Kathleen M : 156 books
Advanced Multi-Project Management
Achieving Outstanding Speed and Results with Predictability
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Even in a well-managed multi-project environment, it is not unusual to see half of all projects completed either late, over budget or with cuts to original scope. However, the proven approach presented in Advanced Multi-Project Management has enabled large, medium, and even small organizations to consistently...
Explore Life Cycles!
25 Great Projects, Activities, Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Explore Life Cycles! takes kids on an amazing journey, where they'll learn about the changes plants and animals experience throughout their lives. Kids ages 6–9 will discover what happens inside those magical cocoons to transform a caterpillar into a butterfly. They'll explore how frogs breathe...
Natural Disasters
Investigate Earth's Most Destructive Forces with 25 Projects
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
When natural disasters happen they grab headlines around the world. People, creatures, and the environment are all impacted when nature gets out of control. Natural disasters can be upsetting to live through, but scientists today better understand their causes and how we can protect ourselves and...
Energy
25 Projects Investigate Why We Need Power & How We Get It
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Energy is a vital part of our lives. It powers our computer, lights our home, and moves our car. It also costs a lot of money and pollutes our environment. In Energy: 25 Projects Investigate Why We Need Power and How We Get It, kids ages 9–12 learn about the history and science of the world's energy...
Explore Soil!
With 25 Great Projects
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Soil! We walk on it, play in it, build with it, grow our food in it, and get antibiotics from it. But what exactly is soil? What makes it so important? Can we survive without it? In Explore Soil! With 25 Great Projects, young readers learn how vital soil is to our lives. It filters the water we drink...
Cities
Discover How They Work with 25 Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
To a child, a city is a chaotic, vibrant community whose workings can seem quite mysterious. How did people create subways? How does the water get to the very top of a skyscraper? Is there any organization to a bustling metropolis? Cities: Discover How They Work gives kids a view into the inner functioning...
by Kathleen M. Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Tumbling Basics helps teachers new to tumbling break down each skill into small, easy-to-teach steps. This book focuses on seven tumbling skills that provide the basis for any tumbling program. With Tumbling Basics, you can learn how to safely teach the essential skills needed for tumbling.
Using...
by Kathleen M. Downey
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Yeat! The colloquial greeting is distinctly Newburyport, uttered by this seaport�s citizens to acknowledge one another in passing or to seek out fellow locals in far-flung places. Individuals featured in Legendary Locals of Newburyport extend to readers a congenial �Yeat!� William Lloyd Garrison,...
Bring Lent to Life
Activities and Reflections for Your Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Don’t just give something up for Lent! Gather your family, and with Kate Basi’s fresh ideas, you will Bring Lent to Life!
Fasting is not just giving up candy, almsgiving is more than giving away your unused allowance, and prayer becomes active. Embark on the adventure of practicing the...
by Harvard Business Review, Jon R. Katzenbach, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds.
If you read nothing else on building better teams, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you assemble and steer teams that get...
Managing the Unexpected
Sustained Performance in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Improve your company's ability to avoid or manage crises
Managing the Unexpected, Third Edition is a thoroughly revised text that offers an updated look at the groundbreaking ideas explored in the first and second editions. Revised to reflect events emblematic of the unique challenges that...
by Kathleen M. Immordino
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Calls for performance measures and metrics sound good, but public sector organizations often lack the tools required to assess the organization as a whole and create true change.In order to implement an integrated cycle of assessment, planning, and improvement, government agencies at all levels need...
Designing Stress Resistant Organizations
Computational Theorizing and Crisis Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Designing Stress Resistant Organizations demonstrates, in a persuasive way, how computational organization theory can be applied to advance the field of management with its successful integration of theory and practice.
At the theoretical level, the book contains a comprehensive computational framework...
by Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Jean L. Kahwajy, L. J. Bourgeois III
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Conflict in the workplace is natural—and even necessary. Colleagues who challenge one another's thinking tend to consider a richer range of options, which ultimately leads to better business decisions. How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight reveals the tactics managers can use to ensure that...