This practical guide reveals the project management methodology and processes that will give you the advantage to ensure your projects’ success—and advance organizational goals.

As a seasoned project management consultant and instructor for the American Management Association, author Jack Ferraro has gained years of experience bridging the gap between project managers and functional managers to help countless teams improve

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"Natalie Nixon's new book provides a fresh primer on how to cultivate creativity in the workplace.”
—Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable
Too many people associate creativity solely with the arts, even though to be an incredible scientist, engineer, or entrepreneur requires immense creativity. And it's the key to developing breakthrough products and services. Natalie Nixon, a creativity strategist with...

These are some of the blog post that I have done on the website that I do: strangebuttruehistory.wordpress.com. All of these are the best of the ones from October to December 2017. These are the best ones that show the differences in the way I see things.

A rapid and massively disruptive shift from centralized to distributed organizations has already begun. But current leadership practices were designed for large, centralized organizations, making them increasingly obsolete. Bob Johansen, who has been projecting future trends from Silicon Valley since 1968, outlines five literacies leaders need to develop to cope with this brave new world.  Johansen says leaders need the literacy of projecting themselves...

Make Learning Fun! Activities to Develop Creativity is a compilation of problems used in the Odyssey of the Mind creative problem-solving competitions. It includes 11 long-term problems and 48 spontaneous problems. It also includes an introductory chapter by problem writer and program founder Dr. Sam Micklus on the problem-development process, and a brief history on how the program began back in 1978. This book is also a great classroom resource and...

During the process of writing this book I realized a question must be answered before I proceeded. Why would anyone need this book? The answers were developed as I organized my material.#1.If anyone was thinking about a career in education they would be enriched with the information this book.#2.If someone was currently involved in education and required some clarity about their role in the profession they would want this book.#3.If a professional...

Living an ungovernable, unbearable life is the worst mistake of a human being. By not knowing how to live in this life, it is pure failure. There are unadventurous beings who love everything negative; it's the only thing they know how to do. It is all that flows from their lips, making others feel bad, and there is no other way but to defeat it. They don't know how to behave. Be a good husband. Be a good Christian. Be a good father. They don't...

Problem-based learning (PBL) represents a widely recommended best practice that facilitates both student engagement with challenging content and students' ability to utilize that content in a more flexible manner to support problem-solving. This edited volume includes research that focuses on examples of successful models and strategies for facilitating preservice and practicing teachers in implementing PBL practices in their current and future classrooms...

My name is Zhanna Telmanovna Oganesyan, and I was born with passion! That is my motivation! Lots of bumpy rides and flights took me to the right direction. This allowed me to fully bloom and reach my highest potential. Enormous love toward children appeared in me from very young ages and inspired me to get out of my way and go to a different direction. As a child, I brought home many stray dogs and cats, but I was always heartbroken because I was...

What is at stake in compromising the Enlightenment ideals of a liberal education with new educational policies engendered by a neo-liberalized, global marketplace? Richly grounding his arguments in the social philosophy of European and American intellectuals, Raphael Sassower explores Western culture's long-standing ambivalence toward 'the life of the mind.' He shows how and why this historical legacy contributes to today's confusion over goals and...