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Prisoners of Our Thoughts : Viktor Frankl's Principles at Work

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

In this introspective, straightforward text, a former colleague of Viktor Frankl offers ideas and strategies for finding personal meaning and living an authentic work life.

World-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning is one of the most important books of modern times. Frankl’s personal...

Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

ur most common way of solving problems-at home, at work, in our communities, in national and international affairs-is to use our expertise and authority to apply piece-by-piece, tried-and-true "best practices." This works for simple, familiar, uncontentious problems. But it doesn't work for the complex, unfamiliar, conflictual problems...

Branded Customer Service : The New Competitive Edge

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

By applying the concepts in this book, organizations can use customer service as a powerful tool for establishing and maintaining a distinct brand identity.

Branding is an integral part of modern business strategy. But while there are dozens of books on branding products and marketing campaigns, nobody has applied the...

Claiming Your Place at the Fire : Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

More than 10,000 people turn 50 every day in the U.S. This purposeful text presents a new paradigm of successful aging for men and women entering into and moving through the second half of their lives.

Claiming Your Place at the Fire presents a new paradigm of successful aging for men and women entering into and moving through...

Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

Positive Organizational Scholarship is a path-breaking scholarly volume exploring the dynamics in organizations that lead to extraordinary individual and organizational performance.

Just as positive psychology focuses on exploring optimal individual psychological states rather than pathological ones, Positive Organizational...

The Serving Leader: 5 Powerful Actions That Will Transform Your Team, Your Business, and Your Community (Ken Blanchard)

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

At a time of increasing concern about ethics at the top, The Serving Leader makes the case for an approach to leadership that is both more moral and more effective than the ruthless, anything-for-the-bottom-line approach that has brought disgrace—and often ruin—to many once-mighty organizations.

The Serving...

Ideas are Free: How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

The fact is, because they’re the ones doing the day-to-day work, front-line employees see a great many problems and opportunities that their managers don’t. But most organizations do very poorly at tapping into this extraordinary potential source of revenue-enhancing and savings-generated ideas.

Drawing on extensive research...

The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy (BK Currents)

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

Marjorie Kelly tells the real story behind the recent corporate scandals—the story that the mainstream media won’t touch. It’s not the story of a few bad-apple CEOs, but of an economic system designed to do what it did: to enrich a few at the expense of the many. The few are the financial elite. CEOs are part of it, but they...

The Moral Advantage : How to Succeed in Business by Doing the Right Thing

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

All too many people view business as a ruthless, dog-eat-dog world where only the pitiless survive. But here Bill Damon tells the compelling stories of real-life business leaders who have achieved great success by adhering to moral conviction. Based on interviews with 48 executives in a variety of industries, The Moral Advantage...

Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

The world is drifting without a clear plan for its economic development, Communism is dead, but many see capitalism as amoral and too easily abused. In the wake of the debacles of Enron and other corporate scandals, continued jobless growth, and a languid economy, we need a roadmap to a better future. Written by Stephen Young, the global...

Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

Leadership has traditionally resided in one person with many followers. This book presents a new model of mutual leadership, which transforms leadership from one individual's responsibility into a new way of working for everyone.

Creating Leaderful Organizations demonstrates the bottom-line benefits of this model, shows how it is already...

The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Secrets of Continuously Developing a More Profitable Business Model

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

With The Ultimate Competitive Advantage, the authors have drawn on their proprietary experiences with and knowledge of top-performing small to large companies and nonprofits to raise CEO and company standards again. They show how all organizations can continually reinvent themselves to build increasing competitive advantages while...

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