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An introduction to the theory of biologial conservation, including a wealth of applications to the fishery and forestry industries. The mathematical modeling of the productive aspects of renewable-resource management is explained, including both economic and biological factors, with much attention paid to the optimal use of resource stocks over time. The Second Edition includes new chapters on the theory of resource regulation and on stochastic resource models, new sections on irreversible investment, game-theoretic models, dynamic programming, and an expanded bibliography.
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Building Smart Teams is an essential guide to creating a smart team fast. Based on research results from close to 2,000 individuals organized in more than 250 teams,
Building Smart Teams identifies the three critical skill sets that teams need and shows how to transfer these skills to a group. The authors’ research and experience shows that, by concentrating on these three critical skills sets, a group is almost certain to become a high performing team quickly.
High-functioning teams are increasingly important to organizational success, but just throwing a team together will not give the desired results.
Building Smart Teams gives you the theory and rationale behind high performance teams, but, in addition, it is packed with exercises, diagnostic tools, tips, and techniques to use with groups. The exercises are time-tested with the more than 100 groups trained by the authors.
The approach is not to dictate the one best way for teams to behave, but, rather, to help team members build skills and implement processes to increase success. Within this model, there is ample room for teams to discover their own unique culture, performance strategies, and paths to success.
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Team Effectiveness Model was developed from research into the factors that lead to team success—over 250 teams were studied
Provides both theory and tools to get smart, fast results
Identifies the three critical success factors for high team performance and provides a diagnostic tool to assess levels of team functioning for each
Many targeted processes and exercises that team leaders can apply to enhance team functioning
Provides both the road map for creating effective teams (the Team Effectiveness Model) as well as the vehicles for getting there (exercises and process tools)
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The Social Risks of Agriculture: Americans Speak Out on Food, Farming, and the Environment
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In a vast society where environmentally conscious nonfarming voters and consumers have grown to greatly outnumber those directly engaged in agriculture, what happens in agriculture becomes increasingly subject to control by the general society, as policies and laws cater to constituents and consumers. This book provides an overview of how Americans perceive and value farmers and examines public opinion with regard to a number of agricultural issues. Based on analysis of national survey data, the authors offer an empirically based discussion and interpretation of those views and perceptions that help to shape policy and social sustainability. This unique collection illustrates that in addition to its natural, biological, and economic risks, agriculture has social risks that reverberate through all levels of society. As the general population grows and the number of farms and farmers diminishes, the weight of public opinion becomes more important in the policy arena of society as well as in the market demands for food and fiber grown in safe and favorable environmental conditions. Setting the stage with a consideration of the larger society's interests in agricultural issues and of social and agricultural interdependence, the contributors cover a range of topics and issues affecting agriculture at the end of the 20th century. Chapters examine public perceptions of government's role in farming; support for an environmentally friendly agricultural system; views on pesticides and chemicals in foods; consumer attitudes on food safety; threats to clean drinking water, concerns over farm animal welfare; and the basic agrarian ethic of American society. The book concludes with a look to the future of the social risks of agriculture in the 21st century.
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Achieve your life goals with SELF-DIRECTED BEHAVIOR! With abundant strategies based on research, this psychology text guides you through exercises for developing skills in self-analysis and teaches you how to apply these skills in different settings. Case examples demonstrate how other students have successfully used the book's techniques, including one student who used shaping to gradually increase her ability to study, and another who learned to be more sure of himself on dates by consciously modeling a friend's confident behavior.
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very helpful.......2007-09-26
This book is very clear and helpful, especially for those who are unfamiliar with behavior modification techniques. It provides a great introduction to self-regulation with many typical self-change examples, such quitting smoking, alcoholism, and many other topics too. I suggest picking up a copy of this if you are serious about changing a behavior with a scientific approach in a step by step process.
Don't know why this isnt a self help best seller.......2007-05-13
Pretty much the best self help book I have ever read. Watson takes a scientific approach and gives you instructions on how to change any behavior you'd like.
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This effective self-help book presents a workable set of skills that readers can use for tackling their own self-modification programs, whether it be to improve self-confidence in dating, control overeating, implement and exercise program, or give up smoking. The authors' goal is to teach the basic skills necessary for readers to modify the behavior of their own choice, (66%-84% of the students employing these methods have achieved their self-change goals according to published studies in the literature). Once students have applied the principles to a behavior, they'll find it easier to use the skills in different settings.
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Owner's Manual for the Human Mind.......2006-10-15
If I were told I could only own one book, this would be it. I came across it in a library 15 years ago and purchased each new addition since. I have done many, many successful self improvement projects with it. It does take work and time to learn and practice the skills but the results are worth it. The techniques are based on Scientific Fact. Scientific Facts are repeatable and verifiable. Learn them, use them and they work, period. It is also a fact that the only way to fail using the techniques in this book is to not use them. This book has helped me make some profound changes in my behavior and achieve some pretty amazing goals. I recommend this book to anyone who can read and wants to better themselves. It is best to have your own copy because you will more than likely be reading it over and over, making personal notes in the margins about your behavior and your projects. You don't just read this book, you read and do it, read it again, make some adjustment, reread it, do it, etc. Borrow the money if you have too, better yet sell your TV to get the money, but buy this book! Good luck. P.S. If you have come across a better book email me I'd like to read it.
Don't listen to the bad reviews.......2006-05-20
I first had to read this for a college class and at the time I thought the same way some of the negative reviewers did -- Its boring, its "common sense". But the more I encountered situations with friends and family where I thought "you know this is something you could easily control with a behavioral therapy plan" the more I realized that what the professor I had said was true -- If you just skim the book without trying to apply the principles, it won't mean much to you. But if you think of it practically (and try a project of some kind yourself) you'll realize the power of it. Most people get discouraged when they try to change themselves because they try to do too much at once. Taking baby steps IS common sense, but if its so easy and anyone knew how to do it, we'd all be exactly the people we want to be, now wouldn't we?
I recommend this book to EVERYONE who says "I wish I could do this" or "I wish I didn't always think like that". If you want to change and you're willing to sit down, make a good plan, and follow through with it, this method will work for you. If you don't really want to change, or you don't believe you can, then you'll fail and it isn't the method's fault.
a superficial treatment of a complex subject.......2006-02-26
This text is suitable for high school or introductory college psychology classes.
self help book that really seemed to help.......2002-01-06
This book is a step by step instruction guide of how to think before you act, which is easier said than done. It helped me to learn how to recognize when I'm starting a pattern behavior and opened up my mind up to thinking ahead of time different various ways to cope or react. I would recommend reading this book once all the way through & then going back more slowly and going through one chapter at a time while writing out your journal. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to make a change but doesn't know where or how to start.
Behavior is not Being, don't feel threatened........2001-09-23
This book is great for changing behaviors that are non-productive. As a former reviewer stated, it does require you to be much tougher with yourself than the usual self-help book. It also demands action, which is where most people have trouble. It is one thing to say you want to change something, but quite another to get off your bottom and do it!
I do not think you need to be "science-minded" to get the drift of this book. I find the scientific method laughable in much of the research, especially in psychology, where it has supposedly found "proof". What you have to be is willing to change your behavior. In my view, behavior does not constitute character. I could do without the smoking and the anxiety. I would never define myself as a smoker or an anxious person. The suggestions in the book simply make you more efficient at being the person you were meant to be. You take care of the lower processes then you can put your higher processing to work-meaning your thoughts, ambitions, dreams, goals, etc. Take the plunge, you won't be sorry. If it seems too simple, it's because it IS simple. Some of us could use the reminder. Just do it.
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Northern Pipe Products is today experiencing unprecedented efficiencies, employee involvement, a vibrant and desired training program, record output per-man hour, and lowest overall waste in company history. What it did and learned over the past five years is the story of this book.
The science of Self-Directed Work Teams resides in the realization that chance and stewardship are different sides of the same coin. Admitting to the obvious truth of infinite human variation dismantles the notion of truly controlling people. If not in their actions, surely in their minds and reflected in their attitudes people resent being told what to do. They much prefer to be told why something must be done and then allowed to apply their unique talents and strengths to manage the assignment. Leaders who understand and therefore respect individual differences use diversity to create value, allowing the insights of others to create often-superior approaches.
This story could have taken place in a hospital, school, supermarket, or any other organization that requires people to work together for the greater good. Regardless of the setting, be it computer service, healthcare, education, manufacturing or child care, what follows could just as well be your story. Because it's about people and their unlimited potential to achieve extraordinary things, the manufacture of pipe is simply a metaphor. Any group of people facing another day just like yesterday can choose to follow this path, regardless of the style or color of shoes they wear. True opportunity is "one size fits all."
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Does not disappoint.......2007-07-18
Palmes' book is wonderfully readable. It delivers on the promise of the title and does not disappoint. A simple, eloquent narrative of an organization's journey to transformational improvement, it's almost impossible to walk away from this book without experiencing learning.
Transformation at Northern Pipe Products.......2007-03-04
First, I must admit a bias: I wrote the introduction for this book and I know Paul Palmes and am familiar with the work done at Northern Pipe Products, Inc under the leadership of President Wayne Voorhees.
I recommend this book because it is based on real discovery and transformation--it withstands the test of examination and assessment.
If you are curious about self-managed (or self-directed) work teams, then read this book. It will serve as a resource as your proceed on your journey.
Paul Palmes is a smart, talented, and experienced practicioner. I recommend him as a speaker and consultant without hesitation.
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Since the mid-1970s, pressure from international competition has forced U.S. businesses to look for better ways to achieve and maintain a competitive position. At the same time, public organizations have been asked to produce their services with fewer dollars. The result of these trends has been a growing urgency among public and private organizations to find new ways of reducing their expenses while maintaining or increasing productivity and quality. One popular tool is the self-managed work team (SMWT). How is it different than a work group or short-term team? Which problems compel an organization to create an SMWT? What factors explain successful SMWTs? What must the organization do to develop high-performance, cost-effective teams? In High-Performing Self-Managed Work Teams, Dale E. Yeatts and Cloyd Hyten, Principle Investigators for the three-year National Science Foundation study of the performance of SMWTs, answer these questions and thoroughly examine the most widely accepted theories that attempt to explain SMWT performance. They introduce a synthesis of these theories based on 10 case studies from three different settings: manufacturing, public service, and health care. In an accessible style, the authors lead students and professionals to better understand the theory behind SMWTs as well as the practical aspects of when to use SMWTs to find solutions and how to develop achieving teams. This book appeals to practitioners and scholars in management, human resources, organization studies, industrial psychology, public administration, organizational communication, marketing, sociology, public health, and nursing.
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The Parent Process: Enabling Self-Directed Wholeness
James E. Spicer
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In this book, James E. Spicer, Ph.D. shares publicly for the first time, the clinical approach to maladaptive behaviors that has been the hallmark of successful treatment of literally thousands of children and families. Based on the principals of human development rather than human illness, Dr. Spicer offers in The Parent Process a powerful new paradigm for understanding the source of behavioral difficulties in persons, and consequently, a new pathway to treatment and change.
The Parent Process clearly defines thirteen areas of personality development, and provides scales for each area. This allows the reader to pinpoint where an individual is developmentally, and where he needs to be. The process of treatment then becomes the process of enabling developmental progress.
This book is written in an easy-to-understand style, and has proven helpful to parents and professionals alike who want to know not only "what's wrong," but also "what can be done."
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Surveys thirteen areas of personality development in children along with a simple 1 to 10 scale .......2006-06-11
An ordained minister and clinical psychologist, James E. Spicer draws upon more than 40 years of experience and expertise in working with troubled children in The Parent Process: Enabling Self-Directed Wholeness to offer parents effective approaches to helping their children with behavioral issues and making a proper assessment of their disciplinary treatments. The Parent Process surveys thirteen areas of personality development in children along with a simple 1 to 10 scale which allows a parent to pinpoint where their child is developmentally, and provides a framework for working with the child to mature appropriately. Embodying a great deal of material that would be of special interest to teachers, caretakers, and medical professionals working with children, The Parent Process is especially recommended for parents as a "reader friendly" basis from which to work out a proper identification and assessment of their child's troubles and develop effective approach to dealing with them.
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Self-directed Behavior
D.L. Watson ,
Roland G. Tharp ,
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S. Steinberg
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Self-Directed Behavior (Ise)
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