Laws of Communication: The Intersection Where Leadership Meets Employee Performance

Dr. Richard Schuttler, Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences graduate

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009

 
Laws of Communication leverages the practitioner experience of 21 supplemental authors, who provide real-world insight about business, health care, education and research. The book lets the reader learn from industry experts how to maximize the effectiveness of an organization's communication.

Eleven Leadership Practices That Will Change Your Life

Dr. Mario O. Barrett III, Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences graduate

Dog Ear Publishing, 2009
 
This workbook is a supplement to Dr. Mario Barrett's bestseller, Leading from the Inside-Out. It will have you answering questions about what you want out of life that you may have never taken into consideration. This workbook is based on the leadership practices of the Barrett Leadership Model™ and will guide you to achieving sustainable happiness through the creation and pursuit of your life’s vision. As with Barrett's Leading from the Inside-Out . . ., there are no secrets or hidden messages. If you do the work that is asked of you, you will be well on your way to fulfilling your life’s vision and achieving sustainable happiness.

Reverse Management: Lessons Learned from Some of the Biggest A#@holes I Have Worked For

Andy Kovacs, Master of Business Administration graduate

PublishAmerica, 2007

The last 37 years of working in the “real business world” has taken Kovacs through a tumultuous journey of ups and downs through corporate America. During this time, he experienced a number of negative management styles that piqued his curiosity. In this book, he examines those styles in an attempt to understand them and to learn from their mistakes—in other words, a management “what not to do” process, or management in reverse. Entering and completing his M.B.A. program put things into perspective. That thought process not only brought his experiences into a new focus, but allowed for the graduate-level writing skills, combined with a New Orleans flavor, found in this guide for the average worker who must deal with these types of managers on a daily basis.

When It Rains It F-n Pours . . . : A Transformation of a Minority Woman from the Ghetto Streets of New York

Dr. Mirian Detres, Ph.D. in Education graduate

AuthorHouse, 2009

This memoir of a minority woman growing up in the ghettos of New York City shows how anyone can become successful. Although Mirian Detres’ struggles started at birth, she firmly believed in many things, such as castles, knights in shining armor and a big house with a picket fence. It was those dreams that kept her spirit alive when life became too horrendously painful. Mirian Detres was not only born disabled, but she has been mentally, physically and sexually abused. She writes about being locked in a closet for a year at the age of nine, being hospitalized in a mental institution for almost two years as an adult and receiving shock treatments, being beaten as a wife, being a drug addict and living in the streets with her children as a homeless woman.

It was her love for her children that caused her to go through a metamorphosis in life. The change was so drastic that not even her own family recognized her. Detres’ memoirs take you into a world of poverty, abuse and neglect and plunge the reader down a dark rabbit hole of struggles with drugs and crime. She came out the other side as a scholar with two master's degrees and a doctorate in education, a spokesperson for battered women and a successful mother of five children. This is a true story of a woman without any role models who became one herself.

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