The metaphor of dosage offers us a rich organizing principle for managers. It focuses our efforts on fundamental, pragmatic communication issues such as amount, frequency, delivery system, sequencing, interaction with other agents, and contraindications. It suggests compelling new answers to fundamental problems that all managers must face, with an appreciation of basic issues beyond our conscious awareness: How much communication should we engage in to pursue our projects? Inside this boo...

The information context of the modern organization is rapidly evolving in the face of intense global competition. Information technologies, including databases, new telecommunications systems, and software for synthesizing information, make a vast array of information available to an ever expanding number of organizational members. Management's exclusive control over knowledge is steadily declining, in part because of the downsizing of organizations and the decline of the number of layers ...

Dosage: A Guiding Principle for Health Communicators uses “dosage” as a metaphor to help all healthcare professionals apply basic communication principles to their work.After a general overview of communication and its paramount importance in the health care setting, J. David Johnson, a professor of communications and former media research analyst for the U.S. Information Agency and author of five previous books, outlines the best practices forInterpersonal communication in...

This book provides the first truly comprehensive treatment of three topics that have traditionally been treated separately: teamwork, leadership, and communication. Teamwork has become central to the operation of the modern organization. People from diverse backgrounds culturally, professionally, and demographically must work together to develop the well-rounded decision making needed for organizations to survive in our modern economy. Leadership, and relatedly management, have more tradit...

A no-BS, real-world guide to solving management problems through systematic thinking, data-driven decisions, and execution that actually works.Most management books are long on theory and short on execution. Figure It the F*ck Out changes that. David J. Johnson, the battle-tested CEO and founder of Vervent, built billions in company value by rejecting management theater and focusing on what actually drives results. From using data to uncover truth...

The Language Gap provides an accessible review of the language gap research, illuminating what we know and what we do not know about the language development of youth from working and lower socioeconomic classes. Written to offer a balanced look at existing literature, this text analyzes how language gap research is portrayed in the media and how debatable research findings have been portrayed as common sense facts. This text additionally analyzes how language gap research has imp...

Every believer is called. Every believer is gifted. Every believer is needed.Your Ministry Matters is a warm, practical, and encouraging introduction to Christian ministry for today’s church. Whether you are a new believer or a seasoned follower of Christ, this book will help you understand your God-given identity, discover how you were designed to serve, and step faithfully into the work God has prepared for you.You will learn the difference between the general ca...

Investing Wisely is more than a financial guide – it’s a call to faithful stewardship. Drawing from timeless biblical principles and the authors’ decades of real-world experience, this book equips readers to manage money with purpose and clarity. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to reset your financial habits, you’ll be guided through seven essential decisions that will help you save, invest, give, and live with eternity in mind.This practical a...

Professional excellence in the dental field often comes at a steep price: burnout, isolation, and physical exhaustion. Dr. Cathy Hung offers a transformative framework that goes beyond self-care and is filled with evidence-based research and inspirational interviews, offering a systematic approach to managers and executives.Whether you are a student, practitioner, or healthcare executive, these insights provide the gold standard for navigating professional volatility while maintaining long...

Popular Culture in Late Imperial China delves into the vibrant and multifaceted world of non-elite Chinese culture during the late imperial period, spanning roughly from 1550 to 1920. This collection of essays challenges the overemphasis on elite narratives in Chinese historical studies, highlighting the importance of exploring the values, ideas, and cultural expressions of the broader populace. Drawing on an array of texts—scriptures, plays, almanacs, novels, and oral traditions—the contr...

Comprising by far the largest and most diverse group of vertebrates, fishes occupy a broad swathe of habitats ranging from the deepest ocean abyss to the highest mountain lakes. Such incredible ecological diversity and the resultant variety in lifestyle, anatomy, physiology and behavior, make unraveling the evolutionary history of fishes a daunting task. The successor of a classic volume by the same title, Interrelationships of Fishes, provides the latest in the "state of the art" of syste...

Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.Psalm 119:14Hear God’s Voice. Live Transformed.Every believer needs guidance, but what if the guidance you need isn’t found in more advice – but in more Scripture?Counseled by God teaches you how to have a quiet time that awakens real, lasting life change. With the simple but powerful GRIP journaling method – God’s Word, Revelation, Implementation, and Prayer – you’ll learn how to hear...