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Absentee Ownership is Veblen's attempt to explain the case of American business after World War II and prior to the great depression, which he unfortunately did not live to see. The book reads like a warning for the crash which came a few years after its publication. Veblen charts the rise and fall of the Captain of Indusrty, talks about the sabatoge of entrepreneurs, and other topics relevant to anyone who is interested in economics or sociology. The downside is Veblen's intensely dry writing style, which takes a bit of getting used to and slows down the speed of the reading a great deal. I would recommend at least a basic knowledge of laissez-faire capitalism before attempting this book.

"This book", writes W.Rothwell in his Introduction, "is a primer that serves a three-fold purpose. The first purpose is to show how Action Learning can be used as a real-time strategy for problem finding or problem solving. It can be valuable tool by which to tackle business problems and meet business needs. The second purpose is to show how Action Learning can be applied to training design. It is intended to stimulate the thinking of instructional designers about a new way to analyze needs, design and develop training, deliver training, and evaluate results. The third purpose is to show how Action Learning can be maximized to build intellectual capital and enhance human talent. In this sense, the book shows how team or group work can be become a means for developing people in its own right."

In this context, W.Rothwell :

* defines Action Learning, lists barriers that may prevent its application, and introduces a model of the Action Learning process.

* reviews occasions when applying Action Learning is and is not appropriate.

* focuses on who decides when Action Learning is appropriate, how decision makers recognize situations suitable for the use of Action Learning, and when a problem or improvement opportunity should be handed over to an Action Learning team.

* focuses on issues associated with recruiting, selecting, and orienting members of an Action Learning team.

* examines the team facilitator's role.

* focuses on the application of Action Learning as a means for identifying and solving problems or addressing other organizational issues.

* describes the application of Action Learning to training design.

* explains advantages and disadvantages of using an Action Learning team to design training.

* focuses on evaluating Action Learning efforts and on debriefing Action Learning teams and individuals who participated on those teams.

I highly recommend this invaluable study to all line managers, trainers and HR professionals.

(Reviewed by FreeImage HR Consulting / a division of T.B. FreeImage HR Group, Istanbul, Turkey)

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I thought the book was good. There was sexual tension but that wasn't the main focuse. One thing I would change is at the end is exploring there new relationship a little more. None of the ladys in romance story's are weak. The one's that have to start over.

Successful management today does not consist in re-creating the conditions under which we thrived in the past -- a past even greater than the Atlantean one! To create success for oneself, one's organisation, community or nation, one needs to identify the primary forces that work in today's turbulent environment: the drivers of change in the private and public market place as well as within the workplaces. That, precisely, is what After Atlantis is about.

In a sense, After Atlantis has not invented anything new. It is not old wine in a new bottle, either. The book leads the reader from the known to the to-be-known: Acknowledging and re-establishing the well-known fact that no one off-the-shelf solution can meet the challenges of organisations today, the authors seem to have succeeded in extracting a synergistic approach from the various disparate approaches that most of us are already familiar with. The book, however, does not (and it does not want to) offer a fish, but provides the wherewithal to fish in troubled waters.

Starting with a clarification of the meaning of turbulence, After Atlantis proceeds to identify the basic drivers of change and turbulence and show how to set about managing them through the four phases of discontinuous innovation, continuous improvement, breakthrough improvement and another discontinuous innovation. These phases are dealt with in good detail.

The recommendations of After Atlantis (for working, managing and leading in turbulent times) are extracted from the authors' own research of field-tested practices, which are well recounted in the book. The extracted process has been christened as The Shared Learning Process, which subsumes the approaches of Search Conference, Participative Design and TQM.

Besides presenting a concise and practice-based process, the book also provides a tested architecture with which one can understand how to launch and sustain a quality management and continuous improvement process in an organisation. The logic of where, when and how to start is a specialty of this even otherwise special book.

M.Joseph Arul, Ph.D., Professor at IRMA, Anand, India.

This book is easy to use when writing any kind of resume--from entry level jobs to senior management positions. The guidelines are helpful and easy to follow, and there are lots of examples to help you envision your resume as a finished product. It gives you insight into the way hiring managers think, and offers current views of what employment managers want to see in today's resumes.

This small, concise book is insightful and gets to the heart of time and time management. It is better than any of the popular, larger books or programs on the subject.

The Atomic Corporation is without a doubt a rational proposal for uncertain times. Authors Camrass and Farncombe use 'chemistry' as the vehicle to explain their proposition and they do it very well. They show us 'a universe within an atom'. They show us why mega corporations will be compelled to break up into smaller business units or 'atoms' so that they can become more agile and adaptable to the demands of more powerful consumers. Corporations will devolve into complex and ever changing web of business-to-business connections or 'molecules'.
In many ways, it supports and confirms our book: Ecosystem: Living the 12 Principles of Networked Business. We use 'biology' as our vehicle, instead of chemistry. We both use stakeholder relationships in a holistic manner. We both focus on complexity and collaboration. Where we differ is in perspective. Camrass and Farncombe take the atomic (micro) perspective, whereas we take the ecosystem (macro) perspective and yet we reach not dissimilar conclusions. You cannot afford not to read this book.

BBBe provides a two-page summary of the hundred most influential business books. The mix is eclectic, including modern authors, such as Peter Senge and Peter Drucker, as well as historical writers, such as Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz and John Stuart Mill.

Probably someone will complain that this is just another 'Cliff Notes' of business books, but it provides an interesting history of attitudes towards business and a starting point for anyone looking for a guide to business books worth reading.

This book is a celebration of the progress of the Black Worker through the usage of primary source documents. Usually any regular texts will just give you a novel-like form of the opportunities or lack thereof given to Black Workers during this period. Regular book might also explain what was achieved by African Americans in the working world. This book, however, surpasses all other volumes by doing the opposite. By simply looking at the volume's composition you can see a distinct difference from any other volume near its class. Through the authenticity of primary source material used throughout this volume, this source has proved its validity to many researching historians. It includes copies of speeches, and commentary by ordinary African Americans who discuss their employment positions, just to name a few of its enclosing documents. There are countless documents provided in this first volume that were ordered and given background by Philip Foner and Ronald Lewis. These two historians shine light to these documents by giving accurate information on the origin of the source, and what had been happening around its origin. They give infomation that might discuss the author's possible reasoning for writing such a document, or who his audience was. This type of information might not be provided looking at a speech at the surface. It is evident that by ordering each primary source and giving some conclusionary notes that these two historians spent a great deal of time in producing this first volume. This volume would aid any researcher interested in obtaining information on a black worker's opportunities in the north and old south. It is a fine addition to its collection and one that should be sought by all persons interested in the progression of African American working-class in the United States.