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No organization can survive without iconoclasts--innovators who single-handedly upturn conventional wisdom and manage to achieve what so many others deem impossible. Neuroscientist Berns describes practical ways to understand and unleash an individual's potential to think differently.

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Examines the pivotal role that technology development has played in South Korea's dramatic transformation - from an economy based on subsistence agriculture to a highly-industrialized global competitor. This work explores the roles of public policy and the sociocultural environment in setting the stage for Korea's technological evolution.

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In challenging times, companies must serve their customers faster and more efficiently. This book helps you learn key steps for carrying out a business process improvement initiative, including how to: plan a business process improvement initiative; analyze and redesign a current process that needs improvement; and, more.

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Examines the role that social capital plays in organizations. This book argues that social capital is integral to business life and that without it cooperative action isn't possible. It identifies the social elements that contribute to innovation and productivity, and reveals the benefits that derive from investments in social capital.

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Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around relationships, multigenerational stewardship, and care for all. Includes voices of leading First Nations business leaders. Powerful reading for business leaders, policymakers, and economists.

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This book reveals that classic economic principles can still offer real strategic value in a marketplace that depends on information technology, and offers the insight and understanding necessary to succeed in the information age.

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The field of financial mathematics has developed over the years, and the underlying models that have taken shape in interest rate markets and bond markets, being richer in structure than equity-derivative models, are fascinating and complex. This book introduces the tools required for the arbitrage-free modelling of the dynamics of these markets.

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Argues that the real reason IT fails to deliver value is that companies have no formal system in place for guiding and monitoring IT decisions. This book shows that companies need IT governance systems to ensure that IT investments are made effectively.

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An assessment of the real work of leaders. This work helps us better understand what leaders-real leaders-do. It helps readers learn become more effective leaders as they explore pressing issues such as power, influence, dependence, and strategies for change.

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All managers want to hold their employees accountable for results and help them accomplish more, but few know how. Moving beyond the annual performance review, Keeping Employees Accountable for Results offers managers quick, step-by-step advice on setting expectations, monitoring progress, giving feedback, and following through.

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Helps you develop the analytical skills needed in today's world of work, no matter your role or experience. This title offers the tools to enhance your thinking and decision-making.

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The book develops a sympathetic Marxist critique of Keynes. Keyness insights, particularly into unemployment, money and finance and the importance of state intervention gain greater critical purchase when re-worked on Marxist foundations and doing so also enriches Marxism.

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Exposes the attempts by developed countries to 'kick away the ladder' from developing countries trying to join the economic elite.

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"This book provides practical recommendations to enhance leadership style and develop the right climate and team structure and processes so that a culture of creativity, collaboration, and innovation can thrive. It also unpacks why collaboration and innovation efforts in professional services so often do not succeed"--

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Identifies the conditions that a leader can put in place to increase the likelihood of team success. The book describes five conditions that set the stage for performances: a real team, a compelling direction, an enabling team structure, a supportive organizational context, and the availability of competent coaching.