books about: consensus     books:       Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress Olympia Snowe Weinstein Books, 2013 An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in February 2012 when she announced she would not seek a fourth term and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the dispiriting gridlock and polarization. After serving in the legislative branch at the state and federal levels for 40 years, including 18 years in the U.S. Senate, she explained that Washington wasn’t solving the big problems anymore. In this timely call to action, ...             Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making Sam Kaner Jossey-Bass, 2007 "The best book on collaboration ever written!" —Diane Flannery, founding CEO, Juma Ventures And now this classic book is even better—much better. Completely revised and updated, the second edition is loaded with new tools and techniques. Two powerful new chapters on agenda design A full section devoted to reaching closure More than twice as many tools for handling difficult dynamics 70 brand-new pages and over 100 pages ...             The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement David Graeber Spiegel & Grau, 2013 A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America   Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But can our current political system, one that seems responsive only to the wealthiest among us and leaves most Americans feeling ...             The Curriculum Mapping Planner: Templates, Tools, and Resources for Effective Professional Development Heidi Hayes Jacobs Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 2009 Curriculum mapping is a powerful tool for school improvement, but moving into mapping requires a genuine paradigm shift. Perhaps you ve tried curriculum mapping in your school or district, but you ve never found a way to get the most out of it. Or perhaps you ve introduced teachers to curriculum mapping but are unsure of the next steps to ensure lasting change. Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Ann Johnson have designed The Curriculum Mapping Planner to ...             The Wisdom of Crowds James Surowiecki Anchor, 2005 In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, ...             Clapton: The Autobiography Eric Clapton Three Rivers Press, 2008 “I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.” With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, he is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well ...             Globalization and Its Discontents (Norton Paperback) Joseph E. Stiglitz W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the last decade, including stints as chairman of ...             Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global ... Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. M. Conway Bloomsbury Press, 2011 "Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this message at our peril."-Elizabeth Kolbert "Brilliantly reported andwritten with brutal clarity."-Huffington Post Merchants of Doubt was one of the most talked-about climate change books of recent years, for reasons easy to understand: It tells the controversialstory of how a loose-knit group of ...             Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor and Lead John Shook Lean Enterprises Inst Inc, 2008 Managing to Learn by Toyota veteran John Shook, reveals the thinking underlying the vital A3 management process at the heart of lean management and lean leadership. Constructed as a dialogue between a manager and his boss, the book explains how A3 thinking helps managers and executives identify, frame, and then act on problems and challenges. Shook calls this approach, which is captured in the simple structure of an A3 report, the key to ...             Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts: Essentials for Buy-Side and Sell-Side Analysts James J. Valentine McGraw-Hill, 2010 A real-world guide to becoming a top-performing equity analyst Praise for Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts : "Jim Valentine has taken his decades of experience as a highly successful security analyst and written an effective and comprehensive guide to doing the job right. I only wish I had this book by my side throughout my career." -- Byron R. Wien, Vice Chairman, Blackstone Advisory Partners LP "Given the fast pace and ...             How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market Gerald Zaltman Harvard Business Review Press, 2003 How to unlock the hidden 95 per cent of the customer's mind that traditional marketing methods have never reached. This title provides practical synthesis of the cognitive sciences. Drawing heavily on psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and linguistics, Zaltman combines academic rigor with real-world results to offer highly accessible insights, based on his years of research and consulting work with large clients like Coca-Cola and Procter & ...             Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance George Kohlrieser Jossey-Bass, 2006 George Kohlrieser—an international leadership professor, consultant, and veteran hostage negotiator—explains that it is only by openly facing conflict that we can truly progress through the most difficult business challenges. In this provocative book, he reveals how the proven techniques and psychological insights used in hostage negotiation can be applied successfully to any personal or business relationship. Step by step, he outlines the ...             Demand Management Best Practices: Process, Principles, and Collaboration (Integrated Business Management ... Colleen Crum, George E. Palmatier J. Ross Publishing, 2003 This comprehensive book provides best practice solutions that will improve overall business performance for supply chain partners and all functions within a company impacted by the demand management process. It provides perspectives on realistic expectations from a demand plan and how decisions on balancing supply and demand are most effectively made.             Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent E.J. Dionne Bloomsbury USA, 2012 Our Divided Political Heart will be the must-read book of the 2012 election campaign. Offering an incisive analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning the nation’s political atmosphere, E. J. Dionne Jr. argues that Americans can’t agree on who we are because we can’t agree on who we’ve been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us Americans. Dionne takes on the Tea Party’s distortions of American history and ...             The Little Book of Circle Processes : A New/Old Approach to Peacemaking (The Little Books of Justice and ... Kay Franis, Howard Zehr Good Books, 2005 Peacemaking Circles are used in neighborhoods to provide support for those harmed by crime and to decide sentences for those who commit crime, in schools to create positive classroom climates and resolve behavior problems, in the workplace to deal with conflict, and in social services to develop more organic support systems for people struggling to get their lives together. The Circle process hinges on storytelling. It is hard work, but it is an ...             The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge Carlos Castaneda Washington Square Press, 1985 A YAQUI WAY OF KNOWLEDGE The teachings of don Juan is the story of a remarkable journey: the first awesome steps on the road to becoming a "man of knowledge" -- the road that continues with A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan. "For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length. And there I travel, looking, ...             Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (American Empire Project) Andrew Bacevich Metropolitan Books, 2010 The bestselling author of The Limits of Power critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and why it must change For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged: American security requires the United States (and us alone) to maintain a permanent armed presence around the globe, to prepare our forces for military ...             The Mosaic of Christian Belief: Twenty Centuries of Unity & Diversity Roger E. Olson IVP Academic, 2002 An ECPA 2003 Gold Medallion Finalist! The story of Christian theology has often been divisive and disjointed. Providing this companion volume to his earlier work , Roger E. Olson thematically traces the contours of Christian belief down through the ages, revealing a pattern of both unity and diversity. He finds a consensus of teaching that is both unitive and able to incorporate a faithful diversity when not forced into the molds of false ...             The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition Robert Axelrod Basic Books, 2006 The Evolution of Cooperation provides valuable insights into the age-old question of whether unforced cooperation is ever possible. Widely praised and much-discussed, this classic book explores how cooperation can emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists-whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals-when there is no central authority to police their actions. The problem of cooperation is central to many different fields. Robert Axelrod ...             The Secrets of Facilitation: The SMART Guide to Getting Results with Groups Michael Wilkinson Jossey-Bass, 2012 The revised edition of this facilitation classic offers a wealth of targeted techniques for facilitators who seek effective, consistent, and repeatable results. Based on Michael Wilkinson's proven SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniques) approach, The Secrets of Facilitation can help to achieve stellar results when managing, presenting, teaching, planning, and selling, as well as other professional and personal situations. 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