Results That Matter

Author : Paul D. Epstein,Paul M. Coates,Lyle D. Wray,David Swain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0787983179

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Results that Matter by Paul D. Epstein,Paul M. Coates,Lyle D. Wray,David Swain Pdf

Today's communities—whether they are currently strong, orstruggling to survive—face difficult challenges if they wantto be tomorrow's healthy, vibrant communities. The challenge forleaders and citizens of modern communities is not just to solvespecific problems today. Their real challenge is to keep learningfrom their experience so they can keep improving their communitiestomorrow. Results That Matter will provide a new governanceframework for using valuable tools of communityimprovement—especially performance measurement and citizenengagement—to empower communities to achieve the outcomestheir citizens most desire. Government and nonprofit managers willlearn how to combine these tools in new ways, not only to achieveone-time improvement of their organizations and communities, but tofoster continual community renewal and improvement. The benefitsand practicality of the framework and related practices will bereinforced by case examples from 25 communities across the country.The book will offer "how to" guidance to public and nonprofitmanagers, including promising practices for effective communities,and new roles for citizens, community leaders, and managers.

Author : John Doerr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780525536239

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Measure What Matters by John Doerr Pdf

#1 New York Times Bestseller Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth—and how it can help any organization thrive. In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They'd have to know when to pull the plug on losing propositions, to fail fast. And they needed timely, relevant data to track their progress—to measure what mattered. Doerr taught them about a proven approach to operating excellence: Objectives and Key Results. He had first discovered OKRs in the 1970s as an engineer at Intel, where the legendary Andy Grove ("the greatest manager of his or any era") drove the best-run company Doerr had ever seen. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove's brainchild with more than fifty companies. Wherever the process was faithfully practiced, it worked. In this goal-setting system, objectives define what we seek to achieve; key results are how those top-priority goals will be attained with specific, measurable actions within a set time frame. Everyone's goals, from entry level to CEO, are transparent to the entire organization. The benefits are profound. OKRs surface an organization's most important work. They focus effort and foster coordination. They keep employees on track. They link objectives across silos to unify and strengthen the entire company. Along the way, OKRs enhance workplace satisfaction and boost retention. In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

Author : Nonie K. Lesaux,Sky H. Marietta
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462502486

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Making Assessment Matter by Nonie K. Lesaux,Sky H. Marietta Pdf

" All too often, literacy assessments are given only for accountability purposes and fail to be seen as valuable resources for planning and differentiating instruction. This clear, concise book shows K-5 educators how to implement a comprehensive, balanced assessment battery that integrates accountability concerns with data-driven instruction. Teachers learn to use different types of test scores to understand and address students' specific learning needs. The book features an in-depth case example of a diverse elementary school that serves many struggling readers and English language learners. Reproducible planning and progress-monitoring forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. "--Provided by publisher.

Author : Peter Sheahan,Julie Williamson
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781941631775

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Matter by Peter Sheahan,Julie Williamson Pdf

People want to buy from, work for, and partner with companies that matter. So how do you build a company that matters? Companies and people that matter have successfully become the obvious choice in the hearts and minds of their customers, their employees, and their communities. They elevate themselves by consistently finding ways to solve the most pressing needs their markets face. The result? They create more value year after year and build a sustainable, differentiated organization. In Matter, Peter Sheahan and Julie Williamson show you how to identify the place where you can create the most value—your edge of disruption—at the intersection of old and new, where your existing profits, reach, and reputation enable you to create the markets of the future. This is the place where the most important problems are solved and where the fewest people can solve them. Your edge of disruption is where your opportunity to matter is found. Matter uses extensive case studies of real companies that have successfully become the obvious choice in their markets—from high-profile corporations like Adobe and Burberry to lesser-known brands like Littlefield and BlueShore Financial. Their stories define innovative and impactful approaches to business that you can use to influence and partner with the right customers and clients to win in our radically changing world. Through their journeys, you will find the inspiration and courage to lean in to complexity and solve the higher value problems that matter most. Don't just read this book—use it to identify and act on opportunities to create the most value and accelerate your own journey to becoming a person and a company that matters.

Author : Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco,Nonprofit Finance Fund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692878084

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What Matters by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco,Nonprofit Finance Fund Pdf

Compilation of essays on outcomes-based funding, contracting, and financing for the social sector.

Author : Pennsylvania State College. Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:B2955095

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Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station by Pennsylvania State College. Agricultural Experiment Station Pdf

Author : Rothamsted exper. station
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590856457

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Memoranda of the (origin) plan and results of the field (and other) experiments conducted on the farm (and in the laboratory) of John Bennet Lawes, esq., at Rothamsted, Herts by Rothamsted exper. station Pdf

Author : Patricia M. Noonan,Amy S. Gaumer Erickson
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506376325

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The Skills That Matter by Patricia M. Noonan,Amy S. Gaumer Erickson Pdf

Build skills for lifelong success Many students leave high school without the skills they need to succeed in postsecondary education and the workforce. How can we better equip students for lifelong success? Research demonstrates that intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies impact student behavior and achievement, increase graduation rates, and promote strong post-school outcomes. The Skills That Matter provides middle and high school educators with the resources, tools, and practical examples to teach key intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies, including self-regulation, goal-setting, self-efficacy, assertiveness, and conflict management. Readers will find Competency-specific evidence-based instructional strategies with examples, and Tools such as sample instructional plans, formative assessments, and student-friendly products. This book provides teachers with the practical information they need to better develop socially and emotionally engaged, career-equipped, lifelong learners.

Author : Hugo Ziemssen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503439287

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Cyclopædia of the practice of medicine v. 18, 1879 by Hugo Ziemssen Pdf

Author : Roi Cohen Kadosh,Ann Dowker
Publisher : Oxford Library of Psychology
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199642342

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The Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition by Roi Cohen Kadosh,Ann Dowker Pdf

How do we understand numbers? Do animals and babies have numerical abilities? Why do some people fail to grasp numbers, and how we can improve numerical understanding? Numbers are vital to so many areas of life: in science, economics, sports, education, and many aspects of everyday life from infancy onwards. Numerical cognition is a vibrant area that brings together scientists from different and diverse research areas (e.g., neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, anthropology, education, and neuroscience) using different methodological approaches (e.g., behavioral studies of healthy children and adults and of patients; electrophysiology and brain imaging studies in humans; single-cell neurophysiology in non-human primates, habituation studies in human infants and animals, and computer modeling). While the study of numerical cognition had been relatively neglected for a long time, during the last decade there has been an explosion of studies and new findings. This has resulted in an enormous advance in our understanding of the neural and cognitive mechanisms of numerical cognition. In addition, there has recently been increasing interest and concern about pupils' mathematical achievement in many countries, resulting in attempts to use research to guide mathematics instruction in schools, and to develop interventions for children with mathematical difficulties. This handbook brings together the different research areas that make up the field of numerical cognition in one comprehensive and authoritative volume. The chapters provide a broad and extensive review that is written in an accessible form for scholars and students, as well as educationalists, clinicians, and policy makers. The book covers the most important aspects of research on numerical cognition from the areas of development psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and rehabilitation, learning disabilities, human and animal cognition and neuroscience, computational modeling, education and individual differences, and philosophy. Containing more than 60 chapters by leading specialists in their fields, the Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition is a state-of-the-art review of the current literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:HC3X28

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The Cincinnati Lancet & Observer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Albrecht Kaupp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783663068686

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Small Scale Gas Producer-Engine Systems by Albrecht Kaupp Pdf

This monograph was prepared for the Agency for International Development, Washington D. C. 20523. The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance ofthe following Research Assistants in the Department of Agricultural Engineering: G. Lamorey, E. A. Osman and K. Sachs. J. L. Bumgarner, Draftsman for the Department, did most ofthe ink drawings. The writing of the monograph provided an unique opportunity to collect and study a significant part of the English and some German literature on the subject starting about the year 1900. It may be concluded that, despite renewed worldwide efforts in this field, only in significant advances have been made in the design of gas producer-engine systems. Eschborn, February l3, 1984 Albrecht Kaupp Contents Chapter I: Introduction and Summary 1 Chapter II: History of Small Gas Producer Engine Systems 8 Chemistry of Gasification 25 Chapter III: Gas Producers 46 Chapter IV: Chapter V: Fuel 100 Chapter VI: Conditioning of Producer Gas 142 Chapter VII: Internal Combustion Engines 226 Chapter VIII: Economics 268 Legend 277 CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION Gasification of coal and biomass can be considered to be a century old technology.

Author : Isabel Ramos,Anabela Mesquita
Publisher : Academic Conferences Limited
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-07
Category : Business
ISBN : 9781909507302

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ECRM2013-Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Research Methods by Isabel Ramos,Anabela Mesquita Pdf

Complete proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies ECRM 2013 PRINT version Published by Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Engineering
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030036928309

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Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Doug Silsbee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692053344

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Presence-Based Leadership by Doug Silsbee Pdf

Presence-Based Leadership is founded on this liberating premise: leaders' most crucial and complex challenges, rather than being obstacles, are actually doorways for becoming precisely the leader that current conditions require. Here is a rich field guide to the territory of complexity, and how leaders can navigate it with leading-edge approaches that generate clarity, resilience, and results that actually matter. Silsbee's new book is his most expansive. A master of integration, he seamlessly weaves fields as disparate as complexity, leadership and adult development theory, mindfulness, and interpersonal neurobiology into a deeply human exploration of how leaders can bring the fullness of their humanity to the most intractable challenges they face. His immensely pragmatic approach grounds new perspectives with intimate real-world examples. He offers specific, field-tested experiments and practices that invite the reader into discovery and application. This is a radically new and integrated approach to leadership, through which leaders can tap the creativity and resourcefulness of their internal complexity in order to meet a complex world. Through cultivating an embodied leadership presence, readers will become more dynamic shapers of the context in which they lead, and a creative force for what matters in a fractured and dynamic world. Presence-Based Leadership is the third and final volume in Doug Silsbee's groundbreaking and influential trilogy on coaching and leadership.