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This investment guide contains basic information on economy, business, export-import and investment climate, opportunities and regulations. Provides strategic information on economy, industrial development, banking, and government. Includes information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.
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This investment guide contains basic information on economy, business, export-import and investment climate, opportunities, regulations. Provides strategic information on economy, industrial development, banking, and government. Includes information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.
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Lonely Planet Valencia and the Costa Blanca
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Wild festivals and sizzling nightlife, unexplored hill towns, the Costa Blanca's beaches and a futuristic City of Arts & Sciences: discover Valencia - home of paella and the Holy Grail - with this unique guide.
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In the future a more competent workforce will be required as workers will have to acquire the competence to predict and deal with novel situations at work.
This book aims to provide the reader with insightful perspectives about competence in different situations and contexts. It presents a more enlightened view of human competence by opening up an international dialogue about the meaning and interpretation of competence in the workplace, and the impact of learning environments on workplace policy and practice.
Five major premises which provide a basis for how we interpret, experience, and teach competence in the workplace are put forward:
- notions of worker competence, and the persuasiveness of informal workplace training;
- developing competence as an individual, and the inherent relationship between the worker and work, and the lifeworld;
- learning which develops higher level competences based on a more holistic conception of competence;
- characteristics of learning environments as integral components of learning at work;
- learning environments construed as theoretical and methodological problems in terms of their impact on the acquisition of competence.
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How are the world's most successful organizations developing their leaders? "This book will help anyone who is charged with a leadership development initiative or is learning about leadership development. Full of practical examples and tools from companies that are known for having a reputation for developing leaders."
Michael Piergrossi; vice president, leadership and organization development, W. R. Grace & Co.
Using the case studies in this book will give you the opportunity you to:
* Benchmark against SmithKline Beecham's 21 Leadership Competencies
* Implement cutting-edge tools including Allied Signal's Career Profile, continuous improvement and performance objectives tools
* Customize a training curriculum that works for your organization based on: Imasco's Operating Company Visits and Work Projects, Colgate-Palmolive's Key Accountability program, or Abbott Lab's Managing Across Boundaries
* And much more!
In 1998, Linkage, Inc., and Warren Bennis collaborated in completing a study of more than 350 companies involved with leadership development and found that:
* Nearly all respondents recognized the need to develop stronger leaders, yet less than 44 percent had a formal process for nominating or developing high-potential employees
* Companies that do successfully build their high-potential employees use structured leadership development systems
* The programs that make a difference include some or all of three critical components: formal training, 360-degree feedback, and most importantly, exposure to senior executives including mentoring programs
The result of this study is Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook. With its case study approach, this book gives you access to the practical, easy-to-apply tools, instruments, training, and competency models that fifteen world-class organizations use as benchmarks to successfully implement their leadership development programs.
To read the foreword from this book, click here.
To read the first chapter from this book, click here.
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The trouble with "management" education, says author Henry Mintzberg, is that it is business education, and leaves a distorted impression of management. In Managers Not MBAs, he offers a new definition of management as a blend of craft (experience), art (insight), and science (analysis). An education that overemphasizes science encourages a style of managing the author calls "calculating," or if the graduates believe themselves to be artists, the related style "heroic." According to the book, neither heroes nor technocrats in positions of influence are useful - what's really needed are balanced, dedicated people who practice a style that can be called "engaging." Such people believe their purpose is to leave behind stronger organizations, not just higher share prices. Managers Not MBAs explains in detail how to cultivate such managers, and how they can transform the business world and, ultimately, society.
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Relavant thought on the current MBA situation........2006-11-02
Mintzberg is striking a chord with this book. Industry is in desperate need of strong and ethical leadership, not just mangers with strong analytical skills. It may be time for the current business school philosophy to modify its method to produce leaders rather than just inexperienced managers.
The state of the current MBA.......2006-06-05
I read Professor Mintzberg's book for one main reason: to decide whether or not to do an MBA.
Before reading this book and thus the enlightenment, I used to think very highly of the qualification, in an overrated sort of manner. I reckoned that if I'm an MBA graduate, I would know-it-all and it'll make me a darn good manager. And this was precisely what Professor Mintzberg was criticizing on. And it's not entirely the fault of the graduates - the business schools play an important role in instilling this false belief. Graduates should be known for their humility, not arrogance. And I almost see myself going down that arrogance path. Almost.
The book shed lots of light on how managers ought to be, and what an MBA is and is not. It talks about the consequence of selecting the wrong people for the course, or the right people but were then taught wrongly. It talks about its consequences on the practice of management and on society. All these found in "Part 1: Not MBAs".
I read Part I in one sitting. It's utterly engaging and I can hardly put the book down. While Part I criticizes the qualification, "Part II: Developing Managers" puts on a constructive tone on management development. I must say that MBA NOT MANAGERS confirmed my decision that MBA is something I wanted to pursue to have a good grasp of the various important business functions, and to balance this knowledge with experience gained over time.
The pitfalls of management education.......2006-04-13
Henry Mintzberg's MANAGERS NOT MBAS: A HARD LOOK AT THE SOFT PRACTICE OF MANAGING AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT comes from a professor of management studies at McGill University in Canada and takes a broad look at how managers are educated and how they practice management principles, applying them to workforce realities. From management education's possible alternatives to making management a more engaging science, MANAGERS NOT MBAs surveys the pitfalls of management education processes and hwo to overcome it.
A very good book on MBA.......2006-01-06
Experience is the key and nowadays one cannot learn and completely understand a subject by sitting in a class. To truely comprehend management (or anything in general) one has to learn it by experience, hard work and by thinking logically, and thats what this book is about, as the author says "Leaders cannot be created in classroom. They arise in context." A very good book for anyone intrested in pursuing an MBA.
Will Real Managers Please Stand Up?.......2005-08-09
Mintzberg has performed a great service to those who teach management and seek to facilitate critical thinking about the organizational and societal context of managing rather than a narrow (and often narcissistic) approach. Students will find the book a vehicle for reflection on why they are pursuing a management degree; if they draw from it what Mintzberg seems to intend, they will more clearly see themselves in the classic management role of "working with and through other people" rather than getting to the top as quickly as possible--and at any cost. Management program administrators should welcome the critique of how things are and the examples of how they could be. Mintzberg's insights about the social costs of the links between MBA programs' misguided emphases, students' errantly "heroic" leadership aspirations, and the susceptibility of businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies to a cult of the MBA makes at least portions of this very readable book of interest for the general reader. Those who teach management in alternative programs will likely find the book an inspiration.
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E-learning--the delivery of training and performance support directly to employees' desktops--is exploding in growth and complexity. The 2002 ASTD E-Learning Handbook gives readers the very juiciest, most practical, most recent articles and reference information from leading experts and gurus. Covering E-Learning best practices and useful reviews of the literature, the book gives guidance on getting better results for dollars committed to E-Learning and provides a directory of contact information for key E-Learning organizations, sources, conference schedules, and more.
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Learning in the Workplace (Croom Helm Series on Theory and Practice of Adult Education in North America)
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Counseling for Career Development: Theories, Resources, and Practice (Jossey Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series)
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dry...very dry.......1997-10-27
Although the book covers the basics needed for effective career counseling, the authors need to work on spicing up the format and presentation of the material. The topics were difficult to read at times because the material just seemed to drag.
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Skill, Training and Human Resource Development: A Critical Text (Management, Work and Organisations)
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This book focuses on the way people are developed at work; the skills that are encouraged, the way they are controlled and the implications they have for the people who possess and exercise them. Taking a critical perspective, Skill, Training and Human Resource Development draws on a wide range of research and covers an array of organizational practices - from managing culture and emotional labour to job design and qualifications - and adeptly considers the implications of these for the people involved.
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Staff Development in Academic Libraries: Present Practice and Future Challenges
Margaret Oldroyd
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11 experts on library staff development share ideas.......1999-08-02
This is a must read for all library staff. The editor compiles chapters written by 11 experts. Although written with the British library system in mind this can be very pertinent to the US system also.In his chapter on staff development for library assistants, Phil Sykes looks toward the future. He explains convergence and its accompanying changes. I highly recommend this book for all library collections.
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This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a number of detailed case studies that not only provide an insight into the issues central to workplace studies but also some of the problems involved in carrying out such research. Part II focuses on the interrelationship between workplace studies and the design of new technologies.
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Action Learning in Practice
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