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An all-new approach to understanding the (in)formal connections of an organization From the bestselling coauthor of the business classic The Wisdom of Teams comes an all-new exploration of the modern workplace, and how leaders and managers must embrace it for success. Katzenbach and Khan examine how two distinct factions together form the bigger picture for how organizations actually work: the more defined "formal" organization of a company-the management...
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Workers want and need to know their work is appreciated. Showing gratitude to employees is the easiest, fastest, most inexpensive way to boost performance. New research shows that gratitude boosts employee engagement, reduces turnover, and leads team members to express more gratitude to one another--strengthening team bonds. Studies have also shown that gratitude is beneficial for those expressing it and is one of the most powerful variables in predicting...
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This ebook is a concise explanation in plain English of a number of key topics of Australian company law, selected for their practical relevance to the everyday governance of private companies. The "proprietary limited" company structure is overwhelmingly the preferred business structure used in Australia, but the subject of company law is opaque to most of the people who are involved in the management of private companies, and is left to the experts....
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Este libro, escrito por Julio Salas Sánchez, estudia, de una manera ordenada y dinámica, las sociedades que están reguladas por la Ley General de Sociedades. Dicha ley sistematiza todas las etapas de una empresa, desde su nacimiento jurídico, crecimiento, desarrollo, hasta sus cambios estructurales y reorganizaciones, con el objetivo de fomentar las buenas relaciones entre ella y los diferentes grupos de interés: trabajadores, gobierno local...
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In New Orleans, the widow of an attorney who died of lung cancer vowed to avenge his death by suing the tobacco companies. In Clarksdale, Mississippi, an outraged country lawyer discovered the cost of lung cancer care as his secretary's mother lay dying. In Washington, D.C., a young pediatrician became the first FDA administrator in ninety years to decide nicotine should be regulated as a drug. All three were warned: Don't mess with Big Tobacco.
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Fearlessly delve into the unknown with breakthrough methods to put your company on the path to innovation, creativity, and growth. Talent is vital to any company's advancement, but it's the collaboration and problem solving systems that separate industry leaders from the rest. Systems designed to embrace unknowns are the quickest, most enduring way to foster growth, continuous innovation, and results. Learn how teams begin with upstream work--the...
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2004: Lina Sparrow, an artist's daughter, is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. 1852: Josephine, a seventeen-year-old slave, tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm - an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. Lina's search to find a plaintiff for her case will introduce her to Josephine's story. Was she the real talent behind her mistress's now-famous...
10) Vanished
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For Nick Heller, high-powered investigator with a private corporate intelligence firm, this time the investigation is personal. Nick's estranged brother has vanished and with his disappearance old wounds re-surface in Nick's life as he is pitted against one of the most powerful private military companies in the world. Those in control will stop at nothing to protect the secrets that Nick is determined to uncover to find his brother. Secrets that reach...
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"This book provides answers to businesses, organizations, and people that are searching for alternate perspectives and strategies to advance diversity and inclusion; it is for those who feel different or feel alienated, who want to foster self-empowerment and connect with others, and who want to deepen their capacity to build greater empathy, open-mindedness, and ability to connect"--
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This is a guidebook for personal and corporate self-assessment. It was written with a market research approach in mind where many hard questions are asked amidst the different conditions that may have caused or is causing a company to be in distress with an imminent possibility of total bankruptcy. This is a book that supports the author's advocacy of creating jobs by creating great companies.
13) Queen of teeth
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"Within forty-eight hours, Yaya Betancourt will go from discovering teeth between her thighs to being hunted by one of the most powerful corporations in America. She assumes the vagina dentata is a side effect of a rare genetic condition caused by AlphaBeta Pharmaceutical, decades ago, when she and several thousand others were still in the womb. But, when ABP corporate goons upend her life, she realizes her secondary teeth might be evidence of a new...
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There's nothing easy about apology. The news is filled with examples of leaders apologizing, needing to apologize, or failing miserably at the attempt. And certainly we all have occasion to apologize ourselves-maybe more often than we realize. But we don't need more apologies, says John Kador-we need better ones. Too many people just go through the motions, missing out on the power of apology to restore strained relationships, create possibilities...
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“Behind Closed Doors” is unique. It opens the doors to the boardroom and explains what happens inside. Using his thirty years of board experience, Simon Laffin describes board issues, all of which he has experienced, and how boards deal with them.
He gives over 150 tips, including how better decisions could be taken and how board directors can better join in those debates. He doesn't shy away from difficult topics, from how a company responds...
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This study examines 73 publicly listed companies in the Philippines to determine the relationship between the quality of corporate governance practices and company performance. It concludes that as a company's corporate governance practices improve, there is likely to be positive and significant impacts on its market capitalization, market valuation, and profitability. The study was jointly conducted by the Asian Development Bank, the Institute of...
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For the past 20 years, corporations have been receiving huge tax breaks and subsidies in the name of "jobs, jobs, jobs." But, as Greg LeRoy demonstrates in this important new book, it's become a costly scam. Playing states and communities off against each other in a bidding war for jobs, corporations reduce their taxes to next-to-nothing and win subsidy packages that routinely exceed $100,000 per job. But the subsidies come with few strings attached....
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Corporations today are embedded in a system of shareholder primacy. Nonfinancial concerns-like worker well-being, environmental impact, or community health-are secondary to the imperative to maximize share price. As a result, businesses can "succeed" while contributing to serious problems like climate risk, social instability, and economic decline. This sets us up for failure over the long term, as private enterprise continues to threaten vital resources....
20) Finding Balance 2016: Benchmarking the Performance of State-Owned Enterprise in Island Countries
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Pacific state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are often formed to increase service delivery effectiveness and accountability. However, historical and financial indicators show that long-term government ownership of SOEs often result in outcomes counter to these goals. Weak governance and regulatory frameworks make it difficult for SOEs to operate on strict commercial principles over the long term. This fifth study of SOE performance in the Pacific emphasizes...
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