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\"This friendly guide presents an easy-to-follow overview of the material covered in a typical college-level biochemistry course\"--P. [4] of cover.

Grasp biochemistry basics, apply the science, and ace your exams Are you baffled by biochemistry? If so here's the good news ? you don't have to stay that way! Biochemistry For Dummies shows you how to get a handle on biochemistry, apply the science, raise your grades, and prepare yourself to ace any standardized test. This friendly, unintimidating guide presents an overview of the material covered in a typical college-level biochemistry course and makes the subject easy to understand and accessible to everyone. From cell ultrastructure and carbohydrates to amino acids, proteins, and supramolecular structure, you'll identify biochemical structures and reactions, and send your grades soaring. Newest biology, biochemistry, chemistry, and scientific discoveries Updated examples and explanations Incorporates the most current teaching techniques From water biochemistry to protein synthesis, Biochemistry For Dummies gives you the vital information, clear explanations, and important insights you need to increase your understanding and improve your performance on any biochemistry test.

The essential planning resource and framework for nonprofit leaders Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations is the comprehensive, practical guide to building and sustaining a more effective organization. Solid strategy is now more important than ever, and this book provides a clear framework for designing and implementing an effective and efficient planning process. From identifying stakeholders and clarifying a shared vision, to implementing plans and revising strategies, the discussion covers all aspects of the process to help you keep your organization united and on track into the future. The field's leading authority shares insight, advice, helpful tools, and specific techniques, alongside a widely used and well-regarded approach to real-world planning. This new fifth edition includes new case studies and examples along with up-to-date resources and references, and new multimedia-related content. Innovation and creativity produce great ideas, but these ideas must be collected and organized into an actionable plan supported by a coalition of support to make your organization great. This book provides expert guidance and perspective to help you bring everything together into a workable organizational strategy. * Discover an effective approach to the strategic planning process * Identify issues, establish a vision, clarify mandates, and implement plans * Manage the process with continual learning and revising * Link unique assets and abilities to better accomplish the central mission Public and nonprofit leaders are forever striving to do more with less, and great strategic planning can help you build efficiency and effectiveness into your organization's everyday operations. Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations provides the framework and tools you need to start planning for tomorrow today.

This highly visual workbook is a step-by-step guide for individuals and groups to developing a strategy map. The workbook will make strategy visual and help users see patterns across mission, goals, strategies and actions while helping to identify areas of alignment and misalignment, and determine where elements are needed, missing or not useful in a strategic plan.The book directly supports the following chapters in the main text, Strategic Planning in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 4e:Chapter 4: Clarifying Organizational Mandates and MissionChapter 5: Assessing the Environment to Indentify Strengths and WeaknessesChapter 6: Indentifying Strategic Issues Facing the OrganizationChapter 7; Formulating and Adopting Strategies and Plans to Manage the IssuesChapter 8: Establishing an Effective Organizational Vision for the FutureThe primary components of the book are an Introduction to Mapping and Strategy Maps followed by seven chapters with detailed examples, worksheets process guidelines and an articulation of the outcomes and deliverables that might or should be sought when using mapping in each scenario.SUBSTANTIVE CHAPTERS:2. Getting Started. The chapter will include sections on: recognizing when mapping can be helpful, facilitation guidance, and logistics and supplies needed. The chapter will also include an introduction to the formalisms of mapping and general guidance on how to create a good map. Worksheets will help the reader create a personal strategic plan around something he or she wants to do personally or professionally.3. Clarifying Organizational Mandates and Mission. The chapter will emphasize how mapping can be used to clarify both the purpose of the strategic planning effort and also organizational purposes. The chapter will also emphasize that participants sense of the organizations mission is like to change as a result of addressing issues and formulating strategies. 4. Creating Strategies Out of an Assessment of Organizational Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges or Threats. The chapter will show briefly how possible strategy elements can be drawn out of SWOC/T analyses5. Identifying Strategic Issues Facing the Organization and Figuring Out What Might Be Done About Them. The chapter will emphasize issues identification and management, with attention to questions of issue framing. This chapter and the next are in many ways the real heart of the workbook.6. Formulating and Adopting Strategies and Plans to Manage the Issues. The chapter will overlap some with the previous chapter, but in particular will emphasize pulling together ideas and information developed in Chapters 3 - 6. 7. Establishing an Organizational Vision for the Future. The workbook will show how to pull together purpose and key elements of strategies as a way of informing a vision of success for the organization.8. Summary and Conclusions.Resource A. The Basics of Analyzing a MapResource B (perhaps). Action-Oriented Strategy Maps, Balanced Scorecard Maps, and Mind Maps - Comparisons and Contrasts.Resource C. Where to Find Additional ResourcesReferences.

Strategic planning becomes visual with strategy maps and the tools, techniques, and guidance for turning them into effective action. Developed as a companion workbook to John Bryson's best-selling Strategic Planning in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Visual Strategy: A Workbook for Strategy Mapping in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, goes beyond making the case for good and effective strategic planning to making strategy visual through effective strategy mapping. Strategy mapping prevents groups of people from talking over one another and going around in circles. It helps people speak and be heard, produce lots of ideas and understand how they fit together, make use of causal reasoning, and clarify ultimately what they want to do in terms of mission, goals, strategies, and actions. Strategy mapping can join process and content in such a way that good ideas worth implementing are found and the agreements and comments needed to implement them are reached. The result is living strategic plans that act as useful guides to action. With detailed examples, actual strategy maps, process guidelines and hand-drawn illustrations, the book will help leaders, managers, students and other professionals see patterns across mission, goals, strategies and actions while helping to identify areas of alignment and misalignment and determine, real time, where elements are needed, missing or not useful in a strategic plan. For leaders and managers of public and nonprofit organizations, facilitators and consultants, professors and students of strategic planning, strategic management, strategic mapping, and public policy, professional development workshops focused on strategic planning and strategy mapping.

InPorts in a Storma team of Harvard Kennedy School scholars focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task -enhancing port security across the United States. Their aims are two: to understand how a public manager might confront that complex undertaking, and to explore the similarities, differences, and complementarities of their alternative approaches to public management. The book takes as its pivot point the singular case of U.S. Coast Guard Captain Suzanne Englebert and her leadership of efforts to secure America's ports after the September 11 attacks. The Coast Guard had always been responsible for securing America's ports and coastline. But now it was tasked with safeguarding these critical, complex, and vulnerable assets during a time of war, a job it clearly could not handle alone. Ports in a Stormconsiders the monumental challenge of driving rapid change in a complex system involving hundreds of private organizations and scores of government agencies with their operations intricately intertwined. The book examines Englebert's actions from varied conceptual vantage points, sometimes critiquing questionable calls but more often celebrating her initiative, creativity, persistence, and skill. The authors use the Coast Guard episode as a testing ground for the eclectic intellectual constructs they have been developing to guide public managers. Instead of starting with theory and searching for examples that fit, they begin with the concrete and then harness scholarship to the service of better practice. And rather than mimic management principles from the business world, they tailor their approach to the very different challenges of managing in a public sector context. The volume allows readers in both the scholarly and practical worlds to see how the theories measure up. Contributors, including the two volume editors, are Robert D. Behn, John D. Donahue, Archon Fung, Stephen Goldsmith, Elaine Kamarck, Herman B. Leonard, Mark H. Moore, Malcolm K. Sparrow, Pamela Varley, and Richard Zeckhauser.

Based on John Bryson's acclaimed comprehensive approach to strategic planning, the Implementing and Sustaining Your Strategic Planworkbook provides a step-by-step process, tools, techniques, and worksheets to help successfully implement, manage, and troubleshoot an organization's strategy over the long haul.This new and immensely practical workbook helps organizations work through the typical challenges of leading implementation for sustained change. It spotlights the importance of effective leadership for long-term successful strategic plan implementation. The authors include a wealth of tools designed to help with goal and objective setting, budgeting, stakeholder analysis, priority reconciliation, strategies in practice, special leadership roles, cultural changes, and more.The workbook's conceptual framework, step-by-step process, and worksheets can be applied in a variety of ways. It can be used as a whole, or selected parts can be used by board members, boards of directors, senior management teams, implementation teams, and task forces on a regular basis throughout the process of sustained implementation. The workbook's individual worksheets, or combinations of worksheets, can be used as needed to address a variety of implementation-related tasks.

How do we make sense of the tragedy of a school shooting or even draw objective conclusions from these incidents? 'Deadly Lessons' is the outcome of the National Research Council's effort to glean lessons from six case studies of lethal student violence in the USA.

Learning Discourses and the Discourses of Learning is an edited collection of papers exploring issues of teaching and learning in academic settings. The key theme of the volume is 'discourses' - especially as these relate to institutional policies, disciplinary practices and students' processes of learning in the academy. Particular attention is paid to the experiences of second-language students studying at Australian universities as well as those learning foreign languages in Australia. Employing a variety of methodologies and theoretical perspectives, the papers in Learning Discourses are unified by a focus on rich and socially situated empirical data. The book addresses issues highly pertinent to the dynamic character of contemporary higher education in Australia, one dominated by trends towards the internationalisation and professionalisation of university programs, and the growing intercultural nature of social and academic interactions. Part one covers issues of discourse and change, exploring processes of discourse acquisition and production in a range of disciplinary contexts, along with the nexus between academic and professional discourses. Part two deals with broader issues of the participation and socialisation of students in second-language-use situations, ranging from macro (social planning and policy) issues to the micro (interpersonal) level. Part three looks at the social mediation of foreign language learning covering a range of tertiary and secondary settings in Australia and has a particular focus on Japanese as a foreign language. This book is intended for academics and students - postgraduate and undergraduate - working in foreign language programs, academic and language support programs, and applied linguistics.