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BE THE HERO
Three Powerful Ways to Overcome Challenges in Work
and Life
Noah Blumenthal
Executive coach and corporate speaker and trainer Noah
Blumenthal shows workers and managers how abandoning our
victim stories and embracing our heroic potential can both increase
employee engagement and productivity and accelerate professional
success.
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Berrett-Koehler • Business
Hardcover • 144 pp
ISBN-13: 978-1-60509-000-9
$19.95
Uses the accessible and popular parable format to teach important life
lessons. Includes an extensive section of tools, exercises, and other
resources.
Noah Blumenthal is president of Leadership Principles, Inc., an executive
coaching and consultancy company.
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Berrett-Koehler • Business
Hardcover • 240 pp
ISBN-13: 978-1-60509-135-8
$24.95
WOMEN LEAD THE WAY
Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing
the World
Linda Tarr-Whelan
The story of how and why women's full participation in leadership
matters is still seemingly a well-kept secret.To have the future we
all want, women must play a more robust role in setting priorities and
allocating resources. "Women Lead the Way" presents argument,
research, and tactical guidance to help readers wedge the door open
and bring more women through and up.The evidence from around the
world validates the findings of the United Nations General Assembly
in 1995, which set a baseline of at least 30 per cent women at the
table as a prerequisite for genuine partnership and lasting, positive
change in the international arena.We see the same phenomena in the
business world. More women as corporate officers and members of
boards of directors results in stronger financial performance. At 30 per
cent representation, we see concrete, positive outcomes for everyone
not just women including increased shareholder value, more flexible
management approaches, a broader definition of success, and better
bottom lines. More women at the table means more progress for all of
us.This book helps readers get started on a win-win women-led
strategy to bring about the leadership balance we all need.
Linda Tarr-Whelan is a premier expert on women's leadership in this country
and internationally and a distinguished fellow of the well-known national thinktank,
DEMOS.

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LIVING IN MORE THAN ONE
WORLD
How Peter Druckers Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform
Your Life
Bruce Rosenstein, Foreword by Frances Hesselbein
Living in More Than One World synthesizes management legend Peter
Drucker's simple yet profound core teachings into a guide to personal
and professional transformation. Drawing on Drucker's work as adviser to
Fortune-500 companies, his books, and his life, Rosenstein shows readers
how as Drucker consistently advised his students and his clients to lead
more fulfilling and meaningful lives by diversifying our time and activities.
Beyond simply recommending more than one job or career, Rosenstein's
guide provides a framework for thinking about your life in a holistic way.
Readers are encouraged to embrace and cultivate their 'total life', including
work, outside interests, volunteering, social membership organizations, and
teaching and learning opportunities. Guided by the key principles and values
Drucker lived and taught. "Living in More Than One World" is the next best
thing to being mentored personally by the man universally recognized as
'the father of modern management'.
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Berett-Koehler • Personal Growth
Hardcover • 144 pp
ISBN-13: 978-1-57675-968-4
$19.95
Bruce Rosenstein has been a regular contributor as a writer reviewing
business and management books for USA Today's Money section.
THE ART OF QUANTUM
PLANNING
Lessons from Quantum Physics for Breakthrough Strategy,
Innovation, and Leadership
Gerald Harris
The first book focused on applying insights from quantum physics to
organizational strategy, planning, and leadership practice. Gerald
Harris takes seven concepts from the scientific study of tiny particles
and applies them in the larger world, showing how they can pry open
minds, spur creativity, and make the planning process far more expansive
and effective. Offers real-world examples of these ideas in action.
Includes exercises and detailed practical advice for applying these ideas
in your organization.
Gerald Harris is the President of Harris Planning and Strategy, a firm
specializing in assisting companies and non-profit organizations in doing high
quality business and strategic planning.
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Berrett-Koehler • Business
Paperback • 168 pp
ISBN-13: 978-1-60509-265-2
$18.95

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THE FOUR CONVERSATIONS
Daily Communication That Gets Results
Jeffrey Ford and Laurie Ford
Most conversations to get things done at work are of one of
four types-initiative conversations, conversations for
understanding, performance conversations, or conversations for
closure-but they are often done poorly or misused.
This book shows managers and employees how to use the right
conversation at the right time, plan and start each conversation
well, and finish each conversation effectively.
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Business/Management
Paperback • 240 pp
ISBN-13: 978-1-57675-920-2
$19.95
Jeffrey Ford (Columbus, OH) currently serves as Associate Professor of
Management in the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University in
Columbus, Ohio. Laurie Ford is an independent management consultant
and owner of Critical Path Consultants.
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CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
Living and Working Globally
David C.Thomas and Kerr Inkson
As the world grows more connected every day, the need also
grows for an updated edition of this classic guidebook to help
navigate the ever-expanding cultural mazes of a truly globalized
world.
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Berrett-Koehler • Business
Paperback • 240 pp
ISBN-13: 978-1-57675-625-6
$24.95
Cultural Intelligence teaches a universal set of techniques and
people skills that will allow you to adapt quickly to, and thrive in,
any cultural environment. This extensively revised second edition
features new real-life examples of CQ working well, drawn from a
rich range of cultures and situations.
David C.Thomas is Professor of International Management at Simon
Fraser University, Canada. Kerr Inkson is Professor of Management at the
University of Otago, New Zealand.

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WHALE DONE PARENTING
How to Make Parenting a Positive Experience for You and
Your Kids
Ken Blanchard,Thad Lacinak, Chuck Tompkins, and Jim Ballard
What does raising children have to do with training killer whales? More
than you'd think. Mega-selling author Ken Blanchard teams up again
with hisWhale Done coauthors to show how positive reinforcement techniques
used by trainers at Seaworld can help parents bring out the best in
their children.
* Offers five simple and effective principles for coping with any parenting
challenge
* Based on actual killer whale training techniques
* Story format makes this an unusual and entertaining approach for a
parenting book.
Ken Blanchard has had an extraordinary impact on the day-to-day
management of millions of people and companies. Thad Lacinak has more than
29 years of marine mammal training and management experience and is currently
Vice President and Corporate Curator for one of America's foremost
marine parks. Chuck Tompkins is Vice President of Animal Training at
SeaWorld Orlando. Jim Ballard has written a number of inspirational books,
including Mind Like Water and What's the Rush?
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Berrett-Koehler • Parenting
Paperback • 168 pp
ISBN-13: 978-1-60509-348-2
$14.95
S E C O N D E D I T I O N , R E V I S E D, U P DAT E D A N D E X PA N D E D
THE SECRET
What Great Leaders Know -- And Do
Ken Blanchard, and Mark Miller
In the now classic business fable, "The Secret", Debbie, a struggling
leader finds herself about to lose her job due to poor performance.
In a desperate attempt to save her career, she enrolls in a new
mentoring program offered by her company. Much to her surprise,
Debbie finds her mentor is the president of the company (Jeff Brown).
Debbie decides that all she needs is the answer to one question,
'What is the secret of great leaders?' Over the next 18 months Jeff
explains to Debbie that the secret is rooted in an attitude. He tells her
that she must be willing to become a serving leader rather than a selfserving
leader.The secret is that all great leaders Serve.The story
unfolds as Debbie learns and applies each of these imperatives with
her team.As a result, Debbie's team goes from worst to first.They
become the highest performing team within the company. In the end,
Debbie understood that all the changes and improvements were the
result of the choices she made as a leader. She realized that to Serve is
a choice. Debbie decided once and for all, she would no longer be a
self-serving leader, she would be a serving leader!
Ken Blanchard is founder and Chief Spiritual Officer of the Ken Blanchard
Companies. Mark Miller worked his way up from hourly worker to Vice
President of Training and Development at Chick-fil-A, a fast-food chain with over
1,400 locations.
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Business/Leadership
Hardcover • 144 pp
ISBN-13: 978-1-60509-268-3
$19.95

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Business/Current Affairs
Paperback • 240 pp
ISBN-13: 978-1-57675-445-0
$17.95
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Business/Personal Growth
Paperback • 312 pp
ISBN-13: 978-1-57675-576-1
$17.95
THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE
WISDOM
And the Trap of Collective Folly
Alan Briskin, Sheryl Erickson,Tom Callanan, and John Ott
We live in an increasingly collective world. Decisions, ideas,
strategies, and execution are more and more collaborative
efforts that require a rejection of top-down hierarchy in favor of a
more complex process involving ever-shifting leadership and
circumstances. Not only is it important to learn the rules, techniques
and processes by which this process can lead to the best, strongest
result, but to also learn how to avoid the pitfalls that can result from
collective folly.This book speaks directly to our need in groups,
organizations, and communities to find ways to cooperate amidst
complexity and daunting circumstances.Together we have the potential
for deepening our capacity for wise action. Collective wisdom entails
inhabiting a different worldview involving choice and commitment.
Stories and historical examples throughout this work serve to
illuminate and illustrate how collective wisdom is emerging in a range
of settings and through the lives and traditions of varied cultures and
thought leaders.
Alan Briskin is a consultant, speaker, and senior editor of the Collective
Wisdom Initiative. Sheryl Erickson is the founding partner of Turning Point.
Tom Callanan is a Program Officerat the Fetzer Institute. John Ott is
the founder of John G. Ott & Associates
THE COMPROMISE TRAP
How to Thrive at Work Without Selling Your Soul
Elizabeth Doty, Foreword by Art Kleiner, editor of Strategy+Business
It is hard to know when we begin our careers what the real price
of success will be.When we first start out, it seems like the key
to getting ahead is hard work and being smart.Yet at some point,
many of us find ourselves, increasingly uneasy with the
compromises and contradictions of organizational life. Over time,
the requirements of surviving at work can take precedence over a
growing number of other commitments, eclipsing not just our time,
but subtly influencing our character. Based on in-depth interviews
with 55 business people from a variety of settings, "The
Compromise Trap" describes how this gnawing doubt goes far
beyond questions of work/life balance to whether we feel we can
keep our word, keep our promises, say what we really think, or be
the kind of person we want to be and still function in our
organizations.
Elizabeth Doty is an organizational consultant, coach, and facilitator specializing
in how people participate in large organizations while being true to
themselves and contributing to a larger sense of purpose.

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DEALING WITH THE TOUGH
STUFF
Practical Wisdom for Running a Values-Driven Business
Margot Fraser and Lisa Lorimer
This is what you won't read about in business school.Through
decades of running businesses, Lisa, Margot and the case-study
interviewees included here have learned about dealing with 'the toughstuff'.The
narrators and contributors provide guidance and counsel
and relate true, sometimes shocking, stories about their companies
that exemplify the hardships other entrepreneurs will encounter.
Because the contributors are diverse leaders from various sectors and
industries the book is useful to new, existing and shifting
entrepreneurs. It follows the trajectories of successful business leaders
throughout the nation who have faced a host of problems and
survived. Here is a book that readers can look to for affirmation, hope
and tools.The authors and case-study participants supply tried-andtrue
methods for addressing these struggles. "Dealing with the Tough
Stuff" is honest help told through entrepreneurs' engaging stories of
failure and triumph.
Margot Fraser is the founder, former CEO, president and majority shareholder
of Birkenstock USA. Lisa Lorimer is the former CEO, President and majority
owner of Vermont Bread Company in Brattleboro,VT.
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Business
Paperback • 192 pp
ISBN-13: 978-1-57675-665-2
$16.95
T H I R D E D I T I O N , U P DAT E D A N D E X PA N D E D
THE COURAGEOUS FOLLOWER
Standing Up to and for Our Leaders
Ira Chaleff
The updated third edition includes a new chapter,“The Courage
to Speak to the Hierarchy.” Much of Chaleff’s model is based
on followers having access to the leader. But today, followers can
be handed questionable policies and orders that come from many
levels above them -- even from the other side of the world.
Chaleff explores how they can respond effectively, particularly using
the power now available to them through advances in
communications technology. Everyone is a followe at least some of
the time. Chaleff strips away the passive connotations of that role
and provides insights and tools to help followers effectively partner
with leaders. He also provides rich guidance to leaders and boards
on how to foster a climate in which courageous followers are
encouraged and heard. The results include increased support for
leaders, reduced dissatisfaction and cynicism, and organizations
saved from the consequences of serious missteps through
proactive, honest feedback.
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Business/Government
Paperback • 288 pp
ISBN-13: 978-1-60509-273-7
$22.95
Ira Chaleff is the founder and President of Executive Coaching & Consulting
Associates.

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Business/Conflict Resolution
Paperback • 288 pp
ISBN-13: 978-1-57675-771-0
$19.95
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GETTING TO RESOLUTION
Turning Conflict Into Collaboration
Stewart Levine, Foreword by Joel Barker
Most approaches to conflict resolution and negotiation result
in just temporary settlement, compromise, or capitulation.
This book offers new principles and new tools to show how to get
to real, lasting resolution of any kind of personal, business,
organizational, or community conflict.This thoroughly revised and
updated work focusing on how to resolve conflict in a holistic, winwin
manner incorporates the timeless wisdom of the first edition
with new learning and applications.
The seven-step process is easy to understand and apply to any
conflict.
Stewart Levine is the founder of Resolution Works. His clients have
included American Express, Chevron, General Motors, NASA, Oracle,
and many others.