Collective wisdom refers to knowledge and insight gained through group and community interaction. This title shows how we can reliably tap into the extraordinary cocreative potential that exists whenever human beings gather together. It also includes historical examples that illustrate how collective wisdom has emerged in a range of cultures.

To have the future we all want, women must play a more robust role in setting priorities and allocating resources. This title presents argument, research, and tactical guidance to help readers wedge the door open and bring more women through and up. It helps readers get started on a win-win women-led strategy to bring about the leadership balance.

Debbie, a struggling leader finds herself about to lose her job due to poor performance. In a desperate attempt to save her career, she enrolls in a new mentoring program offered by her company. Debbie decides that all she needs is the answer to one question, 'What is the secret of great leaders?' The secret is that all great leaders Serve.

A primer for how to bring out the best in our children.

Discusses what the author calls 'Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths': that we can donate people out of poverty, that national economic growth will end poverty, and that Big Business, operating as it does, will end poverty. This work shows that programs based on such ideas have failed; in fact in sub-Saharan Africa, poverty rates have gone up.

How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? This book explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.

It is hard to know when we begin our careers what the real price of success will be. This work describes how this gnawing doubt goes far beyond questions of work/life balance to whether we feel we can keep our word, keep our promises, say what we really think, or be the kind of person we want to be and still function in our organizations.

Are meetings taking over your life? This book shows how to use e-calendars, PDAs, and virtual meetings to make life easier, not more complicated. It focuses on a small number of high-impact best practices that really work.

America's safety net is torn and tattered. Income inequality continues to grow the gap between rich and poor has expanded fivefold. This book presents a comprehensive grassroots strategy to create what he calls citizen wealth: an enduring foundation on which working people can build a future that extends beyond paying next month's rent.

Release the power within people for astonishing results.

This text illustrates three simple keys that organizations can use to effectively tap into the knowledge, experience and motivation power that people already possess.

Too many people operate in teams that perform well below their potential. This title outlines a 3-step process that can benefit work teams, project teams, problem solving teams, leadership teams, and more. It includes numerous examples of cases where teams have achieved greatness and shows readers how to become a positive example unto themselves.

Presents a goal setting and goal achieving methodology that has been used by millions to achieve extraordinary things. This book begins by explaining the seven key elements of goal setting and the 12 steps that are necessary to set and accomplish goals of various sizes.

Reveals key ingredients that go into accomplishing any long-term, meaningful success. This book shows that the real secret to success is to first figure out your destination where you want to go and lock in on it. It lets you identify precisely what you must do to achieve the goals you have set for yourself and take action.

'The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success.' Offers a straightforward, eye-opening, life-affirming approach to how the world of business really works.

Using the fable format for making sure you actually use what you know, this work teaches you how to avoid information overload by learning less more, not more less; adjust your brain's filtering system to learn up to 100 times more than before; and master what you've learned using spaced repetition.

How to offer, give and receive help.

Shares how we can put together broad-based coalitions that advance the progressive agenda rather than simply make us feel good about the purity of our ideals. This book argues that we must let go of our preconceived notions about who our opponents are, how they think, and what specific outcomes we're aiming for.

Sparked by a conversation about the lack of moral and ethical standards at high levels in business, this text explores the issues of leadership.

Provides a blueprint for going beyond customer loyalty to create and sustain customer devotion, showing how businesses that inspire cult-like devotion - companies as diverse as Jack Daniels, GE, eBay and many others - create customer experiences that bind their customers to them.