Beyond Goals


Book Description

What is there in developmental relationships beyond setting and striving to achieve goals? The presence of goals in coaching and mentoring programs has gone largely unquestioned, yet evidence is growing that the standard prescription of SMART, challenging goals is not always appropriate - and even potentially dangerous - in the context of a complex and rapidly changing world. Beyond Goals advances standard goal-setting theory by bringing together cutting-edge perspectives from leaders in coaching and mentoring. From psychology to neuroscience, from chaos theory to social network theory, the contributors offer diverse and compelling insights into both the advantages and limitations of goal pursuit. The result is a more nuanced understanding of goals, with the possibility for practitioners to bring greater impact and sophistication to their client engagements. The implications of this reassessment are substantial for all those practicing as coaches and mentors, or managing coaching or mentoring initiatives in organizations.




Beyond Effective Go


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Are you an experienced Go developer that wants to be more productive? Do you want to write cleaner, faster, and easier to maintain code? Then the Beyond Effective Go book series is for you. This series is aimed at competent Gophers. It does not mess around with the basics but instead dives right into the daily problems that professional programmers face. Chiefly, how to write fast, robust applications and services that can be maintained and extended as requirements change. Unlike most books, Beyond Effective Go focuses on the programmer and the code by addressing the four critical aspects of programming in Go - developer productivity, application performance, code quality, and depth of understanding of the language and tools. This book, Part 1 of the series, focuses on achieving high-performance code. You will learn which aspects of your application or code to focus on and when. You will have a suite of tools, software patterns, and recipes at your disposal to make your life easier. After reading, you will: - Understand the differences between Concurrency and Parallelism. - Identify and avoid concurrency issues like deadlock, starvation, livelock, and data races. - Understand the various concurrency interaction patterns and be able to apply the one that best fits the problem at hand. - Take a deep dive into Go’s concurrency primitives and be able to apply them expertly but also avoid many of their gotchas. - Be able to diagnose concurrency and performance issues using Go’s profiler, execution tracing, and benchmarking tools. - Be able to identify when code needs optimizing, what needs optimizing and how. - Have a catalog of concurrency and performance patterns that you can quickly apply to your projects.




Beyond Good


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Learn how technological disruption has scaled the business for good movement to a new achievable reality and discover how you can do well by doing good with your business too.




Beyond Good Company


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The authors have conducted extensive research into the role of business in public life. This book takes a practice-oriented look at corporate citizenship, and uses real, behind the scenes examples from well-known companies to show that for many firms social responsibility is becoming more integrated into corporate strategy.




Beyond Effective


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Executives and managers work hard to be effective. Then what? Some find that they want something more: to work with greater meaning; to be more fulfilled; happier with their work; or simply a better leader. David Peck, president of Leadership Unleashed, an executive coaching and management consulting firm, presents over 100 powerful one-paragraph leadership tools in "Beyond Effective: Practices in Self-aware Leadership" for those wanting to take the next step as executives and leaders. Self-awareness is the key ingredient to go beyond simply being effective. In fact, great leadership begins not with the outside world, but with the person you see in the mirror. Your beliefs lead to feelings, beliefs and feelings lead to your actions, and those actions lead to your results. The bottom line of this book: Change your beliefs for the better, and better results must follow. THIS BOOK GIVES YOU: New ways to take your core leadership abilities to the next level Powerful techniques for leading your people Innovative insights for guiding your organization Practical ways to turn large and small challenges into wins Refreshing practices in self-awareness that translate into results




Beyond Performance


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The secret of achieving and sustaining organizational excellence revealed In an ever-changing world where only a third of excellent organizations stay that way over the long term, and where even fewer are able to implement successful change programs, leaders are in need of big ideas and new tools to thrive. In Beyond Performance, McKinsey & Company's Scott Keller and Colin Price give you everything you need to build an organization that can execute in the short run and has the vitality to prosper over the long term. Drawing on the most exhaustive research effort of its kind on organizational effectiveness and change management, Keller and Price put hard science behind their big idea: that the health of an organization is equally as important as its performance. In the book's foreword, management guru Gary Hamel refers to this notion as "a new manifesto for thinking about organizations." The authors illustrate why copying management best practices from other companies is more dangerous than helpful Clearly explains how to determine the mutually reinforcing combination of management practices that best fits your organization's context Provides practical tools to achieve superior levels of performance and health through a staged change process: aspire, assess, architect, act, and advance. Among these are new techniques for dealing with those aspects of human behavior that are seemingly irrational (and therefore confound even the smartest leaders), yet entirely predictable Ultimately, building a healthy organization is an intangible asset that competitors copy at their peril and that enables you to skillfully adapt to and shape your environment faster than others—giving you the ultimate competitive advantage.




Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go


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Explore various dependency injection methods in Go such as monkey patching, constructor injection, and method injection Key FeaturesLearn to evaluate Code UX and make it betterExplore SOLID principles and understand how they relate to dependency injectionUse Google's wire framework to simplify dependence managementBook Description Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go takes you on a journey, teaching you about refactoring existing code to adopt dependency injection (DI) using various methods available in Go. Of the six methods introduced in this book, some are conventional, such as constructor or method injection, and some unconventional, such as just-in-time or config injection. Each method is explained in detail, focusing on their strengths and weaknesses, and is followed with a step-by-step example of how to apply it. With plenty of examples, you will learn how to leverage DI to transform code into something simple and flexible. You will also discover how to generate and leverage the dependency graph to spot and eliminate issues. Throughout the book, you will learn to leverage DI in combination with test stubs and mocks to test otherwise tricky or impossible scenarios. Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go takes a pragmatic approach and focuses heavily on the code, user experience, and how to achieve long-term benefits through incremental changes. By the end of this book, you will have produced clean code that’s easy to test. What you will learnUnderstand the benefits of DIExplore SOLID design principles and how they relate to GoAnalyze various dependency injection patterns available in GoLeverage DI to produce high-quality, loosely coupled Go codeRefactor existing Go code to adopt DIDiscover tools to improve your code’s testability and test coverageGenerate and interpret Go dependency graphsWho this book is for Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go is for programmers with a few year s experience in any language and a basic understanding of Go. If you wish to produce clean, loosely coupled code that is inherently easier to test, this book is for you.




Beyond Good Intentions


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Beyond Good Intentions is a book of essays about the joys and risks of raising children adopted internationally. Cheri Register examines ten pitfalls that well-meaning parents like herself can easily slip into: -- Wiping Away Our Children's Past -- Hovering Over Our Troubled Children -- Holding the Lid on Sorrow and Anger -- Parenting on the Defensive -- Believing Race Doesn't Matter -- Keeping Our Children Exotic -- Raising Our Children in Isolation -- Judging Our Country Superior -- Believing Adoption Saves Souls -- Appropriating Our Children's Heritage Each essay opens with an exaggerated version of something an adoptive parent might say, to prompt a fresh, intense look at practices so familiar they are seldom questioned, even though they may not serve the children's and the family's best interests. Register urges readers to bring their own experiences to bear in a candid conversation about internationally adoptive family life.




Beyond Good Teaching


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English language learners share a basic need—to engage, and be engaged, in meaningful mathematics. Through guiding principles and instructional tools, together with classroom vignettes and video clips, this book shows how to go beyond good teaching to support ELLs in learning challenging mathematics while developing language skill. Position your students to share the valuable knowledge that they bring to the classroom as they actively build and communicate their understanding. The design of this book is interactive and requires the reader to move back and forth between the chapters and online resources at www.nctm.org/more4u. Occasionally, the reader is asked to stop and reflect before reading further in a chapter. At other times, the reader is asked to view video clips of teaching practices for ELLs or to refer to graphic organizers, observation and analysis protocols, links to resources, and other supplementary materials. The authors encourage the reader to use this resource in professional development.




Beyond Testing


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Beyond Testing describes seven forms of assessment that are more effective than standardized test results. These assessments are more honest about what we can and cannot know about childrens knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Readers can compare and contrast each approach to determine which is most appropriate for their school.