Best Selling Books by E. Knight

If you are looking to improve your or your team's communications skills, creativity, teamworking or leadership skills, and you want to have fun while doing so, then this is the book for you. It provides an introduction to improvisation at work with an emphasis on both practice and theory, and an up-to-date international reference list.

This report provides a guide for evaluating and cataloging Atlantic habitat from field survey data. We have attempted to include the most relevant and current criteria. Reports of field observations were utilized in preference to reports based on laboratory observations. The criteria are subject to change as new information becomes available. This information should not be substituted for data derived from local populations, since Atlantic salmon adapt to a variety of habitats. This reports supersedes the Atlantic salmon portion of "Habitat Criteria for Atlantic Salmon and American Shad" by Knight and Greenwood (1981).

The academic and commercial community continues to search for a leadership training theory that will provide consistent results and improve leadership praxis. This study aims to determine through empirical analysis if the new contextual prescriptive model as developed by Zigarmi, Lyles, and Fowler (2007) and taught to groups of students provides a statistically significant impact to leadership outcomes. To date, only one organization, the Catholic Leadership Institute, has developed and implemented a system of training using this model. The model proposes five practices and five contexts. This study focuses on the foundational context of self-leadership and the five practices. The Solomon four-group design was used in this study, to provide for isolation of various effects given the limitations of the quasi-experimental nature of the cohorts, the non-equivalent groups and the self-selected subjects. Comparison and treatment effects were measured using the Revised Self-Leadership Questionnaire (RSLQ) as developed by Houghton and Neck (2002). Results were analyzed through descriptive statistics, ANCOVA, ANOVA, and Student's t-test. A total of 134 subjects were compared using paired sample and group means to test the impact of the training on six hypotheses relating to overall self-leadership skills and the five practices of the model. The results indicate that the subjects participating in the training based on the prescriptive model did not significantly demonstrate improved RSLQ scores for any of the hypotheses tested.

Experiences in natural environments are perceived as a human necessity. Additionally, prior studies show that nature access has emotional, cognitive, and psychological benefits for children. Nature is defined as a space comprised mostly of vegetation that allows an individual to escape common surroundings. Access is defined as the ability to interact with high-quality nature by walking or biking in close proximity to one's place of residence. This geospatial analysis employs Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and site analysis to assess whether or not socioeconomic factors, and their relationship to housing choice, affect a child's access to nature. The study includes measures of socioeconomic status and how these factors influence a child's access to nature within parks and school facilities. The results show that including qualitative factors enhances the traditional model of measuring "distance as access." There was no inequality in access found in the study area when qualitative factors are included. The project implication is that communities can focus public resources and planning efforts in areas lacking access to nature for children. This leads to geographically less segregated neighborhoods and improved equity in nature access across a community.