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In the wake of the accountability movement, school administrators are inundated with data about their students. How can they use this information to support student achievement? This book presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools' ability to capture teachers' knowledge, foster collaboration, identify obstacles to change, and enhance school culture and climate.
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Useful how-to book on data use in schools.......2007-06-14
Data Wise is exactly as the title describes. It tells you exactly how to implement data use in your school with case studies/examples. Great for all levels of experience, especially those just starting out. Little to no background knowledge in the area is required to benefit from the book. Lingo and definitions are given in the beginning. Great for use by all educators.
Fast Shipping!.......2007-02-06
I didn't expect for this book to arrive as quickly as it did! It came in just a few days. (With standard shipping) I was very pleased!
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Combining the rational, logical instincts of the left brain with the passionate and artful skills of the right brain, this book offers a leadership approach that is both highly effective and deeply inspirational. Perfect for anyone assuming a leadership position, it presents simple solutions on such topics as effective collaboration, achieving goals, leadership styles, team-building, inspiring people to success, and more.
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weLEAD Book Review by the Editor of leadingtoday.org.......2007-06-17
Simple Solutions is a book that will help you to solve a riddle. What do you get when you cross a successful C.E.O. with a highly influential attorney? You may be expecting a humorous punch line but the real answer is you get an insightful book that brings you back to the basic principles of real leadership.
Thomas Schmitt is a senior executive at FedEx including C.E.O. of FedEx Global Supply Chain Services. Arnold Perl has been a practicing attorney for over 30 years and is a partner of the employment firm of Ford & Harrison LLP. Arnold's accomplishments would read like a "Who's Who" listing due to his personal and community achievements. As Chairman of the New Memphis Arena Public Building Authority he helps to oversee the construction of the FedExForum, home to the Memphis Grizzlies, a franchise team in the NBA. Independently, in their leadership roles they had developed concepts of simplicity, tools and passion to motivate their teams to accomplish important tasks. Time and chance would bring them together in forums and civic meetings in Memphis. This relationship led to the writing of this book
Simple Solutions is based on a powerful yet simple concept. You can apply simple solutions to complex challenges. As it states in the introduction, "We believe that simplicity is the fundamental foundation for management. It is such an important concept in leadership that we devote the first chapter to that subject alone. Amid all the complexity of modern business, it is sometimes tough not to get bogged down in details and complexity." Furthermore, this book emphasizes that leadership can be learned, is a powerful way to build relationships, and that it gets results.
Each chapter of Simple Solutions discusses a key attribute of the author's effective leadership philosophy. Using the analogy of a balanced scale defined as "simplicity", five practical tools of left-brain approaches to leadership are matched with creative right brain approaches. For example, the left-brain tool of time management is balanced with the need for focus, a passion that is considered a right-brain approach. Each chapter is informative, easy to read and flavored with the author's personal experiences and examples.
Simple Solutions is a unique book that ties together many acknowledged qualities and principles of leadership together to create a picture for success. The interrelationship of the tools and passions discussed in this book is fascinating and will give you a more connected perspective of what it takes to lead others to accomplish great things. So... what do you get when you cross a successful C.E.O. with a highly influential attorney? You get a book worth reading, and one that attempts to make leadership a little simpler to understand and practice.
Not a bad read for first time managers.......2007-04-25
Are you a first-time manager, new to leading others? If so, you could do worse than to read "Simple Solutions: Harness the Power of Passion and Simplicity to Get Results." The book will do a good job of giving you an overview of the skills and passions the authors believe are key to leadership success.
Have you been leading for some years? If so, you don't need this book.
Schmitt and Perl believe leadership success depends on five tools and five passions. Their visual model is an old-fashioned balancing scale, with the five tools on one side and the five passions on the other, and Simplicity as the base.
The tools they believe are key are:
"Management savvy: Work smarter, not harder."
"People Skills: Making people the top priority."
"Collaboration: Think 'one big team.'"
"Time Management: Align your time with the right goals."
"Execution: Do it! Don't sacrifice good for better."
And the passions they focus on are:
"Ambition: Be ambitious for your people and the cause."
"Leadership: Leave a place better than you found it."
"Vision: Imagine the possibilities."
"Focus: Use a laser, not a floodlight."
"Determination: Stick to it."
The strength of the book is that it pulls all these concepts together into a short, readable volume. That's great if you are a brand new manager. For anyone else, though, it suffers from three weaknesses.
The first weakness will be evident from the lists above. None of these concepts are new or novel, and any manager with a bit of success will already know that these are pretty important.
The second weakness, at least in my eyes, is the lack of evidence to prove that these are actually the keys to leadership success. The book amounts to a collection of anecdotes and opinions, and none of us should be satisfied with that.
Finally, the book is fairly light on how to apply these ideas in the day to day work of leading people. I wish the authors had provided a directed reading list to expand on each of their ideas.
Who knew it could be this simple?.......2006-12-16
As a retired member of management for a large manufacturer, all I can say after reading this book is "Where were you when I needed you?"
The authors of this very easy-to-read guide to clear thinking really do make it look easy. But their principles aren't limited to those in the corporate world or legal profession. Keeping it simple is a philosphy to apply to any project, large or small.
Thank you Mr. Schmitt and Mr. Perl for sharing your wonderful book and for helping us back up and take another look at things. Balancing the right and left brains is a concept too long forgotten. Considering only the left brain as "smart" and the right brain as "arty" is all too common, with the value of intuition and vision of the right brain often ignored.
If only more more business people understood this.......2006-12-09
Simple works. It's that simple. The authors of this newly published management guide don't do simple work. Schmitt is a senior executive in FedEx supplying solutions to complex logistical problems and Perl is an attorney who has practiced before the Supreme Court. Yet they've found that they can break down complex problems into simple components and solve them. Applying that principle of simplicity to business and government they demonstrate in this accessible guidebook how any manager can work more effectively and efficiently. They incorporate "tools" and "passions" that draw on both sides of the brain to not only analyze problems, but to find ceative solutions to them. You don't need an MBA to figure out that they're on to something.
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The Secrets of Facilitation delivers a clear vision of facilitation excellence and reveals the specific techniques effective facilitators use to produce consistent, repeatable results with groups. Author Michael Wilkinson has trained thousands of managers, mediators, analysts, and consultants around the world to apply the power of SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniques) facilitation to achieve amazing results with teams and task forces. He shows how anyone can use these proven group techniques in conflict resolution, consulting, managing, presenting, teaching, planning, selling, and other professional as well as personal situations.
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The Secrets of Facilitation delivers a clear vision of facilitation excellence and reveals the specific techniques effective facilitators use to produce consistent, repeatable results with groups. Author Michael Wilkinson has trained thousands of managers, analysts, and consultants around the world to apply the power of SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniques) facilitation to achieve amazing results with teams and task forces. He shows how anyone can use these proven group techniques in managing, presenting, teaching, planning, selling, and other professional as well as personal situations.
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SMART Facilitation - A very good read.......2007-07-24
Well written -- brief and to the point. Valuable even if you only read the first and last chapters. If you think you want to work on Facilitation skills -- get this book!
Good book to teach facilitation techniques.......2007-05-25
This book starts with good real time situations to describe the common problems in facilitation and how to overcome them. It helps both beginners and serious facilitators. Through a series of real life examples it teaches the best practices for effective facilitation.
An Excellent Resource!.......2007-02-13
I am the Principal of Cohesion Inc, a marketing & business consulting organization, and also a part-time course director in the marketing faculty of the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto, Canada.
Facilitation is an important part of my work and teaching, and as such I regularly review literature on this subject to discover new insights and techniques with which to experiment.
Whether you are new to facilitation or already an experienced practitioner, this book will serve as an excellent resource to build your skills in this area.
Best book on facilitation I've read.......2006-01-29
This is a wonderful, practical, well-written book, with 60 facilitation secrets that are worth far, far more than the price of the pages. In fact, I learned more from this book than I did from a nationally recognized Advanced Facilitation course for $1700.
The chapter on consensus-building, which introduces 4 common techniques for building consensus (Delineation, Strengths and weaknesses, Merge and Weighted Scoring) I found particularly useful. The 6 high-level agendas for common facilitated sessions (among them process improvement and issue resolution) are a must for every facilitator.
I would recommend this book most highly for facilitators who want to build on their existing skills rather than as an introduction to the field, as some of the secrets (those related to dealing with dysfunctional behavior, for example) assume some foundational facilitation skills. However, anyone interested in the field would benefit greatly from the secrets in this book. A truly great addition to the facilitator's library!
Great Book For The Executive Suite.......2005-06-02
The Secrets of Facilitation is a great book for facilitators, from those about to facilitate their first session to those of us who have been practicing for over 25 years. I counted over 200 Post-Its and notes in my copy. Beyond what we facilitators gain, the "secret" of The Secrets is the value this book will have to those in Executive Suites and serving on Boards.
All leadership teams are searching for new leaps in productivity. They are lean as can be, yet uncomfortably aware that the majority of ideas delivered by consultants (60%, 75%%, 90%+?) come from their own people. They need an alternative. Their answer lies in the first secret revealed by Michael Wilkinson, "You can achieve more effective results when solutions are created, understood, and accepted by the people impacted." The rest of the book reveals how to do so. Now executives can choose to use in-house facilitators and their own people to develop and deliver the majority of solutions, and outside facilitators and top talent consultants only when truly needed.
Most executives I meet have experienced a session of the caliber delivered by a true Master Facilitator like Michael. Many can recall exciting, highly successful sessions facilitated by a real professional. What they've lacked is confidence that similar successes can be repeated consistently. The Secrets of Facilitation reveals a set of skills that can be learned and can permeate any organization. Michael's efforts in researching, teaching, and now writing this book will accelerate the adoption of facilitation as a core approach for leaders in any organization.
I only know Michael from participating in sessions he's facilitated, my recent association with the International Association of Facilitators, and through reputation of even some of my own favorite clients who recommend him as "The Best". Even so, yes, I do have a bias for recommending Michael's book. First, with the success of his book there will be more business for all facilitators. Second, our own firm's focus is turning more towards facilitating virtual teams, where getting our clients to understand The Secrets becomes even more important!
Certainly if you can schedule Michael to facilitate a session, grab the opportunity, he is that good. Better yet, buy copies of his book, give them out to your full leadership team, and embrace facilitation as a way of doing business.
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What is the single, most important event of the school year that affects school improvement? How do you measure school improvement? How can simple tools--already at your fingertips--work more effectively to improve student achievement in reading, math, and more?
The Results Fieldbook answers these questions and describes in abundant, practical detail how five school systems overcame obstacles and achieved exceptional results for all their students. These schools focused on the proven core concepts that Mike Schmoker described in both editions of his first ASCD book, Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement. Supplementing the five case studies, brief vignettes written by practitioners show how core practices--teamwork, the use of achievement data, and planning for measurable goals--made an immediate and profound difference in student learning at their respective schools.
A close look at these school systems reveals the simplicity of school improvement efforts built around the still-overlooked and most potent force in improvement--collective, organized teacher intelligence. This book contains easily adapted processes and refinements that result from such teacher collaboration and all but guarantee measurable improvement. Tables, figures, and appendixes illustrate effective data-collection processes; and at the conclusion, a three-part synthesis of the best of these systems provides practical steps toward implementing this radically more effective approach to school improvement, starting with preservice education.
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What is the single, most important event of the school year that affects school improvement? How do you measure school improvement? How can simple tools-already at your fingertips-work more effectively to improve student achievement in reading, math, and more? The Results Fieldbook answers these questions and describes in abundant, practical detail how five school systems overcame obstacles and achieved exceptional results for all their students. These schools focused on the proven concepts that Mike Schmoker described in Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement. Supplementing the case studies, brief vignettes by practitioners show how core practices-teamwork, the use of achievement data, and planning for measurable goals-made a profound difference in student learning at their respective schools. A close look at these school systems reveals the simplicity of improvement efforts built around the most potent force in improvement-collective, organized teacher intelligence. This book contains easily adapted processes and refinements that result from such teacher collaboration and ensure measurable improvement. Tables, figures, and appendixes illustrate effective data-collection processes; at the conclusion, a three-part synthesis provides practical steps toward implementing this radically more effective approach to school improvement, starting with preservice education.
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Every day in communities across America hundreds of committees, boards, church groups, and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time engaged in shouting matches and acrimonious debate. Whether they are aware of it or not, the procedures that most such groups rely on to reach decisions were first laid out as Robert's Rules more than 150 years ago by an officer in the U.S. Army's Corps of Engineers. Its arcane rituals of parliamentary procedure and majority rule usually produce a victorious majority and a very dissatisfied minority that expects to raise its concerns, again, at the next possible meeting. Breaking Robert's Rules clearly spells out how any group can work together effectively. After briefly explaining the problems created by Robert's Rules, the guide outlines the five key steps toward consensus building, and addresses the specific problems that often get in the way of a group's progress. Appendices include a basic one page "Handy Guide" that can be distributed at meetings and a case study demonstrating how the ideas presented in the book can also be applied in a corporate context. Written in a non-technical and engaging style, and containing clear ideas and instructions that anyone can understand and use, this one-of-a-kind guide will prove an essential tool for any group desperate to find ways of making their meetings more effective. In addition, neighborhood associations, ad hoc committees, social clubs, and other informal groups lacking a clear hierarchy will find solid advice on how to move forward without resorting to "majority rules" or bickering over who will take leadership positions. Bound to become a classic, Breaking Robert's Rules will change the way you hold meetings forever, paving the way for efficiency, efficacy, and peaceful decision making.
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Yet another bad "Anti-Robert's Rules" book.......2007-03-13
The authors of this work have done groups and organizations a grave disservice with this poor 'anti-Robert's Rules' book. It would appear from it that they really don't understand parliamentary procedure (not quite the same thing as Robert's Rules).
We can thank our early European ancestors for parliamentary procedure. They developed it over several hundred years in their town assemblies, and it was later used in the English Parliament (which is were we got the term 'parliamentary procedure'). When the English settled in America, they brought along parliamentary procedure, where it was used in many assemblies, and after independence, in our Congress, state assemblies, etc.
In Gen Henry Robert's time, there were several competing parliamentary authorities. He wrote a good, simple work that codified all this, and it was accepted by many because it was just better. What difference does it make that he was a General? To somehow blame him for the formality of parliamentary procedure because of that is childish.
Furthermore, parlimentary procedure is usable in ALL groups of ANY size to make decisions. In large groups, rules must be more formal, and sometimes addition procedures must be followed to get things done (ex: in large conventions). In small groups, about a dozen or less, you can actually be LESS formal, and despense with some of the normal rules you usually follow. This is set out in Robert's. I wonder if the authors are aware of this?
Consensus is nice, but should not be looked as a panacea. People should education themselves as to what parliamentary procedure REALLY is, and not list to biased authors such as these. Or even people like myself.
Breaking Robert's Rules.......2007-03-09
This book had valuable content. However, the book's organization was sometimes hard to follow. Also, it kept repeating the same points over and over. This made the book quite boreing.
Not business as usual.......2006-08-24
I've always been perplexed by the fact that we run our meetings according to rules dreamed up by a military engineer more than 100 years ago. Maybe Roberts' arcane procedures about what can be discussed by whom and when worked once upon a time, but they don't make sense either in the modern business world or for making important policy decisions today.
I'm not sure that the consensus building approach spelled out in this book will necessarily work in every case, but it's clear, straightforward, and practical. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who has gotten sick of going to meetings only to see the will of the majority frustrated by some shrewed parliamentarian manipulating the rules. Susskind offers a constructive alternative for people who just want to get the right thing done.
Great tool for developing effective communication.......2006-08-16
This book has great value whether you are a business owner, politician or public agency staffer, an environmentalist, a facilitator, mediator or any other interested party. It provides a simple, concise and easy-to-understand review of the consensus building process. From a communication perspective, consensus building lends itself towards helping any party in a negotiation develop a greater understanding and wider range of solutions that may be available on any given issue.
The authors frame the limitations of "traditional" Robert's Rules for running public meetings. These traditional methods tend to offer binary decisions (yes or no) which often limit discussion, stifle creativity, and almost always leave someone feeling "left out".
They offer a simple, easy-to-understand and concise method to "break the chains" of communication such that more creative alternatives to issues or problems may be offered and discussed. Through a more creative and contributed process, interested parties can craft decisions based upon informed consensus which lends itself towards more lasting agreements.
The book also offers an excellent treatise on facilitation or mediation techniques. It is useful no matter "what side of the table" you may be in any given issue. A list of Key Terms at the end of each chapter offer an excellent way to reinforce understanding.
Five stars and a great contribution!
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Often when people feel stuck, they try to change something about themselves. Authors Ritchey and Axelrod suggest that instead they should learn to see situations in new ways and create new options for relating to others. That process begins with DiSC, an assessment tool that reveals one's style of interaction. DiSC is an acronym for the four styles -- Dominance (direct and decisive), Influence (optimistic and outgoing), Supportive (sympathetic and cooperative), and Conscientious (concerned and correct). This book teaches readers how to recognize their style and its implications, how to read the styles of others, and how to choose the most effective style (or combination of styles) for any situation.
Customer Reviews:
Not helpful .......2007-05-24
I was looking for a book to learn about the DISC tool and to be able to interpret the results of a test, something I could use to train others. This was not helpful. I also purchased the sister book about teams, and that was almost exactly the same as this one. Don't buy both. The same charts were present with VERY minor changes. I don't recommend this book.
Good for retail .......2007-03-21
I gave the tests to the managers in my store and showed how each of us had different working personalities and what we needed to do to be able to work togther better.
Great for Diagnosing.......2007-03-03
I thought this book nailed behavior patterns to a "T", and also provided insight as to how best to approach people. It was very insightful for massaging relationships, but glossed over the fact that some personality types aren't ever going to perform certain functions well no matter WHAT you do (e.g., "social butterflies" are never going to be "producers", and vice versa, no matter how persuasively you ask). You can ease the situation but you're never going to change who a person is at a fundamental level.
Wasted money, wasted time.......2006-03-02
That's what you get when you buy this book. The book simply reprints the same material you get in the DISC instrument. There is nothing, nothing, new here. There is no insight, no detail, no discussion on how to use the information. I use DISC constantly in my business and found this book a total waste. If you want to understand DISC go to www.discinsights.com and get their home study program. It's terrific, detailed, and provides lots of examples. I also recommend the book "The 4-Dimensional Manager." Still not as good as the above reference but at least it's worth the money.
A great tool for work.......2004-12-15
As an earlier reviewer noted, this book isn't the DiSC in its purest form. However, it does provide a framework for understanding relationships at work clearly and concisely. I was introduced to the DiSC during a leadership school I attended through work, and this book provided me with the tools and framework I needed to share the model with my staff. In one-on-ones, I've been told that the process was both enlightening and useful on a daily basis.
If you're looking for pure DiSC, look elsewhere. But if you want a tool to improve the way you and your staff interact, written in a way that's easy for everyone to understand, this is the book.
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Smart Questions offers an entirely new framework for creating solutions. Drawn from the authors' many years of research and field experience, the Smart Questions Approach reveals how the leading creators of solutions in almost every profession and walk of life—including business, government, education, and even in families—think and approach their assignments. The author’s holistic thinking approach shows how to use three “foundation” questions—focusing on uniqueness, purposeful information, and systems—which must be explored for every problem. These three questions, an essential starting point for exploring problems, in turn lead to other key questions that will ultimately create effective solutions.
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Smart Questions offers an entirely new framework for creating solutions. Drawn from the authors' many years of research and field experience, the Smart Questions Approach reveals how the leading creators of solutions in almost every profession and walk of life—including business, government, education, and even in families—think and approach their assignments. The author’s holistic thinking approach shows how to use three “foundation” questions—focusing on uniqueness, purposeful information, and systems—which must be explored for every problem. These three questions, an essential starting point for exploring problems, in turn lead to other key questions that will ultimately create effective solutions.
Customer Reviews:
Smart Questions: Learn to ask the right questions for powerful results.......2006-06-29
This is more an academic work than a practical guide. The authors take an incredible amount of words to make their points. I am sure there is some good stuff in the book, however you will need a lot of time and patience to find it.
A bulletproof process.......2005-05-10
This book is very well written yet it requires a certain amount of commitment and effort to read and absorb it. In my opinion, it is worth every second of time spent by anyone who wants to improve the quality and effectiveness of their thinking.
Smart Questions is process-centric rather than principle-centric. It builds on the Breakthrough Thinking principles and 'flow of reasoning' and has three major components:
- Three foundation questions interweave the uniqueness, information, and systems principles into the fabric of a compelling process.
- Four phases of the SQA process are solidly based on the people, purposes, solutions, and time betterment principles.
- The three-step LOD (List, Organize, Decide) sub process for applying smart questions incorporates divergent and convergent thinking as naturally as breathing as you work through the phases of the process.
In particular, the process is smoother and the steps flow into each other in a way that should make it easier to achieve more momentum faster on projects. I will definitely use it.
There is an updated and expanded portfolio of really useful tools. Developing a purposes hierarchy is much easier whether you are using the couplet test in conjunction with a structured approach or using basic categories with an intuitive method. The authors also provide a powerful list of verbs that really do stimulate thinking about purposes. New additions also include
- The Smart Questions Decision Worksheet
- The Smart Questions People Involvement Worksheet
- Twelve core questions that apply the three foundation questions to each of the four phases of the process
- Hundreds of indicative smart question to stimulate and inspire and keep the process moving.
If you are willing to invest some time and effort, this book really has the potential to improve your life
Why write another book?.......2004-08-04
Smart Questions elaborates on the work of one of the author's previous works ("Breakthrough Thinking") by focusing our attention on a smaller number of the steps that are outlined in their previous work.
And that, to me, is where the problem lies.
Rather than provide a comprehensive approach to solving problems, I found this publication to be lacking in providing an over-arching framework that could be applied in the same was a 'Breakthrough Thinking'.
What I found instead was greater detail on a smaller number of actions that left me with the not so smart question - why did the authors write this book? Between "Breakthrough Thinking" and "Creative Solution Finding" most of the material in this newer publicatioin has been covered and, if you've not read Nadler & Hibino's previous works then I could only suggest you start there and arrive at this publication only if you still feel you're missing something.
On occasions, the work feels elusive - we are left short of understanding the key processes and key criteria for how the level at which decisions are made are arrived at. I found that a recurring problem and one difficult to overlook.
As with all the publications that come within this 'series', you can't go wrong in buying and learning from what is written. I just feel this is one of the weaker additions to their efforts as it adds very little that I could describe as new to what they have already covered. Maybe in more detail but detail is not the wisdom of which they obviously aim for.
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The effective business, Peter Drucker observes, focuses on opportunities rather than problems. How this focus is achieved in order to make the organization prosper and grow is the subject of this companion to his classic work, The Practice of Management. Managing for Results shows what the executive decision maker must do to move his enterprise forward. Drucker again employs his particular genius for breaking through conventional outlooks and opening up new perspectives for profits and growth.
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This collection of essays, written by Center for Court Innovation research staff, analyzes the impact of a broad range of problem-solving initiatives launched in New York State and nationwide over the past decade. Among the findings: judicially monitored drug treatment succeeds in reducing recidivism among addicted offenders; more than 85 percent of offenders at an experimental community court thought their cases were handled fairlya significant improvement compared to conventional courts; by linking mentally ill offenders to community-based treatment instead of incarceration, courts can help improve offenders functioning and reduce the likelihood of re-arrest. The book also includes overviews of the national research literature on drug courts and community courts; an evaluation of a new approach to teen dating violence; and an investigation of how problem-solving principles might be integrated more broadly throughout state court systems.
Customer Reviews:
Love the Diffferent Results.......2007-06-16
Everyone (really) needs to read/apply this great Field Guide. Do not be intimidated if you have not been in the field with Rolf, jump right in for the fun. You will get awesome results spending time ootching through the pages gleaning the gems that shine through the many aha moments.
Rolf is practical at all levels of life. I have applied The 7 Levels of Change in my family life as well as my business life. When you run up against a question as you embark on diffferent thinking just check in with Rolf for more answers. You will be delighted.
Take a Thinking Expedition to Excellence.......2007-06-07
This book is a great addition to your ready reference library. It's a practical, hands on approach to creative thinking and innovation - words that Rolf points out "scare" some people today but make perfect sense to some more "experienced." Rolf writes in down-to-earth easy-to-understand language. He challenges your thought forms and encourages intellectual growth that sets you free from boundaries. The process Rolf describes gets you out of your comfort zone in a fun and engaging way (Try mountain climbing with him). At the same time he acknowledges individual beliefs and values as important foundations from which you draw strength (so every idea is not automatically discarded). This book is easy to use - it's organized to allow you to jump around as a reference work or to read straight through as a learning tool. There is space to write in the margins - in fact, Rolf has written some of his own comments in the margin - which allows you to personalize the book as your reference. Versatile, this book works for both personal (individual) as well as organizational (collective) development. It is based upon years of innovation workshops and "Thinking Expeditions" since the mid-1980's -- with real people in real organizations trying to accomplish great things through idea generation. I participated in one of these workshops back in 2001 and then read the first edition of this book. The principles and techniques described work and this new third edition is even better than the first. I highly recommend Rolf's book, his ideas and his program.
Transformational.......2005-10-12
I received my first copy of the first edition of this book as part of a thinking expedition held by Texaco to redefine their approach to Knowledge Management. I was a deep skeptic and was converted by working through the seven levels of change. The second edition of the book is even better than the first. I've given away several copies of this book and keep coming back for more.
Really a six star book.......2005-06-24
I don't know what these other people are thinking. On a scale of 1 to 5, this book is a 6. I've now done the Innovation Ground School and a thinking expedition with Rolf and Durwin Sharp, and my hair is till on fire. Anyone who doesn't read this book is a bozo. Everyone should call up Rolf and sign up to do the Innovation Ground School, then the School for Innovators. Let's keep these two guys working until they are well into their 90's, which is only a few years I hear.
But seriously, (well as seriously as an ENTP can be) this book helps you remember all the stuff you got at the IGS or a Tx. I haven't done the SfI yet, but I'm hopeful to be in Estes Park this fall. This is serious work for innovators. If you've struggled with making innovation work at your company, these are the guys to talk to. This is the book to buy. I'm getting 5 of them so I can loan them to colleagues at work when I work with them. The book will probably help you a lot if, but the Innovation Ground School is the best place to start. Your hair will catch on fire about day two and it will stay that way for the rest of your life, if you pay attention.
Buy this book. Buy extra copies of this book. Give this book to people who don't understand you. Show them where you are on page 248 and where you think they are. You'll both benefit from this book. BUY THIS BOOK!
different thinking, different book.................2003-03-11
Not only being a student of Rolf's School for Innovators, Thinking Expeditions, as well as a reader of his first edition of The 7 Levels of Change........this 2nd edition is REALLY a significant mindshift and a MUST read for anyone truely wanting to understand the change process......I am a Personal Life Coach and work with individuals in achieving their goals which are always based around SOME change if not RADICAL change and I use the 7 Levels constantly.......I have used them to develop programs that not only explain change but navigate you through the maze that most books get lost in....there are so many examples, so many tools, so many new ideas in the 2nd edtion that I agree with Rolf when he said " I should have written this book the first time around"....great luck on your journey, you are being guided by the best!!!!!!
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