understand economic trends that affect your industry, or just curious about the forces that drive prosperity and recession, this easy-to-read guide transforms intimidating economic theory into hands-on knowledge that’s fun to learn and that you can actually use.

English | 2026 | ISBN: 1517919010 | 289 pages | True PDF,EPUB | A detailed look at the financial interests impacting the energy transition The twenty-first century has seen major transformations in the US electricity sector―but while the use of coal power wanes and the need for renewable energy becomes more urgent, financial actors maintain a complicating influence on the trajectory of energy transition. Brokers of Power identifies changing patterns of investment intertwined with the shift from state-regulated electricity monopolies to a market-driven price model and the embrace of wind and solar hookups to the grid. Drawing from case studies such as catastrophic Winter Storm Uri that hit Texas in 2021 and in-depth interviews with people working in the electricity and financial sectors, Conor Harrison reveals how the various entanglements of private equity, investment banking, and financial modeling are shaping the future and raising the costs of this vital infrastructure. Today’s financial firms, he shows, are engaged in the electricity industry beyond matters of investment: they own electricity generation infrastructure, trade electricity on markets, capture federal renewable energy tax credits, and advise on electricity firm operating strategy. Looking beyond technology and policy, Harrison interrogates what it means to have powerful financial institutions as the primary agents of change in the fraught and ongoing energy transition. A timely and invaluable contribution to the fields of geography, environmental studies, and the energy social sciences, Brokers of Power is a cautionary account delving into the complexities surrounding the push for decarbonization. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

English | 2026 | ISBN: 1394461267 | 454 pages | PDF | Master the next evolution of agricultural intelligence with this definitive guide to federated learning, providing decentralized, privacy-preserving strategies needed to optimize global supply chains without compromising data sovereignty. As global agriculture faces challenges such as climate variability, resource inefficiency, and data privacy concerns, traditional centralized AI systems struggle to operate at scale. Federated learning addresses these limitations by enabling decentralized, privacy-preserving model training across distributed datasets, supporting secure and collaborative optimization. This book explores how federated learning enhances precision farming, logistics optimization, and sustainable resource management through real-time, data-driven decision-making while respecting local variations and regulatory constraints. It bridges the gap between advanced AI technologies and practical agricultural supply chain management, covering foundational concepts, system architectures, and real-world implementations. Through case studies and applied insights, the book demonstrates how federated learning can improve productivity, reduce waste, and strengthen sustainability while maintaining data sovereignty. It offers a balanced perspective on both technical and managerial aspects, making it accessible to a wide audience while retaining depth for academic and industry professionals.

English | 2026 | ASIN: B0H1XVGZN7 | 454 pages | PDF | A silent revolution is underway in India today. Starting in 2020, twelve states have rolled out unconditional cash transfers to nearly 118 million women. While the media disparages these transfers as 'freebies', Wages for Housework: India's Experiment with Unconditional Cash Transfers to Women offers the first book-length study of these transfers, using social reproduction feminism, particularly the wages for housework campaign, to theorize unconditional cash transfers as providing economic recognition of women's unpaid domestic and care work. Against the backdrop of a low female labour force participation rate, a residual welfare regime, and an entrenched culture of gendered familialism wherein women are presumed responsible for care, the book addresses arguments for and against unconditional cash transfers in feminist economics and welfare theory. In doing so, it recollects the vision of the founding mothers of the Indian Constitution who advocated for the recognition of women's unpaid work. It traces how Indian courts have, since Independence, treated women's unpaid domestic and care work as being on par with an occupation to hold that the economic recognition of unpaid work is a step towards the constitutional vision of equality and dignity. Through an in-depth study of unconditional cash transfers in three states, namely, Goa, Assam, and West Bengal (implemented in 2013, 2020, and 2021, respectively), Kotiswaran elaborates on state-specific welfare regimes and analyses the implementation of cash transfers through interviews with bureaucrats, academics, feminist activists, and women beneficiaries to understand if and how they have resulted in women's empowerment, whether in terms of education, paid employment, or the gendered division of labour. In conclusion, the work posits that unconditional cash transfers represent an unprecedented and welcome expansion of the Indian welfare regime and to be truly gender transformative, they need to be embedded in a broader feminist agenda for care.This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read on Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

MEP Designer 29 is a modern BIM solution from Graphisoft, aimed at MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing) engineers. Modeling of utility routes. Ducts, pipes, cable trays, and other MEP elements are supported. You can place terminals, fittings, equipment, and accessories, and configure connections. Automatic documentation and specifications. Generate plans, sections, legends, specifications, and lists for MEP elements. This data is updated dynamically when changes occur. Symbolic representations, labels, and dimensions can be customized to meet standards. System calculations and optimization. Built-in tools enable duct calculations (based on air velocity) and hydraulic calculations for pipelines. A route sizing optimizer automatically selects element sizes based on design criteria. Collision checking and model verification. Built-in collision checking between engineering systems and architectural structures helps identify potential conflicts early. Support for the BCF format allows for the exchange of comments and issues between project participants. Extensive library and object customization. Parametric libraries of MEP components, the ability to create your own objects or extend existing ones. Import/export via IFC (including IFC 4.3) is supported for exchange with other programs in the AEC ecosystem. Advantages Accelerated implementation of BIM processes in engineering systems Simplified coordination between architecture and engineering High automation of documentation and calculations Reducing errors through collision checking Flexibility and scalability to suit different standards and local requirements

English | July 24, 2026 | ISBN-10: 9819572258 | 718 pages| PDF This textbook is second edition of the highly used earlier text containing the same topics, divided similarly into four parts, but with major revisions and using STATA 18 and R (previous version used STATA 15.1).Part I is a discussion on introductory econometric methods covering the syllabus of econometrics at the graduate level courses. This part of the book provides an introduction to basic econometric methods for data analysis that economists and other social scientists use to estimate the economic and social relationships, and to test hypotheses about them, using real-world data. There are five chapters in this section covering the data management issues, details of linear regression models, the related problems due to violation of the classical assumptions, regression diagnostics and regression analysis with qualitative regressors.