Stick Your Neck Out

John Graham

Stick Your Neck Out is a comprehensive and practical guide to the skills, qualities, and strategies you need to make a difference, covering every aspect of working for change - from choosing an issue to mapping out a plan, creating a vision of success, organizing a team, building trust, resolving conflicts, working with the media, moving through bureaucracies, setting legal strategies and more.

Filled with practical tips inspiring examples of real people, this book provides the missing link between ideas and ideals on one hand, and effective action on the other.

Author John Graham draws on his own extensive experiences as an activist and negotiator, as well as on the experiences of hundreds of average citizens - artists, truck drivers, doctors, waitresses, and others - seasoned activists around the world who have brought about constructive change.

What People Want

Terry R. Bacon

In a workplace of diversity and difference, where flexibility and sensitivity to a range of values define success, there is no room for a one-size-fits-all management style. But with so many factors at play - gender, age, personality differenced, management experience - what truly matters most in employee-manager relationships?

What People Want, for the first time, cuts through the guesswork to highlight the unique variables in today's  workplace and uncover the truth about what people really want from their relationships at work. Based on original research involving nearly 500 professionals across a variety of industries, reveals fresh insights into the motivators that drive individual behaviour, detailing how to build solid relationships with co-workers and direct reports by focusing on their seven most important needs: trust, challenge, self-worth, competence, appreciation, excitement, and an ability to develop and sustain an identity of merit. And with dozens of real-world examples, plus nearly 200 practical tips and techniques, What People Want offers plenty of tools to help managers address their own needs to personal and psychological space and work-life balance, and advice on how to avoid such bad behaviours as bullying and intimidation, which can de motivate staff and damage the organization.

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