Beat Your Goals: The Definitive Guide to Personal Success

Beat Your Goals: The Definitive Guide to Personal Success (Colour Guides)
By David Molden, Denise Parker

Publisher: Financial Times Management
Number Of Pages: 172
Publication Date: 2002-12
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0273656708
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780273656708

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
By Stephen R. Covey

Publisher: Free Press
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2004-11-09
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0743269519
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780743269513

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

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The Art of What Works: How Success Really Happens

The Art of What Works: How Success Really Happens
By William Duggan

Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2003-07-16
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0071412069
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780071412063

A commonsense approach to creating effective new strategies from ones that are proven to work

From Napoleon through Jack Welch, great leaders have always "borrowed" great ideas from others. The Art of What Works cuts against the grain of today's one-size-fits-all strategic gurus to argue that there are no intrinsically good or bad strategies--just flexible strategies that work best in given situations. Welch's appropriation of Six Sigma from Motorola, and use of its best features to revitalize GE, is a recent example of this approach.

In this insightful and practical guide, leading strategist William Duggan lays the groundwork for building new strategic frameworks by observing what works--and what doesn't--in the real world. The Art of What Works shows business professionals how to:

• Recognize and adopt great ideas and strategies
• Modify strategically sound ideas to their own benefit
• Decide on a course of action--then modify it when necessary

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Understanding Human Motivation: What Makes People Tick?

Understanding Human Motivation: What Makes People Tick?
By Donald R. J. Laming

Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Number Of Pages: 344
Publication Date: 2003-08
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 063121982X
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780631219828

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Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus

Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus (Oxford Classical Monographs)
By Emily Baragwanath

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2008-07-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 019923129X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780199231294

In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their interpretation afterwards. Much as the contemporary sophists strove to discover truth about the invisible, Herodotus was acutely concerned to uncover hidden human motivations, whose depiction was vital to his project of recounting and explaining the past. Emily Baragwanath explores the sophisticated narrative techniques with which Herodotus represented this most elusive variety of historical knowledge. Thus he was able to tell a lucid story of the past while nonetheless exposing the methodological and epistemological challenges it presented. Baragwanath illustrates and analyses a range of these techniques over the course of a wide selection of Herodotus' most intriguing narratives - from those on Athenian democracy and tyranny to Leonidas and Thermopylae - and thus supplies a method for reading the Histories more generally.

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Organizational Behavior I: Essential Theories Of Motivation And Leadership

Organizational Behavior I: Essential Theories Of Motivation And Leadership
By John B. Miner

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2005-03-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0765615231
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780765615237

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The Daily Disciplines of Leadership: How to Improve Student Achievement, Staff Motivation, and Personal Organization

The Daily Disciplines of Leadership: How to Improve Student Achievement, Staff Motivation, and Personal Organization (Jossey Bass Education Series)
By Douglas B. Reeves

Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2002-11-04
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0787964034
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780787964030

The Daily Disciplines of Leadership is a comprehensive and down-to-earth manual for school leaders that addresses the daunting challenges that today's principals, superintendents, and teacher-leaders face on a daily basis. Written by Douglas Reeves— a leading authority on academic standards, performance assessment, and accountability— the information in this book is based on his extensive experience working with educators, administrators, and school board members from across the country and internationally. Reeves discusses the basic purpose of leadership, presents four key leadership archetypes, and offers practical recommendations for action. Covering a wide range of topics— from accountability systems to personal communications— this book will serve as the 'go to' resource for novice and seasoned school leaders alike.

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Motivation and Agency

Motivation and Agency
By Alfred R. Mele

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 280
Publication Date: 2003-01-02
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 019515617X
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780195156171

What place does motivation have in the lives of intelligent agents? Mele's answer is sensitive to the concerns of philosophers of mind and moral philosophers and informed by empirical work. He offers a distinctive, comprehensive, attractive view of human agency. This book stands boldly at the intersection of philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and metaphysics.

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Motivation and Action

Motivation and Action
By Jutta Heckhausen, Heinz Heckhausen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 526
Publication Date: 2008-02-18
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0521852595
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780521852593

Motivation and Action gives an extensive and in-depth overview of the diverse lines of research in motivational psychology, in terms of its historical foundations, up-to-date conceptual developments, and empirical research. The major classes of motivated behavior are addressed and the critical processes involved in motivation and volition are discussed in detail. Different conceptual and empirical lines of research are integrated and analyzed as to the common issues and phenomena they address, thus providing a most useful guideline for understanding debates in current motivational, educational, and social psychology.

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Motivation (Management Pocketbooks)

Motivation (Management Pocketbooks)
By Max A. Eggert

Publisher: Management Pocketbooks
Number Of Pages: 104
Publication Date: 1999-02-28
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 1870471601
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9781870471602

Understanding the concept of motivation is an invaluable management tool for helping individuals at all levels of employment produce their best work. This book integrates and synthesizes the complex subject of motivation into a compact, concise and very readable form.

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Motivation: A Biobehavioural Approach

Motivation: A Biobehavioural Approach
By Roderick Wong

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 292
Publication Date: 2000-07-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521561752
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521561754

Motivation: A Biobehavioural Approach provides the reader with an understanding of why individuals exhibit certain behaviors, and what causes these actions. Roderick Wong presents an analysis of motivated behavior such as sexual activity, parental behavior, food selection, and fear or aggression, from a biological perspective. Each chapter focuses on the individual systems underlying specific motivational states that result in motivated acts. The author discusses similarities, differences, and integration between these motivational systems throughout the volume. Using a framework derived from research and theory from animal behavior and comparative psychology, he analyzes relevant issues in human motivation such as mate choice, nepotism, attachment and independence, sensation-seeking, obesity, and parent-offspring conflict. This book will be particularly useful for undergraduate students in psychology or behavioral science taking courses in motivation and emotion, comparative psychology, animal behavior, or biological psychology.

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Handbook of Competence and Motivation

Handbook of Competence and Motivation
By Andrew J. Elliot, Carol S. Dweck

Publisher: The Guilford Press
Number Of Pages: 704
Publication Date: 2005-04-04
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 1593851235
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9781593851231

This important handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative review of achievement motivation and establishes the concept of competence as an organizing framework for the field. The editors synthesize diverse perspectives on why and how individuals are motivated in school, work, sports, and other settings. Written by leading investigators, chapters reexamine central constructs in achievement motivation; explore the impact of developmental, contextual, and sociocultural factors; and analyze the role of self-regulatory processes. Focusing on the ways in which achievement is motivated by the desire to experience competence and avoid experiencing incompetence, the volume integrates disparate theories and findings and sets forth a coherent agenda for future research.

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Self and Motivation: Emerging Psychological Perspectives

Self and Motivation: Emerging Psychological Perspectives
By Abraham Tesser, Diederik A. Stapel, Joanne V. Wood

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2002-02
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 1557988838
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9781557988836

Strong on theory and empirical work, Self and Motivation showcases cut ting-edge research that asks a variety of intriguing questions: Can go als be activated outside our awareness? How do interpersonal dynamics affect the self? How do we maintain a distinctive identity in a group context? Is too much choice or self-determination "bad"? How does self -esteem and morality influence the self? Here leading scholars discus s the importance of motivation, emotion, and physiological arousal in self-related processes; explore the role of awareness in goal-driven b ehavior; and describe the interactive influence of social context on t he self and the self on social context. A formal integrated model of s elf-regulation is also proposed. Up-to-date, informative, and engagin g, Self and Motivation challenges readers to consider new approaches i n studying and thinking about motivation and self.

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Motivation, Emotions, and Leadership: The Silent Side of Management

Motivation, Emotions, and Leadership: The Silent Side of Management
By Richard C. Maddock, Richard L. Fulton

Publisher: Quorum Books
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 1998-10-30
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 1567201512
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9781567201512

Leadership is motivation and motivation is leadership, say the authors of this important and unique study. The two elements are inseparable, but until now no one has actually conceptualized motivation in a useful way to demonstrate and analyze the connection between it and leadership. The key for leaders is dealing with the emotions that underlie and activate motivation. Maddock and Fulton provide a highly successful, proven, and replicable approach not only to motivate people, but also to train them to lead others. The authors develop an 11 level structure of human motivation that defines and describes motivation in simple, graphic, all-inclusive language. They then show how leaders can use this motivational hierarchy to solve complex problems in the workplace. The result is a blueprint to help executives in all types of organizations manage more effectively, and as they do so, to motivate and truly lead the people who depend on them for guidance and direction. Maddock and Fulton offer several scenarios to show how their ideas work in practice. In the "vertical fix" they demonstrate how motives that get out of synch with each other can be re-aligned, eliminating the chaos that would otherwise occur. In the "lateral fix" they show how a person who may be functioning at the extreme edge of motivation can be moved back toward the center, a place where the person's effect on others is most and best felt. Well documented throughout, their book will be important reading for training and development professionals, specialists in organizational behavior, and executives at all levels in public and private sectors.

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