Going Big by Getting Small

Going Big by Getting Small
Author: Brian S. Petit
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2013-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781478703853
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Going Big by Getting Small examines how the United States Special Operations Forces apply operational art, the link between tactics and strategy, in the non-wartime, steady-state environments called Phase Zero. With revised and innovative operational art constructs, US Special Operations offer scalable and differentiated strategic options for US foreign policy goals. This book analyzes light footprint special operations approaches in Yemen, Indonesia, Thailand, and Colombia. When a large military presence may be inappropriate or counterproductive, Colonel Brian Petit makes the case for fresh thinking on Phase Zero operational art as applied by small, highly skilled, joint-force teams coupled with interagency partners. The past decade (2002-2012) of operations focused on large-scale, post-conflict counterinsurgency. Less publicized, but no less important in this same decade, was the emerging application of nuanced campaigns, actions, and activities in Phase Zero. These efforts were led or supported by special operations in countries and regions contested, but not at war. This book fills a gap in the literature of how to adapt the means, method, and logic of US military foreign engagements in a diplomacy-centric world with rapidly shifting power paradigms. Going Big by Getting Small is not a yarn on daring special operations raids nor a call for perpetual war. It is the polar opposite: this book contemplates the use of discreet engagements to sustain an advantageous peace, mitigate conflict, and prevent crises.

Small Move, Big Change

Small Move, Big Change
Author: Caroline L. Arnold
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2014-01-16
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1101620250
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"The most useful guide to getting things done since Getting Things Done." --Adam Grant, author of Give and Take Learn how small behavioral changes can lead to major personal and professional self-improvement Whether trying to lose weight, save money, get organized, or advance on the job, we’re always setting goals and making resolutions, but rarely following through on them. According to longtime Wall Street technology strategist Caroline Arnold, the “big push” strategy of the New Year’s resolution is designed to fail, because it broadly pits our limited willpower stores against an autopilot of entrenched behaviors and attitudes that is far more powerful. To change ourselves permanently, we need to focus our self-control on precise behavioral targets and overwhelm them. Small Move, Big Change is Arnold’s guide to turning broad personal goals into meaningful and discrete behavioral changes that lead to permanent improvement. Providing scores of engaging real-world examples and new scientific findings, she shows us that while the traditional resolution promises rewards on a distant “someday,” microresolutions work because they reward us today by instantly altering our routines and, ultimately, ourselves.

Starting Small and Making It Big

Starting Small and Making It Big
Author: Bill Cummings
Publisher: Bill Cummings
Total Pages:
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Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0999895117
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Negotiating at Work

Negotiating at Work
Author: Deborah M. Kolb
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118352416
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Understand the context of negotiations to achieve better results Negotiation has always been at the heart of solving problems at work. Yet today, when people in organizations are asked to do more with less, be responsive 24/7, and manage in rapidly changing environments, negotiation is more essential than ever. What has been missed in much of the literature of the past 30 years is that negotiations in organizations always take place within a context—of organizational culture, of prior negotiations, of power relationships—that dictates which issues are negotiable and by whom. When we negotiate for new opportunities or increased flexibility, we never do it in a vacuum. We challenge the status quo and we build out the path for others to negotiate those issues after us. In this way, negotiating for ourselves at work can create small wins that can grow into something bigger, for ourselves and our organizations. Seen in this way, negotiation becomes a tool for addressing ineffective practices and outdated assumptions, and for creating change. Negotiating at Work offers practical advice for managing your own workplace negotiations: how to get opportunities, promotions, flexibility, buy-in, support, and credit for your work. It does so within the context of organizational dynamics, recognizing that to negotiate with someone who has more power adds a level of complexity. The is true when we negotiate with our superiors, and also true for individuals currently under represented in senior leadership roles, whose managers may not recognize certain issues as barriers or obstacles. Negotiating at Work is rooted in real-life cases of professionals from a wide range of industries and organizations, both national and international. Strategies to get the other person to the table and engage in creative problem solving, even when they are reluctant to do so Tips on how to recognize opportunities to negotiate, bolster your confidence prior to the negotiation, turn 'asks' into a negotiation, and advance negotiations that get "stuck" A rich examination of research on negotiation, conflict management, and gender By using these strategies, you can negotiate successfully for your job and your career; in a larger field, you can also alter organizational practices and policies that impact others.

Think Small

Think Small
Author: Owain Service
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-04-06
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1782436340
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Think Small is a simple and accessible plan for success, based on seven scientifically tested steps that really work.

The small BIG

The small BIG
Author: Steve J. Martin
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1455584231
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At some point today you will have to influence or persuade someone - your boss, a co-worker, a customer, client, spouse, your kids, or even your friends. What is the smallest change you can make to your request, proposal or situation that will lead to the biggest difference in the outcome? In The small BIG, three heavyweights from the world of persuasion science and practice -- Steve Martin, Noah Goldstein and Robert Cialdini -- describe how, in today's information overloaded and stimulation saturated world, increasingly it is the small changes that you make that lead to the biggest differences. In the last few years more and more research - from fields such as neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and behavioral economics - has helped to uncover an even greater understanding of how influence, persuasion and behavior change happens. Increasingly we are learning that it is not information per se that leads people to make decisions, but the context in which that information is presented. Drawing from extensive research in the new science of persuasion, the authors present lots of small changes (over 50 in fact) that can bring about momentous shifts in results. It turns out that anyone can significantly increase his or her ability to influence and persuade others, not by informing or educating people into change but instead by simply making small shifts in approach that link to deeply felt human motivations.

Getting to Big the Small Way

Getting to Big the Small Way
Author: Frank Prestipino
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2007-11-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 007148440X
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Can small changes create big reults? Oracle veteran Frank Prestipino proved that the answer is yes. By applying incremental, constructive changes that did not require large budget spending or lengthy management approvals, Prestipino increased Oracle's and other company's customer demand and profitability-without subjecting them to unacceptable risks. Now, in Getting to Big the Small Way, Prestipino shares his unique approach for using incremental changes to make large improvements, and shows you how this method can be used in any size business regardless of the industry. Drawing upon his remarkable success at Oracle as well as his experiences at other organizations that achieved great results by thinking small, Prestipino presents an executable strategy for pinpointing the areas in your business where precise change will deliver huge returns. Prestipino gives you proven tools and techniques that can be easily adopted, with immediate results. He shows you how to grasp fresh opportunities and take steps into new markets with a solid growth strategy. After you determine your mission statement and discover how to connect your company's values with those of your customers, you'll learn how to use small actions to: Exploit the products, skills, and resources already in your company Make improvements that will unlock and open new doors to growth Find new markets you never thought you could enter _ Set priorities and ensure that the right attitudes and motivational drivers are in place _ Identify your true competitors-and decide how to stand apart from them Prestipino then brings everything together by helping you define the action steps that can be delegated across your organization and empower your employees to bring about change. Throughout, Prestipino provides frameworks for you to follow when implementing your strategy-and ways to measure and manage the success of your incremental advances.

Go BIG with Small Groups

Go BIG with Small Groups
Author: Bill Easum
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426722656
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Most churches that begin small groups find that within a couple of years two things happen - the number of small groups has dwindled in size and few if any of them have birthed other small groups. So, the only way most churches keep small groups going is by reinventing them over and over, usually with the same people. The authors of this book know God has much more in store for these churches. Bill Easum and John Atkinson have both led congregations in which small group ministry proved crucial to the church’s growth. Both know the pitfalls that endanger all attempts to center a congregation’s life around small groups. More importantly, they understand how to make small groups growing, self-reproducing centers of Christian discipleship.

Start Small FINISH BIG

Start Small FINISH BIG
Author: Fred De Luca
Publisher: Mandevilla Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1627040064
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At age seventeen Fred Deluca borrowed $1,000 from a a friend-and srarted SUBWAY(R). Today, with more than 38,000 stores in one hundred countries and annual sales exceeding $16.6 billion, Fred DeLuca's SUBWAY is a success story with a message... START SMALL FINISH BIG Publishers Weekly Review: DeLuca was only 17 when he started what is now the Subway restaurant chain in 1965; he needed money to attend college and a friend offered to back him with $1,000 to start a sandwich shop in Bridgeport, Conn. That beginning led DeLuca to an enormously successful career: in addition to being president of the chain, he runs MILE, a nonprofit organization that offers loans to entrepreneurs. According to DeLuca, there are 15 essential principles for anyone starting a small business, some of which, DeLuca confesses, he learned the hard way (he had never made a submarine sandwich before opening day of his first shop). Among these pillars: Believe in Your People; Never Run Out of Money; Keep the Faith; and Profit or Perish. DeLuca uses his own business experience as well as that of other successful entrepreneursAe.g., the founders of Kinko's and Little Caesar'sAin addition to those of less well-known business people. Written in a conversational style, the advice isn't especially original or creative. However, would-be millionaires who are sitting at their kitchen table wondering if they should take that big step and start a business will find the book both instructive and inspirational. Agent, Bob Diforio. Library Journal DeLuca, co-founder in 1965 of SUBWAY Restaurants and founder in 1996 of the Micro Investment Lending Enterprise (MILE), a nonprofit organization making microloans to entrepreneurs/microentrepreneurs, has written this humorous, down-to-earth guide to success as a small business owner. Coauthor Hayes is a writer (Computer Architecture and Organization, 1998), public speaker, and business trainer. Each chapter describes one of DeLuca's 15 key lessons and is illustrated with a real-life case study. None of the people in these cases is a household name, but businesses such as Kinkos, Little Caesars, and SUBWAY are. DeLuca doesn't claim that his guides form a master plan for success, but he optimistically believes that anyone can become Bill Gates, Lillian Vernon, or Henry Lay and that his lessons will increase the chances. His book also promotes and supports MILE, and the last chapter and appendix are devoted to information about it and its programs. Recommended for most small business collections. Susan C. Awe, Univ. of New Mexico Lib., Albuquerque

Inside the Nudge Unit

Inside the Nudge Unit
Author: David Halpern
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0753551381
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With a foreword by Richard Thaler, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics! New Updated Edition, 2019. Dr David Halpern, behavioural scientist and head of the government's Behavioural Insights Team, or Nudge Unit, invites you inside the unconventional, multi-million pound saving initiative that makes a big difference through influencing small, simple changes in our behaviour. Using the application of psychology to the challenges we face in the world today, the Nudge Unit is pushing us in the right direction. This is their story.