Jane's All World Aircraft -2005-06 (Jane's All the World's Aircraft) (Jane's All the World's Aircraft)

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This essential companion to Jane's All the World's Aircraft provides you with the specifications and current status of civil and military aircraft still in service but no longer in production.

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An affordable, easily scannable one-day training guide designed for use in instructor-led training courses.

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Outstanding views for today and tomorrow.

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Very illuminating, changed my whole perception of myself

The Drucker Foundation , The Organization of the Future (J-B Leader to Leader Institute/PF Drucker Foundation)

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"This is a treasure-trove of some of the best thinking today on leadership, management, and strategy."

--Journal of Management Consulting

"The Organization of the Future is required reading.... If you don't use this book to help guide your organization through the changes, you may well be left behind."

--Nonprofit World

What do employees expect from the organizations they support? How can organizations maintain stability in times of massive change? These are the questions modern organizations face as they struggle to grow and evolve. The Organization of the Future offers timeless responses from such leading authorities as Peter F. Drucker, C.K. Prahalad, Nathaniel Branden, Lewis E. Platt, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Jay R. Galbraith, and Deepak Sethi. Their incisive essays reveal:
* How to build "know-how" and "know-who" to develop successful teams
* How to prepare for "breakdowns" and create the nimble, change-adept company
* How to attract, motivate, and retain the best employees
* How seven basic policies can lead to high performance and high self-esteem
* How to support work-life balance and provide flexibility for knowledge workers
Each essay provides observations that will help leaders in business, nonprofits, and government keep their organizations healthy, competitive, and poised for the future.

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Outstanding views for today and tomorrow........2001-06-12

'The Organization of the Future' is an outstanding integration of much of the current thinking of leadership, organization, strategy, change, and innovation. Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, and Richard Beckhard (editors) have gathered together in this collection remarkable 49 thought thinkers.

Charles Handy suggests in his chapter that "Margaret Wheatley, in 'Leadership and the New Science,' has written of the danger of believing in Newtonian organization in a quantum age. Newton wasn't wrong. He just wasn't right enough to cope with the dilemmas of science now. Similarly, the old way of looking at organizations wasn't wrong; it just does not capture the real essence of what it means to organize today." On the other hand, Peter F.Drucker notes in his introduction, "...now a totaly different approach is emerging, not replacing the older approaches but being superimposed on them: it says that the purpose of organizations is to get results 'outside,' that is, to achieve performance in the market. The organization is, however, more than a machine...It is more than economic, defined by results in the marketplace. The organization is, above all, 'social.' It is people. Its purpose must therefore be to make the strengths of people effective and their weaknesses irrelevant."

In this context, the editors divide this book into six parts. They write in their preface, "throughout the chapters in this book, the need for organizations is unquestioned. The authors provide a variety of forms and operating plans for organizations today and tomorrow; at the same time, each recognizes the indispensable role of organizations to human accomplishment and achievement."

Highly recommended.

Insightful!.......2001-05-15

Editors Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith and Richard Beckhard present a series of short essays by 39 authors describing the structure of tomorrow's organizations. The essays, which are introduced by Peter Drucker, are organized into six main themes: shaping future organizations, new models for working and organizing, organizing for strategic advantage, working and organizing in a wired world, leading people in future organizations and understanding and improving organizational health. Given this approach and more than three dozen authors, some repetition is inevitable, so we [...] wonder if readers will prefer to dip in and choose articles that appeal to them the most. Generally, the book explicates broad trends in structural thinking, almost like a survey of organizational forecasting by top philosophers, authors and leaders in the field. This is sure to intrigue the executives charged with steering large organizations to and through this complex future.

Insightful!.......2001-05-15

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I am using this book for courses in a degree in leadership. This book is a definite plus! It is a compolation of 28 essays from different scholars and executives and is must read for MBA students and business leaders alike.

Very illuminating, changed my whole perception of myself.......1999-09-27

I am using this book for an MBA course. It is filled with advice and principles that look to the future. The principles are equally applicable to both organization as well as to an individual, if you view yourself as an organiztion of 1.

The Drucker Foundation: The Community of the Future (J-B Leader to Leader Institute/PF Drucker Foundation)

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The Promise and Paradox of the Community of the Future
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Community will determine the future quality of our lives.

The Drucker Foundation: The Community of the Future (J-B Leader to Leader Institute/PF Drucker Foundation)

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ASIN: 0787952044

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"This book of essays is full of rampant idealism. Its authors--educators, think-tankers, corporate executives, consultants, book authors, nonprofit association executives, and a German politician--share a desire to better the world through their ideas and actions. Many qualify as do-gooders in the best sense of the phrase."
--Christian Science Monitor

This third volume from the acclaimed Drucker Foundation Future Series focuses on the basis of society itself--the community. Featuring the examples of successful communities from New York City to Hawaii, The Community of the Future presents insights from Peter F. Drucker, Stephen R. Covey, Arun Gandhi, Elie Wiesel, James L. Barksdale, and many others. Their powerful essays explore what our communities will look like tomorrow--how we will live, work, communicate, educate our children, and govern ourselves.

This collection shows readers:
* How to recognize and anticipate the trends that transform society
* The impact of new communications technology, including global and virtual communications
* How to create organizational communities and communities in the workplace
* How to envision and shape communities that will build values and embrace humanity

From businesses, to communities of faith, to schools, to cyberspace--the gamut of human communities is explored by the world's foremost thinkers.

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The Promise and Paradox of the Community of the Future.......2006-05-24

The American writer Willaim Saroyan once said, "In the time of your life, live---so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

In this time of global terrorism, rising oil prices, climatic disruption and political decay, hope is an increasingly scarce resource. Leadership too is becoming a perception to be managed and not a trait to be displayed. West African writer and teacher Malidoma Some declares that we have "an instinct of community," and so as societies grow and evolve, they build up resevoirs of social capital, taking generations to fill.

This instinct for community -- toward cooperation and competition, or so called 'co-opetition' by Brandenberger & Nalebuff -- is so strong in humans that we come into this world stocked with such emotions as anger, pride, shame, and guilt -- all of which, according to Fukuyama, "come into play in response to people who either are honest and cooperate, or who cheat and break the rules.

Yet the promise of this communal synthesis is being degraded as we "are using the instinct of community to separate and protect us from one another, rather than creating a global culture of diverse yet interwoven communities." Based on the interdependent models available to us in eco-systems theory, there is the possibility to "to connect to others through their diversity, [to re-establish] communities that succeed in creating sustainable [long-term] relationships."

It is the collaboration and cooperation of individuals in elaborate interdependent networks of relationships that allows new capabilities and talents to emerge. Individual fitness leads to greater societal and communal fitness and the connections and relationships strengthen and reinforce the fabric of society.

Yet as individuals weave this social fabric, a paradox is created -- the individual must surrender autonomy to achieve community. This paradoxical tension can lead to even greater awareness and understanding of the role of the individual in society, or it may contain the seed of our eventual self-destruction.

As Wheatley proclaims, "This paradox can be a great teacher to us humans. When we don't answer these questions as a community, when we have no agreements about why we belong together, the institutions we create to serve us become battle grounds that serve no one. Our institutions dissipate into incoherence and impotence. In the absence of these agreements, our instinct of community leads us to a community of 'me' not a community of 'we'." Such is the paradox and the promise of community.

good.......2005-10-05

basically satisfied with everything. the book came in good condition and was pretty much on time.

Community will determine the future quality of our lives........1999-02-12

Before WW I, fewer that 5% of the population lived in a city. Today in developed countries, less that 5% live in a rural area. All of this has occured in less than 100 years.

The key to survival and health of this new urban society is the development of communities in the city, by non-profit social sector insititutions, according to Peter Drucker.

Human beings need community. If no communities are available for constructive ends, there will be destructive communities, i.e. gangs to fill the void.

This thoughtfully written, well organized book is about the future -- the future quality of our lives. In "The Community of the Future", the editors have gathered the wisdom and insights from 31 distinguished authors, from around the world, to discuss their unique perspective on the nature of community.

The book is divided into six sections: * Trends Shaping the Evolution of the Community * The Values of Community * The Impact of New Communication Technology * Creating Community in Organization * Strengthening the Social Fabric * Global Dimensions of Community.

If you are interested in creating the future, strengthening our communities and improving our understanding of our world, I highly recommend "The Community of the Future".

Building the global community of the future is not the work of tomorrow. We are each called to build it today -- to build it now.

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GREAT OPTIONS FOR CREATING ORGANIZATIONS THAT ACHIEVE MORE

Perfect starter set for leaders -- Great gift for students

The Drucker Foundation , The Drucker Foundation Future Series Set: The Leader of the Future; The Community of the Future; The Organization of the Future ... to Leader Institute/PF Drucker Foundation)
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Now Available in a Boxed Set!

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All three hardcover volumes of the distinguished Drucker Foundation Future Series are available in an attractive gift set. The Leader of the Future, The Organization of the Future, and The Community of the Future are filled with wisdom and insights from world-class leaders, best-selling writers, revered scholars, top-notch consultants, and legendary thinkers.

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GREAT OPTIONS FOR CREATING ORGANIZATIONS THAT ACHIEVE MORE.......2004-09-12

THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FUTURE is the best compilation of essays that I have seen on different ways to organize businesses and nonprofits to achieve different kinds of results. The book is full of intriguing questions and choices, and lots of good ideas about how to make the desired changes you select. Anyone who manages people should read this book, and refer to it when effectiveness questions arise. The only thing that seemed to be missing from this book was a "clean slate" approach to organizations, by imagining what has never existed before. That would be an intriguing addition for future editions. The Drucker Foundation has done a real service to us all by creating its series (THE LEADER ..., THE ORGANIZATION ..., and THE COMMUNITY OF THE FUTURE). I hope that a future version will appear on THE MANAGEMENT PROCESSES OF THE FUTURE. That would be an invaluble complement to this outstanding series.

Perfect starter set for leaders -- Great gift for students.......2000-08-15

The three books of the Drucker Foundation Future series represent a wonderful collection of thinking by noted thought leaders. Each chapter in the LEADER of the FUTURE, the ORGANIZATION of the FUTURE, and the COMMUNITY of the FUTURE, is short, concise, and insightful. Authors include Peter Drucker, Stephen Covey, Peter Senge, Frances Hesselbein, Meg Wheatley, and others.

This package makes a wonderful gift for a student, a graduate, someone taking a new job, or someone hungry for renewal. The paperback editions of the books are attractive and easy to carry, and the boxed set is handsome.

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Tqm: A Basic Text : A Primer Guide to Total Quality Management
McCloske
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Tqm: A Basic Text : A Primer Guide to Total Quality Management
McCloske
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Performance management is the most effective and practical way to address human resource and productivity issues!

This is a practical, jargon-free guide for all managers and supervisors.
Explains how to build individual and team performance by managing better.
Identifies key factors to be used in a "performance equation".

Performance is the key. As a manager, it is what you are paid for, getting performance from your team by using all the resources at your disposal. Performance management can be applied in any organization and it is widely acknowledged that performance management is the most effective and practical way to address human resource and productivity issues. This is a practical, jargon free guide for all managers and supervisors which tells how to build individual and team performance by managing better. Managing Performance, Managing People helps managers explain the performance levels of their team and manage the key factors which influence these performance levels. Identifies key performance factors like role clarity, values, preference fit, competence, environment and reward and presents these factors in the form of a unique "performance equation" which simply portrays the interaction of these factors.

Murray Ainsworth is associate professor at RMIT University (Australia) business faculty Neville Smith is a chartered management consultant Anne Millership is a Director and Principal Consultant of ASM Human Resources Consulting Services.

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This landmark study moves the debate on from Moses Finley's seminal work on the ancient economy and discusses new evidence and approaches to the subject. It will be an indispensable resource for those interested in the classical economy.

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Excellent Hoshin "How To" Reference Book

Hoshin Handbook, Second Edition
Pete Babich
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Excellent Hoshin "How To" Reference Book.......2006-03-09

Pete Babich has prepared an excellent Handbook on how to implement a Hoshin Plan. It is clear, concise, and to the point.

Companies that are interested in implementing a Hoshin Plan should definitely add this to their library.

He also includes a CD of Hoshin templates. In my opinion, the value is in the cultural transformation from traditional to Hoshin. Sometime the IT systems and software get in the way of the transformation (we spend too much time worrying about the numbers and not enough time aligning the organization).

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Insightful.......2000-06-23

I found the author of this book to have an extreme amount of insight into not only the definition of a Service Level Agreement, but into how to manage and effectively create SLA's. Many authors discuss what SLA's are, but few ever offer real life examples of such technology.

His objectivity and intellectual insight into this technology is a refreshing change from the typical techno-weenie jargon that is often seen in other texts on the same subject.

The best introduction to Service Level Management.......2000-02-10

I found this book to be the most detailed and informative book on the subject of service level management. I believe the topic will become increasingly important as consumers begin demanding a certain level of computer service. Mr. Lewis's book is an excellent resource for both users and providers of computer services. Although the examples in the book are all for managing a computer or "enterprise" network, they can easily translate to other services. For a user of services the book describes the need for service level management -- what it is, how to get it, and then how to monitor it. For the provider it shows architecture and tools to implement service level management in products.

If you need to learn about Service Level Management and how it relates to your business, try this book.

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Perfect for businesses comtemplating SLM expenditures

SLM Solutions: A Buyer's Guide - Review

SLM Solutions

Exhaustively researched and clearly presented material

SLM Solutions: A Buyer's Guide
Rick Sturm , Lisa Erickson Harris , David St. Onge , and Lisa Erickson-Harris
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SLM Solutions: A Buyer's Guide, is a powerful resource for anyone wanting expert advice on SLM tool selection. This book also provides valuable decision support information for enterprise and service provider IT departments tasked with selecting and implementing the right SLM solution.

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Perfect for businesses comtemplating SLM expenditures.......2002-11-11

It's interesting how networks, computer systems, and software applications have evolved towards the notion of information services. The industry is looking at information technology in terms of services provided for business operations, and that has caused interest in buying, deploying, and managing services instead of networks and applications.

This book is a buyer's guide into the numerous products that manage services in one way or the other. The first 50 pages are devoted to concepts in service level management, while the remaining 300 or so pages describe some 70 SLM solutions along several dimensions, including product functionality, distinguishing features, data sources, third-party product reliance, support for service-related standards, pricing/packaging, and strengths/weaknesses. I would think that readers would study the first 50 pages carefully and use the product description section as a reference. The 50 page overview is excellent, from both a technical and business point of view.

I almost gave the book four stars because it is inevitable that SLM vendors with change their products, some will go out of business, and new ones will come into play, and thus the book would become obsolete in relative short order. However, the very last page of the book promises a 2nd edition. A book of this sort should probably be updated annually.

Also, I almost gave the book 4 stars because it has no references to other sources. But section 2 refers to several SLM standards bodies and lists URLs, including ITIL, Telemanagement Forum, and IEFT.

There was just one thing about the book that puzzled me: In the table of contents, about a dozen of the 70 companies are in bold, and I couldn't figure out why. However, that problem wasn't worth taking off a star.

In sum, the book is perfect for businesses comtemplating SLM expenditures. I would expect to see it updated from time to time to keep up with the industry.

SLM Solutions: A Buyer's Guide - Review.......2002-10-24

The analysts at EMA have written a very clear guide to helping IT people prepare for, evaluate and compare, and implement an SLM solution. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is a detailed discussion of the important facets of Service Level Management: what it is, all of the things that it encompasses, how to create and negotiate SLAs (Service Level Agreements), creating RFPs to evaluate SLM offerings, and some of the nitty-gritty around the actual measurements. The second part is a synopsis of the majority of commercial software products available for SLM. Each vendor gets a four or five page write-up that summarizes key features, the pricing model, expected support costs, and a brief EMA summary of the product and company, including strengths and limitations. If you need to implement an SLM solution, don't expect to find all of your questions answered just by looking at the product comparisons. Chapters 3 and 4 provide a wealth of information about how to evaluate solutions based on your specific environment and then how to write the RFP so that you will get the information to meet your specific needs. The one thing that is missing from the Vendor Briefs is any mention of open source software. In some cases, open source solutions my provide a better fit than COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) software products at a somewhat lower price point. Regardless of the direction chosen (commercial or open source), the information in "SLM Solutions: A Buyer's Guide" will provide the reader with important information about the whole SLM process.

SLM Solutions.......2002-10-22

Great resource for anyone trying to implement SLM. A must have
that lists (what seems like) every vendor's product with an honest
evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of each. Every IT professional should have a copy on his/her bookshelf.

Exhaustively researched and clearly presented material.......2002-10-07

This book is to service level management consultants and prospective buyers of SLM solutions what Hoover's handbooks are to business intelligence - a complete and comprehensive survey of SLM solutions from major and minor vendors.

The information in this book is divided between timeless reference material and time-sensitive information. The reference material is comprised of a thorough discussion of what service level management is, what is required to implement it, and the value and ROI that you should expect from both the processes and the tools. The reference part of the book also extends to how to effectively manage the selection and procurement process of a solution. This material is on the mark, is consistent with best practices in service level management, and is clearly written. In fact, after reading the author's earlier book, "Foundations of Service Level Management" (ISBN 0672317435) I expected the depth and detail in which the reference part of this book delved.

Time-sensitive material that comprises the second part of the book consists of a collection of vendor brief that are arranged alphabetically from Aligent Technologies to WiredMinds, Inc. Each brief is similar in format to Hoover's handbooks in that you are shown an 'At a Glance' view of the vendor (product/service offering, SLM solution, date founded, number of employees, target customer and operating requirements for the solution). This is followed for each vendor by a more detailed view that covers product details (functionality, distinguishing features, support and pricing). One nice touch here is that each product is also depicted in an architecture diagram. Each vendor brief concludes with a summary, strengths and limitations from Enterprise Management Associates' (the book's authors) viewpoint.

In addition to the material in the book the publisher's website contains a wealth of additional material, which augments this book and adds considerable value to it.

If I could change one thing about the book it would be the title, which should be renamed to "SLM Solutions: a buyer's guide - 2002 Edition", which subsequent editions appearing twice a year. Yes, the reference material is likely to remain the same, but the vendor information is in a constant state of flux and will render this excellent resource obsolete unless it's updated at least every six months.

Overall, this is an impressive compendium of information that reflects deep and exhaustive research and the authors' extensive knowledge of the subject.

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