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This comprehensive introduction focuses on the effects of globalization to tie concepts together for students and show them how the fates of developing nations and developed nations are intertwined. This new edition features an expanded focus on globalization, a student-friendly design, and all material has been updated to reflect the most recent world events.
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Crisis & Renewal presents a radical view of how all successful organizations evolve and renew themselves and of what managers must do to lead the revival. Contrary to traditional organizational theory, which emphasizes rationality and control in the management of change, this book argues that there are times when managers must deliberately create crises by committing acts of "ethical anarchy" in order to break the constraints of success and renew their organizations.
Hurst develops a model of change -- the organizational ecocycle -- to explain how even successful organizations become systematically vulnerable to catastrophe. He brings the model to life with stories of crisis and renewal from both his own management and consulting experiences and a cross-section of enterprises -- from the hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari and the Quakers of the Industrial Revolution to contemporary organizations such as 3M and Nike.
Born when people come together to capitalize on an opportunity, young organizations are usually dedicated to innovation and learning. As they grow and age, they become preoccupied with performance. Sooner or later they become constrained by their own success. For, in the pursuit of performance, what were once self-selected roles become designated tasks, flexible teams become rigid structures, open networks give way to closed systems, and control supplants commitment as people change. The risk, says Hurst, is that this single-minded, performance orientation may render organizations dangerously insensitive to subtle changes in the environment, seriously damaging their ability to learn.
Renewal-changing a performance organization back into a learning organization-demands the restoration of the excitement, emotional commitment, and values often missing from large enterprises. It involves returning to the founding principles of the firm to reconnect the past with the present. In the aftermath of crisis, only shared values can hold a renewing organization together.
Crisis & Renewal gives managers the theoretical grounding and the practical tools for leading their organizations to new life. The Management of Innovation and Change Series.
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Book bridges theory, history, and science to produce insight.......1997-08-12
When the Globe & Mail newspaper reviewed this book, it referred to Mr. Hurst as "a thinking manager's Tom Peters." Not bad, and based on the book not entirely unjustified.
What makes this book really fascinating to me is the way it weaves insights from human history, anthropology, science, and personal business experience into a coherent picture of organizational growth, decay, and renewal. A lot of us have had a feeling that the standard bell curves and life cycles weren't really all that helpful. David Hurst has proposed an alternative solidly grounded in practice and history, one which is much better-suited to helping real managers think systemically about their companies and make decisions on the ground.
Hopefully David can expand on some of his insights in a forthcoming book, and include some more business cases that show his ideas in action. Action-oriented, "give it to me in 10 bullet points" types will probably find this book a bit frustrating for that reason. But if you belong to the school of thought that says wanting everything in 10 bullet points is part of the problem, this is definitely a book worth your time.
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Crisis and Renewal presents a radical view of how all successful organizations evolve and renew themselves, and what managers need to do to lead the revival. Contrary to traditional organizational theory, which emphasizes rationality and control in the management of change, Hurst argues that there are times when managers must deliberately create crises in acts of "ethical anarchy" in order to break the constraints of success and renew their organizations.
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A comprehensive summary of new and existing approaches to analyzing multiresponse data, Graphical Analysis of Multiresponse Data emphasizes graphical procedures. These procedures are then used, in various ways, to analyze, summarize, and present data from a specific, well-known plant breeding trial. These procedures result in overlap plots, their corresponding semigraphical tables, scatter plot matrices, profiles across environments and attributes for individual genotypes and groups of genotypes, and principal components. The interpretation of these displays, as an aid to understanding, is illustrated and discussed. Techniques for choosing expressions for the observed quantities are also emphasized. Graphical Analysis of Multiresponse Data is arranged into three parts: o What can usefully be done o Consequences for the example o Approaches and choices in more detail That structure enables the reader to obtain an overview of what can be found, and to then delve into various aspects more deeply if desired. Statisticians, data analysts, biometricians, plant breeders, behavioral scientists, social scientists, and engineering scientists will find Graphical Analysis of Multiresponse Data offers invaluable assistance. Its details are also of interest to scientists in private firms, government institutions, and research organizations who are concerned with the analysis and interpretation of experimental multiresponse data.
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Outspoken writings by the founder of modern nursing record fundamentals in the needs of the sick that must be provided in all nursing. Covers such timeless topics as ventilation, noise, food, bed and bedding, light, cleanliness, and observation of the sick. "...Still the finest book on nursing..."—Co-Evolution Quarterly.
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Perfect Sevice.......2007-04-10
I received the book within a few days of the order and it was in perferct condition.
Notes on Nursing.......2007-01-18
A book for true Nightingales! I enjoyed this book a great deal, some parts had me laughing out loud. It is an excellent gift book for nurses!
Makes a wonderful gift........2007-01-13
This makes a wonderful gift for a nursing student who is graduating, a nurse who is retiring or one who is being promoted. It is fascinating reading from a historical aspect will be relevant until the end of time.
Must-read for any nurse or aspiring nurse........2006-12-09
Nursing is a vocation; not "just a job." Miss Nightingale knew this, and this book reflects this philosophy. Nursing-schools, many years ago, designed the curriculum--and educated the aspiring nurses--with this in mind. Sadly, many present-day nurses (and nursing-schools) have lost this ideal...and the state of affairs in nursing bears this out.
If you're seriously considering nursing--or are a nurse who is "burned out," read this book. It will enlighten and edify you.
Basic, but useful........2006-02-25
I ordered this as a reference for my research work, so it was exactly what I was expecting. For more casual readers, the important excerpts or full-text can probably be more easily accessed online or through a library. If you need a convenient means of referencing this work though, then this edition is reasonably priced and compact.
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.
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Student edition. Annotated: Revised with additions. Very detailed table of contents; word index; glossary; focus questions; additional source/reading list.
This is the first-ever student-friendly edition of nursing's most famous and most important book, originally written in 1859.
Foreword and commentary by Michele G. Kunz, MSN, ANP, RN-BC.
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Harrison and Sons (1974) Reprint 8vo. 79pp. Hints of thought for those who have personal charge of health of others.
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Updated to include the 2003 Worlds competition.
Today's most exciting figure skaters are spotlighted in this richly illustrated book. Combining grace, incredible athletic ability and artistic showmanship, figure stating is exhilarating and highly entertaining. Anything can happen on the ice and often does. As the fans of competitive figure skating know, beauty and danger add up to the greatest show on ice.
Figure Skating Now covers the men, the women, the pairs teams and the dance teams. This second edition covers the reigning stars such as Timothy Goebel, Sarah Hughes, and Michelle Kwan, and introduces the next generation of competitors: Brian Joubert, Sasha Cohen, the pairs team Oberta and Sokolov and many others. With biographies and statistics,
Figure Skating Now is an insider's view of international figure skating at its highest levels.
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Wonderful Photography, That Glossy Skating Book That's Fun To Browse Through.......2006-06-23
I only have the first edition of Figure Skating Now, so if I mention some skaters that dropped off the scene around 2001, that's my solid explanation why I did. Figure Skating Now is a better buy than Icestars because of it's wonderful photography and solidly edited profile info, and, after I buy a book, my fetish is to see if the pages "smell" good, and if you're on the same page with me and my fetish, then Figure Skating Now is a top-notch book because of it's forever-glossy smell contained in it's pages. Still, you have to remember that Figure Skating Now is not an informational guide to figure skating, like The Official Guide To Figure Skating, it's simply a book with extremely nice photography, glossy pages, and well-edited if not very informative, profiles of the top skaters in the world today. In that aspect, it's simply classified as a just-so-you-know book that fans of skating, particularly female fans, will love to flip through and chant a chorus of "Ooh!s and Aah!s" about over their favorite skaters. In that sense, it is similar to Icestars, only it's edited much better.
It basically gives profiles of all the four aspects of skating (mens, womens, pairs, and ice dancing) and the top skaters in each category (examples include Evgeny Plushenko, Michelle Kwan, Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao, and Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio). Some other previous skaters whose profiles were featured include Alexei Yagudin, Todd Eldridge, Sarah Hughes, Maria Butyrskaya, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat and Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kratz-retired skaters featured in the 2001 edition, the majority who competed in the 2002 Olympics before announcing their retirement. My point is that I would get the more updated version of Figure Skating Now (the 2nd edition) just to be more updated in your knowledge of the biggest stars in figure skating. Overall, this book is fine and is worth the money if you want a glossy skating book with nice profiles of your favorite skaters, if you want a book describing the comprehensive history and knowledge of figure skating, this isn't the one to get, but it doesn't claim to be that. In fact, it succeeds extremely well at what it claims to be.
Difficult to know which edition is which.......2004-12-30
The second edition (Sept 2003) does feature Sasha Cohen and is up to date - loads of photos very good info for the new or experienced skating fan.
Good for "New" Skate Fans.......2003-07-06
This is a good introduction to the current stars of figure skating. If you have read books about skating and they have told you about recent stars then this book won't do you a lot of good. It does have a lot of good photography and does include info about some people that you don't normally find in other books. One other thing is, because it reviews figure skaters who did well in the 2001 worlds, it does not include Sasha Cohen considering she was out with an injury that season. It really depends on you if you want to get it or not. If you love reading skating books then this is a great book, but if you'd either only want to read about the champions or read about them once this isn't the book for you.
i thought i would get better.......2002-12-28
I got this book and was excited, but they wrote about such pointless stuff, its good for a quick ref i guess. They also didn't include skaters such as Sasha Cohen (:}) but oh well, don't buy it!
Great Book of knowledge.......2002-03-06
I recommend this book to anyone that wants to know the gossip on how the latest figure skaters got to where they are today. With lots of great pictures of all stars including Michelle Kwan, Sarah Huges, Irina Slutskya, Elvis Stojko, Alexei Yagudin and much much more from all around the world.
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For more than 150 years, Town & Country has stood for quality and refinement. So who better to offer sound guidance on leading a civilized life in a world of eroding social graces? Here, 50 of the keenest and wittiest observers of our changing culture put forward their incisive—and thoroughly modern—views on sidestepping today’s most prevalent, perilous social landmines. From such topics as cell phone and E-mail etiquette to guilt-free apologies, these 64 timely essays offer astuteness without stuffiness. Relish the humor and insights of such writers as Jonathan Alter, Anthony Bourdain, Jay McInerney, Sue Miller, Peggy Noonan, Cokie Roberts, Jane Smiley, Wendy Wasserstein, and many others. The 10 new contributions include: “Polite or Passé,” by William Zinsser; “To Make a Long Story Short,” by Patricia Marx; and “Thanks for the Compliments,” by Jeanne Wolf.
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Entertaining, delightful, instructive, and clever.......2005-11-18
A wonderful collaboration by a group of talented men and women that would make an excellent gift for most everyone. I will begin this review with notes on the introduction and all nine chapters and bring it to a conclusion with a bit of fanatical gushing.
The introduction of `Town & Country's Social Graces' is a cleverly written and well thought out piece written by the Editor in Chief of the magazine, Pamela Fiori. It first details why the Social Graces department was created in 1995. Then it goes on to describe some of the subjects that the article addresses. For example, some of the issues faced were about the "flagrant use of cell phones in public by people who simply cannot keep their business to themselves" and "the arrogance of certain individuals who, once in the driver's seat (literally), believe they have `The Right of Way'". It is clear by this introduction alone that the essays that fill this book are abundant with intelligence, wit, and acuity.
Chapter one comprises eight essays that focus on the subject of `Modern Times'. The first essay, `Privacy... or What's Left of It' by Jay McInerney, is about just what the title leads you to believe, privacy or lack thereof. It's told with a sense of humour but don't let the jokes fool you into thinking that the author isn't serious about humans' dwindling respect for privacy, both their own and others'. The fifth essay, `The Sound and My Fury' by William Norwich is perhaps my favourite out of the chapter because I can relate to it so well. It's about how rudely people can react when politely asked to speak more quietly when out in public, to silence their dog's incessant barking, or to take a break from playing a loud instrument in the next apartment over. A few other interesting essays that can be found in this chapter are `On Accountability', `The Etiquette of E-Mail', and `Smugly American'.
Chapter two comprises five essays written about how `Little Things Mean A Lot'. The very first essay in this chapter, `On Being a Gentleman' by David Brown, was my personal favourite. The author not only gave examples of true gentlemen and what made them so worthy of the title, but he also included a list of rules to live by. If more people were able to find it in themselves to follow at least one, two, or, even better, three of these rules on a daily basis their good attitudes would spread out like the rippling effect caused by a stone tossed into a body of water. Just imagine the possibilities. A couple other interesting chapters are `Respecting Our Elders' and `Say "Thank You"'.
Chapter three comprises seven essays written on the subject of `Family Affairs'. My favourite essay in the chapter is `Missing the Point' by Patricia Beard, which is about how adults should treat children with the same courtesy they would treat their spouse or friends. Other interesting essays are `Nagging Habits', `A Single Parent's Say', and `With All Due Respect', the latter of which concerns those irritating, though well-meaning, questions about an unborn baby to an expecting mother.
Chapter four comprises six essays written on the subject of `A Word's Worth'. The essay in this chapter that stood out most to me is `Put It in Writing' by the author of the book `The Writer's Rules', Helen Gurley Brown. The essay was about how letters, whether typed on a computer or typewriter, or handwritten will brighten somebody's day, especially if they're unexpected and much deserved. A list of clever ideas can be found to give the reader some examples of how to write a good letter, such as "short is usually better than long", "write the thank-you now", and "give a little extra thought to writing a letter expressing your anger". A couple other interesting essays are `Just Say You're Sorry' and `In Memoriam', the latter of which is about the proper etiquette that should be shown when giving eulogies and having a memorial service for a deceased loved one.
Chapter five, `Honour Thy Neighbour', comprises six essays. In this chapter, the essay that most stood out to me was `The Boor of the Grease Paint' by Wendy Wasserstein. The essay was about how carelessly disruptive people can be in theatres or, in some cases, just be plain rude to those around them. Anyone who has ever been forced to sit through a ballet, play, movie, etcetera, surrounded by people coughing, engaged in conversations on cell phones, or unwrapping candy, will appreciate this particular essay. Other essays that stood out in this chapter are `Cellular Phonies' and `Don't Waste Time'.
Chapter six comprises seven essays written about `A Touch of Tolerance'. A great essay to mention here is `Straight from the Heart' by Lauren Picker, which was about people's reactions to people who are different, such as a little girl with a hand that had not fully developed in utero and a woman who used a wheelchair. This essay did a remarkable job of pointing out that "minding your language has always been a sign of respect" and "just because a person requires a wheelchair doesn't mean her life is lacking in richness or meaning". Other insightful and thought-provoking essays are `Sobering Thoughts', `Political Stomping', and `The Measure of a Woman'.
Chapter seven comprises six essays on the subject of being the `Life of the Party'. One of the more interesting essays in this chapter is `Utterly Shameless' by Letitia Baldrige. Its focus is on how "a rude person is often careless and unthinking but is usually too fast-moving to realise just how much she or he has offended others" whereas shameless people "often know full well when they're doing something mean-spirited or overly self-serving". Other distinctive essays are `Speak Easy' and `Please Don't Interrupt'.
Chapter eight, `They Also Serve', comprises five essays. The essay I found the most interesting is `Give Me the Civil Life' by Anne Taylor Flaming. It was about the decline of consideration and kindness people show those who service them on a daily basis, such as cashiers at grocery stores, waiters in restaurants, and so on. Other interesting essays are `A View from the Fridge' and `The Forgotten Groom'.
The final chapter, chapter nine comprises four essays written on the subject of `What Grace Does'. The essay that most impressed me from this chapter is `When Daddy Was King' by Frank Langella, which was about the relationship between a father and his daughter. I found it to be very touching, and I appreciated it even more as a daughter who never had a father.
Although the advice in this book is presented in a good-humoured manner that doesn't mean it shouldn't be taken seriously. These simple rules of etiquette are displayed in an amusing way that hopefully opens your eyes to your everyday, easily correctable mistakes, and allows you to have a few good laughs on the way.
The colours used in the book's design compliment each other and the font is easy to read. Every chapter page features an entertaining illustration by Chesley McLaren. The book's size is just right to fit inside a small bag or purse, so that it's easily transportable so you can take it anywhere you might find having a book useful. Each essay is about four pages long, told with an insightful sense of humour that makes the reader feel a bit guilty and sometimes even a little ashamed but also makes us laugh at ourselves whilst learning from our mistakes and how to deal with other people who have yet to discover this treasure of a book.
I highly recommend 'Town & Country's Social Graces' to anyone and everyone, not only for the clever advice, but for the humour as well.
Do you take this woman to be.....RING...RING...........2003-01-24
If you or someone you love has ever had their cell phone ring during a performance, church service, wedding, movie, etc....YOU or they need to read this book. It's not about stuffy manners. It's about consideration of your fellow man.
Whether it's not sending thank-you notes, cell phones ringing inapropriately, self-centered children interrupting or any of the subjects contained in this book, manners matter. No one is asking anyone to wear white gloves or to place a salt cellar at your dinner plate. It's about greasing the gears of civilized society.
One hilarious chapter deals with Politically Correct Americans making a HUGE ruckus over Europeans smoking. Throwing a massive tantrum over someone smoking in a French or German Restaurant will only identify you as a boorish American, and get you nothing more than a sideways glance and a shrug...while asking someone kindly if they would mind not smoking around you might just get the desired effect.
Another favorite chapter of mine was close to home, as I sometimes feel that the Tattoo Fairy has visited me in the middle of the night and inscribed "Tell me about your SEX LIFE" on my forehead. People just love to tell me their most intimate details which I do not seek and have not asked for. Evidentially, it is at epidemic stages and I am not alone in this observation.
This is a perfect length for a plane trip or a car trip, and you will nod in recognition and laugh out loud at some of these situations which require that we all brush up a bit on our manners.
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- Among the thought leaders contributing to the book are:
- Ross Levin, nationally known adviser and author of The Wealth Management Index, on monitoring success in helping clients reach their goals
- William Reichenstein, professor of finance, insurance, and real estate at Baylor University, on asset allocation
- Don Phillips, managing director of Morningstar, Inc., on constructing a portfolio of mutual funds
- Roger Ibbotson, founder and chairman of Ibbotson Associates and finance professor at Yale School of Management, on controlling risk in a retirement portfolio--and many more.
- Audience: Professionals who advise retail and institutional investors
- The biggest names, the biggest ideas in investment management, together in one book
- The media constantly call upon co-editors Evensky and Katz
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- Postmodern Interviewing
- Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management
- Price Theory and Applications: Decisions, Markets, and Information
- Principles of Macroeconomics, Updated Edition (6th Edition)
- Privacy for Business: Web Sites and Email
- Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor (Culture and Society After Socialism)
- Public Finance: A Contemporary Application of Theory to Policy with Economic Applications
- Speak Up with Confidence: How to Prepare, Learn, and Deliver Effective Speeches
- States Versus Markets: The Emergence of a Global Economy
- Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons (Japan Business & Economics)
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