Relationship Awareness Theory

By Elias H. Porter, Ph.D

Managing Transitions making the Most of Change

By William Bridges

Change

Every day the newspapers report of another corporate merger and restructuring. Every day thousands of lives are altered by these changes. Most managers and employees, however, do not have the experience to effectively work through such transitions. In Managing Transitions,
William Bridges provides a clear understanding of what change does to employees and what employees in transition can do to an organization, and he shows how to minimize the distress and disruptions caused by change.

Learn how to deal with change by first learning how to better understand your relationships with others.

The debate over "P.C." at America's universities is the most important discussion in American education today and has grown into a major national controversy raging on the covers of our top magazines and news shows. This provocative anthology gives voice to the top thinkers of our time, liberal and conservative, as they tackle the question. From the multicultural perspective of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who argues passionately for more diversity, to the erudition of Irving Howe, who stresses the profound value of the literary canon, this exciting collection is required reading for thinking Americans ... and for everyone concerned with the future of higher education and the shaping of young minds.

Featuring a new case, the Plant Z story, this edition is completely up to date with new theories and concepts related to leadership and change. This new edition reflects the challenges for today's managers and helps them diagnose what is going on in the environment, develop strategies for meeting new conditions and implment a process of change to sustain the health and vitality of their organization. Both cases deal with industrial plants but the problems and solutions apply to the managers of all organizations-- business, academic, health care, military, political or religious.

Organizational Change Through Effective Leadership

By Robert H. Guest, Paul Hersey, Kenneth H. Blanchard

BOOKS

Escaping into the Open: The Art of Writing True

By Elizabeth Berg

Debating P.C.: The Controversy Over Political Correctness on College Campuses

By Paul Berman

Below are a list of books available in our office that are available for check-out. Books are listed by alphabetically by category.

This is list is still being updated. To see what other books we have or to borrow a book, please stop by our office in PAVL 150.

Elizabeth Berg touches women's lives with heartbreakingly funny and true novels -- including the New York Times bestseller Talk Before Sleep -- that distinctly capture the essence of their lives. Now this critically acclaimed author and writing instructor offers an inspiring, practical handbook on the joys, challenges, and creative possibilities inherent in the writing life. Both autobiography and primer, Escaping into the Open interweaves Elizabeth Berg's story of her own journey from working mother to published novelist with encouraging advice on how to create stories that spring from deep within the heart. With wit and honesty, Elizabeth Berg provides numerous exercises that will unleash individual creativity and access and utilize all of the senses. Most important, she tells how to fire passion -- emotion -- into writing itself; to break through personal barriers and reach one's own outer limits and beyond.

Communication

Complete Speakers and Toastmasters Library (Second Edition)

By Jacob M. Braude

Business Writing Quick & Easy

By Laura Brill

Have a Nice Conflict

By Tim Scudder, Michael Patterson and Kent Mitchell

How to Prepare, Stage & Deliver Winning Presentations

By Thomas Leech

Volume 1: Speech Openers and Closers: Proverbs, Epigrams, Aphorisms, Sayings and Bon Mots

Volume 2: Human Interest Stories: Rhyme and Verse-- To Make a Point

Volume 3: Remarks of Famous People: Business and Professional Pointmakers

Volume 4: Definitions and Toasts: Origins and Firsts

Learn how to tackle any project-- from a one-page letter to a fifty-page report, from meeting minutes to a procedures manual. This book is for everyone who has to write but hates to write-- it's a friendly, practical guide to better business writing.

Ninety percent of business leaders surveyed say the ability to present ideas convincingly is critical to their jobs. Without the right preparation, planning and delivery, even the most brillant idea has little chance of acceptance. This book is the definitive guide to presenting before a group of people. Sure to give you a boost to both your professional visibility and success, it proves practical advice on targetting the audience, overcoming stage fright, presenting to an international audience, projecting the right image, testing material before the big event and handling the most irritating-- even hostile audience.

A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative

By Roger von Oech

Have a Nice Conflict reveals a practical understanding of how conflict really works -- how to recognize its initial stages, how to navigate it better to diffuse a situation, and how to understand the values of the other person to better frame your point for them. The book provides guidence for moving beyond conflict to enhance relationships, including a five-step framework and tools for locating conflict triggers in ourselves and others.

Creative

Fully illustrate; filled with provocative puzzles, anecdotes, exercises, metaphors, cartoons, questions, quotations, stories and tips; this book systematically breaks through your mental blocks and unlocks your mind for creative thinking. WHACK has been praised by business people, educators, scientists, homemakers, artists and youth leaders. It has been stimulating creativity in millions of readers, translated into elevent languages, and used in seminars around the world.

Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth

By Derrick Bell

Ethics

As one of the country's most influential law professors, Derrick Bell has spent a lifetime helping students who struggle to maintain a sense of integrity in the face of an overwhelming pressure to succeed at any price. Frequently asked how he managed to be so extraordinarily successful while never given up the fight for justice and equality, Bell decided to spend his seventieth year writing a book of insight and guidance. His message is a simple one-- but one not heard nearly enough, and rarely expressed with eloquence. Bell urges us to live a life of passion, to have the courage to take risks for what we believe in, to rely on our loved ones and our faith for support during hard times and to have the humility to know what our best intentions go awry.

The Power of Ethical Management

By Kenneth Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale

Ethical Leadership: In Pursuit of the Common Good

By Bill Grace

Created by the Center for Ethical Leadership, this book provides a list of the top 100 reads for ethical leaders.

This monograph by the Center's founder, Bill Grace, is an excellent primer on ethical leadership, Bill's 4-V model, and the common good. It is full of stories, examples and practical steps to advance the common good.

Discussion as a Way of Teaching

By Stephen D. Brookfield & Stephen Preskill

In this guide to planning, conducting, and evaluating lively discussions, authors Stephen Brookfield and Stephen Preskill offer a variety of practical ideas, tools and techniques for creating democratic classrooms. They suggest exercises to get discussion started, strategies for maintaining its momentum, ways to elicit a diversity of views and voices, ideas for creative groupings and formats, and processes to encourage student participation. In exploring the role of the teacher in discussion, they address the tensions and possibilities arising from ethnic, cultural , social class and gender differences. Additionally, they review how to balance the voices of students and teachers, while still preserving the moral, political and pedagogic integrity of discussion.

Using Cases in Higher Education

By James P. Honan & Cheryl Sternman Rule

This book is an esstential resource created for faculty and administrators who utilize case studies to analyze, assess and respond to the complex and difficult issues facing higher education leaders. It will help instructors to tap into the potential and promise of teaching and learning with cases. Discussions of case studies enable instructors to energize their classroom environments and to engage participants with the theoretical and practice-oriented aspects of case material. Students can systematically analyze and reflect on realistic, fact-based leadership and administrative dilemmas in a safe atmosphere while discussing, debating and defending various points of view.

Faculty

The Trainer's Handbook

By Karen Lawson

New trainers face a frightening task. Usually, they're given little or no formal instruction on how to train. It's sink or swim. They struggle to convey their expertise and their training can go unheeded. Even experience trainers need to brush up on the basics from time to time-- they might feel comfortable with needs assessments but need a helping hand when it comes to incorporating more active training techniques into their instructional designs. The Trainer's Handbook is the helping hand that no trainer can do without.

Processing the Experience: Strategies to Enhance & Generalize Learning

By John L. Luckner & Reldan S. Nadler

This book contends that learning is enhanced through active involvement in personally meaningful experiences accompanied by processing for meaning and future use. While some processing takes place automatically, much can be done strategically to enhance and generalize learning. Intended as a resource for experiential educators and therapists, this book collects practical information on experiential learning and processing by the 2 main authors and 23 contributors.

Eighty-Eight Assignments for Development in Place

By Michael M. Lombardo & Robert W. Eichinger

The Center for Creative Leadership's continuing studies of executives have found that learning on the job is the best way for a person to develop. Often, people are given new positions in order to provide them with developmental experiences. But what if such a transfer is not possible? This report contains eighty-eight assignments that offer individual development opportunities on a current job.

Preparing for Development: Making the Most of Formal Leadership Programs

By Jennifer Martineau & Ellie Johnson

If you're scheduled to participate in a leadership development program, or if you're considering such a program, you can substantially increase the benefits to yourself and to your organization by preparing for the development exercise. This guidebook will show you how to prepare yourself and how you can help prepare your colleagues and your work environment to make the most of a formal development program.

A Beginner's Guide to Leadership Training Program

By Dr. Peter W. Simonds

This guide addresses three key areas of student leadership training. First, it provides a brief history of leadership theory and leadership training programs in higher education. Second, it provides information on what some other colleges and universities have done in the past concerning leadership training programs. Finally, it provides a general guide for the development of a variety of leadership training experiences for college students.

Finance & Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers

By William G. Droms

This book provides immediate access to the practical guidelines and fundamentals of accounting and finance. Corporate and independent managers, entrepreneurs, executives and students entering the field of finance will find this guidebook indispensable for confronting complex business decisions that inevitably have financial impact.

Leading with Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit

By Lee G. Bolman & Terrence E. Deal

General

With the appearance of Leading with Soul in 1995, Terry Deal and Lee Bolman became pioneers in the movement to reconnect work and spirit. Since then, interest in the spiritual dimensions of leadership and work has exploded. In book clubs and boardrooms, talk shows and seminar rooms, more and more people are coming together in the search for depth and meaning in their work and lives.

Army Leadership: Be, Know, Do

By the Headquarters of the Department of the Army

The army has a simple yet profound model for leadership: Be, Know & Do. Check this book out to learn more!

Leaders on Leadership

Written by the Harvard Businss Review & Edited with a Preface by Warren Bennis

Learning to Lead

By Warren Bennis & Joan Goldsmith

The sixteen leaderships interviewed in this book range from ex-presidents and prime ministers to CEOs of American, Japanese and European businesss organizations. In answer to point questions about their styles and decisions, all are articulate about their strategies and what needs to be done to implement them. They are frank about what hasn't worked. These leaders are not only thinkers but also doers, having the crucial ability to establish a sense of purpose up and down their organizations -- a shared vision.

This unique workbook format includes more than 30 exercises designed for both personal and group use, offering multiple avenues for developing your leadership skills. Major topics include: leadership for the '90s and beyond, managers v. leaders, leadership myths, how to translate previous leadership failures into springboards of creativity, how to develop an organizational vision and communicate it successfully to others, the ethics of leadership, and how to harness the power you need to achieve your personal leadership goals.

Teamwork and Teamplay

By Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan & Glenn Par

The world's two best-known team-building facilitators bring you over thirty-five cutting-edge activities. Are you starting a new team? Are you working to improve the performance of a longstanding team? you'll turn to this treasury of hassle-free, sure-fire games, exercises and simulations time and time again. The game formats are varied: short, long, icebreakers, closers and more!

Leadership From the Inside Out

By Kevin Cashman

"Leadership from the Inside Out" is a "wake-up call" to remind us that our ability to grow as a leader is based on our ability to grow as a person. We will not analyze the external act of leadership into a formula of "ten easy-to follow" quick tips. Rather, you will take a reflective journey to foster the personal awakening needed to enhance our leadership effectiveness.

The Pathology of Power

By Norman Cousins

Norman traces the way national power becomes enlarged and institutionalized, especially as the result of external dangers, real or contrived. The prime tendency of that power is to spill over into the general operations and habits of government, of which the surreptitious sale of arms to Iran, and the funneling of funds to the Nicaraguan Contras is an example. This book is based largely on reports issued by the US General Accounting Office and congressional committees-- reports documenting waste, fraud and incompetence in excess of ten billion dollars. The central question emerging from these disclosures is whether agencies that can't be trusted to protect the wealth and resources of the American people can be trusted to protect their safety and security.

Leadership Jazz

By Max Depree

In this bold and innovative work, Max draws a compelling and illuminating parallel between leadership and jazz--both art forms in which freedom and technique, improvisation and rules, inspiration and restraint must be precisely and expertly blended. This dynamic, inspiring book compels you to reconsider every assumption you have about work...and find your own voice in this soaring coda on the art and craft of leadership.

Improving Leadership Effectiveness

By Fred E. Fiedler & Martin M. Chemers

Based on 30 years of careful research and testing, this book remains one of the few training guides actually validated in scientifically controlled studies in industry and government. This second edition includes refinements and improvements in the leader match method, and a new chapter on how you can use your intellectual abilities and past job experiences to enhance your leadership effectiveness.

Man's Search for Meaning

By Viktor E. Frankl

Viktor Frankl's training as a psychiatrist allowed him a remarkable perspective on the psychology of survival. In these inspired pages, he asserts that "the will to meanin" is the basic motivation for human life. This simple and yet profound statement became the basis of his psychological theory, logotherapy and forever changed the way we understand our humanity in the face of suffering. As Nietzsche put it, "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." Frankl's seminal work offers us all an avenue to greater meaning and purpose in our own lives-- a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the act of living.

On Becoming a Servant Leader

By Robert K. Greenleaf

Edited by Don M. Frick & Larry C. Spears

This collection of previously unpublished work by Greenleaf demonstrates his personal and professional philosophy, which postulates that true leaders are those who lead by serving others. Spanning a time frame of more than fifty years, this collection includes original essays focused on the key issues -- power, ethics, management, organization, and servanthood that are reflective of the evolution of Greenleaf's remarkable career.