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Highlights the research and policy analysis produced by the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings. The Imperative of Development chronicles the growth and expansion of the first center for development research in Brookings's 100-year history and traces how the seeds of this initiative continue to bear fruit.

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Yu gives Western readers a full view of China's science and technology policy, plus a historical perspective on the development of her science, technology, and industrial enterprises.

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This book deals with the development and fortunes of Inmos, today the largest British-owned semiconductor manufacturer of high volume, standard micro-electronic components.

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An esteemed executive coach shows managers and leaders how they can achieve personal and professional success-and leave a mark on the world.

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Managers of international businesses, research and development, as well as researchers in the fields of strategic management, technology, and public policy, will find this comprehensive book on innovation practical reading.

A number of innovation hotspots are studied, including large, evolving countries such as Russia and India.

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Two experts show that innovation is a skill that can be learned and describe eight essential practices for achieving success.

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Written by a team where the father is recognized as the world's foremost evolutionary systems scientist and the son is one of the youngest members of the top management of a Fortune 500 transnational company, The Insight Edge, in the words of James Ogilvy, comes at a crucial time and speaks to the needs of the time.

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The Insightful Leader is the secret formula for claiming your best leadership and using it to achieve unlimited success.

Traditional leadership coaching asks leaders to substitute ineffective behaviors with alternatives, without addressing the underlying internal beliefs that reinforce the old behaviors.

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Let's face it: everybody talks about economics, but hardly anyone really understands it. The Instant Economist is easy but essential reading for every modern manager.

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Combining a historical case study with theoretical framing, this book offers an exploratory contribution to our understanding of the institutionalization of indoctrination and propaganda, and of the associated social monitoring and control practices, both as they have manifested in the past, and as they may manifest in the future.

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Nations undergoing rapid economic growth require new institutions--both formal organizations and informal modes of interpersonal behavior. John Powelson develops a theory of institution-building to explain how nations choose such institutions, what kinds they prefer and why, and in what ways the institutions' effectiveness (essentially, their confl

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Scholars attempting to place Veblen in a particular intellectual tradition will only succeed in reaping frustration and confusion until it is recognized that he was primarily ^Isui generis^R and eclectic.

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They reveal complexity science to be a process, one seeking and understanding of the systems we inhabit, and ways of applying that understanding to the management of organizations.

Complexity science is not a management fad, and the authors do not treat it as such.

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Friesen's book makes clear that there are productive ways of selling your ideas, and he shows that these methods can and must be learned. He shows why organizations tend to be defensive and how to sell ideas in a way that averts resistance to change.

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The fundamental question explored in the book concerns the meaning of co-operation. Was it a social movement or an economic enterprise Did it aspire to challenge capitalism or to reform it Did it contain at its heart a political vision for the transformation of society or was it simply a practical guide for organising a business -- .

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In 1958, 1976 and 1985, Argentina experienced severe imbalance of its external accounts, which led to attempts at economic stabilization through an agreement with the International Monetary Fund. This work examines these programmes and their success in alleviating Argentina's economic problems.

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The most severe frost of the twentieth century ravaged Brazilian coffee-growing areas in 1975--leading to a worldwide increase in coffee prices of more than 400 percent. This unique volume traces the political and economic effects of the frost from U.S. consumers to the world coffee market.