Berrett Koehler Publishers: 672 books
Answering Your Call
A Guide for Living Your Deepest Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2003
So many people today feel "called" to find more in their lives beyond the usual definitions of success, to live lives of purpose and meaning. Answering Your Call is aimed at people who know they are on the planet for a reason and want more than encouragement-they want to get precise about...
by Thom Hartmann
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Hartmann is perhaps best known for his fierce commitment to Jeffersonian democracy and his steadfast opposition to the corporatization of America. But in these pages you’ll also discover his Older and Younger Cultures hypothesis, which identifies the root cause of so many of our social and environmental...
Building the Future
Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
**Building the Future
Machiavelli famously wrote, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”
That's what this book is about—innovation far more...
Learning from Leonardo
Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, inventor, writer, and even musician—the archetypal Renaissance man. But he was also, Fritjof Capra argues, a profoundly modern man. Not only did Leonardo invent the empirical scientific method over a century...
Ideaship
How to Get Ideas Flowing in Your Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Innovative, original ideas are a company's most powerful competitive advantage. Nathan Mhyrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, has said that a great employee is worth 1,000 times more than an average one simply because of his or her ideas. In Ideaship, the sequel to his bestselling...
The Seven Paths
Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Discover the Healing Power of the Wilderness People have moved away from Mother Earth, bringing heartache, pain, and other maladies of the modern age. The “self-help” movement claims to offer peace and fulfillment to individuals, but this solitary approach takes us only so far. Ultimately, it...
Extraordinary PR, Ordinary Budget
A Strategy Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
**Low Cost, High Impact!
Public relations is a make-or-break factor for all organizations, especially those that are small or mission driven. While it can be tempting to think that PR is a luxury only larger organizations can afford, PR expert Jennifer R. Farmer shows how her CCRR framework—being...
Stop Guessing
The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
**Become the greatest problem solver you can be!
Bad problem solving costs individuals and society incalculable amounts of time, money, and sanity. In this book Nat Greene—who's been solving hard problems professionally for over twenty years—shares nine behaviors anyone can adopt to find...
Know Can Do!
Put Your Know-How Into Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Attempting to better themselves—learn new skills, break bad habits, realize their potential—people read books, attend seminars, take training courses. And companies pitch in too, spending billions of dollars every year on professional development programs aimed at helping their employees become...
Wired and Dangerous
How Your Customers Have Changed and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
In an era of economic stress, rapid change, and social networking, customers are distracted, disgruntled, and harder to please than ever. Picky, Fickle, Vocal, Wired, and Vain – they have very little tolerance for error and are ready to spread the word quickly over the internet when things go wrong....
They Just Don't Get It!
Changing Resistance Into Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
They Just Don't Get It! explores an all-too-common dilemma: when people around us just don't "get" our ideas. Through a charming illustrated fable, it tells the story of Julie Buffet, a hard-charging advertising executive with what she thinks is a fantastic idea for a new campaign. But nobody...
The Empress Has No Clothes
Conquering Self-Doubt to Embrace Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
You Deserve Your Success! Joyce Roché rose from humble circumstances to earn an Ivy League MBA and become the first female African-American vice president of Avon, president of a leading hair care company, and CEO of the national nonprofit Girls Inc. But despite these accomplishments, she felt like...
Measuring and Improving Social Impacts
A Guide for Nonprofits, Companies, and Impact Investors
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The world is beset with enormous problems. And as a nonprofit, NGO, foundation, impact investor, or socially responsible company, your organization is on a mission to solve them. But what exactly should you do? And how will you know whether it’s working? Too many people assume that good intentions...
False Profits
Recovering from the Bubble Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Dean Baker, codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research recounts the strategies used by the country’s top economic policymakers to conceal their failure to recognize the housing bubble or take steps to rein it in before it grew to unprecedented levels, resulting in the loss of millions...