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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book North America's High Performance Heartland written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giles Anthony
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135842108
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Work and Employment in the High Performance Workplace written by Giles Anthony and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a general consensus that deep-seated changes are reshaping the way production and work are organized, the way employees, employers and their representatives deal with each other, and the way governments seek to shape society. In this work a group of leading scholars take stock of the evidence and implications of the new workplace. Drawing on examples from a variety of national contexts, they seek to characterize the nature of contemporary workplace change, and assess its implications for the organization of work for workers, for employment relations and for public policy.
Author : Wendy S. Painting
Publisher : TrineDay
ISBN 13 : 1634240049
Total Pages : 1153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Aberration in the Heartland of the Real written by Wendy S. Painting and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the "All-American Terrorist," this book traces McVeigh's life from childhood to the Army, throughout the plot to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the period after his 1995 arrest until his 2001 execution. McVeigh's life, as Dr. Wendy Painting describes it, offers a backdrop for her discussion of not only several intimate and previously unknown details about him, but a number of episodes and circumstances in American History as well. In Aberration in the Heartland, Painting explores Cold War popular culture, all-American apocalyptic fervor, organized racism, contentious politics, militarism, warfare, conspiracy theories, bioethical controversies, mind control, the media's construction of villains and demons, and institutional secrecy and cover-ups. All these stories are examined, compared, and tested in Aberration in the Heartland of the Real, making this book a much closer examination into the personality and life of Timothy McVeigh than has been provided by any other biographical work about him
Author : Cynthia A. Beltz
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780844738864
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (388 download)
Download or read book The Foreign Investment Debate written by Cynthia A. Beltz and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, the United States has maintained an open door at home while promoting investment liberalization abroad through the negotiation of bilateral and regional treaties. This strategy has paid off by boosting productivity and economic welfare at home, while developing countries are moving at an unprecedented rate to emulate the successful open-door policies of the United States. There is also renewed interest in a multilateral set of rules for investment. At the same time, a new generation of U.S. laws and proposed regulations challenges the very foundation of America's open door - namely, the principles of national treatment and nondescrimination. This volume brings both sides of the debate together to examine the changing economic role of foreign investment, the policy trends, and the tools for reducing barriers to transnational investors. The result is a provocative and informative discussion of the strategies and trade-offs shaping the foreign investment debate.
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Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Economic Development Commentary written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108492614
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Hyper-active Governance written by Matthew Wood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of hyper-active Governance shows how politicians govern complex networks, in light of the politicisation of expertise.
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Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Air University Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael E. Raynor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101614323
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Three Rules written by Michael E. Raynor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, an answer to the ultimate business question: How do some companies achieve exceptional performance over the long term? In every sector, there’s an outlier. In the pharmaceutical industry, it’s Merck. In discount retail, it’s Family Dollar. It used to be Wrigley in candy and Maytag in appliances. Other superstars have been hidden in plain sight, like Heartland Express in trucking or Linear Technology in semiconductors. How do these exceptional companies deliver superior performance over the long run despite facing the same constraints as competitors? What are they doing differently? What can we learn from them? Michael E. Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed have analyzed data on more than 25,000 companies spanning forty-five years. Their five-year study began with a sophisticated statistical analysis to identify which companies have truly exceptional performance, 344 in all. In collaboration with teams of researchers, Raynor and Ahmed then put a carefully chosen representative sample of twenty-seven companies under the microscope to uncover what made the stand-out performers different. They found that exceptional companies, when faced with difficult decisions, follow three rules: Better before cheaper. They rarely compete on price. Revenue before cost. They drive profits through price and volume, not thrift. There are no other rules. Everything else is up for grabs, and they are willing to change anything to remain true to the first two rules. The rules provide an indispensable compass that any company can use to chart its own path to greatness. Is it better to keep price down or invest in creating value that commands a higher price? Should you focus on talent and developing the abilities of your people or build processes to extend the capabilities of your organization? How about acquiring a sizable competitor to secure economies of scale—or a small start-up to gain access to new technology? According to Raynor and Ahmed, the right answers to these and just about every other question are the ones most closely aligned with the rules. The Three Rules is built on a powerful combination of large-scale data analysis and in-depth case studies. Its guidance will increase the chance that your organization can become truly exceptional.
Author : Stephen Easton
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430262605
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Supplier Relationship Management written by Stephen Easton and published by Apress. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a new buzz phrase in the air: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). Corporate executives know it’s necessary, but there’s only one problem. Nobody yet knows how to do it. Or they think it’s all about bashing your vendors over the head until they reduce the price another 4%. Supplier Relationship Management: How to Maximize Vendor Value and Opportunity changes all that. Containing the best and most innovative advice from the operations and procurement experts at consultant AT Kearney, this book shows that SRM is at root a strategic discussion requiring cross-functional interaction and internal alignment at the highest levels. It requires an honest appraisal of the value that suppliers now bring to your firm, as well as their potential value. It then requires a frank and constructive business-to-business dialogue about how to improve the relationship. When this happens, a company reaps myriad benefits, ranging from new opportunity to added value to competitive advantage—and, quite likely, to overall (and sometimes substantial) cost reductions. This book shows the most concrete methods you can use today to: Identify value-adding opportunities in the supply chain Work closely with suppliers to maximize the benefits Work the "Critical Cluster" of suppliers, where the greatest opportunity for advantage lies Review suppliers to encourage constant gains in quality and cost Turn your SRM strategy into a major competitive advantage Supplier Relationship Management introduces and explains the Supplier Interaction Model, a key tool that will help you get the most from your supplier relationships. It segments the supplier universe into nine categories, from those you want to run away from fast to those so good and so useful to your organization that it can make sense to invest in them directly. Numerous case studies show how to apply the principles to your situation. Supplier Relationship Management burns off the fog that has surrounded the procurement process for far too long. It is the definitive guide for business executives who want to get the maximum benefits from suppliers and gain very real advantages over competitors.
Author : Gleaves Whitney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Messages of the Governors of Michigan written by Gleaves Whitney and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University and Michigan State University Press announce the continuation of a long-dormant series, Messages of the Governors of Michigan. The first four volumes were published between 1925 and 1927 by the Michigan Historical Commission and edited by George Fuller. These six volumes pick up where the series left off and also include all relevant public speeches of the governors as well as their addresses to the Michigan senate.
Author : John Bryson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Economic Geography Reader written by John Bryson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-07-30 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the evolving geography of the advanced capitalist economies of Europe, North America, and the Pacific Rim, this comparative international reader presents some relevant papers published in this discipline. The text can be read either as continuous prose with each article chosen and positioned to present students with a cumulative understanding of economic change, or as a collection of articles which can be read in any order. It is divided into five sections: an introduction to economic geography, the economy in transition, spaces of production, spaces of consumption, and work, employment and society.
Author : Sidney Weintraub
Publisher : CSIS
ISBN 13 : 9780892063376
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)
Download or read book The North American Auto Industry Under NAFTA written by Sidney Weintraub and published by CSIS. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the performance of the industry after the North American Free-Trade Agreement took effect, in each of the three countries and on the continent as a whole. Also looks at the impact of environmental regulations. The studies were funded by automobile companies and reviewed by personnel representing them. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Brian M. Ingrassia
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252055217
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Speed Capital written by Brian M. Ingrassia and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a speedway became a legendary sports site and sparked America’s car culture The 1909 opening of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway marked a foundational moment in the history of automotive racing. Events at the famed track and others like it also helped launch America’s love affair with cars and an embrace of road systems that transformed cities and shrank perceptions of space. Brian Ingrassia tells the story of the legendary oval’s early decades. This story revolves around Speedway cofounder and visionary businessman Carl Graham Fisher, whose leadership in the building of the transcontinental Lincoln Highway and the iconic Dixie Highway had an enormous impact on American mobility. Ingrassia looks at the Speedway’s history as a testing ground for cars and airplanes, its multiple close brushes with demolition, and the process by which racing became an essential part of the Golden Age of Sports. At the same time, he explores how the track’s past reveals the potent links between sports capitalism and the selling of nostalgia, tradition, and racing legends.
Author : Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313055653
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Hot Spot: North America and Europe written by Joseph R. Rudolph Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the relatively serene world of North America and Western Europe, numerous conflicts with the propensity for sustained political violence are carried out by domestic groups with alarming regularity. This in-depth volume explores conflicts and potential hot spot areas in these regions, from anti-globalization protests to immigration politics to the Basque provinces and the ETA. Coverage is divided into three regions—the established democracies of the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe; the democratizing countries of post-communist Europe; and the more volatile region encompassing Russia, the Balkans, the Causasus, and Post-Soviet Eastern Europe—for a greater understanding of geographic interrelationships. This comprehensive volume is a first-stop reference source for the most significant political, cultural, and economic conflicts in North America and Europe today.
Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
Author : Stephen Emerson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 152672846X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Vietnam's Final Air Campaign written by Stephen Emerson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the last American bombardments that took place over North Vietnam while peace talks struggled in Paris. Includes maps and photos. On March 30, 1972, some thirty thousand North Vietnamese troops, along with tanks and heavy artillery, surged across the demilitarized zone into South Vietnam in the opening round of Hanoi’s Easter Offensive. By early May, South Vietnamese forces were on the ropes and faltering. Without the support of U.S. combat troops—who were in their final stage of withdrawing from the country—the Saigon government was in danger of total collapse and with it any American hope of a negotiated settlement to the war. In response, President Richard Nixon called for an aggressive, sustained bombardment of North Vietnam. Code-named Operation Linebacker I, the interdiction effort sought to stem the flow of men and materiel southward, as well as sever all outside supply lines in the first new bombing of the North Vietnamese heartland in nearly four years. To meet the American air armada, North Vietnamese MiG fighters took to the skies and surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft fire filled the air from May to October over Hanoi and Haiphong. With the failure of its Easter Offensive to achieve military victory, Hanoi reluctantly returned to the negotiating table in Paris. However, as the peace talks teetered on the edge of collapse in December 1972, Nixon played his trump card: Operation Linebacker II. The resulting twelve-day Christmas bombing campaign unleashed the full wrath of American air power. This book tells the story of these decisive campaigns and how they led, finally, to a ceasefire agreement.
Author : William E. Burrows
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307765482
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book This New Ocean written by William E. Burrows and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond. The ancient dream of breaking gravity's hold and taking to space became a reality only because of the intense cold-war rivalry between the superpowers, with towering geniuses like Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolyov shelving dreams of space travel and instead developing rockets for ballistic missiles and space spectaculars. Now that Russian archives are open and thousands of formerly top-secret U.S. documents are declassified, an often startling new picture of the space age emerges: the frantic effort by the Soviet Union to beat the United States to the Moon was doomed from the beginning by gross inefficiency and by infighting so treacherous that Winston Churchill likened it to "dogs fighting under a carpet"; there was more than science behind the United States' suggestion that satellites be launched during the International Geophysical Year, and in one crucial respect, Sputnik was a godsend to Washington; the hundred-odd German V-2s that provided the vital start to the U.S. missile and space programs legally belonged to the Soviet Union and were spirited to the United States in a derring-do operation worthy of a spy thriller; despite NASA's claim that it was a civilian agency, it had an intimate relationship with the military at the outset and still does--a distinction the Soviet Union never pretended to make; constant efforts to portray astronauts and cosmonauts as "Boy Scouts" were often contradicted by reality; the Apollo missions to the Moon may have been an unexcelled political triumph and feat of exploration, but they also created a headache for the space agency that lingers to this day. This New Ocean is based on 175 interviews with Russian and American scientists and engineers; on archival documents, including formerly top-secret National Intelligence Estimates and spy satellite pictures; and on nearly three decades of reporting. The impressive result is this fascinating story--the first comprehensive account--of the space age. Here are the strategists and war planners; engineers and scientists; politicians and industrialists; astronauts and cosmonauts; science fiction writers and journalists; and plain, ordinary, unabashed dreamers who wanted to transcend gravity's shackles for the ultimate ride. The story is written from the perspective of a witness who was present at the beginning and who has seen the conclusion of the first space age and the start of the second.
