As an initial attempt to understand innovation in fashion, this volume focuses on product innovations, realizing that this industry is truly an innovative sector in which diverse technologies, science, art, and tradition have been merged, synthesized, and utilized to solve the needs and concerns of the end-users.
Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involves teachers in every step of the process.
When it was announced in late 2000 that Jeff Immelt would be taking the helm of GE, some skeptics were quick to voice their reservations about the future of the company after Jack Welch.
For over 45 years, McKinsey & Company's Gene Zelazny has been showing McKinsey consultants and professionals around the world how to plan, design, and deliver effective business presentations_and how to improve and expand their repertoire of presentation skills.
In diesem Buch werden die langfristigen Verläufe – 1960 bis 2013 – der Examensnoten für zentrale Fächer und viele Hochschulen dargestellt und die Ursachen für ihre Nicht-Vergleichbarkeit analysiert.
The very latest research shows that a process approach to interviewing provides greater structure and has the potential for significantly reducing bias.
Build a powerful social media strategy to increase buzz-and the bottom lineIn today s fast-paced professional climate, large companies are learning that launching a website and taking a wait-and-see approach to engaging customers is not enough.
A $100 trillion global market (with little competition) exists for products & services that revitalize cities and natural resources, with an estimated activity of $2 trillion per yearThis is the first book to show community and national leaders how to achieve rapid, sustainable renewalCunningham's groundbreaking first book, The Restoration Economy (Berrett Koehler Publishers, 2002), now in its third printing, was hailed by government, business, and academic leaders worldwideThe theme of ReWealth!
In this galvanizing book for all educators, Kristin Souers and Pete Hall explore an urgent and growing issue--childhood trauma--and its profound effect on learning and teaching.
Although no conscientious practitioner in a helping profession wishes to be regarded as insensitive, too frequently such professionals treat their patients more like illnesses or problems than persons in distress.
This book is presented in a format that will hopefully help you understand the limits of your equipment, give you a guide to follow when operating fire streams, and help you best manage your water delivery system.
Strategies for turning your next interview into an offer--as taught at today's leading business schoolsEvery job interview is a one-shot opportunity to dramatically improve your career and lifestyle.
CBS MoneyWatch columnist Larry Swedroe's bedrock principles for investing successInvestment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them helps anyone from the novice investor to the professional money manager become a more informed investor and ignore the kind of pervasive conventional wisdom that so often leads to financial loss.
Written by a team of highly experienced and successful executive leadership consultants, this book offers 10 data-driven insights regarding leadership effectiveness, accompanied by practical and easy-to-implement recommendations that directly serve the development of leadership ability.
With classroom-tested ideas, real-world examples, and easy-to-use activities, Giselle Martin-Kniep and Joanne Picone-Zocchia tap three decades of experience to define and describe critical teaching and learning strategies that engage students and increase achievement.
This book explores important questions about the relationship between professional practice and learning, and implications of this for how we understand professional expertise.
This handbook provides a comprehensive, scholarly overview of teacher education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), since the fall of communism in 1989.
Determine Organizational Needs Despite Limited ResourcesNeeds Assessment on a Shoestring offers talent development professionals a process for addressing organizational needs and determining whether training is the solution.
This book comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education conducted jointly by BVB College of Engineering & Technology, Hubli, India and Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE).
A direct sales superstar offers his tips on how to manage and grow quotabusting sales teamsOne of today's fastest-growing enterprise sectors, direct sales employs 10 million people.
Whether you're engaging in supersonic jet combat at 48,000 feet or entering a tough sales battle with a cutthroat competitor, the goal is the same:absolute victory.
Create an Organization That Runs on More than Intuition and GuessworkMost companies today have access to reams of data: marketing, supply chain, finance, as well as critical data about their workforce.
Advanced Human Resource Management provides comprehensive, practical guidance on understanding and implementing key strategies across various HR functions.
Already the acclaimed choice of thousands of successful organizations including the American Library Association, the Fourth Edition features an all-new chapter that considers the ways the Internet and other state-of-the-art technologies have rewritten the rules of today's meetings and conventions.
As a group, Black and Latino boys face persistent and devastating disparities in achievement when compared to their White counterparts: they are more likely to obtain low test scores and grades, be categorized as learning disabled, be absent from honors and gifted programs, and be overrepresented among students who are suspended and expelled from school.
