books about: accountability

books about: accountability

books:

Accountability

The Learning Leader: How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results

Douglas B. Reeves

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2006

Education Leaders & Teachers: A must read!
Have you ever blamed a student, a parent, or the school's Social Economic Status (SES) for their lack of student achievement? Have you ever felt like you were in a hopeless school environment? Are you in a school district that students achieve but a few are still ...

QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life

John G. Miller

Putnam Publishing Group, 2004

QBQ Should Be Required Reading for Everyone!
I found QBQ through Dave Ramsey's radio program. Dave is the Financial Peace guru and author of The Total Money Makeover. I am a big Ramsey fan and I figured if QBQ was mandatory reading for his staff then it should be for me and my team as well. QBQ is a quick read ...

Sarbanes-Oxley For Dummies

Jill Gilbert, JD, CPA Welytok

For Dummies, 2008

Soxcess!
The provisions for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance are only mandatory for public companies that file a Form 10-K with the SEC - however, more and more companies are being encouraged {pressured?} to voluntarily comply with SOX - a good example of which is the United States ...

Flipping the Switch...: Unleash the Power of Personal Accountability Using the QBQ!

John G. Miller

Putnam Adult, 2005

Transformational Shift
Flipping the switch is a very enjoyable read in which the author John Miller is basically asking the question: Would you rather be part of the problem or the solution? To be part of the solution, all it takes, according to him, is a shift in perspective. Instead of ...

Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools

Beacon Press, 2004

Required reading
This book should be required reading for all legislators who are convinced that High Stakes tests are the answer to providing educational equity, school administrators who buy-in to the myth of one-size-fits-all education, public school teachers who are forced to ...

What You Accept is What You Teach: Setting Standards for Employee Accountability

Michael Henry Cohen

Creative Health Care Management, 2006

What you Accept is What You Teach. Excellent book.
This book is an excellent review for seasoned managers. It is helpful for new managers since it gets to the point. Very good refernce on so many pertinent management topics. I used this as a reference for a class I taught on Performance Management. The book arrived ...

Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems ...

Gary Harpst

Six Disciplines Publishing, 2008

Planning and Execution
While the ultimate message put forth in this book is about executing your plans and how to go about that, it is very much based on what needs to be done first - and that is Planning, Goal-Setting. Without this foundation in place first, any actions in business will be ...

Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality

Charles Murray

Crown Forum, 2008

Four simple points that show how we need to reform and free our educational system
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a system of education that actually prepared everyone for happy and productive lives? Instead, we try to stuff everyone into procrustean k-12 model and wonder why we have so many "failures". Worse, we tell every high school graduate ...

Organic Disciplemaking: Mentoring Others Into Spiritual Maturity And Leadership

Dennis McCallum, Jessica Lowery

Touch Publications, 2006

A Practical and Comprehensive Resource
In the long tradition of The Lost Art of Disciple Making, Multiplying Disciples, and Disciples Are Made, Not Born, Organic Disciplemaking: How to promote Christian leadership development through personal relationships, biblical discipleship, mentoring, and Christian ...

The Oz Principle: Getting Results through Individual and Organizational Accountability

Craig Hickman, Tom Smith, ...

Portfolio Hardcover, 2004

I built a company culture on this book!
I'm now using this book to build a corp. culture for the second time. I buy a copy for every employee. I know they don't all read it. But, we use it as the text for company meetings, training and performance expectations. Big help in getting people to take more ...

Cultivating a Life for God: Multiplying Disciples Through Life Transformation Groups

Neil Cole

Churchsmart Resources, 1999

Simple, powerful tool for disciple-making
This book introduces Life Transformation Groups (LTGs), groups of two or three people who get together once a week for an hour, perhaps over a meal, for mutual accountability (using predefined accountability questions), to reflect on the Scripture they've been reading ...

Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability
Sidney Dekker

Ashgate, 2007

Wrightslaw: No Child Left Behind

Peter W. D. Wright, Pamela Darr Wright, ...

Harbor House Law Press, Inc., 2003

Another must-read from Wrightslaw
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is more than just standardized testing. In this book, the Wrightslaw team leads a clear path through NCLB, explaining important aspects such as requirements for qualified staff, the ability for children to transfer from dangerous ...

Torts and Compensation: Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for Injury (American Casebook ...

Dan B. Dobbs, Paul T. Hayden

West Group Publishing, 2005

The typos kind of annoy, but the book is informative
Like many students in law school I had to read this book for my Torts class. Our professor did an excellent job with a fairly mediocre book by explaining the concepts and cases at length (and thus eliminating the need for me to go and buy supplemental materials). ...

Patrons, Clients and Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Political Competition

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Most models of party competition assume that citizens vote for a platform rather than narrowly targeted material benefits. However, there are many countries where politicians win elections by giving money, jobs, and services in direct exchange for votes. This is not just true in the developing world, but also in economically developed countries - ...