La vita è piena di domande che riguardano la salute, le finanze, la famiglia, il futuro. Ci sono anche domande più profonde: Chi sono io? Perché sono qui? Dove sto andando? La vita ha uno scopo? Ma le domande di fondo riguardano Dio: Esiste? Com'è? Posso conoscerlo e sperimentare la sua potenza nella mia vita? E se sì, come? Questo libretto affronta di petto queste domande vitali, rispondendo in modo semplice, chiaro e diretto. Ti invitiamo a leggerlo con attenzione. Potrebbe cambiare la tua vita, e per sempre.

Supported by new case studies, practical checklists, and end-of-chapter problems, the new edition of this classic text provides a step-by-step walkthrough of the total systems lifecycle. It addresses signficant challenges faced by SEs today, including dwindling resources, rapidly changing lifecycle technologies, shorter design deadlines, and international systems requirements. Newly focused on hardware and software integration, IT principles, cutting-edge design methods, and team building, this text delivers all the tools used by real SEs to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

A new edition based on the timeless business classic—updated to help today’s readers succeed more quickly in a rapidly changing world.

For decades, The One Minute Manager® has helped millions achieve more successful professional and personal lives. While the principles it lays out are timeless, our world has changed drastically since the book’s publication. The exponential rise of technology, global flattening of markets, instant communication, and pressures on corporate workforces to do more with less—including resources, funding, and staff—have all revolutionized the world in which we live and work.

Now, Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson have written The New One Minute Manger to introduce the book’s powerful, important lessons to a new generation. In their concise, easy-to-read story, they teach readers three very practical secrets about leading others—and explain why these techniques continue to work so well.

As compelling today as the original was thirty years ago, this classic parable of a young man looking for an effective manager is more relevant and useful than ever.

A revised edition of the timeless business classic—updated to help today’s readers succeed more quickly in a rapidly changing world.

For decades, The One Minute Manager® has helped millions achieve more successful professional and personal lives. While the principles it lays out are timeless, our world has changed drastically since the book’s publication. The exponential rise of technology, global flattening of markets, instant communication, and pressures on corporate workforces to do more with less—including resources, funding, and staff—have all revolutionized the world in which we live and work.

Now, Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson have updated The One Minute Manger to introduce the book’s powerful, important lessons to a new generation. In their concise, easy-to-read story, they teach readers three very practical secrets about leading others—and explain why these techniques continue to work so well.

As compelling today as it was thirty years ago, this classic parable of a young man looking for an effective manager is more relevant and useful than ever.

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED

In this new edition of their classic business fable, Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller get at the heart of what makes a leader successful. Struggling young executive Debbie Brewster asks her mentor the one question she desperately needs answered: “What is the secret of great leaders?” His reply—“great leaders serve”—flummoxes her, but over time, her mentor reveals the five fundamental ways that leaders succeed through service.

This new edition includes a leadership self-assessment so that readers can measure to what extent they are serving and where they can improve. The authors also have added answers to the most frequently asked questions about applying the serving-leader model in the real world.

As practical as it is uplifting, The Secret shares Blanchard’s and Miller’s wisdom about leadership in a form that anyone can easily understand and implement. The book will benefit not only those who read it but also the organizations they work in and the people who look to them for guidance.

Written within a bio-psychosocial framework, Cavanaugh and Blanchard-Fields' best-selling book covers the specific ages-stages of adult development and aging. In its unparalleled coverage of current research and theory, the authors draw clear connections between research and application. The book's focus on 'positive aging' and the gains and losses people experience across adulthood distinguish it from its competitors.

Forty years in the making, Management of Organizational Behavio r is a readable text that makes behavioral sciences come alive through real life examples and progressive ideology.

Who Killed Change?

Solving the Mystery of Leading People Through Change

Every day organizations around the world launch change initiatives—often big, expensive ones—designed to improve the status quo. Yet 50 to 70 percent of these change efforts fail. A few perish suddenly, but many die painful, protracted deaths that drain the organization's resources, energy and morale.

Who or What Is Killing Change?

That's what you'll find out in this witty whodunit. The story features a Columbo-style detective, Agent Mike McNally, who's investigating the murder of yet another change. One by one, Agent McNally interviews thirteen prime suspects, including a myopic leader named Victoria Vision; a chronically tardy manager named Ernest Urgency; an executive named Clair Communication, whose laryngitis makes communication all but impossible; and several other dubious characters.

The suspects are sure to sound familiar and you're bound to relate them to your own workplace. In the end, Agent McNally solves the case in a way that will inspire you to become an effective Change Agent in your own organization. A step-by-step guide at the back of the book shows you how to apply the story's lessons to the real world. Key questions help you evaluate the health of your organization's change initiatives, and you'll learn best practices for enabling and sustaining the desired change.

Two bestselling business audiobooks are now together at a great low price!

THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER

By Ken Blanchard, Ph.D. and Spencer Johnson, M.D.

With more than 13 million copies sold worldwide, The One Minute Manager ranks as one of the most successful management titles ever published. Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson teach you the strategies of one-minute management to save time and increase your productivity whether it is in your business, your home, or even managing your children.

And...

PUTTING THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER TO WORK

By Ken Blanchard, Ph.D. and Robert Lorber, Ph.D.

The bestselling team of Ken Blanchard and Robert Lorber bring you the ever-timely strategies of one-minute management in Putting the One Minute Manager to Work -- an indispensable success tool for any manager striving to get the most from his or her people. This essential follow-up to The One Minute Manager applies the secrets of One Minute Goal Setting, One Minute Praisings and One Minute Reprimands to real-life situations so that you can put them to work in your life immediately!

Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a 'Maze' and look for 'Cheese' to nourish them and make them happy. Two are mice named Sniff and Scurry. And two are 'Littlepeople' -- beings the size of mice who look and act a lot like people. Their names are Hem and Haw.

'Cheese' is a metaphor for what you want to have in life -- whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money, a possession, health, or spiritual peace of mind. And the 'Maze' is where you look for what you want -- the organization you work in, or the family or community you live in. In the story, the characters are faced with unexpected change. Eventually, one of them deals with it successfully, and writes what he has learned from his experience on the Maze walls.

When you come to see 'The Handwriting on the Wall,' you can discover for yourself how to deal with change, so that you can enjoy less stress and more success (however you define it) in your work and in your life.

The 10th anniversary audio edition of Who Moved My Cheese? includes exclusive new bonus material in which Spencer Johnson offers fresh insights on its origins, impact and applications that will help you put its powerful wisdom to work.

Nugent (U. of Massachusetts, Amherst) and coauthors in pediatrics and physical therapy present this manual instructing clinicians who work with newborns in the use of the Newborn Behavioral Observations system (NBO). The NBO allows readers to make assessments on the development of a newborn and its relationship to its parents, and suggest strategies to parents for promoting behaviors and solving problems. Chapters comprise 18 observations for infants from birth to about three months, and include advice on working with medically fragile newborns and in multicultural, in-home, and nursery settings. Color photographs support the text. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

In tutte le organizzazioni - aziende industriali, commerciali, di servizi, ospedaliere, enti locali e pubblici - è indispensabile coinvolgere quanti vi lavorano, affinché - ad ogni livello - diano il massimo di se stessi, segnalino i problemi e collaborino alla loro soluzione, assicurino un servizio personalizzato ai clienti-utenti, contribuiscano con le loro idee al miglioramento continuo della performance, dell'efficienza, della qualità, della redditività. Sembra esserci un accordo generale sul fatto che lavoratori, manager e organizzazioni potrebbero ottenere grossi benefici dalla creazione di una cultura in cui ci sia un'effettiva responsabilizzazione del personale. Empowerment è la risposta a questa esigenza. Coinvolgendo i lavoratori in una cultura di empowerment si permette loro d'usare le proprie conoscenze, esperienze, motivazioni per realizzare dei compiti che vanno a beneficio dell'organizzazione, con modalità tangibili e intangibili, provando un senso di orgoglio per ciò che fanno. I manager diventando dei team leader possono scoprire che i risultati si ottengono più facilmente che in una cultura gerarchica. Questo libro, basato su esperienze concrete e scritto da uno dei guru più famosi e da due suoi collaboratori, costituisce una guida sicura e completa che vi aiuterà a compiere questo passaggio e a incrementarne sostanzialmente la rapidità.

Told in the parable style of The One Minute Manager, RAVING FANS uses a brilliantly simple and charming story to teach listeners how to define vision, learn what a customer really wants, institute effective systems, and make Raving Fan Service a constant feature--not just another program of the month.

America is in the midst of a service crisis that has left a wake of disillusioned customers from coast to coast. RAVING FANS includes startling tips and innovative techniques that can help anyone create a revolution in any workplace--and turn their customers into raving, spending fans.

Success Can Be Yours With The One Minute Manager

The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs offers you the most important minute of your career.

With more than two million hardcover copies in print, The One Minute Manager ranks as one of the most successful management books ever published. Now, you can listen and learn the strategies of one-minute management to save time and increase your productivity whether it be in your business, your home or even managing your children.

You will learn to use three easy-to-master management techniques that have already changed the lives of millions:

One Minute Goal Setting

One Minute Praising

and

One Minute Reprimands

Deceptively simple, and measurably effective, the secrets of one-minute management will help you boost profits, productivity and purpose immediately.