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The man once named one of America's ten "toughest" CEOs by Fortune magazine offers current and future leaders practical advice on how to make their companies and organizations more effective.
Throughout his distinguished career—as a naval aviator, a U.S. Congressman, a top aide to four American presidents, a high-level diplomat, a CEO of two Fortune 500 companies, and the only twice-serving Secretary of Defense in American
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The third edition of this classic is a must-have text for the human resource development (HRD) profession. It has with brand-new material on the impact of technology, globalization, and emerging business trends on HRD practice.
Human Resource Development is a large field of practice but a relatively young academic discipline. For the last two decades, Foundations of Human Resource Development has fulfilled the field's need for a complete and thoughtful...
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Social Sustainability HANDBOOK for Community-Builders clearly describes the two sub-divisions of sustainability. Material sustainability is quantity-object based. Social Sustainability.is quality-value based. Material sustainability is, improved by increasing the quantity available while decreasing usage, reusing, recycling and re-purposing material resources. Social sustainability is, improved by improving the individual's ability to participate...
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Communicate Personally: "…a powerful survey that displays how systematic personal communication can foster growth, change, and dialogues that promote organizational and community trust…" (D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review) Connecting these seven thought-provoking essays, written over three decades, is a common aim for communication to optimize results - whether to teach oral communication, strengthen democracy, grow organizational...
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Scott E. Page is the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan. His books include The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (Princeton).
How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think
What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right...
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The must-read summary of Vijay Mahajan and Kamini Banga's book: "The 86% Solution: How to Succeed in the Biggest Market Opportunity of the 21st Century".
This complete summary of the ideas from Vijay Mahajan and Kamini Banga's book "The 86% Solution" shows that most global businesses have traditionally focused on selling to the developed world which contains the wealthiest 14% of the world's population. However, the biggest marketing opportunity...
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Heather A. Haveman is professor of sociology and business at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Magazines and the Making of America (Princeton).
How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolved
Organizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely...
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