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Offers ideas and provides an outlook on critical economic issues facing businesses and governments around the world. Consisting primarily of articles originally published in "The McKinsey Quarterly", each volume combines provides the insights that leaders need to operate effectively in the global economy.

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Most managers assume that surviving, especially in recessions, requires slashing wages, benefits, and other workforce expenses. And lowest-skilled workers are often viewed as the most expendable. This book overturns these assumptions. It demonstrates that lower-skilled employees in call centers, repair services, product assembly aren't expendable.

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"Profit over Privacy gives internet surveillance a much-needed origin story by chronicling the development of its most important historical catalyst: web advertising"--

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O'Flynn demonstrates the way that liberal ideas have served the interests of capitalist development from their very beginning.

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In the past three decades, developing countries have made significant economic and social progress, from improved infant mortality rates to higher life expectancy. Taking a look at this kind of investment and its outcomes, this book explores the different channels through which public capital in infrastructure may affect growth and human welfare.

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A professional guide to publishing success for the new and struggling author. Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, it can help you to understand more about the publishing industry, write the right book for the right audience, build promotion into your book, write a successful query letter and book proposal, and get your book into bookstores.

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"A no-budget, brass tacks guide to starting a business with examples from subcultural movements"--

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What are the emotional and psychological challenges of leadership, and what can we learn from others' journeys This book uses literature as the means by which we can 'go inside' and gain insight into the emotional and psychological challenges of leadership.

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Shaken by the dramatic inroads made by Japanese competitors into high-tech electronics, a number of US electronic firms joined forces in 1982 to form the first US for-profit research consortium: MCC (Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp.). This book describes MCC's formation and the problems it encountered.

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Shows managers and strategists that market leaders must approach the unfamiliarity and uncertainty of the new economy not as a problem to avoid, but rather as an opportunity to shape their company's future - and shows them how to do so.

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"Today's leaders are in competition for the trust and confidence of those they lead more than ever before. Dempsey and Brafman assert that the nature of power is changing and should not be measured by degree of control alone. They offer principles for adaptation and bring them to life with examples from business, academia, government, and the military."--Jacket flap.

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Reveals the patterns through which innovation occurs in established companies, and identifies the managerial competencies firms need to make radical innovation happen. This book distills an interdisciplinary approach to mastering challenges. It features evidence from a study of innovation projects within ten corporations including IBM and DuPont.

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The trials and tribulations of firebrand union organizers, from the 1930s--1970s, are brought to life here, in their own words.

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Shows you how to accomplish successful transformational change in your firm in just 90 days. Based on ten years of research into more than 500 leading companies - including 3M, IBM, GE, Nissan, Apple, Bay Networks, Verisign, HP and Best Buy - this book demystifies fast, effective change and lays out a roadmap for achieving it.

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This collection of essays uses the lens of rational expectations theory to examine how governments anticipate and plan for inflation, and provides insight into the pioneering research for which Thomas Sargent was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics. Rational expectations theory is based on the simple premise that people will use all the infor

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Real IT Business, The: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value

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In this illuminating book, Stephen Barber redefines the Fourth Industrial Revolution for our politics, our societies and those who seek to lead.

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The scale and speed of change is unprecedented in our lifetime. When the SHIFT Hits Your Plan exposes how massive change will impact the way work gets done and how organizations recruit, manage, and retain talent. The book will inspire new ideas and challenge assumptions about business and help lay out a game plan to make change work.