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New Titles for Spring 2014

How the Poor Can Save Capitalism 1

Outsmart Waste 2

Ice Cream Social 3

Fit at Last 4

Who Kidnapped Excellence? 5

Peer to Peer Leadership 6

Love Em or Lose Em, Fifth Edition 7

The Social Labs Revolution 8

Affluenza, Third Edition Mutation 9

Deepening Community 10

Execution IS the Strategy 11

Making Sustainability Work, Second Edition 12

Measuring and Improving Social Impacts 13

The Rise of the American Corporate Security State 14

The Nonviolence Handbook 15

The Idea-Driven Organization 16

Be the Best Bad Presenter Ever 17

What Your Boss Really Wants from You 18

The Innovation Paradox 19

Employee Surveys That Work 20

Overfished Ocean Strategy 21

The 3 Simple Rules of Investing 22

The Best Teacher in You 23

How to Be a Positive Leader 24

Business Ethics, Sixth Edition 25

Berrett-Koehler News 26

Ordering Information 32

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But in the chaos of modern life, traditional community ties have become unraveled. Paul Born argues that as a result, many of us have opted for shallow community: keeping mostly to ourselves, only occasionally seeing our friends and relatives. Or, desperate for some sense of common purpose, we choose a community united by fear of those unlike us. Neither of these offers any real psychological or spiritual satisfaction. Instead, we need to deepen our experience of community.

In this thoughtful and moving book, Born describes the four pillars of deep community: sharing our stories, taking the time to enjoy one another, taking care of one another, and working together for a better world. To show the role each of these plays and the many forms each can take, he shares his own storiesof growing up among a people exiled by war and of working as a longtime community activistas well as the stories and insights offered by some of the 500 people he interviewed for the book.

Community immeasurably enriches our lives, but its up to us to create it. Will we react to the instability of our times by defining ourselves selfishly or out of fear? Or will we enthusiastically form enduring connections with others and build a life of joy? Paul Born shows that the opportunity is right in front of us if we have the courage and conviction to pursue it.

This book is an anthem that bears witness to our humanity and our capacity to be together in peace. It takes a big step in making community building a legitimate discipline that belongs at the center of our thinking.

From the foreword by Peter Block, author of Stewardship, Flawless Consulting, and Community

Paul Born directs TamarackAn Institute for Community Engagement, a leading think tank that advances collective impact and community innovation solutions. He is a senior fellow at Ashoka, the worlds largest network of social innovators, and the founder of Vibrant Communities, a network of 100 cities reducing poverty for 1 million people. Born is the author of four books, including the Canadian bestseller Community Conversations.

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Clay MathileRun Your Business, Dont Let It Run YouLearning and Living Professional Management$19.95, paperbackISBN 978-1-60994-895-5PDF ebookISBN 978-1-60994-899-3

Laura StackWhat to Do When Theres Too Much to DoReduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day$15.95, paperbackISBN 978-1-60994-539-8PDF ebookISBN 978-1-60994-540-4

Publication date: March 2014$17.95, paperback, 280 pages5" x 8" ISBN 978-1-60994-968-6PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-60994-969-3BusinessRights: world

Laura Stack

Execution IS the StrategyHow Leaders Achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time

Shows how strategy and tactics are part of the same overarching process, requiring greater flexibility and more rapid implementation than ever before

Reveals how to create agile and resilient organizations, where execution continually modifies and adjusts the strategy to fit current realities

Includes the Execution Quotient leadership assessment and access to an online group reading guide and self-development resources

Once upon a time, executives would go to an off-site brainstorming session, come back with a multiyear strategic plan, and hand it off to their employees to dutifully execute. But in todays world of rapid, disruptive change, its hard enough to come up with a five-month plan, let alone a five-year plan. As one executive interviewed by author Laura Stack put it, You prepare a strategic plan and then put it on the shelf while the real world passes you by.

Nowadays, strategy cant be separate from executionit has to emerge from execution. New technologies, sudden changes in global markets, and viral customer reactions to new products require quick, nimble responsessometimes even a com-plete strategic 180. But if your organization isnt set up to be fast on its feet, you could easily go the way of Blockbuster or Borders.

Stack shows you how to make sure your organization is ready for on-the-spot strategic execution. Her LEAD formula explains how to Leverage the people and resources you need to create an agile organization, establish an Environment where your employees are confident and capable enough to take the initiative and make on-the-fly changes, ensure that your team is in Alignment with the organizations goals so theyll make the right strategic choices, and remove obstacles so they can Drive the organization forward quickly.

Of course, youll still need to have a great strategy in place, but your goals must be subject to constant readjustment and revision. You have to work with your team to build effective business strategies in real time, not be bound by a plan that may be out of date as soon as it rolls off the printer. Execution really is the strategy that will propel your organization forward, and Laura Stack can help you build an organization ready to meet the challenge of constant change.

Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, is Americas Premier Expert in Productivity. For over twenty years, her speeches and seminars have helped attendees accelerate individual and team performance, execute efficiently, and produce greater results in the workplace. Her company, the Productivity Pro, Inc., provides workshops around the globe on achieving Maximum Results in Minimum Time and creating high-performance cultures. Shes the author of five books.

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Timothy J. MohinChanging Business from the Inside OutA Treehuggers Guide to Working in Corporations$24.95, paperback ISBN 978-1-60994-640-1PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-60994-641-8

Jacquelyn A. OttmanThe New Rules of Green MarketingStrategies, Tools, and Inspiration for Sustainable Branding$21.95, paperback ISBN 978-1-60509-866-1PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-60509-867-8

Publication date: March 2014 $34.95, hardcover, 308 pages 68" x 9" ISBN 978-1-60994-993-8PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-60994-994-5Copublished with Greenleaf PublishingBusiness Rights: world

Marc J. Epstein and Adriana Rejc Buhovac

Making Sustainability WorkBest Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts, Second Edition

Updated throughout with new examples and new research

Offers a complete guide to the details of implementing and measuring the impact of CSR initiatives

Includes examples of best practices from over 100 organizations

Most companies today have some commitment to corporate social responsibility, but implementing these initiatives can be particularly challenging. While a lot has been written on ethical and strategic factors, there is still a dearth of information on the practical nuts and bolts. And whereas with most other organizational initiatives the sole objective is improved financial performance, sustainability broadens the focus to include social and environmental performance, which is much more difficult to measure.

Now updated with new examples and new research, this is a complete guide to implementing and measuring the effectiveness of sustainability initiatives. It draws on Marc Epsteins and new coauthor Adriana Rejc Buhovacs solid academic foundation and extensive consulting work and includes best practices from dozens of companies in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Australia, and Africa. This is the ultimate how-to guide for corporate leaders, strategists, academics, consultants, and anyone else with an interest in actually putting sustainability ideas into practice and making sure they accomplish their goals.

Praise for the first edition

The strength of this book is that it does not just discuss corporate social responsibil-ity but enumerates concrete strategies for generating real and measurable impacts in this area . . . a welcome addition to the literature . . . Highly recommended.

Choice

Named one of Sustainable Industries magazines Best Books of 2008.

An outstanding contribution to the field. This book will be an invaluable resource for senior executives, boards, and managers looking to integrate sustainability into their decision making.

Strategic Finance

Marc J. Epstein is a distinguished research professor of management at Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. He has been a professor at Stanford Business School, Harvard Business School, and INSEAD. He has written or cowritten nearly twenty books and a hundred papers.

Adriana Rejc Buhovac is an associate professor of management in the faculty of economics at the University of Ljubljana. She is a member of the editorial board of Advances in Management Accounting.

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Kevin Lynch and Julius Walls, Jr.Mission, Inc.The Practitioners Guide to Social Enterprise$16.95, paperbackISBN 978-1-57675-479-5PDF ebookISBN 978-1-57675-618-8

Eric G. Bing and Marc J. EpsteinPharmacy on a BicycleInnovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty$29.95, hardcoverISBN 978-1-60994-789-7PDF ebookISBN 978-1-60994-790-3

Publication date: March 2014$29.95, hardcover, 272 pages68" x 9"ISBN 978-1-60994-977-8PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-60994-978-5Copublished with Greenleaf PublishingBusiness Rights: world (except Europe)

Marc J. Epstein and Kristi Yuthas

Measuring and Improving Social ImpactsA Guide for Nonprofits, Companies, and Impact Investors

Cowritten by the author of Making Sustainability Work, a book that revolutionized best practices in sustainability and has been widely adopted in boardrooms and classrooms

Offers a detailed, reliable, and proven approach to rigorously evaluating and increasing the social impact of philanthropic efforts

Based on interviews with over sixty foundations, nonprofits, corporations, and investment firms and filled with real-life examples

The world is beset with enormous problems that desperately need solutions. And as a nonprofit, NGO, foundation, impact investor, or socially responsible company, your organization is on a mission to provide those solutions.

But what should you do? And how will you know if its working? Too many people assume that good intentions will result in meaningful actions and leave it at that. But thanks to Marc Epstein and Kristi Yuthas, social impact can now be evaluated with the same kind of precision achieved for any other organizational function.

Based on years of research and analysis of field studies from around the globe, Epstein and Yuthas help you gain clarity about the impacts that matter most to you and give you methods to measure and improve those impacts. They offer a systematic approach to deciding what resources you should invest, what problem you should address, and which activities and organizations you should support. Once youve made those decisions, they include tools, frameworks, and metrics for defining exactly what success looks like, even for goals like reducing global warming or poverty that are extremely difficult to measure. Then they show you how to use the data youve gathered to further develop and increase your social impact.

Epstein and Yuthas personally interviewed leaders at over sixty different organi-zations for this book and include examples from nearly a hundred more. This is unquestionably the most complete, practical, and thoroughly researched guide to taking a rigorous, data-driven approach to expanding the good you do in the world.

Marc J. Epstein is distinguished research professor of management at Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. He has been a professor at Stanford Business School, Harvard Business School, and INSEAD. He is the author of twenty books and numerous academic and managerial articles.

Kristi Yuthas is Swigert Endowed Chair at Portland State Universitys School of Business Administration and has worked with companies and nonprofits around the world. She has authored over a hundred presentations and publications in sustainability, ethics, and the use of business tools to address social issues.



Tom Devine and Tarek F. MaassaraniThe Corporate Whistle-blowers Survival GuideA Handbook for Committing the Truth$19.95, paperbackISBN 978-1-60509-986-6PDF ebookISBN 978-1-57675-952-3

John PerkinsConfessions of an Economic Hit Man$26.95, hardcoverISBN 978-1-57675-301-9PDF ebookISBN 978-1-57675-512-9

Publication date: April 2014$16.95, paperback, 120 pages5" x 8"ISBN 978-1-62656-194-6PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-62656-195-3Current AffairsRights: world

Beatrice EdwardsForeword by Jesselyn Radack, National Security Program Director, Government Accountability Project

The Rise of the American Corporate Security StateSix Reasons to Be Afraid

Written by the executive director of one of the organizations representing Edward Snowden in the United States

Warns that government-corporate cooperation in gathering intelligence has fueled an enormous erosion of our civil liberties

Links government-business collusionwith the failure to prosecute those responsible for the 2008 economic collapse

Edward Snowdens dramatic NSA revelations are only the tip of an iceberg that threatens to sink the Constitution. As Beatrice Edwards reveals, a host of govern-ment agencies are rendering our Bill of Rights meaningless by heavy surveillance of average citizens, political persecution of dissenters, and the threat of indefinite detention. Corporations assist and reap handsome profits as a result70 percent of the $56.2 billion US intelligence budget is paid to private contractors.

As a result, we now live in a Corporate Security State where the government is more interested in safeguarding the health of the companies that serve it than the citizens who support it. How did we get here? And is there a way out?

Edwards lays out the steps intelligence agencies took in the wake of 9/11 to illegitimately extend their reach (and their budgets). Private corporations were only too eager to supply them with the latest surveillance technology and consumer data, essentially becoming an unofficial, and unaccountable, extension of those agencies. Edwards shows how the government has concealed its actions by greatly expanding both the classification of documentsthe Obama administration has refused more Freedom of Information Act requests than Bushsand the prosecution of whistleblowers, many of whom she has worked with personally.

Further, she exposes how the bogus claim of an imminent cyber war is being used to justify businesses spying on employees and customers, as well as government and business sharing their ill-gotten information. This is why the Justice Department isnt going after the corporations responsible for the financial collapse of 2008as Edwards shows, all too often theyre partners in crime.

But she offers hopesteps we can demand to restore transparency to government, keep private information private, and make democracy a reality once again.

Beatrice Edwards is executive director and international program director at the Government Accountability Project, which is currently one of Edward Snowdens legal representatives. She holds a masters degree in Latin American studies from the University of Texas and a doctorate in sociology from American University.

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Jeffrey D. Clements Corporations Are Not PeopleWhy They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do about It $17.95, paperback ISBN 978-1-60994-105-5PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-60994-106-2

Edited by Sarah van Gelder and the staff of Yes! Magazine This Changes EverythingOccupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement $10.95, paperback ISBN 978-1-60994-587-9PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-60994-588-6

Publication date: April 2014 $12.00, paperback, 96 pages 5" x 8" ISBN 978-1-62656-145-8PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-62656-146-5Current Affairs / Nonviolent ActionRights: world

Michael N. NaglerForeword by Ann Wright, Col., US Army (ret.), and recipient, State Department Award for Heroism

The Nonviolence HandbookA Guide for Practical Action

By the author of the American Book Awardwinning Search for a Nonviolent Future

Advocates nonviolence as the most effective approach to bringing about social change, not simply the most ethical

Offers practical, strategic advice for developing a disciplined and effective nonviolent strategy to address any issue or conflict

Despite the fact that two of the 20th centurys most monumental campaigns for social change, the civil rights movement and the drive for Indian independence, achieved their aims through nonviolent action, the world continues to view nonviolence as a passive and largely ineffectual tactic, all show and no substance.

In this short and powerful book, renowned peace activist Michael Nagler proves precisely the opposite: nonviolence is in fact an aggressive and highly effective approach. Nonviolence is not the recourse of the weak but actually calls for an uncommon kind of strength; it is not a refraining from something but the engaging of a positive force, Nagler writes. But it demands tremendous courage and discipline and needs to be carefully thought through.

Distilling the core theories of nonviolence and drawing deeply from the lives of leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., this action-oriented handbook offers both step-by-step guidance for planning a comprehensive nonviolent resistance strategy and advice for building change movements capable of restructur-ing the very bedrock of society. Nagler identifies the specific tactical mistakes made by unsuccessful nonviolent actions such as the Tiananmen Square demonstrations and the Occupy protests and includes stories of lesser-known successful nonviolent resistance from around the world, including an example from Nazi Germany.

In our violent world, people long for nonviolent solutions but fear they dont work. This book offers them hope. Michael Nagler shows that not only is nonviolence the best way to solve our problems, but it can go beyond a tactic to become a way of thinking that will transform society and enrich each of our lives.

Michael N. Nagler is the founder and president of the Metta Center for Nonviolence. He cofounded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at UC Berkeley, where he is professor emeritus of classics and comparative literature. Among other awards, he received the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundations International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values outside India, joining other distinguished contributors to nonviolence such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

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Alan G. Robinson and Sam SternCorporate CreativityHow Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen$21.95, paperbackISBN 978-1-57675-049-0PDF ebookISBN 978-1-60994-153-6

Alan G. Robinson and Dean M. SchroederIdeas Are FreeHow the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations$21.95, paperbackISBN 978-1-57675-374-3PDF ebookISBN 978-1-60509-017-7

Publication date: April 2014$27.95, hardcover, 216 pages68" x 9"ISBN 978-1-62656-123-6PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-62656-124-3BusinessRights: world

Alan G. Robinson and Dean M. Schroeder

The Idea-Driven OrganizationUnlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas

By the authors of the classic Ideas Are Free

Shows how systematically encouraging and implementing employee ideas can unlock up to 80 percent of an organizations potential for innovation and improvement

Full of illuminating examples from innovative companies around the world, such as Brasilata, Hickory Chair, Allianz, and Toyota

Too many organizations are overlooking, or even suppressing, their single most powerful source of growth and innovation. And its right under their noses. The frontline employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products, and provide your services have unparalleled insights into where problems exist and what improvements and new offerings would have the most impact. But these ideas are rarely listened to or acted on.

In this follow-up to their bestseller Ideas Are Free, Alan G. Robinson and Dean M. Schroeder show how to align every part of an organization around generating and implementing employee ideas and offer dozens of examples of what a tremendous competitive advantage this can offer. Their advice will enable leaders to implement 50 to 100 or more ideas per employee per year.

Using examples from around the world, they explain whats needed to put together a management team that embraces grassroots ideas and describe the strategies, policies, and practices that enableor hinderthem. They detail exactly how high-performing idea processes work and how to design one that fits your organization, including teaching employees how to come up with more and better ideas.

Every organization today is being pressed to do more with less. But cutting wages and benefits and pushing people to work harder with fewer resources can go only so far. Ironically, the best solution resides with the very people who have been bearing the brunt of these measures. With Robinson and Schroeders advice, you can unleash a constant stream of great ideas that will strengthen every facet of your organization. But while the ideas may come from the bottom, the effort to encourage and implement them must be led from the top. Alan G. Robinson is a professor at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Dean M. Schroeder is the Herbert and Agnes Schulz Professor of Management at Valparaiso University. Between them, Robinson and Schroeder have advised hundreds of organizations in more than twenty-five countries on how to improve their performance.

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Carol A. Fleming, PhDIts the Way You Say ItBecoming Articulate, Well-Spoken, and Clear$18.95, paperback ISBN 978-1-60994-743-9PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-60994-744-6

Karen HoughThe Improvisation Edge Secrets to Building Trust and Radical Collaboration at Work$19.95, paperback ISBN 978-1-60509-585-1PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-60509-659-9

Publication date: May 2014 $17.95, paperback, 160 pages 5" x 8" ISBN 978-1-62656-047-5PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-62656-048-2Business / EconomicsRights: world

Karen Hough

Be the Best Bad Presenter EverBreak the Rules, Make Mistakes, and Win Them Over

Shows how ripping up the traditional presentation dos and donts will make you a better, more relaxed, and more effective presenter

Takes on over a dozen pieces of good presentation advice and reveals why they actually make you worse

Features stories of people who not only were able to become great presenters by being bad but actually came to enjoy it

If youre like most people, the phrase Youll be giving a presentation is on a par with It looks like that molar will have to come out. Well, lets be honest: youd prefer the surgery, wouldnt you?

One reason most people regard public speaking as a nightmare is that they think they have to be perfect. But Karen Hough knows that by throwing out those rules, relaxing, being yourself, and even making mistakes, youll connect with your audience much more effectively than the guy with the impeccable PowerPoint presentation.

Its authenticity and passion that win people over, Hough says, not polish. Its why people trust vlogs more than commercials and user reviews more than ads. But you cant be authentic if youre trying to conform to all sorts of handed-down rules that tie you up in knots and put your audiences to sleep.

Hough debunks over a dozen myths about presenting to make it more fun and natu-ral for everybody. She explains why mirrors are evil, why you should never end with questions, what the real purpose of any presentation should be, and much more. Youll discover how to embrace and develop your own style and communicate your message in a way thats all wrong according to the experts and that your audiences will find compellingly right.

If presentations really didnt matter, wed all just send memos. There are a million ways to share information out there, but the more we digitize, the more we long for human connection. By following Karen Houghs wise and witty advice, youll avoid being forced to become one more robot behind a podium and be freed to be a living, breathing, occasionally clumsy real person whose passion is powerful and infectious.

Karen Hough is the founder and CEO of ImprovEdge, a company that creates training and consulting using improvisation to teach business skills. She won the silver Stevie Award for Most Innovative Company of the Year 2012 and the Athena PowerLink Award for outstanding woman-owned business and is a national keynote speaker for conferences such as the ESPN Engaged Speaker Series, the Key Bank national tour, and the PricewaterhouseCoopers Metro Womens Initiative conference.



Don Maruska and Jay PerryTake Charge of Your TalentThree Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life$19.95, paperbackISBN 978-1-60994-723-1PDF ebookISBN 978-1-60994-736-1

Steve ArnesonBootstrap Leadership50 Ways to Break Out, Take Charge, and Move Up$20.95, paperbackISBN 978-1-60509-345-1PDF ebookISBN 978-1-60509-347-5

Publication date: May 2014 $15.95, paperback, 112 pages 5" x 8"ISBN 978-1-62656-077-2PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-62656-078-9BusinessRights: world

Steve Arneson

What Your Boss Really Wants from You15 Insights to Improve Your Relationship

Offers a concise, practical guide to improving your most important work relationship

Uses fifteen questions to help you uncover what drives your boss and use that knowledge to take charge of the relationship

Features true stories of people who have used these techniques to improve relationships with even very difficult bosses

Whether youre an entry-level employee, a middle manager, or a high-level executive, your most important work relationship is the one you have with your boss. If youre connecting well, everythings great; but if youre not getting along, it can be a nerve-wracking and frustrating experience. Its why executive coach Steve Arneson is so often asked, what does my boss want from me? In this pragmatic and accessible guide, Arneson shows you how to find the answers to fifteen essential questions that will help you understand your bosss motives.

But first, Arneson warns you to give up any thoughts of trying to manage or improve your boss. Its truesometimes bosses can be hard to read. Theyre not always clear about their expectations, act in seemingly inexplicable ways, and can have hidden motives that have nothing to do with helping you achieve your career goals. Still, theyre not going to change for youthe solution lies in figuring out what makes them tick and adapting your own work style to make the relationship work more effectively.

The first part, Study Your Boss, features ten questions that will help you figure out your bosss leadership style, goals, work relationships, and other factors that drive his or her behavior. Given that understanding, youll move on to five questions that reveal How Your Boss Sees You. Finally, youll bring it all together and develop a plan to Take Responsibility for the Relationship. Vivid real-world examples demon-strate Arnesons advice in action and show clearly how this process can be used to gain a more meaningful, productive, and enjoyable work life.

You can improve your relationship with the boss, but it takes insight and the right attitude. Following Steve Arnesons straightforward, step-by-step method will help you reduce your stress, advance your career, and make things more pleasant for both of you.

Steve Arneson is the founder of Arneson Leadership Consulting, which provides executive talent management, coaching, and leadership development solutions to corporations and nonprofit organizations. He was named one of Americas Top 100 thought leaders and one of the countrys Top 10 leadership coaches by Leadership Excellence magazine.

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Danna Greenberg, Kate McKone-Sweet, and H. James WilsonThe New Entrepreneurial LeaderDeveloping Leaders Who Shape Social and Economic Opportunity$34.95, hardcoverISBN 978-1-60509-344-4PDF ebookISBN 978-1-60994-033-1


Soren Kaplan LeapfroggingHarness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs$27.95, hardcoverISBN 978-1-60994-494-0PDF ebookISBN 978-1-60994-495-7

Publication date: June 2014$29.95, hardcover, 240 pages68" x 9"ISBN 978-1-60994-553-4PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-60994-554-1BusinessRights: world

Tony Davila and Marc J. Epstein

The Innovation ParadoxWhy Good Businesses Kill Breakthroughs and How They Can Change

By the authors of the bestselling Making Innovation Work

Explains why, despite all their resources, most established companies havent been able to innovate like startups

Outlines how companies can combine the creative energy of startups with the advantages of established organizations

For more than twenty years, major innovationsthe kind that transform industries and even societiesseem to have come almost exclusively from startups. Estab-lished companies still dominate most markets, but despite massive efforts and mil-lions of dollars, they rarely achieve truly foundational breakthroughs.

The problem, say Tony Davila and Marc Epstein, is that the very processes and structures responsible for established companies enduring success prevent them from developing breakthroughs. This is the innovation paradox.

Most established companies succeed through incremental innovationtaking a product theyre known for and adding a feature here, cutting a cost there. Its a solid recipe for growth, but major breakthroughs are hard to achieve when your organization is designed to reward making what already works work a little better. But incremental innovation can coexist with breakthrough thinking.

Using examples from both scrappy startups and long-term innovators such as IBM, 3M, Apple, and Google, Davila and Epstein explain how corporate culture, leadership style, strategy, incentives, and management systems can be structured to encourage breakthroughs. Then they bring it all together in a new model called the Startup Corporation, which combines the philosophy of the startup with the experience, resources, and network of an established company. Startup corporations encourage visionary thinking at all levelsinstead of depending on a single Steve Jobs, they have dozens, even thousands of them.

Breakthrough innovation no longer has to be the nearly exclusive province of the new kids on the block. With Davila and Epsteins assistance, any company can develop paradigm-shifting products and services and maximize the ROI on its R&D.

Tony Davila heads the Entrepreneurship Department and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at IESE Business School in Barcelona. He was previously on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He has a doctorate from Harvard Business School.

Marc J. Epstein is a distinguished research professor of management at Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. He has been a professor at Stanford Business School, Harvard Business School, and INSEAD. He has written or cowritten nearly twenty books and a hundred papers.


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Dana Gaines Robinson and James C. Robinson Performance ConsultingA Practical Guide for HR and Learning Professionals $32.95, paperback ISBN 978-1-57675-435-1PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-57675-777-2

You might also enjoyTom Coens and Mary JenkinsAbolishing Performance AppraisalsWhy They Backfire and What to Do Instead$21.95, paperback ISBN 978-1-57675-200-5PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-60509-395-6

Alec Levenson

Employee Surveys That WorkImproving Design, Use, and Organizational Impact

Offers practical guidance for designing employee surveys that yield useful results

Explains the hidden pitfalls in many popular survey practices

Written by a rising HR analytics thought leader

Most employees like company surveys (A) Very much, (B) So-so, (C) Not so much, or (D) Not at all. For most, the answer is D. And the same is often true for the executives who have to figure out how to apply the results.

But thats because so many employee surveys are poorly designed, says Alec Levenson. Employees with very different work functions are given the same set of questions, even though their experiences and concerns are wildly divergent. Surveys try to cover too many different kinds of issues at one time, resulting in either a bland set of questions or a survey that goes on forever. Questions are asked without a clear sense of how the answers will help improve the business, and employees never see anything done with the results.

Employee Surveys That Work offers sensible, practical ways to make employee surveys more useful, accurate, and effective and counters a number of unhelpful but common practices that have arisen as employee surveys have become com-monplace. Levenson provides specific advice for ensuring that the purpose and desired outcomes of surveys are clear, the questions are designed to provide the most relevant and accurate data, and the results are actionable. He looks at a wealth of specific issues, such as the best benchmarking practices, the benefits of multivariate modeling for analyzing results, linking survey data with perfor-mance data, how best to measure employee engagement, the pros and cons of respondent anonymity, and much more.

Employee surveys serve an indisputable role in providing a way to measure key organizational processes based on information from the people most informed about those processesthe employees who work with and implement them on a daily basis. But a lot can be done to design, implement, and act on surveys in more meaningful and productive ways. This book provides a road map for doing so.

Alec Levenson is senior research scientist at the Center for Effective Organiza-tions, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He has worked with a broad range of companies, including American Express, Amgen, Boeing, Cisco Systems, Exelon, Nestl, PepsiCo, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. His research has been featured in many academic publications as well as in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and U.S. News and World Report and on CNN, National Public Radio, and Fox News.

Publication date: May 2014 $22.95, paperback, 168 pages 5" x 8" ISBN 978-1-62656-119-9PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-62656-120-5BusinessRights: world Copublished with Society for Human Resource Management

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B. Joseph Pine II and Kim C. KornInfinite PossibilityCreating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier$26.95, hardcover ISBN 978-1-60509-563-9PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-60509-564-6

Bob JohansenLeaders Make the FutureTen New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World, Second Edition$29.95, hardcoverISBN 978-1-60994-487-2PDF ebookISBN 978-1-60994-488-9

Publication date: June 2014$27.95, hardcover, 240 pages68" x 9"ISBN 978-1-60994-964-8PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-60994-956-5BusinessRights: world

Nadya Zhexembayeva

Overfished Ocean StrategyPowering Up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World

Explains why companies must put resource scarcity at the center of their overall strategic thinking rather than relegating it to their green division

Lays out five principles for turning scarcity into opportunity

Features examples of companies all over the world that are successfully sailing the overfished ocean

We all know the proverb about teaching someone to fish, but if there are no fish left, knowing how to catch them wont do you any good. And thats the position businesses are in today. Resources are being depleted at an alarming rate. The cost of raw materials is rising dramatically. We are, simply put, running out of things to take and places to trash.

To survive in the long term, says Nadya Zhexembayeva, businesses need to make resource scarcitythe overfished oceantheir primary strategic consideration, not just a concern for their green division. Those managers who deeply understand and master this shift will be able to turn the new reality into a remarkable competitive advantage.

Overfished Ocean Strategy offers five essential principles for innovating in this new reality. Zhexembayeva shows how businesses have been finding new opportunities in what were once considered useless by-products, discovering resource-conserving efficiencies up and down their value chain, transferring their expertise from physical products to services, and developing ways to rapidly try out and refine these new business models. A business owner herself, Zhexembayeva fills the book with examples of companies that are already successfully navigating the overfished ocean, from established corporations such as BMW, Microsoft, and Puma to newcomers such as Lush, FLOOW2, and Sourcemap.

The linear, throwaway economy of todayin which we extract resources at one end, create products, and throw them away at the otheris rapidly coming to an end. A new economy is being born, one that takes this line and turns it into a circle. In every industry, creative minds are learning how to make money from reducing rather than expanding. Nadya Zhexembayeva shows how you can join them and avoid being left high and dry.

Nadya Zhexembayeva is the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sustainable Develop-ment at IEDC-Bled School of Management in Slovenia and a business owner active in real estate, investment, and consulting. Her recent clients include the Coca-Cola Company, ENRC PLC, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation, and Vienna Insurance Group. She also serves as vice president of Challenge:Future, a global youth think-DO-tank. She earned her doctorate in organizational behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.

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Edward WinslowBlind FaithOur Misplaced Trust in the Stock Market and Smarter, Safer Ways to Invest$17.95, paperback ISBN 978-1-57675-252-4PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-57675-908-0

Michael Edesess The Big Investment LieWhat Your Financial Advisor Doesnt Want You to Know$24.95, hardcover ISBN 978-1-57675-407-8PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-60509-391-8

Publication date: June 2014$19.95, paperback, 240 pages5" x 8"ISBN 978-1-62656-162-5PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-62656-163-2Personal InvestingRights: world

Michael Edesess, Kwok L. Tsui, Carol Fabbri, and George Peacock

The 3 Simple Rules of InvestingWhy Everything Youve Heard about Investing Is Wrong and What to Do Instead

Proves that investing is easy if you follow three simple rules and use a few basic investments

Explains why the most common investment advice is misleading, useless, or just plain wrong

Written by a team of veteran financial industry insiders

Personal finances can be a huge source of stress. And confusing and complicated advice from the financial industry, which is supposed to be helping, just makes it worseand is a reason why many investors are falling further and further behind.

But investing is actually simple, maybe more simple than ever before. As the authors of this clear, practical, and enlightening bookpart financial guide, part exposprove, there are just three simple rules you need to follow and just a few investment products that are necessary for an ideal portfoliowith perhaps a few optional ones that might help and wont hurt. Thats it.

But what about the advice of investment gurus, financial industry pundits, advisors, journalists, and academics? The authors debunk the financial industrys Seven Deadly Temptationsincluding trying to beat the market, investing via the latest scientific financial theories, and succumbing to the lure of expensive and complex-sounding investments.

Whether you are a hesitant first-timer, an experienced veteran, or even a professional institutional investor, this book will help you make wise selections in your 401(k)s and create portfolios for all seasons. And as an added benefit, the authors explain how turning your back on convoluted investment products reduces systemic risk to the overall financial system and deprives Wall Street of some of its undeserved profits, thereby curbing its unhealthy political influence.

Michael Edesess, a mathematician and economist with over forty years experience in the financial industry, is a founding partner and chief investment officer of Fair Advisors LLC and author of The Big Investment Lie. Kwok L. Tsui is chair professor at City University of Hong Kong, heads its Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, and directs its Center for Systems Informatics Engineer-ing. Carol Fabbri is a managing partner at Fair Advisors LLC and founder and executive director of Fair Advisors Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to financial literacy. She is a coauthor of Personal Investing. George Peacock is a twenty-five-year vet-eran of the financial services industry and a principal at Euclid Investment Advisory.

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Ryan W. Quinn and Robert E. Quinn LiftBecoming a Positive Force in Any Situation$29.95, hardcoverISBN 978-1-57675-444-3PDF ebookISBN 978-1-57675-902-8

Marilee Adams, PhD Teaching That Changes Lives12 Mindset Tools for Igniting the Love of Learning $18.95, paperbackISBN 978-1-60994-569-5 PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-60994-570-1

Publication date: June 2014$19.95, paperback, 216 pages68" x 9"ISBN 978-1-62656-178-6PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-62656-179-3Education / Professional DevelopmentRights: world

Robert E. Quinn, Katherine Heynoski, Mike Thomas, and Gretchen M. Spreitzer

The Best Teacher in YouHow to Accelerate Learning and Change Lives

Discover how highly effective teachers bring out the best in themselves and their students

Be inspired by the personal journeys of seven highly effective teacherslearn how they became transformational leaders in the classroom

Explore a framework for effective teaching and learning and use it to reflect on your own teaching practice

What does teaching look like at its very best? How are great teachers able to ignite a love of learning and change students lives? What are the keys to accelerating learning for both teachers and students?

The Best Teacher in You provides revealing answers to these important questions. Over the past six years, the authors have worked with highly effective teachers to examine the mindsets, behaviors, and change processes that accelerate and deepen learning. They discovered a common pattern in these teachers practices. Highly effective teachers stretch beyond conventional foundations of good teaching, such as content, pedagogy, and classroom management, to transform their classrooms into exciting, dynamic places where teachers and students cocreate the learning experience. These teachers cultivate a classroom community that gives rise to transformative learning.

In this book youll learn from seven remarkable teachers and their stories of learning and, ultimately, deep change. The authors outline a framework that identifies four dimensions of effective teaching and learning that are integrated in the classrooms of highly effective teachersyoull discover how the framework helps you recognize and release the potential in you and others around you. You can begin using the strategies and tools included in the book today to become the best teacher in you.

Robert E. Quinn holds the Margaret Elliott Tracy Collegiate Professorship at the University of Michigan and serves on the faculty of the Management and Organiza-tions Department at the Ross School of Business.

Katherine Heynoski is senior specialist, educator effectiveness, at Battelle for Kids.

Mike Thomas is the senior director, powerful practices, at Battelle for Kids.

Gretchen M. Spreitzer is the Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She and Quinn are codirectors of the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship, which Quinn cofounded.

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Kim CameronPracticing Positive LeadershipTools and Techniques That Create Extraordinary Results $18.95, paperback ISBN 978-1-60994-972-3 PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-60994-973-0

Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, and Robert E. Quinn, Editors Positive Organizational ScholarshipFoundations of a New Discipline $45.00, hardcover ISBN 978-1-57675-232-6PDF ebook ISBN 978-1-57675-966-0

Publication date: June 2014 $26.95, paperback, 240 pages 6" x 9"ISBN 978-1-62656-028-4PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-62656-029-1BusinessRights: world

Edited by Jane E. Dutton and Gretchen M. SpreitzerForeword by Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage

How to Be a Positive LeaderSmall Actions, Big Impact

Shows how leaders can unlock the latent power in their organizations through simple actions

Written by top thought leaders in the field of positive organizational scholarship, such as Kim Cameron, Robert Quinn, and Adam Grant

Includes a wealth of real-world examples and evidence-based advice

Some leaders are able to dramatically expand their peoplesand their own capacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous resources or huge heroic gestures. Like the butterfly in Brazil whose flapping wings create a typhoon in Texas, you can create profound positive change in your organization through simple actions and attitude shifts.

This book shares what Jane Dutton, Gretchen Spreitzer, and their fellow authors have discovered after years of studying extraordinarily effective organizations. They show that something as relatively easy as letting employees customize their jobs to fit their strengths can unlock their energy, initiative, and sense of purpose. They describe actions that build positive relationships inside and outside the organizationfor example, bringing in customers and clients so your people can personally connect with them and experience the impact theyre having on them firsthand.

Several chapters explore the many tangible benefits that flow from building ethical organizations that tap into peoples innate goodness and sense of fairness. And the authors tackle how to deal with one of a leaders greatest challenges leading change in ways that build hope rather than fear and make your people active contributors to the change process. Each chapter features a real-world example from both well-known organizations such as Wells Fargo, Ford, Kelly Services, and Burts Bees to lesser-known ones such as Connecticuts Griffin Hospital and the Michigan-based Zingermans community of businesses.

Because positive leadership is based on simple, inexpensive actions, it provides a sustainable way to consistently bring out the best in people and organizations. It offers a vision of leadership that is not about richness of resources but richness of possibilities.

Jane E. Dutton is the Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.

Gretchen M. Spreitzer is the Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business, where she is codirector of the Center for Positive Organizations.

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Gary N. McLeanOrganization DevelopmentPrinciples, Processes, Performance$49.95, hardcoverISBN 978-1-57675-313-2PDF ebookISBN 978-1-60509-334-5

Peggy Holman, Tom Devane, and Steven Cady, with over 90 International ContributorsThe Change HandbookThe Definitive Resource on Todays Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems$65.95, paperbackISBN 978-1-57675-379-8PDF ebookISBN 978-1-57675-509-9

Publication date: June 2014$69.95, paperback, 552 pages68" x 9"ISBN 978-1-62656-140-3PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-62656-141-0BusinessRights: world

Joseph W. Weiss

Business EthicsA Stakeholder and Issues Management Approach, Sixth Edition

Now published by Berrett-Koehler, this is the latest edition of a popular business ethics textbook, thoroughly updated throughout

Includes twenty-three case studiesfourteen new to this edition, with three others updatedas well as new research and new exercises

Includes access to a complete suite of ancillary materials for instructors: teaching guides, test banks, and PowerPoint presentations

Joseph Weisss Business Ethics is a pragmatic, hands-on guide to determining right and wrong in the business world. To be socially responsible and ethical, Weiss maintains, businesses must acknowledge the impact their decisions can have on the world beyond their walls. He integrates a stakeholder perspective with an issues-oriented approach so students look at how a businesss actions affect not just share price and profit but the well-being of employees, customers, suppliers, the local community, the larger society, other nations, and the environment.

A wealth of contemporary examples makes the book relevant and compelling. Weiss includes twenty-three customized cases that immerse students directly in recent business ethics dilemmas and ask them to consider how they would resolve them. Fourteen of these cases are new to this edition, touching on issues such as cyberbullying, fracking, neuromarketing, and for-profit education and involving institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Google, Kaiser Permanente, Walmart, Ford, and Facebook.

Several chapters now feature a unique Point/CountPoint exercise that challenges students to argue both sides of an ethical issue. The text has been updated throughout with the latest research, and as with previous editions, the sixth edition features a complete set of ancillary materials for instructors: teaching guides, test banks, and PowerPoint presentations.

Why now? The 2008 economic collapse raised ethical issues that have yet to be fully resolved, and every week seems to bring news of yet more dubious behavior by yet another respected institution. There could not be a better time for a fully updated edition of Weisss classic, accessible blend of theory and practice.

Joseph W. Weiss is professor of management at Bentley University. He received the innovative teaching award from Bentley and is on the honor roll of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. He is a Fulbright Program Specialist and national peer reviewer for business applicants, past chair of the Academy of Managements Management Consulting Division, and current cochair of the HICSS (Hawaii Inter-national Conference on System Sciences) IT/Project Management track. He is the author of five books and many journal articles and has consulted with Fortune 500 firms, government agencies, and startup companies.

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Awards and HonorsBK Wins Award from OD NetworkWe are proud and humbled that the Organization Development Network presented Berrett-Koehler with its Organizational Excellence in OD award at its 2013 conference. BK is the fourth organization in the world to win this award since it was inaugurated in 2011.

The announcement says, This award recognizes organizations that have demonstrated a sustained commitment to organization development and organi-zation effectiveness . . . As one BK author wrote, Berrett-Koehler strives to Create a World That Works for All not only through the books it publishes but the way in which it interacts with its employees and community stakeholders. All of BKs important policies and cultural priorities are based on large-group methods and consentnever leadership by fiat.

Our Books and Authors Are RecognizedNot one but two BK books made Wealth-Management.coms list of Top Ten Best Business Books: Steven Snyders Leader-ship and the Art of Struggle and Rob Jolless How to Change Minds.

Directors & Boards magazine named Lynn Stouts The Shareholder Value Myth Governance Book of the Year. Editor and Associate Publisher James Kristie said the book inspired renewed examina-tion of this governing theory and sparked important, and some would say much-needed, debate about its true primacy.

Karen Phelans Im Sorry I Broke Your Company was named one of the top ten business books of 2013 by the Toronto Globe and Mails Harvey Schachter, who called it hilariously sardonic.

Matthew Bishop, the US business editor at The Economist, named Paul Polak and Mal Warwicks The Business Solution to Poverty one of his twelve best business

books of the year on LinkedIn. He said it was full of practical advice for entre-preneurs looking to serve the billions of potential customers living at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Kevin Cashmans book The Pause Principle won ForeWord Reviews Bronze award in the Business and Economics category.

Dana and James Robinson, authors of the BK books Strategic Business Partner and Performance Consulting, won the Thomas F. Gilbert Distinguished Profes-sional Achievement Award from the International Society for Performance Improvement. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the knowl-edge and practice of Human Perform

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