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Author Sandra Janoff , Marvin Weisbord
Future Search is among the best-established and most effective methods for enabling people to make and implement ambitious plans. It has been used to redesign IKEA's product pipeline in Sweden, develop an integrated economic development plan in Northern Irelan....
Release Date 2010/10 -
The Triple Focus: A New Approach to Education
Author Peter Senge , Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman and Peter Senge provide educators with a rationale for incorporating three core skill sets in the classroom—understanding self, other, and the larger systems within which we operate—and show why these competencies are needed to help students navigate ....
Release Date 2014/07 -
Author Michael Jarrett
Are you falling behind your competitors? Are you too slow getting your products to market? Are your overheads too high? These are just some of the challenges that companies face. However, initiating successful change strategies is far from easy. 70% of all change programmes fail. This book shows how....
Release Date 2010/04 -
The Freelance Consultant: Your comprehensive guide to starting an independent business
Author Richard Newton
Freelance consulting, coaching, IT contracting and other self-employed professional roles are fast becoming the preferred way to find fulfilling work, generate a great income, and futureproof careers, whilst giving all the benefits and freedoms of being your own boss – but few know how to make it re....
Release Date 2021/04 -
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 -
Corporate Innovation Strategies
Author Nacer Gasmi
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is simply the maximization of a company's value over time, undertaken because, in the long run, social and environmental problems ultimately become financial problems. The justification for CSR is therefore associated with representing the nature and role....
Release Date 2021/03 -
Safeguarding Cultural Properties
Safeguarding Cultural Properties is a step-by-step guide for creating and maintaining a comprehensive security program in any cultural facility or public institution. Author Stevan P. Layne, the leading expert in the field of cultural property protection, draws from his many years of experience prov.... -
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 -
Author Greg Orme
The world is spinning so fast it’s difficult to keep up. Two hundred and fifty years ago the Industrial Revolution replaced our arms and legs at work. The fourth Industrial Revolution is now replacing our brains.This technological shift is engulfing organisations and people. It’s challenging the ver....
Release Date 2019/11 -
IT Project Management: A Geek's Guide to Leadership
Author Byron A. Love
This book’s author, Byron Love, admits proudly to being an IT geek. However, he had found that being an IT geek was limiting his career path and his effectiveness. During a career of more than 31 years, he has made the transition from geek to geek leader. He hopes this book helps other geeks do the ....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Norhayati Zakaria
Global virtual teams (GVTs) have evolved as a common work structure in multinational corporations due to their efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The cultural differences can produce great benefits in terms of perspective, creativity, and innovation, but can also exacerbate interpersonal tensio....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Author Elizabeth Harrin
Project managers need to work well with others, especially as projects usually involve people whose day jobs have little in common. This ebook will assist with techniques to instruct, motivate, coach and cajole the team members. This is one section of the book "Shortcuts to Success".
Release Date 2013/09 -
Author Dimitri Uzunidis
INNOVATION IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY SET Coordinated by Dimitri UzunidisSystemic innovation is based on business networks and new business models in a global economy integrated by flows of knowledge, capital, and goods. The authors of this book consider the theory that innovations act as systems....
Release Date 2020/11 -
Do You Know What Really Drives Your Business's Performance?
Author Rhian Silvestro
Managerial decisions are based on assumptions about the relationships between different aspects of performance. Investments in employees, for example, are often predicated on the assumption that well-rewarded and engaged employees deliver higher levels of service, ....
Release Date 2016/07 -
The Management Consultant, 2nd Edition
Author Richard Newton
Richard Newton is an author and business adviser. He worked for the management consultancy practices of Cooper & Lybrand, Ernst & Young, and A.T Kearney, and continues to provide consultancy through his own company, Enixus. Richard has worked with many professional services firms on major pr....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Digital Performer™ 6 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide
Author Don Barrett
Digital Performer is one of the leading digital audio workstation programs for the Mac. It allows you to sequence MIDI, record multiple channels of audio, mix them down, synch them to video, and utilize plug-in software synthesizers and software studios. Digital Per....
Release Date 2009/04 -
Progress in Filtration and Separation
Progress in Filtration and Separation contains reference content on fundamentals, core principles, technologies, processes, and applications. It gives detailed coverage of the latest technologies and research, models, applications and standards, practical implementations, case studies, best practice.... -
Problem-solving in High Performance Computing
Problem-Solving in High Performance Computing: A Situational Awareness Approach with Linux focuses on understanding giant computing grids as cohesive systems. Unlike other titles on general problem-solving or system administration, this book offers a cohesive approach to complex, layered environment.... -
Finding Your Ethical Research Self
Author Martin Tolich , Emma Tumilty
Finding Your Ethical Research Self introduces novice researchers to the need for ethical reflection in practice and gives them the confidence to use their knowledge and skill when, later as researchers, they are confronted by big ethical moments in the field. The 12 chapters build on each other,....
Release Date 2021/03 -
The Art of Compassionate Business
Author Bruno R. Cignacco
There are several well-ingrained assumptions regarding the dynamics of work and business activities, which can be refuted. Some examples of these widespread assumptions in the business and work environments are: employees being viewed as commodities, competitors perceived as threats, companies’ reso....
Release Date 2019/02 -
Bookkeeping for Dummies, 3rd Edition
Take the stress out of bookkeeping with this bestselling guide! Warren Buffet has called accounting ‘the language of business’ – the less well you speak it, the less likely you are to succeed. But there’s no need to be intimidated: Bookkeeping for Dummies, 3rd.... -
We Are All Leaders: Leadership is not a position, it's a mindset
Author Fredrik Arnander
Leadership is not just for the execs in the corner office. It's time we all stepped up and developed the mind of a leader. In a time of rapid technological change and economic uncertainty, businesses that thrive will do so through empowering employees at all levels....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Ambition: Why It's Good to Want More and How to Get It
Author Rachel Bridge
Be bold. Be brave. Embrace your ambition.Ever have that nagging feeling that you are better than the sum of your current achievements? Do you have a secret desire to be achieving much more, to change the world or to reach the top of your game?Then it is time to use....
Release Date 2016/03 -
The Starfish Files: One Leader's Account of Insight & Inspiration Under Duress
Author Alexander Hiam
Have you ever wished you could only somehow get your people to tackle their work with a more positive attitude, a little more initiative, a shared feeling of ownership, and personal responsibility for their success? Here is a one-of-a-kind book that will inspire lea....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Succeeding at Business in Southeast Asia
Succeeding at Business in Southeast Asia walks readers through the steps necessary to build and execute a market entry strategy into Southeast Asia, similar to what Eric Moraczewski did with his clients at FDI Strategies. Step by step, readers will learn about the top five pitfalls as well as c....