Book Descriptions

Iowa State University
Student Activities Center
Leadership Library

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

Internationally renowned leadership authority and bestselling author Stephen R. Covey presents a personal hands-on companion to the landmark The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which has become a touchstone for individuals, families, and businesses around the world. The overwhelming success of Stephen R. Covey's principle-centered philosophy is a testament to the millions who have benefited from his lessons, and now, with The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook, they can further explore and understand this tried-and-true approach. With the same clarity and assurance Covey's fans have come to appreciate, this individualized workbook teaches readers to fully internalize the 7 Habits through private and thought-provoking exercises, whether they are already familiar with the principles or not. This reference offers solutions to both personal and professional problems by promoting and teaching fairness, integrity, honesty, and dignity. An engaging new companion to a bestselling classic, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook will help readers set goals, improve relationships, and create a path to life effectiveness. 

21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Want to Follow, The
Maxwell, John

In the tradition of his million-seller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, author John C. Maxwell now provides a concise, accessible leadership book that helps readers become more effective leaders from the inside out. Daily readings highlight twenty-one essential leadership qualities and include "Reflecting On It" and "Bringing It Home" sections that help readers integrate and apply each day's material.

Advising Student Groups and Organizations
Dunkel, Norbert W.

Student organization advisors play an increasingly important role on campus. Advising Student Groups and Organizations provides the knowledge base and skills advisers need to improve their effectiveness. From the rewards and challenges of advising student groups to the specific knowledge, skills and qualities advisers need on a daily basis, this comprehensive overview offers advisers both theoretical and practical guidelines. Readers will learn to motivate leaders, provide academic and career assistance, and tackle budget and accounting issues and more. 

An Inspired Life
Peace Corps

Twenty-eight first-person stories, recount the unique experience of being a Peace Corps Volunteer.  Compelling, inspiring, sometimes funny, often poignant, these stories represent the breadth of Peace Corps work, the countries it serves, and its Volunteer diversity.  Together, the stories reflect the adventure, the cross-cultural exchange, the personal growth, and the deep friendships forged as part of the Peace Corps Volunteers journey.   The book begins with a Foreword by Peace Corps Director, Gaddi H. Vasquez that conveys the work of Peace Corps Volunteers and how they exemplify living “a life inspired” Stories are presented within three themes:

• Making a difference
• Life is calling
• Window to the world  

Backpack to Briefcases
Arndt, Terry

Backpack to Briefcases is a “career success guide” developed for the recent graduate beginning a new career. The topics in this book focus on the essential skills employers want their employees to possess. In addition, Backpack to Briefcase provides you the information you need to advance your career.

Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters
Kellerman, Barbara

Kellerman (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) contends that humans hold an idealized vision of their leaders and defer power to them, like most animals, for safety and security; and he descibes how both shepherds and sheep are responsible for bad leadership. The text identifies two categories of bad leadership—ineffective and unethical—and divides these into seven types: incompetent, rigid, intemperate, callous, corrupt, insular, and evil. Each type is studied through examples ranging from Putin to Pol Pot. In the final chapter the author offers ideas on how bad leadership can be stopped or slowed by leaders and followers alike. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Beginner’s Guide to Leadership and Training Programs, A
Simonds, Dr. Peter W.

Provides the reader with a clear identity of his/her educational role as it relates to training.

Beyond Leadership to Followership
Seteroff, Sviatoslav Steve

A brief summary of management and leadership following a scenario that aids in understanding the forces and concepts involved in being a leader, regardless of the present placement within the organizational hierarchy, from a perspective of a systems approach. With learning as the core, the author takes us on a brief and concise journey or organizational theory and practice, leadership, teams, followership, mentorship, stewardship, responsibilities of a protégé, and the art of supervision on the way to management. Understanding the concepts is the goal, and a no-nonsense approach with references to additional reading is provided.

Big Book for Team Building Games: Trust-Building Activities, Team Spirit Exercises, and Other Fun Things to Do, The
Newstrom, John & Scannell, Edward

The fun way to lift morale in any work group!Did you know that games can be a terrifically effective way to build team spirit, communication, and trust among people who work together day in and day out? Team-building games and activities are so stimulating and enjoyable that everyone in the department actually looks forward to them! Now you can choose from 70 varied and imaginative games and activities that have been specifically designed for the manager who's looking to:

• Raise sagging morale in a department
• Liven up boring staff meetings
• Improve communication
• Promote a culture of harmony and cooperation
• Have fun with your work team

Each of these games is fast, creative, easy-to-lead, and will help you accomplish your team building goals. Learn valuable tips on how to present games and how to select activities for particular situations. Get essential advice on what not to do when leading games, and much more!

Book of Professional Standards for Higher Education, The
Miller, Theodore K.

Guidebook on the Council for Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS)
CAS was established to accomplish several complementary tasks. Its first important task was to establish a broadly representative profession-wide entity that would embrace the full range of student affairs, student development, and student support services and programs in higher education today. This entity, CAS, aimed to provide to organizations concerned with the development of professional standards in higher education with a single voice that would speak for the profession as a whole.

Book of Questions, The
Stock, Gregory

A New York Times bestseller with over 1.9 million copies in print, THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS poses 265 questions that invite people to explore the most fascinating of subjects: themselves. These questions are as intriguing as our very lives because they are about our lives-our fundamental values and beliefs, our dreams and nightmares about sex, money, love, power.

Some of the questions thrust you into a value-testing hypothetical situation (Would you accept 20 years of extraordinary happiness and fulfillment if it meant you would die at the end of the period?), some ask you to delve into your past (When is the last time you stole anything?) and help you find out if you've changed (Would you now return it if you could?), and others reveal your basic nature by examining your behavior (When you are given a compliment do you usually acknowledge it or suggest that you really do not deserve it?). Whether used as an avenue for personal growth, a tool for deepening relationships, or simply as an entertainment, The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges-and even changes-the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own.

Chicken Soup for the College Soul
Canfield, Jack

This latest helping of loving inspiration follows the millions of loyal readers of the Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul series to the next stage of their lives, beyond adolescence and into young adulthood. Readers will love having this invaluable collection to guide, inspire, support and encourage them throughout their college experience. If readers are devotees of the series, they will recognize this book as an instant source of strength and comfort; if this book is their introduction to the series, they will come to treasure it quickly. College is a time of excitement, exuberance and triumph, as well as one of anxiety, doubt and confusion. Readers will identify with the stories that express feelings they undoubtedly share as they stand at the brink of adulthood, sometimes ready to take the world by storm, other times wondering whether they will ever be ready. This book deals with the myriad issues of college life, from homesickness to partying to G.P.A.s and everything in between. 

Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul
Canfield, J., Hanson, M.V., Oberst, A.M., Boal, J.T., Lagana, T., & Lagana, L.

Deep within each one of us lies the ability to step up and care for those in need, even though we often feel overwhelmed by a complex world. In fact, more than 200 million people throughout the world offer their time and love to volunteering.

The stories in Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul highlight the efforts of everyday people in the United States and around the globe who volunteer with the American Red Cross, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity, the Peace Corps, Points of Light, Rotary and many, many other nonprofit organizations. Lovingly chosen from more than six thousand stories, poems and cartoons, these tales will inspire readers to do everything in their power to help those in need. Chapters include: The Rewards of Volunteering, Giving Back, Making a Difference, New Appreciation, Love and Kindness, Defining Moments, A Matter of Perspective, Overcoming Obstacles and On Wisdom.

Readers will cherish the story of a community that rallied together to send warm winter coats to refugee families in Kosovo. They'll be moved by the tale of a woman with a "smiley voice" who made audiotapes for the visually impaired despite a losing battle with cancer. They'll never forget the eight-year-old boy without arms or legs who fearlessly wielded a tennis racquet to propel a ball down the length of a room. And they'll be charmed by a rabbit named Cadberi who brings boundless joy to residents of a nursing home.

Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul will leave an indelible imprint on the heart of readers and inspire them to go forth and care for others.

Complete Guide to Service Learning, The
Kaye, Cathryn M.A.

The Complete Guide to Service Learning is the go-to resource in the fast-growing field of service learning. It is an award-winning treasury of activities, ideas, quotes, reflections, and resources and provides hundreds of annotated book recommendations, author interviews, and expert essays—all presented within a curricular context and organized by theme. This new edition maintains the easy-to-use format of the original and is enhanced to reflect the most up-to-date service learning pedagogy.

Complete Idiot’s Guide to Meeting and Event Planning, The
Craven, Robin

If you are given the responsibility of planning a meeting for your business, you need to make your company look good. This guide gives you suggestions for planning the budget, negotiating a space to meet, choosing a caterer, setting up the room, and planning programs. You will be able to produce an event that is organized and within your budget.

Complete Idiot’s Guide to Robert’s Rules, The
Sylvester, Nancy 

• The authority on how to effectively run a meeting.
• Perfect for the new president of a small group or the chairman of a large formal meeting, this guide explains everything from the ladder of motions to how to use Robert's Rules for any size or type of meeting. Expert parliamentarian Nancy Sylvester helps tailor the most popular form of parliamentary procedure today to meet any organization's needs.
• Approximately 95% of all clubs, organizations, and governments use Robert's Rules of Order as their authority
• Author is one of the few certified parliamentary experts in the country
• Includes sample minutes, a sample agenda, and a full version of Robert's Rules for reference

Cowtails and Cobras II
Rohnke, Karl

A Guide to Games, Initiatives, Ropes Courses, and Adventure Curriculum
This is the definitive book for "adventure ed". It is well laid out and easy to use. All the activities list not only instructions but when and how you might use them in a curriculum. It also has innovative ideas about how to use metaphors that can be adapted to a variety of situations. Karl Rohnke is, in my opinion, on the cutting edge of experiential education and his first book is staple in any experiential education library.

Creative New Employee Orientation Programs
Sims, Doris M.

New employee orientation is the most commonly offered type of training in organizations, yet very few books have been published on the topic. Creative New Employee Orientation Programs is filled with downloadable, customizable training games, sample curriculum, handouts, and checklists used in leading organizations such as Arthur Anderson, Ford, Micron, and Alcatel. Whether creating an orientation program for the first time, enhancing an existing program, or moving orientation on-line, HR pros will find ideas and tools they can use immediately. 

Credibility
Kouzes, James

"Leadership is personal. It's not about the corporation, the community, or the country. It's about you. If people don't believe in the messenger, they won't believe the message. If people don't believe in you, they won't believe in what you say. And if it's about you, then it's about your beliefs, your values, and your principles."— from Credibility In this best-selling book, Kouzes and Posner (authors of The Leadership Challenge), explain why leadership is above all a relationship, with credibility as the cornerstone. They provide rich examples of real managers in action and reveal the six key disciplines and related practices that strengthen a leader's capacity for developing and sustaining credibility. Kouzes and Posner show how leaders can encourage greater initiative, risk-taking, and productivity by demonstrating trust in employees and resolving conflicts on the basis of principles, not positions. 

Deeper Learning in Leadership: Helping College Students Find the Potential Within
Roberts, Dennis

Deeper Learning in Leadership is a resource that is designed to show how leadership potential can be both broadened and deepened in our colleges and universities. Author Dennis Roberts proposes a new approach to learning about leadership development in higher education that recognizes innovative strategies are needed for the increasingly complex issues we face, both in higher education and in the broader landscape beyond the campus. He advocates that fostering deeper leadership will require educators to take a critical look at the organizational models and processes that characterize most contemporary colleges and universities. Roberts includes new models of learning and leadership, and provides summaries of widely used leadership theories as well as theories that are not as well known. He proposes a new perspective of leadership and a process of discovering leadership potential principles that educators can use to deepen students’ experiences.

Designing Successful Transitions: A Guide for Orienting Students to College
Upcraft, M. Lee

Provides information and ideas for a broad audience which includes everyone who is interested in helping new students become successful. Presidents, chief academic and student affairs officers, enrollment managers, freshmen seminar instructors, academic advisors, orientation directors, and student orientation leaders can all benefit from this publication. Students and faculty in college student personnel preparation programs will also find this book to be a valuable resource.

Disney Way, The
Capodagli, Bill and Jackson, Lynn

The original edition of The Disney Way was awarded a coveted “Best Business Book of the Year” by Fortune magazine. The world's foremost experts on Disney, Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson revealed Walt's secret success formula that propelled his company into the highest echelon of business, creativity, innovation, and success.

Disney Way Fieldbook, The
Capodagli, Bill and Jackson, Lynn

Business people around the world raved about The Disney Way and Fortune proclaimed it, "so useful you may whistle while you work." Now, authors Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson are back to deliver a comprehensive, step-by-step implementation plan based on Walt Disney's principles outlined in the best-selling The Disney Way

Do the Right Thing: How Dedicated Employees Create Loyal Customers and Large Profits
Parker, James

People matter most. You know that. But most companies would rather slash costs, cut headcount, replace well-paid employees with lower-paid employees or outsourced workers, and reduce customer service. No wonder so many fail–while others focused on doing the right thing remain profitable and growth oriented for decades. James F. Parker shows why “doing the right thing” isn’t just naïve “feel-goodism:” it’s the most powerful rule for business success. Parker’s stories won’t just convince you: They’ll move you. Naïve? No way. In this book, Southwest Airlines’ former CEO proves why doing what’s right is the #1 rule of business success. James F. Parker tells how after 9/11, Southwest made three pivotal decisions: no layoffs, no pay cuts, and no-hassle refunds for any customer wanting them. The result: Southwest remained profitable and its revenue passenger miles for 4Q01 held steady while the rest of its industry nearly collapsed...and Southwest’s market cap soon exceeded all its major competitors combined. These pivotal decisions grew naturally from Southwest’s culture of mutual respect and trust. Parker offers deeply personal insights into that culture, revealing how those same principles are used by other people and organizations, showing you that it’s really not that hard to Do The Right Thing!

• Why doing what’s right is the surest way to optimize and sustain value
• Putting people first...honestly, for real
• Finding great leaders at every level of the organization
• Hiring for attitude, training for skills
• Achieving unprecedented levels of teamwork (and fun!)

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff Workbook
Richard, Carlson

For the millions who have read "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff", this inspiring new workbook has been designed to help put the book's principles into practice. Includes exercises, questions, and self-tests designed to help readers put things into perspective and keep the little things from taking over their lives.

Education of Character, The
Keim, Will

This concise guide, designed for the student orientation course or any course addressing the transition of student life, is authored by popular speaker Will Keim. Thirty-three lessons introduce issues as diverse as changing views of culture and the restructuring of alternative families.

Effective Meetings for Busy People
Carnes, William T.

 In crisp, incisive terms—with scores of humorous, yet to-the-point, examples—Effective Meetings for Busy People…

• Shows you how to organize meetings, committees, and conferences properly
• Points out the major deficiencies that afflict most meetings—and tells you how to correct them
• Provides the know-how (including the fine points) to chair a meeting successfully—even if you’ve never done it before
• Helps save money on meetings by showing you simple, effective ways to reduce costs without cutting essentials on hotels, meals, and arrangements etc.
• Demonstrates how to improve interpersonal communication within meetings
• And so much more….

Encouraging the Heart
Kouzes, James

 All too often, simple acts of human kindness are often overlooked and under utilized by people in leadership roles. Advising mutual respect and recognition of accomplishments, Encouraging the Heart shows us how true leaders encourage and motivate those they work with by helping them find their voice and making them feel like heroes. Recognized experts in the field of leadership, authors James Kouzes and Barry Posner show us that, through love, leaders can encourage, and indeed allow those around them to be their very best. Both practical and inspirational, Encouraging the Heart gives readers a thoughtful approach to motivating individuals within an organizational structure.

Essential Event Planning Kit, The
Harris, Godfrey

Creating a memorable event is fairly easy; it only seems more daunting than it actually is. If those who plan events follow the hints in these notes and use the forms in this book, they will be surprised at how organized they will become and how confident they feel during the planning process. Best of all, they are likely to enjoy the event itself as much as their guests.

Event Marketing
Hoyle, Leonard H.

Event Marketing provides the most effective tools for carrying out every phase of a successful, integrated marketing campaign for any event, from conferences and expositions to fairs and festivals that host 20,000 people. It explains the powerful forms of promotion, advertising, and public relations that are needed to attract broad attention, motivate people to attend, and achieve the desired goals of an event. Features include:

• Overviews of event promotion, advertising, public relations, and electronic marketing strategies, as well as budget funding
• In-depth analyses of marketing for specific events, such as association meetings, conferences, corporate meetings, festivals, and many others
• An examination of future trends and innovative strategies for increasing attendance
• Comprehensive appendices that include sample forms for media releases, request for coverage announcements, audio and video new release scripts, public service announcement scripts, speakers’ "talking points," and listings of media distribution and tracking services

Event Planning
Allen, Judy

Event Planning takes you behind the scenes, and provides practical tools for anyone who has to plan and execute a truly special event:

• Corporate in-house event planners
• Public relations and communications companies, and their clients
• Marketing and corporate communications professionals
• Fundraisers and not-for-profit organizations
• Professionals in the hospitality and entertainment industries

Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning
Seelye, H. Ned

The emphasis in this book is on activities that foster the development of intercultural awareness and cross-cultural sensitivity, helping learners understand some of the principal dimensions of intercultural communication, cross-cultural human relations and cultural diversity. The selections include simulations, case studies, role plays, critical incidents, and individual and group exercises. This book will be especially valuable for trainers and educators who want to further their ground work in a solid theoretical base and at the same time augment their resources and expand their repertoire.

Exploring Leadership
Komives, Susan R.

This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the best-selling book Exploring Leadership. The book is designed to help college students understand that they are capable of being effective leaders and to guide them in developing their leadership potential. Exploring Leadership incorporates new insights and material developed in the course of the authors’ work in the field. The second edition contains expanded and new chapters and also includes the relational leadership model, uses a more global context and examples that relate to a wide variety of disciplines, contains a new section which emphasizes ways to work to accomplish change, and concludes with concrete strategies for activism. 

Fan Etiquette
Keim, Will

How to honor your team without dishonoring yourself.

Finding Funding: The Comprehensive Guide to Grant Writing
Barber, Daniel

The essential "How-To" resource for Finding Funding from government, foundations, and corporations is now bigger and better. This new edition builds on the basics that have helped thousands of individuals, community based and nonprofit organizations, schools and government prepare winning grant proposals. This book includes a full glossary of terms and a computer diskette with hundreds of funding sources, sample letters, budgets and templates for every element of a grant proposal.

First Aid for Meetings
Hawkins, Charlie

"First Aid for Meetings" is a complete reference to running meetings on purpose, on time and for results. Filled with common sense and uncommon wisdom, Charlie Hawkins provides strategies, tips and tools that will improve the planning and effectiveness of every meeting. 

Fired Up or Burned Out
Stallard, Michael

Michael Stallard's "Fired Up or Burned Out" addresses organizational and personal passion, creativity, and productivity. Stallard notes in his introduction that fewer than three in ten Americans are engaged in their jobs (surviving rather than thriving), and sets about to explain why and how it can be fixed.

What you will learn includes:

• Why a sense of emotional connection is necessary for people and organizations to thrive.
• How the oft discussed elements of vision, value, and voice are reflected in the richer concepts of inspiring identity, human value, and knowledge flow.
• Why connection depends on the right kind of people whose actions increase connection.
• The three types of people who affect connection: intentional disconnectors, unintentional disconnectors, and intentional connectors.

Five Dysfunctions of a Team, The
Lencioni, Patrick

Patrick Lencioni targets group behavior in the final entry of his trilogy of corporate fables. And like those preceding it, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is an entertaining, quick read filled with useful information that will prove easy to digest and implement. This time, Lencioni weaves his lessons around the story of a troubled Silicon Valley firm and its unexpected choice for a new CEO: an old-school manager who had retired from a traditional manufacturing company two years earlier at age 55. Showing exactly how existing personnel failed to function as a unit, and precisely how the new boss worked to reestablish that essential conduct, the book's first part colorfully illustrates the ways that teamwork can elude even the most dedicated individuals--and be restored by an insightful leader. A second part offers details on Lencioni's "five dysfunctions" (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results), along with a questionnaire for readers to use in evaluating their own teams and specifics to help them understand and overcome these common shortcomings. 

Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, The
Kouzes, James and Posner, Barry

This 24-page article is perfect for leaders with limited time and budget. It provides a concise overview of Kouzes and Posner's model and overall thoughts on leadership in the realm of non-profit. Ideal for orienting readers to the Five Practices® model at the beginning of a workshop or coaching session, the piece contains two Leadership Challenge case studies drawn from the non-profit sector, a short description of the Five Practices®, a section on "Learning to Lead", and background information on the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI).

Good to Great
Collins, Jim

Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time. They finally settled on 11--including Fannie Mae, Gillette, Walgreens, and Wells Fargo--and discovered common traits that challenged many of the conventional notions of corporate success. Making the transition from good to great doesn't require a high-profile CEO, the latest technology, innovative change management, or even a fine-tuned business strategy. At the heart of those rare and truly great companies was a corporate culture that rigorously found and promoted disciplined people to think and act in a disciplined manner. Peppered with dozens of stories and examples from the great and not so great, the book offers a well-reasoned road map to excellence that any organization would do well to consider. Like Built to Last, Good to Great is one of those books that managers and CEOs will be reading and rereading for years to come. --Harry C. Edwards

Great Adventure, The
Peace Corps

A series of short stories written by volunteers in the Peace Corps. Stories depict their life oversees and the experiences they had.

Habitudes 1: The Art of Self-Leadership
Habitudes 2: The Art of Connecting with Others
Habitudes 3: The Art of Leading Others
Elmore, Tim

Habitudes furnishes images that teach you leadership truths. They will enable you to wisely influence your world. Images stick. Images illustrate. They carry layers of reality. You’ve heard it before: a picture is worth a thousand words. Check this book out, and see if you don’t agree.

This book is part of a series. We believe leadership is a 360-degree proposition. The leadership journey begins with self-leadership. We must lead ourselves before we lead anyone else. Next, we learn to lead up—in relationships with those over us. Then, we learn to lead and influence those around us. Finally, we lead those under our care. May these images illuminate your journey. 

Handbook for Student Leadership Programs
Komives, S.R., Dugan, J.P., Owen, J.E., Slack, C., & Wagner, W. (Eds)

This handbook was developed by graduate students in a leadership educators’ graduate course, taught by Susan R. Komives in the College Student Personnel graduate program at the University of Maryland. Largely using resources through NCLP, each chapter uses practical, real examples and provides links and referral to additional information. The handbook is designed both to be read front to back from a beginning educator or with chapters that stand alone for those seeking information on one component.

Hidden Value
O’Reilly, Charles
Case Studies: Relationships between companies and their employees

In today's heated job market, companies must look within to develop and nurture talented employees, say O'Reilly and Pfeffer, both professors at Stanford Business School. They offer a detailed look at several companies among them, Cisco, Men's Warehouse and PSS World Medical that are profitable in competitive industries and that have successfully retained and promoted their staffs. Following a brief company history, the authors present a straightforward discussion of each company's culture and policies, in some cases including quotations from its executives. Occasionally, the secrets of a company's success are obvious: Southwest Airlines has carefully chosen a niche market; it puts high value on customer service and its employees feel as if their daily work will contribute to the future of the company. Certainly, CEO Herb Kelleher is part of the winning formula, but Southwest's business is run differently than other airlines. Its employees can work at different jobs and financial data about the company's performance as well as its competitors is shared regularly with staffers. Similarly, PSS Medical values its employees and works very hard at both recruiting and training people who will fit in at the company. With its emphasis on detailed anecdotes, this unusually engaging management book proves that concentrating on "soft issues" like employee values can give a company the competitive edge. (Sept.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

How College Affects Students
Pascarella, Ernest T., Terenzini, Patrick

This is the long-awaited second volume of Pascarella and Terenzini's 1991 award-winning review of the research on the impacts of college on students.  The authors review their earlier findings and then synthesize what has been learned since 1990 about college's influences on students’ learning.  The book also discusses the implications of the findings for research, practice, and public policy.  This authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the literature on college-impact is required reading for anyone interested in higher education practice, policy, and promise faculty, administrators, researchers, policy analysts, and decision-makers at every level.

How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life
Rath, Tom

How did you feel after your last interaction with another person? Did that person — your spouse, best friend, coworker, or even a stranger — "fill your bucket" by making you feel more positive? Or did that person "dip from your bucket," leaving you more negative than before? The number one New York Times and number one Business Week bestseller, How Full Is Your Bucket? reveals how even the briefest interactions affect your relationships, productivity, health, and longevity. Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, and grounded in 50 years of research, this book will show you how to greatly increase the positive moments in your work and your life — while reducing the negative. Filled with discoveries, powerful strategies, and engaging stories, How Full Is Your Bucket? is sure to inspire lasting changes and has all the makings of a timeless classic. Included in this edition is the bonus section "Instructional Guide for Educators," an additional 64 pages with ideas for classroom "bucket filling" activities for teachers to use with their students.

How to Find the Work You Love
Boldt, Laurence G.

"Boldt offers simple yet profound strategies to help you answer… questions by focusing on four key elements to be sought in any life's work: Integrity, Service, Enjoyment, and Excellence. Boldt has reduced the quest for meaningful work to its essence, and will lead you toward a breakthrough understanding of what you could and should be doing with your life." 

Improving Work Groups
Francis, Dave

Guidelines and 25 activities designed to build and maintain effective teams!
Aimed at any manager, consultant, or employee responsible for developing effective teams, Improving Work Groups offers a step-by-step system for initiating and evaluating team performance. Guidelines and 25 activities designed to build and maintain effective teams!

Inspiration for Greeks
D’Angelo, Anthony D.

Stories of Encouragement, Humor and Motivation by Greeks for Greeks. This book is jammed packed with stories that will inspire any Fraternity Man or Sorority Woman. It will help you to renew your own vision as you learn from other Greeks from across the country. Reflect on the challenges, fun times, frustrations and intangible rewards that come from the unbreakable bonds of Sisterhood and Brotherhood. 

Inspiration for Student Leaders
D’Angelo, Anthony D.

Stories of Encouragement, Humor and Motivation by Student Leaders for Student Leaders. This collection of stories and reflections from college student leaders across America will help you to lead yourself so you can lead others.

Keys to Success, The
Zimmerman, Curtis

Curtis Zimmerman has a "Masters in Life" from the School of Hard Knocks. I received my Ph.D. only because I could throw a curve ball. Neither of us were the sharpest pencils in the box. We were, however, tenacious. We wouldn’t quit and we were like junk yard dogs in pursuit of success. Curtis became one of America’s most respected mimes, entertaining million on television, at Universal Studios, and on Carnival cruise lines. I finished my Ph.D. (Thank God) at Oregon State and have lectured to more than 2 million students from 1500 campuses in every state in America.

Lead Now or Step Aside!
Canfield, Jack

This "two heads are better than one" - what happens when sixteen of America's foremost experts in youth leadership development all combine efforts to provide strategies, ideas and wisdom to student leaders? Magic...and you will be holding it in your hands. If you are in a position to influence others in your school, club, chapter or organization, this is the "ultimate handbook" for helping you create positive change and incredible results. The leadership challenge is upon you and your peers. This book offers positive and powerful direction. So LEAD NOW - or step aside!

Lead On!
Lawson, Leslie Griffin

An indispensable guide for leaders of youth clubs, service clubs, church programs, and other “new volunteerism” organizations. The book’s 24 chapters describe essential skills for novice and experienced group leaders including: “Motivating Others,” “Leading for First Meeting,” “Managing Conflict,” “Keeping Records,” “Getting Good Publicity,” and 19 others.

Leader’s Handbook, The
Scholtes, Peter R.

Lead your organization into the 21st century with the help of this groundbreaking book that is already creating a stir in corporate boardrooms across America! In a book that does for managers what his mega-bestseller, The Team Handbook, did for teams, Peter Scholtes, who is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential Quality leaders of the decade, shows the real root of management problems. Learn how to stop blaming your workers and start changing the systems with the help of activities and exercises that enable you to immediately begin implementing breakthrough improvements in all your work processes!

Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know
Maxwell, John

Drawing from John Maxwell's bestsellers Developing the Leader Within You, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader, and Becoming a Person of Influence, Leadership 101 explores the timeless principles that have become Dr. Maxwell's trademark style. In a concise, straightforward style, Maxwell focuses on essential and time-tested qualities necessary for true leadership -influence, integrity, attitude, vision, problem-solving, and self-discipline -and guides readers through practical steps to develop true leadership in their lives and the lives of others.

Leadership Challenge, The
Kouzes, James and Posner, Barry

The most trusted resource on becoming a leader is now updated and revised for a new generation.

This leadership classic continues to be a bestseller after three editions and twenty years in print. It is the gold standard for research-based leadership, and the premier resource on becoming a leader. This new edition, with streamlined text, more international and business examples, and a graphic redesign, is more readable and accessible than ever before.

The Leadership Challenge, Fourth Edition, has been extensively updated with the latest research and case studies, and offers inspiring new stories of real people achieving extraordinary results. The authors' central theme remains the same and is more relevant today than ever: "Leadership is Everyone’s Business." Their "five practices" and "ten commitments" have been proven by hundreds of thousands of dedicated, successful leaders. This edition, with almost one-third new material, emphasizes the global community and refocuses on business leaders.

Leadership for a Better World: Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership Development
Komives, Susan

"Positing that social change is at the heart of the leadership experience, Leadership for a Better World answers the question of 'leadership for what purpose?' Grounded in student experiences, this book includes student voices, stories, and contemporary case studies. Written in an informed and approachable tone, it provides a coherent set of guiding principles about how knowing oneself, meaningfully engaging with others, and adopting a systems perspective can promote the socially responsible leadership so needed in the world today." —Julie E. Owen, assistant professor, Leadership and Integrative Studies, George Mason University

Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life
Cashman, Kevin

In this 10th anniversary edition, Cashman encourages individuals to strive not for the fiction of "balance," but instead for "resilience mastery." The author expands his coaching model to provide equal emphasis on building awareness, building commitment, and building practice.

Leadership: Practice Inventory (LPI) Workbook
Kouzes, James and Posner, Barry

 THE STUDENT LEADERSHIP PRACTICES INVENTORY (Student LPI) is the only leadership tool designed specifically for students and young people. Developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the second edition of this celebrated instrument package approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. This 360° leadership assessment tool helps students and young people measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner’s acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Student Leadership® model to real-life challenges.

Leadership: Theory and Practice-Fifth Edition
Northouse, Peter G.

Heartened by the positive response to previous editions of Leadership: Theory and Practice, this Fourth Edition is written with the same objective to bridge the gap between the often simplistic popular approaches to leadership and the more abstract theoretical approaches.

Leading with Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit
Bolman, Lee & Deal, Terrence

Leading with Soul has inspired thousands of readers since its publication more than a decade ago. Far ahead of its time, the book illuminated the deeply personal journey to leadership. Now, in this new and revised edition, the authors update a timeless spiritual message in the light of the turmoil of recent years, including recession, the spread of global terrorism, and ethics scandals, as well as new insights from the literature of spirituality and work.

Leading without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community
DePree, Max

De Pree, a member of the advisory board of the Leader to Leader Institute, shows how lessons learned from the non-profit world can renew and energize business leaders and how these lessons can be applied to society and business. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Learning Through Serving
Cress, Christine

Engaging in service-learning involves taking on new roles and pursuing learning in ways different from traditional courses. Learning through Serving explains how to understand new learning experience and covers the skills and knowledge you need to make your service-learning experience a success. You will read about what distinguishes volunteerism from service-learning. You will be challenged to connect your community experience with your academic studies. And you will consider your service-learning within the context of larger social, political, and economic issues that impact our notions of citizenship and democracy.

Learning to be a Resident Assistant
Upcraft, Lee M.

This book is a manual for effective participation in the training program to be a resident assistant. They give an overview of the program and an in-depth look at the roles and responsibilities of R.A.’s. The book is broken down into four sections on understanding students; self-awareness and interpersonal relationships; improving interpersonal skills for effective leadership; and developing and applying group leadership skills. It then goes in depth on the training program with varies workbook pages to guide your learning.

Let Your Life Speak
Palmer, Parker J.

With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose. Telling stories from his own life and the lives of others who have made a difference, he shares insights gained from darkness and depression as well as fulfillment and joy, illuminating a pathway toward vocation for all who seek the true calling of their lives.

Life after Graduation
Arndt, Terry

Life after Graduation is a financial guide developed specifically with the graduate in mind. This guide is a “financial kick-start” for the real world. Most of the information contained within this guide would take years to learn by word of mouth. But instead of wasting all those years learning from your financial mistakes or accidentally coming across new methods to save yourself money, Life After Graduation provides you with all that information in a simple to use guide.

Life after School. Explained.
Cap and Compass

Cap and Compass presents the definitive reference guide for making it in the real world. It’s the perfect gift for recent graduates, and is full of helpful hints for anyone who eats, spends money, works, or pays taxes. Drawing on tips from their popular seminars given across the country, the writing team at Cap and Compass has incorporated lots of feedback from graduating seniors and recent graduates to create this witty guide to life after school. Full of humor and good advice, this book tackles all the things you wish you learned in school, but never did.

Life During College
Ricchini, John

Life During College is a "College Skills" reference guide developed specifically for you - the new or current college student. This book truly is a "guide for success" for your college experience, and beyond. Why waste your time and money learning from your mistakes? Start your college experience the right way and read Life During College. Life During College is not another general "Life Skills" book focusing on basic topics, such as how to cook or clean. Instead, Life During College was developed as a "College Skills" reference guide to be used throughout your college experience. A guide that will assist you in making important decisions in order to maximize your college experience, as well as prepare you for your life after graduation. Life During College is your first step to a successful college experience.

Loyalty Effect, The
Reichheld, Frederick F.

The business world seems to have given up on loyalty: many major corporations now lose-and have to replace-half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. Fred Reichheld's national bestseller The Loyalty Effect shows why companies that ignore these skyrocketing defections face a dismal future of low growth, weak profits, and shortened life expectancy. Reichheld demonstrates the power of loyalty-based management as a highly profitable alternative to the economics of perpetual churn. He makes a powerful economic case for loyalty-and takes you through the numbers to prove it. His startling conclusion: Even a small improvement in customer retention can double profits in your company. The Loyalty Effect will change the way you think about loyalty, profits, and the nature of business. 

Magic Lantern, The
Rubino, Dr. Joe

Set in the magical world of Center Earth, inhabited by dwarves, elves, goblins and wizards, The Magic Lantern is the story of a group of dwarves and their young leader who go off in search of the secrets to a life that works, a life filled with harmony and endless possibilities and void of the regrets and upsets that characterize most peoples existence. With a mission to restore peace and harmony to their village in turmoil, the delightful characters overcome the many challenges they encounter along their noble journey. Through self-discovery, they develop the key principles necessary to be the best that they can be as they step into leadership and lives of contribution to others.

The Magic Lantern teaches such noble lessons as:

The power of empathy and forgiveness
The meaning of responsibility and commitment
What leadership is really all about
The importance of a lifelong commitment to personal development
The magic of belief and positive expectation
The value of listening as an art
The secret to mastering ones emotions and actions
The keys to eliminating struggle and living a life filled with joy and harmony
and much more.

It combines the spell-binding story telling reminiscent of Tolkien’s The Hobbit with the personal development tools of the great masters.

Make Today Count
Maxwell, John

Drawing from the text of the Business Week bestseller Today Matters, this condensed, revised edition boils down John C. Maxwell's 12 daily practices to their very essence, giving maximum impact in minimal time. Presented in a quick-read format, this version is designed to be read cover to cover in one sitting or taken in as brief lessons in a few spare minutes each day. It covers such topics as:
-- Priorities
-- Health
-- Family
-- Finances
-- Values
-- Growth
Readers will learn how to make decisions on important matters and apply those decisions daily to put them on a path to more successful, productive, and fulfilling lives.

Making Meetings Work
Bradford, Leland P.

Thousands of individuals become group leaders with little experience and a minimum of training. Many of them have acquired these leadership roles by election, volunteering, seniority, desire to serve, or job responsibility. Leaders face many challenges, and the how-to's will be described here.

Management of Organizational Behavior
Hersey, Paul

Used by more than a million people throughout the world, this highly readable book provides a comprehensive examination of the applied behavioral sciences, and focuses on fundamental ideas which have stood the test of years of application in academic, business, not-for-profit and administrative environments. Complete coverage of motivation and behavior, situational leadership, building effective relationships, planning and implementing change, leadership strategies, and the organizational cone and integrating situational leadership with the Classics. For individuals interested in expanding their knowledge of, and proficiency in leadership strategies.

Millennials Go To College
Howe, Neil and Strauss, William

In this remarkable account, certain to stir the interest of educators, counselors, parents, and people in all types of business as well as young people themselves, Neil Howe and William Strauss introduce the nation to a powerful new generation: the Millennials.

More New Games!
Fluegelman, Andrew

Diverse supply of fun and creative means of learning activities for young adults.

More than 85 Broads
Hanson, Janet

More Than 85 Broads introduces us to a remarkable group of strong, passionate, and talented women who all define success on their own terms. Along with author Janet Hanson's riveting account of how she built 85 Broads into a groundbreaking global network community, each of these women candidly tells her own powerful story.

My Freshman Year
Nathan, Rebekah

After fifteen years of teaching anthropology at a large university, Rebekah Nathan had become baffled by her own students. Their strange behavior—eating meals at their desks, not completing reading assignments, remaining silent through class discussions—made her feel as if she were dealing with a completely foreign culture. So Nathan decided to do what anthropologists do when confused by a different culture: Go live with them. She enrolled as a freshman, moved into the dorm, ate in the dining hall, and took a full load of courses. And she came to understand that being a student is a pretty difficult job, too. Her discoveries about contemporary undergraduate culture are surprising and her observations are invaluable, making My Freshman Year essential reading for students, parents, faculty, and anyone interested in educational policy.

New Games Book, The
Fluegelman, Andrew

Diverse supply of fun and creative means of learning activities for young adults.

New Games for the Whole Family
LeFevre, Dale N.

Diverse supply of fun and creative means of learning activities for young adults.

Nonprofit Guide
Cryer, Shelly

FINALIST 2008 Book of the Year Awards, Career Category, ForeWord Magazine A must read for anyone hoping to launch a nonprofit career! Nonprofits need talented, creative people with all types of skills and experiences. The Nonprofit Career Guide will help you find the best opportunity for you and your interests. This hands-on guide is filled with practical advice from real people working at all levels of diverse nonprofits. In detailed profiles, you'll find out what their work is like, the career paths they followed, and what they look for when hiring new staff. Besides getting a sense of the scope and range of work opportunities, you'll find the most up-to-date information on how to: Prepare for a nonprofit career; Conduct targeted job searches and network effectively; Handle interviews with aplomb; Write persuasive cover letters and stellar resumes; Negotiate a competitive compensation package. With The Nonprofit Career Guide, you'll get the competitive edge you need to land a great first job and build a rewarding career in the nonprofit sector. Published by Fieldstone Alliance in collaboration with American Humanics.

Organizational Learning: Performance and Change
Gilley, Jerry and Maycunich, Ann

This book presents the most current theoretical frameworks and practical applications in the field of human resource development. Drawing from the authors' pioneering research, this book offers the most comprehensive treatment of HRD theory and practice available, providing educators and practitioners alike with a rigorous approach to analyzing and launching successful HRD programs. 

Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity
Windmeyer, Shane L; Freeman, Pamela W.

Frat houses may be the locale of some gay porn, but in real life fraternity row is anything but a fantasy. This uncompromising collection of first-person accounts details the experiences of more than 30 gay men who had to choose between coming out of the closet or keeping their sexuality a secret while belonging to a college fraternity.

Persuasion
Gorman, Tom

To get what you want-be it in business or life-you've got to get people to give it to you. While you can use intimidation, manipulation, and seduction to achieve your objectives, such tactics won't win allies for the long haul. Persuasion outlines the process of influencing others and, most importantly, how to apply it. Inside you'll find answers to questions such as: How much should I reveal about a plan or project? How can I determine someone's true level of interest? How can I discern another's needs-and talk about my own-in a business situation? In today's business world, education, intelligence, and hard work alone won't deliver a win. The ability to persuade is the great differentiator and Persuasion gives you the tools needed to seal the deal.

Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Workshops
Davis, Larry Nolan

This guidebook moves step by step through the workshop process, relating social science theory to practical application in a variety of institutional settings.

Power of Ethical Management, The
Blanchard, Kenneth & Peale, Norman Vincent

You don’t have to cheat to win! That’s the enlightening message these two renowned and respected bestselling authors have for today’s managers, with a unique ethics check that answers the three most important questions you’ll ever want to answer: Is it legal? Is it balanced? How will it make me feel about myself? No-nonsense advice on developing a clear and definite sense of purpose: There is no right way to do a wrong thing. Useful on-the-job tools that enrich the quality of your life: Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race. A realistic sense of the future: Managing ONLY for profit is like playing tennis with your eye on the scoreboard and not on the ball.

Privilege, Power, and Difference
Johnson, Allan

This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. This extraordinarily successful book has been used across the country, both inside and outside the classroom, to shed light on issues of power and privilege.

Rainbows of Leadership, The
Reum, Earl

Comprehensive workbook designed for new leaders in a student council setting through the organization of goalpages (goals/organization/activities/leadership meeting skills/ problem-solving/active communication/group understanding/evaluation/self-growth). Set up well and easy to understand, lots of resources for you to copy and use.

Raise Your Voice: A Student Guide to Making Positive Social Change
Cone, R., Kiese, A., & Longo, N. (Eds)

This hands-on guide speaks directly to student leaders seeking to improve the effectiveness of their engaged work while enhancing their academic and civic learning. Based on three years of activity in Campus Compact’s hugely successful Raise Your Voice civic action campaign, which mobilized hundreds of thousands of students across the country, this book is full of targeted strategies, tools, and activities for organizing change on campus. From holding civic dialogues to meeting with elected officials, from mapping assets and allies on campus to organizing alternative breaks, this book offers tips and step-by-step advice—from students, for students—for getting the most out of campus activity.

Resisting Racism
Mallon, Gerald

This guide is designed to serve as an aid to the goals of groups serving invaluable roles in their local communities and by acting as resources in the continual confrontation with racism. Its specific purpose is to:

• To provide readers with brief background material on the subject of racism
• To share outlines and activities for use in conducting workshops on racism
• To offer concrete materials, appropriate for use in workshop follow up
• To suggest additional resources for use in anti-racist programs

Retreats that Work
Campbell, Sheila

Retreats That Work is a practical, easy-to-use guide, full of step-by-step instructions for leading a wide variety of tested exercises. You'll learn how to design and facilitate retreats that will keep participants energized and on-task. Campbell and Liteman know what can go wrong at a retreat and what to do about it. They know how to turn difficult situations around and how to deal effectively with conflict, difficult participants, and resistance to change. With Retreats That Work, you will too. 

Risk-Management Reader for Campus Activities Professionals
Dickerson, Darby; Lake, Peter F.

The Risk-Management Reader for Campus Activities Professionals was developed as part of NACA’s Risk Management Institute, held in June 2008. The Reader is a compilation of resources provided during this three-day seminar for campus activities professionals managing risk on their campuses.

Roberts Rules of Order
Robert, Henry

General Henry M. Robert's classic guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings has sold close to five million copies in nine editions. The only book containing the completely developed Robert's Rules of Order subject matter, this latest edition will continue the book's reputation as the gold standard of meeting procedure for parliamentarians and novice club presidents and members alike. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the past decade's technological advances and usage, this tenth edition contains new information on how to conduct meetings over the Internet, on phone and video conference calls, and with members in absentia. The best book from which to learn all about running and taking an effective part in meetings, General Robert's gift of order is as indispensable now as it was a century ago.

Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age
Bordas, Juana

Tapping the potential of the changing workforce, consumer base, and citizenry requires a leadership approach that resonates with our country's growing diversity. In "Salsa, Soul, and Spirit," Juana Bordas shows how incorporating Latino, African American, and American Indian approaches to leadership into the mainstream has the potential to strengthen leadership practices and inspire today's ethnically rich workforce. Bordas identifies eight core leadership principles common to all three cultures, principles deeply rooted in each culture's values and developed under the most trying conditions. Using a lively blend of personal reflections, interviews, and historical background, she shows how these principles developed and illustrates the creative ways they've been put into practice in these communities (and some forward-looking companies). Bordas brings these principles together into a multicultural leadership model that offers a more flexible and inclusive way to lead and a new vision of the role of the leader in the organization. Multicultural leadership resonates with many cultures and encourages diverse people to actively engage. In a globalized economy, success for leaders in the future will rest on their ability to shift to a multicultural approach. "Salsa, Soul, and Spirit" provides conceptual and practical guidelines for beginning that process.

Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Performance, The
Autry, James

A Practical Guide to Using the Principles of Servant Leadership
Leadership is a calling. And servant leadership—the idea that managing with respect, honesty, love, and spirituality empowers employees—helps individuals answer that calling. Bestselling author and former Fortune 500 executive James A. Autry reveals the servant leader’s tools, a set of skills and ideals that will transform the way business is done. It helps leaders nurture the needs and goals of those who look to them for leadership. The result is a more productive, successful, and happier organization, and a more meaningful life for the leader. Autry reveals how to remain true to the servant leadership model when handling day-to-day and long-term management situations, including how to:

• Provide guidance during conflict and crisis
• Assure your continued growth and progress as a leader
• Train managers in the principles of servant leadership
• Transform a company with morale problems into a great place to work

Servant Leader Within: A Transformative Path, The
Greenleaf, Paul

Combines in one volume classic works on servant-leadership and its relationship to the art of teaching and the act of learning.

Service-Learning-Guide and Journal
Schoenfeld, Robert Max

The "Service-Learning - Student’s Guide & Journal is a new book that will help your Middle and High School students organize their Service-Learning project, improve their thinking and writing skills and increase test scores. The Student’s Guide & Journals will aid your students in their pursuit of scholastic achievement while guiding and inspiring them to take their service to their community and the nation to a higher level of accomplishment. The Service-Learning - Student’s Guide & Journal is a useful resource for any Service-Learning program such as: Environmental Programs, Tutoring and Mentoring Projects, helping the Homeless and the Hungry

Silver Bullets
Rohnke, Karl

A Guide to Initiative Problems, Adventure Games and Trust Activities
Regardless of what age group of people you are working with, if you need a way to break down barriers between participants, this is the book for you. There are games, actions that involve trust, problems that involve reasoning and initiative thinking, and problem solving activities as well. The activities described in this book can be used with large or small groups, from youth groups to upper management teams. After participating in several of the activities, there will be new levels of trust and friendship developed and less friction in the organization. Karl Rohnke has done an excellent job of bringing together under one book many activities to promote co-operation and creativity among the participants. You can even adapt the games to a family level to increase harmony in the home. Silver Bullets provides a way to express the positive qualities of interaction among people to increase the human spirit of warmth and kindness.

Social Change Model of Leadership Development, A
Higher Education Research Institute

Guidebook on Leadership Development Model designed by professors at the Higher Education Research Institute. Model incorporates a number of key assumptions such as:

• Leadership is concerned with effecting change on behalf of others and society
• Leadership is collaborative
• Leadership is a process rather than a position
• Leadership should be value-based
• All students are potential leaders
• Service is a powerful vehicle for developing students’ leadership skills

Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time
Loeb, Paul Rogat

Soul of a Citizen is a brilliant book of inspiration and integrity that provides all of us with the practical tools to battle the twin scourges of modern life—powerlessness and cynicism.

Sponsorship Seeker’s Toolkit, The
Grey, Anne-Marrie

Guide provides a step-by-step approach to securing sponsorship benefits. Shows how to find sponsors, how to secure them, and how to keep them. Provides an up-to-date strategy to managing sponsorship in today's competitive market; includes tools, techniques, resources, and templates. 

Step Back from the Baggage Claim
Barger, Jason

Ever experienced the way small moments impact our lives? Ever wanted to participate in a movement to change our world? Step back, Be Still, Share Compassion, Live Gratefully. Today, travel gracefully along your path! Step Back from the Baggage Claim. Jason Barger spent seven straight days flying 6,548 miles to seven different cities living only in the airports the entire time. He studied 10,000 minutes of observations at all four corners of the U.S. and reflected on how our airport experiences can teach us about our lives TODAY. The airport metaphor leaps to life through profound anecdotes about an orphanage in Mexico, a summer camp in Ohio, bamboo, the homeless, climbing Mt. Everest, a hotdog grill, and much more. The funny and inspiring stories remind us how to change our daily world through thoughtful and compassionate action! Join the movement.

Step Back from the Baggage Claim, Education Edition
Barger, Jason

Ever experienced the way small moments impact our lives? Ever wanted to participate in a movement to change our world? Step back, Be Still, Share Compassion, Live Gratefully. Today, travel gracefully along your path! Step Back from the Baggage Claim. Jason Barger spent seven straight days flying 6,548 miles to seven different cities living only in the airports the entire time. He studied 10,000 minutes of observations at all four corners of the U.S. and reflected on how our airport experiences can teach us about our lives TODAY. The airport metaphor leaps to life through profound anecdotes about an orphanage in Mexico, a summer camp in Ohio, bamboo, the homeless, climbing Mt. Everest, a hotdog grill, and much more. The funny and inspiring stories remind us how to change our daily world through thoughtful and compassionate action! Join the movement.

Stories Trainers Tell
Wacker, Mary B.

Telling stories is a powerful way to make a point, especially when the stories are compelling, well constructed, and poignant. This book captures thought-provoking stories contributed by trainers, nationally- known speakers, consultants, business leaders, educators, and professional storytellers that help make challenging ideas and abstract concepts more memorable, even unforgettable. The stories are organized around major organizational development and training themes, such as leadership, diversity, teamwork, performance and coaching, and customer service. Accompanying each story are tips, debriefing questions, key points, and a follow-up activity to maximize its impact and learning potential.

Strengths Finder 2.0
Rath, Tom

Do You Do What You Do Best Every Day? Chances are, you don’t. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced StrengthsFinder in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions discover their top five talents.

In StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular online assessment. With hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, StrengthsFinder 2.0 will change the way you look at yourself—and the world—forever.

Student’s Guide to Volunteering, A
Digeronimo, Theresa

A Student's Guide to Volunteering A good book about a terrific way to learn by doing. Beyond developing marketable and useful abilities, volunteers have the opportunity to touch people showing that they care. And caring itself is something to be learned. The first part of the book covers some general principles then discusses opportunities in six major areas open to teens. The second part is a listing of resources in the six areas, then volunteer organizations by state (in the U.S.) The chapters include story examples of what volunteering in various jobs is like. One chapter discusses how to set up a youth volunteer organization.

Students Helping Students
Ender, Steven

This practical training guide is for the thousands of college students who serve as leaders, tutors, counselors, and advisors for their peers. Beginning with a fundamental discussion on student growth and development, this resource provides learning objectives and exercises to help prepare peer educators for such tasks as tutoring, student orientation, residence hall advising, crisis intervention, coaching, and more. Perfect for individual or group use, Students Helping Students is a long-awaited guide for students and campus professionals. 

Student Leadership Guide, The
Burchard, Brendon

The Center for Leadership Development at the University of Montana is proud to present the first and only leadership book on the market that is 1) intended for students, 2) written from both theoretical and popular viewpoints, and 3) structured with a real-world, service-oriented framework that students can instantly use to make a difference in their classrooms, communities, and early careers. Leadership is conceptualized from the principles that it is a collective and participative process, different from management, and firmly rooted in service. The Guide's framework-Envision, Enlist, Embody, Empower, Evaluate, and Encourage-reflects six key leadership practices students must learn in order to lead with competence and confidence. The Student Leadership Guide has been praised by educators and students alike for its theory-backed content and its practical, inspiring call to action and service. 

Supporting Student Leadership
Boatman, Sara

This is a book for student leaders at colleges and universities. It contains selections for the Student Development Series by the National Association for Campus Activities. The articles combine existing information with practical experience to help readers gain new information and be able to apply it to actual campus activities and student organization contexts.

Systematic Leadership
Allen, Kathleen E.

Systemic Leadership examines how technology has fostered an era of collaboration, connectedness, and networked knowledge that demands a new systemic approach to leadership and change in organizations. This book offers four strategies for organizational leadership to lead, learn, relate, and influence change. Allen and Cherrey seamlessly integrate these strategies as a guiding light in the complex and dynamic world of management and higher education administration. Of interest to college leaders, managers, and student affairs practitioners in higher education, for-profit and non-profit organizations. Co-published with American College Personnel Association and National Association for Campus Activities.

Taking Your Meetings Out of the Duldrums
Schindler-Rainman, Eva

This book identifies some of the problems and issues of getting participation in meetings, reviews some of the similarities and differences of meetings, goes through the steps of designing all types of meetings, uses a checklist reminder of things to remember when planning and conducting a meeting, scans a checklist of the kinds of resources there are for use in improving our meetings, reminds ourselves of the traps we need to avoid in planning and leading meetings, have an opportunity to share with you some alternative ways to cope with typical problem situations, expands your repertoire with a toolkit of illustrative designs, instruments, and procedures for your meetings, and helps you develop and think about ways to use this resource.

Team Handbook, The
Scholtes, Peter R.

This handbook is a valuable reference that can be used at any stage of a team’s growth and development and is very in-depth. The updates included in this new edition help keep the book current with what’s happening in the industry.

These are a Few of My Favorite Things
Burton, Tony D.

It is often the simple things that make life so special, so precious.  In this unique, heartwarming treasure, more than fifty celebrities from all walks of life -- from television personalities to sports heroes, politicians to musicians and actors -- jot down a few of their favorite things in their own handwriting on their personal stationery. Some are funny, some are creative, and some are unexpected. This collection will inspire all of us to celebrate the things we so easily take for granted. 

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Godin, Seth

A tribe is any group of people, large or small, who are connected to one another, a leader, and an idea. For millions of years, humans have joined tribes, be they religious, ethnic, political, or even musical (think of the Deadheads). It's our nature. Now the Internet has eliminated the barriers of geography, cost, and time. All those blogs and social networking sites are helping existing tribes get bigger and enabling new tribes to be born—groups of ten or ten million who care about a political campaign, or a new way to fight global warming.

Who is going to lead all these tribes? The Web can do amazing things, but it can't provide leadership. That still has to come from individuals—people just like you who have passion about something. Anyone who wants to make a difference now has the tools at their fingertips.

If you think leadership is for other people, think again—leaders come in surprising packages. Ignore an opportunity to lead and you risk turning into a "sheepwalker"—someone who fights to protect the status quo at all costs, never asking if obedience is doing you (or your organization) any good. Sheepwalkers don't do very well these days.

Tribes will make you think (really think) about the opportunities for leading your fellow employees, customers, investors, believers, hobbyists, readers. . . . It's not easy, but it's easier than you probably imagine.

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True North: Discover your Authentic Leadership
George, Bill

True North shows how anyone who follows their internal compass can become an authentic leader. This leadership tour de force is based on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today’s top leaders—with some surprising results. In this important book, acclaimed former Medtronic CEO Bill George and coauthor Peter Sims share the wisdom of these outstanding leaders and describe how you can develop as an authentic leader. True North presents a concrete and comprehensive program for leadership success and shows how to create your own Personal Leadership Development Plan centered on five key areas:

• Knowing your authentic self
• Defining your values and leadership principles
• Understanding your motivations
• Building your support team
• Staying grounded by integrating all aspects of your life

Voices from the Heart: In Celebration of America's Volunteers
O’Connell, Brian

An unprecedented pro bono effort by Jossey-Bass Publishers and Chronicle Books.
Americans young and old, rich and poor, in cities and in rural areas, from all faiths and races, come together to volunteer. Voices from the Heart is a tribute to this spirit of giving and the ideal of community. Author Brian O'Connell and editor Rebecca Buffam Taylor present a moving portrait of compassion at work. We meet volunteers from across the country and hear their passionate voices speak about what they do and why. Compelling images by leading photojournalists add to the story of each volunteer's work and its rich rewards.

A nonprofit joint endeavor by Chronicle Books, Jossey-Bass Publishers, and major national foundations, profits from the sale of Voices from the Heart will go to INDEPENDENT SECTOR, a nonprofit group dedicated to America's volunteer organizations.
Everyone who gives time and effort to help other people or important causes will appreciate this homage to the manifold benefits of volunteering.

Where’s the Learning in Service-Learning?
Eyler, Janet and Dwight E Giles, Jr.

This timely volume is the first to explore service-learning as a valid learning activity. The authors present extensive data from two groundbreaking national research projects. Their studies include a large national survey focused on attitudes and perceptions of learning, intensive student interviews before and after the service semester, and additional comprehensive interviews to explore student views of the service-learning process.

Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Johnson, Spencer

From one of the world's acknowledged experts on management comes a charming parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage change quickly and prevail in changing times.

Winner in You: Be Your Own Hero, The
Gilliam, Joe

Book on Tape
Which kind of person are you: One who watches things happen or one who makes things happen? Do you dream of success, only to sit on the sideline and watch others attain it? Nationally acclaimed trainer Joe Gilliam give you unshakable success strategies that provide you with an inner drive to take action in your life and form habits that turn into success.

Unlock the mysteries of motivation by learning proven strategies guaranteed to make you a winner. Discover the practical tools you need to get motivated—and stay motivated—on your journey to success. Learn how to take control of you future, your goals, your thinking and your actions. Make excellence a part of your life and your life will soon become excellent all the time.

Your Financial Future
Life After Graduation, LLC.

Your Financial Future will give you a strong foundation to control your personal finances, shed light on important subjects, and provide tools and resources you need to become an effective manager of your financial future.

Zen and the Art of Making a Living
Boldt, Laurence G.

First published in 1991, Zen and the Art of Making a Living is the life-changing book that helped revolutionize the career planning field by offering a new vision of work. This new edition has been updated throughout with up-to-the-minute contact information and hundreds of new biographical resources. In addition to traditional material on assessing career skills and conducting a job search, Laurence Boldt provides innovative ideas and strategies, with more than 120 worksheets and more than five hundred inspirational quotations from sages of every stripe. A book that goes far beyond other career guides, Zen and the Art of Making a Living brings creativity, dignity, and meaning to every aspect of the work experience.