Organizations today aren’t just participating in social networking, collaborative computing, and online communities--they are depending on those communities to...

Praise for Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers

"Linda Lysakowski brings into focus the realities of enlisting volunteers to ensure success in a campaign. She clearly outlines logical steps that lead to inspiring passion in the volunteer, who is so essential to reaching a goal. I wish such a comprehensive...

In Seduced by Success, Robert J. Herbold, the former Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft, shows you how to avoid the nine traps of success-the “legacy practices” that almost felled such giants as General Motors, Kodak and Sony. Herbold, a...

"The power of positive ACTION! The authors not only share their secrets to building a highly successful practice, but also provide readers with practical, everyday action steps to fill their practice, generate more referrals, and find more clients fast by taking positive actions." -Stephen Fairley, MA, RCC President & Business...

A distillation of Michael Armstrong's knowledge and experience, How to Manage People provides practical advice to managers and team leaders who don't have an HR department to support them. 

The text covers every aspect of getting things done through people, including: leadership, motivation, team...

The Journey from Manager to Leader: A Playbook for Success approaches successful leadership from a unique angle: storytelling and sports metaphors. Author William Jones illustrates insightful new pathways to winning in the business world. This book hits a home run for managers, attacking real world scenarios with practical advice from...

Everyone knows the typical entrepreneurial success story: A couple of entrepreneurs have a great idea, work their tails off to establish the business and, before long, they're set for life. Right? Hardly. Turnaround artist Theo van Dijk knows two things: First, young businesses that have survived the start-up years will face periods of...

In most organizations, strategy and functional excellence get the most attention. But even the best of...

Early Christian Reader is a sourcebook and textbook that offers a welcoming and informed entrée into the complex world of the earliest Christian literature. The books of the New Testament (NRSV) are presented in a plausible chronological order rather than the canonical order encountered in modern New Testaments. In addition,...

Storytelling has come of age in the business world. Today, many of the most successful companies use storytelling as a leadership tool. At Nike, all senior executives are designated "corporate storytellers." 3M banned bullet points years ago and replaced them with a process of writing "strategic narratives." Procter &...