5 new posts |  |
- Deliver!: How to Be Fast, Flawless, and Frugal
- Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
- The Cerebellum: Brain for an Implicit Self
- The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance
- NCLEX-PN Practice Questions Exam Cram, 3rd Edition
| Deliver!: How to Be Fast, Flawless, and Frugal Posted: 27 Sep 2011 12:35 PM PDT
Book DescriptionJim Champy revolutionized business with Reengineering the Corporation. Now, in Deliver!, he shows how to leverage the rich treasure of potential competitive advantage that’s hiding in plain view: your operations. Deliver! presents five new case studies of organizations performing at levels previously viewed as impossible. What do they share in common? Their success isn’t grounded in breakthrough strategy: it’s built on goals, discipline, details: gritty, everyday execution. From the Back Cover Deliver! presents five original, chapter-length case studies of organizations performing at levels that were once viewed as impossible. They range from Campbell's Soup to the U.S. Navy. Their offerings range from industrial tools to premium California wine. What do they share in common? Their success hasn't been grounded in breakthrough strategy: It's built on goals, discipline, details…and the grittiness of everyday execution. In an era of highly constrained resources, these organizations offer you the most realistic path to sustainable success: Increase operational efficiency. Drive real savings. And use those savings not merely to maintain your competitive position, but to drive it forward. DRIVE GROWTH & PROFITS THROUGH BETTER OPERATIONS…
Book Details
|
| Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Posted: 27 Sep 2011 12:32 PM PDT
Book DescriptionThe human race created money and finance: then, our inventions recreated us. In Extreme Money, best-selling author and global finance expert Satyajit Das tells how this happened and what it means. Das reveals the spectacular, dangerous money games that are generating increasingly massive bubbles of fake growth, prosperity, and wealth–while endangering the jobs, possessions, and futures of virtually everyone outside finance. “…virtually in a category of its own — part history, part book of financial quotations, part cautionary tale, part textbook. It contains some of the clearest charts about risk transfer you will find anywhere. …Others have laid out the dire consequences of financialisation (“the conversion of everything into monetary form”, in Das's phrase), but few have done it with a wider or more entertaining range of references…[Extreme Money] does… reach an important, if worrying, conclusion: financialisation may be too deep-rooted to be torn out. As Das puts it — characteristically borrowing a line from a movie, Inception — “the hardest virus to kill is an idea”. Extreme Money named to the longlist for the 2011 FT and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award. From the Back Cover "Das describes the causes of the financial crisis with the insight and understanding of a financial wizard, the candor and objectivity of an impartial observer, and a wry sense of humor that reveals the folly in it all." "This is the best book yet to come out of the financial crisis. Das is a graceful, witty writer, with an unusually broad range of reference. He is also a long-time master of the arcana of the netherworlds of finance and nicely balances historical sweep with illuminating detail. Extreme Money is lively, scathing, and wise. " "Like Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Extreme Money launches you into a fascinating and disturbing alternative view of reality. But now greed predominates, the distorted world of finance is completely global, and the people making crazy decisions can ruin us all. This is an informative, entertaining, and deeply scary account of Hades's new realm. Read it while you can. " "You know when Lewis Caroll, Max Weber, Alan Greenspan, and Sigmund Freud all appear on the same early page that you are about to read an intellectual tour de force. Das is an authoritative and colorful critic of modern markets, and here he weaves financial history and popular culture into an entertaining and blistering social critique of how so many people have come to chase endless financial reflections of the real economy. Extreme Money speaks truth to power. " The human race created money and finance. But our inventions re-create us. Mankind mistook money–a lubricant of society and human well-being–for an end in itself. Finance, the monetary shadow of real things, came to dominate human reality. Extreme Money tells the story of how this happened–and, in so doing, it tells the story of the modern world. Bestselling author Satyajit Das draws on 33 years of personal experience at the heart of modern global finance to narrate this story. Das reveals the spectacular, dangerous money games that have generated increasingly massive bubbles of fake growth, Ponzi prosperity, sophistication, and wealth–while endangering the jobs, possessions, and futures of virtually everyone outside the financial industry. You'll learn how everything from home mortgages to climate change has become financialized, as vast fortunes are generated by individuals who build nothing of lasting value. Das shows how "extreme money" has become ever more unreal; how "voodoo banking" continues to generate massive phony profits even now; and how a new generation of "Masters of the Universe" The new financial fundamentalism: false gods, false prophets The cult of risk and the growth engine that isn't Financial alchemy and the "Doomsday Debt Machine" The new global oligarchy–and the nihilistic games they play Book Details
Related Posts
|
| The Cerebellum: Brain for an Implicit Self Posted: 27 Sep 2011 12:29 PM PDT
Book DescriptionRenowned neuroscientist Dr. Masao Ito advances a sophisticated new view of the cerebellum's roles in brain function, explaining how its multiple neuronal machine modules enable humans to unconsciously master motor skills through practice, and suggesting how it may serve implicit thought and cognitive processes that manipulate knowledge—playing a surprising role in intuition, imagination, and hallucination. From the Back Cover In The Cerebellum, leading neuroscientist Masao Ito draws on current research to advance a detailed new view of the cerebellum's multiple roles in brain function. The cerebellum's role in coordinating body movement control and facilitating motor skills learning has long been recognized. Ito presents new insights into how it accomplishes these tasks. He explains how the cerebellum assembles numerous neuronal machine modules, each providing implicit learning capabilities—and how these modules enable humans to unconsciously learn motor skills through practice by forming internal models that simulate the control system properties of body parts. Ito shows how the cerebellum also serves higher brain functions, including implicit components of thought and cognitive processes that manipulate knowledge. In particular, he discusses evidence of the cerebellum's role in complex mental actions—such as intuition, imagination, hallucination, and delusion—and in supporting the implicit self. Ito's insights will be valuable to a wide audience of neuroscientific investigators and might also be applicable in artificial intelligence, control engineering, robotics, and related fields. Book Details
|
| The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance Posted: 27 Sep 2011 12:25 PM PDT
Book DescriptionThe contribution of culture to organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. In The Culture Cycle, James L. Heskett demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the differential in performance between organizations in the same business. A follow-up to the classic Corporate Culture and Performance(coauthored with John Kotter), this book explains how culture evolves, can be shaped and sustained, fosters innovation, can promote survival in tough times, influences the success of global strategies, and is maintained in both for-profit and not-for-profit mission-driven organizations. Drawing on decades of field research and dozens of case studies, Heskett introduces a powerful conceptual framework for managing culture change and shows it at work in a real-world setting. Heskett’s “culture cycle” identifies policies, practices, measures, and behaviors that are crucial to moving cultures forward and demonstrates how to calculate the economic value of culture through the “Four Rs” of referrals, retention, returns to labor, and relationships with customers. Heskett’s insights will be invaluable to leaders, human resources professionals, consultants, those with responsibilities for productivity improvement, training, and operations–and for anyone seeking to understand important drivers of organizational performance. From the Back Cover "Jim Heskett has delivered yet another breakthrough in our understanding of how corporate cultures shape performance. If leaders take Heskett's sound advice to heart, corporate performance will improve and trust in business can be restored." "For those who might regard culture as an abstract, soft, perhaps 'hippie like' concept, Jim Heskett brings home its manifest value to both the organization and the sensibilities of its people." "The Culture Cycle inspires leaders to start with people and shape their organizations' cultures to drive engagement, inclusion, trust, innovation, and results. Jim Heskett has developed a new and valuable way to think about culture. This is a must read." "Forget the squishy fluff; this book is hardcore, rooted in the numbers that drive margin. It shows the calculations…reveals the numbers for the 'report card' that predicts the future success of your company, division, or department…numbers every leader should know…and few do." "Jim Heskett's is the essential handbook for today's organizations that care about their people and are determined that theirs is an organization of the future." In The Culture Cycle, renowned thought leader James Heskett demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the differential in performance between organizations in the same business. A follow-up to the classic Corporate Culture and Performance (coauthored with John Kotter), this book explains how culture evolves, can be shaped and sustained, and can promote both survival and innovation in tough times. Drawing on decades of field research and dozens of case studies, Heskett introduces a powerful conceptual framework for managing culture and demonstrates it at work in a real-world setting. Heskett's "culture cycle" identifies policies, practices, and behaviors that are crucial to moving cultures forward and demonstrates how to calculate the economic value of culture through the "Four Rs" of referrals, retention, returns to labor, and relationships with customers. Heskett's insights will be invaluable to leaders, professionals, and consultants in HR, productivity, training, and operations–and for anyone seeking to optimize organizational performance. A crisis in organizational culture? How cultures are born, grow, flourish, wither, and die Measuring and tracking the effectiveness of organizational culture Leading cultural change Book Details
|
| NCLEX-PN Practice Questions Exam Cram, 3rd Edition Posted: 27 Sep 2011 12:21 PM PDT
Book Description"I studied nothing but your material for two weeks until I felt prepared to take the NCLEX®. Studying your material gave me the confidence I needed to pass!" CD features 5 practice exams
Written by Leading Nursing Experts! Wilda Rinehart has R.N., B.S.N., M.S.N., F.N.C., and F.P.N.P. degrees. Her experience includes staff nurse in surgery, labor and delivery; public-health nurse; and family-planning nurse practitioner. She also was an instructor of surgical and obstetrical nursing. Diann Sloan has R.N., B.S.N., M.S.N., F.N.C., as well as MS. Ed. and Ph.D. in Education degrees. She has worked as a staff nurse in surgical nursing, pediatrics, and neonatal intensive care and as a pediatric nurse clinician. She has also been an instructor of pediatric and psychiatric nursing. Clara Hurd has R.N. and M.S.N. degrees and is certified in nursing education. She has worked with Pearson as a consultant on item writing. She has 31 years of experience and has worked as a staff nurse in medical-surgical nursing and the surgical intensive care unit. Ms. Hurd has taught in associate and baccalaureate nursing programs. Book Details
|
| You are subscribed to email updates from Wow! eBook - Blog To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar