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A study of the financial performance of well-known firms over the past 25 years which compares the performance of these supposedly "excellent" firms with the financial performance and market valuation of a control sample from Fortune 500.

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Reports the results of a study examining empirically the use of a self-management training programme to increase employee attendance. It describes how this training process can be of value in reducing employee absenteeism and addresses other applications of self-management in the workplace.

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Five appendixes provide additional information including a guide to hiring and keeping good employees, a study of employee theft by Virginia's Crime Prevention Manual Task Force, an examination of what motivates employees, an internal controls checklist, and a list of dos and don'ts in dealing with employee theft.

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Offering both empirical analysis and experience-based case studies of eight nations--including the U.S. (Silicon Valley), Catalonia, France, Finland, Switzerland, India, West Germany and Belize--the authors explore the ways in which regional culture influences and is influenced by industrial and management practices.

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Students of comparative politics, political sociology, Western European history, international affairs, or comparative social institutions can turn to this book for a balanced assessment of the alternative structures of decentralized political power which are emerging in various Western democracies.

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Though few might think of Moses as a 'leader' or even a 'manager' in the contemporary sense, Moses among the most significant leaders in Western civilization is arguably the quintessential example of leadership from whom much can be learned by people entering and occupying leadership positions.

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Though few might think of Moses as a 'leader' or even a 'manager' in the contemporary sense, Moses -among the most significant leaders in Western civilization - is arguably the quintessential example of leadership from whom much can be learned by people entering and occupying leadership positions.

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Many lessons can be learned from managers in business and industry that are useful to people who administer schools or media programs.

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Explains a brain-based approach people can use to become effective leaders, whether in a business, or a family. This volume shows how those with maximum success are leaders who understand both the right brain mode and the left brain mode styles and have the ability to switch between the two when the situation is best served by one or the other.

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This intriguing analysis examines an aspect of President Obama that falls outside of his ethnic background, his political career, or policies: how his unique leadership style comes from his extraordinary ability to use both halves of his brain to maximum potential.

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Scenario-driven planning is a new management technology for strategy design that employs computed or strategic scenarios to improve the quality of managerial thinking.

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Examines the management technique of job redesign. The authors discuss the attempts of four companies to diffuse job redesign throughout their organizations and the reasons for their success or failure. The steps taken by personnel to facilitate the diffusion are also included.

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This collection of the more significant articles describing the Taylor system of management from the early decades of the 20th century comprises 37 articles and a bibliography. The articles demonstrate the pros and cons of a system of modern management.

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NFL coach and three-time Superbowl winner Bill Walsh delivers his ultimate lecture on leadership-- illustrated by dramatic and apt anecdotes from throughout his career-- that will help your business increase its chances of prevailing into the 21st century.

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Several chapters follow devoted to the composition and utilization of a security guard force, elements of security program management, and control processes in security program management.

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The new updated and fully revised edition of this bestselling title. Poor self-esteem can sabotage relationships and careers, cause self-destructive behaviour and can hold us back from achieving our full potential.

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A clear, comprehensive examination of the world's newly emerging markets and the opportunities they hold for U.S. marketeers, as well as a cogent discussion of how to enter and benefit from them.

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Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. Selling Women Short is a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug. Wall Street is supposed to be a citadel of pure economics, paying