How to run your life like a successful business and find true fulfillment Through their popular Life Business Program workshops and seminars, John Eckblad and David Kiel have helped thousands of individuals across the United States and Europe get their lives on track using triedand- true strategies borrowed from the world of business. In this book, they describe their original 13-step Life Business principles and techniques for renewing, refocusing, reforming, and remaking any life. Their basic philosophy is simple: we can learn much about how to live happier, more fulfilling and productive lives by following the examples of successful businesses. Combining the best features of self-help, personal finance, and business strategy, this book shows readers how to: <ul>
<li>Identify what they really want from life </li>
<li>Develop a clear plan for achieving goals </li>
<li>Secure the financing needed to make dreams come true </li>
</ul>
Structured around the annual business planning cycle--the same process that successful businesses use to create, build, and maintain their futures--If Your Life Were a Business provides readers with concrete steps for achieving quantifiable life results.

If Your Life Were a Business, Would You Invest In It?: The 13-Step Program for Managing Your Life Like the Best CEO's Manage Their Companies

Eckblad, John

Kiel, David

Self-Help

McGraw=Hill

A well-defined mentoring program is essential to faculty productivity and success. As institutions seek increase faculty diversity, adopt increased standards for faculty productivity, and become more aware of the benefits of extending mentoring beyond early-career, it’s crucial to bring rigor and definition to your department’s mentoring efforts.
David Kiel, who worked with faculty leaders to design mentoring programs for all of UNC-Chapel Hill’s professional schools and the College of Arts and Sciences, draws on years of research and experience to bring you this uniquely comprehensive handbook. This book includes practical strategies from a wide range of institutions, from community colleges to research universities.
This nearly 600-page handbook covers not only what works but how to do it: Get a comprehensive primer for launching or improving mentoring programs for early-career, mid-career, and late-career faculty. And get 200+ pages of worksheets, checklists, templates, and assessments to help you refine your mentoring services.
"Mentoring programs for faculty have long proven to be one of the most effective strategies colleges and universities have to promote career development, increase engagement, improve the level of student success, and foster innovative research. In Developing Faculty Mentoring Programs: A Comprehensive Handbook, David Kiel provides an in-depth look at best practices in how to design, develop, and maintain a systematic approach to faculty mentoring and answers every question about how to ensure the effectiveness of these programs. Based on practice experience and exhaustive research, this book is the blueprint that everyone interested in successful faculty mentoring should follow." - Jeffrey L. Buller, Senior Partner, ATLAS Leadership Training
"Developing Faculty Mentoring Programs by David Kiel delivers fully on the promise of its sub-title to provide a Comprehensive Handbook on this important and productive practice in supporting the success of academics throughout their careers. This is a welcome addition to the literature on mentoring and will serve both faculty and administrators in their efforts to provide high quality and effective mentoring programs for their colleagues." - Deborah DeZure, Ph.D., Assistant Provost for Faculty and Organizational Development Emerita, Michigan State University

Developing Faculty Mentoring Programs: A Comprehensive Handbook

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Building the capacity for continuous innovation is the factor that will determine which colleges and universities survive and which will thrive in the future.\nMuch attention has been paid to how higher ed leaders can support entrepreneurs in launching startups that can improve society outside the walls of the institution; less attention has been paid to how we can support entrepreneurial faculty, staff, students, and departmental leaders in launching similarly innovative ventures that improve the internal workings of their own college or university.\nHigher education attracts many creative individuals, but within the traditional hierarchical and disciplinary organizational structures, few incentives, rewards, and supports are provided for those who think outside the box or color outside the traditional lines. Yet, given the adaptive challenges facing our institutions today, rarely, if ever, has it been more important for leaders to accelerate those creative responses that are already being piloted in a grassroots manner on their own campus; to find new solutions; and to provide systemic support for the creativity and innovation of their students, faculty 
and staff.\nDavid Kiel’s new book provides both the research-tested conceptual framework for such systemic support, and an in-depth study of what support can make a difference at every stage of bringing an innovative venture to fruition (from ideation and pilot all the way through to a sustained venture that has a transformative impact on the institution’s mission, financial health, and reputation).\nReplete with interviews with institutional leaders and innovators, practical examples and strategies that have been tested in the field, and worksheets for applying this thinking to your own campus offers, Creating a Pipeline for Innovation Within Your College or University offers a unique roadmap that will prepare higher ed leaders to empower innovation at every level within their institution—in action, not just in name.

Creating a Pipeline for Innovation Within Your College or University: A Guide for Higher Ed Leaders and Innovators

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