While executives are keen to harness organizational knowledge and improve business performance, the topic of how academics can produce rigorous and relevant theory in working relationships with practitioners is a much contested topic. Many aspects of this knowledge co-creation can create tensions, and the ways in which research is conducted and published can affect practitioner acceptance, as well as its consequent uptake and use in different contexts.Expertly compiled by Jean Bart...

Knowledge Works is a handbook full of ideas to help you draw on people's knowledge to keep ideas fresh, reduce waste, and build competence and capability. You can either dip into it according to your needs, or work through it in a more systematic way to create a plan to improve your organization's performance."Knowledge Works is a very practical book that provides proven solutions for important knowledge-related problems in organizations including: how to convince...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.After losing her beloved husband, eighty-four-year-old Jane McKenzie moves into the elegant Talmadge House retirement community in Norfolk, Virginia. She expects quiet days filled with gardens, card games, and gentle companionship. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of a deadly puzzle.When several difficult, sharp-tongued residents die suddenly under seemingly natural circumstances, Jane grows suspicious. Teaming up with h...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.After losing her beloved husband, eighty-four-year-old Jane McKenzie moves into the elegant Talmadge House retirement community in Norfolk, Virginia. She expects quiet days filled with gardens, card games, and gentle companionship. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of a deadly puzzle.When several difficult, sharp-tongued residents die suddenly under seemingly natural circumstances, Jane grows suspicious. Teaming up with h...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.After losing her beloved husband, eighty-four-year-old Jane McKenzie moves into the elegant Talmadge House retirement community in Norfolk, Virginia. She expects quiet days filled with gardens, card games, and gentle companionship. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of a deadly puzzle.When several difficult, sharp-tongued residents die suddenly under seemingly natural circumstances, Jane grows suspicious. Teaming up with h...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.After losing her beloved husband, eighty-four-year-old Jane McKenzie moves into the elegant Talmadge House retirement community in Norfolk, Virginia. She expects quiet days filled with gardens, card games, and gentle companionship. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of a deadly puzzle.When several difficult, sharp-tongued residents die suddenly under seemingly natural circumstances, Jane grows suspicious. Teaming up with h...

Buzzing Communities cuts through the fluff to offer a clear process for creating thriving online communities. This book combines a century of proven science, dozens of real-life examples, practical tips, and trusted community-building methods. This step-by-step guide includes a lifecycle for tracking your progress and a framework for managing your organization's community efforts. This Book Will Help You to: -Understand what the members of your community really want. -Dramatically increase...

A must have for all practising and aspiring consultants and strategists, this book covers a wide range of consultancy tools and techniques that are well displayed, well described and well referenced. The tools and techniques are helpfully divided in to twenty recognisable skills sectors within management consultancy fields and specialisms.The depiction of the content with diagrams aids the process of quick reference and ease of understanding. The tools and techniques can be utilise...

How to Get a PhD is the market leading, classic book for PhD students and their supervisors.

Join forces with others inside and outside your organization to solve your toughest problems.If you read nothing else on collaborating effectively, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you work more productively with people on your team, in other departments, and in other organizations.Leading experts such as Daniel Goleman, Herm...

Many of today’s books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project management. This book takes a completely different approach. It contests the claims that the tools and techniques are based on evidence and explains why human activities of leading and managing are simply not amenable to scientific proof and consequently, why long-term futures of organizations are unpredictable.T...

“Dee Fink challenges our conventional assumptions and practices and offers an insightful approach to expanding our learning goals, making higher education more meaningful. This is a gem of a book that every college teacher should read.”—Ken Bain, author, What the Best College Students DoSince the original publication of L. Dee Fink’s Creating Significant Learning Experiences, higher education has continued to move in two op...