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What causes a leader to fail Gain insight into the collapse of six high-profile CEOs--including valuable lessons that can keep you from making the same mistakes.

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Over the past two decades, the United States has successfully deregulated prices and restrictions on most previously-regulated industries, including airlines, trucking, railroads, telecommunications, and banking.

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With the benefit of a historical perspective on the development of American public service from the days of the progressives to the present, the contributors to this book argue that deregulating the public service is a necessary but insufficient condition for much of the needed improvement in governmental administration.

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This text focuses on insurance as an industry and speculates what would happen if the insurance industry were to be deregulated. Insurance company executives and attorneys as well as students of the insurance industry or of insurance law will find McDowell's work a cogent exposition of the complex facets of the insurance deregulation debate.

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Destined to become a leading case study of export-led development in Indonesia, this book grew out of a World Bank/Indonesian Economic Society Symposium held in Jakarta.

There was, however, a parallel story as well, of crony capitalism and weak governance, that led to the financial and political crisis of 1997-98.

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Although the airline, railroad, telecommunications, and electric power industries are at very different stages in adjusting to regulatory reform, each industry faces the same critical public policy question: Are policymakers taking appropriate steps to stimulate competition or are they turning back the clock by slowing the process of deregulation

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Worldwide, the electric utility industry has been changing over the last several years as deregulation and privatization have been instituted. These changes in how the industry does business are summarized, and the evolving experience of the deregulation in 15 major countries is analyzed.

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Features behind-the-scenes look at Coca-Cola's design-led strategy for growth. This title shows how any business can use the same approach to get to the next level. It is a must read for leaders, creatives and entrepreneurs.

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Designing Dynamic Organizations shows business leaders at all levels how to grapple with problems of restructuring. Based on author Jay Galbraith's world-renowned approach, this guide includes examples and worksheets that pilot readers through the essential steps of organizational design.

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This volume reports the results of a series of investigations of the properties of writing tasks, their authors' intentions, and the responses that these tasks evoked in student-writers and teacher-raters.

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This book provides a historical background of the American business cycle, challenges the validity of conventional Keynesian ideology, and presents a bold, alternative theory of how production leads to wealth in our modern economy.

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An analysis of what determines the level and structure of executive compensation. Arguing that structural characteristics of the firm are equally decisive as corporate financial performance, it investigates the effects of each of these factors and offers a guide to assessing executive compensation.

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The countries of the African continent suffer from numerous and severe economic maladies that inhibit their chances for effective economic growth. The problem confronting Africa's policy makers is how to combine overall economic growth with a more equitable distribution of income and economic assistance.

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A solid, result-getting strategy for motivating and leading the sales force, intended for sales executives and their staffs, and emphasizing a "feels right" back-to-basics approach.

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Regional economic organizations of developing countries have a mixed record of success. This study will interest researchers and graduate-level students of regional economic integration, political economy of developing countries, as well as specialists in Latin America, West Africa, and Southeast Asia.

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This collection of essays examines the development of the American South from the end of the Civil War to the end of World War II. Each article offers fresh insights or new information on its subject, and collectively the articles help to illuminate how the most traditional of American regions tried to cope with the forces of modernization.

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An overview of the policies, processes and innovations of global business leaders. It surveys current practices in global leadership development as pursued by different countries, and with regard to women in leadership positions, then discusses effective organizational processes.

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