Balancing Acts offers consultants and managers a simple, powerful way to think about change, and ascribes a four-phase iterative process for implementing change. Reviewing change initiatives from different types of organizations, Balancing Acts confronts the problems and pitfalls head-on that often arise during workplace transitions. Conklin explains why organizational change can be so difficult, and shows that by balancing a set of competing psychological and systemic challenges, interveners will increase their chance of success. Conklin shows that human groups function as complex systems, and that a change initiative is not a linear progression toward a predefined result. Instead, change is an iterative process that involves a search for feasible and useful solutions. The book’s central argument is that while leading or supporting this search, consultants and leaders must balance four critical concerns: confrontation and compassion, participation and observation, assertion and inquiry, and planfulness and emergence.

Managing diabetes is a juggling act - and juggling diet, exercise and medicine sounds, well... manageable, but toss in hypo- and hyperglycemia, self-monitoring of blood glucose, insulin and oral agents, exercise precautions, meal planning and exchanges, weight control... Whew... it adds up fast. And out in real-life, what your patients learn about managing diabetes may feel sleight-of-hand. How can you make sure your patients are ready for real-time? Send them home with Balance Your Act - the step-by-step guide for adults to learn to manage their type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes. This 96-page book reminds patients how to place each part of their diabetes management plan into motion, building the foundation for a better, healthier and longer life. Balance Your Act is simply the closest thing to sending a great diabetes educator (like you) home with your patients!

Debbie Lessin (CPA, entrepreneur, speaker and author) shares 66 versatile ideas for juggling work and play, friends and family, heart and soul; and mind and body in this balancing act we call life. The book is a beautifully illustrated hard cover gift book.

A recent work/life study by MANAGEMENT TODAY revealed that almost half of Britain's managers feel too mentally and physically exhausted to do anything other than work and sleep, and nearly a third say their lives are out of control. Around half of the people questioned said they would switch jobs tomorrow for a better quality of life. Is it the way we work today that is causing this phenomenon or are we just not handling our lives as well as we could? THE BALANCING ACT offers the WHY, WHAT and HOW of getting more balance in our lives. It gets to the root of WHY we're out of balance, drawing on Fiona's own theories and interpretation of psychology, social trends and observations of the corporate world and says WHAT we can do about it. With original ideas to inspire us towards a new way of thinking, THE BALANCING ACT suggests HOW we can change our lives in easy steps. Written in a language clearly at one with the fast pace and issues faced at work today, this is a coaching book on how to get more balance in your life...your way, your style, your time.