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High Commitment High Performance: How to Build A Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage

Jossey-Bass, 2009

"In these economic times this book is more important than ever. A must-read for the leaders of today and tomorrow."

Douglas R. Conant, president and chief executive officer, Campbell Soup Company

Praise for High Commitment, High Performance

"It is seldom that I read a book about leadership and...

The Sexual Economy of War: Discipline and Desire in the U.S. Army (Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History)

Cornell University Library, 2019

In The Sexual Economy of War, Andrew Byers argues that in the early twentieth century, concerns about unregulated sexuality affected every aspect of how the US Army conducted military operations. Far from being an exercise marginal to the institution and its scope of operations, governing sexuality was, in fact, integral to...

The Meltdown Years: The Unfolding of the Global Economic Crisis

McGraw-Hill, 2009

The Meltdown Years offers the most lucid and useful explanation to date about why home values, life savings, job security, and investments around the world are in peril.

Rather than focus on who is to blame, though, author Wolfgang Münchau takes the more practical approach of focusing on...

The Gods that Failed: How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future

Nation Books, 2009

Over the past three decades, governments have ceded economic control to a new elite of free-market operatives and their colleagues in national and international institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. They promised economic stability but have delivered chaos. Their speculation has left the global economy...

iPhone User Interface Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2011

The incredible growth rates for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad have pushed consumers to a new "App" economy, with developers racing to the platform. Mobile touch-centric interfaces vary greatly from traditional computing platforms, and programmers as well as designers must learn to adapt to the new form-factor.

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Less Than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy (Hobart Papers)

Coronet Books Inc, 1997

One of main features of the 'counter-revolution' in economics which has resulted in the revival of classical liberal ideas has been a change in views about government's ability to control the economy. 'Fiscal fine tuning' is virtually discredited and monetary policy is no longer seen as a means of...

HIV & AIDS in Schools: The Political Economy of Pressure Groups & Miseducation (Occasional Paper, 121)

Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001

HIV and Aids teaching is compulsory in British schools but the content is not prescribed. Should teaching in such a difficult field, where there are disputes among experts, be left to secondary school teachers with no specialist knowledge? And is it right that the subject should be compulsory? These awkward issues are confronted in this...

Don't Oil the Squeaky Wheel: And 19 Other Contrarian Ways to Improve Your Leadership Effectiveness

McGraw-Hill, 2004

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. How many of you agree with this statement? This
is what I like to ask my audience members. And guess what, virtually all
hands go up. (I bet you agreed too?) I don’t! Here is why. The number of
leaders and managers I have had the opportunity to work with who know
how to lead people always...

Innovations of Knowledge Management

IRM Press, 2004

The importance of organizational knowledge has been recognized for over
fifty years. In recent years, organizations worldwide have embraced formal
knowledge management initiatives as a way to create value from their intangible
assets. Knowledge has proven so vital to organizational success that a
new organizational form –...

Learning Automata and Stochastic Optimization (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

Springer, 1997

In the last decades there has been a steadily growing need and interest in computational methods for solving optimization problems with or without constraints. They play an important role in many fields (chemistry, mechanic, electrical, economic, etc.). Optimization techniques have been gaining greater acceptance in many industrial applications....

The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

For more than three decades, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)—the largest employee-owned research and technology company in the United States—has achieved unparalleled success in the areas of science, engineering, and technology, all while flying well below the radar of most casual business observers.

As the...

Complexity and Spatial Networks: In Search of Simplicity (Advances in Spatial Science)

Springer, 2009

This book offers a panoramic view of recent advances in spatial complexity, in order to enhance our understanding of complex spatial networks by simplicity in terms of both the basic driving forces of systemic impacts and the modelling of such systems. Simple models mapping out the evolution of complex networks are undoubtedly a key issue in...

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