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Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy
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If you're feeling the pinch of today's economic stagnation and inequality, "Restarting the Future" might be right up your alley. This isn't just another dense economic text; it's a clear, forward-thinking manifesto from two authors well-versed in modern finance and policy. They're offering not just critique but a collection of bold, actionable strategies to harness the often nebulous world of intangible assets. The book could shift your perspective on what it takes to drive prosperity in our increasingly idea-focused age.
Research Methods for Media and Communication - Thryft
Niranjala Weerakkody | Oxford University Press

Research Methods for Media and Communication

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Imagine you're looking to get a handle on the often intricate world of media and communication research. This book guides you through both qualitative and quantitative methods with an approachable touch, making it ideal whether you're a student or a professional seeking to deepen your understanding of research in media-related fields. It's like having an expert by your side, demystifying the concepts you need to know.
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
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"How to Change the World" is an inspiring read that showcases real-life examples of individuals who have made a significant impact on society. The book emphasizes the power of determination and innovation in solving social problems and encourages readers to become agents of change themselves. It is an invaluable handbook for anyone seeking to make a positive mark on the world.
Clear and to the Point : 8 psychological principles for compelling PowerPoint presentations - Thryft

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This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to create attention-grabbing presentations. Kosslyn's eight principles are backed by modern science, and he provides numerous examples and tips to help readers create presentations that are clear, memorable, and enjoyable. One of the book's most distinctive features is its emphasis on the importance of understanding how the brain processes information, and how this can be leveraged to make presentations more effective. Readers who follow Kosslyn's guidelines are sure to receive rave reviews for their next presentation.
Human Resource Excellence - An Assessment Of Strategies And Trends - Thryft
Edward E. Lawler | Stanford University Press

Human Resource Excellence - An Assessment Of Strategies And Trends

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This book could be a good read for someone interested in understanding how human resources can enhance organizational success. With comprehensive research and analysis, it presents the most current trends and strategies in HR, including the role of technology, data analytics, and HR's influence on strategy. It offers insights into the changing landscape of HR, making it an essential resource for professionals navigating the gig economy and harnessing the power of networks in the modern workplace.
The Chicago Manual of Style - Thryft
University of Chicago Press | The University Of Chicago Press

The Chicago Manual of Style

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If precision in writing is what you're after, "The Chicago Manual of Style" is akin to a trusty compass for navigation through the complexities of editorial conventions. It's not just a book; it's a comprehensive tool that has stood the test of time, helping countless writers ensure their prose is polished and professional. Whether you're a budding author, an academic, or someone who cares about the nitty-gritty of punctuation and formatting, this manual is a must-have reference you'll return to time and again.
Thought Leadership Meets Business: How business schools can become more successful - Thryft
Peter Lorange | Cambridge University Press

Thought Leadership Meets Business: How business schools can become more successful

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If you're deeply invested in future-proofing your career in business management or academia, this book serves as a strategic playbook. Peter Lorange, with his seasoned experience at IMD, unveils invaluable insights on how executive education can evolve to meet real-world business demands. This isn't just theory; it's a guide borne of proven success and emerging trends in global business education.
Strategic Human Resource Management - Thryft
Catherine Truss, David Mankin, Clare Kelliher  | Oxford University Press

Strategic Human Resource Management

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If you're aspiring to lead or revamp a company's human resources department, "Strategic Human Resource Management" could be your playbook. The authors Truss, Mankin, and Kelliher dive deep into creating effective HR strategies backed by current research and industry practices. Its straightforward explanations and case studies make it accessible, potentially transforming your approach to people management and giving you a robust framework for tackling HR challenges.
Change The Way You Lead Change - Leadership Strategies That Really Work - Thryft
Donald Fedor, David Herold  | Stanford University Press

Change The Way You Lead Change - Leadership Strategies That Really Work

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If you're feeling stuck in your leadership style and traditional change models don't seem to work anymore, "Change The Way You Lead Change" could offer you the fresh perspective you need. Herold and Fedor guide you through a more thoughtful approach to change, emphasizing the importance of context and individualized strategies. It could be the key to unlocking transformative progress in your organization.
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
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You might find "How to Change the World" both uplifting and empowering if you're passionate about social activism or entrepreneurship. It showcases real-life tales of individuals who've tackled massive challenges, sparking that can-do spirit and offering insights on making tangible differences in the world. It's like a playbook for anyone with the drive to create meaningful change but needing a spark of inspiration or affirmation that one person's determination can indeed transform lives.
Marketing - Thryft
Paul Baines, Chris Fill, Kelly Page  | Oxford University Press

Marketing

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This book would be a good read for anyone who wants to understand the fundamentals of marketing in a practical and comprehensive manner. With its contemporary case studies and review questions, it provides real-world examples and opportunities for self-assessment. Whether you are a beginner or someone looking to sharpen your marketing skills, this book will guide you through the basic principles and help you master the art of marketing.
McNae's Essential Law for Journalists
Mark Hanna | Oxford University Press

McNae's Essential Law for Journalists

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If you're navigating the journalistic landscape, this book is a must-have. As someone likely to encounter the complex web of legal issues in media, having McNae's Essential Law for Journalists on your desk means you'll have a trusted source to help steer through the legalities. It's updated, comprehensive, and serves not just as a textbook but as a day-to-day reference to keep your work legally sound.
Business Research Methods, 4 Ed - Thryft
Emma Bell Alan Bryman | Oxford University Press

Business Research Methods, 4 Ed

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If you're delving into the world of business research, this book acts as your comprehensive guide. Alan Bryman has constructed an accessible yet thorough exploration of methodologies, ensuring you grasp both the theoretical and practical aspects. Choosing this book helps you lay down a robust foundation for any business research endeavor you're about to undertake.
Scuttle Your Ships Before Advancing - And Other Lessons From History On Leadership And Change For Today's Managers - Thryft

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If you're a manager in search of inspiration, "Scuttle Your Ships Before Advancing" is a must-read. Richard Luecke takes you on a captivating journey through history, extracting valuable leadership and change lessons from fascinating figures like Herman Cortes and Louis XI. By drawing parallels between historical events and the challenges faced by today's executives, Luecke provides actionable insights that will empower you to navigate complex business environments. This book is a treasure trove of wisdom that will transform the way you approach leadership and change. Don't miss out on this enlightening journey!
The Horizontal Organization - What the Organization of the Future Looks Like and How It Delivers Value to Customers

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If you're feeling boxed in by the traditional corporate ladder and curious about more dynamic ways of running a business, "The Horizontal Organization" could offer you a fresh perspective. Ostroff's ideas can be particularly eye-opening if you're in a leadership position looking to drive innovation and better serve customers in a rapidly changing business environment.
Leadership Practice and Perspectives - Thryft
Kevin Roe | Oxford University Press

Leadership Practice and Perspectives

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If you're looking to understand leadership beyond just theoretical concepts, this book brings them to life. It's well-suited for students or aspiring leaders who appreciate learning from varied, real-world scenarios. Kevin Roe has a way with words that makes complex ideas approachable, and you're likely to finish this book with a richer perspective on what it takes to lead in different settings.
Dr Podcast Scripts for the Primary FRCA - Thryft
Alexander P. L. Goodwin, Emily K. Johnson, Rebecca A. Leslie  | Cambridge University Press

Dr Podcast Scripts for the Primary FRCA

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This book is a valuable resource for anyone preparing for the Primary FRCA exams. With its collection of podcasts turned into scripts, it offers exam-style questions and model answers that help readers understand how to approach and excel in the exam. What sets it apart is the inclusion of diagrams that readers can draw to explain their answers, making it an engaging and interactive study tool. Reviewed by experienced consultants, the book also provides insider tips and insights from successful candidates, making it a must-have for anyone aiming to succeed in the Primary FRCA exams.
The Art of War - Thryft
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The Art of War is an excellent read for those interested in strategy and tactics both within and beyond the military realm. Sun Tzu's succinct yet comprehensive recommendations transcend time and discipline. This book has been read and revered by generations and is a must-read for anyone interested in strategic thinking.
The Founder's Dilemmas : Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup - Thryft
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A guide to the early decisions that can make or break startup venturesOften downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can suffer. Bad decisions at the inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder's Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team.Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them. He looks at whether it is a good idea to cofound with friends or relatives, how and when to split the equity within the founding team, and how to recognize when a successful founder-CEO should exit or be fired. Wasserman explains how to anticipate, avoid, or recover from disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between controlling the startup and attracting the best resources to grow it, and demonstrates why the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the long term.The Founder's Dilemmas draws on the inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, while mining quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders.People problems are the leading cause of failure in startups. This book offers solutions.
More Than You Know : Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places - Thryft
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One of Wall Street's most creative and influential minds offers provocative new ways of thinking about the stock market, investing, and how we make decisions.
How to Win an Argument : An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion - Thryft
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This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills and learn the art of persuasion. Drawing from the wisdom of Cicero, one of history's greatest orators, it provides practical techniques that are just as effective today as they were in ancient Rome. With lively translations and illuminating introductions, this unique anthology will empower you to win arguments and influence people in any situation. Don't miss the opportunity to master the secrets of persuasive speaking and writing.
How to Win an Argument : An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion - Thryft
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All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct--and often floundering or failing as a result--we'd win more arguments if we learned the timeless art of verbal persuasion, rhetoric. How to Win an Argument gathers the rhetorical wisdom of Cicero, ancient Rome's greatest orator, from across his works and combines it with passages from his legal and political speeches to show his powerful techniques in action. The result is an enlightening and entertaining practical introduction to the secrets of persuasive speaking and writing--including strategies that are just as effective in today's offices, schools, courts, and political debates as they were in the Roman forum.How to Win an Argument addresses proof based on rational argumentation, character, and emotion; the parts of a speech; the plain, middle, and grand styles; how to persuade no matter what audience or circumstances you face; and more. Cicero's words are presented in lively translations, with illuminating introductions; the book also features a brief biography of Cicero, a glossary, suggestions for further reading, and an appendix of the original Latin texts.Astonishingly relevant, this unique anthology of Cicero's rhetorical and oratorical wisdom will be enjoyed by anyone who ever needs to win arguments and influence people--in other words, all of us.
Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care - Thryft
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"Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care" is an excellent resource for junior and trainee anaesthetists, as well as ICU nurses and physicians working in areas that require a solid foundation in pharmacology. The book presents basic pharmacological principles in a clear and methodical format that is easy to navigate, with helpful diagrams and tables. Its most unique feature is its coverage of all the relevant kinetics and dynamics in a compact and straightforward manner. Users will find this book invaluable in both study and practice.
The Theory of Incentives : The Principal-Agent Model - Thryft
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Economics has much to do with incentives--not least, incentives to work hard, to produce quality products, to study, to invest, and to save. Although Adam Smith amply confirmed this more than two hundred years ago in his analysis of sharecropping contracts, only in recent decades has a theory begun to emerge to place the topic at the heart of economic thinking. In this book, Jean-Jacques Laffont and David Martimort present the most thorough yet accessible introduction to incentives theory to date. Central to this theory is a simple question as pivotal to modern-day management as it is to economics What makes people act in a particular way in an economic or business situation? In seeking an answer, the authors provide the methodological tools to design institutions that can ensure good incentives for economic agents.This book focuses on the principal-agent model, the "simple" situation where a principal, or company, delegates a task to a single agent through a contract--the essence of management and contract theory. How does the owner or manager of a firm align the objectives of its various members to maximize profits? Following a brief historical overview showing how the problem of incentives has come to the fore in the past two centuries, the authors devote the bulk of their work to exploring principal-agent models and various extensions thereof in light of three types of information adverse selection, moral hazard, and non-verifiability. Offering an unprecedented look at a subject vital to industrial organization, labor economics, and behavioral economics, this book is set to become the definitive resource for students, researchers, and others who might find themselves pondering what contracts, and the incentives they embody, are really all about.
Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care - Thryft
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Tom E. Peck, Sue Hill  | Cambridge University Press

Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

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This book is a must-have for anyone involved in anaesthesia and intensive care. It covers all the essential pharmacological principles in a concise and organized manner, with helpful diagrams and tables. What sets it apart is the thorough update on the latest drugs available and the expanded section on antibiotics, which is especially relevant in today's context of increasing hospital infections. Whether you are a junior anaesthetist, critical care nurse, or any healthcare professional working in theatre, accident and emergency departments, or intensive care units, this book will be an invaluable resource to enhance your understanding and practice. Don't miss out on this comprehensive guide to pharmacology in anaesthesia and intensive care.
The Next Great Globalization : How Disadvantaged Nations Can Harness Their Financial Systems to Get Rich - Thryft
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This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the role of financial globalization in developing nations. Mishkin presents a hopeful vision of the potential benefits of financial globalization, while also providing a clear-eyed assessment of the potential risks and challenges. Through historical examples, he demonstrates how effective management of financial globalization can create opportunities for growth and prosperity, and suggests concrete policies for achieving these goals. Overall, this book offers a nuanced and persuasive argument for the importance of financial globalization in today's global economy.
Crude Intentions : How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World - Thryft
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Alexandra Gillies | Oxford University Press

Crude Intentions : How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World

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Billions of dollars stolen from citizens are circling the globe, enriching powerful individuals, altering political outcomes, and disadvantaging everyday people. News headlines provide glimpses of how this corruption works and why it President Trump's businesses struck deals with oligarchs and sold property to secretive shell companies; the Panama Papers leak triggered investigations in 79 countries; and, corruption scandals toppled heads of state in Brazil, South Africa, and South Korea. But how do these pieces fit together? And if the corruption is so vast and so tied up with powerful interests, how do we begin to fight back?To find answers, Crude Intentions examines the corruption crisis that erupted during the recent oil boom. From 2008 to 2014, oil prices shot through the roof. Motivated by more than nine trillion dollars in new oil money, corruption followed apace. Examining the oil boom is like placing a drop of dye in the circulatory system of global corruption, and watching as it reveals the system's channels and pathways.Company bosses signed off on risky schemes to snap up choice oil blocks. Politicians in Brazil and Nigeria stole billions to build up their election war chests. Kleptocrats in Angola, Azerbaijan, and Russia seized upon the oil wealth to cement their hold on power. And an army of bankers, accountants, and lawyers lined up to help these corrupt actors stash their loot in the global system of shell companies and tax havens that serves today's super-rich. The money then bought yachts, mansions, and even a few foreign politicians.Drawing on information exposed by intrepid journalists, prosecutors, and whistle blowers, Crude Intentions tells jaw-dropping stories of corruption and asks what we can learn from them. The cases reveal common tactics, but also vulnerabilities in this web of fraud. These are the starting points for building a smarter fight against corruption, in the oil sector and well beyond.
The Economics of Attention : Style and Substance in the Age of Information - Thryft
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This book is perfect for those interested in understanding the shift to a new economy where intellectual property and style are more important than ever. The author explains how the disciplines of arts and letters play a crucial role in creating and trading cultural capital. Lanham offers compelling insights that will help readers navigate the new attention economy, and provide a unique perspective on the business world and the moguls who will lead it.
How Brands Grow : What Marketers Don't Know - Thryft
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How Brands Grow presents tried and tested laws for growing brands through evidence-based research. It explores topics such as how advertising works, the impact of price promotions, and loyalty programs. This book is highly recommended for marketing professionals who are looking to improve their brand growth strategies. Its distinctive feature is the evidence-based approach, which sets it apart from other marketing texts.
Style : Toward Clarity and Grace - Thryft
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This book is perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to write persuasively and with clarity. It includes step-by-step strategies for crafting effective sentences and organizing paragraphs. One of the most unique and distinctive features of the book is its emphasis on not following simplistic rules or endless lists of dos and don'ts, but rather learning how to be concise, focused, and organized in your writing. It's a practical and disciplined text that will help transform even your roughest drafts into polished works of clarity, coherence, impact, and personality.
Practice Single Best Answer Questions for the Final FRCA: A Revision Guide - Thryft
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As you're approaching your Final FRCA, this book could be a critical resource to test your knowledge across the full range of topics you'll be examined on. The structured format mirrors the actual exam, giving you a realistic practice experience, and each question comes paired with a detailed explanation to enhance your understanding. Plus, the additional reading suggestions could be invaluable for deepening your grasp on complex concepts.
This book describes the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce's changing relationship with the state and with businesses in the region.Some of the wealthiest and most influential businessmen in Singapore and Malaysia have served as leaders of the Chamber. Drawing on archival materials and extensive interviews, Visscher provides lively biographical sketches that highlight the circumstances and personal values that propelled these and other leading Chinese businessmen to success and to prominence.He also examines Chinese business practices, considering cultural elements as well as state and market forces, and highlights unique features of the Chinese experience in Singapore. By viewing Singapore from the perspective of a well established non-governmental organisation as it struggled, negotiated and cooperated with the state, this book offers an alternative to conventional political histories.
Modeling Monetary Economies - Thryft
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The approach of this text for upper-level undergraduates is to teach monetary economics using the classical paradigm of rational agents in a market setting. By teaching from first principles, the authors aim to instruct students not only in the monetary policies and institutions that exist today in the United States but also in what policies and institutions may or should exist tomorrow and elsewhere. The text builds on a simple, clear monetary model and applies this framework consistently to a wide variety of monetary questions. The authors have added in this second edition new material on speculative attacks on currencies, social security, currency boards, central banking alternatives, the payments system, and the Lucas model of price surprises. Discussions of many topics have been extended, presentations of data greatly expanded, and new exercises added.
Blackstone's Statutes On Commercial & Consumer Law 2012-2013 - Thryft
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Francis D. Rose | Oxford University Press

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This book is a comprehensive compilation of the laws related to commercial and consumer practices, making it an excellent resource for law students and professionals. The peer-reviewed content and trustworthiness of Blackstone's Statutes ensures accuracy, making it a reliable source for those seeking to broaden their knowledge on the subject.
Business Vocabulary in Use: Intermediate - Thryft
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Bill Mascull | Cambridge University Press

Business Vocabulary in Use: Intermediate

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This book is a valuable resource for anyone looking to enhance their business vocabulary. With clear explanations and practice exercises, it covers a wide range of business topics, making it a comprehensive guide for learners. It especially focuses on developing essential communication skills like meetings, negotiations, and presentations, ensuring that readers can effectively communicate in a professional setting. Whether you're a student, job seeker, or aspiring entrepreneur, this book is a must-have for your business journey.
How Brands Grow : What Marketers Don't Know - Thryft
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How Brands Grow is a must-read for anyone in the marketing industry. It challenges common marketing practices and provides evidence-based answers to questions that marketers ask every day. It is unique in that it presents tried and tested laws in a practical and easy-to-understand format. Users will appreciate gaining a deeper understanding of how advertising, promotions, and loyalty programs actually work, and will be able to apply this knowledge to grow their own brands effectively.
When The Knowledge-Creating Company (OUP; nearly 40,000 copies sold) appeared, it was hailed as a landmark work in the field of knowledge management. Now, Enabling Knowledge Creation ventures even further into this all-important territory, showing how firms can generate and nurture ideas by using the concepts introduced in the first book.Weaving together lessons from such international leaders as Siemens, Unilever, Skandia, and Sony, along with their own first-hand consulting experiences, the authors introduce knowledge enabling--the overall set of organizational activities that promote knowledge creation--and demonstrate its power to transform an organization's knowledge into value-creating actions. They describe the five key "knowledge enablers" and outline what it takes to instill a knowledge vision, manage conversations, mobilize knowledge activists, create the right context for knowledge creation, and globalize local knowledge.The authors stress that knowledge creation must be more than the exclusive purview of one individual--or designated "knowledge" officer. Indeed, it demands new roles and responsibilities for everyone in the organization--from the elite in the executive suite to the frontline workers on the shop floor. Whether an activist, a caring expert, or a corporate epistemologist who focuses on the theory of knowledge itself, everyone in an organization has a vital role to play in making "care" an integral part of the everyday experience; in supporting, nurturing, and encouraging microcommunities of innovation and fun; and in creating a shared space where knowledge is created, exchanged, and used for sustained, competitive advantage.This much-anticipated sequel puts practical tools into the hands of managers and executives who are struggling to unleash the power of knowledge in their organization.
Art of the Deal : Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market - Thryft
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An eye-opening look at collecting and investing in today’s art marketArt today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries within the art world have collapsed, and artists think ever more strategically about how to advance their careers. Art is no longer simply made, but packaged, sold, and branded. In Art of the Deal , Noah Horowitz exposes the inner workings of the contemporary art market, explaining how this unique economy came to be, how it works, and where it's headed. In a new postscript, Horowitz reflects on the market’s continued ascent as well as its most urgent challenges.
Understanding Management : The Social Science Foundations - Thryft
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Management is a fragmented and interdisciplinary area of study, with a lot of academic branches. Willman argues this tree is narrower at its roots, and these roots lie primarily in social science. Key to the purpose of the book is to present management theory as applied social science.Developed out of a core management course at Master's level, this book introduces the field to students who may have little prior knowledge of management. Willman interprets 'management' broadly to embrace the sub-disciplines of strategy, finance, accounting, marketing, organisational behaviour and operations management. The text aims to show how they arose and how they relate, thus engaging the reader in a little history.The book is integrative, in that it seeks to find common concerns in disparate literatures. It is also critical in that it seeks to comparatively evaluate contributions to the management field both in terms of theoretical contribution and practical impact. It is intended to be accessible to a range of readers, presenting technical materials in an informal way. Finally, it is introductory in that it assumes no previous knowledge of the academic management field.
Strategic Giving - The Art and Science of Philanthropy - Thryft
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"Strategic Giving" could be a great read for anyone interested in making a positive impact on the world through charitable giving. This book provides a comprehensive framework for developing a philanthropic strategy that can meet public needs while also expressing private beliefs and commitments. Readers will gain an understanding of the five essential elements of philanthropic strategy and learn how to integrate them for effective giving. This well-researched and thoughtful book is essential reading for donors, researchers, and anyone involved with the world of philanthropy.
IPO : A Global Guide - Thryft
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The guide explains, in a straightforward, jargon-free style, the pros and cons of turning private businesses into listed companies.
The External Control of Organizations : A Resource Dependence Perspective - Thryft
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Among the most widely cited books in the social sciences, The External Control of Organizations has long been required reading for any student of organization studies. The book, reissued on its 25th anniversary as part of the Stanford Business Classics series, includes a new preface written by Jeffrey Pfeffer, which examines the legacy of this influential work in current research and its relationship to other theories. The External Control of Organizations explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints. All organizations are dependent on the environment for their survival. As the authors contend, "it is the fact of the organization's dependence on the environment that makes the external constraint and control of organizational behavior both possible and almost inevitable." Organizations can either try to change their environments through political means or form interorganizational relationships to control or absorb uncertainty. This seminal book established the resource dependence approach that has informed so many other important organization theories.
The Power of News: The History of Reuters, 1849-1989 - Thryft
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If you're fascinated by the evolution of global communications and the pivotal role of news agencies in shaping our perception of events, "The Power of News: The History of Reuters, 1849-1989" is a compelling read. It's not just a history book; it's a mirror reflecting the revolution in information dissemination from the 19th century to the modern age, focusing on an organization that has witnessed—and reported—some of the world's most significant events. Donald Read's exploration gives a vivid look at how Reuters grew from a single telegraph office to a news empire, all while grappling with the challenges of maintaining speed and accuracy—a combination that remains essential in today's fast-paced information era.
The Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management - Thryft
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Peter Boxall, John Purcell, Patrick Wright  | Oxford University Press

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This book would be a valuable read for HR professionals, managers, and anyone interested in understanding the latest trends and research in Human Resource Management. The book is unique in that it brings together diverse perspectives from leading scholars worldwide, covering topics such as team management, employee engagement, and measuring outcomes. Its most distinctive feature is its comprehensive coverage of HRM, spanning from foundational principles to cutting-edge research. Overall, the Oxford Handbook of HRM is a must-read for anyone interested in the people management function of any organization.
If you're venturing into law or policy-making, this book could be a crucial companion. Brest and Krieger have meticulously blended statistical analysis with psychological insights, giving you a comprehensive toolkit to tackle complex issues. The methodical approach to problem-solving presented here can refine your judgment and help you avoid common pitfalls, equipping you for sharper, more effective decision-making.
Leadership And Management Development - Thryft
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Leadership And Management Development

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Leadership and Management Development is a comprehensive guide to building one's leadership and management skills. The book blends academic theory with practical examples from a diverse range of organizations, including both the not-for-profit and commercial sectors. The inclusion of reflective questions and problem-based scenarios makes this a valuable resource for students seeking to assess and develop their own skills. The chapters on ethics and diversity are particularly noteworthy for their insight into common challenges faced by leaders.