Five diverse teams of educators in California strive to improve their schools and school systems from the inside. Follow their stories, as documented by five educators from the High Tech High schools in San Diego, CA.
[Speeches by Les Brown]
Study the science of achievement through the wisdom of the world’s leading motivational speaker, Les Brown. In this collection of live keynote speeches, Les Brown’s straight-from-the-heart approach will change your belief in what you can achieve.
This popular collection of audio recordings includes Les Brown’s most powerful speeches. You’ll have unlimited access to his timeless insights and discover how to live the life of your dreams. You have greatness within you; it merely takes persistence to let it unfold.
Feeding your mind with Les Brown’s unique brand of positive motivation will empower you to shed your excuses and unwrap your greatness. Through this extraordinary collection, you will learn the importance of attitude, setting goals, and creating a powerful personal vision to guide you on your journey. With the tools you’ll gain in this program, your life of greatness is just one step away.
Top leadership researcher, consultant, and coach Susan Fowler says stop trying to motivate people! It’s frustrating for everyone involved and it just doesn’t work. You can’t motivate people—they are already motivated but generally in superficial and short-term ways. In this book, Fowler builds upon the latest scientific research on the nature of human motivation to lay out a tested model and course of action that will help leaders guide their people toward the kind of motivation that not only increases productivity and engagement but that gives them a profound sense of purpose and fulfillment.
Fowler argues that leaders still depend on traditional carrot-and-stick techniques because they haven’t understood their alternatives and don’t know what skills are necessary to apply the new science of motivation. Her Optimal Motivation process shows leaders how to move people away from dependence on external rewards and help them discover how their jobs can meet the deeper psychological needs—for autonomy, relatedness, and competence—that science tells us result in meaningful and sustainable motivation.
Optimal Motivation has been proven in organizations all over the world—Fowler’s clients include Microsoft, CVS, NASA, the Catholic Leadership Institute, H&R Block, Mattel, and dozens more. Throughout the book, she illustrates how each step of the process works using real-life examples. Susan Fowler ‘s book is the groundbreaking answer for leaders who want to get motivation right!
Words are the foundations of cultures, societies, and individuals. Words help us connect with both our ancestors and our contemporaries. Words and expressed thoughts are often the seeds that lead to personal change, growth, and development. They are the building blocks that touch, arouse, provoke, and stir the individual passions and desires that stimulate personal motivation. Words that stand the test of time, such as the ones found in Asian Words of Inspiration, and are passed down from generation to generation assume an aura of greatness and significance enhanced by their longevity. Within Asian Words of Inspiration you will find over 700 motivational quotations, thoughts, and phrases from some of Asia’s leading thinkers: Buddha, Confucius, Dalai Lama, Gandhi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Lao-Tzu, Paramahansa Yogananda, Rumi and many others. These quotations will provide readers with a wealth of beliefs and ideas to spark their own personal inspiration on: self-awareness, mindfulness and being present, peace and peacefulness, love, your life’s journey, attaining personal goals, and the mystical, supernatural topic of interconnectedness. Reflecting on the words of wisdom and thoughts within Asian Words of Inspiration will provide inspiration and motivation for your own personal growth and development. Asian Words of Inspiration is part of the Asian Words of Wisdom series of books by Steven Howard. In his Asian Words of Wisdom series of books, Howard, who lived in Singapore for 21 years, shares hundreds of quotes from across Asia that moved, impressed, or got him thinking a bit harder, deeper, or even more lightly.
According to scientists, we are entering the sixth great mass extinction event. Full of inspiration and hope, this book is an antidote for anyone who suffers from ecological despair over the current state of our planets wildlife and wild places. Lori Robinson sought out fifty of the world’s leading conservationists, men and women who have devoted their lives to saving some of the most endangered species and the most threatened areas on earth. To each she posed the question: How do you stay inspired? This book is the result. Among the people Robinson interviewed are wildlife filmmakers Beverly and Dereck Joubert, elephant experts Daphne Sheldrick, Cynthia Moss and Joyce Poole, and ocean warrior Paul Watson. She spoke with Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, former CEO of Patagonia, and with Laura Turner, daughter of one of America’s most prominent conservationists. In the foreword Jane Goodall explains that she finds hope in the indomitable human spirit “embodied in the people who tackle seemingly impossible problems, and refuse to give up, and who so often succeed — like the inspirational people in this book.”
INSPIRATION in GLASS shares and ignites the passion for working with hot molten glass. It pays homage to each of the 18 leading glass artisans presented in this book: Akiko Isono, Annette Nilan, Astrid Riedel, Bronwen Heilman, Ginger E.L.A., Holly Cooper, Jeri Warhaftig, Kate Fowle Meleney, Kim Fields, Kristen Frantzen Orr, Lucie Kovarova-Weir, Meike Nagel, Nicole Zumkeller & Eric Seydoux, Rocio Bearer, Sharon Peters, Stephanie Sersich, Yoshinori Kondo. The book’s aim is to inspire you – all the passionate bead makers and creative people around the world to discover your inner-artist. Have you ever looked at pictures of beautiful glass art from leading glass artisans and wondered: – “How do they do that?” – “What inspires them to make this fantastic piece of glass art?” – “How did they find the ideas and inspiration for their signature piece?” For this book I have asked the 18 artisans all these important questions – not only because I was craving the answers myself, but also to inspire every passionate bead maker out there, who would love to ask the same questions. This book will give you the unique opportunity to look behind the scenes and offers you the possibility to learn from the artisans and their inspiration and nurture your own passion for working with glass.
An INFLUENCER leads change.
An INFLUENCER replaces bad behaviors with powerful new skills.
An INFLUENCER makes things happen.
This is what it takes to be an INFLUENCER.
Whether you’re a CEO, a parent, or merely a person who wants to make a difference, you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. But most of us stop trying to make change happen because we believe it is too difficult, if not impossible. We learn to cope rather than learning to influence.
From the bestselling authors who taught the world how to have Crucial Conversations comes the new edition of Influencer, a thought-provoking book that combines the remarkable insights of behavioral scientists and business leaders with the astonishing stories of high-powered influencers from all walks of life. You’ll be taught each and every step of the influence process–including robust strategies for making change inevitable in your personal life, your business, and your world. You’ll learn how to:
Identify high-leverage behaviors that lead to rapid and profound change Apply strategies for changing both thoughts and actions Marshal six sources of influence to make change inevitable
Influencer takes you on a fascinating journey from San Francisco to Thailand to South Africa, where you’ll see how seemingly “insignificant” people are making incredibly significant improvements in solving problems others would think impossible. You’ll learn how savvy folks make change not only achievable and sustainable, but inevitable. You’ll discover breakthrough ways of changing the key behaviors that lead to greater safety, productivity, quality, and customer service.
No matter who you are or what you do, you’ll never learn a more valuable or important set of principles and skills. Once you tap into the power of influence, you can reach out and help others work smarter, grow faster, live, look, and feel better–and even save lives. The sky is the limit . . . for an Influencer.
Top leadership researcher, consultant, and coach Susan Fowler says stop trying to motivate people! It’s frustrating for everyone involved and it just doesn’t work. You can’t motivate people—they are already motivated but generally in superficial and short-term ways. In this book, Fowler builds upon the latest scientific research on the nature of human motivation to lay out a tested model and course of action that will help leaders guide their people toward the kind of motivation that not only increases productivity and engagement but that gives them a profound sense of purpose and fulfillment.
Fowler argues that leaders still depend on traditional carrot-and-stick techniques because they haven’t understood their alternatives and don’t know what skills are necessary to apply the new science of motivation. Her Optimal Motivation process shows leaders how to move people away from dependence on external rewards and help them discover how their jobs can meet the deeper psychological needs—for autonomy, relatedness, and competence—that science tells us result in meaningful and sustainable motivation.
Optimal Motivation has been proven in organizations all over the world—Fowler’s clients include Microsoft, CVS, NASA, the Catholic Leadership Institute, H&R Block, Mattel, and dozens more. Throughout the book, she illustrates how each step of the process works using real-life examples. Susan Fowler ’s book is the groundbreaking answer for leaders who want to get motivation right!
A new edition of the book that lead the self-directed work teams revolution. Leading Self-Directed Work Teams is one of the best-selling books on teams ever published. Now, the perfect guide for any team leader has been revised and expanded to reflect the new realities of team-based organizations. By explaining how team leaders differ from conventional supervisors, this informative volume which is based on the author’s successful seminars and workshops is especially useful for those managers who move from hierarchical to participatory structures.
This edition feature more practical examples and techniques than in the previous edition, new research, dozens of tips and checklists, case studies, and valuable training exercises. It has been used and praised by experts at Motorola, M.I.T., AT&T and many other organizations.
