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Walden Authors From classroom skills for nurse educators to applied change management, Walden faculty and alumni are sharing their expertise in new books.
 Leading from the Inside-Out
After years of self-inquiry, discovery, and academic research in the field of leadership development, Dr. Barrett is ready to teach you what it takes to become the leader of your life. By embracing the concepts and developing the 11 leadership practices discussed in this book, you will begin to function as a leader by taking charge of your life and all it encompasses. The Barrett Leadership Model™ is not a feel-good motivational theory; rather, it is a practical guide to achieving sustainable happiness through the creation and pursuit of your life’s vision.
 Complex Decision Making: Theory and Practice
The increasingly complex environment of today's world, characterized by technological innovation and global communication, generates countless possible and actual interactions while limited physical and intellectual resources impinge on decision-makers, both in the public and private domains. At the core of the decision-making process is the need for quality information that allows the decision-maker to better assess the impact of decisions in terms of outcomes, nonlinear feedback processes, and time delays related to the performance of the complex system invoked. This volume reviews the principles underlying complex decision-making, the handling of uncertainties in dynamic environments, and the various modeling approaches used.
 Learning to Predict and Predicting to Learn: Cognitive Strategies and Instructional Routines
Featuring practical instructional routines that are clearly linked to cognitive strategies that students need in order to make sense of text, this book combines a rationale written from the perspective of current research that supports the use of the strategy or instructional routine with clear step-by-step directions and multiple examples from the classroom. These experiences appear as boxed features that are easily identifiable by the reader. The text is written in such a way that readers may start on the first page and work through the end of the book or use the book as a reference for their own practice or as an inservice tool. Each cognitive strategy is linked via convenient matrices to the instructional routines that promote precision thinking on the part of students.
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