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Bruce Pasternack and Albert Viscio, founding partners of Booz-Allen & Hamilton's Strategic Leadership Practice, have taken a comprehensive study on current business behavior that was conducted by their consulting firm and have used it to develop an intriguing new structure for companies of the future. In The Centerless Corporation: Transforming Your Organization for Growth and Prosperity in the New Millennium, they argue that decreasing bureaucracy and increasing communication in an environment where education and idea-sharing are actively promoted will prove a successful alternative to the top-down style of central management still favored by many businesses today.
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In today's fast-paced global business environment, the conventional model of the corporation and its management principles no longer deliver results. Economic upheaval, changing demographics, and technological revolution have forever altered the requirements for running a business today. Now, in response, The Centerless Corporation presents a radical new corporate model -- designed for your organization's survival, growth, and prosperity.
Drawing on groundbreaking research they conducted at Booz • Allen & Hamilton, Bruce A. Pasternack and Albert J. Viscio offer a comprehensive strategy for managing in turbulent times. To deal with increasing complexity, they contend, leaders must abandon their command-and-control mentality and establish a model in which responsibility and accountability are distributed throughout the organization, employees are regarded as valued resources, and knowledge flows freely. Illustrating their ideas with invaluable real-life examples, Pasternack and Viscio explain how to attract and develop leaders, build coherence to unite all parts of an organization, and restructure business units and corporate roles to add value rather than overhead.
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Great Idea, but can it be applied?.......2007-04-11
This idea of a centerless corporation is ideal. Progressing to this step will be very difficult. I think all managers in corporations should be required to read and grasp this idea. It will make their job more efficient and less stressful.
A few interesting ideas, but caveat emptor.......2001-07-23
I worked as an internal consultant in a large US federal agency where Booz Allen & Hamilton used this book as the "Bible" for their restructuring effort. While some of the ideas have merit, the book is overly prescriptive without enough regard for the nature of the underlying organization and its environment. Woe to the government executive who thinks he or she can manage a "centerless" agency, with its scary implications for accountability to Congress, the head of the agency, and citizens. Perhaps this review is more a reflection on how the book was used by BAH, but the lack of caution I saw in its application leads me to advise readers to be careful about applying its guidance. I would hazard a guess that similar dangers confront private sector consumers of this book's prescriptions.
Nothing but Fluff.......2000-03-17
This book was written solely as a money-maker, rather than a real information and strategy provider. As a consultant, I bought this book to provide background on corporate organizational issues. Much to my dismay, the book offered me nothing--and I mean NOTHING! The book is simply a recap of what any consultant should already know about corporate strategies, business models and organizational development. I believe that these writers began to think that they were in the wrong business, and therefore, tried to earn a little extra money by putting down what they already knew rather than researching, analyzing and providing something that is truly innovative and transforming. A good read if you want to know the basics and are new to business, otherwise, a waste of time!
Innovative and Informative.......1999-11-30
This book provided real world solutions to the issues facing the large 21st century corporation. It is clear that the authors have an enormous amount of experience and they share the lessons they have learned in an easy-to-understand manner. I have recommended the book to the chairwoman of my corporation.
Extremely good, but a little repetitive.......1999-09-16
I enjoy reading "The Centerless Corporation" more than almost any other business book. It provided me with a lot of good applicable ideas based on a visionary perception of the corporate organizations for the next century.
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From a one-page news release to a multi-page Web site, Alan Weiss' new book gives solo consultants and small consulting firms the insights, the strategies and the proven techniques for using the media to grow their businesses and make them more profitable -- on a limited budget. Alan provides hundreds of practical, proven tips on how to more effectively exploit a wide range of free and low-cost media and "guerilla" promotion opportunities including writing articles, speaking to groups, publishing a newsletter, doing pro bono work, power networking, e-mail marketing, winning Web site and much more. You'll learn insider tricks for getting the most from a speaking engagement...how to deliver a "killer" TV or radio interview...design a brochure...and maximize the effects of referrals, alliances and word of mouth. Here are the kind of "real-world" tips that cost so little yet do so much to put you or your small consulting firm on a solid path to profit. 186pp/2000/1 paperback book & CD
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Francis Lieber, nineteenth-century liberal
Frank Burt Freidel
Manufacturer: Louisiana State Univ. Press
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Freidel, Frank. Francis Lieber: Nineteenth-Century Liberal. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, [1947]. xiii, 445 pp. Reprint available 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-350-2. Cloth. $95. Francis Lieber [1798-1872] was a prominent political philosopher and political scientist who helped lay the foundation for the study of political science in the United States. Renowned for his theory of civil liberty which combined an appreciation for the English concept of decentralized self-governing local political institutions which protected the rights of the individual with the German idea of an overall national purpose, he bridged the intellectual gap between Europe and America. A Prussian scholar and political activist who was imprisoned twice in Germany for his liberalism, in 1827 he was one of the first university-trained scholars to emigrate to the United States. A scholar of wide interests beyond law and politics, he developed an encyclopedia that was the foundation of the Encyclopedia Britannica. He became professor of history and political economy at South Carolina College, and was later appointed to the same chair at Columbia College. In 1865 he moved to Columbia Law School, where he was renowned for his contributions. Dictionary of American Biography VI: 236-237. "There have been earlier studies of the career of Francis Lieber, but this book will rank as the definitive biography. The author has not only exhausted the archival material and the voluminous correspondence between this extraordinary German émigré scholar and the hundreds of men whom he knew during his sojourn in America from 1827 to 1872, but he used them to produce a very readable account of Lieber's career and political and social philosophy." Carl Wittke, Indiana Law Review 34:732-734 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 1105.
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Farm Tractors, 1926-1956 (I&T Collector's Series)
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Recombinant DNA and Related Methodology (CD-ROM) (Methods in Enzymology)
John N. Abelson
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In 1995, the critically acclaimed
Methods in Enzymology series celebrates its fortieth birthday. To celebrate this event, Academic Press is proud to present
Methods in Enzymology on CD-ROM, CD-1, focusing on recombinant DNA and related methodology. A perfect complement to the print series,
Methods in Enzymology on CD-ROM, CD-1, combines indexing with high-quality, informative full texts to create a unique information resource that brings single-search access to two database collections. Designed for scientists, researchers, and nonspecialists, the full-text collection consists of the entire contents of 18 selected
Methods in Enzymology volumes. The references located in the 18 selected volumes can instantly be retrieved in full. Also included on the CD-ROM are cumulative indexes to all 244
Methods in Enzymology volumes published from 1955 through 1994. The cumulative index provides an easy, time-saving way to find references for virtually every specialty in the 244 volumes. Many of the recent breakthroughs in life science research are built on past developments first introduced in the published volumes of the
Methods in Enzymology series. Now, researchers and librarians can access the most comprehensive collection of this critically important research.
Methods in Enzymology on CD-ROM, CD-1, is the perfect resource to learn from, to depend on, and to utilize--all from your desktop.
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* Recombinant DNA
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* Expression of cloned genes and cDNAs
* Yeast genetics
* Protein-DNA interactions
* Molecular evolution
* The base price allows for up to five concurrent users
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* Move quickly and nonsequentially from one book to another
* View text and graphic images in a variety of formats
* Create personal links within the text
* Add private and public annotations
Topics include:
* Recombinant DNA
* Molecular cloning
* Protein purification
* DNA structure and dynamics
* Expression of cloned genes and cDNAs
* Yeast genetics
* Protein-DNA interactions
* Molecular evolution
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Cycles of Rock and Water: At the Pacific Edge
Kenneth A. Brown
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Cycles of Rock and Water: Upheaval at the Pacific Edge
Kenneth A. Brown
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Five Lectures on Supersymmetry (FLS)
Daniel S. Freed
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Two families, one holiday villa – who’s sleeping with whom?
Chloe needs a holiday. She’s sick of making wedding dresses, her partner Philip has troubles at work, the whole family wants a break. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain – perfect.
Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife Amanda seems more interested in her new kitchen than in him, and he works so hard to pay for it, he barely has time for his children. Maybe he’ll have a chance to bond with them on holiday. His old friend Gerard has lent them a luxury villa in Spain – perfect.
Both families arrive at the villa and realize the awful truth – Gerard has double-booked. What no-one else realizes is that Chloe and Hugh have a history, and as tensions rise within the two families, old passions resurface. It seems that Gerard’s ‘accidental’ double booking may not be an accident after all.
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Two Unlces and a Girl.......2007-06-12
Very well written. I felt I had met these people. The writer's words flow smoothly, and I had to slow myself down or the book would have ended too soon. Some of things very young Lily and friend did were hair-raising (in a dark park, cavorting with perverts). What I liked best about this book were her uncles, particularly Uncle Gabe. In fact, I have now purchased Laura Cunningham's book "A Place in the Country" so I can read more about her uncles. I enjoy memiors that deal with unconventional families that provide a nurturing environment and a great deal of love, and this book is that sort of memior.
I loved this book!.......2006-09-06
I cannot wait to read more of her work. I loved this book! I loved her writing. This is a must read!
Glad I've finished it........2006-01-21
This book's emphasis on prurient material turned me off. Also, the "characters" did not seem to behave in an age appropriate manner, which led me to wonder if the author didn't exaggerate many of the escapades described in the book.
The Marx Uncles' "A Night at the Soap Opera".......2004-01-21
Like another reader, I was drawn to the unusual cover of this book--a sweet lil' girl's face superimposed over a faded shot of two older men--in these pedophiliactic times of Michael Jackson and Catholic priests, I assumed it was yet another sad story of abuse. Wronnnngg! This is so outrageously funny that you can almost laugh through the sad passages, while still appreciating the depth of tragedy that befell Shaine's unusual childhood. Her uncles really did sound like a couple of Marx brothers, but the love this odd family shared always shines. I'd teach it in my high school classes, but a few passages here and there probably make it questionable--although the haunting description of her continuing search for her father would resonate with many kids. A great find that I stumbled on while hunting for something else at B and Noble.
CLASSIC TALE OF ORPHANED GIRL RAISED BY UNCLES.......2003-07-27
...THIS BOOK SPOKE TO ME ALMOST AS NO OTHER. I LAUGHED AND CRIED AND TOTALLY IDENTIFIED. a little girl lost and saved.
CHERISH THIS BOOK,
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Sexy and scintillating..........2006-01-13
Wow! While reading this I thought my pants were on fire numerous times...Great characters, hilarious humor, a great read. I still get hot flashes when I think about a couple of scenes!!! Please write more!!!
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Sleeping with strangers--hospitality in Colonial Victoria. : An article from: Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Ian D. Clark
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 6309 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: Sleeping with strangers--hospitality in Colonial Victoria.
Author: Ian D. Clark
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Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 13
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Sleeping Arrangements
Jack Booth
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