Unless you manage a hook-and-ladder company, your workday shouldn't be spent putting out fires. Yet leaders often spend most of their time running from crisis to crisis.
In his groundbreaking New York Times bestseller Built to Serve, United Supermarkets CEO Dan Sanders showed how putting profi ts before people...
For more than twenty years, Stanley Bing has peerlessly explained corporate culture and strategy with wit and insight. Now he brings us this engaging and instructive book of white-collar fables that have charmed generations of businesspeople since Greece was glorious and Rome was grand, brilliant gems of wisdom flowing from the pen of the...
A hilarious collection of the lowest of the lows – from the worst generals to the dumbest dogs, the shortest Hollywood marriages to the most dangerous golf courses.
The World's Worsts is the latest compendium of quirky information and vamped–up trivia from Pop Culture guru Les Krantz. This entertaining and...
In the last few decades, stem cell research has developed groundbreaking technologies
to both study and treat diseases. This research has proven fruitful for
the field of ophthalmology, especially in recent years. With its relative immune
privilege, the eye has proven an ideal testing ground for stem cell therapies.
Digital State comprises sixteen commentaries that each offers an answer to the question: "What is the digital state?" Simon Pont and his panel of experts set out to examine and assess how technology, society and culture are impacted by the digital revolution and consider its future implications. ...
The volume contains most updated theoretical and empirical research on foreign or second language processes analyzed from the perspective of cognition and affect. It consists of articles devoted to various issued related to such broad topics as gender, literacy, translation or culture, to mention a few. The collection of papers offers a...
A unique perspective of an evolved role for company leadership
Based on the findings of an extensive research project that surveyed more than 5,500 enterprise employees and functional decision makers across the United States and China, Transforming Business: Big Data, Mobility and Globalization explores the influence...
Mordechai Cogan (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is Professor Emeritus
of Biblical History in the Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. He has written widely on the relationship of Israel
and Judah with the Mesopotamian empires during the first millennium
b.c.e., and history-writing in the ancient...
âFairEconomy is a concept for a free and fair market economy. In response to the financial and economic crises of the past years, the authors develop fundamental ideas of how a market economy works, what rules markets need and who safeguards fairness and equal opportunity in such an economy. The book sets out the...
You may be a one-person band, the only manager in your company, or the manager of other managers in a larger company. Whatever the size of your business, having a strong grounding in the thinking and practices of effective managers and leaders will make you more capable. In this essential guide, you'll learn how to:
The Fabric of Cities presents an interdisciplinary collection of articles on urbanism in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Rome, which focuses on the social dimension of cities' topographical features. The contributions of this book offer investigations of neighbourhoods, city gates, streets, temples and palaces drawing on textual...
"The Furniture from Tumulus MM" is a study of the furniture from the largest tomb at Gordion, Turkey, excavated in 1957 by the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The tomb dates to the eighth century BC and is thought to be the burial of the great Phrygian king Midas or his father. The objects, initially misunderstood, are now...
