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Leading in a Time of Change: What It Will Take to Lead Tomorrow, Viewer's Workbook
Peter F. Drucker , and Peter M. Senge Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787956686 |
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Sit at the table with the visionary leaders setting the agenda for organizational leadership and change!The Drucker Foundation presents you with a conversation between Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge, hosted by Frances Hesselbein. In this dynamic package, these two great minds of modern management share their wisdom on how leaders can prepare themselves and their organizations for the inevitable changes that lie ahead.
Witness a remarkable discussion between Drucker and Senge as they talk about the importance of all organizations learning to lead change. Using the principles presented in this stimulating video, you can help transform yourself and your organization into a change leader.
In addition, the companion workbook will be an invaluable aid in making strategic decisions. It serves as a fundamental resource for planning and implementing changes within your organization. This extraordinary package is an ideal tool for executive retreats, management training, or personal leadership development.
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A great guide to dealing with change.......2001-03-11
A video for all leaders.......2001-02-16
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Inquiring Organizations: Moving From Knowledge Management To Wisdom
John D. Haynes , and David B. Paradice Manufacturer: Idea Group Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1591403103 |
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Inquiring Organizations: Moving from Knowledge Management to Wisdom assembles into one volume a comprehensive collection of the key current thinking regarding the use of C. West Churchmans Design of Inquiring Systems as a basis for computer-based inquiring systems design and implementation. Inquiring systems are systems that go beyond knowledge management to actively inquire about their environment. While self-adaptive is an appropriate adjective for inquiring systems, they are critically different from self-adapting systems as they have evolved in the fields of computer science or artificial intelligence. Inquiring systems draw on epistemology to guide knowledge creation and organizational learning. As such, we can for the first time ever, begin to entertain the notion of support for wise decision-making. Readers of Inquiring Organizations: Moving from Knowledge Management to Wisdom will gain an appreciation for the role that epistemology can play in the design of the next generation of knowledge management systems: systems that focus on supporting wise decision-making processes.
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Modeling for Learning Organizations (System Dynamics Series)
John D. W. Morecroft Manufacturer: Productivity Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1563270609 |
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Heavy Hitters of Systems Dynamics.......2000-04-01
"Modeling" also includes a section overviewing the various simulation software packages available to modelers. Though developers like High-Performance Systems, Vensim, Pugh-Roberts, and PowerSim have made product enhancements to date, the sections from each company provide a great introduction to what is out there how each package can be applied.
The most valuable aspect of the book is probably in the case studies and methodological explorations of several authors. A number of key insights are offered as authors reflect upon the successes and shortcoming of the methods each chose to use to explore and develop models in a variety of business and public environments.
This is definitely a must have for any SD library.
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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V: 5th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2007, Leipzig, Germany, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3540752536 |
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2007, held in Leipzig, Germany, September 25-27, 2007.
The 29 revised full papers and 17 revised short papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of areas such as: scalability and reconfigurability of multi agent systems; deployment scenarios exploiting synergies of multi agent systems and other related technologies like grid, web services and semantic web; applications of multi agent systems in design and manufacturing, transport and logistics, space applications, tourism industry, e-commerce and many other application areas.
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Writing in Real Time: Modeling Production Processes (Advances in Discourse Processes)
Ann Matsuhashi Manufacturer: Ablex Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0893914177 |
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This volume focuses on how writing is produced both during the moment-to-moment process of inscribing a text and during real time broadly conceived as the context for studying the writing process as writers plan, draft, revise, and confer with others. The chapters break open these generic categories by studying special populations of writers not studied before, by specifying the writing environment, by developing more detailed models of the writing process, and by offering critical analyses of current research methods and paradigms. In a renewed climate of educational need such as we are now experiencing, research on writing processes can contribute an important piece to the puzzle of effective instruction. Theories of instruction ought to be integrated with theories of learning and both must incorporate knowledge about writers' processes. The chapters in this volume move toward such a view of research on writing.
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Soils, Land and Food: Managing the Land during the Twenty-First Century
Alan Wild Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0521820650 |
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A major challenge of the twenty-first century is to ensure sufficient global food production to cope with the burgeoning world population. This book follows the development of techniques of land management and discusses reasons why some agricultural projects have succeeded while others have failed. Alan Wild shows how surveying and protecting soils before new land is brought into cultivation, raising soil fertility, increasing inputs, and improving economic conditions all help to increase food production. He emphasizes the need for both economic change and technological intervention in developing countries where, in many cases, food production will need to more than double in the next fifty years.Download Description
A major challenge of the 21st Century will be to ensure sufficient global food production to cope with the burgeoning world population. Soils, Land and Food is a short text aimed at undergraduates, graduates, agricultural scientists and policy makers which describes how the use of technology in soil management can increase and sustain agricultural production. The book leads the reader through the development of techniques of land management and discusses reasons why some agricultural projects have succeeded while others have failed. It shows how surveying and protecting soils before new land is brought into cultivation, raising soil fertility, increasing inputs and improving economic conditions can all help to increase food production. Particular emphasis is placed on the need for both economic change and technological intervention in developing countries where, in many cases, food production will need to more than double in the next fifty years.
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The Way Life Works: The Science Lover's Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along
Mahlon Hoagland , and Bert Dodson Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0812928881 Release Date: 1998-11-17 |
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Subtitled The Science Lover's Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along, The Way Life Works is what happens when a biologist and artist share an interest in life from bacteria to humans, and collaborate on taking their knowledge public. The result is a most magnificent science book, devoted to the wonder and unity of the natural world. The chapters start with Patterns and Energy, continue with Information, Machinery, Feedback, and Community, and end with Evolution. Each is superbly written, delightfully illustrated, and supremely informative.Take the chapter on energy and its explanation of ATP, a.k.a. the conversion of light energy into chemical energy. The metaphor is dance, with an illustration showing electrons as jitterbuggers in the Chloroplast Ballroom. The text explains that
as the lights spin and the band breaks into "Sugar Jump," the dancers go wild. Suddenly a bystander inspired by a couple on the floor gets dancing feet. This in turn excites a second bystander to dance and before long a chain reaction takes place, each new dancer energizing the next bystander.It's a brilliant start to a lucid explanation of a subject that plunges many a biology student into a panic, here made so readily accessible that readers, ages 10 to 100, can come away with a working mental model of the process. And so it goes for division of cells, DNA double helixes, fermentation, and the adaptation of genes. Hoagland and Dodson have succeeded in producing that most beauteous of reference books, the resource that makes you interested in what you had thought was dull as dishwater, then, once you're hooked, raises your understanding to a high standard of comprehension. It's a truly laudatory work of science and art. --Stephanie Gold
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Biology concepts explained.......2005-08-16
Absoultely Inspirational and enlightening.......2003-06-20
very good book for 10-15 years old.......2002-01-18
Great Book!.......2000-08-06
The best book I ever read!.......2000-07-19
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A Field Guide to Mammals: North America north of Mexico (Peterson Field Guides(R))
William H. Burt Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0395910986 |
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Descriptions of 380 species include size, weight, color, markings, number of teeth, habitat, habits, and comparisons with similar species. Superb color illustrations and line drawings show 230 animals. Range maps as well as photos of skulls and drawings of animal tracks, dens, nests, and burrows round out the wealth of information given in "the best general guide to all of North America" (Peter Warshall, Whole Earth Review).Customer Reviews:
Mammals Coloring Field Guide.......2007-09-28
Bought for a friend.......2007-07-18
Field Guide.......2006-09-06
Great field guide.......2005-09-13
Eh..........2005-07-28
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Mammals: Field marks of all North American species found north of Mexico (Roger Tory Peterson field guides)
William Henry Burt Manufacturer: Easton Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00070UDHI |
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The Whale Watcher's Guide: Whale-Watching Trips in North America
Patricia Corrigan Manufacturer: Northword Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1559714360 |
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Better information on the internet..........2003-02-22
Ask not for whom the whale migrates...........2002-09-14
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A FIELD GUIDE TO THE MAMMALS. NORTH AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO.
W.H. Burt Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WQD64Y |
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A FIELD GUIDE TO THE MAMMALS. NORTH AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO.
W. Burt Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000WQAMVY |
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A Field Guide to the Mammals: North America North of Mexico (Peterson Field Guides 5)
William Henry Burt Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000NY8AQ4 |
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The Truth About Turkey Hunting
Ronnie Strickland Manufacturer: Stoeger Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0883172607 |
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From deer camp to turkey woods, nobody tells it like Cuz. In The Truth About Turkey Hunting, Ronnie "Cuz" Strickland shares his often-sidesplitting experiences as hunter, guide, cameraman, and mentor in the annual ritual of the spring turkey hunt. In a book that brings you as close to the campfire as you can get without the smoke, Cuz imparts the wisdom of years in the turkey woods.Customer Reviews:
"Truth" truly a great read.......2003-02-19
Strickland's writing style is professional, yet very conversational. It's as though he were in the room with you, telling the tales one after another until, out of breath and wiping tears of laughter by the handful, you beg for mercy.
Anyone who's ever spent any time in the outdoors will love this book. I bought one for my dad as a gift and, after reading the first story, had to order him another one. This is one volume my bookshelf won't be without.
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The Whole Truth About Turkey Hunting: About Spring Turkey Hunting According to Cuz
Ronnie Strickland Manufacturer: Stoeger Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0883172615 |
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From bears to Bubbas and all points between, this second installment of stories from master turkey hunter and storyteller Ronnie Strickland is surely the next best thing to hearing them told around the campfire. Cuz's second helping of Southern-fried stories is guaranteed to entertain anyone who's spent time outdoors. As you read this book, you'll realize that your only regret will be not having been there with Cuz as these stories were unfolding.
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How to Turkey Hunt: The Real Truth About How It Is Done
Marc Greer Manufacturer: Writers Club Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0595214762 |
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This is a book about how to hunt turkeys. This is not a compilation of magazine articles. There will not be any ringing endorsements of specific products designed to sell you one product over another. This is a book about turkey hunting, not merchandise.Customer Reviews:
If You've Never Done It...........2007-05-12
Straight Shooter.......2006-01-17
To the Point.......2002-07-27
Good book, very informative........2002-06-08
Jose's Review on "How to Turkey Hunt".......2002-05-15
It gives all the details and know hows in a neat "no frills" package. Right to the point and LOTS of important information that you would normally not even think was important!!
If you truly want to learn how to turkey hunt, this book is the best I've ever seen!! Enjoy!
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The truth about spring turkey hunting according to Cuz
Ronnie Strickland Manufacturer: Distributed by Haas Outdoors ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0964259532 |
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Ready! The Training of the Search and Rescue Dog
Susan Bulanda Manufacturer: Doral Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0944875416 |
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All America is thrilled by Search and Rescue missions, especially when the well-trained dogs are brought in to save victims of earthquakes, hurricanes and man-made disasters. We watch with fascination and horror as these tales unfold across our TV sets. This is one of the few comprehensive books on the training of SAR dogs. It is a complete approach to training for this type of dog.Customer Reviews:
Good information - bad pictures.......2006-02-24
Great Guide to beginnning your SAR canine.......2002-03-14
Great book, begginers first choice!!!.......2001-08-03
Excelent, easy to follow.......2001-02-22
Excellent training in an easy format.......1998-10-10
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Ready! the Training of the Search and Rescue Dog
Susan Bulanda Manufacturer: Doral Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000J4MALE |
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Ready!: A Step-by-Step Guide for Training the Search and Rescue Dog
Susan Bulanda Manufacturer: Doral Publishing, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MHTR7I |
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Packaging Design 9 (Graphis Packaging)
B. Martin Pederson Manufacturer: Graphis Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1931241384 Release Date: 2005-02-01 |
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