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Accounting Principles for Management: An Introductionby Robert E. SeilerISBN 0675092841 (0-675-09284-1)
Hardcover, Merrill
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The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalryby Benjamin Gomes-CasseresISBN 0674016483 (0-674-01648-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry'Book summary:More than we ever anticipated, alliances among firms are changing the way business is conducted, particularly in the global, high-technology sector. The reasons are clear: companies must increasingly pool their capabilities to succeed in ever more complex and rapidly changing businesses. But the consequences for managers and for the economy have so far been underestimated. In this new book, Benjamin Gomes-Casseres presents the first in-depth account of the new world of business alliances and shows how collaboration has become part of the very fabric of modern competition.
Alliances, he argues, create new units of competition that do battle with one another and with traditional single firms. The flexible capabilities of these multi-firm constellations give them advantages over single firms in certain contexts, offsetting the advantage of a single firm's unified control. When managed effectively, alliances can strengthen a firm's competitive advantage and narrow the gap between leading firms and second-tier players. This often results in intensified rivalry, and the competition within an industry is transformed. Alliances often spread swiftly through an industry as firms jockey for advantage. Yet the very spread of alliances increases their costs and poses new limits on their use. Gomes-Casseres concludes that firms need to manage their constellations to enhance collaboration within their groups, while raising what he calls "barriers to collaboration" for rivals.
These ideas are developed and illustrated through original case studies of alliances among U.S., Japanese, and European firms in electronics and computers, including Xerox, IBM, and Fujitsu as well as other small and large companies. The book should be of interest to business academics, managers, and general readers concerned with contemporary capitalism.
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Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Businessby Harold C. LivesayISBN 0673393445 (0-673-39344-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Arco Office Guide to Business Letters, Memos and Reportsby Leonard Rogoff, Grady BallengerISBN 0671896644 (0-671-89664-4)
Softcover, Petersons
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At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profitby Thomas F. O'BoyleISBN 0679421327 (0-679-42132-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Bankersby Martin MayerISBN 0679400109 (0-679-40010-9)
Hardcover, Weybright and Talley
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Battling the IRS: A Taxpayer's Guide to Responding to IRS Notices and Assessmentsby David J. SilvermanISBN 0673463087 (0-673-46308-7)
Softcover, Scott Foresman Trade
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Better Business Writing : A Process Approachby Ken DavisISBN 0675200156 (0-675-20015-6)
Softcover, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Incorporated
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Building Web Services With Java: Making Sense of Xml, Soap, Wsdl, and Uddiby Doug Davis, Simeon Simeonov, Yuichi Nakamura, Glen Daniels, Steve Graham, Stephen GrahamISBN 0672326418 (0-672-32641-8)
Softcover, Sams
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Building Web Services With Java: Making Sense of Xml, Soap, Wsdl, and Uddiby Steve Graham, Simeon SimeonovISBN 0672321815 (0-672-32181-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Business Law: Principles, Cases, and Policyby Mark E. RoszkowskiISBN 0673523985 (0-673-52398-5)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall PTR
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Business Law: Principles, Cases, and Policy'Book summary:Mark Roszkowski illustrates his discussion of complex subjects and legal principles with hypothetical examples and nearly 200 discussions of actual cases. The text explains not only the substance and background of legal rules, but also the rationale and policy behind them. This new edition covers many new topics to reflect changes in the law. Three new "viewpoint essays" at the end of text sections discuss ethical and public-policy issues from the viewpoint of leading scholars; and many new end-of-chapter discussion questions and problems have been added, based primarily on recently decided appellate court cases. [via]
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Business Process Management: Incorporating Internet Strategiesby Roger BurltonISBN 0672320630 (0-672-32063-0)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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C Programmer's Guide to Serial Communicationsby Joe CampbellISBN 0672302861 (0-672-30286-1)
Softcover, Pearson Education Canada
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Choice and Consequenceby Thomas C. SchellingISBN 0674127714 (0-674-12771-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Choice and Consequence'Book summary:Thomas Schelling is a political economist "conspicuous for wandering" an errant economist. In Choice and Consequence, he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as awesome as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as daydreaming, as intimidating as euthanasia. He examines ethical issues wrapped up in economics, unwrapping the economics to disclose ethical issues that are misplaced or misidentified.
With an ingenious, often startling approach Schelling brings new perspectives to problems ranging from drug abuse, abortion, and the value people put on their lives to organized crime, airplane hijacking, and automobile safety. One chapter is a clear and elegant exposition of game theory as a framework for analyzing social problems. Another plays with the hypothesis that our minds are not only our problem-solving equipment but also the organ in which much of our consumption takes place.
What binds together the different subjects is the author's belief in the possibility of simultaneously being humane and analytical, of dealing with both the momentous and the familiar. Choice and Consequence was written for the curious, the puzzled, the worried, and all those who appreciate intellectual adventure.
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A Circle Round the Sun: A Foreigner in Japan, Inc.by Peregrine HodsonISBN 0679421025 (0-679-42102-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Civil Actionby Jonathan HarrISBN 0676576095 (0-676-57609-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Creative Industries: Contracts Between Art and Commerceby Richard E. CavesISBN 0674008081 (0-674-00808-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creative Industries: Contracts Between Art and Commerce'Book summary:This book explores the organization of creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, movies, theater, sound recordings, and book publishing. In each, artistic inputs are combined with other, "humdrum" inputs. But the deals that bring these inputs together are inherently problematic: artists have strong views; the muse whispers erratically; and consumer approval remains highly uncertain until all costs have been incurred.
To assemble, distribute, and store creative products, business firms are organized, some employing creative personnel on long-term contracts, others dealing with them as outside contractors; agents emerge as intermediaries, negotiating contracts and matching creative talents with employers. Firms in creative industries are either small-scale pickers that concentrate on the selection and development of new creative talents or large-scale promoters that undertake the packaging and widespread distribution of established creative goods. In some activities, such as the performing arts, creative ventures facing high fixed costs turn to nonprofit firms.
To explain the logic of these arrangements, the author draws on the analytical resources of industrial economics and the theory of contracts. He addresses the winner-take-all character of many creative activities that brings wealth and renown to some artists while dooming others to frustration; why the "option" form of contract is so prevalent; and why even savvy producers get sucked into making "ten-ton turkeys," such as Heaven's Gate. However different their superficial organization and aesthetic properties, whether high or low in cultural ranking, creative industries share the same underlying organizational logic.
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A Cultivated Life : A Year in a California Vineyardby Joy Sterling, Terry SterlingISBN 0679419896 (0-679-41989-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight BrowneISBN 0679405712 (0-679-40571-2)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Charles Dickenss most celebrated novel and the authors own favorite, David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turns magical, fearful, and grimly realistic. In a book that is part fairy tale and part thinly veiled autobiography, Dickens transmutes his life experience into a brilliant series of comic and sentimental adventures in the spirit of the great eighteenth-century novelists he so much admired. Few readers can fail to be touched by Davids fate, and fewer still to be delighted by his story. The cruel Murdstone, the feckless Micawber, the unctuous and sinister Uriah Heep, and David Copperfield himself, into whose portrait Dickens puts so much of his own early life, form a central part of our literary legacy.This edition reprints the original Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton and includes thirty-nine illustrations by Phiz. [via]
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Dossier : The Secret History of Armand Hammerby Edward Jay EpsteinISBN 0679448020 (0-679-44802-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Lawby Richard A. Posner, William M. LandesISBN 0674012046 (0-674-01204-6)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisisby Graham T. AllisonISBN 0673394123 (0-673-39412-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis'Book summary:Introduction to International Relations: Perspectives and Themes, 2/ Each chapter builds up an understanding of the different ways of looking at the world. From liberalism through to green politics, it examines how different perspectives have developed, who has influenced them the most and what position they represent on the key issues in global politics. The clarity of presentation allows students to rapidly develop a theoretical framework and to apply this knowledge widely as a way of understanding both more advanced theoretical texts and events in world politics. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 2/e [via]
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Executiveby Harry LevinsonISBN 0674273966 (0-674-27396-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Faster : The Acceleration of Just about Everythingby James GleickISBN 0679408371 (0-679-40837-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faster : The Acceleration of Just about Everything'Book summary:Never in the history of the human race have so many had so much to do in so little time. That, anyway, is the impression most of us have of civilized life at the end of the millennium, and Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything only sharpens it. Elegantly composed and insightfully researched, Faster delivers a brisk volley of observations on how microchips, media, and economics, among other things, have accelerated the pace of everyday experience over the course of the manic 20th century.
Author of the pop-science triumph, Chaos, James Gleick brings his formidable writing skills to bear here, creating an almost poetic flow of ideas from what in other hands might have been just a mass of interesting facts and anecdotes. Whether tracing the modern history of chronometry (from Louis-François Cartier's invention of the wristwatch to the staggeringly precise atomic clocks of today's standards bureaus) or revealing the ways the camera has sped up our subjective sense of pace (from the freeze frames of Eadweard Muybridge's early photographic experiments to the jump cuts of MTV's latest videos), Gleick manages to weave in slyly perceptive or occasionally profound points about our increasingly hopped-up relationship to time. The result is the kind of thing only an accelerated culture like ours could have come up with: an instant classic. --Julian Dibbell [via]
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The Forceby David DorseyISBN 0679410309 (0-679-41030-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Force'Book summary:"If you want to know how America's business wars are waged in the trenches, The Force is for you. A gripping book."
--Newsday
"SKILLFULLY REPORTED, INSIGHTFUL...Dorsey lights up our vision of the American salesman with his own sharply reported eyewitness account."
--People
In this fascinating book, reporter David Dorsey turns a year on the Xerox sales force into an emotionally charged human drama. The Force tracks Fred Thomas and his sales team from the shiny glass office building where work starts at dawn to the rolling green country clubs where they woo customers, from the smoke-filled bars where they unwind to the plush suburban bedrooms where they try to forget the pressures of the day. And as the year unfolds, we get swept up in the burning question at the center of all of their lives: will they make their quota?
"Meet Fred Thomas. He's a real person, working in a real job in a real company. And he's the hero of The Force, David Dorsey's brilliant chronicle of life in the real world of contemporary business. Dorsey's book draws a picture that is as intimate as a great novel. It is a book that captures in the most essential details and the most sweeping prose the cross-wired paradoxes that lie at the heart of the New Economy. Fred is Us. He's the next-generation Willie Loman working in a world put into hyperdrive...Fred is the salesman as Everyman."
--Harvard Business Review
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Foundations of Service Level Managementby Rick Sturm, Mary Jander, Wayne MorrisISBN 0672317435 (0-672-31743-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Foxpro 2.6 for Windows Unleashed/Book and Diskby Edward Jones, Derek SuttonISBN 0672305380 (0-672-30538-0)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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The Functions of the Executiveby Chester Irving BarnardISBN 0674328035 (0-674-32803-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Game Over : How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Childrenby David SheffISBN 0679404694 (0-679-40469-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscapeby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0671888250 (0-671-88825-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where we live and work, to build communities that are once again worthy of our affection. Kunstler proposes that by reviving civic art and civic life, we will rediscover public virtue and a new vision of the common good. "The future will require us to build better places," Kunstler says, "or the future will belong to other people in other societies." [via]
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The Go-Go Yearsby John BrooksISBN 0679400389 (0-679-40038-9)
Hardcover, Weybright and Talley
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How to Use Lotus Notes 5: Visually in Full Colorby Jane Calabria, Dorothy BurkeISBN 067231505X (0-672-31505-X)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way We Live With Technologyby Kim VicenteISBN 0676974902 (0-676-97490-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Troubled Prospects of Multinational Enterprisesby Raymond VernonISBN 0674004248 (0-674-00424-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Industrial Counterfeitingby Colin HaynesISBN 067346234X (0-673-46234-X)
Hardcover, ScottForesman Professional Books
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Innovation--The Missing Dimensionby Michael J. Piore, Richard LesterISBN 0674015819 (0-674-01581-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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International Economics: Theory & Policyby Paul R. Krugman, Maurice ObstfeldISBN 0673521516 (0-673-52151-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Introduction to Quality Management : Assurance and Controlby Gregory HutchinsISBN 0675208963 (0-675-20896-3)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall PTR
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The Japanese Today: Change and Continuityby Edwin Oldfather ReischauerISBN 0674471822 (0-674-47182-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity'Book summary:With the two-thousand-year history of the Japanese experience as his foundation, Edwin O. Reischauer brings us an incomparable description of Japan today in all its complexity and uniqueness, both material and spiritual. His description and analysis present us with the paradox that is present-day Japan: thoroughly international, depending for its livelihood almost entirely on foreign trade, its products coveted everywhere--yet not entirely liked or trusted, still feared for its past military adventurism and for its current economic aggressiveness.
Reischauer begins with the rich heritage of the island nation, identifying incidents and trends that have significantly affected Japan's modern development. Much of the geographic and historical material on Japan's earlier years is drawn from his renowned study The Japanese, but the present book deepens and broadens that earlier interpretation: our knowledge of Japan has increased enormously in the intervening decade and our attitudes have become more ambivalent, while Japan too has changed, often not so subtly.
Moving to contemporary Japanese society, Reischauer explores both the constants in Japanese life and the aspects that are rapidly changing. In the section on government and politics he gives pithy descriptions of the formal workings of the various organs of government and the decision-making process, as well as the most contentious issues in Japanese life-pollution, nuclear power, organized labor-and the elusive matter of political style.
In what will become classic statements on business management and organization, Reischauer sketches the early background of trade and commerce in Japan, contrasts the struggling prewar economy with today's assertive manufacturing, and brilliantly characterizes the remarkable postwar economic miracle of Japanese heavy industry, consumer product development, and money management. In a final section, "Japan and the World' he attempts to explain to skeptical Weste [via]
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The Japanese Today: Change and Continuityby Marius B. Jansen, Edwin Oldfather ReischauerISBN 0674471849 (0-674-47184-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Language of Effective Listeningby Arthur K. Robertson, Robert B. NelsonISBN 0673463338 (0-673-46333-8)
Hardcover, Scott Foresman Trade
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Lapham's Rules of Influence: A Carrerist's Guide to Success, Status, and Self-Congratulationby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 0679426051 (0-679-42605-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The advice you'll find in Rules of Influence drips with acid, which you'd expect if you read any of Lapham's columns in Harper's, for which he won a National Magazine Award in 1995. But even in the sarcasm, one can find surprisingly practical advice. For example, he notes that "[t]oo much curiosity is a mark of inferior rank. You will be mistaken for a tourist or a waiter" if you ask too many questions. He also notes that the limelight is "[n]ot a safe place.... Too steep an ascent into the atmospheres of fame invites a correspondingly steep descent into the base camp of anonymity." If only Elizabeth Berkley could have read this book before she did Showgirls! --Lou Schuler [via]
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Leadership Without Easy Answersby Ronald A. HeifetzISBN 0674518586 (0-674-51858-6)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Learning UNIXby James GardnerISBN 067230001X (0-672-30001-X)
Hardcover, Sams
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Learning Unix/Book and Diskby James GardnerISBN 0672304570 (0-672-30457-0)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political Systemby James M. FallowsISBN 067942251X (0-679-42251-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Lords of the Realm : The Real History of Baseballby John HelyarISBN 0679411976 (0-679-41197-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Macroeconomicsby Robert B. EkelundISBN 0673520978 (0-673-52097-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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Making Effective Presentationsby Robert B. Nelson, Jennifer B. WallickISBN 0673389561 (0-673-38956-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Managing at the Speed of Change: How Resilient Managers Succeed and Prosper Where Others Failby Daryl ConnerISBN 0679406840 (0-679-40684-0)
Hardcover, Villard Books
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Daryl R. Conner, founder and chairman of the consulting firm Conner Partners, is a leading expert on change management. He has served as change doctor for clients that include non-profit enterprises, government agencies and administrations, and Fortune 500 companies in an array of industries such as Abbott Laboratories, PepsiCo, American Express, Catholic Healthcare West, JPMorgan Chase, and the U.S. Navy.
Based on Conners long-term research and his decades of consulting experience, Managing at the Speed of Change uses simple, easy-to-understand language and elegant visuals to explore the dynamics of change, and in doing so, teaches readers
" why major change is difficult to assimilate
" what distinguishes resilient individuals from those who suffer future shock
" how and why resistance forms
" how people become committed to change
" why organizational culture is so important to the success of change
" the roles most central to change in organizational settings
" why powerful teamwork is at the heart of achieving change objectives, and how to foster it
In this pioneering book, updated for the twenty-first century, Conner demonstrates how both individuals and organizations can develop the capacity not only to endure change but to thrive on it. [via]More editions of Managing at the Speed of Change: How Resilient Managers Succeed and Prosper Where Others Fail:
Marketing Without Moneyby Herman HoltzISBN 0673462382 (0-673-46238-2)
Hardcover, Scott Foresman Trade
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History and Here My Troubles Beganby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679406417 (0-679-40641-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Megabucks from Your Microcomputerby Timothy Orr KnightISBN 0672220830 (0-672-22083-0)
Softcover, H.W. Sams
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Mobilizing Invisible Assetsby Thomas W. Roehl, Hiroyuki ItamiISBN 067457771X (0-674-57771-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policyby Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Robert Stewart SmithISBN 0673153657 (0-673-15365-7)
Hardcover, Scott, Foresman and Co
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The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, 1900-1920by S. A. M. AdsheadISBN 0674580605 (0-674-58060-5)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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The Moral Consequences of Economic Growthby Benjamin M. FriedmanISBN 0679448918 (0-679-44891-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Friedman's arguments are provocative but at times lack rigor. In his comparisons of various countries, he offers no objective data to measure their levels of social progress, relying instead on his own--sometimes selective--interpretation of historical events. He glosses over the fact that China, where the economy has grown sevenfold since 1978, has seen little political change in that time. He also acknowledges that the Great Depression--which brought Americans together to achieve great social and political progress--tends to disprove his theory. Friedman makes a good case that the economy sometimes influences social movements, but the jury is still out on exactly when and how that happens. --Alex Roslin [via]
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The Mystery of Economic Growthby Elhanan HelpmanISBN 067401572X (0-674-01572-X)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economyby Annalee SaxenianISBN 0674022017 (0-674-02201-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Notes on the Synthesis of Formby Christopher W. AlexanderISBN 0674627512 (0-674-62751-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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In the first part of the book, Mr. Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs and demands that has called it into being. He shows that such an adaptive process will be successful only if it proceeds piecemeal instead of all at once. It is for this reason that forms from traditional unselfconscious cultures, molded not by designers but by the slow pattern of changes within tradition, are so beautifully organized and adapted. When the designer, in our own self-conscious culture, is called on to create a form that is adapted to its context he is unsuccessful, because the preconceived categories out of which he builds his picture of the problem do not correspond to the inherent components of the problem, and therefore lead only to the arbitrariness, willfulness, and lack of understanding which plague the design of modern buildings and modern cities.
In the second part, Mr. Alexander presents a method by which the designer may bring his full creative imagination into play, and yet avoid the traps of irrelevant preconception. He shows that, whenever a problem is stated, it is possible to ignore existing concepts and to create new concepts, out of the structure of the problem itself, which do correspond correctly to what he calls the subsystems of the adaptive process. By treating each of these subsystems as a separate subproblem, the designer can translate the new concepts into form. The form, because of the process, will be well-adapted to its context, non-arbitrary, and correct.
The mathematics underlying this method, based mainly on set theory, is fully developed in a long appendix. Another appendix demonstrates the application of the method to the design of an Indian village.
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Novations: Strategies for Career Managementby Gene W. Dalton, Paul H. ThompsonISBN 0673181812 (0-673-18181-2)
Hardcover, ScottForesman
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Organizational Behavior and Performanceby Marc J. Wallace, Andrew D. SzilagyiISBN 0673165728 (0-673-16572-8)
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Organizational Reality: Reports from the Firing Lineby Peter J. Frost, Vance F. Mitchell, Walter R. NordISBN 0673980901 (0-673-98090-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Other People's Money, and How the Bankers Use It.by Louis D. BrandeisISBN 0678008566 (0-678-00856-6)
Hardcover, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
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Principles of Managerial Finance: 3 Books and Diskby Lawrence J. GitmanISBN 0673980626 (0-673-98062-6)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Principles of Microeconomicsby Paul R. Gregory, Roy J. RuffinISBN 0673994937 (0-673-99493-7)
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Production:Concepts, Analysis, Control: Concepts, Analysis, Controlby Richard J. HopemanISBN 0675092493 (0-675-09249-3)
Hardcover, Merrill
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Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahnby Thomas McCrawISBN 0674716086 (0-674-71608-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128by Annalee SaxenianISBN 0674753402 (0-674-75340-2)
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Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independenceby Bruce H. MannISBN 0674009029 (0-674-00902-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Retailingby Dale M. Lewison, M. Wayne DelozierISBN 0675209846 (0-675-20984-6)
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Rival Views of Market Society and Other Recent Essaysby Albert O. HirschmanISBN 0674773039 (0-674-77303-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Russia, 2010: And What It Means for the Worldby Daniel YerginISBN 0679429956 (0-679-42995-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Project 2000 in 24 Hoursby Tim PyronISBN 0672318148 (0-672-31814-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Sams Teach Yourself SAP R/3 in 24 Hoursby Danielle LaroccaISBN 0672316242 (0-672-31624-2)
Softcover, Sams
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Sams Teach Yourself Uml in 24 Hoursby Joseph SchmullerISBN 0672322382 (0-672-32238-2)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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See, I Told You So/Special Slipcase Editionby Rush H. LimbaughISBN 0671888072 (0-671-88807-2)
Hardcover, Pocket Books
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Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Societyby James BoyleISBN 0674805232 (0-674-80523-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Soap Opera: The Inside Story of Proctor & Gambleby Alecia SwasyISBN 0671897810 (0-671-89781-0)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Sotheby's : The Inside Storyby Peter WatsonISBN 0679414037 (0-679-41403-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Start Your Own Mail Order Businessby Extra Income Magazine National Business LibraryISBN 0673463400 (0-673-46340-0)
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Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Rewardby Jeffrey S. YoungISBN 0673188647 (0-673-18864-7)
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Thinkpad: A Different Shade of Blueby J. Gerry Purdy, Deborah A. DellISBN 0672317567 (0-672-31756-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Through the Brick Wall: How to Job-Hunt in a Tight Marketby Kate WendletonISBN 0679412298 (0-679-41229-8)
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Tribes: How Race, Religion, and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economyby Joel KotkinISBN 0679412824 (0-679-41282-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Millionsby Charles Bowden, Michael BinsteinISBN 0679416994 (0-679-41699-4)
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imaginationby Neal GablerISBN 067943822X (0-679-43822-X)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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We'Ve Got to Start Meeting Like This!: A Guide to Successful Business Meeting Managementby Robert B. Nelson, Roger K. MosvickISBN 0673184684 (0-673-18468-4)
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Why Things Bite Back : Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequencesby Edward TennerISBN 0679425632 (0-679-42563-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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