by Laura Fredricks (2017)
"Asking is more than a skillit's a lifestyle The Ask is your personal manual for building the best, most fulfilling personal and professional life possible. Crafting the perfect ask can fund your new business, support your favorite charity, and get more quality time with your significant otherbut it can do so much more than that. It can change your life. In learning how to ask for what you really want and deserve, you lose your fear of rejection and judgement. You create the greatest sense of self-worth that no one can give you, you give it to yourself when you ask. The critical moment is when you turn your skills inward and make the hardest asks, the ones you ask yourself. This book is designed to make you an Exceptional Asker, and in the process, give you the confidence and skills you need to achieve all your goals and realize your dreams. You'll learn how to prepare, what words to use, what to avoid, and how to follow up, and you'll purge the natural hesitancy that has been holding you back for so long. Asking is about empowerment. It shows the world that what you want matters. It defines who you are, where you're going, and who will be by your side. This book provides over 175 sample asks, with clear actionable steps to help you claim your space in relationships, at work, and in the world. Rewrite your own rulebook and find empowerment in asking Learn the simple five steps to craft the perfect ask Discover the secret of the ask it's two sentences and a question Remove your Money Blockers and turn a bad ask into a win Conquer the hardest asks you'll ever makethe ones you ask yourself Mastering the art of the ask reconfigures your approach to life, and changes the way you tackle challenges and goals. The Ask gives you the skillsand the mindsetyou need to accomplish anything you can dream"-- "This book will give anyone the confidence to ask anyone for any size gift for any purpose. With winning language, sample dialogues, and a wealth of tips and tools, this book addresses common mistakes made when asking and shows how to correct each mistake, providing guidance and direction on how to make a great ask. This third edition will be updated to include new dialogue, a balance of practical tips, tools, and advice, and will demonstrate through examples and stories how the tips, tools and advice can be instantly applied to business, philanthropy, and everyday living"--
David Fishel
"The Book of the Board is an invaluable handbook for boards and board members of non-profit organisations. It explains the purpose of a board in a non-profit organisation, the board's formal and legal responsibilities, the main areas where a board can add to the organisation's effectiveness."--Provided by publisher.
Howard E. McCurdy
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration began its space flight program in October of 1958 by launching the 84-pound Pioneer I space probe. Scarcely a decade later, in July of 1969, NASA amazed the world by landing the first humans on the Moon. In the two decades that followed, however, the agency appeared to lose both its vigor and its creativity. Inside NASA explores how an agency praised for its planetary probes and expeditions to the Moon became noted for the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and a series of other malfunctions. Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, Howard McCurdy investigates the relationship between the performance of the U.S. space program and NASA's organizational culture. He begins by identifying the beliefs, norms, and practices that guided NASA's early successes. Originally, the agency was dominated by the strong technical culture rooted in the research-and-development organizations from which NASA was formed. To launch the expeditions to the Moon, McCurdy explains, this technical culture was linked to an organizational structure borrowed from the Air Force Ballistic Missile Program. Over time, however, changes imposed to accomplish the lunar expedition - as well as the normal aging process and increased bureaucracy in the government as a whole-altered NASA's original culture and eroded its technical strength. McCurdy observes that NASA's early success depended on a number of related characteristics: extensive testing, in-house technical capability, hands-on experience, exceptional people, stoic acceptance of risk and failure, and a frontier mentality. He concludes that, given the conditions of modern government, the performance of high-technology agencies like NASA inherently tends to decline. Inside NASA offers a revealing study of both organizational culture and bureaucratic aging.
Jerry Kershen
"What most people don't know is that there are 29 different organizations that are able to qualify as a nonprofit, and qualifying as a nonprofit doesn't have to be hard. There are some rules that you'll have to abide by when starting a nonprofit, but this book makes it easy and simple to abide by them and get everything set up so that you can get going. From learning mission statements to learning how to file your IRS forms, get ready for easy, simple steps that will help you to organize and run a successful nonprofit." -- amazon.com
Joseph J. Ori
Commercial real estate isn't an easy industry to navigate. The rules and expectations change depending on whether you're in management or investing--and whether you deal with office space, shopping centers, or senior housing. Joseph J. Ori has spent the past thirty-five years in commercial real estate. During this time, he's amassed a compendium of directives and commandments to help navigate the industry's twisting paths and unexpected turns. Switching skillfully between the serious and the comical, Ori shares his fifty commandments in order to shed light on a complex industry. Ori backs up each commandment with thorough explanations, analysis, and examples when warranted, all presented in an easy-to-read format. Whether you're a shrewd veteran of commercial real estate or a fresh-faced college graduate just entering the industry, this book offers guidance and advice for the many challenges and rewards you'll encounter.