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Harnessing Complexity
Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2000
Recent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, provide leaders in business and government with a guide to complexity that...
Trust
Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 1996
In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitalism. In Trust, a penetrating assessment of the emerging global economic order "after...
The Educated Child
A Parents Guide From Preschool Through Eighth Grade
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 1999
If you care about the education of a child, you need this book. Comprehensive and easy to use, it will inform, empower, and encourage you.
Just as William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues has helped millions of Americans teach young people about character, The Educated Child delivers what you need...
Ready or Not
Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Th
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
"Children today grow up so fast!" How often we hear those words, uttered both in frustrated good humor and in dumbfounded astonishment. Every day the American people hear about kids doing things, both good and bad, that were once thought to be well beyond their scope: flying airplanes, running companies,...
Blocking the Courthouse Door
How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Thanks to constant political oratory against "frivolous lawsuits" and "jackpot justice," it is widely known that there's a legal crisis in this country. President Bush never misses an opportunity to call for laws that would bring more "common sense" to a legal system that, he claims, is out of control,...
Profiting From Uncertainty
Strategies for Succeeding No Matter What the Future Brings
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
What manager is not anxious about the future? We live in a white-knuckled age of rapid technological change and global instability. But uncertainty is not the enemy, says management expert Paul J. H. Schoemaker. It is where the greatest opportunities are. To unlock these opportunities, however, requires...
The Writing on the Wall
Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
The prevailing view of China is that the country is an economic juggernaut sure to become the dominant power of the twenty-first century. In this provocative and stimulating book critically acclaimed author Will Hutton warns instead that China is running up against a set of daunting challenges from...
by Karen Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
As so-called baby boomers age, there has arisen a new generation to be categorized, characterized, analyzed, stereotyped, written about, targeted, and advertised and sold to. And apparently none of this can happen without first tagging it with a label. The name that seems to have stuck so far is "Generation...
Fat and Mean
The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1996
Since the early 1980s, economic experts have recommended "downsizing" as the best way for U.S. corporations to remain competitive. Reducing unnecessary staff would lower costs, increase profits, and transform these companies into lean, mean production machines. As many American businesses pursued...
The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life
Keep What You Have And Create What You Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
USA Today has called Suze Orman "a force in the world of personal finance." For years, Suze has anticipated what you need to know and want to know about your money. Her books, radio and television shows, columns, and newsletter about personal finance have helped millions of people like you turn their...
Memory Power
You Can Develop A Great Memory--America's Grand Master Shows You How
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Good memory isn’t a gift, it’s a skill you can develop. Memory Power shows you how.
Ever forget where you put your car keys? Or forget a name five seconds after meeting someone? Blank in the middle of a presentation or test? Forgetting is normal but it’s not inevitable. Memory Power provides...
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2001
This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how...
The One Thing You Need to Know
... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2005
Following the success of the landmark bestsellers First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham offers a dramatically new way to understand the art of success.
With over 1.6 million copies of First, Break All the Rules (co-authored with Curt Coffman) and Now,...
by Richard Farson, Ralph Keyes
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2003
Success in today's business economy demands nonstop innovation. But fancy buzzwords, facile lip service, and simplistic formulas are not the answer. Only an entirely new mindset -- a new attitude toward success and failure -- can transform managers' thinking, according to Richard Farson, author of...