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A practical guide to successfully navigating big life changes faced during middle age and later. Are you at a point in your life where you're asking, “What’s next?” You’ve finished one chapter and you have yet to write the next one. Many of us face these transitions at midlife, but they can happen at any point. It’s a time full of enormous potential, and it defines a whole new phase of life. It’s called Life Reimagined. Here is your map to guide you in this new life phase. You can use the powerful practices and insights to help you uncover your own special gifts, connect with people who can support you, and explore new directions. You’ll be inspired by meeting ordinary people w...
A Fast Company founder and former editorial director of Harvard Business Review provides “guidance and hope in a world gone upside down” (Jim Collins, New York Times–bestselling author of Good to Great). Take your work seriously, Yourself, not so much. Loyalty is a two-way street. Don’t implement solutions. Prevent problems. This dramatic, unpredictable era has wiped out time-honored businesses and long-standing institutions while ushering in unprecedented opportunities for creative individuals and entrepreneurial organizations. The job is no longer figuring out how to win at the game of work and life—it’s figuring out the new rules of the game. Rules of Thumb provides fifty-two ...
Whirlwind technology, instant communications, borderless corporations, and fluid capital: all these forces are turning conventional business wisdom on its head. Now, in probing interviews, four entrepreneurs from different backgrounds, industries, and nations explain how they are making sense of--and profiting from--all this change. Book jacket.
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The market for business knowledge is booming as companies looking to improve their performance pour millions of pounds into training programmes, consultants, and executive education. Why then, are there so many gaps between what firms know they should do and waht they actual do? This volume confronts the challenge of turning knowledge about how to improve performance into actions that produce measurable results. The authors identify the causes of this gap and explain how to close it.
Foreign Policy in a Transformed World provides an in-depth introduction to foreign policy analysis, looking at the role of foreign policy within contemporary international politics. The overall theme of the text is the study of foreign policy in relation to change and transformation, providing conceptual frameworks and applications for use in a variety of learning contexts and situating the study of foreign policy within the broader development of world politics and the world political economy: * introduces the main frameworks for the analysis of foreign policy, linking these to the study and development of world politics generally * applies the frameworks to contemporary foreign policies, p...
A Brookings Institution Press and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy publication Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in and around major American cities has received little scholarly attention. In Mega-Projects, Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff analyze the unprecedented wave of large-scale (mega-) public investments that occurred in American cities during the 1950s and 1960s; the social upheavals they triggered, which derailed large numbers of projects during the late 1960s and early 1970s; and the political impulses that have shaped a new generation of urban mega-projects in the decades since. They also appraise the most importa...
I Come First offers author M.H Nicholas's hard-learned lessons in business, reminding business people that they must watch out for themselves first and that they must learn to recognize self-interest in their day to day work.
This wise and inspiring book by Leonard Berry, moves far beyond his pioneering work in services marketing and service quality to explain how great service companies meet their toughest challenge: sustaining long-term success. In a world where customers regard flawless products as a given, service is the key differentiator between competitors in any field. From Berry's exacting study of fourteen mature, highly successful, labor-intensive companies comes an astonishing revelation: the single most important factor in building a lasting service business is not a matter of savvy business practice, but of humane values. In all fourteen award-winning companies -- Bergstrom Hotels, The Charles Schwa...
When Steven Burd, CEO of the supermarket chain Safeway, cut wages and benefits, starting a five-month strike by 59,000 unionized workers, he was confident he would win. But where traditional labor action failed, a novel approach was more successful. With the aid of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, a $300 billion pension fund, workers led a shareholder revolt that unseated three of Burd’s boardroom allies. In The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor's Last Best Weapon, David Webber uses cases such as Safeway’s to shine a light on labor’s most potent remaining weapon: its multitrillion-dollar pension funds. Outmaneuvered at the bargaining table and under cons...