The fourth edition of this popular book helps small and midsized businesses as well as nonprofit organizations and public-sector agencies to achieve effective, efficient, and disciplined business development, proposal development, and knowledge management (KM) process

The book focuses on enhancing your entrepreneurial effectiveness. It integrates the newest pondering on business entrepreneurship with the perfect ideas about nonprofit management in a practical and accessible package deal that requires no prior enterprise training. This practical and easy-to-use book is filled with examples, exercises, checklists, and action steps that bring the concepts, frameworks, and tools to life

The authors maintain that the organization of the White House influences presidential performance more than is commonly thought and that organization theory is an essential tool for understanding that influence. The first part of the book presents the theoretical argument; the second examines White House outreach, including congressional liaison, press relations, personnel selection, executive branch oversight, and interest group and intergovernmental liaison

The book introduces you to key elements of social entrepreneurship and equips you to become more effective as a social entrepreneur. In each chapter, you will find concise explanations of core concepts, as well as practical tools for applaying the concepts

Painful, touchy, intimate, difficult-to-discuss, and politically incorrect taboos of leadership are the subject of this book. By holding them up to the light, judging them for good or bad, exposing their myths, and revealing their underlying truths, Smith creates a helpful and instructive description of leadership that will benefit leaders, their followers, and those who aspire to become one or both

This book will take you on a whirlwind tour of the start-up process and help you to build a solid foundation for your new venture, whether it is a small business, or a venture capital funded enterprise. Irrespective of the size or type of business, the underlying principles are the same

This book shows how to define your company`s mission, goals, and potential audience in ways that are flexible, creative, and true to your organization`s core values. It offers ten practices to engage customers using innovative marketing techniques - from discovering how customers make decisions to building commited communities of customers

The book details dozens of simple, often fun, and always practical actions you can take to help eliminate poverty in our day. Using a typical 24-hour day as a framework and focusing on common daily activities - making breakfast, taking the kids to school, checking our email - the book underscores the connections between our daily experiences and the suffering of people around the world

Brilliantly attuned to the transience of nature and painfully aware of the precariousness of a polar environment facing global warming, Peter Matthiessen provides an exquisite account of his voyage through the islands surrounding Antarctica. In lyrical prose, Matthiessen describes the wildlife he encounters and the region it inhabits, along with historical information regarding the greatest pioneers and adventurers who preceded him

In this book the author writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city"s growth. Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden - an Eden that may be only a mirage