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"A look at how the Golden State Warriors organization embraced saavy business practices and the corporate culture of Silicon Valley to produce one of the greatest basketball teams in history and become a model franchise for the NBA"--

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Embrace world-changing board governance - effective, caring, accountable, compassionate. The authors provide a blueprint for implementing John Carver's widely acclaimed comprehensive Policy Governance(R) model (also known as Carver Governance) infused with the compelling Servant-Leadership concept articulated by Robert K. Greenleaf.

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A comprehensive study of the power of differentiation as a key component of any business model, this book includes a step-by-step process to help leaders discover, achieve, express, and sustain their own authentic position.

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This up-to-date bibliography on business communications which, unlike any other, also indexes the availability of sample documents and other learning aids has been compiled with students, faculty, librarians, and other working professionals in mind.

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In the United States, less than one worker in five is currently in a labor union, while in Sweden, virtually the entire workforce is unionized. What explains the variation in unionization and why has the last decade been so hostile to organized labor Bruce Western tackles these questions in an analysis of labor union organization.

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This important new study of Palestine in the years 1882 to 1948 looks at the formation of the Jewish working class and its pivotal and deliberate role in the forging of a nation.

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Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It didn't happen because banks are too big to fail--our addicti

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A survey of the development of the automobile industry from its origins to the present in a perspective informed by current upheavals in markets, technology and work organization.

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This study of Peru's transformation from a tottering colonial economy based on extraction of precious bullion to a massive exporter of bulk goods like guano shows how a struggle between protectionists and free traders shaped the state. "This is an elegant and sophisticated book that can be read on many levels, written by an author who never takes t

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Designed as a primer for policymakers and students, this volume focuses on two critical problems the United States faces as we move into the 1990s: the unprecedented size of U.S. trade deficits and the nation's declining international competitiveness.

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A collection of essays on work and organizational life in which the author shares his reflections on a changing world. He advocates compromise as the path to progress, and urges organizations to give more freedom to individual employees, to maintain a balance of commitment and creativity.

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Game theory is central to modern understandings of how people deal with problems of coordination and cooperation. Yet, ironically, it cannot give a straightforward explanation of some of the simplest forms of human coordination and cooperation. This book proposes a revision of game theory that resolves these problems.

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In October 1990, McClellan Air Force Base in the USA received the President's yearly Quality Improvement Prototype Award, owing largely to the base's participation in Project Pacer Share, a new paradigm for organizational design. This work examines the project and its progress.

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Essential perspectives for understanding Greeces recent and historical financial crises

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After decades of prosperity Australians are now worried about their jobs, their incomes and their future. The mining boom, said to explain Australia's past success, is declared to be over. Unemployment has increased, carmakers have folded, the government is running a huge deficit.

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The first involves business people who promote innovative ownership and decision-making strategies such as donating their shares to a trust and thereby creating a company without shareholders so that employees can assume greater control;

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Tells the story of ordinary people who share the ownership of the businesses where they work. This book contains case studies as well as interviews with a range of people, whose inspiring stories of success fly in the face of received wisdom.

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Examines the issue of asbestos and health in the USA between the early 1900s to the mid-1970s. Areas covered include: the emergence of medical concern about three fatal diseases related to asbestos, the actions of the US Navy, and the response of the federal government before and after enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970.

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"Beyond The Fighting" is an essential and informative companion for all involved in the Martial Arts industry. After over 30 years of karate tournament competition and 47 years of running a highly successful Martial Arts School, Jim Butin shares his proven concepts on maximizing profit margins and his solutions that drive success for a unique business.