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Big Mind
How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This “bigger mind”—human and machine capabilities working together—has the potential to solve...
Catastrophic Care
How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.
In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from...
Foodopoly
The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
“A meticulously researched tour de force” on politics, big agriculture, and the need to go beyond farmers’ markets to find fixes (Publishers Weekly).
Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported...
Energy and Economic Growth
Why we need a new pathway to prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Access to new sources of energy and their efficient conversion to provide useful work have been key drivers of economic growth since the industrial revolution. Western countries now need to transform their energy systems and move away from the single-minded pursuit of economic growth in order to reduce...
by Juliet Schor
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In this groundbreaking pamphlet, Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, examines how Americans can begin making the shift away from a resource-destructive society to one that values the environment, community, and quality of life above business and profit. She a traces back how after W.W.II,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
This 1500 page ebook reproduces Federal Reserve reports about the condition of the American economy from January 2007 through June 2011, including the economic crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession. These authoritative and widely-quoted reports, commonly known as the Beige Book, are published eight...
Community Economic Development in the United States
The CDFI Industry and America’s Distressed Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
This is the first scholarly analysis that examines the development and achievements of the American community development movement. Community development is now a multi-billion industry in the US. Hundreds of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), located in all regions of the country,...
Managing the Next Generation of Public Workers
A Public Solutions Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Managing the Next Generation of Public Workers is a fresh and energetic look at the changing climate of diversity in the public and nonprofit workplace.
The workforce of the twenty-first century represents unparalleled complexity: Baby Boomers, GenX, GenY, and Millennials. Although that diversity...
Digital DNA
Disruption and the Challenges for Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Innovation in information and production technologies is creating benefits and disruption, profoundly altering how firms and markets perform. Digital DNA provides an in depth examination of the opportunities and challenges in the fast-changing global economy and lays out strategies that countries...
Taking the Right Road to Inclusive Growth
Industrial Upgrading and Diversification in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This report discusses key policy challenges that need to be addressed if the Philippines were to embark on sustainable and inclusive growth. We take the view that the main reason behind the Philippines' lagging growth and development outcomes in the regional context lies in a sluggish transformation...
Public Service Efficiency
Reframing the Debate
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. Focused on the costs of service delivery, governments across the world have introduced a series of business like practices – from performance management to...
by Adrian Smith, Mariano Fressoli, Dinesh Abrol
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been innovating grassroots solutions for social justice...
Results-Based Public Sector Management
A Rapid Assessment Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This guide highlights the key features for a results-based public sector management system, and is a principle-based approach to identifying capacity development needs. The guide also shows how results-based public sector management assessments can be integrated into the business processes of the Asian Development Bank.
Spin
The Art of Managing the Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
So you want to raise your media profile? Or you have to deal with journalists during a crisis? Written by two experienced political communicators, this short, punchy and irreverent book reveals spin-doctor secrets for managing the media in an ethical way. Many people will have to encounter the media...