"Show me a strong leader and I'll show you an effective communicator. In complex organizations the art of communications is of paramount importance for the individual in the organization and the organization's overall success. There never seems to be enough of the right kind of communication. This book offers a great deal to the person willing to listen, which is indeed one of the most important attributes of a good communicator."
"Homespun Remedies" provides creative, practical strategies for helping children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) to function effectively at home and in the community. Dion E. Betts and Nancy J. Patrick offer sensible and specific approaches to tackling day-to-day problems faced by parents and carers, such as bathing, feeding, haircuts, and shopping. The book is split into four parts, covering home life, community, hygiene, and schools and organizations, and common problem areas are listed alphabetically and supplemented with "homespun" tips and advice.
When a dream becomes a vision and that vision provides guiding principles and actions for health professionals to improve health and well-being of children, a substantial contribution to the discipline occurs. This book, written by national experts in their respective areas, and the culmination of years of careful deliberation and dialogue between leaders in professional organizations in nursing, is an excellent resource for pediatric nurses in practice, as well as those in educational programs.
This book is the story of how four busy executives, from different backgrounds and different perspectives, were surprised to find themselves converging on the idea of narrative as an extraordinarily valuable lens for understanding and managing organizations in the twenty-first century. The idea that narrative and storytelling could be so powerful a tool in the world of organizations was initially counter-intuitive. But in their own words, John Seely Brown, Steve Denning, Katalina Groh, and Larry Prusak describe how they came to see the power of narrative and storytelling in their own experience working on knowledge management, change management, and innovation strategies in organizations such as Xerox, the World Bank, and IBM.
This book is an original contribution to the increasing body of knowledge about gender and organizations. It investigates and theorizes gender and culture, and gender relations and gender-based inequality in organizations: how sexual and social relations between women and men, relations based on sexuality, and relations of power and control based on sex, determine the cultures, structures and practices of organizations and the experience of women and men in organizations.
