كتب ادارة Management

Innovation Through Collaboration, Volume 12 (Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams)
By Michael M. Beyerlein, Susan Beyerlein, Frances Kennedy


Publisher: JAI Press
Number Of Pages: 294
Publication Date: 2006-10-16
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0762313315
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780762313310
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

Innovation has become one of the primary core competencies of effective organizations. It leads to changes in products, services, organizational design, processes, strategies, and the systems that support them. It occurs when someone has an idea, shares it with others, and all find ways to turn the idea into action. The sharing is a critical step. Creative ideas blossom in a collaborative environment. Implementation depends on collaboration. The chapters in this volume explore a variety of methods and settings that show how collaboration can be utilized to enable and enhance innovation. The innovation may be incremental or breakthrough and evident at any level of organization: team, community of practice, project or program, company, joint venture, alliance, partnership, or supply chain.

In this volume, we refer to high quality interaction in the social network as collaboration. We believe creating the context for effective collaboration is a core competency of the organization. Working together well involves deepening trust among members and sharing ideas, perspectives, energy, and knowledge to address organizational challenges and opportunities. As innovation becomes the key to competitive advantage at company, supply chain, and regional levels, a shift from silos to collaboration becomes essential collaborating across boundaries becomes critical.

World class levels of performance are impossible without mastery of collaborative methods, processes, and designs. Few companies have mastered the discipline of collaboration well enough to achieve the highest levels of performance. Inter-agency collaboration in government is equally challenging. The chapters in this volume explore collaborative approaches to innovation and the mechanisms and tools that contribute to the quality of collaborative effort.

*Discusses the importance of collaborative environments to improve innovation
*Addresses how to create a collaborative environment within an organization

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Ecology and Strategy, Volume 23 (Advances in Strategic Management)
By Joel A. C. Baum, Stanislav D. Dobrev, Arjen van Witteloostuijn


Publisher: JAI Press
Number Of Pages: 678
Publication Date: 2006-10-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0762313382
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780762313389
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

Volume 23 of the Advances in Strategic Management series focuses on ecology and strategy, providing an excellent point of reference for scholars, students and practitioners of business.

The nine-part volume addresses diverse fields such as the U.S. motion picture, British motorcycle, and optical disk drive industries. The authors included represent institutions of higher learning from around the world, giving this latest edition international appeal.

*International representation
*Addresses the human ecology of organizations, the relationship between the employee and the company
*Includes papers regarding the US Motion Picture, British Motorcycle, and Optical Disk Drive industries

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Corporate Financial Policy and R&D Management (Wiley Finance)
By John B. Guerard


Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2005-06-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471458236
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471458234
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

A timely guide for those investing in research and development.

Completely updated and expanded, this edition examines the relationship between managing research development (R&D) and sustaining sound financial policy. Through extensive fieldwork and consulting, the author demonstrates how to balance and manage R&D efforts, capital investment, and new debt financing decisions. He also offers a framework for understanding the interdependence between these elements and tools that include financial modeling techniques for determining resource allocation.


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The old media strategies advertisers used for decades no longer work. Here's what does! Traditional advertising, in the form of print, radio, and most notably, television, is far less effective than it used to be. Advertising strategies using only these mediums no longer work. Life After the 30-Second Spot explains how savvy marketers and advertisers are responding with new marketing techniques to get their message out, get noticed, engage their audiences-and increase sales! Covering topics such as viral marketing, gaming, on-demand viewing, long-form content, interactive, and more, the book explains the new avenues marketers and advertisers must use to replace traditional print, TV, and radio advertising-and which strategies are most effective. This book is every marketer's road map to ""new marketing.""

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Making Competition Work in Electricity
By Sally Hunt


Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2002-03-22
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471220981
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471220985
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

An expert's perspective on how competition can make this industry work. There has never been a coherent plan to restructure the electricity industry in the USâuntil now. Power expert Sally Hunt gets down to the critical lessons learned from the California power crisis and other deregulated markets, in which competition has been introduced properly and successfully.

Hunt presents sensible solutions to power market reform that have been cultivated over her twenty years of professional work in the industry. Sally Hunt (New York, NY) spent twenty years at National Economic Research Associates, where she was head of NERA's U.S. energy practice and a member of the board. Coauthor of Competition and Choice in Electricity with Graham Shuttleworth (0471957828), she has served as Corporate Economist at Con Edison, Deputy Director of the New York City Energy Office, and Assistant Administrator of the New York City Environmental Protection Administration. Over the years, financial professionals around the world have looked to the Wiley Finance series and its wide array of bestselling books for the knowledge, insights, and techniques that are essential to success in financial markets. As the pace of change in financial markets and instruments quickens, Wiley Finance continues to respond. With critically acclaimed books by leading thinkers on value investing, risk management,asset allocation, and many other critical subjects, the Wiley Finance series provides the financial community with information they want. Written to provide professionals and individuals with the most current thinking from the best minds in the industry, it is no wonder that the Wiley Finance series is the first and last stop for financial professionals looking to increase their financial expertise.

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Risk-adjusted Lending Conditions: An Option Pricing Approach (The Wiley Finance Series)
By Werner Rosenberger


Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 286
Publication Date: 2003-03-28
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470847522
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470847527
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

In order to operate their lending business profitably, banks must know all the costs involved in granting loans. In particular, all the expenses they incur in covering losses must be included. Provided loan risks can be calculated, it is possible in each case to charge a price that is appropriately adjusted for risk, thus making it possible to make high-risk loans.

In "Risk-adjusted Lending Conditions" the author presents a model, to measure and calculate loan risks, showing how it functions and how it may be applied. His approach has its origins in the ideas put forward by Black/Scholes in 1973, and thus owes much to option price theory. From this the author has succeeded in developing a solution such that, whatever a company's debt position and however its balance sheet may be structured, any situation can be individually assessed. Building on this, he demonstrates how combinations of loans with the lowest possible interest costs can be tailor-made for any company. The book contains numerous examples, making it easy for practising bankers to see how the model may be applied


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"In order to operate their lending business profitably, banks must know all the costs involved in granting loans. In particular, all the expenses they incur in covering losses must be included. Provided loan risks can be calculated, it is possible in each case to charge a price that is appropriately adjusted for risk, thus making it possible to make high-risk loans. In Risk-adjusted Lending Conditions the author presents a model, to measure and calculate loan risks, showing how it functions and how it may be applied. His approach has its origins in the ideas put forward by Black/Scholes in 1973, and thus owes much to option price theory. From this the author has succeeded in developing a solution such that, whatever a company¿s debt position and however its balance sheet may be structured, any situation can be individually assessed. Building on this, he demonstrates how combinations of loans with the lowest possible interest costs can be tailor-made for any company. The book contains numerous examples, making it easy for practising bankers to see how the model may be applied. "

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Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers
By Thomas A. McLaughlin


Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2002-06-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471205702
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471205708
Binding: Paperback


Book Description:

Essential, accessible guidelines for interpreting and using financial information

"A wonderful resource for nonprofit managers and board members alike. It hits the mark by simplifying accounting concepts and providing practical advice that can help nonprofits achieve a higher degree of accountability."
-Paula Van Ness, President and CEO, Make-A-Wish Foundation® of America

"After thirty-three years of managing in the nonprofit sector, I find I could have used the information in Streetsmart when I first began my career. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in the effective management of nonprofit organizations."
-George W. Kessinger, President and CEO, Goodwill Industries International, Inc.

"The first edition of McLaughlin's book was a masterpiece-clearly written, concise, and insightful. These traits also characterize the Second Edition. This is an excellent text for students and also a reference that every nonprofit professional should have on their bookshelf."
-Norman A. Dolch, PhD, Director of the Nonprofit Programs and Professor of Sociology
Louisiana State University in Shreveport

"Tom McLaughlin contributes a valuable tool to those working for the betterment of society in the nonprofit fields: an important, highly readable, intelligent review of those issues which determine success and failure. All too often, well-meaning nonprofit managers find their organizations in constant crisis due to their mission-focus and mission-drive to the detriment of sound financial management. Streetsmart Financial Basics is a fast way of balancing management skills short of returning for an MBA."
-Jeffrey R. Solomon, PhD, President, The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies

The Second Edition of this popular resource explains in plain English how to read, interpret, and implement financial data from bookkeepers and accountants to make management decisions that ensure an organization's long-term financial viability. Organized into four distinct parts-Analysis, Accounting, Operations, and Control-this book offers a host of hands-on resources for managers, including:
A CD-ROM containing spreadsheet templates for financial reports, word-processing checklists, sample documents, and real-world examples of management in action
Dozens of easy-to-read charts, tables, checklists, and instructive sidebars
Inserted text boxes highlighting supplemental information
Special comments in the narrative linking the material to personal financial management matters


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The Nonprofit Manager's Resource Directory, 2nd Edition
By Ronald A. Landskroner


Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 704
Publication Date: 2001-12-14
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471392421
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471392422
Binding: Paperback


Book Description:

A newly revised and updated edition of the ultimate resource for nonprofit managers

If you're a nonprofit manager, you probably spend a good deal of your time tracking down hard-to-find answers to complicated questions. The Nonprofit Manager's Resource Directory, Second Edition provides instant answers to all your questions concerning nonprofit-oriented product and service providers, Internet sites, funding sources, publications, support and advocacy groups, and much more. If you need help finding volunteers, understanding new legislation, or writing grant proposals, help has arrived. This new, updated edition features expanded coverage of important issues and even more answers to all your nonprofit questions.

Revised to keep vital information up to the minute, The Nonprofit Manager's Resource Directory, Second Edition:
Contains more than 2,000 detailed listings of both nonprofit and for-profit resources, products, and services
Supplies complete details on everything from assistance and support groups to software vendors and Internet servers, management consultants to list marketers
Provides information on all kinds of free and low-cost products available to nonprofits
Features an entirely new section on international issues
Plus: 10 bonus sections available only on CD-ROM

The Nonprofit Manager's Resource Directory, Second Edition has the information you need to keep your nonprofit alive and well in these challenging times. Topics include:
Accountability and Ethics
Assessment and Evaluation
Financial Management
General Management
Governance
Human Resource Management
Information Technology
International Third Sector
Leadership
Legal Issues
Marketing and Communications
Nonprofit Sector Overview
Organizational Dynamics and Design
Philanthropy
Professional Development
Resource Development
Social Entrepreneurship
Strategic Planning
Volunteerism

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Catastrophic Risk: Analysis and Management (The Wiley Finance Series)
By Erik Banks


Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 190
Publication Date: 2005-05-13
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470012366
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470012369
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

Catastrophic risk is one of the most significant and challenging areas of corporate risk management. Analyze this risk for your company with Catastrophic Risk and make sure you have sufficient resources to absorb losses and avoid financial distress.

The first comprehensive volume to address this topic from a financial perspective, this book is a guide to the worst financial risks threatening companies and industries today. Author Eric Banks begins with a consideration of catastrophe and its mplications, looks at the state of actuarial and financial modelling of catastrophe risks, and discusses the creation of a risk management framework that will enable the efficient and secure management of exposure. Catastrophic Risk is essential reading if you're a corporate treasurer, CFO, or insurance/financial risk manager responsible for corporate risk management. Order your copy today.


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Catastrophic risk is one of the most significant and challenging areas of corporate risk management. Analyze this risk for your company with Catastrophic Risk and make sure you have sufficient resources to absorb losses and avoid financial distress. The first comprehensive volume to address this topic from a financial perspective, this book is a guide to the worst financial risks threatening companies and industries today. Author Eric Banks begins with a consideration of catastrophe and its mplications, looks at the state of actuarial and financial modelling of catastrophe risks, and discusses the creation of a risk management framework that will enable the efficient and secure management of exposure. Catastrophic Risk is essential reading if you're a corporate treasurer, CFO, or insurance/financial risk manager responsible for corporate risk management. Order your copy today.

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Performance Management : Finding the Missing Pieces (to Close the Intelligence Gap) (SAS Institute Inc.) 2004-03
by Gary Cokins

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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2004-03-29
Sales Rank: 690028
ISBN / ASIN: 0471576905
EAN: 9780471576907
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
Average Rating: 5
Total Reviews: 7


Book Description:

Praise for Performance Management

"We are witnessing a convergence among advanced management concepts and practices. Performance management is a means to pull it all together, to understand the strengths and limitations of each management practice and leverage it for competitive advantage. Cokins' book walks us through all this in a manner that makes something confusing much less so.
There is no one right answer for any situation. The answer lies in a balance of concepts and the integration of them. Performance Management is the glue that holds them all together.
This book helps the reader understand the breadth of PM. It's not just about measuring!"
—John F. Morrow, CPA, AICPA Vice President, The New Finance

"Gary Cokins has articulated the '411' of performance management. His combination of personal anecdotes with fundamental cost and performance management theories provides business leaders at all levels, in any industry or profession, a solid resource for practicing their work.
This book is not only an invaluable resource for those new to performance management but provides guidance, wisdom, support, and insight to all industry leaders and managers. Cokins has organized and simplified the many complex performance management theories, associated tools, and infrastructure for the reader.
Buy it, read it, and give it to your colleagues—then celebrate your successes!"
—Sue Swertfeger, Senior Manager, Owens & Minor
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Customer Processes in Business-to-Business Service Tansactions
By Frauendorf; Janine


Publisher: duv
Number Of Pages: 300
Publication Date: 2006-11-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3835006010
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783835006010
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

Services cannot be produced without the participation of the customer. The customer's impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of the service process management. Due to this fact, customer processes need to be taken more into account. Janine Frauendorf analyzes how customer processes can be used to optimize the overall service process.

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The Elements Of Small Business: A Lay Person's Guide To The Financial Terms, Marketing Concepts and Legal Forms that Every Entrepreneur Needs (Taking Control)
By John Thaler


Publisher: Silver Lake Publishing
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2005-02-28
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1563437848
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781563437847
Binding: Paperback


Book Description:

Another in the Silver Lake Publishers small business series: an essential resource for starting a business today--after the lessons of the dot.com recession. Most entrepreneurs already know their businesses well and have common sense what they need are fundamental, practical tools for creating successful systems within the business. This book shows them how including: * background discussion of business structures * legal forms for filing necessary paperwork * general advice for how to get started on the right footing * definitions of concepts, markets and market relationships * worksheets, standard letters, sample documents and other tools * a modular system for building the plans and reports that lenders and investors need



Summary: Owner and director of a medical research company
Rating: 4

This is a very comprehensive review of business. Mr. Thaler covered all the important topics and had a great perspective on what entrepreneurs need to know as business owners.

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Research Companion to Working Time And Work Addiction (New Horizons in Management)
By Ronald J. Burke


Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 366
Publication Date: 2007-01-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1845424085
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781845424084
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

`Ronald Burke has put together a collection of state-of-the-art research and writing about work hours and work addiction from around the world. This book is essential reading for academics, managers, human resource professionals and anyone else interested in identifying types of work addiction, learning about antecedents and consequences of workaholism, as well as how to help people achieve work-life balance. The contributions from top notch researchers and academics in the field provide a rounded view of how the interplay between career aspirations, work motivation and working conditions contribute to health outcomes and effectiveness at work.' - Astrid M. Richardsen, Norwegian School of Management, Norway



`The Research Companion to Working Time and Work Addiction captures the essence and intricacies of an important and fascinating topic. It explores the body of writing on work-hours that until this book existed quite separately from literature on work addiction. As can be expected from the breadth of his knowledge and the consistent quality of his work, Ronald J Burke has done a terrific job of editing a book that presents work addiction and working time in a way that is both scientifically sound and engaging. The twenty four contributors have done an excellent job of extending and refining our understanding of work addiction and working time in this collection of excellent conceptual and empirical chapters. This book is a must for all scholars and practitioners who are interested in this fascinating aspect of work life.' - Ayala Malach-Pines, Ben-Gurion University, Israel



`This is an excellent and unique book which not only addresses the detrimental effects of long working hours and work addiction, but also investigates the causes and treatment of workaholism. An outstanding volume which includes both conceptual and empirical chapters from distinguished academics and practitioners from several countries. This is essential reading for all those interested in health and well-being in the workplace and the establishment of satisfactory home and work-life balances. The editor should be congratulated for this groundbreaking book.' - Marilyn J. Davidson, University of Manchester, UK



`This book is overdue. Someone, somewhere, a long time ago, should have put this book together, because its value is incalculable. The pace of change in the workplace has vastly increased, and workers see their jobs as more complex and fragmented. What is the prognosis? Where is it all going? What can be done about it? If anything? This book is more a "handbook" than a research companion, on all those aspects of the workplace that touch on or represent change, pace, workload, work addiction, work-life balance, job satisfaction, job involvement, stress, conflict, values, Type A behaviour and other personality disorders. What's more, it delves into some of the more unknown elements of these aspects of work, in different countries. Read it. You'll not be disappointed.' - Janice Langan-Fox, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia



`This is a timely and needed book for all professionals who have concerns about issues related to quality of life and well-being. This book is an original piece prepared by a team of international experts, written in an informative and scholarly manner, and presents in an effective form the accumulated wealth of knowledge on the theme. This is a solid book that can satisfy both the academic readership and the professional community. I truly and sincerely recommend it. It is a must for people who are interested in this subject.' - Simon Dolan, ESADE Business School, Spain



This Research Companion examines the effects of work hours on individual and family well-being and questions why people work hard and whether some can work too hard. It integrates contributions from two areas of research - work hours and work addiction - that have historically been pursued separately.



Ronald Burke argues that while work hours have decreased for blue-collar workers, they have increased for professionals and managers, particularly in developed countries. He reveals that some employees need to work long hours while others do so willingly: people work long hours to meet individual needs and due to societal incentives such as materialism and consumerism. The book concludes that working long hours is only part of the story; why one works long hours and how one works these long hours emerge as powerful factors in determining the link between hours worked and well-being. The volume also includes recommendations for addressing a long hours culture at individual, family, organizational, community and societal levels.
Academics, students, researchers and policymakers with an interest in human resource management, work hours and work addiction and their effects will find this highly original Companion to be a fascinating read

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Visualización creativa: cómo usar la imaginación para producir cambios positivos
By Shakti Gawain


Publisher: New World Library
Number Of Pages: 198
Publication Date: 1995-09-18
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1880032694
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781880032695
Binding: Paperback


Summary: Para conseguir todo lo que quieras
Rating: 5

Este libro es un "must". Es una guía para conocer el potencial de nuestra mente, y para enterarnos de una vez sobre el mayor tesoro que llevamos dentro: la posibilidad de crear realidades futuras mediante nuestro pensamiento. Todo está explicado de forma sencilla, muy amena: es el tipo de libro que no puedes "soltar". Se lo recomiendo a todas aquellas personas que quieren ver sus sueños cumplidos. ¡Mucha suerte!

A Quest for a General Theory of Leadership (New Horizons in Leadership Studies)
By George R. Goethals, Georgia Jones Sorenson


Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 250
Publication Date: 2006-12-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1845425413
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781845425418
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

In this compelling book, top scholars from diverse fields describe the progress they have made in developing a general theory of leadership. Led by James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the classic Leadership (1978), they tell the story of this intellectual venture and the conclusions and questions that arose from it.



The early chapters describe how, in order to discuss an integrative theory, the group first wrestled with the nature of theory as well as basic aspects of the human condition that make leadership necessary and possible. They then tackle topics such as: the many faces of power woven into the leadership fabric; crucial elements of group dynamics and the leader-follower relationship; ethical issues lying at the heart of leadership; constructivist perspectives on leadership, causality, and social change; and the historical and cultural contexts that influence and are influenced by leadership. The book concludes with a commentary by Joanne Ciulla and an Afterword by James MacGregor Burns.



The contributors' thorough coverage of leadership, as well as their approach to this unique undertaking, will be of great interest to leaders, students and scholars of leadership.

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Managing Complexity And Change in SMEs: Frontiers in European Research
By Poul Rind Christensen, Flemming Poulfelt


Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages: 266
Publication Date: 2006-12-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1845429087
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781845429089
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

The process of founding new enterprises and making them grow and prosper is a far more convoluted undertaking than it was just a few decades ago. This book explores the complexity faced by today's entrepreneurs. Institutional boundaries, evolutionary perspectives and the intricacies of management are the central themes in this study of entrepreneurs and SMEs in a world marked by major transitions.



While mainstream research enhances our understanding of the dynamics of the entrepreneurial process, this book progresses the research yet further. It examines another fundamental role of research in entrepreneurship: our understanding of future organizational and managerial forms evolving from the globalization process. Issues addressed include:



* growth patterns among enterprises initiated by science-and-technology-based entrepreneurs * the actions and motives driving radical entrepreneurs * the role of experience versus formal education in entrepreneurship * the role of endogenous growth processes * managerial complexity in new knowledge-based enterprises * the role of collaboration for innovation in new business ventures.



The contributors aim to further encourage dialogue and reflections triggered by the growing emphasis on entrepreneurship in policy agendas and business communities all over Europe. As such, this book will prove stimulating reading for researchers, students, academics, consultants and advisers involved in entrepreneurship, business and management.

Human Resources Management Guide for Information Technology Companies
by Sylvie Gagnon, Marian Lavoie (TECHNO Compétences)
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The Fifth Discipline
by Peter M. Senge

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Publisher: Currency
Number Of Pages: 424
Publication Date: 2006-10-01
Sales Rank: 30809
ISBN / ASIN: 0385260954
EAN: 9780385260954
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Currency
Studio: Currency
Average Rating: 4
Total Reviews: 80




Amazon.com:

Peter Senge, founder of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT's Sloan School of Management, experienced an epiphany while meditating one morning back in the fall of 1987. That was the day he first saw the possibilities of a "learning organization" that used "systems thinking" as the primary tenet of a revolutionary management philosophy. He advanced the concept into this primer, originally released in 1990, written for those interested in integrating his philosophy into their corporate culture.

The Fifth Discipline has turned many readers into true believers; it remains the ideal introduction to Senge's carefully integrated corporate framework, which is structured around "personal mastery," "mental models," "shared vision," and "team learning." Using ideas that originate in fields from science to spirituality, Senge explains why the learning organization matters, provides an unvarnished summary of his management principals, offers some basic tools for practicing it, and shows what it's like to operate under this system. The book's concepts remain stimulating and relevant as ever. --Howard Rothman



Book Description:

An MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on building "learning organizations" -- corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only is the learning organization a new source of competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously empowering approach to work, one which promises that, as Archimedes put it, "with a lever long enough... single-handed I can move the world."
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Un-Standardizing Curriculum: Multicultural Teaching in the Standards-based Classroom
by Christine E. Sleeter
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Publisher: Teacher College Press
Number Of Pages: 209
Publication Date: 2005-11-30
Sales Rank: 425989
ISBN / ASIN: 0807746215
EAN: 9780807746219
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Teacher College Press
Studio: Teacher College Press
Average Rating:
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Book Description:

How can teachers learn to teach rich, academically rigorous multicultural curricula under current standardization constraints? In her new book, Christine Sleeter offers a much-needed framework to help teachers take on this challenge. By contrasting key curricular assumptions with those of multicultural education, she reveals the aspects they share as well as the conceptual and political differences between them. Sleeter makes a strong case for what teachers can do to "un-standardize" knowledge in their own classrooms, while working toward high standards of academic achievement.

Features:
* Detailed portraits of activist teachers committed to multicultural education, including the constraints and challenges they face.
* Guidance for teachers who want to develop their classroom practice, illustrating the possibilities and spaces teachers have within a standardized curriculum.
* A field-tested conceptual framework that elaborates on the following elements of curriculum design: ideology, enduring ideas, democratized assessment, transformative intellectual knowledge, students and their communities, intellectual challenge, and curriculum resources.

Sharing Knowledge: A Guide to Effective Scientific Communication
By Julian Cribb, Sari Hartomo


Publisher: Csiro
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: 2002-08
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 064306799X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780643067998
Binding: Paperback

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The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization [Audio Book]
by John C. Maxwell


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Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date: 2006-01-10
Sales Rank: 17918
ISBN / ASIN: 0785260935
EAN: 9780785260936
Binding: Audio CD
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
Studio: Thomas Nelson
Average Rating: 4
Total Reviews: 33




Book Description:



In his nearly thirty years of teaching leadership, John Maxwell has encountered this question again and again: How do I apply leadership principles if I'm not the boss? It's a valid question that Maxwell answers in The 360 Degree Leader voted best business book of the year by Soundview Executive Book Summary subscribers, and 2006 recipient of their Harold Longman Award. In this award-winning book, Maxwell asserts that you don't have to be the main leader to make significant impact in your organization. Good leaders are not only capable of leading their followers but are also adept at leading their superiors and their peers. Debunking myths and shedding light on the challenges, John Maxwell offers specific principles for Leading Down, Leading Up, and Leading Across. 360-Degree Leaders can lead effectively, regardless of their position in an organization. By applying Maxwell's principles, you will expand your influence and ultimately be a more valuable team member.

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The Hedge Fund Compliance and Risk Management Guide (Wiley Finance)
By Armelle Guizot


Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2006-11-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470043571
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470043578
Binding: Hardcover


Book Description:

The Hedge Fund Compliance and Risk Management Guide provides you with a broad examination of the most important compliance and risk management issues associated with today’s hedge funds. Straightforward and accessible, this invaluable resource covers everything from how hedge funds continue to generate lucrative returns to why some use sophisticated instruments and financial engineering to get around fundamental regulatory laws.



Summary: The publisher has some explaining to do
Rating: 1

I don't own the book. But I just received the latest issue of GARP Risk Review which features an article by the esteemed Aaron Brown (he has an Amazon weblog). Before you dare spend $95 on the book, please read his review. In a generous act of professionalism, he offers a detailed critique that ends with "If Wiley can get away with this in risk management, we are not a profession." The problem is not that the book is bad or that it does not reflect its title, not even that it has not been edited. Rather, Brown itemizes why the book's contents are largely "downloaded from the internet or taken from unpublished papers that are of little or no relevance to the topic." In short, the author and the publisher need to explain themselves and issue refunds to buyers. I read a lot of hedge fund books for work and this is not an isolated case: some publishers pick hot topics in finance (hedge funds, credit derivatives), where the price points are really high (you have $125/$150 books in this category), then they rush "products" to market where much of the content is simply copied from previous sources.

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Small Business in Paradise: Working for Yourself in a Place You Love
By Michael Molinski


Publisher: NOLO
Number Of Pages: 241
Publication Date: 2007-10-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1413307434
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781413307436
Binding: Paperback


Book Description:

Ready to go into business in a place you love? Take the first step -- get Small Business in Paradise!

We've all daydreamed of working and living where our hearts belong. Often, these thoughts remain fantasies - after all, how do you get started, and how do you succeed? Find answers to these questions and more in Small Business in Paradise.

It's inspirational: Read in-depth profiles of and interviews with entrepreneurs who took the leap and built successful businesses in the places they dreamed of calling home.

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launch a new businessresearch your marketbuild a seasonal businesshire the right peopleadvertise and promote your businesscomply with local regulationsget involved in your community Plus, Small Business in Paradise provides checklists and resources that will help you stay on track while pursuing your ambitions.

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Secrets to Success in Industry Careers: Essential Skills for Science and Business
By L. Borbye


Publisher: Academic Press
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2007-11-08
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0123738695
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780123738691
Binding: Paperback


Book Description:

Secrets to Success in Industry Careers introduces you to the differences between what is needed in school and what is needed in industry. It describes the entire process of obtaining a job including analysis of a job description, writing an application, preparation for an interview, and conduct during and after an interview. Most importantly, this book is the ideal industry-insider guide because it provides you with skills and understanding essential for success on the job. Fictional anecdotes make it easy to understand application of these skills, summarized at the end of each chapter and supported by self guided assessment questionnaires. This is the ideal guide on how to succeed for anyone seeking a job or already employed in both industry and academic environments.

·Self-assessment tools are included to help identify strengths and opportunities for growth
· Includes chapters on understanding business goals, leadership and teamwork, communication skills, marketing, discipline, flexibility, innovation, intellectual property, special technologies, quality, ethics, globalization, ambiguity, expectation and career management
· Author has developed highly successful industry-relevant training for students and new employees and has experience from both industry and academic environments
· Contains a compilation of essential technical and managerial skills necessary for success in industry, including chapters on expectation management and career management
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Awake, Arise
by Sri Swami Jyotirmayananda

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Heirpower! 8 Basic Habits of Exceptionally Powerful Lieutenants
by Bob Vasquez

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