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Chambers, John 1949- Educational psychology Emperor of China Qin shi huang 259 B.C.-210 B.C Drama Jing, Ke -227 B.C Drama Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908-1973 Leadership Management Case studies Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Success in business United StatesLeaman, Oliver
Summary: "An extensive glossary of the main terms and concepts used in Eastern philosophy. including concepts from: Zoroastrianism, Sufism, Concucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, Islam, Shintoism, & Buddhism."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 181 LEASummary: If terrorism and scandal have undermined the strength and credibility of American business, so too have they stimulated a new determination to improve the way business is done. In this program, two of the New York region's top executives-Charles Lee, chairman and co-CEO of Verizon Communications, and Arthur Ryan, chairman, CEO, and president of Prudential Financial-reflect on corporate America...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Both were founded in 1927. Both are still going strong. And both are counting on their abilities to implement new technologies and to react quickly to changing customer tastes to stay ahead of the competition. This program pairs up James Keyes, president and CEO of 7-Eleven, and Donald Carty, chairman, president, and CEO of AMR Corporation and American Airlines, to comment on the CEO as a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Key, Aidan
Summary: "Authored by a seasoned diversity educator, Trans Children in Today's Schools provides a pragmatic and thorough approach to creating inclusive, safe, and flexible environments for gender-diverse young people. The primary audience for this text is parentsand K-12 educators, as well as the extended support network in a child's life. This book goes well beyond the what and why of gender diversity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.15 KEYGoodwin, Doris Kearns
Summary: "In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 GOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 GOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 GOOSummary: This program, guest-hosted by CNBC's Stuart Varney, profiles Jack Welch, dubbed Most Admired CEO of the Century by Forbes and lauded by Fortune as "perhaps the most admired CEO of his generation." General Electric's former chairman and CEO shares his commonsense philosophy and the leadership initiatives that transformed GE and revolutionized the world of business. In addition, MBA students and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: With a softening economy reducing revenues and stiffening competition in the high-tech sector, a time comes when even the most successful business plans must be adjusted. This program filmed at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, brings together Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems, to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Kellerman, Barbara.
Summary: "Bad Leadership argues that it's time to embrace a more honest, holistic view of leadership that acknowledges the dark side of human nature and its impact on leaders and followers alike. In a departure from conventional thinking, Barbara Kellerman contends that bad leadership is not an aberration, but a ubiquitous and insidious part of everyday life that must be carefully examined and better...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business School Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4092 KELDonnithorne, Larry R.
Summary: West Point takes leadership very seriously. They must: military leaders literally hold lives in their hands. Living up to such critical responsibilities takes courage, determination, integrity, self-discipline - and the highest performance in each of these areas. West Point has trained more leaders than the Harvard Business School to meet precisely these standards. This book takes the reader...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Currency Doubleday 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 DONSummary: In the summer of 2001, 47 Iranian women neither affiliated with nor supported by any political party registered themselves as candidates for the presidential elections. Due to the Guardian Council's interpretation of a clause in the constitution, none of the women were allowed to run. This documentary presents the thoughts and opinions of six female candidates who agreed to be interviewed,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Contents: Front titles -- Billy's paper round -- Dawn -- Billy sees Kes in the tower -- Stealing the book -- Midnight -- Billy climbs and captures Kes -- Training Kes -- Kes first fight -- Jud walks to the mine -- Kes flies free -- Kes flies higher -- Billy asleep in the boiler room -- Foreboding -- Looking for Kes -- Realisation -- Burying Kes
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Trunk 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC KESGordon, Ed
Summary: Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America, and, with help from his mighty team of black intelligentsia, veteran journalist Ed Gordon creates hope and a timeless new narrative on what the future of black leadership should look like and how we can get there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 GORSummary: Pharmaceuticals and banking are among the most profitable industries in the world. What are these companies doing to remain profitable during the post-9/11 economic downturn? In this program, Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of Bank One Corporation, and Raymond Gilmartin, chairman, president, and CEO of Merck and Company, talk about leadership during turbulent times; the outsider as insider, when...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: What lessons can Cervantes' romantic knight from La Mancha offer the bottom-line world of today? Based on Professor Emeritus James G. March's acclaimed course at the Stanford University School of Business, this program creatively examines how Quixote's kind of self-knowledge might serve modern leadership. Narrated by Professor March, the program parallels episodes from Quixote's adventures with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Referring to the work of Piaget, Erikson, and Goffman as well as to the studies of David Elkind, this program looks at the intellectual, emotional, and social consequences resulting from adolescent changes in thinking - a transition that can create social and emotional difficulties. The video includes footage of a public middle school and structured interviews illustrating the intellectual...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Chambers, John
Summary: Silicon Valley visionary John Chambers shares the lessons that transformed a dyslexic kid from West Virginia into one of the world's best business leaders and turned a simple router company into a global tech titan. When Chambers joined Cisco in 1991, it was a company with 400 employees, a single product, and about $70 million in revenue. When he stepped down as CEO in 2015, he left a $47...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 658.4 CHASummary: In this program filmed at Carnegie Mellon's Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Gary Goldstein, chairman and CEO of staffing service Headway Corporate Resources, and Jeff Christian, chairman and CEO of executive search firm Christian and Timbers, talk about the challenges of recruiting top talent in a market where the demand has outstripped the supply. In addition, MBA students and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Achieving Excellence in Fundraising is the go-to reference for fundraising principles, concepts, and techniques. With comprehensive guidance toward the fundraising role, this book reflects the latest advances in fundraising knowledge. Coverage includes evolving technologies, the importance of high net worth donors, global fundraising perspectives, results analysis and performance evaluation,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Money TempelBlanchard, Kenneth H.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 BLAKey, Joshua.
Summary: In the first memoir from a young soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, Joshua Key offers a vivid and damning indictment of what we are doing there. Key, a young husband and father from a conservative background, enlisted in 2002 to lift his family out of poverty. A year later, he found himself participating in a war that was not the campaign against evildoers he had expected. He saw Iraqi...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 KeySummary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPFriedman, Edwin H.
Summary: Friedman's insights about our regressed, "seatbelt society," oriented toward safety rather than adventure, help explain the sabotage that leaders constantly face today. Suspicious of the "quick fixes" and instant solutions that sweep through our culture only to give way to the next fad, he argues for strength and self-differentiation as the marks of true leadership. His formula for success is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seabury Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.4 FRIBruce, Steve
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Polity 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200.904 BRUSummary: Although America still holds the lead when it comes to e-commerce, Europe is catching up-fast. Filmed at the London Business School, this program brings together Jim Rose, CEO of QXL.com, the UK's Euro-centric answer to eBay, and Kevin Roberts, CEO of advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi. Topics of discussion focus on the CEO and corporate culture, international branding, and old versus new...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005