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What is the average salary of a legal assistant What job competition do I face as a museum curator Will I find a job in this economy as a computer programmer Written by the US Department of Labor, this handbook is designed to provide assistance to individuals making decisions about their futures.

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What can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway This work answers this critical question. Working closely with companies such as Ernst and Young, Goldman Sachs, Time Warner, General Electric and others, it identifies what works and why.

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Offshoring is an issue full of minefields and developments. It is a business tool and an economic phenomenon with significant potential to increase the world's wealth. This anthology aims to help decision makers manage offshoring better. It attempts to give decision-makers and business an understanding of the scope and economics of offshoring.

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Whether you re looking to improve a management style or inspire others, this book is an invaluable tool. Bill Frist, former U.S. Senate Majority...

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Through guided analysis of real-life situations, "On Leadership" provides detailed, practical methods for becoming a true leader. Whether you're looking to improve a management style or inspire others, this book is an invaluable tool--Senator Bill Frist. 24 color photographs.

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Outlines a different approach to strategy development. Written in non technical language and focuses on the implications new technologies will have on how organizations of all kinds design strategy and deliver value.

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Explains how to make money in an open innovation landscape. This book provides a diagnostic instrument enabling you to assess your company's current business model, and explains how to overcome common barriers to creating a more open model. It also offers examples of companies that have developed such models - including Procter and Gamble and IBM.

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The information revolution has made for a radically more fluid knowledge environment, and the growth of venture capital has created inexorable pressure towards fast commercialisation of technologies. Companies that don't use the technologies they develop are likely to lose them.

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Shows how companies can use their business model to identify an enlightened role for R&D in a world of abundant information, manage and access intellectual property, advance their current business, and grow their future business. This book shows how open innovation can unlock the latent economic value in a company's ideas and technologies.

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China has matured as a market - and the game has changed. This title explains how you can achieve superior execution in China - through operations including talent management, product development, information technology, procurement, supply-chain management, manufacturing, and sales, marketing, and distribution.

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Thompson explains how organizations use prediction markets to change how business gets done. The successes and failures of these companies, along with the roadblocks they face and overcome, provide a roadmap for leaders brave enough to test their expertise.

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Provides a six-stage strategic plan to guide managers through the transformation from a hierarchical organization to an IT-enabled network organization. The authors aim to help managers to avoid the classic pitfalls that cause the failure of most organizational transformations.

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Aims to tackle the fundamental business issue facing managers: how to continue to create value as competition intensifies.

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Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges This work includes 12-14 essays by some of the top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced.

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Dr. Kenneth Anderson brings you Participation Leadership Equals Success, a must-read guide to help people in leadership roles across all different backgrounds and businesses become more effective and successful. It's time to become the leader that you are meant to be! Through the insight and advice in this book, you are certain to improve your effectiveness and influence in your respective role.

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This up-to-the-minute manual clearly explains the technical side of drug testing as well as how workers can exercise their legal rights to decline tests or dispute results.

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From launching start-ups to taking on the family business to helping kids in the Arabian Gulf to harnessing new technology and developing clean energy - this title reveals how the next generation of ideas, aspirations, and practices are shaping business and redefining leadership around the world.

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Offers a way to think about and manage innovation that improves the odds of success. This book offers advice on when to pursue cash flow indirectly by first pursuing other benefits, such as brand and knowledge. It also presents a list of decisions and activities to achieve a high return on innovation.

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Highlights the various sources of emotional energy unique to organizations and the discipline companies need to follow their chosen paths. This book provides guidelines for managers seeking to reshape their practices to achieve better performance from their own workforces and gain the resulting competitive edge.