Marc: 4072 books
The Reputation Society
How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Experts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems.
In making decisions, we often seek advice. Online, we check Amazon recommendations, eBay vendors' histories, TripAdvisor ratings, and even our elected representatives' voting records. These online reputation systems serve...
Der Crash ist die Lösung
Warum der finale Kollaps kommt und wie Sie Ihr Vermögen retten
Language: German
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Es stellt sich längst nicht mehr die Frage, ob der Crash kommen wird - sondern lediglich wann. Denn alle Maßnahmen zur Banken-, Länder- und Eurorettung laufen auf volkswirtschaftliche Schadensmaximierung und den Staatsbankrott Deutschlands hinaus. Die Enteignung der Bürger für diesen Fall wird...
Public Administration
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Marc Holzer and Richard W. Schwester have written a fresh and highly engaging textbook for the introductory course in Public Administration.
Their coverage is both comprehensive and cutting-edge, including not only all the basic topics (OT, budgeting, HRM), but also reflecting new realities...
Improving Agile Retrospectives
Helping Teams Become More Efficient
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Agile retrospectives help you get to the root of your real problems, so you can solve them quickly and effectively. They’re the cornerstone of a successful continuous improvement process, and one of your best tools for triggering positive cultural change.
In Improving Agile Retrospectives,...
8 Steps to High Performance
Focus On What You Can Change (Ignore the Rest)
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
What Really Works
There's no shortage of advice out there on how to perform better, and better than others, at work. The problem is knowing which methods are actually proven to work--and how you should act on them to get the best results.
In 8 Steps to High Performance, talent expert...
Planning as if People Matter
Governing for Social Equity
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
American communities are changing fast: ethnic minority populations are growing, home ownership is falling, the number of people per household is going up, and salaries are going down. According to Marc Brenman and Thomas W. Sanchez, the planning field is largely unprepared for these fundamental shifts....
by Marc Denhez
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1997
Strategies for the conservation and revitalization of buildings and districts have preoccupied the international community for decades. This book summarizes the five major legislative approaches, the treaties and international declarations (including The Habitat Agenda 1996), outlining how to deal...
From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom
Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
An expert perspective on 21st century education
What can you learn on a cell phone? Almost anything! How does that concept fit with our traditional system of education? It doesn’t. Best-selling author and futurist Marc Prensky’s book of essays challenges educators to “reboot” and make...
The Arab Uprising
The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Barely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East, overthrowing long-ruling dictators and transforming the region’s politics almost beyond recognition. But the biggest transformations of what has been labeled...
The New Arab Wars
Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Marc Lynch's last book, The Arab Uprising, described the then ongoing revolutionary change and prospect for the consolidation of democracy in key Arab countries that still seemed possible. But Lynch saw dark signs on the horizon, especially in Syria. That book ended with the hope that the Arab uprisings...
The Wave
Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Middle East expert Reuel Marc Gerecht argues that the Middle East may actually be at the beginning of a momentous democratic wave whose convulsions could become the region's defining theme during Obama's presidency. He describes the powerful Middle Eastern democratic movements coming from both the...
Less
Accomplishing More by Doing Less
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
A certain kind of busyness is crucial to life allowing us to earn a living create art and achieve success. But too often it consumes us and we become crazy busy nonstop busy and we expend extraneous effort that gets us nowhere. Marc Lessers new book shows us the benefits of doing less in a world that...
Know Yourself, Forget Yourself
Five Truths to Transform Your Work, Relationships, and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Our brains seek order and resist the unexpected, inconsistent, and counterintuitive. But life is more often paradoxical than predictable — which is why formulas for fulfillment and success often fail. Instead of fighting the tide of contradiction and confusion, Marc Lesser asserts, we can learn...
by Alaina Love, Marc Cugnon
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Meet the indispensable people who can bring your organization to that crucial next level.
How many can you recognize?
And where do you fit in?
The Builder: Creating a strong sense of urgency to deliver results, they’re the driving force of a growing business
The Connector: Born communicators,...