1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786679903321

Autore

Hakala-Ausperk Catherine

Titolo

Build a great team : one year to success! / / Catherine Hakala-Ausperk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Illinois : , : ALA Editions, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-8389-9575-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

ALA Guides for the Busy Librarian

Disciplina

023/.9

Soggetti

Library personnel management

Teams in the workplace

Supervision of employees

Library administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Month 1: WELCOME TO YOUR TEAM!; Month 2: RECRU ITING; Month 3: NARROWING; Month 4: INTERVIEWING; Month 5: BLENDING; Month 6: FOUNDATIONS; Month 7: COMMUNICATION AND GROWTH; Month 8: RESOLUTIONS; Month 9: ACTIONS; Month 10: PLANNING AND STRATEGY; Month 11: TEAM ENVIRONMENT; Month 12: INTENTIONAL SUCCESS; NOTES; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Hakala-Ausperk presents a handy self-guided tool to the dynamic role of team-building.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959847303321

Autore

Teisch Jessica B

Titolo

Engineering nature : water, development, & the global spread of American environmental expertise / / Jessica B. Teisch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

979-88-9313-464-3

979-88-908862-9-3

1-4696-0351-9

0-8078-7801-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

333.70973

Soggetti

Water resources development - United States - History

Mining engineering - United States - History

Water resources development - History

Mining engineering - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Lessons of valuable experience : what California learned from India -- A great mission for the race : lessons and experiences from California -- The California model and the Australian awakening -- Home is not so very far away : civilizing the South African frontier -- Nothing but commercial feudalism : California's Hawaiian empire -- Palestine's peculiar social experiments.

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United States' growing technical and environmental knowledge and associated social and political institutions. In the frontiers of Australia, South Africa, Hawaii, and Palestine--semiarid regions that shared a need for water to support growing populations and economies--California water engineers applied their expertise in irrigation and mining proj