Beyond Wolves: The Politics of Wolf Recovery and Management by Martin A. Nie - Thousands of years ago we brought a powerful intelligent predator into our caves, and today it sleeps at our feet. While we were learning to love the wolf that became the dog, we somehow learned to hate the wolf that stayed the Wolf. This is our dilemma, and as an intelligent species we must attempt to make peace with the rest of the planet and its other inhabitants, because a war against nature, is ultimately a war against ourselves.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices by Peter F. Drucker - Despite its explosive growth over the last decade, the Web remains essentially a tool to allow humans to access information. Semantic Web technologies like RDF, OWL and other W3C standards aim to extend the Web’s capability through increased availability of machine - processable information.
The Complete Idiot"s Guide to New Product Development by Edwin Bobrow - is a broad treatment of the subject of Product Development. It was first published in 1997 so it is relatively up-to-date, but not cutting edge. The book covers many topics from types of new products to Market Research. The book is aimed at small companies and corporations, managers in big companies that want an understanding of the development process, and entrepreneurs. The book tends to address the small business that needs a new product but does not do this sort of thing very often.
The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World"s Largest Private Company by Charles G. Koch - he same exacting thought, rooted in the realities of human nature, that the framers of the U.S. Constitution put into building a nation of entrepreneurs, Charles Koch has framed to build an enduring company of entrepreneurs a company larger than Microsoft, Dell, HP, and other giants. Every entrepreneur should study this book.
The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Human Resource Management by Lawrence Peters, Charles R Greer, Stuart Youngblood - provides clear, concise, up to the minute and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts covering the whole of the fast changing field of human resource management. Bringing together specially commissioned and carefully edited entries from an international team of the world"s best known and respected scholars and teachers, this will become the standard reference for students, researchers, academics and practitioners. The Dictionary has been carefully designed to give both the expert and the newcomer overviews with succinct presentations of the most important traditional and contemporary issues in human resource management.
Successful Time Management For Dummie s by Dirk Zeller - Do you need help with time management? Need to better manage your time at work or at home? Feel like there are never enough hours in the day? Successful Time Management For Dummies delivers practical solutions for getting organized, working better and faster, reducing stress, and getting rid of time-wasting distractions. You’ll find out how to eliminate late nights at the office and spend more time with your family, friends, or even just yourself!
The Vocal Skills Pocketbook by Richard Payne - explains how to develop a confident, authoritative and vital voice in a range of speaking situations. It will enable individuals to analyze their speaking voices and establish what aspects they wish to improve. The advice and information are relevant not just to public speaking events but also to numerous other situations such as interviews, meetings and speaking on the telephone.
Storytelling in Organizations: Why Storytelling Is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and Management by Stephen Denning, Katalina Groh, Laurence Prusak, John Seely Brown - Storytelling in Organizations lays out for the first time why narrative and storytelling should be part of the mainstream of organizational and management thinking. This case has not been made before. The tone of the book is also unique. The engagingly personal and idiosyncratic tone comes from a set of presentations made at a Smithsonian symposium on storytelling in April 2001.
The People Business: Psychological Reflections of Management by Adrian Furnham - In this unusual book about the relationship between psychology and management, Adrian Furnham does not present a management system based on psychological principles, but rather a collection of observations arranged in loose alphabetical order, beginning with "the aging workforce" and ending with "workplace romantic relationships." Furnham says his purpose is "to educate in an entertaining way." For the most part, he succeeds. The book resembles an old-fashioned commonplace book, full of random ideas, quotations and lists.
