Charting Change

Author : Braden Kelley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137536977
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charting Change written by Braden Kelley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research shows that up to seventy percent of all change initiatives fail. Let's face it, change is hard, as is getting an organization on board and working through the process. One thing that has been known to be effective is onboarding teams not only to understand this change, but to see the process and the progress of institutional change. Charting Change will help teams and companies visualize this complicated process. Kelley has developed the Change Planning Canvas, which enables leadership and project teams to easily discuss the variable that will influence the change effort and organize them in a collaborative and visual way. It will help managers build a cohesive approach that can be more easily embraced by employees who are charged with the actual implementation of change. This book will teach readers how to use this visual toolkit to build a common language and vision for implementing change.

Author : Marian Rothstein
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575911083
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charting Change in France Around 1540 written by Marian Rothstein and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the decade or so surrounding 1540, there is a change in French thinkers' assumptions about themselves, their country, and their place in the world. This evolutionary change is examined from multidisciplinary points of view, providing readers with tools for interpreting, defining, and understanding it in a broader sense. The character of the change being explored here is neither rupture nor revolution. It is a displacement of center that contributes to, or in some cases actually creates, a changed relation between past and mid-sixteenth-century present as well as between that present and attitudes toward the future. During the period around 1540, French thinkers and French perceptions opened to the notion that what-had-never-been now could be, what for lack of a better term, called the new, often accompanied by a nationalism proclaiming it for France. This brings a fresh understanding of what it means to be French - in language, in music, even in food. It brings an expansion of categories to be treated as part of the French economy, like Canadian fish, or more surprisingly, leisure, or music. Marian Rothstein is Professor of French at Carthage College.

Author : Braden Kelley
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137536952
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charting Change written by Braden Kelley and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research shows that up to seventy percent of all change initiatives fail. Let's face it, change is hard, as is getting an organization on board and working through the process. One thing that has been known to be effective is onboarding teams not only to understand this change, but to see the process and the progress of institutional change. Charting Change will help teams and companies visualize this complicated process. Kelley has developed the Change Planning Canvas, which enables leadership and project teams to easily discuss the variable that will influence the change effort and organize them in a collaborative and visual way. It will help managers build a cohesive approach that can be more easily embraced by employees who are charged with the actual implementation of change. This book will teach readers how to use this visual toolkit to build a common language and vision for implementing change.

Author : Anthony Bryk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429981376
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charting Chicago School Reform written by Anthony Bryk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, Chicago began an experiment with radical decentralization of power and authority. Intertwining extensive narratives and rigorous quantitative analyses, this book tells the story of what happened to Chicagos elementary schools in the first four years of this reform. }In 1989, Chicago began an experiment with radical decentralization of power and authority. This book tells the story of what happened to Chicagos elementary schools in the first four years of this reform. Implicit in this reform is the theory that expanded local democratic participation would stimulate organizational change within schools, which in turn would foster improved teaching and learning. Using this theory as a framework, the authors marshal massive quantitative and qualitative data to examine how the reform actually unfolded at the school level.With longitudinal case study data on 22 schools, survey responses from principals and teachers in 269 schools, and supplementary system-wide administrative data, the authors identify four types of school politics: strong democracy, consolidated principal power, maintenance, and adversarial. In addition, they classify school change efforts as either systemic or unfocused. Bringing these strands together, the authors determine that, in about a third of the schools, expanded local democratic participation served as a strong lever for introducing systemic change focused on improved instruction. Finally, case studies of six actively restructuring schools illustrate how under decentralization the principals role is recast, social support for change can grow, and ideas and information from external sources are brought to bear on school change initiatives. Few studies intertwine so completely extensive narratives and rigorous quantitative analyses. The result is a complex picture of the Chicago reform that joins the politics of local control to school change.This volume is intended for scholars in the fields of urban education, public policy, sociology of education, anthropology of education, and politics of education. Comprehensive and descriptive, it is an engaging text for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates. Local, state, and federal policymakers who are concerned with urban education will find new and insightful material. The book should be on reading lists and in professional development seminars for school principals who want to garner community support for change and for school community leaders who want more responsive local institutions. Finally, educators, administrators, and activists in Chicago will appreciate this detailed analysis of the early years of reform.

Author : Nigel Thomas
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781847421838
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children, Politics and Communication written by Nigel Thomas and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is about adults and how they can interact effectively with children and young people, both on an individual, and societal level, in ways that are sensitive to their feelings.

Author : Neta C. Crawford
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262371928
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War written by Neta C. Crawford and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Pentagon became the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it’s not too late to break the link between national security and fossil fuel consumption. The military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense—military forces and DOD agencies—is the largest single energy consumer in the United States and the world’s largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. In this eye-opening book, Neta Crawford traces the U.S. military’s growing consumption of energy and calls for a reconceptualization of foreign policy and military doctrine. Only such a rethinking, she argues, will break the link between national security and fossil fuels. The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War shows how the U.S. economy and military together have created a deep and long-term cycle of economic growth, fossil fuel use, and dependency. This cycle has shaped U.S. military doctrine and, over the past fifty years, has driven the mission to protect access to Persian Gulf oil. Crawford shows that even as the U.S. military acknowledged and adapted to human-caused climate change, it resisted reporting its own greenhouse gas emissions. Examining the idea of climate change as a “threat multiplier” in national security, she argues that the United States faces more risk from climate change than from lost access to Persian Gulf oil—or from most military conflicts. The most effective way to cut military emissions, Crawford suggests provocatively, is to rethink U.S. grand strategy, which would enable the United States to reduce the size and operations of the military.

Author : Deirdre Healy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351544985
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Desistance written by Deirdre Healy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well-established that the majority of youth offenders cease to commit crime in early adulthood, but the mechanisms behind the shift from a criminal to a conventional lifestyle are not fully understood. The Dynamics of Desistance aims to contribute to this nascent area of inquiry by providing a phenomenological account of the psychosocial processes involved in desistance from crime. Drawing on a variety of methods, including in-depth interviews with repeat offenders and their probation officers, police records and psychometric scores, this book charts the early stages of a journey taken by individuals who exist in the liminal space ‘betwixt and between’ crime and convention. A combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis is used to explore the shifts that occur in desisters’ minds and lives as they make the often turbulent transition to a crime-free life, and the dynamic processes that occur at this psychosocial boundary are described. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings in this book are explored in relation to key issues in desistance literature, and as such this book provides a key resource for academics and students working with the area of probation, as well as practitioners in involved in probation, social work and parole supervision.

Author : Stephen A. Wise
Publisher : Quality Press
ISBN 13 : 1636940803
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovative Control Charting written by Stephen A. Wise and published by Quality Press. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for the quality professional with a basic understanding of traditional SPC, this book presents solutions for the problems encountered when trying to apply traditional control charting techniques in a complex manufacturing environment. Anyone using SPC who has felt limited by its traditional methods will find this book timely and beneficial. Along with basic SPC topics such as, control chart theories, process capability studies, data collection strategies, and sampling, this book concentrates on describing tools which solve the limitations of traditional SPC techniques. Specifically designed for those who face the challenges of limited data collection opportunities, small production runs, multiple characteristics, and demanding manufacturing situations, Innovative Control Charting will become a favorite, modern SPC reference. Benefits: Discover how SPC can be effectively applied even with complex parts, numerous part dimensions, similar but different characteristics, and small lot sizes. Learn how to overcome the three main limitations of traditional SPC techniques. Explore new SPC techniques in a step-by-step analysis approach using real-life examples.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Author : Eric E. Castro
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681238985
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charting a New Course written by Eric E. Castro and published by IAP. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to encourage teachers and administrators to move beyond traditional course structures and to ask them to consider designing experiential curriculum that is interdisciplinary and focused on solving real world problems. Why do this? Both authors believe that the current model of education falls short in preparing students to think creatively, to work collaboratively and to engage actively as problem solvers. An educational sea?change is needed more than ever given the problems that face our world now and that threaten to worsen in the next few decades. This book is divided into sections devoted to courses that, despite their interdisciplinary nature, we categorized into the following fields: Social Science, Literature and Composition, Computer Science, Mathematics, Art, Environment and Ecology, Engineering, Public Health, and Administration.