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Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy: How Civic Entrepreneurs Are Building Prosperous Communities (Jossey Bass Nonprofit & Public Management Series)
Douglas Henton , John G. Melville , and Kimberly Walesh Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787908274 |
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A seminal work in fleshing out the kind of leadership we need to renew and prepare communities for the demands of democracy in the coming era.Ronald Heifetz, director, Leadership Education Project, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Jolted by the economic downturn of the early 1990s and the rapid globalization of the economy, a group of California business, government, education, and community leaders formed Joint Venture: Silicon Valley, a collaborative regional alliance that helped create a strengthened economy and an improved quality of life in their community. Now three of Joint Venture's advisers outline the process that led to this dramatic turnaround, as well as success stories in Florida, Ohio, Kansas, and Texas. They reveal the powerful new concept of civic entrepreneurship, and they offer practical, proven strategies that community leaders across the country can employ to foster local economic development and renewal.
Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy explains the unique leadership qualities that set civic entrepreneurs apart, and illustrates how these leaders can emerge from all levels of private, public, social, and civic organizations. The book shows how civic entrepreneurs forge powerfully productive linkages at the intersection of business, government, education, and community, and it demonstrates how they operate at the grassroots level to create collaborative advantages that make it possible for their economic communities to compete on the global stage.
Citing numerous real-life examples, authors Douglas Henton, John Melville, and Kimberly Walesh illustrate the necessary steps to build an economic community. They show how civic entrepreneurs motivate and network to organize for action, set priorities, and mobilize resources to get things done. Finally, they demonstrate how to sustain cross-sector collaboration over the long haul for the good of the community. An indispensable resource, Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy offers step-by-step guidance and practical advice equally useful to business executives, elected officials and public managers, community development practitioners, or concerned citizens who want to take an active role in shaping the future of local economic development.
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Prescription For Community Change In The Early 21st Century.......2002-05-13
This current epistle by three writers who've had some hands on experience in working with communities who want to adapt to the switch in the United States from that of a manufacturing based society to a technology based one offer some insights garnered over the past decade or so by communities that are changing the focus of their notion of what the change means to their communities.
Using diverse regional examples such as San Jose, California and Silicon Valley, Austin, Texas, Cleveland, Ohio and Phoenix, Arizona, the notion of the civic entreprenuer as the force for change is nicely developed. The writers demonstrate how leaders from government, business, as well as the education sectors can come together to become a powerful source of community improvement. A specific example of this used in the book is Enterprise Florida; an organization clearly focused on garnering a fair share of the economic opportunities available to communities in the Sunshine State.
For those who understand the forces being brought to bear on communities, and for those who want to practice the mantra of thinking globaly while acting locally, this work can be especially meaningful, and well worth the time it takes to read.
Going Global instead of Going Local.......2002-01-04
Henton et al. are right in one sense, it is possible to create a more prosperous community by going global, but it may not be the most desirable prosoperity:
1. There is likely to be more inequality, as the split between lucky winners and unfortunate losers increases.
2. The prosperity is likely to be cyclical and unstable because it will be dependent on the world economy and the whims of external investors.
The correct solution (Shuman's solution) is to focus on providing the basics to as many local community members as possible.
New hope for South Africa found in Amazon!.......1997-07-12
Although based primarily on examples of US communities, many of the problems faced by cities and regions around the world have remarkable simialarities. There is much we can all learn from each other and this book is remarable in sharing the insights gained by 1000's of community leaders.
Practical and down to earth, Doug Henton and his co-authors give a step by step guide to building the necessary trust and dynamic working relationships in a diverse community.
This is essential reading for anyone involved in community development.
Tony Heher,Pretoria,South Africa
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The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization
Richard N. Haass Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0815733534 |
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Required reading.......2003-06-26
A public good.......2002-10-25
Enter Richard Haass's book the Bureaucratic Entrepreneur, an update of his 1993 primer the Power to Persuade. Haass has held a number of positions in previous government administrations, including at the NSC and the Defense and State Departments. His book is packed with words of wisdom for the harried bureaucrat who at the end of the day may wonder just what he accomplished. Although Haass's advice appears machiavellian (he argues that Machiavelli is often misunderstood) and the author does not have a firm grasp on whether his audience is the entry-level employee or the senior-level political appointee, it is worth putting up with these drawbacks for the original focus and insight on managing and leading in the public sector. The bibliography alone is reason enough to buy the book.
Low-level or high, every public-sector employee should read the Bureaucratic Entrepreneur before starting his or her new government job. They should then re-read it every few years to ensure that they are on track and using the tools Haass lays out to be effective in one of the most "unruly" organizations around.
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Niche Marketing for Writers, Speakers, and Entrepreneurs: How to Make Yourself Indispensable, Slightly Immortal, and Lifelong Rich in 18 Months!
Gordon Burgett Manufacturer: Communication Unlimited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0910167222 |
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How to Make Yourself Indispensable, Slightly Immortal, and Lifelong Rich in 18 Months!On the surface it looks simple: writers write something, speakers speak something, they fit it into a niche market, everybody's happy, and the doer gets rich! Alas, niche marketing is a process, not a panacea: it's a thought pattern carried to completion. A path that can lead to financial, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual fulfillment all at the same time.
Gordon Burgett's purpose in his book is to put you on that path in one easy step ready so you can become the creator of your own wealth and ruler of your own reign, wanted and sought while you help build a better world!
Some of the concept comes form two of his earlier books, Empire-Building By Writing And Speaking and Publishing To Niche Markets, where "core development," "topic-spoking," and TCE are first seen.
Unique to these pages is the definition and development of niche marketing itself and how it can be used to realize your life goals, as well as the detailed explanation of the 11 means that constitute the heart of this form of niche marketing.
Will the application of these words make you lifelong rich in 18 months? It could. But it will more likely get you centered, organized, and profitably in motion so that what is created in 18 months will be the base of a foundation of years, then decades, of healthy, happy earning and living.
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Practical advice, easy to read, right to the point.......2002-10-28
I highly recommend this book, as well as his other one on niche marketing.
John Dunbar
Sugar Land, TX
Some typos-but excellent information.......2001-02-07
Ma-Ma-book.......2000-06-09
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Smart Start-Ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities
David Silver Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0470107421 |
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Smart Start Ups- Pure Gold by a man called Silver!.......2007-09-08
YouTube / Stickam Killer Combination.......2007-08-22
A priceless resource for online and mobile entrepreneurs.......2007-07-11
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Brazil's State-Owned Enterprises: A Case Study of the State as Entrepreneur (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
Thomas J. Trebat Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0521237165 |
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This book provides a systematic analysis of the performance of Brazil’s large state-owned enterprises. The Brazilian economic system encourages private enterprise, but the government itself owns and operates such critical industries as petrochemicals, steel, electricity and telecommunications. The Brazilian state has assumed the role of an entrepreneur not for ideological reasons, but as a pragmatic means of speeding up the process of economic growth. The author examines the economic and financial performance of these state-owned enterprises in terms of their contribution to economic growth. He concludes that in Brazil they have been effective substitutes for private investment in a number of strategic industries and that their ability to assemble large amounts of capital, to attract skilled managers, and to earn reasonable profits permitted the Brazilian economy to grow more rapidly during the 1960s and 1970s than would have been the case in their absence.
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Leadership and Innovation: Entrepreneurs in Government
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0801839785 |
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Jameson W. Doig and Erwin C. Hargrove outline a perspective on leadership in government that emphasizes entrepreneurship. They show how government executives' ability to set goals, generate support inside and outside the bureaucracy, and implement innovative ideas-- even at risk to their own careers-- can have a significant impact on their organizations and on society.In this abridged edition, biographical studies of David Lilienthal, Hyman Rickover, James Webb, Nancy Hanks, Robert McNamara, Wilbur Cohen, Robert Ball, and Austin Tobin illustrate a variety of skills and strategies used by effective executives. Doig and Hargrove describe their styles as ranging from "rhetorical leaders" to "entrepreneurial administrators". Yet these diverse leaders share some important traits, including a capacity to see historical opportunity, the ability to mobilize constituencies, and a desire to "make a difference".
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The Power of One: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America's Cities
Debra Schweiger Berg Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1412032016 Release Date: 2006-06-30 |
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Can average Americans solve the country\'s social problems? Absolutely! Thirty-five altruistic Americans with 25 working solutions are featured as part of a new trend now saving taxpayers millions while changing lives worldwide.Customer Reviews:
People We Should Be Hearing About on the Evening News.......2006-05-25
Our Civic Entrepreneurs........2006-05-20
Redtape Busting Heroes.......2004-10-08
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Empire-Building by Writing and Speaking: A How to Guide for Communicators, Entrepreneurs, and Other Information Merchants
Gordon Burgett Manufacturer: Communication Unlimited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0910167028 |
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One good idea can change your life and everybody else's....if you know how to share it. Better yet, from one idea you can create your own empire, with you as the emperor or empress.If you know something that others will pay to know, that is the core. Not only do you strengthen that unique element of knowledge, you redefine and repackage that expanded core by the most appropriate of the many means
of information dissemination: articles, a book, talks, speeches, seminars, audio and/or video tapes, a newsletter, consulting, and more...
By sharing needed information one way it leads to sharing it by others, and the collective sharing further identifies you as the person, the perceived expert, to be sought for even further help, information, or direction in that area of inquiry.
Empire-Building By Writing And Speaking takes you through the process, from identifying the core knowledge to putting all of the means in motion.
The concept is old but the terms are new, and having it now in how-to form, the why's and how's, in a sensible process you can follow, is a godsend for people who know something, or can, and want desperately to share it with others.
This book shares a way that you can do just that and still live a decent life, with the monetary as well as psychic rewards that you deserve for helping others and yourself.
One idea can be the core of an empire
It can make you rich and set you free
Yet ideas alone aren't enough. If they were, the world would be full of liberated millionaires. Ideas must be directed, structured, and put in motion. They must have a purpose. So this book offers a 15-step process by which you can turn ideas, through writing and speaking, into action. It helps you disseminate your ideas and create an action plan.
Empire-Building By Writing And Speaking suggests a form of operational order to the otherwise random chaos of knowledge so that ideas can be directed at problem-solving, goal-attaining, even profit-making. They can be the difference between sharing by one means or many, better said, the difference between enlightening a few and earning several hundred dollars or telling the world and a potential $1,000,000!
This may be Burgett's longest remembered book by the writers and speakers he has helped. Have you the courage to be the ruler of your own empire? Then buy, read, and do.
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Disappointingly Shallow!.......2005-05-22
Excellent book!.......2003-12-03
The Tide is Rising on this Castle Made of Sand.......2003-01-08
This book has very little useful information. If you're interested in this subject, you will need to buy a book on self-publishing, one on public speaking/seminars, and one on PR. How could this little book cover all these topics adequately. It can't.
This books goes nowhere..........2003-01-03
If you have enough enthusiasm to buy this book, Gordon Burgett's book will offer nothing else to you. I feel I have wasted [money].
TRANSFORMING IDEAS INTO INCOME.......2000-12-13
If you are in a business or profession where you have the opportunity to provide information others value, then you should seriously consider becoming a merchant of ideas. This book is an excellent start for discovering and implementing ideas that you can transform into income. Along this line, I would also suggest these books as companions in creating a well balanced game plan. First the undisputed bible of self-publishing, THE SELF-PUBLISHING MANUAL: HOW TO WRITE, PRINT AND SELL YOUR OWN BOOK by Dan Poytner, Then, an outstanding book on creating an integrated vision of your life and business, MAKING A LIVING WITHOUT A JOB: WINNING WAYS FOR CREATING WORK THAT YOU LOVE by Barbara J. Winters.
Why did I give this book only four stars, not five? Because, although the book works in its current form, it would be nice to see a second edition. One would hope the author has new and improved insights to add, and at the very least this book deserves a fresh cover that matches the content.
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Financing Entrepreneurs
Cynthia A. Beltz Manufacturer: AEI Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0844738492 |
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This book is a collection of essays on proposals to provide tax incentives to stimulate the growth of high-technology firms.
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Accountants as entrepreneurs; honing your management skills. (Cover Story): An article from: The National Public Accountant
Steven A. Fisher Manufacturer: National Society of Public Accountants ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00092AMZ2 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from The National Public Accountant, published by National Society of Public Accountants on February 1, 1991. The length of the article is 1520 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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