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#1 New Release in Industrial Management & Leadership - Breakthrough Innovation Tools for Successful LeadershipInnovation needs innovation: Innovation is broken. Business…
leadership is struggling to find ways to crack through corporate politics or bureaucratic silos, to move from defense to offense, to nurture real breakthrough, to drive visionary creativity in ways that add new value to everything they do. In Innovating Innovation, David Morey, one of America’s leading strategic consultants, teaches, coaches, and guides you across eleven concrete and pragmatic steps that unlock and drive day-to-day innovation in your business and help you gain a long-term competitive advantage.Make change and innovation happen: Innovating Innovation synergizes what is best in classic innovation theories with an insurgent strategic model inspired by one of Morey’s first corporate clients, Apple founder Steve Jobs. It shows how to lead innovation that creates the products of visionary genius without the necessity for actual genius. It provides practical tools and guidance on building and leading the teams, working conditions, organizational structures, and cultures of market-made and market-making innovation. It illustrates a roadmap to the disruptive periphery, the organizational margins at which real innovation actually takes place.Innovation can be taught: Innovating Innovation is a framework to counter failure. It directs you, the reader, to the consumer, the very person who will actually tell you how to innovate the benefits to create a future you can own. This book invites you to “think different,” to become a change leader, to go the “wrong” way to get to the right places.After reading this new battlefield manual for innovation, you will:Learn the Disruptive Periphery Concept and how it can give you the tools to help your businessDiscover a practical marketing-centric focus applied to innovationReap the benefits of lessons developed from thirty years of real-world global consulting and training experienceBack to Business: Finding Your Confidence, Embracing Your Skills, and Landing Your Dream Job After a Career Pause
By Sarah Duenwald, Nancy McSharry Jensen. 2021
The 45 percent of American women who take career breaks know better than anyone that searching for a job—with its new modes…
of communication, new rules of discoverability, and new expectations—has changed rapidly in the last decade. This book lays out a clear path for anyone ready to re-enter the workforce.On the job hunt? Don&’t just polish your resume—you better make sure your LinkedIn profile is updated. And, if you aren&’t getting responses from recruiters, chances are it&’s, because the robots aren&’t selecting your profile because it's missing pertinent keywords. And, by the way, dress codes have changed and you&’ll need to know new technologies such as Slack and Google+ Hangouts. Got it? For many women re-entering the workforce after a career break, the job search world is a disorienting, confusing, and overwhelming place. Getting started is much easier when you know what the first step should be.In Back to Business, career coaching and re-entry experts Nancy McSharry Jensen and Sarah Duenwald have put together a guide for women returning to the workplace.Easy to understand and easy to put into practice, Back to Business teaches you how to: Identify and talk about what you want, taking into account what you&’ve been up to while on break. Understand your personal brand, both in-person and online, and how your skills translate to the career you are looking for. Become professionally relevant and gain confidence in your ability to return to the paid workforce. Look for job opportunities while being productive and intentional with your time. The authors understand through first-hand experience the anxiety of returning to work. They have helped hundreds of women facing the job search process to overcome the anxiety of what is often overwhelming life change.The Ministry of Common Sense: How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate BS
By Martin Lindstrom. 2021
WALL STREET JOURNAL Bestseller A humorous yet practical five-step guide to ridding ourselves—and our companies—of bureaucratic bottlenecks and red tape…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the TSA is allowing passengers to board planes with unlimited amounts of hand sanitizer, while maintaining its 3.4-ounce limit on all other liquids. You need a chainsaw to pry open your new pair of headphones from their package. Your eighth Zoom meeting of the day keeps freezing, and if you hear &“No, wait; no, you go first&” again, you will implode. But first you have to sit through an endless Power Point presentation that everyone claims they&’ve read, no one has, and that could have been summarized in one page. What has happened to common sense? And how can we get it back? Companies, it seems, have become so entangled in their own internal issues, and further beset by reams of invisible red tape, that they&’ve lost sight of their core purpose. Inevitably, they pay the price. Best-selling author Martin Lindstrom combines numerous real‑life examples of corporate common sense gone wrong with his own ingenious plan for restoring logic—and sanity—to the companies and people that need it most. A must-read for today&’s executives, managers, and employees, The Ministry of Common Sense is funny, entertaining, and immensely practical.The Economics of Growth (The mit Press Ser.)
By Philippe Aghion, Peter W. Howitt. 2009
A comprehensive, rigorous, and up-to-date introduction to growth economics that presents all the major growth paradigms and shows how they…
can be used to analyze the growth process and growth policy design.This comprehensive introduction to economic growth presents the main facts and puzzles about growth, proposes simple methods and models needed to explain these facts, acquaints the reader with the most recent theoretical and empirical developments, and provides tools with which to analyze policy design. The treatment of growth theory is fully accessible to students with a background no more advanced than elementary calculus and probability theory; the reader need not master all the subtleties of dynamic programming and stochastic processes to learn what is essential about such issues as cross-country convergence, the effects of financial development on growth, and the consequences of globalization. The book, which grew out of courses taught by the authors at Harvard and Brown universities, can be used both by advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and as a reference for professional economists in government or international financial organizations.The Economics of Growth first presents the main growth paradigms: the neoclassical model, the AK model, Romer's product variety model, and the Schumpeterian model. The text then builds on the main paradigms to shed light on the dynamic process of growth and development, discussing such topics as club convergence, directed technical change, the transition from Malthusian stagnation to sustained growth, general purpose technologies, and the recent debate over institutions versus human capital as the primary factor in cross-country income differences. Finally, the book focuses on growth policies—analyzing the effects of liberalizing market competition and entry, education policy, trade liberalization, environmental and resource constraints, and stabilization policy—and the methodology of growth policy design. All chapters include literature reviews and problem sets. An appendix covers basic concepts of econometrics.Pathways to success and happiness: Four Simple Steps To Creating The Winning Team
By Sharon Pearson. 2011
Family Business and Regional Development (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy)
By Lech Suwala, Roger Stough, Rodrigo Basco. 2021
This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional…
economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies, and its importance has evolved throughout time and across spatial contexts, the book suggests that these factors have often been neglected in family business and regional studies. Taking this research gap into account, the book aims to deepen our understanding of the role family firms play in the regional economy. In particular, it explores two seldom studied questions. Firstly, what role do family firms play in regional development? Secondly, how do different spatial regional contexts shape family firm operations and performance? Family Business and Regional Development presents a model of "spatial familiness" and uses themes such as productivity, networks and competitiveness to shed new light on family businesses. Moreover, it approaches the juxtaposition between family business and regional studies to encourage the cross-fertilisation of ideas, theories, and research methods between the two fields. Bringing together leading experts in entrepreneurship, regional economics, and economic geography, this book will be a valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policymakers interested in family firms, regional studies and economic geography.Understanding Business Strategy: Confusion and Consensus
By Lourdesamy Iruthayasamy. 2021
This book cuts through the strategy verbiage to get to the fundamentals of business strategy—its meaning, formulation, and implementation. Challenges…
to understanding strategy are examined, including institutions and national culture. Strategy theories are not just explained but assessed in terms of their validity, limitations, and applicability across countries, cultures, and organisations. The thinking and works of major strategists like Ohmae, Mintzberg, Porter, Rumelt, Barney, Prahalad, Hamel, Peng, Kim, and Mauborgne are reviewed in the context of strategic thinking, strategy formulation, and strategy implementation. The confusion and consensus in strategy are highlighted.While not prescriptive in terms of telling the corporate leader how to formulate strategy, for there is no one best strategy or one best way to formulate strategy, the book does identify broad approaches to corporate strategy formulation and implementation and the underlying principles. To this extent, corporate leaders and students and instructors of business and management will find the book informative and instructive.Pipeline Pedagogy: Teaching About Energy and Environmental Justice Contestations (AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series)
By Valerie Banschbach, Jessica L. Rich. 2021
The proliferation of pipelines to transport oil and natural gas represents a major area of contestation in the landscape of…
energy development. Battles over energy pipelines pit private landowners, local community representatives, and environmentalists against energy corporations and industry supporters, sometimes drawing opposition and attention from well beyond the impacted regions, as in the case of the Standing Rock/Dakota Access Pipeline. Stakeholders must navigate complex government regulatory processes, interpret technical and scientific reports, and endure lengthy and expensive court battles. As with other forms of environmental injustice, the contentious construction of pipelines often disproportionately impacts communities of lower economic development, people of color, and indigenous peoples; pipelines also pose potential short and long-term health and safety threats. With the expansion of energy pipelines carrying fracked oil and gas across the United States and abroad, the moment is ripe for teaching about pipeline projects and engaging students and community members in learning about methods for mobilization. Our volume examines pedagogical opportunities, challenges, and interventions that campus-community engagement, and other kinds of community engagement, produce in relation to infrastructuring in the form of pipeline development.Taming Your Crocodiles Practices: Daily Reflections for Leadership Depth
By Hylke Faber. 2020
"Taming Your Crocodiles Practices is a personal tool for all leaders and followers looking to master authenticity and find greater…
purpose in their daily journey. Imagine the opportunity to explore who we are and what we want to accomplish — without fear. An extension of Hylke Faber's brilliant treatise, Taming Your Crocodiles, this book provides the component tools to unlearn fear-based leadership and practice constructive, creative, and inclusive behaviors with habit-forming frequency and consistency. A must for those ready to move past lip-service to liberation." — Toni Townes-Whitley, President, US Regulated Industries, Microsoft How do I lead from the depth of who I am rather than from fear-based, conditioned thinking?How do I shift my mindset to accelerate my growth?How do I turn self-discovery and service into a daily habit?How do I inspire others around me to keep growing and giving their best? Hylke Faber explores these and other questions, offering tools for implementing leadership practices into everyday life and work. The exercises in this book — which can be used both as a standalone guide and as a companion to the Nautilus Silver Award–winning book Taming Your Crocodiles — will deepen your appreciation for the adventure of life and leadership, help you connect with your true calling, turn your fears into growth practices, and guide you in supporting others on their growth journey. Praise for Taming Your Crocodiles Practices “How do we know ourselves? Practice! Hylke’s newest book offers us seventy-seven thoughtful and accessible practices toward greater self-discovery, creative expression and ever-expanding potential.” — Chris Ernst, Vice-President, Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness, Workday; author of Boundary Spanning Leadership “Taming Your Crocodiles Practices: Daily Reflections for Leadership Depth is a magical combination of deeply wise insights and specific methods to make these insights a reality in your life. I highly recommend this book for any aspiring leader looking to grow professionally but, more importantly, as a person.” —Matt Oppenheimer, CEO, Remitly “With great joy I have read this workbook. And it has pleased me to feel the vulnerability of the author, which opens ways for both the reader and the practitioner. Because of the vulnerability and openness of Hylke, he becomes more of a co-passenger than a coach who tells you how it is. Also, I like the fact that you have a choice of exercises related to your personal needs at every given moment. Hylke really connects to the material, which for me is the essence of personal leadership!” — Wiet de Bruijn, Partner, Delight Group; former CEO VBK Publishers “Hylke scores a home run again. Taming Your Crocodiles Practices: Daily Reflections for Leadership Depth is a unique and easy-to-read, practical book on personal and professional growth. Hylke reinforces key concepts from his first book, continuously taking the reader out of their comfort zone and posing challenging questions on how to think differently. In addition, by providing daily tips, he helps shape positive habits and behaviors, with a growth mindset, all required to be a great leader. I highly recommend his book for any current or future leader, as well as for a reader in search of a purposeful and meaningful life.” — Gioji Okuhara, Board Member & CEO, Brazilian consumer goods companies “Through this simple yet powerful and practical book, I continue to explore my fears, or crocodiles, and go deeper in myself. I connect to that place of peace and of a growth mindset. With my busy life and working with worldThorstein Veblen: Theorist of the Leisure Class (Sociología Ser.)
By John Patrick Diggins. 1999
Fired by Stanford and the University of Chicago but recommended by his peers to the presidency of the American Economic…
Association, Thorstein Veblen remains a baffling figure in American intellectual history. In part because he was an eccentric who shunned publicity, he has also been one of our most neglected. Veblen is known to the general public only as coiner of the term "conspicuous consumption," and to scholars primarily as one of many social critics of the reform-minded Progressive Era. This important critical biography--originally published as The Bard of Savagery and now appearing in paperback for the first time--attempts both to unravel the riddles that surround his reputation and to assess his varied and important contributions to modern social theory.A new history of one of the foremost printers of the Renaissance explores how the Age of Print came to…
Italy. Lorenz Böninger offers a fresh history of the birth of print in Italy through the story of one of its most important figures, Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna. After having worked for several years for a judicial court in Florence, Niccolò established his business there and published a number of influential books. Among these were Marsilio Ficino’s De christiana religione, Leon Battista Alberti’s De re aedificatoria, Cristoforo Landino’s commentaries on Dante’s Commedia, and Francesco Berlinghieri’s Septe giornate della geographia. Many of these books were printed in vernacular Italian. Despite his prominence, Niccolò has remained an enigma. A meticulous historical detective, Böninger pieces together the thorough portrait that scholars have been missing. In doing so, he illuminates not only Niccolò’s life but also the Italian printing revolution generally. Combining Renaissance studies’ traditional attention to bibliographic and textual concerns with a broader social and economic history of printing in Renaissance Italy, Böninger provides an unparalleled view of the business of printing in its earliest years. The story of Niccolò di Lorenzo furnishes a host of new insights into the legal issues that printers confronted, the working conditions in printshops, and the political forces that both encouraged and constrained the publication and dissemination of texts.London’s Global Office Economy: From Clerical Factory to Digital Hub
By Rob Harris. 2021
London’s Global Office Economy: From Clerical Factory to Digital Hub is a timely and comprehensive study of the office from…
the very beginnings of the workplace to its post-pandemic future. The book takes the reader on a journey through five ages of the office, encompassing sixteenth-century coffee houses and markets, eighteenth-century clerical factories, the corporate offices emerging in the nineteenth, to the digital and network offices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While offices might appear ubiquitous, their evolution and role in the modern economy are among the least explained aspects of city development. One-third of the workforce uses an office; and yet the buildings themselves – their history, design, construction, management and occupation – have received only piecemeal explanation, mainly in specialist texts. This book examines everything from paper clips and typewriters, to design and construction, to workstyles and urban planning to explain the evolution of the ‘office economy’. Using London as a backdrop, Rob Harris provides built environment practitioners, academics, students and the general reader with a fascinating, illuminating and comprehensive perspective on the office. Readers will find rich material linking fields that are normally treated in isolation, in a story that weaves together the pressures exerting change on the businesses that occupy office space with the motives and activities of those who plan, supply and manage it. Our unfolding understanding of offices, the changes through which they have passed, the nature of office work itself and its continuing evolution is a fascinating story and should appeal to anyone with an interest in contemporary society and its relationship with work.The Belt and Road Initiative as Epochal Regionalisation (Regional Studies Policy Impact Books)
By Xue Li, Xiangming Chen, Julie Tian Miao. 2021
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched by China in 2013, carries and projects powerful regional dimensions and transformations, with…
short- and long-term global, national and local consequences. The BRI’s regional significance lies in its designation and creation of several cross-border corridors that originate from inside China and extend out into its neighbouring countries, and those farther afield in Asia, Africa and Europe. Through driving and facilitating new trade and infrastructure connections along and beyond these corridors, the BRI has begun to reshape the master processes of globalisation, urbanisation and development by affecting the economic, social and spatial fortunes of many countries and cities. This book serves two purposes. First, through a new framework and three case studies, it examines the BRI’s impacts on globalisation, urbanisation and development via the China-Europe Freight Train, the paired construction of a new city and railway across the China-Laos borderland and the port-park-city development corridor between Djibouti and Ethiopia. Second, the comparative analysis and evidence guide the book to advance policy recommendations for targeted stakeholders that can potentially turn the BRI into a global public good with greater benefits and fewer risks.Working Through Conflict: Strategies for Relationships, Groups, and Organizations
By Marshall Scott Poole, Randall K. Stutman, Joseph P. Folger. 2021
This fully updated ninth edition provides an introduction to conflict and conflict management that is firmly grounded in current theory,…
research, and practice. Covering a range of conflict settings, including interpersonal, group, and organizational conflicts, it includes an abundance of real-life case studies that encompass a spectrum of theoretical perspectives. Its emphasis on application makes it highly accessible to students, while expanding their comprehension of conflict theory and practical skills. This new edition features a new chapter presenting key principles students can practice to become more skillful at managing conflict, a wealth of up-to-date research and case examples, suggested readings and video resources, and integrated questions for review and discussion. This textbook can be used in undergraduate or graduate courses on conflict in communication, business and management, political science, and counseling programs. Online resources for instructors, including PowerPoint slides and an instructor's manual, can be found at www.routledge.com/cw/folger.Stadtverkehrsplanung Band 3: Entwurf, Bemessung und Betrieb
By Walter Vogt, Barbara Engel, Dirk Vallée. 2021
Das dreibändige Standardwerk behandelt alle wesentlichen Probleme und Lösungsansätze des Stadtverkehrs. Unter Einbindung von Mobilität und Verkehr in die Stadtentwicklungsplanung…
geht es um Grundlagen, Ziele und Perspektiven der Planung, um Analyse und Prognose der Verkehrsentwicklung mit Hilfe von Szenarien und Modellen, um Abschätzung der Wirkungen des Verkehrs auf die humane und natürliche Umwelt einschließlich der Bewertung sowie um Bemessung, Gestaltung und Entwurf und Betrieb städtischer Verkehrsanlagen (Verkehrsmanagement und Lichtsignalsteuerung). Neue Kapitel – z.B. Mobilitätsmanagement, Multimodalität oder urbane Logistik – nehmen aktuelle Entwicklungen auf.Der dritte Band des dreibändigen Fachbuchs beschreibt Bemessung, Entwurf und Gestaltung sowie Betrieb der städtischen Verkehrsinfrastruktur. Gegenstand sind die Netzplanung, Anlagen des motorisierten Individualverkehrs, der öffentliche Personennahverkehr, die Nahmobilität, die Verkehrssicherheit sowie Verkehrsmanagement und Lichtsignalsteuerung.Cada día es el primer día: Todos los secretos del éxito de las empresas más innovadoras
By Alex Kantrowitz. 2020
Descubre el motor del éxito de las grandes empresas de hoy. En Amazon, «Day One» significa innovar con el mismo…
espíritu que una startup, con la misma motivación y el mismo entusiasmo que en el primer día de una empresa. Para su fundador, Jeff Bezos, el segundo día representa: «La inmovilidad, seguida por la irrelevancia, seguida por un declive doloroso y atroz, seguido por la muerte». Por este motivo, cada día hay que afrontar el trabajo y el futuro como si fuera el primero. Tras incontables entrevistas a directivos, empleados y colaboradores de las grandes empresas tecnológicas, el reputado periodista Alex Kantrowitz muestra cómo operan estos titanes siguiendo el modelo «Day One», es decir, priorizando la reinvención frente a la tradición y la colaboración frente al control. Un espíritu que les ha permitido abrir un camino hacia el éxito sostenido en un entorno empresarial donde los desafíos son constantes y ninguna ventaja es segura. Cada día es el primer día revela cuáles son los factores que permiten a estas importantes empresas de tecnología alcanzar una posición de dominio y mantenerla, y muestra las pautas a seguir a quienes deseen desafiar y vencer a esos gigantes. Reseñas:«Cada día es el primer día ofrece un análisis detallado de la cultura que ha permitido a los titanes de la tecnología realizar un infanticidio contra su competencia. De una forma minuciosa y crítica, Alex Kantrowitz nos recuerda que debemos ser optimistas sobre nuestro futuro en la era de las grandes compañías digitales.»Scott Galloway, autor de Four: El ADN secreto de Amazon, Apple, Facebook y Google «Un libro de lectura obligada para comprender cómo operan las empresas de éxito en la era de las grandes tecnológicas, y para descubrir los secretos del dominio de esos gigantes.»Charles Duhigg, autor de los best sellers El poder de los hábitos y Más agudo, más rápido y mejorMaking Social Spending Work
By Peter H. Lindert. 2021
How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines…
the experience of countries across the globe to reveal what has worked, what needs changing, and who the winners and losers are under different systems. He traces the development of public education, health care, pensions, and welfare provision, and addresses key questions around intergenerational inequality and fiscal redistribution, the returns to investment in human capital, how to deal with an aging population, whether migration is a cost or a benefit, and how social spending differs in autocracies and democracies. The book shows that what we need to do above all is to invest more in the young from cradle to career, and shift the burden of paying for social insurance away from the workplace and to society as a whole.Of labour and liberty: distributism in Victoria 1891-1966
By Race Mathews. 2017
Of Labour and Liberty ... responds to evidence of a precipitous decline in active citizenship, resulting from a loss of…
confidence in politics, politicians, parties and parliamentary democracy; the rise of ‘lying for hire’ lobbyism; increasing concentration of capital in the hands of a wealthy few; and corporate wrong-doing and criminality ... It highlights the potential of the social teachings of the Catholic Church and the now largely forgotten Distributist political philosophy and program that originated from them as a means of bringing about a more equal, just and genuinely democratic social order. It describes and evaluates Australian attempts to give effect to Distributism, with special reference to Victoria.Discovering the Rommel murder: the life and death of the Desert Fox
By Martin Blumenson, Charles F Marshall. 1994
Marshall pieces together valuable information gleaned from Rommel's letters and interviews with his chief of staff, physician, and widow to…
reveal an intimate portrait of the great commander's life and death.Total Facility Management
By Adrian Brooks, Brian Atkin. 2021
Explore this comprehensive review of what facility management means to owners, operators, occupiers, facility managers and professional advisors The newly revised…
Fifth Edition of Total Facility Management delivers an accessible and practical text that shows readers how the concept and principles of facility management can be implemented in practice. The book deals with the most common and intractable challenges facing professionals, academics and students in the field and provides practical solutions with the means to implement them. The new edition of the book includes a greater focus on applicable ISO standards in facility management as well as maintaining an international perspective throughout. The book contains easy-to-access advice on how facilities can be better managed from a range of perspectives. The subjects covered provide a comprehensive treatment of facility management. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: A thorough introduction to the fundamentals of facility management, including key roles, responsibilities and accountabilities and the core competences of facility management An exploration of facility planning, facility management strategy, outsourcing, procurement, facility management organization, facility maintenance management and business continuity and recovery planning An examination of human resources management, well-being, workplace productivity, performance management health, safety, security and the environment A review of sustainable practices, change management, facility management systems, information management (including building information models and digital twins) and innovative technology The book is the perfect choice for undergraduate and graduate studies in facility management, construction management, project management, surveying and other AEC disciplines. Total Facility Management will also earn a place in the libraries of academics and researchers whose work requires them to understand the theory and practice of facility management.