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It's no surprise that communicating with the opposite sex can be tricky. Hidden in the glitches are often misleading assumptions about each gender that beg for help. Finally, help is here.
Learn the secrets to accurately reading between the gender lines, and uncover a new edge for your business--the power to effectively talk business and successfully network with the opposite sex.

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Based on the authors' experience creating human capital systems at IBM, this book shows how using analytics can dramatically improve a company's ability to make better and faster talent decisions. Organized around four crucial questions managers must ask, it provides a framework to help executives rethink how they use information on talent.

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Argues that China is at an inflection point, with changes in its economic path that will play out in the coming decades. Dismantling persistent myths, the authors describe the rapidly changing context in China and the challenges shaping business there, and examines whether companies should rethink their growth aspirations and strategies in China.

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Financial Times columnist John Plender highlights and investigates a concern about the moral character of money that pre-dates the industrial revolution by more than two millennia.

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The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. This title argues that while governments must play a role, businesses should take the lead. It draws on discussions with business leaders around the world to identify ten potential disruptors of the global market system.

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Examines the impact of the South Wales Coalfields, not just on a local level but at a national level. This accessible yet critical study sheds new light on that history of industrial and political conflict, but at the same time sets that history within the wider context of society as a whole.

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"First published in Germany under 'Geschichte des Kapitalismus', by Jeurgen Kocka." --Title page verso.

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It is refreshing, in days of pessimistic forecasts, to find a former CEO as positive and optimistic as...

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In an economy where markets, consumers, and technology are ever-changing and interdependent, economic catalysts - businesses that bring together a number of groups who need each other and make it easy for them to work together - are essential. This book deals with this topic.

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Retail is a dog-eat-dog world - and nobody has cannibalized market share more ruthlessly or influenced consumers, communities and competition around the world more profoundly than "category killers" like Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, and Costco. This book explores how they did it, and what other companies can glean from their strategies.

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Explains how companies can develop a cohort of internal candidates - one of whom may be suited to the increasingly demanding CEO role. This book describes the distinguishing attributes of the inside-outsider and reveals how to recruit, nurture, and promote this type of leader.

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The 'gripping' (New York Times) and 'Hitchcockian'(Publishers Weekly) story of how a nurse, a car dealership worker, and a forensic expert took on the nation's largest banks.

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A long-overdue study of the workplace movement, Raeburn's analysis focuses on the mobilization of lesbian, gay, and bisexual employee networks over the past fifteen years to win domestic partner benefits in Fortune 1000 companies.

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Offers a framework for understanding what happens during the course of changing a mind - and how to influence that process.