The Internationalist: Business Guide to Mexico Canada and Latin America/1995 (Business Guides to the World)

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Introducing CLD – Constructivist Learning Design – a new and different way of thinking about learning and teaching. Teaching and learning are two sides of the same coin; this ground-breaking book realizes that, and builds on the pioneering work of Piaget and Vygotsky to offer a new approach to the constructivist classroom. Learn how to organize groups, build bridges, ask questions, arrange exhibits, and invite reflection in the creation of whole new – and successful – teaching/learning designs. A major new work for students of teaching, teachers, administrators, and parents who want to know how to apply constructivist learning theory in the classroom.

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Highly applicable.......2005-07-29

I have just completed a Master of Arts Program in teaching. For my Masters Project I studied the methods and effects of constructivism. An oft stated criticism of constructivist pedagogy is that it is an epistemology and theory that is easier defined than applied. There are a lot of books out there which explain and analyze the theory. These are good to have read before hand in order to truly appreciate what this book accomplshes.
This book takes a deep subject with a rich philosophical foundation and leads the reader through six practical steps of application. The steps are sequenced chapter by chapter as the rationale behind each step is explained. Though it is more about application, it does not neglect the mention of leading theorists; in each chapter there is a "Precedents" section. Dewey, Bruner, Vygotsky and Piaget all get their alloted space. At the end of the book is a resource section which shows examples of a dozen lessons K-12 and how each of the six steps are applied.
The authors recommend reading their book three times, the first time to get a "general understanding", the second time for "reflection", and the third time for "application". It is well worth spending this kind of time because of the difficult nature of constructivist pedagogy and the attacks it suffers from the more objectivist critics.
The practice of constructivism not only instills "book knowledge" of a subject but students acquire a practical working knowledge as well. For example if students were studying electricity it would be the difference between defining a complete circuit and being able to build one. Constructivist teaching focuses on real world practices and applications of knowledge. In a constrcutivist classroom, students create their knowledge with teacher guidance and peer interaction.
Those who attack constructivism complain that it takes too much time resulting in inadaquete coverage of curriculum or that it is carried out poorly with students not learning what they should. There is a balance between constructivist and objectivist practices that can be accomplished; however, that is not the object of this book. This book is a foundational recipe for applying a pedagogy which requires much subject and practitioner expertise.

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This book is about institutional change, how to recognize it, when it occurs, and the mechanisms that cause it to happen. It is the first book to identify problems with the "new institutional analysis," which has emerged as one of the dominant approaches to the study of organizations, economic and political sociology, comparative political economy, politics, and international relations.

The book confronts several important problems in institutional analysis, and offers conceptual, methodological, and theoretical tools for resolving them. It argues that the paradigms of institutional analysis--rational choice, organizational, and historical institutionalism--share a set of common analytic problems. Chief among them: failure to define clearly what institutional change is; failure to specify the mechanisms responsible for institutional change; and failure to explain adequately how "ideas" other than self-interests affect institutional change.

To demonstrate the utility of his tools for resolving the problems of institutional analysis, Campbell applies them to the phenomenon of globalization. In doing so, he not only corrects serious misunderstandings about globalization, but also develops a new theory of institutional change. This book advances the new institutional analysis by showing how the different paradigms can benefit from constructive dialogue and cross-fertilization.

EU Enlargement and the Environment: Institutional Change and Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe (Environmental Politics)

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EU Enlargement and the Environment: Institutional Change and Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe (Environmental Politics)

Manufacturer: Routledge
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This volume focuses attention on key environmental and institutional changes associated with eastern expansion of the European Union, assessing and challenging prevailing views about the outcomes and processes of this historic development. Looking at four central themes - capacity changes and limitations, the EU's mixed messages and conflicting priorities, non-state actor roles and developments, and the exchange of ideas and information - the volume shows that enlargement will change the EU, not just make it bigger, and that EU officials and programs are improving aspects of environmental policy in CEE countries even as they are making others less sustainable.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Environmental Politics.

Economic Welfare, International Business and Global Institutional Change (The Locke Institute)

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Economic Welfare, International Business and Global Institutional Change (The Locke Institute)

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Global economic progress in the twentieth century, while generally encouraging, was neither continuous nor uniform. With the exception of some Asian nations, countries that were more developed at the beginning of the twentieth century still rank among the wealthiest nations, while countries that were poorer still lag behind. The distinguished authors in this volume address the fundamental causes for such heterogeneous international experiences, placing particular emphasis on the role of institutions.

They demonstrate how the study of economic development is increasingly linked to the development of institutions, which allow for more complex exchanges to occur in markets and societies. Institutions can be understood as rules or constraints that channel individuals' actions in specific directions, and can be formal or informal depending on their genesis. The book highlights the connection between institutions and economic welfare by examining countries at different stages of development. Although the authors study material effects, they also look at individual well-being which is more strongly influenced by the non-material products of institutions such as opportunity, freedom and relationships. They move on to highlight the role of institutions in global business in terms of innovation, entrepreneurship and foreign direct investment. In the concluding chapters they focus on the actual process of transition from one institutional framework to another. Among other examples, they examine reforms to international financial institutions and constitutional adjustments in transition countries.

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The German economic and social system was once admired for its capacity to foster international competitiveness as well as social integration. In the literature on varieties of capitalisms it was even called the Modell Deutschland. But in the last years, plagued by mass unemployment and lagging behind in terms of economic growth, many commentators portrayed it as institutionally incrusted and hopelessly outmoded. However, the basic institutions underpinning the German model are currently undergoing significant changes. The Red–Green reforms of the labor market and the pension scheme, recent incidents like the take-over of German Mannesmann by Vodafone Airtouch, for example, or the evasion of collective bargaining agreements can be interpreted as significant attacks on the corporatist structure of the model. Thus, does the future imply a (more) liberal, market-style economy also in Germany? And if so, will this transformation solve the problem of mass unemployment?

Surviving Globalization? explores the future of the German economy within the institutional and societal framework of Modell Deutschland. The contributing authors scrutinize important economic trends, institutional changes and governmental reforms, ranging from corporate governance and industrial relations to macroeconomic policies, and from the welfare state to European integration. They assess the theoretical perspectives informing the current reforms and raise questions about the feasibility of institutional transfer.

Thus, Surviving Globalization? provides a comprehensive and empirically profound introduction to the distinctive features of the German economic model in the light of globalization, European integration, and German unification. In contrast to common notions about the German economy, it identifies not institutional rigidities but the macroeconomic exhaustion of Germany’s long standing mercantilism, its constant attempt to achieve current account surpluses, and the specific way of integrating East-Germany as major causes for its job crisis.

The Dynamics of Institutional Reform in Telecommunications: Globalization, Liberalization, and Regulatory Change (Garland Studies on Industrial Productivity)

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The Dynamics of Institutional Reform in Telecommunications: Globalization, Liberalization, and Regulatory Change (Garland Studies on Industrial Productivity)
Sung Woon Cho
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Entreprises et gouvernance en France : perspectives historiques et evolutions recentes [An article from: Sociologie du travail]

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Entreprises et gouvernance en France : perspectives historiques et evolutions recentes [An article from: Sociologie du travail]
M.L. Djelic , and P. Zarlowski
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Does France have a society that is blocked by nature and essence? A historical perspective yields a completely different view of the country's social and economic landscape. In particular, attention is drawn to the deep transformations of French firms and of their governance. The history of this change partly fits into a broader trend that, reaching well beyond borders, can be easily summed up through a single word - ''globalization''. Changes in French firms and in their ''logics of governance'' can partly be seen as a reaction to powerful outside pressures that are pushing the economies of France and many other countries in a particular direction. Still, as we probe further, we realize that these changes are, in fact, adaptations, translations and hybridizations that involve ongoing negotiations with already existing institutional frames and logics. The advance of globalization and neoliberalism is quite real; but it interplays with and is embedded in local settings and logics that limit its scope and impact. - Special issue: New patterns of institutions.

How globalization drives institutional diversity: the Japanese electronics industry's response to value chain modularity.(Industry overview): An article from: Journal of East Asian Studies

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How globalization drives institutional diversity: the Japanese electronics industry's response to value chain modularity.(Industry overview): An article from: Journal of East Asian Studies
Timothy J. Sturgeon
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This digital document is an article from Journal of East Asian Studies, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 13053 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: How globalization drives institutional diversity: the Japanese electronics industry's response to value chain modularity.(Industry overview)
Author: Timothy J. Sturgeon
Publication: Journal of East Asian Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
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Institutional change, climate risk, and rural vulnerability: Cases from Central Mexico [An article from: World Development]

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Institutional change, climate risk, and rural vulnerability: Cases from Central Mexico [An article from: World Development]
H. Eakin
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A multiscalar, multistressor assessment of rural vulnerability is presented, illustrating how globalization, market liberalization, and climatic risk simultaneously structure the livelihood strategies of Mexican smallholders. Ethnographic data collected in three communities are used to argue that farmers' capacities to manage climatic risk are circumscribed by the ways in which they are able to negotiate changes in agricultural policy. Four livelihood strategies are explored in detail to show that market integration does not necessarily improve risk management capacity, and that subsistence maize production-while highly sensitive to hazards-may actually serve to enhance livelihood stability. The dominance of economic uncertainty over environmental risk in households' decision making implies a continued role for government intervention to help households adapt to climatic stress.

Spaces of globalisation: Institutional reforms and spatial economic development in the Pudong new area, Shanghai [An article from: Habitat International]

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Spaces of globalisation: Institutional reforms and spatial economic development in the Pudong new area, Shanghai [An article from: Habitat International]
A.M. Marton , and W. Wu
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Habitat International, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper investigates the unique institutional structures which manage interactions and interrelationships among key actors, their roles and functions, and how these articulate with national and global forces to produce new spaces of spatial economic development in the Pudong New Area in Shanghai. We begin with a revisionist historical perspective which links the official creation and initial development of Pudong to the political and international trade relations uncertainties of post-Tiananmen China and an economically laggard Shanghai of the late 1980s. The early focus in Pudong on export-oriented development has since yielded to a rather more sophisticated and comprehensive combination of strategies incorporating local, regional and international dimensions. Planning priorities and the resulting patterns of development in Pudong arose from the deliberate amalgamation and professionalisation of administrative responsibilities which have initiated and managed processes of change. The morphology of these spatial economic changes is not fully explained in relation to decentralisation, marketisation, and globalisation. The article considers a number of elements which need to be considered as part of a new conceptual framework for understanding the depth and extent of new spaces of globalisation in Pudong.

Power in the village: Agrarian reform, rural politics, institutional change and globalization

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Power in the village: Agrarian reform, rural politics, institutional change and globalization

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Managing and Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach
Keri E. Pearlson , and Carol S. Saunders
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* Concepts are presented in clear, non-technical jargon.
* Presents proven strategies for integrating IT with business strategies to create competitive advantages for organizations.
* Current readings and Web links bring basic issues up to date with examples of how successful managers implement IT.

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Buying Books.......2005-08-18

The service is excellent and the product was in good condition and in time.
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Good Choice.......2002-01-16

I chose to recommend this book to my undergraduate students taking my "Managing Information Technology" course. My colleagues and I have found that most MIS books focus more on the components of information systems or on their strategic use - and they miss the middle (management) ground entirely.

"Managing and Using IS" covers the basics only in brief. It then devotes itself to key, mid-level, management issues most important for understanding the IS organization, its components, and associated issues. This book goes into greater detail than other MIS books.

This is a basic book and quite an asset to students struggling to learn about IS organizations and their management. Unfortunately, it is grossly overpriced. At this writing, I am tempted to simply modify the book's topic outline and allow my students to conduct their own research into these issues. Such an approach would foster some really interesting classroom discussions, build valuable research skills...

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With the collapse of high-profile companies such as Enron and Tyco, worldwide anti-globalization protests, and recent revelations of questionable behavior by financial groups and auditors, corporate behavior has become the highest priority topic for businesspeople, investors, politicians and the public. Yet despite the critical importance of maintaining public and shareholder trust, most corporations make very little formal effort to actively manage the activities that can put their reputation, share price, and customer base at risk. Most corporations officially embrace the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility; but giving money away to local communities or worthy causes will not prevent an ethical disaster.

The problem is not social irresponsibility; the problem is a lack of knowledge about what is taking place in the company or at its subcontractor sites. What companies need to be thinking about is not a theoretical construct around Corporate Social Responsibility, or how they can spin public opinion by charitable actions. They need to be thinking about how they can create a practical knowledge and risk management framework in their company that allows them to avoid costly and reputation-damaging behavior in the first place.

Ultimately, this comes down to knowledge management. Whether violations of human rights, employment law, or environmental standards - or simply accounting shenanigans - invariably the reason that these activities are not anticipated and avoided is simply that executives and board members do not realize what is happening in the organization, and what the likely implications of actions will be. And the larger the organization, the more extensive that lack of knowledge.

The good news is that developing a strategic approach to corporate integrity is neither exceptionally expensive nor particularly difficult. The problem is that companies that are already using sophisticated information technology and knowledge management tools for gathering internal and external information have focused those systems and practices almost exclusively on operational issues and increasing productivity. But these same knowledge management techniques - built around emerging ethical guidelines being developed by international standards groups - can be used by companies to create an effective global policy for building and maintaining corporate integrity. This means applying knowledge management techniques in three important areas:
* First, they need to mobilize key employee knowledge and the vast amount of information available on potentially sensitive issues in a way that allows key decision-makers to "sense and respond" quickly and correctly to developing risks.
* Second, it means creating objective, scenario-based guidelines for ethical behavior, communicating those guidelines using knowledge management techniques among key organizational leaders, and providing a workable system of incentives for managers to surface potentially dangerous issues.
* Third, companies need to adopt emerging guidelines such as AA1000 that provide for ethical procedures and performance indicators that enable companies to audit and monitor their own behavior, and also to provide shareholders and the buying public with an objective report on the company's ethical performance. Much like ISO 9000, Six Sigma and other performance and productivity and practice standards of the 1990s, these new global ethics standards will inevitably become a baseline by which investors and customers judge a company's potential for future growth and stability. High marks on auditable ethical performance set against these guidelines will become an important way for companies to differentiate themselves from their competition in the future.

Developing a workable program for corporate ethics will be one of the most important issues of this decade, and will be "the next big thing" for large organizations. A drive toward standardized reporting of corporate ethics practices was coming anyway; the recent public corporate disasters will only encourage corporate executive teams to scramble to demonstrate to customers and shareholders that their organization takes these issues seriously.

This book, therefore, will be a primer for business people and business students worldwide who will shortly be tasked with devising or participating in those types of corporate integrity initiatives, and will explain how knowledge management is indispensable as a tool for helping corporations to manage their risk and integrity policies. Through a mixture of leading practice case studies and a clear framework, it will show how a corporation can begin to combine leading practices in risk and knowledge management with emerging international guidelines in order to develop and manage a program of corporate integrity.

* The first book to show how knowledge management and corporate integrity intersect
* Shows executives how to develop a strategic approach to corporate integrity in this post-Enron age
* Neef, an expert on knowledge management, explains how a company can re-engineer existing knowledge management systems to build and maintain an effective corporate integrity program

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Thorough and useful.......2006-02-09

A holistic approach to managing the risks associated with failures in corporate ethics and consequent damage to corporate reputation. The book sketches the changing risk landscape (in the light of recent scandals, globalization, and the steadily increasing activity of stakeholder interest groups), identifies major sources of risk and offers a detailed program based on three main elements:
* a corporate ethics framework and associated action to make it real;
* an integrated approach to knowledge management designed to ensure that current and accurate information is available to all who need it; and
* an external program of accurate reporting against international standards.
Even those who have already given close attention to these issues will find this book a valuable practical guide.

See also Bazerman: Predictable Surprises for material on reputational risk and how to manage it.

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The history of the heart of the high-tech world
Mike Malone is a journalist who has covered Silicon Valley for nearly twenty years. This book combines the best of his work from a variety of renowned publications to offer a true-to-life glimpse of the world's most important industrial community. These stories form a picture of a place at the center of cultural, economic, and technological advancement and the people who live there, from dot.com millionaires to everyday working people just trying to get by. Not confined to its present technological significance, the book looks at the rich history of the Valley and the future that awaits it. Meticulously researched and broad in scope, The Valley of Heart's Delight is the definitive biography of a place of massive cultural and political significance.
Michael S. Malone (Palo Alta, CA) joined the San Jose Mercury News in 1980 as the nation's first daily high-tech reporter. His writings on Silicon Valley earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations. He has also written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Dallas Morning News, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He is currently the Editor at Large for ASAP.

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Still dreaming of SV.......2003-01-02

Incorporates a random selection of writings which, in their whole, describes the last 30+ years of SV life.

If you want to understand Silicon Valley,.......2002-10-28

If you want to understand Silicon Valley, you'll want to read about it through Mike Malone's eyes. There may be individuals with greater business acumen or longer residential histories, but no one can tell the story about Silicon Valley better than Malone. With incomparable journalistic skills and in depth industry know-how, Malone has assembled a series of stories and columns that chronicle the growth of the Valley and, serendipitously, his own career. Because it is an anthology of sorts, the book does not flow in any singular direction. Nonetheless, the collection is rich with insights on technology breakthroughs, towering personalities and company histories. From high tech "scavengers" to venture capitalists But most important, Malone fills us with strands of individual success and failures, the weave of which is the tapestry known as Silicon Valley. Perhaps the only negative about the volume is that its contents are largely a reprise of earlier Malone writings. If only he'd tell us more....

If you want to understand Silicon Valley,.......2002-10-28

Interesting, but needs real editing ...........2002-09-16

Having lived in Silicon Valley off and on since 1977 (I came out to join the now-defunct Ahdahl Corp) I found part of this book interesting/enlightening. However, the writing style meanders way too much; I had real trouble keeping my interest up (I kept reading on "one more page..." hoping it would get interesting, but ...

Per the prose extolling the talents/background of the author I'd have expected a much more well written book; it just wandered from paragraph to paragraph and chapter to chapter. Maybe next time ...

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on February 1, 2003. The length of the article is 548 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Political Culture.(Book Review)
Author: Karal Ann Marling
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2003
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
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"The journey begins."... Steve Jobs used the Zen proverb, "the journey is the reward," to motivate engineers creating the original Macintosh. Not long after, the phrase was modified for this shirt given to all new employees during orientation.

Apple employees have long been expressing themselves with t-shirt art. For twenty years t-shirts have chronicled events and accomplishments within Apple Computer. Here to view for the first time is the unique talent and creativity of some of the world's most ingenious employees. Their hard work is represented in over 1500 pictures of more than 1000 shirts that mark the public recognition of the milestones they have achieved.

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Great fun for any Apple fan!.......2000-03-11

This fascinating book chronicles the history of Apple Computer using photographs of Apple t-shirts. The end result is a lavish, 204-page, hardcover, coffee table book with over 1,500 full-color photographs, most explained with interesting behind-the-scenes stories that you'll find nowhere else. Travel down memory lane spotting favorite shirts from the past, from ones celebrating new product introductions to ones complaining about staff cuts.

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It is humans who have to change the way they work in order to improve quality for customers. Improvement models tend to concentrate on the area to be improved, failing to provide a cohesive framework for the humans who have to implement themÂ…

Mind Your Ps & Qs is a concise handbook that fills the gaps left by the models. The advice offered is pragmatic, and does not shy away from the problems that will have to be faced in order to ensure success; specifically that everyone in the organization has their part to play.

The author uses various Â“PsÂ” and Â“QsÂ” by way of illustrating what has to be done to successfully implement improvements. There are role-specific Â“PsÂ” and Â“QsÂ”, as well as five that are vital to all improvement programs of whatever type:

Â· Prepare

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Â· Persevere

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Keeping it simple....at last!.......2004-08-03

A refreshingly frank, clear dissertation on the fundamentals of planning and managing a successful project.

This is a fireside chat, where 'stating the obvious' is clearly identified as the starting point for any task to have a chance of a successful conclusion. It is 'the obvious' that is too often the victim of office politics and personal agendas - identifying it, openly, is the very best way to circumvent these twin evils.

It seems not all reviewers have understood from where this author is coming; indeed, what a pleasant experience it is to find an author secure enough in his research and experience, who doesn't feel the urge to spray the latest industry buzzwords all over his text in the pursuit of being up with the latest fad.

In conclusion, this book is an easy read, is of manageable length but always manages to keep the reader fully informed, via the 'Pertinent Questions', of each and every step needed to bring a project to successful, affordable and timely completion.

Emperor's New Clothes?.......2004-04-30

I've been a senior manager for many years now, and I always find it interesting to read the latest load of so-called 'business improvment' books when they are printed. Unfortunately, this is yet another book to add to the recycle pile.

It fundamentally fails to grasp any of the points that it attempts to make, and manages to use just about every management cliche ever devised, including some that were even new on me! Personally, I find books such as this similar to the story of the Emperor's New Clothes: It may well be the flavor of the month, but in time, people will see it to be totally transparent.

However, if you want to try to master the art of using thousands of words to say nothing, then maybe this book is for you after all!

Truly a Handbook For Humans..........2003-09-25

In writing this review I have to first declare that I do have a past professional connection with the author having worked with him on one of his improvement projects 10 years ago. That said , I beleive the only bias in my review is possibly in the last sentence...

'Changing attitudes is never easy but that's what you have to do', says Covey, 'and you have to do this before you start implementing process improvements...' Originally written as a guide for Humans involved in Process and Quality Improvement in 'hi-tech' industries, Mind Your Ps and Qs can be equally applied to Business Improvement and indeed any Change Management or Organisational Development field where the human and organisational factors (and often political ones too!) are dominant. And hands up all those who've ever worked on process improvement programs where the human factors are not the dominant issue...

Really a lite 'conversational' read to brush up on the human aspects of Quality and Process Improvement for those experienced in the field or as an introduction to new entrants, this book is packed with practical advice from real life experience. For the more experienced reader, David sometimes appears to state the obvious, but in this business the obvious is often what needs to be stated and re-stated again and again. Getting the message across to your target audience, the decision makers and practitioners who will make or break your improvement effort is, as the book makes clear, at least half the battle.

The book may lack a formal theoretical base but that's not what we're aiming for here and, as the author himself says, there are many works in the field based on formal models and Business School theory. This is a practical book full of real life experience and an entertaining read. My only real criticism is that I could have read more... Truly a Handbook For Humans. If you're human, or have to deal with humans, buy it, read it, apply it!

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Mind Your Ps and Qs: Philosophy Goes to High School
Edward R.W. Makhene
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This is a philosophical dialogue between High School students who set out to explore the logical foundations of our commonly held opinions and beliefs, and their degree of certainty.

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