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On-the-go Instrction Because your time is valuable... All Audio All on the go! Beginning level instruction is presented in an all-audio format on 4 digitally-recorded CDs. You have the opportunity to learn on the go, taking advantage of time normally wasted. Study in your car, while exercising, doing yard work anywhere you can safely listen to a CD player. No accompanying books are needed to help you complete the lesson activities. Why can t learning be fun? It can! Linguaphone has chosen to present the allTalk series in an entertaining, soap-opera format. No dry old teacher with a monotone voice putting you to sleep, you follow the adventures of a visitor to a Spanish-speaking country as she interacts with individuals in a variety of interesting situations, learning the language and beginning to understand the culture. Actually learn the language Tired of spending money on language courses that don t work? Did you ever think the problem could be with the course and not you? With Linguaphone s unique learning sequence: Listen, Understand, Speak, you will find yourself actually using the language in no time at all! You are presented with a unit of the language, it is then broken down and explained to you, then you put it back together with greater understanding than just repeating what you may not have understood in the first place. . . . and learn it well! The all Talk methodology not only teaches well, but will have you speaking and understanding basic spoken Spanish in no time at all. Other popular all-audio courses require four times the cds, four times the money and four times the time to do what Linguaphone s allTalk Basic does with 4-one hour CDs.

Basic Business Vocabulary (Six-Cassette Program)

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Basic Business Vocabulary (Six-Cassette Program)

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Basic vocabulary for secretaries: Over 5,000 high frequency business terms

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Basic vocabulary for secretaries: Over 5,000 high frequency business terms
Charles A Thomas
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Spanish All Talk Complete Language Course (16 Hour/16 Cds): Learn to Understand and Speak Spanish with Linguaphone Language Programs (All Talk) (All Talk)

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Spanish All Talk Complete Language Course (16 Hour/16 Cds): Learn to Understand and Speak Spanish with Linguaphone Language Programs (All Talk) (All Talk)
John Foley
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All-Audio Advantages Take advantage of effective on-the-go learning! All Audio Learn on the go! Instruction is presented in an all-audio format on 16 digitally-recorded CDs. You have the opportunity to learn on the go, taking advantage of time normally wasted. Study in your car, while exercising, doing yard work anywhere you can safely listen to a CD player. No accompanying books are needed to help you complete the lesson activities. Why can t learning be fun? It can! Linguaphone has chosen to present the allTalk 1-2-3 in an entertaining, soap-opera format. No dry old teacher with a monotone voice putting you to sleep, you follow the adventures of a visitor to a Spanish-speaking country as she interacts with individuals in a variety of interesting situations, learning the language and beginning to understand the culture. Actually learn the language Tired of spending money on language courses that don t work? Did you ever think the problem could be with the course and not you? With Linguaphone s unique learning sequence: Listen, Understand, Speak, you will find yourself actually using the language in no time at all! You are presented with a unit of the language, it is then broken down and explained to you, then you put it back together with greater understanding than just repeating what you may not have understood in the first place. You don't just study the language--you gain real proficiency in using your new language! . . . and learn it well! The allTalk methodology not only teaches well, but will take you to full intermediate level in speaking and understanding spoken Spanish. Other popular all-audio courses require three times the cds, three times the money and three times the time to do what Linguaphone s allTalk does with 16-one hour cds.

Vocabulary Basics for Business (NetEffect Series)

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Vocabulary Basics for Business (NetEffect Series)
Barbara Cox
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Word division manual for the basic vocabulary of business writing

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Basic vocabulary for written business office communications (Chicago State College. Publications series)

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Basic vocabulary for written business office communications (Chicago State College. Publications series)
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The basic vocabulary of business letters;: Words most commonly used in writing business letters, (Gregg business education series)

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The basic vocabulary of business letters;: Words most commonly used in writing business letters, (Gregg business education series)
Ernest Horn
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Vocabulary Basics for Business Participant Guide (Neteffect Series)

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Esta obra es importante no porque sus reflexiones sean una invitacion a practicar la guerra, sino porque para Sun Tzu la guerra es algo mas que la simple fuerza bruta y la irracionalidad de la destruccion. Se trata del arte de evitar los conflictos; requiere de una sabiduria mayor, pero sobre todo, exige de nuestra parte una gran sensibilidad para detectar cuales son las exigencias que nos demanda la armonia universal.

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Lecciones vitales.......2006-03-20

El texto contiene la versión original de las reglas que el general Sun-Tzu escribió hace mas de dos mil años.

Contiene una versión comentada de todas las reglas que facilita su lectura, lo cual facilita mucho su lectura y comprensión al explicar el contexto en el que fueron escritas

El reducido tamaño de bolsillo lo hace ideal para una lectura rápida

Sin embargo, quizás es demasiado generalista; se echa de menos un análisis mas profundo que permita sacas mas conclusiones al lector

Para los que viven en guerra.......2001-07-03

a pesar de que este libro tenga milemios de antiguedad su palabra es aun vigente, y valida para aquellas personas que viven una guerra constante, asi sea en sus trabajos o en sus vidas y estan tan acostumbrada a ellas que no las pueden dejar. Las palabras del libro son sabias para aquellas personas que no les gusta perder y siempre tienen una meta fija.

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Excellent!.......2007-05-16

For anyone that needs to learn about ISO 9000, this is the book!
Comprehensive yet easy to understand.

Excellent and concise book on ISO........2000-02-05

This is a great book for a small company looking to get ISO 9000 registration. The author hits all the key points of ISO and even includes a diskette with the book. Another plus is that the profits go towards cancer research. A quality product all around.

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Nietzsche argued that ideas should be placed in the twilight between the daylight of continued usage and the darkness of irrelevance for humans. This volume distinguishes itself from other books on strategic management in that it explores the corporate strategy concept in an ethical twilight. Gilbert argues that the corporate strategy concept provides hope that the corporation can be interpreted as a context in which humans can flourish, even as the dominant use of that concept denies such hope.

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This book aims to introduce the reader to contemporary Chinese urban life and to examine how reforms have changed not only the material circumstances of daily life, but also the overall well-being of urban residents.

The Return of the God of Wealth: the Transition to a Market Economy in Urban China.: An article from: Pacific Affairs

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The Return of the God of Wealth: the Transition to a Market Economy in Urban China.: An article from: Pacific Affairs
Graham E. Johnson
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00097TDF2
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on June 22, 1997. The length of the article is 695 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: The Return of the God of Wealth: the Transition to a Market Economy in Urban China.
Author: Graham E. Johnson
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1997
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: v70 Issue: n2 Page: p264(2)

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Until recently, double-digit economic growth was not unusual among Asian countries and, in fact, had come to be expected of them. From western India to northeastern China, markets were booming and incredible numbers of foreign investors were racing into the Asian markets. Scholars have written laudatory books and articles, politicians want to ensure that trade with Asian countries continues on a rising trajectory, and business leaders have become the new promoters of Asian prosperity. This book attempts to inject a note of caution and reality, while giving Asian countries well-deserved credit for improving their economic status. Technological, managerial, and institutional deficiencies need to be addressed in Asian countries if the progress of the past two decades is to be restored and preserved. Although Asian nations, particularly Japan, have invested heavily in R&D, their success mainly derives from process improvements and not from new product innovations. Technology and science are the foundations of modern economic civilization, and Asia's assets fall behind Western countries in both areas. The centrality of family-based organizations in some Asian economies and the dependence on horizontal/vertical networks in others also limits the ability of Asian firms to become global operations. The lack of adequate institutions such as an independent judiciary and a responsive polity, and the absence of organizations to bridge the gap between between familism and the government, results in an uncertain societal framework in much of Asia. If robust economic growth is to return, Asian economies must rectify the weaknesses Arogyaswamy exposes in this provocative and timely book.

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Real Time caused a sensation with its provocative look at doing business in a real time world, a world created on demand, where customers demand instant gratification...or else. Now available in paperback, this pathbreaking book reveals why managers today must be prepared for anything-anytime, anywhere, and in-your-face. We get cash in seconds at ATMs, we watch wars unfold instantaneously on live TV. Technology today compresses to zero the time needed to acquire information, to make decisions, to react, and to innovate. The companies best equipped for the twenty-first century understand that real time means exceptional responsiveness to customer expectations, and are seizing the opportunities that our real time reality presents. Real Time explores how to create a sensing organization that constantly monitors, queries, verifies, adjusts, tries, and initiates. It will spark your imagination, move you to think in new ways, and ignite a lively debate on how to dominate in real time.

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Making decisions at light speed.......2006-02-21

Recent technological advances have made it easier for us to do more in less time. Regis McKenna, chairman of The McKenna Group, asserts that this technology has reset our business clocks to run on real time. Real time isn't just about doing things faster, says McKenna, it's about making decisions and responding to change and customer expectations in the smallest possible amount of time. Businesses cannot remain competitive unless management builds speed into strategic thinking at all levels of the organization. McKenna offers the following tips on managing your company in real time:

· Create a Real-Time organizational culture. Make sure employees at all levels of the organization are invested in operating the business in Real-Time.
· Offer customers choices, but make it easy for them to choose. Customers must be familiar with the options and the interface must be easy for them to use.
· Develop a marketing strategy based on dialogue. Talk with customers instead of at them. Find ways to include input from customers into your products and services.
· Give your customers what they want: Service. Use technology to give real time service to your customers. Often customers can use the Internet to service themselves better than you could.
· Create an internal network to connect your people. Make it possible for information flow freely and quickly between divisions in your company.
· Pay no attention to official productivity statistics. Conventional measures may not be able to capture the kinds of value that information technology has added to industry.
· Be prepared to handle anything. Increase your data gathering resources. Use software to synchronize divisions in your organization with one another. Be prepared to learn as you go.

This book could be 2 pages long. .......2005-01-13

Basically, it says that the world is moving fast, everyone is using the Internet, and that fast is more important than quality. Not worth wasting time with this book.

Not Pedestrian at All--Packed with Insights.......2003-07-10

Below is my review as planned before reading all the negative reviews....everyone brings their own baggage to any book. Following this short review, which was originally written for national intelligence professionals, I have added an addendum with a specific experience in France that illustrates why this book is valuable to anyone willing to take the time to reflect on its fundamentals.

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This may be one of the top three books I've read in the last couple of years. It is simply packed with insights that are applicable to both the classified intelligence community as well as the larger national information community. The following is a tiny taste from this very deep pool: "Instead of fruitlessly trying to predict the future course of a competitive or market trend, customer behavior or demand, managers should be trying to find and deploy all the tools that will enable them, in some sense, to be ever-present, ever-vigilant, and ever-ready in the brave new marketplace in gestation, where information and knowledge are ceaselessly exchanged."

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ADDENDUM: In coming to post the above review I noted a number of negative reviews along the lines of "so 1970's", "no new ideas", etc. Naturally any book is going to strike people with different levels of intelligence and experience differently. Our advice to intelligence professionals and managers at any level is to dismiss those other opinions, spend $20 and 1-2 hours with this book, and judge for yourself. Among many reasons why we found this book meaningful, given our focus on global coverage, weak signals, and being effective in 29+ languages, is the following experience:

In 1994, attending the French national conference on information, we heard one of the leaders of the French steel industry discussing a multi-million dollar business intelligence endeavor (in France this includes business espionage and government espionage in support of business) against steel industries around the world. The punch line, however, was stunning. At the end of it all, he said, they failed because they focused only on the steel industry. In the end, the plastics industry ate their lunch because it was able to develop very good plastic substitutes for automobile parts, including automobile under-carriage parts, and this hurt the French steel industry badly. It was from this occasion that we crafted Rule 003 (Book 2, Chapter 15) on the importance of Global Coverage, whose sub-title could be "cast a wide net." McKenna has the basics right.

Really not so good........2002-03-31

Real Time is really not so good. No new ideas or inspiring thoughts. Reading it is a waste of time basically. I gave it two because you always learn something from "getting into" the writers mind.

Merging Technology, Speed, and Customer Satisfaction!.......2000-09-25

Real Time is a tremendous help in understanding that technology, speed, and customer satisfaction have brought a world where action and reaction are concurrent, and sequential actions outdated. Sequential actions are of the modern, 20th century age. Concurrent actions are of the postmodern, 21st century age.

It is a welcome addition to the collection of books that help us think about how our systems have to change in response to technology and speed. As a relatively short book it is a good one to give to people who need a basic understanding of the concepts, but do not need to know all the details.

It also adds to the collection of books that help us rethink our approach to customer service in terms of the use of technology and the speed of response. It helps raise the bar on how we provide solutions to our customers, and not just fixes.

It presses all organizations to anticipate future leaps in technology and relationships so that they are prepared to respond to new needs expressed by many of their customers. At the same time it forces organizations to think about whether they will run on two tracks or one track. The two tracks would be to run with people who demand real time and with people who do not see or participate in the real time transformation. Many organizations need to be prepared to run on one track and leave behind--for mediocre organizations--those customers who do not get it, understand real time, or go digital.

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Real Time: Preparing for the Age of the Never Satistied Customer
Regis McKenna
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This is a reprint of a classic work of research on innovation first published in 1989. Resulting from the Minnesota Innovation Research Program (MIRP), the book includes a revised and expanded Preface and will complement the three other books growing out of the program, all published by Oxford--The Innovation Journey (1999), Organizational Change Processes: Theory and Methods for Research (2000), and Handbook of Organizational Change and Development (coming 2001).

Externally-induced innovation: Response patterns in the nuclear industry (Discussion paper / Strategic Management Research Center, University of Minnesota)

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Externally-induced innovation: Response patterns in the nuclear industry (Discussion paper / Strategic Management Research Center, University of Minnesota)
Alfred Allen Marcus
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Research on the Management of Innovation : The Minnesota Studies

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Research on the Management of Innovation : The Minnesota Studies
Andrew H. Van de Ven
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Testing and extending innovation diffusion theory in the context of end-user computing (Working paper series / Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota)

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Testing and extending innovation diffusion theory in the context of end-user computing (Working paper series / Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota)
James C Brancheau
Manufacturer: Management Information Systems Research Center, Curtis L. Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
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This unique and timely new book looks to the future of Information Technology management by examining what has been collectively learned from past research and business activities. Edited by Bob Zmud, Professor and Michael F. Price Chair of MIS at the University of Oklahoma, the book consists of 19 chapters covering topics of most pressing interest and importance to information systems practitioners, researchers, instructors and students. Each chapter is written by an individual or individuals internationally known and recognized as IT authorities and scholars. Each chapter: - Explains the importance of the topic in terms of today's (and tomorrow's) globally competitive business environment. - Identifies the key issues associated with the topic. - Provides the reader with one or more conceptual frames with which to view the chapter's content. - Overviews the best scholarly research done to date in the topic area, explaining what we currently know and what we don't know. - Suggests those issues regarding the topic that would most benefit from research over the next few years. - Is written in a style that is accessible to non-academics or to readers unfamiliar with the prior research in a given area. Contributing Authors: Ritu Agarwal

Maryam Alavi Soon Ang Anitesh Barua Izak Benbasat Marie-Claude Boudreau Marianne Broadbent James Dean David Feeny Robert Fichman Joey George

Varun Grover William Kettinger Laurie Kirsch Mary Lacity M. Lynne Markus Tridas Mukhopadhyay Lorne Olfman Proadpran Pitsataorn Daniel Robey Jeanne Ross V. Sambamurthy Jeffrey Sampler Carol Saunders Albert Segars Sandra Slaughter Cornelis Tanis Peter Todd Peter Weill Leslie Willcocks The content, scope and quality of the material make this book a must have for IT researchers, IT scholars and academics, IT graduate students and IT professionals/practitioners.

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Academic, but contains fresh thinking and great ideas.......2001-09-15

Of all of the recent books on IT organization, strategic planning and operations management, this is without a doubt the best. I'm making this statement, in part, because the book squarely addresses some thorny issues with which I am currently grappling. These issues include organizing for effective and responsive service delivery and optimal use of IT as an enabling business resource. The issues that I am facing define the most appropriate audience for this book - if you are facing the same challenges, then this book is going to be immensely useful.

Highlights based on my requirements and research areas are:

Section 1-The Value-Adding Consequences of Information Technologies: "Managing Organizational Knowledge" and "Virtual Teams: Piecing Together the Puzzle" were two highly interesting and well-written essays that go to the essence of how to use IT to deliver value to the business.

Section 2-Successfully Implementing Technologies and Technology-Based Solutions: "Individual Acceptance of Information Technologies" was the best essay in this section. It provided some real insights into the critical success factors for effecting organizational change from process and systems viewpoints. Well worth reading if you are trying to effect organizational change.

Section 3-The Intertwining of Business Strategy and Information Technology: Every essay in this section is worth a careful read and some reflection. There was an almost overwhelming amount of fresh ideas here. There were also some mundane material, but overall, this section is valuable.

Section 4-Information Technology Management in an Information Age: The section's title is trite, but the essays are not. Of the four sections in this book this one was less academic and addressed real world issues head on.

A few facts about this book needs to be understood: (1) it's somewhat academic in nature, (2) there is a coherent theme, but not a sequential "how to" book - it's a collection of highly focused essays, (3) the topic areas have some overlap. I personally gained much from the book as a whole and view it as an investment in knowledge. Because of its theme and focus it may or may not be a good choice for all readers.

A good starting place.......2001-03-01

This is an excellent resource for anyone interested in an introduction to various issues in IS/IT research and management. It provides a starting place for the interested reader, and provides references if you would like to find the state of the art in current research.

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