A how-to book for health-care consumers and health-care organizations, The One-Minute Meditator is a step-by-step guide to revealing your sources of stress, showing how to meditate in short increments, and inspiring you to make meditation part of your daily life.
Bill Birchard wrote the book in partnership with co-author and clinical psychiatrist David Nichol, M.D. Dr. Nichol works and lives in Sausalito, California.
A business book for corporate managers, Counting What Counts chronicles the crisis in corporate accountability and outlines a program for turning accountability to competitive advantage. In 1999, Counting What Counts won an award as "outstanding" from the magazine of the American Library Association.
Bill Birchard wrote the book in partnership with co-author and business professor Marc Epstein. Professor Epstein teaches at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
A business book devoted to corporate strategy, The Discipline of Market Leaders, distills the complexities of strategy formulation into some simple and lucid rules of thumb. The book became a NewYork Times bestseller in 1995.
Bill Birchard wrote the book as the lead writer under the auspices of Wordworks, a Boston-based book packager led by Donna Carpenter.
A business book for health-care managers, Changing Health Care offers a prescription for reforming the health-care system, improving quality and access while reducing costs.
Bill Birchard wrote the book as the lead writer under the auspices of Wordworks, a Boston-based book packager led by Donna Carpenter. During his tenure with Wordworks, Birchard worked on many other books and book proposals in varying capacities.
A how-to manual for hiking-trail design and construction, Appalachian Trail Design, Construction, and Maintenance, gives detailed instructions on state-of-the-art trail work as of 2000.
Bill Birchard wrote the book with co-author Robert Proudman. Trail Design was one of Birchard's first books, first published in 1982. At about the same time, Birchard substantially rewrote two guides to the Appalachian Trail, one for Southern Virginia and the other for Vermont and New Hampshire.
A story about the people who built the Nature Conservancy, the largest environmental group in the world, Nature's Keepers chronicles the heroic struggle of nine talented conservationists to preserve the world's biological treasures. It is a story spanning 55 years, 50 states, and 28 nations.
Bill Birchard wrote the book with the cooperation of scores of Conservancy veterans and outsiders. The book was published in 2005.
A book about ethical decision making, Ethics for the Real World explains the principles for clear ethical thinking and a process for making wise decisions. It is unique among books about ethics in showing how to use ethical action to transform our lives.
Bill Birchard drafted the book as an editorial consultant to authors Ron Howard and Clint Korver, professor at Stanford University and CEO of Decision Street, respectively. The book was published in June 2008.A book about business strategy, Wal-Smart first reveals the secrets to Wal-Mart's success and then shows readers how to successfully compete in the Wal-Mart economy as a competitor, supplier, employer, and community member.
Bill Birchard drafted the book as an editorial consultant to author William Marquard, co-founder of Marble Leadership Partners in Chicago. The book was published in December 2006.