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  • The University and Business

    Edited by Douglas Grant ...
    Series series Heritage
    The university today has to accept the responsibility of seeing that those entering business receive the training most advantageous not only to their careers but also to society itself, in which the businessman to-day plays such a significant part. But business in its turn must shoulder a greater share of the responsibility for supporting the university. The essays in this volume help to explore ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Information in the Labour Market

    Job-Worker Matching and Its Implications for Education in Ontario

    Series series Heritage
    This study uses a simple model of information gathering to generate policy recommendations concerning education in Ontario, especially at the post-secondary level. The schools are viewed as helping students discover jobs matched to their abilities, and policy prescriptions are offered from that standpoint.After examining earlier economic models of education – seeing it in terms of human capital ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Preventing Derailment: What To Do Before It's Too Late

    Many new managers rely too heavily on the technical or problem-solving strengths that have propelled them upward and fail to understand that new skills are required to continue to be effective as managers. The problem arises for both individual and organizational reasons and results in many managers failing to make the transitions required to deal with the increasing complexity they face. When ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Eighty-Eight Assignments for Development in Place

    The Center for Creative Leadership's continuing studies of executives have found that learning on the job is the best way for a person to develop. Often people are given new positions in order to provide them with developmental experiences. But what if such a transfer is not possible? This report contains eighty-eight assignments that offer individual development opportunities on a current job. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Readings in Innovation

    Each year from 1978 through 1987 the Center for Creative Leadership hosted an event called Creativity Week, during which a select group of researchers and practitioners would get together for a high-energy exchange of ideas on organizational creativity. Discussions explored such themes as individual innovation, creativity and teamwork, structuring the organization for innovation, and the relation ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Enhancing 360-Degree Feedback for Senior Executives: How to Maximize the Benefits and Minimize the Risks

    Senior executives, however, sometimes require a richer feedback experience — one which might also include one or more of the following: detailed verbatim descriptions of performance, observations from family members and friends, psychometric measures of personality and motivation, and data on early history, plus an extended coaching relationship with a professional in leadership development. With ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Making Common Sense: Leadership as Meaning-making in a Community of Practice

    A prevalent way of viewing leadership is as a process of social influence. In this report, the authors offer an alternative perspective: seeing leadership as a process of social meaning-making. The practical and research implications of such a view are considered. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • No Equal In The World

    An Interpretation Of The Academic Presidency

    No Equal in the World is a comprehensive study of the literature on the American academic presidency from the middle of the nineteenth century—when the first universities, as distinct from colleges, began to emerge—to the present. The book surveys widely divergent literature on the biographies of major presidents at crucial moments in the history of their institutions. The book affords an overview ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Economics

    This Encycolpaedic dictionary in eleven volumes has been essentially a compilation and editing of terms and expressions to provide students at all levels with a handy and reliable source for definitions of economic terms along with their interpretations, statements of economic laws, theories and principles, and descriptions of economic and financial institutions. This dictionary has been ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Economics

    This Encycolpaedic dictionary in eleven volumes has been essentially a compilation and editing of terms and expressions to provide students at all levels with a handy and reliable source for definitions of economic terms along with their interpretations, statements of economic laws, theories and principles, and descriptions of economic and financial institutions. This dictionary has been ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Economics (M-N)

    This Encycolpaedic dictionary in eleven volumes has been essentially a compilation and editing of terms and expressions to provide students at all levels with a handy and reliable source for definitions of economic terms along with their interpretations, statements of economic laws, theories and principles, and descriptions of economic and financial institutions. This dictionary has been ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Economics (D)

    This Encycolpaedic dictionary in eleven volumes has been essentially a compilation and editing of terms and expressions to provide students at all levels with a handy and reliable source for definitions of economic terms along with their interpretations, statements of economic laws, theories and principles, and descriptions of economic and financial institutions. This dictionary has been ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Economics (I-L)

    This Encycolpaedic dictionary in eleven volumes has been essentially a compilation and editing of terms and expressions to provide students at all levels with a handy and reliable source for definitions of economic terms along with their interpretations, statements of economic laws, theories and principles, and descriptions of economic and financial institutions. This dictionary has been ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Economics (G-I)

    This Encycolpaedic dictionary in eleven volumes has been essentially a compilation and editing of terms and expressions to provide students at all levels with a handy and reliable source for definitions of economic terms along with their interpretations, statements of economic laws, theories and principles, and descriptions of economic and financial institutions. This dictionary has been ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Economics (S-T)

    This Encycolpaedic dictionary in eleven volumes has been essentially a compilation and editing of terms and expressions to provide students at all levels with a handy and reliable source for definitions of economic terms along with their interpretations, statements of economic laws, theories and principles, and descriptions of economic and financial institutions. This dictionary has been ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Economics (Q-S)

    This Encycolpaedic dictionary in eleven volumes has been essentially a compilation and editing of terms and expressions to provide students at all levels with a handy and reliable source for definitions of economic terms along with their interpretations, statements of economic laws, theories and principles, and descriptions of economic and financial institutions. This dictionary has been ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Economics (E-F)

    This Encycolpaedic dictionary in eleven volumes has been essentially a compilation and editing of terms and expressions to provide students at all levels with a handy and reliable source for definitions of economic terms along with their interpretations, statements of economic laws, theories and principles, and descriptions of economic and financial institutions. This dictionary has been ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Economics (T-Z)

    This Encycolpaedic dictionary in eleven volumes has been essentially a compilation and editing of terms and expressions to provide students at all levels with a handy and reliable source for definitions of economic terms along with their interpretations, statements of economic laws, theories and principles, and descriptions of economic and financial institutions. This dictionary has been ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Using an Art Technique to Facilitate Leadership Development

    by De De Ciantis ...
    As a part of the effort to find new ways to promote the development of leadership, trainers have begun to make use of artistic activities. One such activity is the touchstone exercise, in which people create sculptures that represent their vision and purpose as leaders. This report describes how the exercise is conducted, provides examples of sculptures (or touchstones) produced in programs at the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Evolving Leaders: A Model for Promoting Leadership Development in Programs

    Although leadership development is widely acknowledged as important, our understanding of it is largely implicit. This has made programs that seek to promote it difficult to design and implement, and challenging to evaluate effectively. The model presented in this report specifies how programs can affect a key aspect of leadership development--the psychological development of the individual. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Forceful Leadership and Enabling Leadership: You Can Do Both

    by Kaplan ...
    Leaders need to be forceful--to assert themselves and their capabilities and to push others to perform. Leaders also need to be enabling--to tap into and bring out the capabilities of others. The problem is that many executives see forceful leadership and enabling leadership as mutually exclusive, or strongly prefer one or the other, and therefore lack the versatility to be truly effective. This ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Perspectives on Dialogue: Making Talk Developmental for Individuals and Organizations

    There is a growing sense today that organizations and the people that make them up are, to repeat a figure of speech recently used by Robert Kegan, in over their heads. As diversity becomes the rule and change the sole constant, complexity is increasing. It is generally agreed that the only effective response to this complexity is development: both at the individual and organizational level. One ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Adventures of Team Fantastic: A Practical Guide for Team Leaders and Members

    Using imaginative examples, this entertaining and informative book looks at the ways anyone who is part of a team can help improve its performance. The reader travels through time and space with Team Fantastic--in the Brazilian jungle looking for a cache of diamonds, on a mid-eighteenth century railroad track straightening ties, in the seventeenth century acting in a Shakespearean play--and shares ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Managerial Promotion: The Dynamics for Men and Women

    There are subtle but potent differences in the ways decisions are made to promote men and women. This publication looks at these differences through a study conducted at one Fortune 500 company. It discusses the several ways that the promotion decision process can undermine women’s advancement and outlines strategies for making balanced decisions. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD