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The Power of Collaborative Leadership: Lessons for the Learning Organization helps business leaders realize the promise of organizational learning by sharing the lessons, insights, and best practices gained by two veteran managers and organizational learning pioneers. The book makes organizational learning principles and concepts more concrete by grounding them in the practical experiences of two major companies.
The Power of Collaborative Leadership helps business leaders realize the promise of organizational learning by sharing lessons, insights, and best practices gained by Bert Frydman and Iva Wilson, two veteran managers and organizational learning pioneers. Together with JoAnne Wyer, a professional learning analyst, they show that in order to be effective leaders of business organizations, we must transform an organization's methods of absorbing new information and its ability to transform it into knowledge and wisdom. This book offers some provocative and practical ways to overcome many commonly held assumptions and practices that can actually impede learning and the improvement of the organization.
Bridges the gap from the theory to the practice of learning organizations
Demystifies the organizational learning principles
Explains the leadership skills required to create a learning organization
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Gut wrenching and deeper than Shakespeare :-) but a must read before embarkng on any change initiative.......2007-06-27
Our friendConrad Anker, a modern day explorer, just summitted MT Everest as a part of a documentary of the 1924 attempt by George Mallory. Iva Wilson and Bert Frydman are explorers of a different kind. As readers, we get to walk with them as they scale their mountains, hills, and valleys of implementing organizational change using organizational learning (OL) tools.
I had a gut reaction to this book. The tribal stories as told by Iva and Bert allow the reader to experience a mock simulation of what it's like to lead and live in times of revolutionary change. One gets to feel the power, the thrill, the fear, the frustration, the pain, and responsibility carried by leaders spearheading change. The reader gets an inside out look at the processes, how they evolved, adapted, disappeared, and impacted Iva and Bert's thinking and action. Rarely do we get to participate in a process from the inside out. We get to here out loud the assumptions, the questions, the barriers, and challenges from a leader's perspective.
Their honesty smacked me in the face with my own behaviors in a recent 6 year change process. I appreciated the dichotomy of visionary and pragmatic leadership styles because they were made explicit and represent what we all face as leaders - the different perceptions and approaches in enacting vision. They were willing to expose their mental models for our learning, so critical to beginning a change effort.
Dixon's OL definition: "intentional use of learning processes at the individual, group, and system level to continuously transform the organization..." was poignant. (p. 47) However, I was irked at the notion that OL and bottom-line are often viewed as diametrically opposed. I would argue if you have a dysfunction work environment, you probably have higher health care costs, lost production, stress related impact across the board, unhappy families, higher turnover... OL should be the prerequisite to maximizing human potential and bottom-line results. It was disturbing that there were so many negative external forces pushing against Iva and Bert and yet, OL and its proponents seemed to become scapegoats for major systemic causes outside their control..
The interviews of other powerful leaders highlight the need for (1) core values as underpinning of any vision, (2) genuine care and concern for people and their aspirations in aligning personal values with that of the organization, (3) the need to create shared leadership by giving away power to those that are capable, and (4) to be able to be the bridge between old and new systems. The authors summarize their short list of an effective OL leader. The reader is asked to create a learning journey with an adaptive map. The questions posed offer a comprehensive analysis for more effective implementation.
I would recommend this book for anyone embarking on a change initiative, leader or employee. This book is worth reading, studying by chapter, using for individual or organizational analysis, and for assessment on multiple levels - individual, organizational, and systemic. Thank you for allowing me to learn, feel, and be challenged by your learning.
Becky H. Smith, Ed.D., Systems Management and Research, Inc.
Find your OWN path to organizational learning.......2001-06-27
I have known one of the authors, Iva Wilson, for many years. When I served with her on a Board I thought she had a remarkable ability to distill an idea that was in the air in such a way that we all took full credit. Based on this experience, I anticipated that this book would help me with organizational learning, which it did.
The authors have written a very useful and stimulating volume. For me, as a senior manager and then as a consultant, Organizational Learning has been an abstract and academic topic. In contrast, this book relates the actual experiences of two CEO's - both their successes and failures - in terms I can relate to my own experiences.
One of the great strengths of the book - though it will be a source of discomfort to those who want easy, tidy, answers - is that it makes clear how individual each organizational learning effort is and must be. The route is often not clear; changing directions is a necessity, not a detour from a know-able optimal path.
The differences in the CEO's experiences can make for difficult reading because they do NOT prescribe a single approach or method. I found it hard to keep straight what each one was recommending. Finally, I realized that I needed to craft my own approach using their stories as stimulus. Eureka! A very worthwhile experience.
Learning Takes Courage.......2001-04-17
Learning, true learning, takes courage. Being a life-long-learner means being comfortable admitting that all our previous thoughts, feelings and actions-while they were the best we could do at the time-were limited by what we had not yet learned. Being a learner means admitting that the answers we believe in today are always limited by what we will learn tomorrow.
One of the things I love about this book is the courage the authors model in admitting that learning has inherent risk. I know Iva Wilson, but I had no idea of the power of her story until I read this book. I gained a whole new perspective of the pain and heartache that can come from being a CEO with a vision that others do not fully appreciate. I am thankful that she and Bert are willing to tell of their failures as well as their successes in their journey to create organizations where people can be more authentic and humane. This book asks me to stop, the next time I am being judgmental of another's' passion, and listen more deeply to their story.
I have studied much about organizational learning, but this book gave me many stories that brought the meanings behind Peter Senge's book, The Fifth Discipline, into a new light. I understand organizational double-loop learning in a new way. And thanks to Iva, I have a new appreciation of the risk and the power of dialogue.
This book would be a comforting companion for anyone who fears they are not smart enough to "do it right the first time." None of us are.
Practical Approach to Organizational Learning -- Finally!.......2001-02-16
This is the first book on OL that I would feel comfortable passing on to a business manager. Most of the others I've read are more geared toward researchers in the area. But the work is thoroughly researched and referenced, so even researchers will find the book a good lesson in how to write for the business audience! The summaries of key contributions in the field (esp Argyris, Schon, Senge) at the beginning would be a great primer for someone new to this area of research, and the practical advice in the later part of the book in terms of questions to answer at each stage of going forward with your OL effort were highly appropriate.
A strong voice from a practitioner in a new book format.......2001-01-02
The books is innovative as it reports not only success stories about the learning organisation, but also failures in trying to use its concepts, methods and tools. It is a must read for consultants, practitioners and researchers facing the challenges of learning, change management and leadership, in a compelling and different format (interviews).
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Muck on my boots
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Updated with additional material for the new Eighth Edition, this popular lab manual offers thirty-four multi-part lab exercises designed to provide students with basic training in the handling of microorganisms, while exploring microbial properties and uses. This lab manual can also be used independently of the main text.
An instructor's manual, downloadable from the Web, accompanies the lab manual and provides principles of lab safety; research topic ideas, information on customizing laboratory programs with the manual; helpful suggestions for setting up and running each exercise; and lists of laboratory media, cultures, and special materials used in each exercise.
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Laboratory Fundamentals of Microbiology
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- Light Shining Through the Mist
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Light Shining Through the Mist: A Photobiography of Dian Fossey (Photobiographies)
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No One Loved Gorillas More: Dian Fossey: Letters from the Mist
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Customer Reviews:
Light Shining Through the Mist.......2005-02-21
I think this book was pretty interesting on how she lived a lot of her life helping gorillas. She wrecked poachers traps and learned to live somewhat like a gorilla. I would be very interested to read about her murder and why it happpened. She was a very brave women and lived very simply, yet she loved it. I thought she did a great thing.
Dian Fossey.......2000-11-27
This is a great book, and it is a wonderful way to understand the life of Dian Fossey. This is definetly a book for people who love animals and admire the work of Dian Fossey.
Book Description
Young superstar athletes have dispelled long-standing misconceptions that strength development should start in the late teens. But much discussion has continued regarding what type of training is most beneficial.
Strength Training for Young Athletes provides all the answers as the authoritative guide to strength development for 7- to 18-year-old athletes. World-renowned strength and conditioning experts William Kraemer and Steven Fleck present the latest facts on the effects of strength training on growth, development, and performance. The authors then make recommendations relative to starting age, choice of exercises, frequency of training, rate of progression, and philosophical aspects of program design.
Learn how to individualize the age-appropriate sample training programs provided, based on the athlete's physical, psychological, and emotional maturity as well as the demands of the sport. Such carefully designed programs not only improve athletic performance and prepare young athletes for higher competitive levels, but they also help to decrease the incidence of injury along the way.
Strength Training for Young Athletes is the most complete and credible resource for developing the muscular foundation for athletic success.
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"Must-have" guide for anyone responsible for a young person.......2006-10-04
Now in an updated second edition, Strength Training For Young Athletes: Safe And Effective Exercises For Performance by co-authors William J. Kraemer PhD (Editor-In-Chief of the Journal Of Strength And Conditioning Research) and Steven J. Fleck PhD (Chair of the Sport Science department at Colorado College in Colorado Springs), both world-renowned strength and conditioning experts addresses how to apply beneficial strength training to young people without risking harm to their physical, psychological, or emotional development, and keeping the odds of injury in athletics and athletic training to an absolute minimum. Chapters address how to determine individual needs, creating safe training environments, single and multi-joint upper and lower body exercises, total-body exercises and sport-specific regimens, and much more. Black-and-white photographs, detailed explanations and instructions, and no-nonsense prose fully accessible to lay readers and parents as surely as it is to coaches and professionals distinguish this "must-have" guide for anyone responsible for a young person involved in serious sports.
Safety first and always; your physical body is not immortal........2005-04-16
Young superstar athletes have dispelled long-standing misconceptions that strength development should start in the late teens. But much discussion has continued regarding what type of training is most beneficial.
Strength Training for Young Athletes provides all the answers as the authoritative guide to strength development for 7- to 18-year-old athletes. World-renowned strength and conditioning experts William Kraemer and Steven Fleck present the latest facts on the effects of strength training on growth, development, and performance. The authors then make recommendations relative to starting age, choice of exercises, frequency of training, rate of progression, and philosophical aspects of program design.
Learn how to individualize the age-appropriate sample training programs provided, based on the athlete's physical, psychological, and emotional maturity as well as the demands of the sport. Such carefully designed programs not only improve athletic performance and prepare young athletes for higher competitive levels, but they also help to decrease the incidence of injury along the way.
Strength Training for Young Athletes is the most complete and credible resource for developing the muscular foundation for athletic success.
About the Author
William J. Kraemer is a professor in the department of kinesiology working in the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. He also is a professor in the department of physiology and neurobiology and a professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
Dr. Kraemer held multiple appointments at Pennsylvania State University, where he was professor of applied physiology, director of research in the Center for Sports Medicine, associate director of the Center for Cell Research, and faculty member in the kinesiology department and the Noll Physiological Research Center.
Kraemer had served on the Sports Medicine Committee for the United States Weightlifting Federation and on the Sport Science and Technology Committee for the United States Olympic Committee. He received the National Strength and Conditioning Association Lifetime Achievement Award for bringing science into the development of strength and conditioning programs.
He is editor in chief of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, an associate editor of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Applied Physiology. A former junior high and college coach, Kraemer has coauthored many books and articles on strength training for athletes.
Steven J. Fleck is chair of the sport science department at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Previously, he headed the physical conditioning program of the U.S. Olympic Committee; served as strength coach for the German Volleyball Association; and coached high school track, basketball, and football.
An internationally known expert on strength and anaerobic training, Fleck was a vice president of basic and applied research for the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). He is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). He was honored in 1991 as the NSCA Sport Scientist of the Year.
Fleck has authored many books and numerous articles on strength training and physical conditioning. He is also a columnist for Muscular Development.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Strength Training and Your Child
Chapter 2. Physical and Psychological Development
Chapter 3. Determining Individual Needs
Chapter 4. Creating Individualized Programs
Chapter 5. Safe Training Environments
Chapter 6. Teaching Technique
Chapter 7. Multi-Joint Upper Body Exercises
Chapter 8. Multi-Joint Lower Body Exercises
Chapter 9. Single-Joint Upper Body Exercises
Chapter 10. Single-Joint Lower Body Exercises
Chapter 11. Single-Joint Abs, Low Back, and Shoulders
Chapter 12. Total-Body Exercises
Chapter 13. Sport-Specific Regimens
"In Strength Training for Young Athletes, Dr. Kraemer and Dr. Fleck teach how to develop a safe, effective program, addressing the physical and psychological maturation of each individual. This book should be required reading for anyone training young athletes."
Robert Jursnick
Executive director, National Strength and Conditioning Association
"I know first-hand that a successful young athlete has a well rounded training program that includes strength training. An ideal resource for those who want to get it right, Strength Training for Young Athletes will help you design a program that will prepare your athletes for their next level of performance."
Mike Nitka
Director of strength and conditioning, Muskego High School
Former Vice President, National Strength and Conditioning Association
Nice reference and clear instruction.......2001-01-08
I am a fight trainer and I train athletes to compete in full contact and mixed martial arts style fights. I do have some young people that come to me for training. They are between the ages of 12 and 16 and obviously their training must be done differently than a full grown advanced athlete. This book gave me some direction and acknowledges many myths about youths training with weights. It is not a book for body building. Children should not be trying to "bodybuild". This is training for "strength and power".
Great for Parents, Coaches and the Motivated Young Athlete.......2000-08-02
Great sourcebook for young athletes, coaches and parents that debunks the myths associated with physical fitness for children. Provides great guidance to help children safely improve their performance while also helping to prevent injury. A wise investment for the serious young athlete. Recommended by the renowned sports orthopedic practice at Boston's Children's Hospital. Written for adults but readable by children.
STRENGTH TRAINING FOR GRANNIES?.......2000-07-08
This is book really is about toning not for bodybuilders ( esspecially young ones) i think that a young bodybuilder should read magazines and go to a gym to find a routine that could suit ones self, this book gives you little knowledge on why the exercises should be performed.
all in all , save your money ,i wish i could get mine back! :)
Book Description
This guide to weight training is specifically designed for the thousands of young athletes in high schools who are realizing the benefits of weight training in their workout programs to build muscle and confidence. Step-by-step instructions and exercises for each area of the body are accompanied by 150 photos demonstrating correct form so that athletes can maximize their workouts.
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Updated with helpful facts and tips for international travelers, this new third editions of Learn French the Fast and Fun Way is suitable as language teaching book for adults as well as for older children. It instructs beginners in the basics of reading, writing, understanding, and speaking French. The book lightens language-learning routines with cartoon-style illustrations, language games, and puzzles. A set of vocabulary flashcards and a small staple-bound bilingual dictionary booklet are bound into the book's spine and can be easily removed for supplementary use.
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The BEST Beginner's course for learning French.......2007-02-03
I really enjoyed the layout of this program. I have invested a great deal of money in courses to self-teach myself French and Barron's is by far the best. It came with 4-CDs so you get to HEAR the way the words are spoken and a 250 page book loaded with activities to help you learn...a winning combination! Granted, it could use some updating, ex. it still refers to francs and not euros and every now and then, the CD conversation is not EXACTLY as it is printed in the book, but that only happened like twice. However, the reason Barron's wins out over the other book/CDs courses is their activity workbook. This is what really grabbed my attention and motivated me to keep going until I actually completed the whole book. A first for me! The workbook is like an activity book..8"x10" in size(a BIG plus!)so there is actually ROOM to write your answers, unlike the book in Oxford's "Take off in French" (5 x 7.75" super tiny!) The chapters are about 15 pages each and have a theme (Getting to know people, Arrival, etc.) They each have plenty of audio or a dialog that includes a side-by-side english translation so you're not flipping pages back-and-forth to make sense of it all (like Living Language's "ULTIMATE FRENCH"--another small book that don't even have room to write answers to lessons at all!) AND it has the pronounciation above the words. Chapters also include some grammar and/or verbs are introduced; and finally, there are some fun activities: puzzles, fill-in the blanks, word matching, etc. The answers are at the bottom of the pages...again, no flipping to the BACK of the book to grade your work. There are a couple of test as well to measure your progress. Overall, I found Barron's Fast & Fun activity kits to be the best beginner's tool for learning a foreign language. While visiting Paris, I've referred to some of the dialogs in this book to help me ask for something...who knew I would have to tell the maid to starch my hubby's pants while on vacation?? Thanks for the help, Barron's! Now, how about an Advanced version?
At least you would have fun.......2005-09-26
This book may be a lack of accuracy, more expencive than this value, and the CD is too fast to follow, not appropriately. If you are a serious French learner, forget about it.
However, if you are a just beginner of French or you would enjoy learning Frech rather than pressure of achevement, take it. You would enjoy a sense of humor in the dialogue and colorfull images.
I think at the first stage of learning foreign language, you need fun rather than accuracy. You enjoy with this to get used French words, sound, and rhythm then may be go the next stage.
Have fun!
Quelle Disappointment !.......2005-08-19
Not worth the price! The tapes are not always correlated with the text (not updated with the book's revision). The pitiful dictionary omits basic words but includes arcane menu items. The tapes' speakers garble the phrases and do not include enough short phrases reachable by positioning the tape. The illustrations (undecipherable cartoons) don't adequately identify the word. Despite my four years of French in high school and college and time in France, I found the tapes incomprehensible most of the time and can't imagine how a newcomer to the language could benefit at all from this course.
insuffiisant.......2004-01-21
I just finished three quarters of French with this pseudo-text in a high school adult education course. The teacher is a Suisse lady and a gem, but the book is wholly inadequate even as a superficial introduction. The book proves that language is NEITHER fast nor fun. Only the present tense is introduced. The sunbjunctive and some idiomatic expressions are dropped into the text and then left unexplained. Worse yet, the vocabulary is designed for serious [i.e., fabulously rich] shoppers. You will learn such expressions in Frech as "a ring without a setting" and "pendent earrings" and how to get your watch fixed, but you will never carry on a simple conversation with a French speaking person. Quel dommage! Get a real textbook or if you can get help on pronunciation, a do-it-yourself book like Adrianne's old "French in 32 Lessons" or Berlitz.
Good but could be better.......2003-12-30
The book intends on getting the reader ready for a trip to France using a typical situation (in a comical matter) to practice conversation; which is great. But, it does lack explanations of sentence structures. It is highly recommended that you obtain the audio packages, if you are going to a French speaking country or province. And also a proper dictionary to accompany your studies. I am planning on getting French from Pimsleur Pimsleur to practice conversation dialogues. However, to be honest, it's quite fun just reading the book itself; good for a starter that's in a hurry.
Book Description
Written and illustrated by a working painter and distinguished teacher, this essential volume offers students and professionals alike the essence of a living tradition of European art stretching back to the great masters of the Italian Renaissance. Step-by-step diagrams and work projects are used to increase understanding and familiarity with concepts and techniques.
Customer Reviews:
Good all in one book for the beginner.......2002-07-14
Getting started with drawing or painting can be overwhelming, especially if your using many of the great books out there to learn by.
This one guides you along very well in that it eases you into the rules of perspective and portraying anatomy in a gentle and easy to absorb manner.
Stan Smith uses simple drawings rather than photographs to explain portraying anatomy, which I found easy to reproduce. This gave me the confidence to continue on and wasn't as intimidating as some so called beginner books can be.
He then follows on with examples of perspective that can go into a little to much detail in some areas, but covers the basics very well.
The composition section was especially helpful as it uses both samples of famous works and simple manikin and object set up to explain proper composition, and he does it in a way that won't be beyond the beginner.
Overall its a great all in one starter book. If you don't want to waste time reading seperate books on each subject then this ones for you.
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