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“ASKING is full of gems. No better blueprint for those of us embarking on the adventure of asking.” — Jerold Katz, Headmaster, The Park School
“Jerry Panas writing on asking is like Michael Jordan writing on shot-making or Warren Buffet on investing.” — Kenneth Gladish, National [...]
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‘Social enterprise is an exciting movement which challenges both private and public sectors. To succeed in realising its potential it needs to be supported by evidence, analysis, and academic insight. The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship provides a hub for this thinking and Dr Alex [...]
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…an objective and insightful comparison of China and India. –Foreign Affairs, May 1, 2008
Khanna delivers a dense but lively blend of anecdotes and analysis. He shows how entrepreneurial spirit is transforming both these countries not only economically, but strengthening ties between the two. –Newsweek
The eye [...]
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Take a walk on the dark side of leadership with executive coaches David Dotlich and Peter Cairo. Why CEOs Failsucceeds in tracking the downfall of careers and companies by defining eleven “derailers”–the deeply ingrained personality traits that shape leadership behavior. Among them: melodrama, aloofness, volatility, perfectionism, eccentricity and eagerness to please.
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“Fear-Free Fundraising” takes the mystery out of raising money from individual donors. If you’re a staff or board member of a growing nonprofit - or anyone who needs to ask for money - “Fear-Free Fundraising” will help you 1) visualize the steps to introduce people to your cause, 2) actually take [...]
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“C. K. Prahalad argues that companies must revolutionize how they dobusiness in developing countries if both sides of that economic equation areto prosper. Drawing on a wealth of case studies, his compelling new bookoffers an intriguing blueprint for how to fight poverty with profitability.” Bill [...]
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“Microsoft Office InfoPath represents a revolutionary leap in XML technologies and a new paradigm for gathering business-critical information. I am delighted that Scott Roberts and Hagen Green, two distinguished members of the InfoPath product team, decided to share their experience in this book.”
–From the Foreword by Jean Paoli, cocreator [...]
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From Publishers Weekly
In this what’s-next business manifesto, “social entrepreneurs” Elkington and Hartigan run with a quote from playwright George Bernard Shaw: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends [...]
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“In Extremis Leadership is one of the most phenomenal books on leadership to come along in decades. It’s a myth-busting, heart-stopping, mind-blowing account of what it’s really like to lead in life-and-death situations.”–Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the best-selling The Leadership Challenge and A Leader’s Legacy
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Forget the old boys’ club: women are the ones holding themselves back from top-level career success, advises Shambaugh, president and CEO of consulting firm Shambaugh Leadership. Though more businesswomen are in successful positions of power, they are still lagging behind men at the highest levels: [...]
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