readhowyouwant aug 2012 (2 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Discover Your Unique Gift''Creative aging is a choice. If we remember that transition always begins with endings, moves on to a wilderness period of testing and trying, and only then do we reach the beginning of something new, then we can embrace this encore period of life with hope and curiosity, remembering always that it is our true nature to be creative, to be always birthing new ways of sharing our planet together.'' - from the EpilogueIn a practical and useful way, Marjory Zoet Bankson explores the spiritual dimensions of retirement and aging. She offers creative ways for you to share your gifts and experience, particularly when retirement leaves you questioning who you are when you are no longer defined by your career.Drawing on stories of people who have reinvented their lives in their older years, Bankson explores the issues you need to address as you move into this generative period of life: Release: Letting go of the vocational identity associated with your career or primary workResistance: Feeling stuck, stagnant, resisting changeReclaiming: Drawing energy from the past, discovering unused giftsRevelation: Forming a new vision of the futureCrossing Point: Moving from stagnation to generativityRisk: Stepping out into the world with new hopeRelating: Finding or creating new structures for a new kind of work.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Leadership should be about much more than hitting targets and avoiding mistakes. Kim Cameron shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and what he calls ''positively deviant performance'' - performance far above the norm. Positive leadership enables thriving and flourishing rather than simply addressing obstacles and impediments. It helps bring out the best in human nature. Cameron is one of the founders of the new field of Positive Organizational Scholarship, which studies unusually high - performing organizations. In Positive Leadership he draws on discoveries in this field and in the allied field of positive psychology - which focuses on high - functioning individuals - as well as positive organizational change methodologies. He identifies four interrelated leadership strategies: Positive Climate: fostering emotions such as optimism, compassion, and gratitude Positive Relationships: building positive energy networks and developing strength - based activities Positive Communications: fostering best - self feedback and supportive communication patterns Positive Meaning: helping people find profound purpose and a sense of callingCameron cites the empirical research that these strategies are rooted in and that supports their bottom - line effectiveness, lays out a proven process for implementing them, and includes a self - assessment instrument and a guide to assist leaders in the implementation process. Positive Leadership is a concise, thoroughly researched, and practical guide that any leader can use to generate truly amazing results.