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Leveraging the Impact of 360-Degree Feedback, Second Edition
By Craig Chappelow, Sylvester Taylor, John W. Fleenor. 2020
From the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), this essential guide is updated with new insights, tips, and tools to help…
organizations get the most out of 360-degree feedback.This is a hands-on guide for implementing effective 360-degree feedback systems as part of leadership development initiatives in organizations. Written for professionals who work inside organizations and external consultants working with clients, the book draws on over twenty years of research and practice by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). The book provides step-by-step guidelines for successful 360-degree feedback as well as best practices observed and tested with CCL's broad base of clients. The second edition is updated with advances in the field over the past ten years and features new chapters on ensuring validity, why the process can fail, and the future of leadership development. The book includes worksheets, checklists, and other tools to use or adapt with a 360-degree process in any organization.Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) is a top-ranked, global provider of programs that develop better leaders through its exclusive focus on leadership education and research.Personality and the Fate of Organizations
By Robert Hogan. 2007
Personality and performance are intricately linked, and personality has proven to have a direct influence on an individual's leadership ability…
and style, team performance, and overall organizational effectiveness. In Personality and the Fate of Organizations, author Robert Hogan offers a systematic account of the nature of personality, showing how to use personality to understand organizations and to understand, evaluate, select, deselect, and train people. This book brings insights from a leading industrial organizational psychologist who asserts that personality is real, and that it determines the careers of individuals and the fate of organizations. The author’s goal is to increase the reader’s ability to understand other people—how they are alike, how they are different, and why they do what they do. Armed with this understanding, readers will be able to pursue their personal, social, and organizational goals more efficiently. A practical reference, this text is extremely useful for MBA students and for all those studying organizational psychology and leadership.Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
By Katherine Eban. 2018
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2019New York Public Library Best Books of 2019 Kirkus…
Reviews Best Health and Science Books of 2019Science Friday Best Books of 2019 New postscript by the authorFrom an award-winning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale—The Jungle for pharmaceuticalsMany have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true?Katherine Eban’s Bottle of Lies exposes the deceit behind generic-drug manufacturing—and the attendant risks for global health. Drawing on exclusive accounts from whistleblowers and regulators, as well as thousands of pages of confidential FDA documents, Eban reveals an industry where fraud is rampant, companies routinely falsify data, and executives circumvent almost every principle of safe manufacturing to minimize cost and maximize profit, confident in their ability to fool inspectors. Meanwhile, patients unwittingly consume medicine with unpredictable and dangerous effects.The story of generic drugs is truly global. It connects middle America to China, India, sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil, and represents the ultimate litmus test of globalization: what are the risks of moving drug manufacturing offshore, and are they worth the savings? A decade-long investigation with international sweep, high-stakes brinkmanship and big money at its core, Bottle of Lies reveals how the world’s greatest public-health innovation has become one of its most astonishing swindles.W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics (Princeton Legacy Library)
By Robert L. Tignor. 2006
W. Arthur Lewis was one of the foremost intellectuals, economists, and political activists of the twentieth century. In this book,…
the first intellectual biography of Lewis, Robert Tignor traces Lewis's life from its beginnings on the small island of St. Lucia to Lewis's arrival at Princeton University in the early 1960s. A chronicle of Lewis's unfailing efforts to promote racial justice and decolonization, it provides a history of development economics as seen through the life of one of its most important founders.If there were a record for the number of "firsts" achieved by one man during his lifetime, Lewis would be a contender. He was the first black professor in a British university and also at Princeton University and the first person of African descent to win a Nobel Prize in a field other than literature or peace. His writings, which included his book The Theory of Economic Growth, were among the first to describe the field of development economics.Quickly gaining the attention of the leadership of colonized territories, he helped develop blueprints for the changing relationship between the former colonies and their former rulers. He made significant contributions to Ghana's quest for economic growth and the West Indies' desire to create a first-class institution of higher learning serving all of the Anglophone territories in the Caribbean.This book, based on Lewis's personal papers, provides a new view of this renowned economist and his impact on economic growth in the twentieth century. It will intrigue not only students of development economics but also anyone interested in colonialism and decolonization, and justice for the poor in third-world countries.Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You
By Capricia Penavic Marshall. 2020
President Obama’s former United States chief of protocol looks at why diplomacy and etiquette matter—from the international stage to everyday…
life.History often appears to consist of big gestures and dramatic shifts. But for every peace treaty signed, someone set the stage, using hidden influence to effect the outcome. In her roles as chief of protocol for President Barack Obama and social secretary to President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton, Capricia Penavic Marshall not only bore witness to history, she facilitated it. From arranging a room to have an intended impact on the participants to knowing which cultural gestures earned trust, her behind-the scenes preparations laid the groundwork for successful diplomacy between heads of state around the world and tilted the playing field in her team's favor.If there's one thing that working at the highest levels of government for over two decades has taught Marshall, it's that there is power in detail and nuance—the micro-moves that affect the macro-shifts. When seemingly minor aspects of an engagement go missing or awry—a botched greeting or even a poorly chosen menu—it alters the emotions and tenor of an exchange, setting up obstacles rather than paving a way forward. In some cases, an oversight may put the entire endeavor in jeopardy. Sharing unvarnished anecdotes from her time in office—harrowing near misses, exhilarating triumphs, heartwarming personal stories—Marshall brings us a master class in soft power, unveiling the complexity of human interactions and making the case that etiquette, cultural IQ, and a flexible mind-set matter now more than ever. When the notion of basic civility seems to be endangered, Protocol reminds us how critical these principles are while providing an accessible guide for anyone who wants to be empowered by the tools of diplomacy in work and everyday life.Bringing hard data to the way we think about entrepreneurial success, this bold call to action draws on the latest…
scientific evidence to dispel the most pervasive startup myths and light a path to entrepreneurship for those eclipsed by the hype.When you think of a successful entrepreneur, who comes to mind? Bill Gates? Mark Zuckerberg? Or maybe even Jesse Eisenberg, the man who played Zuckerberg in The Social Network? It may surprise you that most successful founders look very different from Zuckerberg or Gates. In fact, most startup origin stories are very different from the famous “unicorns” that have achieved valuations of over $1 billion, from Facebook to Google to Uber. In The Unicorn’s Shadow: Combating the Dangerous Myths that Hold Back Startups, Founders, and Investors, Wharton School professor Ethan Mollick takes us to the forefront of an empirical revolution in entrepreneurship. New data and better research methods have overturned the conventional wisdom behind what a successful founder looks like, how they succeed, and how the startup ecosystem works.Among the issues he examines:Which founders are most likely to succeed?Where do the best startup ideas come from?What’s the most foolproof way of securing the funding needed to take a company to the next level?Should your sales pitch really be something out of Hollywood?What’s the best way to grow and scale your company and create a thriving culture that won’t hinder expansion? Mollick argues that entrepreneurship is too important, both for society and for the individuals who start companies, to be eclipsed by the shadows of unicorns. He shows we can democratize entrepreneurship—but only by following an evidence-based approach that puts to rest the false narratives that surround it.Frictionless: Why the Future of Everything Will Be Fast, Fluid, and Made Just for You
By Christiane Lemieux, Duff McDonald. 2020
Serial entrepreneur Christiane Lemieux describes the new rules of entrepreneurship and business, arguing that visionary startups leverage the concept of…
“frictionless” to beat their competitors. Based on interviews with dozens of startup founders, experts and scholars on entrepreneurship, Frictionless provides readers with a wide-ranging education in starting companies that thrive in the world of frictionless commerce—made possible by new technologies, a new mindset, and new demands from Millennial consumers. Working with bestselling author and journalist Duff McDonald, Lemieux also shares her own story—lessons learned, failures absorbed—at the helm of DwellStudio (which was acquired by Wayfair) and her latest venture, The Inside. Some founders profiled in the book are reducing friction in their own business models, others reduce friction through improved customer experiences, and still others are revolutionizing their operations to create frictionless organizations. Readers will glean lessons from the founders of well-known companies such as Instant Pot, Bonobos, Hims, and Halo Top—as well as upstarts Billie, Dame Products, and Convene. Frictionless outlines the groundwork necessary for getting a company up-and-running and explains how companies make and market products and services while meeting the demands of their customers and employees today. Frictionless is the essential handbook for creating tomorrow’s mind set and competitive advantage."Chad Ford reminds us that humanity lies within all of us, and although conflict is everywhere in today's world, we…
have the tools we need to overcome obstacles and to thrive. This is a fantastic, timely book that I highly recommend."—Steve Kerr, Head Coach, Golden State WarriorsKnowing how to transform conflict is critical in both our personal and professional lives. Yet, by and large, we are terrible at it. The reason, says longtime mediator Chad Ford, is fear. When conflict comes, our instincts are to run or fight. To transform conflict, Ford says we need to turn toward the people we are in conflict with, put down our physical and emotional weapons, and really love them with the kind of love that leads us to treat others as fellow human beings, not as objects in our way. We have to open ourselves up with no guarantee that anyone on the other side will do the same. While this can feel even more dangerous than conflict itself, it allows us to see the humanity of others so clearly that their needs and desires matter to us as much as our own. Ford shows dangerous love in action through examples ranging from his work in the Middle East to a deeply moving story about reconciling with his father. He explains why we disconnect from people at the very time we need to be most connected and the predictable patterns of justification and escalation that ensue. Most importantly, he gives us a path to practice dangerous love in the conflicts that matter most to us.Additive Manufacturing of Metals: The Technology, Materials, Design and Production (Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing)
By Soeren Wiener, Mamballykalathil Menon, Donald Godfrey, Brian Baughman, Keng Hsu, Li Yang, Francisco Medina. 2017
This book offers a unique guide to the three-dimensional (3D) printing of metals. It covers various aspects of additive, subtractive,…
and joining processes used to form three-dimensional parts with applications ranging from prototyping to production. Examining a variety of manufacturing technologies and their ability to produce both prototypes and functional production-quality parts, the individual chapters address metal components and discuss some of the important research challenges associated with the use of these technologies. As well as exploring the latest technologies currently under development, the book features unique sections on electron beam melting technology, material lifting, and the importance this science has in the engineering context. Presenting unique real-life case studies from industry, this book is also the first to offer the perspective of engineers who work in the field of aerospace and transportation systems, and who design components and manufacturing networks. Written by the leading experts in this field at universities and in industry, it provides a comprehensive textbook for students and an invaluable guide for practitionersHand Drawn Vancouver: Sketches of the City's Neighbourhoods, Buildings, and People (Hand Drawn)
By Emma FitzGerald. 2020
Visitors and locals alike will love this book of whimsical sketches of Vancouver, British Columbia, accompanied by thoughtful observations and…
snippets of overheard conversations.Take a tour of Vancouver's sights and sidewalks with Emma FitzGerald's hand-drawn impressions of her hometown, a city filled with stories--funny, surprising, and sometimes dark--amidst the cherry blossoms, beaches, and forests. Included are more than 100 sketches completed on location that, together, capture the essence of Vancouver. From Stanley Park's seawall to Kitsilano's salt-water swimming pool, and East Van's first craft brewery to the ferries in Horseshoe Bay, Hand Drawn Vancouver is a love letter to this beautiful and iconic city.Moon Vancouver: Neighborhood Walks, Outdoor Adventures, Beloved Local Spots (Travel Guide)
By Carolyn B. Heller. 2019
Set on the edge of the Pacific and bursting with culture and life, Vancouver is a delight to explore. Immerse…
yourself in the best of the city with Moon Vancouver.Explore the City: Navigate by neighborhood or by activity with color-coded maps, or follow one of our self-guided neighborhood walksSee the Sights: Bike along the coast at Stanley Park, kayak local waterways, learn about indigenous history at the Vancouver Museum of Anthropology, and soak in gorgeous nature views from atop Grouse MountainGet a Taste of the City: Sip a perfect pour-over coffee, browse the artistically arranged stalls at the Granville Island Public Market, or dig into some of the best Chinese food in North America Bars and Nightlife: Sample local craft beer, enjoy cocktails on lush patios or in cozy speakeasies, and plug into Vancouver's artsy side with an eclectic lineup of everything from indie rock to world musicLocal Advice: Vancouver expert Carolyn B. Heller shares her favorite places in her adopted cityStrategic Itineraries: See the best of Vancouver with itineraries designed for families, gourmands, history buffs, nature-lovers, and artists, with day trips to Victoria, Vancouver Island, and WhistlerFull-Color Photos and Detailed Maps, so you can explore on your own, plus an easy-to-read foldout map to use on the goHandy Tools: Background information on the landscape, history, and culture, packaged in a book slim enough to fit in your coat pocketExperience the real Vancouver with Moon's practical tips and insider know-how. Hitting the road? Check out Moon Vancouver & Canadian Rockies Road Trip.Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
By Matt Alt. 2020
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured—and transformed—the world&’s imagination. &“A masterful…
book driven by deep research, new insights, and powerful storytelling.&”—W. David Marx, author of Ametora: How Japan Saved American StyleThe Walkman. Karaoke. Pikachu. Pac-Man. Akira. Emoji. We&’ve all fallen in love with one or another of Japan&’s pop-culture creations, from the techy to the wild to the super-kawaii. But as Japanese media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation of Tokyo&’s pop-fantasy complex, we don&’t know the half of it. Japan&’s toys, gadgets, and imaginary worlds didn&’t merely entertain. They profoundly transformed the way we live. In the 1970s and &’80s, Japan seemed to exist in some near future, gliding on the superior technology of Sony and Toyota while the West struggled to catch up. Then a catastrophic 1990 stock-market crash ushered in the &“lost decades&” of deep recession and social dysfunction. The end of the boom times should have plunged Japan into irrelevance, but that&’s precisely when its cultural clout soared—when, once again, Japan got to the future a little ahead of the rest of us. Hello Kitty, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and multimedia empires like Pokémon and Dragon Ball Z were more than marketing hits. Artfully packaged, dangerously cute, and dizzyingly fun, these products made Japan the forge of the world&’s fantasies, and gave us new tools for coping with trying times. They also transformed us as we consumed them—connecting as well as isolating us in new ways, opening vistas of imagination and pathways to revolution. Through the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, Pure Invention reveals how Japanese ingenuity remade global culture and may have created modern life as we know it. It&’s Japan&’s world; we&’re just gaming, texting, singing, and dreaming in it.HBR Guide To Thinking Strategically (Harvard Business Review Guide Series)
By Harvard Business Review Staff. 2019
It's your responsibility as a manager to ensure that your work--and the work of your team--aligns with the overarching objectives…
of your organization. But when you're faced with competing projects and limited time, it's difficult to keep strategy front of mind. How do you keep your eye on the long term amid a sea of short-term demands? The HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically provides practical advice and tips to help you see the big-picture perspective in every aspect of your daily work, from making decisions to setting team priorities to attacking your own to-do list. You'll learn how to: Understand your organization's strategy Align your team around key objectives Focus on the priorities that matter most Spot trends in your company and in your industry Consider future outcomes when making decisions Manage trade-offs Embrace a leadership mindsetOne Nation, Uninsured: Why The U.s. Has No National Health Insurance
By Jill S. Quadagno. 2005
Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the…
United States. In fact, one in eight Americans--a shocking 43 million people--do not have any health care insurance at all. One Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly written history of America's failed efforts to address the health care needs of its citizens. Covering the entire twentieth century, Jill Quadagno shows how each attempt to enact national health insurance was met with fierce attacks by powerful stakeholders, who mobilized their considerable resources to keep the financing of health care out of the government's hands. Quadagno describes how at first physicians led the anti-reform coalition, fearful that government entry would mean government control of the lucrative private health care market. Doctors lobbied legislators, influenced elections by giving large campaign contributions to sympathetic candidates, and organized "grassroots" protests, conspiring with other like-minded groups to defeat reform efforts. As the success of Medicare and Medicaid in the mid-century led physicians and the AMA to start scaling back their attacks, the insurance industry began assuming a leading role against reform that continues to this day. One Nation, Uninsured offers a sweeping history of the battles over health care. It is an invaluable read for anyone who has a stake in the future of America's health care system.Arbeitsrecht: Eine Einführung Für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler (BA KOMPAKT)
By Klaus Sakowski. 2020
Das Lehrbuch vermittelt grundlegende Kenntnisse im Arbeitsrecht. Nach einer Übersicht über das Rechtsgebiet wird im Wesentlichen das Individualarbeitsrecht erläutert. Daneben…
werden die wichtigsten Bereiche des Kollektivarbeitsrechts behandelt. Insgesamt enthält das Buch eine übersichtliche und praxisorientierte Darstellung des relevanten Prüfungsstoffs, insbesondere für BWL-Studierende im Bachelorstudium. Es eignet sich auch für Praktiker, die sich einen schnellen Überblick über das Arbeitsrecht verschaffen wollen oder als Lernhilfe für Studierende anderer juristisch oder betriebswirtschaftlich orientierter Lehr- und Studiengänge im hochschulischen oder außerhochschulischen Bereich. Der Stoff wird durch zahlreiche Beispiele und Fälle praktisch verdeutlicht. Die Fälle stammen überwiegend aus der aktuellen Rechtsprechung, teilweise auch aus der früheren Anwaltspraxis des Autors. Kontrollfragen, Musterlösungen und Musterklausuren erleichtern das Selbststudium. Die zweite Auflage wurde vollständig überarbeitet, insbesondere auf den aktuellen Stand von Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung gebracht und um Beispiele und Übungsfälle ergänzt.Strategie und Personalmanagement: Konzepte und Instrumente zur Umsetzung im Unternehmen
By Christian Lebrenz. 2020
Das Buch definiert erstmals die kritische Schnittstelle zwischen Unternehmensstrategie und Personalmanagement und zeigt, welche Instrumente zur Umsetzung der Unternehmensstrategie durch…
das Personalmanagement zur Verfügung stehen.Wenn es dem Personalmanagement gelingt, die Effektivität des Humankapitals im Unternehmen zu erhöhen, leistet dies einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Unternehmenserfolg – das ist jedoch nur möglich, wenn das Humankapital konsequent an der Unternehmensstrategie ausgerichtet ist. Prof. Christian Lebrenz zeigt anhand konzeptioneller Grundlagen und konkreten Handlungsempfehlungen, wie dies im Unternehmen umgesetzt werden kann.Understanding Business Ethics: International Edition
By Peter Stanwick, Sarah Stanwick. 2014
Highly applied and packed with real-world examples and cases, Understanding Business Ethics, Second Edition by Peter A. Stanwick and Sarah…
D. Stanwick, prepares readers for the ethical dilemmas they may face in their chosen careers by providing broad, comprehensive coverage of business ethics from a global perspective. The book's 26 cases deal with a variety of ethical areas, including Ponzi schemes, fraud, product recall, bribery, telephone hacking, insider trading, the illegal downloading of copyrighted material, the unethical and dangerous activities of a monopoly, and dangerous working conditions, as well as four cases that emphasize the positive aspects of business ethics.Leadership: Theory and Practice
By Peter G. Northouse. 2013
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities worldwide, the market-leading text owes its success to the unique way in…
which it combines an academically robust account of the major theories and models of leadership with an accessible style and practical exercises that help students apply what they learn. Each chapter of Peter Northouse’s Leadership: Theory and Practice follows a consistent format, allowing students to contrast the various theories, and three case studies in each chapter provide practical examples of each theory or trait discussed. The Sixth Edition adds an important new chapter on Servant Leadership.The Enemy Of Nature: The End Of Capitalism Or The End Of The World?
By Joel Kovel. 2007
We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy us.…
Capitalism and its by-products - imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty and the destruction of community - are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem. Only now are we beginning to realise the depth of the crisis and the kind of transformation which will have to occur to ensure our survival. This second, thoroughly updated, edition of The Enemy of Nature speaks to this new environmental awareness. Joel Kovel argues against claims that we can achieve a better environment through the current Western 'way of being'. By suggesting a radical new way forward, a new kind of 'ecosocialism', Joel Kovel offers real hope and vision for a more sustainable future.The Farmer From Merna: A Biography Of George J. Mecherle And A History Of The State Farm Insurance Companies Of Bloomington, Illinois
By Mecherle, Karl Schriftgeisser. 1955
This is the biography of George J. Mecherle, an Illinois farmer who conceived of a plan to bring low-cost honest…
auto insurance to the farming people of his home state. It tells of his struggle to get the business established and the growth of his venture.