Move Beyond Trade-Off Thinking. When it comes to our hardest choices, it can seem as though making trade-offs is inevitable.

This modes-based reader/rhetoric/handbook offers students a comprehensive and student friendly approach to the writing process that emphasizes critical thinking as the key to successful college writing.

Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter’s ideas on change management and leadership. From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented M&A activity to scandal, greed, and ultimately, recession—we’ve learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. It’s the rule. Now with a new preface, this refreshed edition of the global bestseller Leading Change is more relevant than ever

"The Bedford Guide for College Writers" plunges students into active learning right from the beginning, whether their writing class meets on campus or online. This new edition expands active learning into reflection, helping students engage with their own writing process to gain a deeper understanding that will serve them throughout their writing lives.

You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you're busy executing on today's demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it's easy to let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way.

Whether you’re rolling out a new product from a city-view office or rolling up your sleeves to deliver a social service in the field, learning why and how to embrace failure can help you do better, faster. Smart leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents design their innovation projects with a key idea in mind: ensure that every failure is maximally useful.

Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It’s hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices about their future—something that doesn’t happen in most companies.

This is the Loyala University Chicago Edition of The Bedford Handbook, Seventh Edition. It contains "Your Introduction to Writing at Loyola Chicago University", "Message from the Director of Writing Programs", "An Overview of Writing Programs", "Individual Course Syllabi" and "Steps to Success" sections in addition to the full Bedford Handbook. 876 pages plus index and appendix.

In this basic concepts version of our very successful The Living World, George Johnson has provided the fundamentals to understanding biology in a more condensed format while still integrating analogies and current issues which makes science relevant to the student. George Johnson textbook has often been considered a student favorite

According to research by Daniel Goleman, emotional intelligence has proved to be twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. It is now one of the crucial criteria in hiring and promotion processes, performance evaluations, and professional development courses. And it's not innate--it's a skill that all of us can improve.