Review imprint: 1779 books
Redefining Health Care
Creating Value-based Competition on Results
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums-not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets.
In Redefining Health Care, internationally...
The Corporate Lattice
Achieving High Performance In the Changing World of Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
With roots planted firmly in the industrial age, the corporate ladder has been the metaphor used to describe the prevailing one-size-fits-all model for success. At its heart, the ladder is derived from inflexible, hierarchical, organization models in which prestige, individual rewards, information...
Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx's Law of Value
Monopoly Capital and Marx's Law of Value
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Unlike such obvious forms of oppression as feudalism or slavery, capitalism has been able to survive through its genius for disguising corporate profit imperatives as opportunities for individual human equality and advancement. But it was the genius of Karl Marx, in his masterwork, Capital, to discover...
Strategic Alliances
Three Ways to Make Them Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
As a top executive, you've almost certainly forged strategic alliances with other companies. Some of these deals have worked--but many others have likely failed. In fact, companies worldwide launch more than two thousand strategic alliances every year, and more than half never deliver as promised.
In...
Smart Choices
A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Where should I live? Is it time to get a new job? Which job candidate should I hire? What business strategy should I pursue?
We spend the majority of our lives making decisions, both big and small. Yet, even though our success is largely determined by the choices that we make, very few of us...
Reinventing the CFO
How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles And Add Greater Value
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2006
On the heels of a decade of scandals and the new pressures brought on by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporations expect far more from their CFOs than simply managing the numbers. They expect decision-making support and performance insights that can improve bottom-line results. Unfortunately, the complexity...
Can You Hear Me?
How to Connect with People in a Virtual World
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Communicating virtually is cool--but it's often a bad connection. Communication expert Nick Morgan explains what's lost in virtual communication, how to guard against its risks, and how to ensure that the human richness of our messages gets through.
Clearly outlines the problem and what's lost...
Sleeping with Your Smartphone
How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Does it have to be this way?
Can’t resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? Sure, all this connectivity keeps you in touch with your team and the office-but at what cost?
In Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow reveals how you can...
Oracles
How Prediction Markets Turn Employees into Visionaries
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Why Prediction Markets Are Good for Business
From selecting the lead actress in a Broadway musical, to predicting a crucial delay in the delivery of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner months before the CEO knew about it, to accurately forecasting US presidential elections-prediction markets have realized...
by Istvan Meszaros
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
In this collection of trenchant essays and interviews, István Mészáros, the world’s preeminent Marxist philosopher and winner of the 2008 Libertador Award for Critical Thought (the Bolivar Prize), lays bare the exploitative structure of modern capitalism. He argues with great...
Great Again
Revitalizing America's Entrepreneurial Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
The innovation engine that powered the U.S. economy to unmatched prosperity over the last century is now failing, threatening the way we work and live. As the nation spins its wheels--reeling from the job losses of the recession and seemingly unable to generate the breakthroughs needed to propel alternative...
by Peter Custers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The global impact of Asian production of the wage goods consumed in North America and Europe is only now being recognized, and is far from being understood. Asian women, most only recently urbanized and in the waged work force, are at the center of a process of intensive labor for minimal wages that...
Doable Renewables
16 Alternative Energy Projects for Young Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Kids will learn valuable hands-on lessons from this guide by constructing working models that generate renewable, alternative energy. Budding scientists learn how to build their own Kelvin water-drop generator out of six recycled cans and alligator-clip jumpers; a solar-powered seesaw from a large...
by Ed Sobey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Illustrating how a fire alarm detects smoke and what the plasma” is in a plasma screen television, this fascinating handbook explains how everyday household devices function and operate. More than 180 different household technologies are covered, including gadgets unique to apartment buildings...