Cultural Diversity in Organizations provides the most comprehensive base of knowledge yet assembled on the topic of cultural diversity. It captures the enormous complexity of the topic by examining diversity on three levels of analysis-...
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Auteur:Booher, DiannaSommaire:Personal presence is difficult to define but easy to recognize. People with presence carry themselves in a way that turns heads. When they talk, people listen. When they ask, people answer. When they lead, people follow. Personal...
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Auteur:Bobinski, DanSommaire:Can passion be taught? Can it be fostered? The answer is yes. But perhaps more accurately, a team leader must create the right conditions for passion to emerge. Those conditions must be nurtured, not unlike a gardener creating the right...
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Auteur:Horrigan, GeorgeSommaire:Most business owners and leaders have expectations for today, hopes for tomorrow and dreams for down the road for their business. They say to themselves, if this is the business I have and that is the business I want, how do I get from...
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Auteur:Fullenkamp, ConnelSommaire:Professor Connel Fullenkamp of Duke University guides you through four centuries of economic disasters--from tulip mania in the 1600s to the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Each of his 24 lectures covers a notable incident of financial...
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Auteur:Marshak, Robert J., Schein, EdSommaire:Organizational change initiatives often fail because they focus exclusively on the rational, overt aspects of change, overlooking the powerful role played by concealed or irrational factors. It's well known that these covert...
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Auteur:Mooney, Tim, Brinkerhoff, Robert O.Sommaire:Dozens of books have been written about how to do training more effectively, with more impact, and so on. Yet despite all that well-meaning advice, of the $70 billion spent on training in the U. S., only 12 to15 percent actually gets...
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Auteur:Treasurer, Bill, Blakely, SaraSommaire:Courage Goes to Work is for every manager who has ever struggled with how to encourage employees to develop and show more backbone. This book helps managers inspire their workers to move out of their comfort zones and harness their...
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Auteur:Dressler, LarrySommaire:Real organizational change isn't brought about by decree, pressure, permission, or even persuasion. Sustained change comes when people are passionately and personally committed to a future that they have helped to shape. If you...
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Auteur:Sinclair, HughSommaire:Very little solid evidence exists that microloans make a dent in long-term poverty. Sadly, evidence does exist for negligence, corruption, and methods that border on extortion. Part exposé, part memoir, and part financial detective...
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Auteur:Harzog, BeverlySommaire:“Beverly Harzog is a credit warrior. She has gone into the arena, faced the lions, and emerged as one of the foremost experts in the field. I believe that her encyclopedic knowledge of the world of credit cards is unmatched.” —Adam...
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Auteur:Kessler, Robin, Strasburg, Linda A.Sommaire:Millions of job hunters and employers are frustrated. Why aren’t they working together more effectively? Because employers have changed the job-search playing field and too many candidates are using yesterday’s strategies. Do you want...
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Auteur:Kessler, RobinSommaire:Managers working in today’s organizations often focus more on results than on the people who achieve those results. But regularly evaluating the performance of your employees is critical to improving the efficiency and output of your...
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Auteur:Hackman, J. RichardSommaire:Intelligence professionals are commonly viewed as solo operators. But these days intelligence work is mostly about collaboration. Interdisciplinary and even inter-organizational teams are necessary to solve the really hard problems...
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Auteur:Blanchard, Ken, Ripley, Jane, Parisi-Carew, EuniceSommaire:Everyone knows that collaboration creates high performing teams and organizations. Yet it often doesn’t happen because people and groups typically believe that the problem is always outside: the other team member, the other department,...
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Auteur:Holliday, MickiSommaire:This book offers hundreds of practical, easy-to-learn techniques every manager can use to coach employees to become more productive, positive, inspired and effective. Filled with real-world advice and management-changing exercises, this...
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Auteur:Frock, RogerSommaire:From humble beginnings, FedEx has literally revolutionized the way business is conducted. Not too long ago, overnight shipping was barely an option for even the largest companies. Today, thanks to FedEx, it's available to every...
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Auteur:Mohin, Timothy J.Sommaire:The BP oil spill, the 2008 global financial collapse and revelations of scandalous working conditions at Chinese electronics supplier Foxconn show why so many are suspicious of promises of corporate responsibility. But slowly and...
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Auteur:Crother, CyndiSommaire:Seattle locals and tourists alike flock to Pike Place each day to watch the fish fly. But Pike Place Fish (PPF) is about more than just crowd-pleasing entertainment, there is an underlying philosophy at work that has made the market...
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Thirty years after its global triumph, neo-liberalism is an abject failure. While its advocates have succeeded in convincing citizens that no other way is possible, that no left turn can be made without an economic collapse, they have...
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