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by C. J. Cloutier
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." ~Albert Einstein THE CONSCIOUSNESS QUOTIENT (CQ) presents a breakthrough approach to understanding leadership. Drawing on Eastern and Western philosophy, science, and spirituality, C. J. Cloutier develops an intriguing hypothesis...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This volume addresses how we can find happiness and well-being in the material world. It builds on previous works that find that materialism is associated with lowered well-being (materialists are less happy) and that consumerism, in all its profusion, is harmful to environmental well-being. How can...
Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society
Unpredictable Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
We are living in the age of imagination and communication. This book, about the new ways time is experienced and organised in post-industrial workplaces, argues that the key feature of working time within knowledge, and other workplaces, is unpredictability, creating a culture that seeks to insert acceptance of unpredictability as a new 'standard'.
Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society
Properties of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Analyzing the relationship between digital technologies and society this book explores a wide range of complex social issues emerging in a new digital space. Itexamines both the vexing dilemmas with a critical eye as well as prompting readers to think constructively and strategically about exciting possibilities.
Leading Change from the Middle
A Practical Guide to Building Extraordinary Capabilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Bookshelves abound with theoretical analyses, how-to guides, and personal success stories by famous corporate leaders, public officials, even athletic coaches, expounding on how to lead from the top. But what about those in the middle who are increasingly tasked with trying to reshape, reorient, or...
Risky Business in China
A Guide to Due Diligence
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Risk is a major reason that companies fail in, or fail to enter, China. Packed with case studies, this unique book demonstrates how correctly applied due diligence can not only reduce business risk in China, but also provide excellent business intelligence to support negotiations and business relationships.
Dynamic Leadership Models for Global Business
Enhancing Digitally Connected Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
As global business systems are becoming ever more complex and they continue to grow and expand, it is increasingly more difficult to stand out as an effective and efficient leader. Dynamic Leadership Models for Global Business: Enhancing Digitally Connected Environments describes various models on...
Simulating Society
A Mathematica®Toolkit for Modeling Socioeconomic Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
An exploration of the basis for social and economic behaviour. Using cellular automata in particular, the authors model various factors that are involved in a system of individuals who interact socially and economically with one another. Computer simulations in the social sciences provide a laboratory...
Private Enterprise-Led Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Human Side of Growth
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Private Enterprise-Led Development in Sub-Saharan Africa provides a novel theoretical and conceptual model to guide research into Africa's economic development. It endorses the view that private enterprise-led growth will help reduce poverty since it strengthens individuals' capacity to care for themselves and their families.
Innovation Networks
Concepts and Challenges in the European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Innovation networks are a major source for acquiring new information and knowledge and thus for supporting innovation processes. Despite the many theoretical and empirical contributions to the explanation of networks, many questions still remain open. For example: How can networks, if they do not...
Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism
Boom and Bust on the Globalized Copperbelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia's experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in history, geography, anthropology, politics, sociology and economics. The authors discuss how aid donors...
Smaller Satellites: Bigger Business?
Concepts, Applications and Markets for Micro/Nanosatellites in a New Information World
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Y. Fujimori, Symposium Programme Committee Chair, and Faculty Member, International Space University e-mail: fujimori@isu.isunet.edu M.Rycroft, Faculty Member, International Space University e-mail: rycroft@isu.isunet.edu N. Crosby, International Space University e-mail: norma@bock-crosby.fsbusines.co.uk...
by Jacob Morgan
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Da uno studioso di fama mondiale di temi del lavoro e delle organizzazioni collaborative, un volume sferzante e iconoclasta. Non discute di prospettive lontane, ma si concentra su quanto può realizzarsi già nei prossimi tre-sei anni. Un’importante bussola per aiutare tanto le persone quanto le...
Facet Theory
Approaches to Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This work has the aim of making facet theory, and the approach to research which derives from it, more accessible to behavioral and social scientists than has been possible in the past. In a first section the book gives the background to the theory and associated methods of analysis, illustrating...