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Secrecy is endemic within organizations, woven into the fabric of our lives at work. Yet, until now, we've had an all-too-limited understanding of this powerful organizational force. Secrecy is a part of work, and keeping secrets is a form of work. But also, secrecy creates a social order-a hidden architecture within our organizations. Drawing on previously overlooked texts, as well as well-known classics, Jana Costas and Christopher Grey identify...
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El Centro de Ética y Responsabilidad Social (CERS) y la Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales de la Universidad del Pacífico proponen una reflexión crítica, desde las distintas perspectivas y disciplinas del saber, sobre la relación entre la industria de alimentos y los cambios en la salud y el bienestar de la población. Esta reflexión se materializa en un libro de 10 capítulos que se agrupan en dos partes: la primera contiene cuatro capítulos...
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The Third Wave by Steve Case | Includes Analysis Preview: The Third Wave relates AOL co-founder and former CEO Steve Case's reflections on his career and the future of the technology industry in America. Part memoir, part analysis of the industry, The Third Wave is also a cautionary tale to would-be entrepreneurs who believe the culture of solo founders and tech disruption will always be valued in the future. The book is named for futurist Alvin Toffler's...
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“Can't-Lose Accounts” brings the Value LifecycleTM full circle with simple tools to help you leverage delivered value and drive repeat business with existing happy customers.
Cross-selling and upselling opportunities are the holy grail of selling. Satisfied key stakeholders will do most of your "selling" legwork for you when they can justify and articulate the past value you've delivered.
Get credit for that value, and make it the cornerstone...
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A Deeper Truth explains why 9 out of 10 new products fail, the neuroscience behind human choice, and how disruptive successes leverage the fundamental nature of human decision-making.
Backed by research across a dozen disciplines, A Deeper Truth explains how genetics and neurology impact perception, behavior, and choice. It also succeeds in providing a comprehensive explanation for disruption even in the arenas where Clayton Christensen himself acknowledges...
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This book presents the intricacies of retailing from both academic and practical points of view. New changing business practices are actuating changes in the retail environment. Dearth of time and increase in incomes of public has created a need for new types of retail formats. This means retailers will have to have knowledge of knowing their customers and anticipating their needs. As the economic structure in India is changing so is the field of...
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On average, a company will lose 25% of its revenue from an organizational disaster – and that's the good news. The average cost to have prevented it? Less than one-tenth of 1%. But that's not the worst of it; in virtually every case, the organization's leadership will already know this…Cultural Calamity: presents Joseph W. Mayo's breakthrough theory on organizational risk culture. Exploring over a century of such disasters, Mayo introduces his...
88) The Product Mindset: Succeed in the Digital Economy by Changing the Way Your Organization Thinks
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In the digital economy, businesses need to adapt quickly to satisfy customers' constant demands for new and updated products. But too many organizations are held back by antiquated IT mindsets that separate developmental groups from the rest of the team. To stay ahead of the competition, you need to embrace enterprise-wide thinking that gets everyone-from engineering to the C-suite-on the same page and speaking the same language.
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In "Organizational Management", explore the fundamental concepts and strategies that drive successful organizational management. This concise and comprehensive guide delves into the theories of organizational management, examining the different types of behaviors and the biographical characteristics, abilities, and learning that shape them.Gain insight into the importance of attitudes and job satisfaction in creating a positive work environment, and...
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Summary of Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely | Includes Analysis Preview: Predictably Irrational provides a data-driven window into the ways in which the human mind fails to make rational choices time and time again. While some of these irrational decisions are humorous or trivial, in many cases, these behaviors can have far-ranging implications for governments and health care systems. However, understanding that we, as humans, are predisposed...
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Chaos gets a bad rap. Few people realize that without the dynamics of chaos, order would not exist. In fact, nothing would exist. Without chaos, there would be no creation, no structure, and no existence. After all, order is merely the repetition of patterns; chaos is the process that establishes those patterns. L. K. Samuels goes beyond the normal boundaries studied by chaologists. It views science through a political and socioeconomic looking glass,...
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Abstract: this paper readdresses the founding roots of social science. It presents social model with unified structural parts and measurable force of cohesion. It proves that man is the only valid foundation of any social structure and denounces the group approach of all "isms". Be it communism, socialism. The one and only right is capitalism. It offers us to model social phenomenon with one agent - human. And with two forces that keep the structure...
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The world is poised on the threshold of economic changes that will reduce the income gap between the rich and poor on a global scale while reshaping patterns of consumption. Rapid economic growth in emerging-market economies is projected to enable consumers worldwide to spend proportionately less on food and more on transportation, goods, and services, which will in turn strain the global infrastructure and accelerate climate change. The largest gains...
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Creativity has long been thought of as a personal trait, a gift bestowed on some and unachievable by others. While we laud the products of creativity, the stories behind them are often abridged to the elusive aha! moment, the result of a momentary stroke of genius. In The Craft of Creativity Matthew A. Cronin and Jeffrey Loewenstein present a new way to understand how we innovate. They emphasize the importance of the journey and reveal the limitations...
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This introduction to one of the key areas of behavioural economics – social preferences – explains in clear, nontechnical language how particular groups of experiments have been used by behavioural economists to shed light on the processes of economic decision making. These include bargaining games, trust games and public good games. The significance of determinants such as punishment, sanctioning, emotion, cooperation, reciprocity, leadership,...
96) De compras con él y ella: Técnicas de Mercadeo para Entender Cómo Venderles al Hombre y a la Mujer
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Venda más y mejor conociendo a su cliente. La ciencia es muy clara: los hombres y las mujeres usandiferentes partes de su cerebro y por lo tanto se comportan de manera distintaen muchísimas situaciones, incluyendo la manera en que vamos de compras, compramos y consumimos productos y servicios. Como profesional de ventas, publicidad o mercadeo, entender estas diferencias es la clave de nuestro éxito. Paraaumentar las ventas, usted debe comprender...
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An authoritative and accessible guide to this foundational form of collaborative decision-making. Uses images, stories and step-by-step instructions to teach the basics of circle and explore its deeper meanings. Written by two pioneers in reviving, standardizing and popularizing circle process. More and more organizations are looking for alternatives to rigid, top-down hierarchy. Even the most old-school now realizes that good ideas can come from...
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GuíaBurros: Tus derechos como ciudadano y consumidor es una guía con todo lo que necesitas saber de tus derechos como ciudadano y consumidor, desde el individuo como persona, el individuo como familiar, hasta la justicia gratuita.
El individuo en su condición de persona
El individuo en su condición de familiar
Las relaciones paterno-filiales
Las relaciones entre parientes
Las relaciones conyugales
Testamento y herencia
El individuo y el tráfico...
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Competency-based training is a unique approach to training design that builds and enhances individual competencies in line with previously identified profiles of success. This training helps fill the gap between workers' actual performance and their ideal performance. Competency-Based Training Basics shows readers how to assess which competencies are important to an organization and individual positions, and how to design training around those competencies....
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The war for talent is heating up in emerging markets. Without enough "brain power," multinationals can't succeed in these markets. Yet they're approaching the war in the wrong way-bringing in expats and engaging in bidding wars for hotshot local "male" managers.
The solution is hiding in plain sight: the millions of highly educated women surging into the labor markets of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the United Arab Emirates. Increasingly, these...
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