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Leadership That Matters: The Critical Factors for Making a Difference in People's Lives and Organizations' Success Marshall Sashkin, Molly G. Sashkin
 Leadership That Matters promotes leadership that not only improves productivity and performance but also makes a positive difference in the lives of organization members. "Transformational leadership" is based on three personal characteristics, as well as on the organization?s culture. Using this new model of leadership that transforms individuals from subordinate followers into self-directed leaders, the authors discuss how to develop the required characteristics and construct an appropriate culture to bring about desired changes....
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Economic Dynamism in the Asia-Pacific: The Growth of Integration and Competitiveness (Pacific Studies (London, England).) Grahame F. Thompson
 Economic Dynamism in the Asia Pacific examines the rise of the importance of the Pacific as an economic region, the sources of that rise, its future development and the consequences for the global economy. The chapters establish the extent to which the Asia-Pacific has developed as a regional system through an analysis of the patterns of integration of the principal economies. The volume reflects on the relationship between the key individual economies of Japan, Korea, China and the United States,and the rest of the regional economy. The book also discusses the consequences of this dynamic regional economy on the performance and governance of the international economic system....
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Constructing a Colonial People: Puerto Rico and the United States, 1898-1932 Pedro A. Caban, Pedro A. Caban
 Upon acquiring Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898, the United States moved quickly to convert this island nation into a strategic military base and lucrative investment site for American business, from which it could assert its hegemeony in the Caribbean. The Americanization of Puerto Rico's people and its political and legal institutions was pivotal to U.S. expansionism in the region. But the "Americanization" process was fraught with contradictions, provoking a nationalist uprising and an independence movement, and generating deep and enduring political divisions among Puerto Ricans. Puerto Rico has been a territorial possession of the United States for over one hundred years. As a strategic insular possession and guardian of the Panama Canal, a lucrative offshore investment site for U.S. multinational corporations, and a long-standing source of labor power, Puerto Rico has had an important role in American history since 1898. This book provides a new and comprehensive......
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Sabotage Emile Pouget, Arturo M. Giovannitti
 Sabotage, originally published in 1913, covers the types of sabotage and how the capitalists and workers use it in its various forms. The preface by Kerr highlights the debate in the Socialist Party on ?Section Six? ? the expulsion of anymember from the Socialist Party if that member commits a crime or advocates the use of force or violence. What is Sabotage? Sabotage is: A. Any conscious and willful act on the part of one or more workers intended to slacken and reduce the output of production in the industrial field, or to restrict trade and reduce the profits in the commercial field, in order to secure from their employers better conditions or to enforce those promised or maintain those already prevailing, when no other way of redress is open. B. Any skillful operation on the machinery of production intended not to destroy it or permanently render it defective, but only to temporarily disable it and to put it out of running condition in order to make......
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The Macro Economy Today+ DiscoverEcon Code Card+ Student Problem Sets Bradley R Schiller
 Brad Schiller's text, The Macroeconomy Today, 9/e, is noted for its three great strengths: readability, policy orientation, and pedagogy. His accessible writing style engages students and brings some of the excitement of domestic and global economic news into the classroom. Schiller emphasizes how policymakers must choose between government intervention and market reliance to resolve the core issues of what, how, and for whom to produce. This strategic choice is highlighted throughout the full range of micro, macro, and international issues. Every chapter ends with a policy issue that emphasizes the markets vs. government dilemma. And Schiller packs his chapters with the facts of economic life-real stories, not fables. This is a book that teaches economics in a relevant context and with careful pedagogy. Schiller 9e is for students motivated by real-world policy issues who want to become economically literate. This is a book students actually READ. Schiller is also known......
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