A victim mentality is rampant in organizations today. My boss is a jerk. This is a dead-end job. I can't change anything here. This book shows readers how to gain success and satisfaction in their lives by transforming the ways they interpret the actions of others, their own situation, and themselves.

Includes stories that show how people of various ages, income levels, and expertise can find meaning and significance in their lives, wherever they are. This title helps readers to learn how to establish meaning through daily service in their own lives.

Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy .

Based on two PBS documentaries, this work uses the metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment, by the obsessive quest for material gain. It also ups the ante for the continuing war we should wage against consumerism nationwide.

Shows how a new understanding of the nature of the universe has far-reaching implications for how we can better live our everyday lives, improve our communities, and meet the enormous challenges of our time.

Contains articles which support the practices of people and leaders in many different types of organizations, communities, and cultures. This book sums up the author's thinking on a divers scope of topics, from leadership and management, to social change, and to our personal role in these times.

Addressing training's central challenge - how to meet organizational demands for clear business value - this text provides strategic perspectives and tools to take training out of limbo. It draws on the author's successes running training like a business at major international corporations.

Exposes the secrets of a worldwide web of control, corruption, and plunder. This book tells how bigger powers operate to enrich small elite and corporate coffers while often impoverishing masses of people and creating debt and dependency that economically enslave countries for generations.

This text explores a new way for organizations and communities to apply global thinking and democratic values to achieve rapid whole systems improvement.

Offers examples of successful recognition programs from around the world and addresses providing effective recognition in an increasingly virtual work environment. This title reveals what employees should expect from recognition and what managers can do to give morale and productivity a genuine, lasting boost.

This text examines the world of spirit/consciousness in organizations and offers to help those who find themselves dreading another day in the job. The author draws on theories of self-organizing systems to reveal how spirit shows up in new organizational forms.

A basic research textbook about planning and conducting research in organisations. It covers the foundations and methods relevant to doing research in organisations as well as the identification of research questions and the ethical conduct of research. It includes case examples illustrating the various research methods.

How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competion. Second edition.

Offers a tested, six-stage approach for navigating common work-life transitions so that readers not only get through them but emerge stronger and better able to face the next challenge.

A guide to identifying organizational changes that should have a high probability of producing results. It presents a practical evaluation approach that can be used across all types of organizations, along with many examples and step-by-step directions on implementing the success case method.

Offers a framework and tools and techniques to help readers move from the traditional role to that of a Performance Consultant. This book shows readers how to form partnerships with management, help to identify performance required to ensure that business goals are achieved and assist management in taking actions needed for performance to change.

Business people and others often fail to perform their jobs well because of cross-cultural differences. This book presents a systematic way to approach the variety of interactions that people face in different cultures and locales.

More Than Money: Questions Every MBA Needs to Answer .