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Organizational Cultures of Remembrance
Author Daniel Mai
In a business world predominantly oriented toward the future, it has paradoxically become ever more common that companies turn towards their pasts. This book empirically explores the phenomenon of organizational remembrance from a holistic cultural perspective. Bas....
Release Date 2015/05 -
The XYZ Factor: The DoSomething.org Guide to Creating a Culture of Impact
Author Alyssa Ruderman , Nancy Lublin
The XYZ Factor isn’t a place or a company or an age. It’s a new kind of culture where innovation, accessibility, and transparency are the norm. It’s an environment created on the principles of the Millennial generation to foster intergen....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Author Olga Mizrahi
Sell Local, Think Global is a must-read in today’s business environment. Dan Tepke, President of Satori Inc. and author of Hatching Your Million Dollar Business - Have too much on your plate? Not sure how to compete? In 50 fascinating bite-sized tips, Sell Local, Th....
Release Date 2014/11 -
Author S. Chris Edmonds
An organizational "North Star," codifying valued behaviors for optimal performanceThe Culture Engine shows leaders how to create a high performing, values aligned culture through the creation of an organizational constitution. With practical step-by-step guidance, ....
Release Date 2014/09 -
Business Express: Embracing diversity within your team
Author Douglas Miller
If you need to be in the know in no time at all, Business Express will get you from beginner to brilliant in the blink of an eye. This fast, focused and carefully crafted eBook will help you pick up all the essential knowledge you need about the skills that matter m....
Release Date 2014/09 -
The Handbook of Global Health Policy
Author Garrett W. Brown , Gavin Yamey , Sarah Wamala
The Handbook of Global Health Policy provides a definitive source of the key areas in the field. It examines the ethical and practical dimensions of new and current policy models and their effect on the future development of global health and policy.Maps out key deb....
Release Date 2014/06 -
Culture and Trust in Technology-Driven Organizations
Author Frances Alston
Culture and Trust in Technology-Driven Organizations provides insight into the important role that culture and trust can play in the success of high-technology organizations. This book reviews the literature and results of an empirical study that investigated the re....
Release Date 2013/12 -
Author Mike Barlow
Technology does not exist in a vacuum. In the same way that a plant needs water and nourishment to grow, technology needs people and process to thrive and succeed. Culture (i.e., people and process) is integral and critical to the success of any new technology deplo....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Creating a Software Engineering Culture
Author Karl E. Wiegers
This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 1996).Written in a remarkably clear style, Creating a Software Engineering Culture presents a comprehensive approach to improving the quality and effectiveness of the software development process.In twenty....
Release Date 2013/07 -
Run Your Business, Don't Let It Run You
Author Clay Mathile
No More 16-Hour Days! Running your own business—the American dream—can be daunting: long days, none of the freedom you envisioned, no time for family and friends, and the unrelenting pressure to keep up the pace. Worse, all this hard work can only take you so far. T....
Release Date 2013/07 -
Author Ken Dancyger
Global Scriptwriting offers a look at an exciting new phase in screen storytelling, as writers and directors from all over the world infuse traditional forms with their own cultural values to create stories that have an international appeal and suggest a univ....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Violence and War in Culture and the Media
Author Athina Karatzogianni
This edited volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to violence and war and its implications for media, culture and society. Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of books, films and art on the subject of violence and war. Howeve....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Jan Groak
Canon Vs. Culture explores the consequences of one of the main educational shifts of the last quarter century-- the changes from academic inquiry conducted through a selected list of accepted authorities to an investigation of the cultural operations of an entire so....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Philip Delves-Broughton
How did Bill Clinton get his party to take him seriously again after the sex scandal story broke?Who was the manager behind Edmund Hillary’s ascent of Mount Everest? Why could taking a nap after lunch be your route to a more productive day?This engaging and entertaining book takes a fresh, honest ap....
Release Date 2013/03 -
Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures without Losing Yourself in the Process
Author Andy Molinsky
“I wrote this book because I believe that there is a serious gap in what has been written and communicated about cross-cultural management and what people actually struggle with on the ground.”—From the IntroductionWhat does it mean to be a global worker and a true ....
Release Date 2013/03 -
An Introduction to Design and Culture, 3rd Edition
Author Penny Sparke
This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design.New for this edition is a chapter which covers key changes in design culture. Design....
Release Date 2013/02 -
The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections
Author Ruediger Wischenbart
The Global eBook Report documents and analyses how ebook markets emerge in the US, UK, continental Europe, Brazil, China, India, Russia, and the Arab world. It combines the best available data and references to specialized local actors, with thematic chapters, focus....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Author Harsh Pathak
Business is changing at a break-neck speed, so managers must be increasingly active in reorganizing their firms to gain a competitive edge. This textbook provides a discussion of change in relation to the complexities of organizational life, offering comprehensive ....
Release Date 2012/12 -
Beating the Global Odds: Successful Decision-making in a Confused and Troubled World
Author Mukesh Ambani , Paul A. Laudicina
The Answer to Global OverloadContending with the 24/7 news cycle and an endless barrage of choices and information has stymied leadership and decision-making strategies among those at the top. But we all know, this is not a just a problem for the elite. The broad-ba....
Release Date 2012/10 -
Culture Shock: A Handbook For 21st Century Business
Author Will McInnes
'Will McInnes has nailed it. Inspiring and comprehensive, Culture Shock is aspirational future thinking with its feet firmly on the ground'Jemima Kiss, Digital Media correspondent, The GuardianJoin the work-place revolutionThere's a revolution afoot . . . don't ....
Release Date 2012/10 -
Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations: Aligning Culture and Strategy
Author Colleen Lief , Nancy Lane , Robert Hooijberg , Daniel Denison
Filled with case studies from firms such as GT Automotive, GE Healthcare China, Vale, Dominos, Swiss Re Americas Division, and Polar Bank, among others, this book (written by Dan Denison and his co-authors) combines twenty years of research and survey results to ill....
Release Date 2012/06 -
Being Global: How to Think, Act, and Lead in a Transformed World
Author Gregory Unruh , Ángel Cabrera
What does it take to lead a global business?What makes being a global business leader today such a complex task? It’s more than mastering your knowledge of various geographies and cultures, though that is essential. But to succeed, you must also master the complex m....
Release Date 2012/04 -
Author Brad Hams
It’s an insidious disease that is crippling companies, destroying our economy, and crushing potential. It’s infecting the very roots of business performance, and it’s spreading fast. It isn’t the recession, market volatility, scandal, or greed.It’s entitlement.And i....
Release Date 2011/08 -
The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance
Author James Heskett
The contribution of culture to organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. In The Culture Cycle, renowned thought leader James Heskett demonstrates how an effective culture can account for 20-30% of the differential in performance compared with "cult....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Susan E. REED
Are we better off today than we were 50 years ago? Nearly 50 years after the Civil Rights Movement, there is a new crisis of opportunity in corporate America. Based on the author’s groundbreaking study of Fortune 100 companies, The Diversity Index identifies a....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Biao Xiang
How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the mo....
Release Date 2011/05 -
Rethinking Value Investing for a Global Age
Author Jeffrey Towson
This Element is an excerpt from What Would Ben Graham Do Now?: A New Value Investing Playbook for a Global Age (9780132173230) by Jeffrey Towson. Available in print and digital formats.How to adapt Ben Graham’s powerful value investing approach for the realities of ....
Release Date 2011/04 -
Culture Savvy: Working and Collaborating Across the Globe
Author Maureen Rabotin
Becoming Culture Savvy is the ability to perceive cultural differences, worldviews, and cultural values within an expanded framework - four guiding principles of human interaction. Leaving behind the dualistic dimensions and linear, national approach to cultural ori....
Release Date 2011/02 -
Love Your Emotions—But Don’t Trade Them
Author David Gaffen
This Element is an excerpt from Never Buy Another Stock Again: The Investing Portfolio That Will Preserve Your Wealth and Your Sanity (9780137071555) by David Gaffen. Available in print and digital formats.How to control the emotions and cognitive dissonance that ge....
Release Date 2010/12 -
The Top 10 Distinctions Between Winners and Whiners
Author Keith Cameron Smith
Be a winner in your personal and professional life with this pull-no-punches guideLet's face it: to become a winner in the face of unpredictable times requires hard work and a determined mindset. Winners choose to be winners. Whiners let others control their fate. ....
Release Date 2010/12