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Creative Action in Organizations: Ivory Tower Visions and Real World Voices
Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 080395350X |
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"A strong point in this book is its opening extensive review of creativity in organizations and professions. . . including helpful tabulations of articles that identify the motives, expectations, emotions, means, and opportunities that lead to creative acts. . . . it can provide valuable insights and encouragement to scholars and practitioners who are concerned with developing and tapping creativity in organizations. . . . Management professors and graduate students will find the book helpful. . . ." --G. David Hughes in Journal of Product Innovation Management "This book definitely will be appropriate for class use in any setting focused on creativity in organizations. Presumably, these would be specialized upper-division, MBA, or Ph.D. electives. If you are interested in the topic of creativity in organizations, this is the book you must read. It is on the frontiers, and it provides a beacon for future scholarly progress on this topic because of its emphasis on how the organizational setting affects the creative process in the world of work." --Lyman Porter, University of California, Irvine "The book is itself a creative approach to creativity. The editors have attracted a talented and well-respected group of academic contributors. The message that we should abandon the romantic but flawed notion that creativity is principally the product of extraordinary individual acts is delivered forcefully, as is the companion notion that organizational contexts are the real seedbeds of creative behavior." --John R. Kimberly, Henry Bower Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania "This is one of the better collections of information about creativity because it is data based, and it provides a useful comparison and contrast of conceptual and practical aspects. By clearly describing the benefits and problems associated with the topics, Creative Action in Organizations obviously practices what it preaches. I would recommend that it be used as a textbook for a graduate-level business course, particularly for an MBA program. In addition, I also recommend that it be used as a text reference for industrial 'training & development' programs targeted at teaching employees how to develop new businesses, improve existing processes, or become better leaders (viz., corporate leadership development programs)." --Tom Wojcik, Manager, Office of Innovation, Hoechst Celanese Corporation Between the trade deficit, mergers, and the recession, the topic of creativity in organizations has become one of increasing importance. How does a company retool or refine its product with foreign and, often, less costly competition? How does human resources find creative solutions to budgeting, product development, marketing, and training? With pithy and engaging chapters from leading researchers and figures in business, government, and academia, Creative Action in Organizations explores the factors that are critical to the development and promotion of creativity to develop a revised view that is grounded in experience. This volume begins with a literature review (written as a mystery to be solved), followed by essays from researchers (Part II) and practitioners (Part III). Using the chapters as "data," the editors conclude with a content-analysis that presents a look at the most significant themes and offers a framework for conceptualizing creativity in organizations. This profound and fascinating volume is essential for students, professionals, and researchers in management and organization studies, public administration, public policy, evaluation, and psychology, as well as libraries in the above areas.
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Wealth Building for Professionals : It's Never to Early to Plan for Your Retirement, but It Can Be Too Late!
Julien P. Ayotte , and Gerhard H. Harms Manufacturer: Chicago Spectrum Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1583740295 |
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Don't wait too long to do retirement planning........2001-05-04
Great book! I wish they had written it sooner........2001-04-05
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Agentry Agenda: Selling Food in a Frictionless Marketplace
Glen A. Terbeek Manufacturer: Breakaway Strategies, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: 1928948006 |
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Agentry Agenda explores the substantial and inevitable changes facing the Food Industry's "logistics productivity" model in the near future. The forces of change, flat population growth and saturation of stores and products in developed markets have created significant "False economics" under the current mass marketing model. Meanwhile the technology advantage or information power has clearly shifted to the shopper. The convergence of these forces will literally turn the Industry Model "upside down", making the mass marketing, product distribution model obsolete. The industry needs to quickly move to the "Marketing Productivity" if it is to survive.Agentry Agenda suggests a Frictionless model, in which shoppers have "barrier free access" to the products they want and manufacturers/suppliers have "barrier free access" to their targeted shoppers. Perfect commerce! Retailers turned Agents will compete by creating the value added shopping experience, real and virtual. Manufacturers will compete on the true value of their products. Both will work on a parity basis, in satisfying the shoppers' needs because the economics of the industry will match the realities of the current marketplace. The book provides an economic model that demonstrates how the retailers and manufacturers, who adapt to the Agentry Model, will be more profitable and create long-term shopper loyalty.
"It's a great time to be in the Grocery business" if you are willing to adapt. The book offers the Agentry Model as one possible future scenario, in which the shopper, the manufacturer and the retailer, all win. The model is based on 9 principles, the most important of which is the matching of revenues with true shopper value created. This alone will eliminate the huge "false economics", which currently make the supermarket industry so open to attack by outsiders. Hopefully the book will start a movement that develops the "marketing productivity" business model, in place of continually trying to fine-tune the logistics productivity model of yesterday and today.
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Agentry Agenda.......2007-02-20
A retailing classic.......2000-04-13
Easy to read and a must for food manufacturers, retailers, and students of the industry. This is one of those rare business books that really creates a new paradigm for a mature industry.
Agentry Agenda will expand your view..........2000-03-26
This book will open your eyes to what is wrong, why it is wrong, and offers ideas on what it will take to fix the grocery business.
Glen's style of using cartoons to illustrate key points works well. It is clear that his years of involvement in the food industry has given him a perspective that is accurate and has crediblility.
Every executive in the food industry must read this book to understand what is happening around them, and, eventually to them, if they do not lead their organizations through the necessary changes that the new net economy enables.
To quote Tofler..."the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read or write, but will be those who can not learn, unlearn and relearn..."
This book will force you to unlearn and then relearn...GET IT TODAY!
Your Catalyst for Change.......2000-02-29
Agentry Agenda.......1999-12-28
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How to Form a Corporation, LLC or Partnership in Washington (QuickStart)
W. Dean Brown Manufacturer: Corporate Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1930617267 |
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You've Only Got Three Seconds: How to Make the Right Impression in Your Business and Social Life
Camille Lavington , and Stephanie Losee Manufacturer: Doubleday ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0385482442 Release Date: 1996-12-01 |
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A MUST READ for anyone desiring to get ahead in life!!! .......2007-01-04
Rapport building.......2007-01-04
Don't Waste Your Time.......2006-08-01
Looking for simliar book.......2005-12-28
What Impression Do You Make?.......2005-12-22
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Want A New Better Fantastic Job? Second Edition
Paskill. Peter Manufacturer: Careermakers Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0963001213 |
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In this second edition of Gross & Paskill's breakthrough work in the career development field, you will find new thoughts, tools and skill building exercises that will bring a holistic and integrated approach to your transition efforts.Customer Reviews:
Yet another Portland area person who loves this book!.......2002-12-27
Yes! An enjoyable job is within my reach!.......2001-03-08
Locating a soul-satisfying job is a type of work in and of itself. Most of us received little, if any, valid training in how to consciously approach the job search in order to produce the desired result: a job congruent with who I am and what interests me in life. The book, "Want A New Better Fantastic Job?" provides the training and job search methods that most of us never received. Job search tools are introduced and demonstrated. A flexible "new way" job search process is outlined describing the steps necessary to craft or locate a soul-satisifying job. Remember, like any other new set of skills to be learned in life, job search skills are learned and developed through exercise, practice, and patience.
"Want A New Better Fantastic Job?" provides the tools and teaches the process necessary for a successful job search. This invaluable book, co-authored by long time career management partners, Pam Gross and Peter Paskill, is complete, concise, and "digestible", a quality piece of work. The process being taught and shared through this insightful book has been tested and refined through the real life-work experiences of unique, ordinary people during the past eighteen years. This vital job seekers manual includes positive tips and suggestions learned from thousands of past job search experiences. Many of the most common mistakes and pitfalls are chronicled as well. Also, the book is outstanding in responding to the self doubts and fears which commonly arise for many of us during the "new way" job search process. These self doubts and fears are given voice through a superb question and answer dialogue contained within the book.
The "someone" who knows where the meaningful job is you and only you. Many of us become lost in the satisfying job quest because we continue to look toward others to provide the "magic answer", the elusive golden ring as the carousel of our work-lives goes round and round, year after year. Self-discovery is a growing up, an inner process, accepting and choosing the responsibility for one's own life. You and no one else holds the keys to unlock the inner doors to the vast richness particular to your own soul, your own individual life experiences. The subject is you--the unique self, a part of the unseen, inner world. The object is the job--the vehicle through which the self, the inner subject, finds expression and is made visible in the outer world. The subject of inquiry and the object being sought are inseparable, yet distinctly different. Remember, the self who lives inside of you is the subject, the job is the outer object. The process shared in this book connects the two together, subject and object, self and job. Stay the course, trust the process, and the satisifying job search will come to fruition.
"What would your life be like if you loved your work? Want to find out?" Today, take the first step. Trust your instincts. Buy the book: "Want A New Better Fantastic Job?"
This book deserves a 6 STAR amazon.com book rating!
Want a New Better Fantastic Job, second edition.......2001-02-22
Steve Watson President Perkins Strategic Management
Accessible, innovative, easy and fast to read.......2000-06-16
The book is a fast read - under 175 pages. But it packs a wallop in a tightly knit package. Read it through once, then use it as a guideline to chart your career transition. A generous appendix (35+ pages) is included in that 175 page total. Use the appendices for examples of planning and carrying out the job search, writing cover letters and resumes, developing action plans, organizing data and follow-through, researching industries and companies, interviewing, and doing sample proposals. Of course, there are plenty of "how-to" examples in the body of the text, too. Be sure to check out the skills word sets on pages 39-43.
Anyone who is still reading the want ads and sending out resumes to find the right job needs this book. Gross and Paskill have a new way to go about job search/career transition that can really make a difference. Even people who already have jobs can use these techniques with their current employer, so you don't have to be unemployed to find these techniques valuable.
The game plan that Gross and Paskill present makes sense and is very "do-able," something I appreciate because so many books on this subject seem overwhelmingly complex. But I guess 18 years of teaching this process at their CareerMakers training center (according to the Introduction) have forced the authors to figure out what works for real people.
Useful stuff for today's world.......2000-05-24
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Want a New Better Fantastic Job?: A How-To Manual for the Serious Job Seeker
Pam Gross , and Peter Paskill Manufacturer: Rightside Resources ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0963001205 |
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Princeton Review: Rookie's Guide to Money Management: Surviving Your First Years of Financial Independence
Carolina Edwards Manufacturer: Princeton Review ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0679778829 Release Date: 1997-09-23 |
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Whether you are a rookie just entering adult life on your own or a veteran hoping to sharpen your financial skills, how well you manage money greatly determines what you can and can't do financially.Customer Reviews:
Good Book and Easy Reading.......1998-12-23
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Japanese Industry in the American South
Choong Soon Kim Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415914035 |
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In spite of Japanese investment in America and the debate on the competitive edge of Japanese enterprise, we know little about the actual people who are managing and working in Japanese plants.
Japanese Industry in the American South describes the industrial cultures found in three Japanese industrial plants in the American South. Choong Soon Kim discusses why Japanese industries are coming to the South, to what extent Japanese industrial management in the South replicates the industrial relations model used in the home plants in Japan, and examines the reactions of Americans toward the Japanese expatriates. The Japanese have had a profound effect on Southerners. Meeting the challenges of the Japanese has led Americans to rediscover their own strengths and weaknesses.
Japanese Industry in the American South offers a different perspective. Western scholars have emphasized the positive aspects of traditional values and practices for Japanese industry, and haveeven romanticized their effects. Utilizing his bicultural experience, Choong Soon Kim discusses how the American public tends to over-estimate Japanese knowledge about American culture and the Japanese ability to be competitive with their American counterparts. He also talks about the idea many Americans still have that Japanese industrialists are so knowledgeable about the South that they can exploit what are seen as southern characteristics: white, rural, polite and non-union--of people who are supposedly eager to work hard for low wages. Conversely, the numerous concessions, compromises, and accommodations required by the Japanese are exposed and analyzed here.
Japanese Industry in the
American South reveals a more balanced view of Japan's success as well as struggles to remain competitive in an American setting.
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Marketing Research: Methodological Foundations (with InfoTrac®)
Gilbert A. Churchill , and Dawn Iacobucci Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0324201605 |
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Do you know the six stages of successful marketing research? Find out with MARKETING RESEARCH: METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS. Inside you'll learn about all stages, plus how to make them work for you in real-world situations. This textbook continues to be the market leader because of its balanced coverage and its easy-to-understand presentation. Get a solid foundation in class and preparation for the future.Customer Reviews:
Practical, deep, and complete.......2006-11-13
Marketing Research from a Project Based Perspective.......2004-06-29
Rather than focusing on decision support systems or marketing information systems, this book is focused on a project based approach. The authors help you recognize a problem, how to formulate it clearly, present it to decision makers for approval, designing the research to be done, data design and collection methods, they offer sample designs which is very helpful. They then do a fabulous job on data analysis and conclude by showing you how to present a proper research report.
There are several helpful appendices providing statistical values for those calculator based problems, but, really, who doesn't use a spreadsheet or SPSS or some similar package anymore?
There is also a glossary, a subject index, and an author index.
This is a standard text on the subject, and it is terrific.
Expensive but worth every penny!.......2000-08-24
The book sets out to explain how to: Formulate your problem. Determine your research design. Design your collection method and forms. Design your sample and collect the data. Analyse and interpret the data. Prepare your research report.
It is then subdivided into sub sections. I was particularly impressed with the section on ethics, which was so clearly laid out that I used it as a guide when writing a pure ethics paper.
The book is amply supplied with examples and case studies to illustrate the text and make it useful in a more practical sense.
All in all a clear, accessible, well laid out and well indexed textbook.
A complete detailed theoritical and analytical book.......1998-03-21
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Marketing Research: Methodological Foundations (Cram101 Textbook Outlines - Textbook NOT Included)
Churchill , and Iacobucci Manufacturer: AIPI ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1428806113 |
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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included.look no further for study resources or reference material. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and practice-tests for your textbook. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook.
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Market Segmentation: Conceptual and Methodological Foundations (International Series in Quantitative Marketing)
Michel Wedel , and Wagner A. Kamakura Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0792380711 |
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Modern marketing in industrialized countries cannot do without segmentation of the potential market. Goods can no longer be produced and sold without considering customer needs and recognizing the heterogeneity of those needs. Since the concept emerged in the late 1950s, segmentation has been one of the most researched topics in the marketing literature. It has become a central concept in marketing, both in theory and in practice. Recent technological developments, yielding a growing volume of information and a more detailed accounting of consumers' actual behavior, present new challenges and opportunities for market segmentation. Market Segmentation: Conceptual and Methodological Foundations provides an overview of the current state of the art in segmentation research. It aims to provide readers with both the conceptual basis as well as the tools necessary to conduct segmentation studies in a large number of markets, illustrated through a variety of applications. An errata page for this book is available by contacting: P Kluwer Academic Publishers,P Norwell, MA 02061, USA P Fax: +1-781-871-6528Customer Reviews:
Excellent book, but delivery is convoluted.......2004-05-19
I recommend it, but with reservation for those who are not up to speed in statistical analysis.
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Marketing Research with Infortrac: Methodological Foundations
Gilbert A. Jr. Churchill Manufacturer: Dryden Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000RFVHGE |
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Marketing Research : Methodological Foundations
Dawn Iacobucci Gilbert A. Churchill Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MU8FZA |
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Marketing Research: Methodological Foundations
Jr. Gilbert A. Churchill Manufacturer: Thomson Learning ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OA3V98 |
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Marketing Research: Methodological Foundations
Gilbert A. Jr. Churchill Manufacturer: Harcourt ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OEIF22 |
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Marketing Research: Methodological Foundations
Gilbert A. Churchill Manufacturer: Dryden Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O91PVK |
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Marketing research: Methodological foundations
Gilbert A Churchill Manufacturer: Dryden Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OEADOA |
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Growth, Employment, and Equity: The Impact of the Economic Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean
Barbara Stallings , and Wilson Peres Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0815780877 |
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Polarizing Mexico: The Impact of Liberalization Strategy & Growth, Employment and Equity: The Impact of the Economic Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. ... Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations
Ian Robinson Manufacturer: Relations Industrielles ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FTP3K Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, published by Relations Industrielles on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 2196 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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Russian Etiquette & Ethics In Business
Drew Wilson Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0844242160 |
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A frank, enlightening & objective look at Russian business........1996-12-07
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Kursk Oblast Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)
USA International Business Publications Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 0739729896 |
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This investment and business guide contains basic information on economy, business & investment climate and opportunities in the region, as well as information on selected export-import, business and investment opportunities, including, export-import, industrial development, banking & finance, government and business contacts. The guide also provides listing and contact information for major industrial, trade, service and other companies in the region, as well as information on selected export-import, business and investment opportunities.
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Kursk Oblast Regional Investment and Business Guide (World Investment and Business Guide Library)
Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739790897 |
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