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"This is a book with vision and spirit. It should be read by all would-be principals and administrators. Susan Villani writes with clarity and compassion about the struggles and rewards of bringing new models of leadership into being."
Judith V. Jordan, Director of Training
Wellesley College

"An inspiring and instructional journey! A must-read book not only for educators but for everyone who cares about the schooling of our nation’s children."
Lonnie Carton, Educational Psychologist and Broadcast Journalist
CBS Radio Station Group

"This book is an invitation to a conversation about school leadership by a real pro. Susan Villani is an authentic leader and a consummate storyteller. She communicates with readers by way of short, pithy stories that give vitality to the conversation."
Charles V. Willie, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education

Former principal, Susan Villani, combines practical advice and theoretical insight in an easy-to-read and easy-to-apply book for new and experienced principals, as well as for teachers, administrators, and staff.

You will learn:

When to push . . . and when to let go
How to balance listening and leading
How to authentically represent yourself and the interests of children
How to achieve effective leadership within school communities

Improve leadership, sharpen your skills, and promote better education with Are You Sure You’re the Principal?

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Insights and Deepest Thoughts...An Inspired Principal Shares.......2005-02-20

Principals are constantly surrounded by people, yet isolation is the underlying experience. Susan Villani's "Are You Sure You're the Principal?" offers even the most veteran principal an opportunity to reflect on the professional and very personal experience of assuming a leadership position in a school. I applaud her for revealing her triumphs and deepest fears. She helped me uncover my own and strengthened my understanding of dynamics that have helped and hindered me as a principal. A great read!
Kathleen Sciarappa, NH Principal and co-designer of "Collabortive Conversations" a Plymouth State University seminar series for principals in their first, second or third year of administration.

A different but pleasing read.......1999-12-04

This book brings a new and authentic voice to the educational publishing field. Ms. Villani is an adept "storyteller" of real experiences as a principal. No educational jargon in this thoughtful volume. A short book with a powerful message for administrators and aspiring administrators everywhere.

this is the worst book I have ever read.......1999-10-29

Too bad there isn't a zero star rating, becuase I would give it. I can honestly say that this is the worst book I have ever read. Mind numbing topics, terrible style, and the views are snobby and arrogant. DO NOT throw your money away on this book, as it is not worth a dime. Please, I beg you to stay away!

Reflective view of leadership issues of the principalship........1999-10-10

This is an engaging and endearing book about personal travails experienced as a principal for 21 years at the elementary level. The book is well written with inviting prose and sensitive portrayals. I recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in education, leadership issues and gender based issues.

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If you're conforming to such international standards as ISO 9000 and ISO 1400 or various domestic regulations, Integrated Performance Assurance shows you how to integrate your organization's quality assurance, environmental compliance, and health and safety protection programs into a single risk management tool. This combined management system will enhance and improve cost-effectiveness and reliability.

Written in a clear, concise, easy-to use format, the book provides a step-by-step model that will guide you through a successful application of the Integrated Performance Assurance (IPA) process. In addition, the authors lend their insights and offer solutions to implementing IPA in your organization.

This guide to implementing IPA is highly recommended to management system professionals, upper-level executives and line managers concerned with the effective, cost conscious implementation of management systems required by international standards, regulation, and customer expectations.

Special Features case studies of the author's company, CH2M Hill (provider of planning, engineering design, and other operations and construction management services) and other organizations are presented to illustrate concepts, rationale, and implementing guidelines for the IPA approach to management systems.

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This wide-ranging book deals, in a detailed and scholarly way, with the contribution of a systems approach to a range of disciplines from philosophy and biology to social theory and management. It weaves together material from some of the pre-eminent thinkers of the day — Maturana, Varela, Bateson, Merleau-Ponty, Checkland, Giddens, Habermas, Bhaskar, and Luhmann — to create a coherent path from the most fundamental work on philosophical issues of ontology and epistemology through specific domains of knowledge about the nature of information and meaning, human communication, and social intervention right up to the implications of these theoretical developments for action and intervention in real-world affairs.

It will be of interest to scholars in philosophy, biology, information systems, communications, social theory, management science and operational research as well as everyone in the systems community.

Strategic Business Planning: An Action Programme for Forward-Thinking Businesses

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Strategic Business Planning: An Action Programme for Forward-Thinking Businesses
Clive Reading
Manufacturer: Nichols Pub Co
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Strategic Thinking & Entrepreneurial Action in the Health Care Industry, Volume 6 (Advances in Health Care Management)

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Strategic Thinking & Entrepreneurial Action in the Health Care Industry, Volume 6 (Advances in Health Care Management)

Manufacturer: JAI Press
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Increasingly, there is a need for managers operating in the complex and dynamic health care environment to better understand the competitive nature of the health care industry and the opportunities that potentially exist within it. In response, this sixth volume of Advances in Health Care Management is dedicated to strategic thinking and entrepreneurial action in the health care industry.

As implied in the title, this volume of eleven independent chapters is arranged in four sections. The first section is composed of three chapters, focusing on the health care industry itself. The first of these serves as an introduction for this volume, with the other two chapters taking an historical and futuristic perspective of the health care industry, respectively. These two chapters serve as solid contextual reference points for which we can position the remaining manuscripts. The second section contains two chapters that more explicitly examine strategic issues within a specified health care context. The first of these examines strategy and structure fit in a large sample of physician organizations, while the latter studies a single, large medical center to demonstrate the impact culture and human capital have on strategic outcomes. Four chapters make up the third section, which focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship. The first two chapters in this section focus on the processes of entrepreneurship in the health care environment, with both the similarities and dissimilarities between the health care industry and other contexts being discussed. The latter two chapters of the third section, on the other hand, principally demonstrate the activities and implications associated with entrepreneurship, or the lack thereof. Finally, the fourth section contains two chapters that integrate both strategic and entrepreneurial perspectives. One of these chapters creates a typology of new biotechnology ventures; the focus in this chapter is on how such firms exploit opportunities. The final chapter, then, examines strategic corporate entrepreneurship by comprehensively studying one major organizations entry into the health care services marketplace.

Collectively, these multi-faceted chapters help to recognize and address the often elusive phenomenon of successful strategic choice over environmental determinism, which is aided by quality strategic thinking and decisive entrepreneurial actions. In summary, these chapters help to emphasize the importance of these issues to the health care industry and the managers operating within it.

*Examines the health care and hospital industries and their relation to entrepreneurial action and strategy
*Provides 11 valuable chapters for scholars and researchers in sociology and healthcare

Strategic Thinking - Strategic Action (2nd Edition)

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Practical Magic

Strategic Thinking - Strategic Action (2nd Edition)
Gordon Pearson
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Practical Magic.......2000-11-29

There are strategy and strategy books but Pearson's book makes strategy comes alive by exploring both theories, concepts and practical applications in real life situations. The case studies cover companies from different regions - for example, a fish and chips shop with its home base in UK but operating in Singapore and such analysis necessarily brings in other aspects of management which have tremendous implications on strategy - that of culture, customs and even religious implications. A great book for rookies and an equally great book for the experienced who want to look at strategy and strategic management from a fresh perspective and to make quick references to actual happenings around the world.

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Title: The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy & Il Banco Cambini: Affari e cercati di una compagnia mercantile-bancaria nella Firenze del XV secolo.(Review)
Author: George Dameron
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: 53 Issue: 3 Page: 880

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The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)

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The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)
Richard K. Marshall
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Located just ten miles from Florence and completely integrated into that city's economy, the small fourteenth-century Italian town of Prato lived mostly in the shadow of its larger neighbor. Its merchants and small businessmen and -women would be forgotten today but for the survival of an unusual number of documents from Prato -- detailed account books that preserve line-by-line records of business transactions. In no other Italian town -- not even Florence -- did account books survive in such quantity. Mining this unique resource, Richard K. Marshall throws new light on the everyday business life of Renaissance Italy.

Marshall begins with a look at the local marketplace in Prato, examining the way of life in this small town, explaining how business was conducted, and offering an in-depth look at the particular cases of an independent broker and a family of innkeepers. He then turns to common business practices, paying special attention to methods of bookkeeping, credit, loans, and banking in the local economy.

Marshall's attention to detail helps capture the vagaries and difficulties of trying to make a living as a small merchant during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Although focused on Prato, the story told here represents that of many other small towns that thrived in the regions surrounding the great Italian cities.

"The picture Marshall gives us of these Pratese shopkeepers and artisans is altogether different from the guild stereotype that dominates much of the traditional historiography... Marshall's book opens up yet another direction in taking a look at how the entrepreneurs among the working class confronted market forces in organizing their work. This is one of the central problems of the economic history of preindustrial Europe, and these small operators working away in provincial Prato are as unique a testimony as their more famous contemporary, Francesco Datini, to the development of capitalism in late medieval and Renaissance Florence." -- From the foreword, by Marco Spallanzani, Institute of Economic History, University of Florence

The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Richard C. Hoffmann
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
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Title: The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy.(Review) (book review)
Author: Richard C. Hoffmann
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 36 Issue: 1 Page: 119

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Yet another Learning Styles Model!

Excellent book on how to give brain friendly trainings

The Field Guide to Giving It and Getting It

What Style!

WOW!!!!

How To Give It So They Get It
Sharon L. Bowman
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Yet another Learning Styles Model!.......2007-09-13

Sharon Bowman has come a long way. This is one of her early books. A more recent book The Ten-Minute Trainer: 150 Ways to Teach it Quick and Make it Stick! (Pfeiffer Essential Resources for Training and HR Professionals) is SO much better.

This one is modeled on the metaphor of a flight plan, and gets a tad hokey. She also introduces a new learning style analysis, which I found to be pretty weak. She does have some great ideas in here, (which are also repeated in the new book) and as a trainer, you can never miss out on new ideas.

Sharon is a creative professional and teaches participatory learning. She uses a lot of creative techniques, and writes her books in the style she teaches people to use. Active learning creates retained information and a fun experience. For the money, you're better off with The Ten Minute Trainer.

Excellent book on how to give brain friendly trainings.......2004-01-10

I love this book on training because unlike most other books of its type it doesn't go into long winded theories of learning that are not necessary to be good at teaching. It also gives a methodology that can be applied to any kind of training.

The small section on learning styles is relevant because it is argued that your own learning preference will affect the way in which you teach. When this was pointed out it was somewhat of a revelation to me. I realised that I had been training in my own learning style and not training towards the preferred style of the other three types of learner.

The best thing about this book for me was the fact that it gives you a practical guide to how you can incorporate the four learning styles into your trainings along with example exercises for each. I have now adopted this method in all of my trainings and it has enhanced the learning of my students and also their enjoyment of the courses!

On the downside for me is the fact that Sharon uses the metaphor of learning to fly throughout the book and I found it was wearing a bit thin with me by the end. However, that might just be my type 2 (fact driven) learning style showing itself.

All in all an excellent, practical and very readable book on training which will quickly enable you to apply its principles. Its a book that 'walks the talk' . Thanks Sharon.

The Field Guide to Giving It and Getting It.......2003-04-27

This book reviews the four basic styles of learning (peacemaker, truthkeeper, solutionseeker, and risktaker) and teaching (getting connected, sharing the wealth, making it happen, and celebrating the success).

The format holds true to the title: that is, basic practical and down-to-earth advice and techniques that you can implement immediately. It's a user guide to understanding your own learning and teaching styles, as well as the styles of your learners/students. Bowman reminds us that we are all students and teachers in our lives. Bowman uses humor and a consistent metaphor of the "flight plan," fleshing out her premise with interesting examples, animation, and analogies. Bowman says, "The style map is a metaphor for life itself." (p. 158)

The author addresses the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of all of us. I think this holistic approach makes real good sense because you will stretch as a teacher and embrace all of your students' learning styles.

Bowman includes "flight kits" for each teaching style- real-life activities you can use in your learning environment right away.

What Style!.......2002-01-22

This book offers a wealth of information about the people in my workshops - and how to use styles information to reach each one. Wonderful, clear balance between theory and application - I can use her ideas in every session I do. Thanks!

WOW!!!!.......2002-01-06

A quick read and full of ready-to-use ideas. A great reference for interactive teaching strategies and why they work. My classroom teachers should have read this book.

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Services Marketing Management An International Perspective Services Marketing Management provides students with an understanding of services marketing in an international context. Based on the authors' views about the essence of marketing in concepts such as market orientation, long-term relationships, quality and, ultimately, satisfaction, this unique book includes the latest developments in Europe, Northern America and Australasia. The text is built around four themes:
* The fundamentals of services marketing management
* A new classification of services based on an extensive overview of existing classifications
* The definition of four new types of services
* The increasing trend to the internationalization of services
The benefits of this book are threefold, the reader will: have an understanding of services marketing management in both a national and an international context; be able to manage a market-oriented service organization; and be able to deliver excellent service quality leading to long-term relationships with customers and employees. Numerous examples illustrate key points discussed in the text and each chapter concludes with a case study.

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Very bad.......2004-05-24

This book is very bad. It is almost literally translated from Dutch. Most of the examples and cases are Dutch or associated with the authors' (Dutch) companies. Besides that the content is very weak. I am really disappointed. It is a waste of money. I recommend you not to buy it!

Buy something else..........2000-09-22

This book is boring, it doesn't say anything new and it's very bad written. I had to study it right after Kotler's "Marketing Management" (that is simply amazing!) and...well, it was a pretty bad experience.

Sustaining competitive advantage in a high-technology environment: a strategic marketing perspective. : An article from: Advances in Competitiveness Research

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Sustaining competitive advantage in a high-technology environment: a strategic marketing perspective. : An article from: Advances in Competitiveness Research
P.M. Rao
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This digital document is an article from Advances in Competitiveness Research, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 8516 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: Sustaining competitive advantage in a high-technology environment: a strategic marketing perspective.
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Publication: Advances in Competitiveness Research (Magazine/Journal)
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Volume: 13 Issue: 1 Page: 33(15)

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Instructor's Manual to Accompany Services Marketing Management: An International Perspective

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Instructor's Manual to Accompany Services Marketing Management: An International Perspective
Kasper
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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A major aspect of Japan's international economic success has been its industrial firms' ability to develop a system of subcontracting with suppliers. Through an exploration of the evolution of subcontracting in Japan as well as an analysis of its current practice in advanced economies, Nishiguchi reveals what he believes to be the shortcomings of existing theories of contractual relations. He shows that subcontracting can be described as the evolutionary product of complex historical interaction among social, political, technological, and company-level strategic plans--but not one constrained by culture. This makes it possible for other countries to use models similar to those employed in Japan, encouraging continuous improvement in product quality and cost reduction.

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An Excellant analysis of Japanese sub-contracting system........1998-10-20

The book gives a very good background to the way the Japanese system of sub-contracting developed over the years and how various factors including Government support at right time and in specific areas helped in making their system one of the main reasons for Japanese Success particularly in Automobile & Electronic fields.The author has done a very well structured indepth study of working of sub-contractors in Japan as well as Europe & America and has hilighted the differences which helped Japanese success.He has also clearly brought out the different reasons for sub-contracting for different sectors of the industry.The book is very well supported by large amount of actual data and foot-notes as well as unusually large Appendices give a wealth of information to a keen reader.A"don't miss" book for professionals in purchasing function.

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THE standard reference for public record professionals

The Sourcebook to Public Record Information: The Comprehensive Guide to County, State, and Federal Public Record Sources (Sourcebook to Public Record Information)
Sankey , and Weber
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"The Sourcebook" provides the information you need to efficiently access public record sources nationwide.

Be more effective. Know how to directly contact each agency by mail, phone, fax, and online.

Save time. Know how records are indexed, who has public access terminals, what are the normal turnaround times, and who's online.

Avoid delays. Know the restrictions imposed on searchers or types of searchers, when signed releases or notarized statements are required, which type of records are not available.

Save money. Know in advance the fees including access, copy, certification, expedited fees also if credit cards are accepted, what types of checks accepted, if a SASE is required.

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Also includes a Public Record Primer detailing professional research tips!

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THE standard reference for public record professionals.......2000-01-31

BRB Publications has long been recognized as the leading publisher of public record resource directories. Every data acquisition professional in the on-line public record service industry uses, and swears by this publication.

This thick telephone book sized directory is easily worth many times the price. The new Sourcebook consolidates information about local, state, and Federal public record jurisdictions. This book identifies the filing location for almost any public record along with telephone numbers, record retrieval costs, timeframes, information about web and on-line access and much more. The content is accurate, comprehensive, well organized and readable. The book is ruggedly constructed and holds up to frequent use. You absolutely will not be disappointed by the purchase of this book!

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The Sourcebook to Public Record Information 3rd Edition: The Comprehensive Guide to County, State & Federal Public Records Sources (Sourcebook to Public Record Information, 3rd ed)

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Stop Searching . . . Start Finding! Professionals frustrated with searching for public records can now get accurate and current information on how to obtain records direct from the government. The revised and updated 3rd edition of The Sourcebook to Public Record Information profiles in detail over 20,000 government agencies that house public records. More than a directory, The Sourcebook includes addresses, phone numbers (including recent area code changes), access procedures, access restrictions, turnaround times, fees, Internet addresses and additional useful information for public record professionals.

Comprehensive Coverage! The Sourcebook contains an informative "Public Record Primer and the industries most comprehensive listings of:
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Plus a place name/ZIP Code/county cross index to locate the correct county location.

This extensive guide of over 1,600 pages is a superb time saving and cost cutting resource for background investigations, legal research, people/asset location and employment verification.

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The most comprehensive public record guide I've found

Profiles more than 20,000 record keeping agencies

The Sourcebook to Public Record Information: The Comprehensive Guide to County, State, & Federal Public Records Sources (Sourcebook to Public Record Information)

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Be a Public Record Information Expert! Do you need to know which government agencies offer online access to public records? How would you like to know which county courts offer free searches by a county clerk or which government locations impose restrictions on searchers? The Sourcebook to Public Record Information 6th edition provides you the details you need to perform concise background investigations and public record searches nationwide. The revised and updated 6th edition of The Sourcebook:

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• Also includes a County Locator to identify the right search county by place name or Zip Code

Replaces the Guide to Background Investigations BRB Publications purchased the rights to The Guide to Background Investigations. Rather than publish two very similar products, BRB Publications chose to incorporate the best of both product lines into one. The revised product line will offer you a wider selection of products with more information at a more economical price.

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The most comprehensive public record guide I've found.......2001-02-06

I've worked with public records for some time and have bought many books . . . some good and some bad. This is the best I've come across. The information is current and the format is easy to use.

The depth of information provided, particularly in the county court and state agency sections, is very comprehensive. This book provides more locations and more details than anything else I've seen and I have them all.

If you work with public records, forget the other guides and put your money here . . . you won't be disappointed

Profiles more than 20,000 record keeping agencies.......2001-01-29

Now in a fully updated and expanded second edition, The Sourcebook To Public Record Information profiles more than 20,000 record keeping agencies including county courts, real estate recording offices, state agencies, and federal courts. Here detailed are addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, web addresses, access procedures and restrictions, fees, turnaround times, and more. The Sourcebook To Public Record Information is an essential, core reference for librarians, background investigators, journalists, attorneys, genealogists, law enforcement officials, private investigators, policy makers, pre-employment screeners, and academic researchers.

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