Hallowed Secularism: Theory, Belief, Practice

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In this book, former Yeshiva student turned secularist Bruce Ledewitz proposes a Reformation in secular thinking. He shows that in opposition to today’s aggressive Atheism, religious sources are necessary if secularism is to promote fulfilling human relationships and peaceful international relations. Amid signs that secularism is growing in unhealthy ways, Ledewitz proposes a new secular way to live, in which elements of religion, humanism, and materialism are combined to create something at once quite old and startlingly new.

 

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Bigger Isn't Always Better: The New Mindset for Real Business Growth

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Genuine business growth has more to do with reaching maximum potential than reaching maximum size. "Bigger Isn't Always Better", based on ten years of research and dozens of personal interviews by the author, examines how the key to achieving growth is to change the way we think about it. The book combines real-life stories of successful growth leaders with insightful analysis to show readers how they can move their own organisations forward.

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The Leadership Experience (with InfoTrac) (Dryden Press Series in Management)

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Packed with interesting examples and real world leadership, the 4th edition of THE LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE will help you develop an understanding of theory while acquiring the necessary skills and insights to become effective leaders. Written expressly for courses teaching leadership theory and application, the text integrates recent ideas and practices with established scholarly research in a way that makes the topic of leadership come alive.

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Enlightenment, Incorporated: Creating Companies Our Kids Would be Proud to Work For

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Enlightenment, Incorporated: Creating Companies Our Kids Would Be Proud to Work For by Scott Lochridge and Jennifer Rosenzweig presents groundbreaking and innovative theories and insights into the nature of the American workplace, at a time when there is a sea-change occurring in both business and society as a whole. The changes that are unfolding are shifting all the rules for how organizations need to function now and into the future. The old rules of business will no longer apply and the successful organizations of the future will have to adopt new business models and operating principles in order to be successful. In Enlightenment, Incorporated: Creating Companies Our Kids Would Be Proud to Work For, authors Lochridge and Rosenzweig present a holistic view of a solution to a crisis that has not yet been fully recognized by the consensus business community, thus making this book a seminal business resource and a must read for anyone serious about business and its future in America.

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The Strategy Pathfinder: Core Concepts and Live Cases

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This new edition of the popular The Strategy Pathfinder updates the micro-cases of real-life problems faced by companies and executives. These micro-cases help readers to engage with the kinds of situations they will encounter in their working lives while provoking discussions about key theoretical themes. Original presentation and design makes this an essential companion for both the business-school classroom and the executive briefcase. The Strategy Pathfinder brings experienced and potential executives alike an instant guide to the concepts and techniques they need to know.

• An innovative introduction to strategy.
• Makes readers active “producers” of strategy, rather than passive recipients of received wisdom.
• Presents essential pathways through the strategy jungle.
• Each case provokes discussion about a key theoretical theme.
• Encourages readers to form a view themselves, and then test it against the views of others, before offering recommendations about how best to proceed.
• Cases are drawn from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
• Supported by online lecturer supplements.

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Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight

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From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America's political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at twenty-two, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a bastion for Republicans. He launched George W. Bush to national renown by unseating a popular Democratic governor, and then orchestrated a GOP White House win at a time when voters had little reason to throw out the incumbent party. For engineering victory after unlikely victory, Rove became known as "the Architect."

Because of his success, Rove has been attacked his entire career, accused of everything from campaign chicanery to ideological divisiveness. In this frank memoir, Rove responds to critics, passionately articulates his political philosophy, and defends the choices he made on the campaign trail and in the White House. In the course of putting the record straight, Rove takes on Democratic leaders like Harry Reid and Tom Daschle who acted cynically or deviously behind closed doors, and even Republicans who lacked backbone at crucial moments.

Among other controversial topics Rove addresses, he sets the record straight on:

• The facts of his mother's suicide and reports of his father's alleged homosexuality
  
• The accusation that he bugged his own office in Texas
  
• The real story of how George W. Bush defeated governor Ann Richards
  
• The details of Bush's stealth campaign to win the White House in 2000
  
• Why Bush cratered in New Hampshire but prevailed in South Carolina in 2000
  
• How Bush chose Dick Cheney as his presidential running mate
  
• How the Bush campaign managed Bush's DUI
  
• The defection of Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords
  
• The frustrating challenges of Hurricane Katrina
  
• The facts behind Rove's painful three years fending off a federal indictment, and
  
• Why Obama is wrong on healthcare.

Courage and Consequence is also the first intimate account from the highest level at the White House of one of the most headline-making presidencies of the modern age. Rove takes readers behind the scenes of

• The bitterly contested 2000 presidential contest
  
• Every tense minute aboard Air Force One on 9/11
  
• The decision to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and
  
• The hard-won 2004 reelection fight.

Rove is candid about his mistakes in the West Wing and in his campaigns, and talks frankly about the heartbreak of his early family years. He spells out what it takes to win elections and how to govern successfully once a candidate has won. But Courage and Consequence is ultimately about the joy of a life committed to the conservative cause, a life spent in political combat and service to country, no matter the costs.

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Ultimate Performance: Measuring Human Resources at Work

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Meeting the challenges of high-performance HR

Until 1760 ships routinely disappeared, ran aground, or sank because seafarers could not measure longitude. The cost in life and property was immense. Today, business faces a similar challenge, as the failure to measure human resources performance is just as costly and deadly to modern organizations.

Senior executives once considered HR a "soft," unavoidable cost of doing business, responsible for compensation, employee transactions, company functions, workforce problems, and legal issues. Three factors changed this perception: the significant impact of high-performance HR, the implications of poorly performing HR, and soaring HR operating expenses. These factors have led to an increased demand and focus on HR metrics.

Ultimate Performance approaches this challenge by providing clear, proven measurement solutions that will optimize the performance of people and businesses.

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The Intelligent Company: Five Steps to Success with Evidence-Based Management

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Today's most successful companies are Intelligent Companies that use the best available data to inform their decision making. This is called Evidence-Based Management and is one of the fastest growing business trends of our times. Intelligent Companies bring together tools such as Business Intelligence, Analytics, Key Performance Indicators, Balanced Scorecards, Management Reporting and Strategic Decision Making to generate real competitive advantages.

As information and data volumes grow at explosive rates, the challenges of managing this information is turning into a losing battle for most companies and they end up drowning in data while thirsting for insights. This is made worse by the severe skills shortage in analytics, data presentation and communication.

This latest book by best-selling management expert Bernard Marr, will equip you with a set of powerful skills that are vital for successful managers now and in the future. Increase your market value by gaining essential skills that are in high demand but in short supply.

Loaded with practical step-by-step guidance, simple tools and real life examples of how leading organizations such as Google, CocaCola, Capital One, Saatchi & Saatchi, Tesco, Yahoo, as well as Government Departments and Agencies have put the principles into practice.

The five steps to more intelligent decision making are:

• Step 1: More intelligent strategies – by identifying strategic priorities and agreeing your real information needs
• Step 2: More intelligent data – by creating relevant and meaningful performance indicators and qualitative management information liked back to your strategic information needs
• Step 3: More intelligent insights – by using good evidence to test and prove ideas and by analysing the data to gain robust and reliable insights
• Step 4: More intelligent communication – by creating informative and engaging management information packs and dashboards that provide the essential information, packaged in an easy-to-read way
• Step 5: More intelligent decision making – by fostering an evidence-based culture of turning information into actionable knowledge and real decisions

"Bernard Marr did it again! This outstanding and practical book will help your company become more intelligent and more successful. Marr takes the fields of business-intelligence, analytics and scorecarding to bring them together into a powerful and easy-to-follow 5-step framework. The Intelligent Company is THE must-read book of our times."
—Bruno Aziza, Co-author of best-selling book Drive Business Performance and Worldwide Strategy Lead, Microsoft Business Intelligence

"Book after book Bernard Marr is redefining the fundamentals of good business management. 'The Intelligent Company' is a must read in these changing times and a reference you will want on your desk every day!"
—Gabriel Bellenger, Accenture Strategy

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Does Measurement Measure Up?: How Numbers Reveal and Conceal the Truth

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There was once a time when we could not measure sound, color, blood pressure, or even time. We now find ourselves in the throes of a measurement revolution, from the laboratory to the sports arena, from the classroom to the courtroom, from a strand of DNA to the far reaches of outer space. Measurement controls our lives at work, at school, at home, and even at play. But does all this measurement really measure up? Here, John Henshaw examines the ways in which measurement makes sense or creates nonsense.

Henshaw tells the controversial story of intelligence measurement from Plato to Binet to the early days of the SAT to today's super-quantified world of No Child Left Behind. He clears away the fog on issues of measurement in the environment, such as global warming, hurricanes, and tsunamis, and in the world of computers, from digital photos to MRI to the ballot systems used in Florida during the 2000 presidential election. From cycling and car racing to baseball, tennis, and track-and-field, he chronicles the ever-growing role of measurement in sports, raising important questions about performance and the folly of comparing today's athletes to yesterday's records.

We can't quite measure everything, at least not yet. What could be more difficult to quantify than reasonable doubt? However, even our justice system is yielding to the measurement revolution with new forensic technologies such as DNA fingerprinting.

As we evolve from unquantified ignorance to an imperfect but everpresent state of measured awareness, Henshaw gives us a critical perspective from which we can "measure up" the measurements that have come to affect our lives so greatly.

(2006)

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Organic Community: Creating a Place Where People Naturally Connect (mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)

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Community is a fundamental life search and one of the key aspects people look for in a congregation. But community can't be forced, controlled, or easily created. The problem, says Joseph R. Myers, is that churches are too focused on developing programs instead of concentrating on environments where community will spontaneously emerge.

Organic Community challenges key leaders to become environmentalists--people who create or shape environments. Outlining nine organizational tools for creating a healthy environment, Myers shows readers how to diagnose their current situation and implement patterns that will develop possibilities for healthy communities.

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