Book Description
It is all too common—and costly—for people in international groups to misunderstand each other. Sometimes in a dramatic fashion, often in a subtle way, these cultural differences impede progress among global teams.
With over 15 years of international experience training intercultural groups, Mijnd Huijser has developed, tested and refined a powerful tool that helps overcome the obstacles inherent in global teams. His Model of Freedom provides a visual and practical method for understanding oneself and others. It helps individuals distinguish between personal and cultural behavior, and allows them to contribute to better teamwork. Managers and team members learn how to convert tensions in corporate culture to sources of energy, leveraging the advantage of culture for best results.
Most of Huijser's experience comes from multinational organizations, and the insights are applicable to a wide variety of groups, helping achieve better results on a national level, an organizational level and even a small unit level when differing cultures exist.
Customer Reviews:
An inviting, appealing manner business libraries and readers will appreciate........2007-03-12
Business people working on international teams face a myriad of communication and business challenges, addressed here in CULTURAL ADVANTAGE: A NEW MODEL FOR SUCCEEDING WITH GLOBAL TEAMS. The author has over 15 years of international experience training intercultural groups and has tested his tool for overcoming common team problems: his CULTURAL ADVANTAGE reads with the excitement of fiction, following a case study through the book to teach methodology in an inviting, appealing manner business libraries and readers will appreciate.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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Today's workplace brings together a variety of people with very diverse backgrounds and behaviors. Discover how culture and politics impact your organization, and learn to reverse prejudicial thinking and understand how gestures and body language can differ between cultures. This book will guide you through mastering how you think about yourself and others, how to speak and listen effectively to people with different backgrounds, and how to pay attention to the non-verbal language of “where, when, and how” you do things.
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Succeeding in the Workplace
Peter S. Latham
Manufacturer: J K L Communications
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ASIN: 1883560039 |
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Reengineering Survival Guide: Managing and Succeeding in the Changing Workplace
Andrew J. DuBrin
Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold
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ASIN: 053884387X |
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Written to help you understand how to effectively lead and manage others in the revamped work place. A book about change, it is perfect for corporate employees wishing to focus on building personal competitive advantage in the downsizing, right sizing, reengineering firm. Includes: a clear, concise explanation of changes in the marketplace, how to meet the challenge of change, numerous case examples, and more. DuBrin has authored more than a dozen books on pragmatic, organizational topics.
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Succeeding in the Workplace
Susan E. Race
Manufacturer: Personal Growth Systems
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ASIN: 0967354277 |
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Critical skills for a rewarding career and life you love. Tips from a career coach/Human Resources executive on selecting your career, landing your dream job(s), and achieving success in the workplace and life. Discover how to build rewarding relationships, professionally and personally, deliver optimal performance, and maximize your success whether working independently or for someone else.
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- EXCELLENT!!
- Regular Tips, not recomendable
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The Workplace Survival Guide: Tools, Tips and Techniques for Succeeding on the Job
George T. Fuller
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Trade
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0133416607 |
Customer Reviews:
EXCELLENT!!.......2004-02-12
I found many skills that were very helpful in my situation of downsizing that I did not read in many other books of the same subject. Highly recommended!!
Regular Tips, not recomendable.......2000-03-10
I read this paper, and a just wanna say : All the tips I runned, was a disaster in my job. Be long away from this book!
Book Description
A wise manager knows that success only comes with operational excellence that is properly aligned with strategy. The challenge is knowing what actions to take and when to take them-navigating without knowing the impact of your actions on the bottom line is a risk you can't afford to take.
Profit Mapping delivers a forward-looking management decision tool that allows you to proactively navigate business strategy and execution. The authors' exclusive ProFITMAP method is a navigation system for operations that has been used successfully with leading businesses such as Ford Motor Company and General Motors. It enables you to test the impact of any number of factors on operational execution-from product demand and mix changes to process and technology changes to resource limitations-prior to taking any action.
ProFIT-MAP helps you make informed process and product decisions and reach your operational and product objectives by answering the following questions:
- Can it be done? Is it possible? If not, then what additional capabilities are needed?
- Will it be profitable?
- What is the impact of my particular decision across the product mix and the functional capabilities of the organization?
- How do I get to the desired future (the roadmap)?
With ProFIT-MAP, you'll gain the ability to change strategic direction with agility in response to changing market dynamics. ProFIT-MAP also allows you to enhance your existing approaches (including Six Sigma, Lean Operations, and Balanced Scorecard) by providing insight into which actions will be effective. Instructive strategic, tactical, and operational case studies illustrate its practical implementation.
Applicable to more than 30 unique operational areas and usable from the front lines to the executive suite, Profit Mapping enables you to control your operational destiny and deliver on your strategic goals.
Customer Reviews:
The Cartology of ROI.......2007-02-16
Anil Menawat and Adam Garfein provide in this brilliant volume "a tool for aligning operations with future profit and performance." To their credit, they explain with meticulous care how to drive operational excellence through profit mapping to create a sustainable edge which they correctly characterize as "the management roller coaster." In this context, I am reminded of the familiar assertion that "you can't manage what you cannot measure" and how important it is to "measure only what matters."
The maps with which Lewis and Clark began their journey of exploration in 1804 were crude and over time revised as the journey continued until 1806. The same is true of the documents with which - more two centuries later -- senior-level executives begin an exploration of their own organizations, in search of hidden resources and new opportunities. Following their Introduction to this volume, Menawat and Garfein, examine various challenges to business execution, present a "parametric framework" by which to "drive the system," and explain how to "win before taking action with a structured methodology," then shift their attention practical action steps in combination with two case studies in Chapter 10. The first examines a common dilemma of "doing no harm." The second illustrates ProFIT-MAP's potential to drive radical cost reduction without sacrificing quality or throughput.
With regard to ProFIT-MAP, Menawat and Garfein offer it as a "forward-looking management decision methodology" which enables senior-level executives to "navigate [both] the forests and the trees of business strategy and execution proactively." It consists of six phases: Project Objectives (please see pages 155-167), Process (pages 170-177), Resources (pages 177-180), Finance (pages 181-184), "What if?" (pages 184-187), and Business Execution Option Choice (pages 193-202).
With regard to the first phase, I am reminded of what Peter Drucker suggests in an article written for the Harvard Business Review (1963): "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all." Obviously, it makes absolutely no sense to create a totally accurate map - even if guided and informed by the ProFIT-MAP methodology -- to achieve an objective that will not increase profits and improve performance.
To me, some of the most interesting and most valuable material is provided in Chapter 4 as Menawat and Garfein explain how and why the Parametric Activities-Based Framework (pABF) offers a practical approach to measuring the right variables in any enterprise in order to reconstruct the whole system. One of the greatest benefits of the pABF is that it eliminates the need for patches or workarounds. On pages 101-102, Menawat and Garfein cite eight specific reasons why the pABF is a better estimation and reconstruction framework than others which lack a methodology or a process for applying one.
It seems appropriate to conclude this brief commentary with a brief excerpt from Chapter 1 in which Menawat and Garfein duly acknowledge various challenges to profitability and competitiveness. However, although "managers may not be able to do anything about high fixed costs in the near term, they can do a lot more operationally to increase effectiveness and quality while striving to reduce cost. In order to overcome changes in demand and financial constraints, organizations must learn to be become cost-competitive; price competitiveness is not enough. Industry leaders win by focusing on operational execution, cost management, and customers. The devil is in the details, and they understand that success happens only when the plan is grounded in reality, as opposed to invalidated expectations." This is precisely what Thomas Edison had in mind when asserting that "Vision without execution is hallucination."
Congratulations to Menawat and Garfein on a brilliant achievement.
The end of the "Load, Fire, Aim" production system?.......2006-07-12
This book is a "must read" for managers who rely on "rule of thumb," and "best guess" methodologies that have held sway in every business that I've ever been associated with.
The authors set out clearly how you can take control of your future, and test the results of an action or strategy before you commit resources and potentially set off down the wrong road. But first you've got to take on board the idea that simply projecting past results is no way to forecast, because those results came from different demand and capability circumstances than you face now.
I thought that the authors argued convincingly that you must understand the factors that affect your business, and which of them you do and don't control. The ProFIT-MAP methodology then lets you test those factors for sensitivity, so you can concentrate on the things that really matter to the overall goal.
Now you need to know the dynamics of your process. The authors break the business into 3 areas, Processes, Resources and Finance, and urge us to make sure that an "improvement" in one area doesn't result in major disruption elsewhere. (I could never figure out why cost savings in a production process, was rarely reflected in the overall bottom line.) Now I know, "tunnel vision".
Having followed the 6 Phases detailed in the book, you can generate different scenarios and analyse the impact across the board.
It might sound like a lot of work, but you're already doing a lot of work - guess work mostly, and once you've done it the first time, it's easy to continue. Remember, to make the broadly correct decision, you don't need to know the minutiae. But every time you reiterate, you add better data for tomorrow's decision support.
Speaking of figures, the authors offer a specification for real-time data collection and software integration that I have yet to see in the real world. However, help may be at hand, I notice that the Menawat & Co's website now makes mention of something called "ProFIT-MAP Dashboard", which promises integrated analytics. I will be watching this space.
Book Description
The Concept of International Legal Personality examines International Legal Personality (ILP) and its use in theories of international law. It firmly entrenches the concept of ILP in the broader context of the intellectual and socio-political trends against which these theories were shaped. It contains detailed studies of the work of ten of the most eminent scholars of international law and their use of ILP whilst also illustrating other important and enduring themes of international law. This account of the history of ILP not only offers alternatives to the traditional ideas concerning ILP, but also demonstrates how it has been and can be used in the re-conception of the moral-political identity of international law. The book contributes significantly to the study of the history and theory of international law, putting the concept of ILP into a new perspective by relating it to concepts of legitimacy, democracy, and justice in international governance.
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Preventing Micronutrient Malnutrition: A Guide to Food-Based Approaches
Manufacturer: International Life Sciences Institute/I L S I
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Binding: Paperback
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The Search for Extraterrestria
William A. Jr Gutsch
Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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ASIN: 0517578182
Release Date: 1992-01-08 |
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This book takes a broad look at the hobby of mineral fluorescence. It offers discussions of the major fluorescent minerals and mineral groups, techniques for collection them either on field trips or through trade and purchase, and the many ways fluorescent minerals can be displayed and enjoyed in the home. Fluorescent minerals present a puzzle. Many are of quite ordinary appearance in daylight, but when placed under the invisible rays of an ultraviolet lamp in a darkened room, they suddenly glow in beautiful colors. The transformation is so marked and so mysteriously compelling that many people instantly wish to learn more about it. This book provides information on the nature of ultraviolet light, how it causes fluorescence in a wide range of minerals, and how hobbyists can extract years of pleasure learning about them.
Customer Reviews:
EASILY OBTAINED!.......2004-04-05
I almost blew a gasket when I saw this offered, in used condition, for $197! I get them for less then $10 each, and signed by 2 of the 4 authors. $197 is UNFATHOMABLE to me! If anyone wants one of these, e-mail me at D6RollingWay@earthlink.net !
- Rich
Mineral museum.......2002-05-25
I like this book alot and the guys who wrote it are super knowledgable. There is a fluorescent Mineral Museum on the net at Wordcraft.net. It mentions this book.
Customer Reviews:
An excellent introduction to field theory........2005-06-22
We have been taught by Bill Gates and Gordon Moore that newer=better. It's not always true.
This book includes several atricles from Scientific American in the '80s. One of those articles, "Gauge Theories" by nobel laureate Gerard t'Hooft is worth the price of this book all by itself, especially if you get a used copy. This article explains better than any other I've ever seen how quarks and electrons work.
Theoretical Physics has two schools of thought, called "the Standard Model" and "String Theory." While string theory has caught the imagination of the public, in 25 years of research no connection between string theory and experiements in our universe has been made. The standard model is what we have that works. t'Hooft won his nobel prize for showing that electro-weak theory is renormalizable, using his new renormalization technique 'dimensional regularization.' There is no one alive better qualified to explain the standard model, and only a couple equally qualified. His article is, imho, must reading for anyone who wants to understand quarks and leptons at any non-trivial level.
The book also includes several other articles by several other authors.
I returned it!.......1999-05-19
Material is too old. (That said, I can't imagine that Amazon.com will publish this review.) When it comes to particle physics, Leon Lederman, one of the contributors, not that he had anything to say about it!, an article of his first published in the 70s!, is one of the most outstanding authors of our time. However,Scientific American is not doing the public much good with such old material. They first published this book for $11.95. It seems that W. H. Freeman is trying to cash in on reprints vs current material. Don't waste your money on this one. Rather, take a look at book reviews in magazines like "Science". Good Hunting and Good Reading!
Wayne G. Dengel
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Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing
Kelly Oliver
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415907047 |
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A valuable intervention in Kristevan scholarship and a significant and exciting contribution in its own right to post-structuralist discussions of ethical and political agency and practice. Contributors: Judith Butler, Tina Chanter, Marilyn Edelstein, Jean Graybeal, Suzanne Guerlac, Alice Jardine, Lisa Lowe, Noelle McAfee, Norma Claire Moruzzi, Kelly Oliver, Tilottma Rajan, Jacqueline Rose, Allison Weir, Mary Bittner Wiseman, Ewa Ziarek
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This digital document is an article from Women and Language, published by George Mason University on September 22, 1995. The length of the article is 553 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Ethics, Politics and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing. (book reviews)
Author: Susan Freedman
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Women and Language (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1995
Publisher: George Mason University
Volume: v18
Issue: n2
Page: p52(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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