The Small Transformation

Author : John Lederach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 168099042X
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Book of Conflict Transformation written by John Lederach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clearly articulated statement offers a hopeful and workable approach to conflict—that eternally beleaguering human situation. John Paul Lederach is internationally recognized for his breakthrough thinking and action related to conflict on all levels—person-to-person, factions within communities, warring nations. He explores why "conflict transformation" is more appropriate than "conflict resolution" or "management." But he refuses to be drawn into impractical idealism. Conflict Transformation is an idea with a deep reach. Its practice, says Lederach, requires "both solutions and social change." It asks not simply "How do we end something not desired?", but "How do we end something destructive and build something desired?" How do we deal with the immediate crisis, as well as the long-term situation? What disciplines make such thinking and practices possible? A title in The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series.

Author : Caroline L. Arnold
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101620250
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Move, Big Change written by Caroline L. Arnold and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most useful guide to getting things done since Getting Things Done." --Adam Grant, author of Give and Take Learn how small behavioral changes can lead to major personal and professional self-improvement Whether trying to lose weight, save money, get organized, or advance on the job, we’re always setting goals and making resolutions, but rarely following through on them. According to longtime Wall Street technology strategist Caroline Arnold, the “big push” strategy of the New Year’s resolution is designed to fail, because it broadly pits our limited willpower stores against an autopilot of entrenched behaviors and attitudes that is far more powerful. To change ourselves permanently, we need to focus our self-control on precise behavioral targets and overwhelm them. Small Move, Big Change is Arnold’s guide to turning broad personal goals into meaningful and discrete behavioral changes that lead to permanent improvement. Providing scores of engaging real-world examples and new scientific findings, she shows us that while the traditional resolution promises rewards on a distant “someday,” microresolutions work because they reward us today by instantly altering our routines and, ultimately, ourselves.

Author : Akos Rona-Tas
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472107957
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Surprise of the Small Transformation written by Akos Rona-Tas and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Views the fall of Communism in Hungary as the result of the erosion of universal state employment and the development of an informal private sector during the time of Communist rule

Author : Mara Benitez
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470615532
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Schools, Big Ideas written by Mara Benitez and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Schools, Big Ideas shows how the principle-based and equity-focused model from the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) can be used to redesign existing schools and create new schools that prepare students for this century's challenges and opportunities. Filled with inspirational stories and illustrative examples from schools that have successfully implemented CES principles and practices, Small Schools, Big Ideas offers information and inspiration needed to: Transform schools in order to achieve equitable outcomes for all students Understand various school design options Establish school vision, mission, and goals to raise educational expectations and results Develop transformational leadership Cultivate a professional learning community Implement student-centered teaching, learning, and curricula Build productive relationships with families and communities Establish strategies for sustainability These recommendations and proven strategies can help educators transform their schools to become truly equitable, personalized, and academically challenging.

Author : Chris Altrock
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 0827237081
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten-Minute Transformation written by Chris Altrock and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The average American spends about ten minutes per day in religious or spiritual activities. Do you believe you can experience a personal transformation if all you have is ten minutes a day? Or could these ten minutes be part of a more comprehensive plan for personal and global revolution? Could ten minutes be a mustard seed that God grows into something amazing? Pastor and author Chris Altrock believes it can! Rather than complain about ten minutes being too insignificant for spiritual growth, Altrock teaches practices to maximize that time for personal transformation and real social change. In only ten minutes a day over forty days, you'll learn a dozen spiritual disciplines to deepen your relationship with God. You'll also learn and see how God can use even the smallest amounts of time to change you and the world through your actions. Are you ready for ten minutes to actually make a difference?

Author : Preeity Verma
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482816547
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Changes, Big Difference written by Preeity Verma and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women are emotional sensitive creatures. We love too much and let go too little. As a result, often feeling angry, depressed, resentful, or victimized .This book is for you if you are feeling lost and confused about life. Through gentle introspection, you can realize what is true about yourself and what you really need to make the most of it. We spend an exorbitant amount of energy on keeping ourselves looking great. Not so much on our emotional well-being. Its time to pursue meaning over pleasure. Having a good relationship with your mind is essential to build a life of purpose. You can chart your own course and use your mind to manifest your highest and best life. It will make you aware internally and externally so that you respond more than you react. You must know that you are not merely a participant in your life but the eventual and ultimate authority on yourself. Your will is important, and you are capable of changing your patterns and your course now. In an instant. And transform your weaknesses into your strengths. And as you do that you can change your future.

Author : Ben de Haldevang
Publisher : Agile Gorilla
ISBN 13 : 9781527299375
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Save the Silver Bullet written by Ben de Haldevang and published by Agile Gorilla. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all of us affected by change, whether it's in our workplace or in our home. Our response to this has a material impact on whether it succeeds or fails. At a fundamentally pragmatic level, Save the Silver Bullet illustrates the extraordinary capacity we have to adapt and respond to change. That response is neither linear and nor easy to navigate. It does not follow a clearly defined strategic path. It is highly intuitive and reflective of our lives at a deeply personal level. Save the Silver Bullet is a book of transformation stories... extraordinary stories of success and failure in delivering complex transformation and highly disruptive change. Most importantly the stories are told by those who are at the core of the implementation effort, in all their messy, illogical and thoroughly 'human' detail. 'Save the Silver Bullet' sets out the conditions under which transformation can be successful and those where it will not be. The corporate environments in which we work have a huge role to play in determining this and describing these conditions is a good place to start as we try to improve overall success rates.

Author : Mario Luis Small
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226762939
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Villa Victoria written by Mario Luis Small and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades now, scholars and politicians alike have argued that the concentration of poverty in city housing projects would produce distrust, alienation, apathy, and social isolation—the disappearance of what sociologists call social capital. But relatively few have examined precisely how such poverty affects social capital or have considered for what reasons living in a poor neighborhood results in such undesirable effects. This book examines a neglected Puerto Rican enclave in Boston to consider the pros and cons of social scientific thinking about the true nature of ghettos in America. Mario Luis Small dismantles the theory that poor urban neighborhoods are inevitably deprived of social capital. He shows that the conditions specified in this theory are vaguely defined and variable among poor communities. According to Small, structural conditions such as unemployment or a failed system of familial relations must be acknowledged as affecting the urban poor, but individual motivations and the importance of timing must be considered as well. Brimming with fresh theoretical insights, Villa Victoria is an elegant work of sociology that will be essential to students of urban poverty.

Author : John P. Kotter
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422186431
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Change written by John P. Kotter and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented merger and acquisition activity to scandal, greed, and, ultimately, recession -- we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. By outlining the process organizations have used to achieve transformational goals and by identifying where and how even top performers derail during the change process, Kotter provides a practical resource for leaders and managers charged with making change initiatives work.

Author : Jonathan Whelan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351390279
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visualising Business Transformation written by Jonathan Whelan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business transformation typically involves a wide range of visualisation techniques, from the templates and diagrams used by managers to make better strategic choices, to the experience maps used by designers to understand customer needs, the technical models used by architects to propose possible solutions, and the pictorial representations used by change managers to engage stakeholder groups in dialogue. Up until now these approaches have always been dealt with in isolation, in the literature as well as in practice. This is surprising, because although they can look very different, and tend to be produced by distinct groups of people, they are all modelling different aspects of the same thing. Visualising Business Transformation draws them together for the first time into a coherent whole, so that readers from any background can expand their repertoire and understand the context and rationale for each technique across the transformation lifecycle. The book will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers involved in change, whether that is by creating change models themselves (strategists, architects, designers, engineers, business analysts, developers, illustrators, graphic facilitators, etc.), interpreting and using them (sponsors, business change managers, portfolio/programme/project managers, communicators, change champions, etc.), or supporting those involved in change indirectly (trainers, coaches, mentors, higher education establishments and professional training facilities).