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This collection of readings, edited by Henry Mintzberg, presents an up-to-date look at how actual companies act strategically and the research driving them.
While retaining many of the classic articles, this new edition includes the most exciting new organization and strategy concepts to emerge in the last few years: Core Competency Strategies; Strategic Outsourcing; Managing with the new digital technologies; and Managing Hypercompetition.
An excellent resource for Business Managers and students of Business..
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Great Nuggets of Information--Just Hard to Get To.......2001-06-24
Mintzberg is a brilliant strategist, and due to the extensive knowledge, it is hard at times to get to point of the concept. In some cases, the information is provided in almost elementary style, which is not bad, but most of the writings are very hard to digest. I did learn a great deal from this book, but I admit, I will have to reengage it again to get the full benefit.
Solid reading, but hard work.......2000-11-12
Don't expect a textbook on how to develop strategy (although, expect a similar result). Well thought-out and structured set of readings that provide insight into the process of developing strategy, from SWOT and Rumelt analysis (Conistency, Consonance, Feasibility, Advantage) through organizational structure and Entrepeneurship.
However, I found the readings extremely hard work to read. It may be inexperience, but (especially in the early chapters), the readings simply take a LONG time to do (and I'm not a slow reader). A nice addition might be a more comprehensive summary of the readings at the start or end of each chapter.
Overall, I go with a 3-star, mainly because of the reading difficulty more than the actual content.
Great book for a business student.......2000-08-24
Great book and "great" price
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This book is a collection of essays, extracts, memoirs and a short story, outlining the events during the decade preceding India's partition which culminated in the making of Pakistan and the division of India and the situation thereafter. This is a paperback reprint of the earlier hardback edition, published in 1993.
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Overelevated Language, difficult to read, disjointed.......2006-12-15
I had to read this for a college history course. Reading this article was probably worse than having a root canal.
The author has a lot of great ideas, and I can tell that he's done his research which is great. However, the organization was disconnected and confusing.
Additionally, the language was not readable. Because Hasan overused big words and long sentences, I had to reread this twice to simply grasp what he was talking about. Please, if you don't know much about India's History, then do not get this article. It will only confuse you.
Not recommeneded.
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This digital document is a journal article from System, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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This study investigated whether significant differences exist between first and second language readers in their metacognitive awareness and perceived use of specific strategies when reading for academic purposes in English. Three hundred and fifty college students (141 US and 209 Moroccan) completed an instrument designed to measure their metacognitive awareness of reading strategies. The results revealed that despite the fact that the two student groups had been schooled in significantly different socio-cultural environments, they reported remarkably similar patterns of strategy awareness and reported usage when reading academic materials in English. Where differences were found, Moroccan students reported using certain types of strategies more often than did their American counterparts. These findings help to explain some of the differences and similarities between second language readers and those reading in their first language, which have only been seen in terms of deficiencies but not in other, presumably more beneficial or even neutral ways.
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This brief rhetoric and reference for academic and business writers provides over 310 writing strategies for solving problems at every stage of the writing process--from idea generation through editing. The book's practical approach not only helps writers with broader challenges,such as planning and organization, but also with specific style and grammar issues that can derail the writing process.
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Taking a longer view than most literature on economic development, Richard A. Easterlin stresses the enormous contrast between the collective experience of the last half century in both developed and developing countries and what has gone before. An economic historian and demographer, the author writes in the tradition of the "new economic history," drawing on economic theory and quantitative evidence to interpret the historical experience of economic theory and population growth. He reaches beyond the usual disciplinary limits to draw, as appropriate, on sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, and the history of science. The book will be of interest not only to social scientists but to all readers concerned with where we have been and where we are going.
". . . Easterlin is both an economic historian and a demographer, and it is the combination of these two disciplines and the fine balance between theory and experience that make this well-written, refreshingly optimistic book excellent reading." --Population and Development Review
"In this masterful synthesis, Richard Easterlin draws on the disciplines of economic history, demography, sociology, political science, psychology, and the history of science to present an integrated explation of the origins of modern economic growth and of the mortality revolution. . . . His book should be easily accessible to non-specialists and will give them a sense of why economic history can inform our understanding of the future." --Dora L. Costa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EH.Net and H-Net
"Growth Triumphant is, simply, a fascinating book. Easterlin has woven together a history of economic growth, economic development, human mortality and morbidity, the connections each has with the others, and the implications of this nexus of forces on the future. . . . This book deserves a wide audience." --Choice
"In what must surely be the most fair-minded, well-balanced, and scrupulously reasoned and researched book on the sensational subjects implied in its title--the Industrial Revolution, the mortality and fertility revolutions, and the prospects for future happiness for the human race--Professor Easterlin has set in place the capstone of his research career." --Journal of Economic History
Richard A. Easterlin is Professor of Economics, University of Southern California.
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Good overview of modern global economic development.......1998-08-23
The sweep of human history and it's follow-through to the mid-21st Century are the subject of this remarkably short (154 pages excluding reference material) yet lucid volume. Easterlin abstracts the major trends in economic history, focussing on "the epoch of modern economic growth" and it's relationship with human population dynamics.
Analyzing these trends into a series of interrelated technological, organizational, and behavioral factors, he constructs a framework for projecting his view of the human condition over the next 50 years: "The future, then, to which the epoch of modern economic growth is leading is one of never ending economic growth, a world in which ever growing abundance is matched by ever rising aspirations, a world in which cultural differences are leveled in the constant race to achieve the good life of material plenty" (p. 153).
Lest critics be too hasty to reject this as so much cheerleading for a conventional Western world view, let them note that the author also questions whether this future will increase human happiness - he concludes that "in the end, the triumph of economic growth is not a triumph of humanity over material wants; rather, it is a triumph of material wants over humanity." (p. 154)
The major strength of this work is that it presents a concise, non-technical understanding of economic and social development as that understanding has been gained through the work of major theorists in the field of economic demography, such as Kuznets, Solow, Rostow, and Easterlin himself. Yet these theories are not accepted uncritically: the author places each in contex and considers several alternatives, then presents comparative and historical data to resolve the theoretical questions in simple intuitive terms.
In this manner he quickly covers the long-contested grounds of international relations, the growth of national economies and supporting social institutions, health and population growth, and the relationship between material progress and happiness. Drawing conclusions from the resolution of one theoretical problem with emipircal evidence, he proceeds to the next in a cumulative sequence that culminates in a compelling, logically integrated argument to support his view of the future.
This sequential construction is especially apparent in his explanation of how the rise of institutions conducive to techical innovation together with the accumulation of wealth preceded the wide spread application of health technology and subsequent "mortality revoultion", which cut mortality rates in half in just over a century. Following from the decline in mortality, he examines a model of decisions regarding family size and shows how the "fertility transition" follows as a logical consequence of the mortality revolution. He makes a solid case to support the expectation of continued economic growth with slowing population growth, and in the process introduces the reader to the major acievements of economic, demographic, and sociological studies of international development in a coherent analytic framework.
The weakness of this work lies in the necessarily high level of abstraction required to concisely analyze modern economic history. The prose is "high and dry", requiring frequent infusions of coffee for the reader to make much headway before losing consciousness. While he has created a skeletal outline of history, it is not fleshed out with the jucy details of the dramatic conflict and wrenching socio-cultural change that has characterized the rapid transition from the second to the third economic epoch. It is precisely in this chaotic turbulence following the various revolutionary changes that give rise to the more vocal criticisms of rapid growth, global economic convergence, and unlimited material progress.
Easterlin puts aside the whole literature comprising the "postmodern" critique of society in order to clearly delineate the modern. While this lets him project the broad outlines of what will follow for the next two generations, it may lead the reader to believe that further material progress is unproblematic. Despite a brief discussion of the potential barriers to further global expansion of modern economic growth, which he sees as rooted primarily in international power conflicts, and despite his conclusion that happiness will not ultimately be achieved through material progress, he makes a case for the inevitability of further material growth without questioning its desireability -- that, we suppose, is left as an exercise for the reader.
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A great kids book.......2001-02-21
This book is thin with wide margins, big print and short on creative ideas. It offers only common sense simplistic ideas (ie: wear a name tag) that anyone could figure out on their own. No innovation here.
Exhibiting Short-Course.......2000-10-28
The purpose of a trade or consumer show is to bring people together to do business. Yet may companies pay a large amount of money to display and wind up making few sales. If you ever work a show, or are in charge of staffers who do, then you need this book.
The 88 tips and ideas are concise and easy to understand. They are categorized into nine chapters. The authors do not waste your time with fluff. For a detailed description of the book's coverage, click on Table of Contents in the left-hand column of this page.
Steve Miller is the author of How to get the Most out of Trade Shows. A consultant, trainer and speaker, he has written over 150 articles on trade shows.
Charmel Bowden is a writer, speaker and promotion expert who has organized exhibits and trained trade show staff.
As the author of Book Fairs: An Exhibiting Guide for Publishers, I can testify that these two know what they talking about. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com.
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