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Ideas Are Free

How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations

By: Alan G Robinson,Dean M Schroeder

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Ideas Are Free

How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations

By: Alan G Robinson,Dean M Schroeder

The fact is, because they're the ones actually doing the day-to-day work front-line employees see a great many problems and opportunities that their managers don't. But most organizations do very poorly at tapping into this extraordinary potential source of revenue-enhancing, savings-generating ideas. Ideas Are Free sets out a roadmap for totally integrating ideas and idea management into the way companies are structured and operate. Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder draw on their ten years experience with more than three hundred organizations in fifteen countries to show precisely how to design a system to take advantage of this virtually free, perpetually renewing font of innovation. Robinson and Schroeder deal with two fundamental principles of managing ideas that are highly counterintuitive - the importance of going after small ideas rather than big ones, and the problems with the most common reward schemes and how to avoid them. They describe how to make ideas part of everyone's job, and how to set up and run an effective process for handling ideas-how to take a good idea system and make it great. And they show how good idea systems have a profound impact on an organization's culture. At the end of each chapter they provide "Guerrilla Tactics for the Idea Revolutionary", actions to promote ideas that any manager can take on his or her own authority, and that require little or no resources.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1609943570

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9781609943578

The Idea-Driven Organization

Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas

By: Alan G. Robinson,Dean M. Schroeder

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The Idea-Driven Organization

Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas

By: Alan G. Robinson,Dean M. Schroeder

In their much-anticipated sequel to the bestseller Ideas Are Free (over 50,000 copies sold), Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder explain that employee ideas are no longer a "nice-to-have" but rather the very lifeblood of competitiveness, culture, and strategy. Their new book shows how to align every part of the organization around generating and implementing ideas at the front line.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1626561249

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9781626561243

Practical Innovation in Government

How Front-Line Leaders Are Transforming Public-Sector Organizations

By: Alan G Robinson,Dean M. Schroeder

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Practical Innovation in Government

How Front-Line Leaders Are Transforming Public-Sector Organizations

By: Alan G Robinson,Dean M. Schroeder

This book is a comprehensive guide to an exciting new approach that managers at any level can use to transform their corners of government. Whether people want more government or less, everyone wants an efficient government. Traditional thinking is that this requires a government to be run more like a business. But a government is not a business, and this approach merely replaces old problems with new ones. In their six-year, five-country study of seventy-seven government organizations-ranging from small departments to entire states-Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder found that the predominant private-sector approaches to improvement don't work well in the public sector, while practices that are rare in the private sector prove highly effective. The highest performers they studied had attained levels of efficiency that rivaled the best private-sector companies. Rather than management making the improvements, as is the norm in the private sector, these high-performers focused on front-line-driven improvement, where most of the change activity was led by supervisors and low-level managers who unleashed the creativity and ideas of their employees to improve their operations bit by bit every day. You'll discover how Denver's Department of Excise and Licenses reduced wait times from an hour and forty minutes to just seven minutes; how the Washington State Patrol garage tripled its productivity and became a national benchmark; how a K8 school in New Brunswick, Canada, boosted the percentage of students reading at the appropriate age level from 22 percent to 78 percent; and much more.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1523001801

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Little Caesar

A Biography of Edward G. Robinson

By: Alan L. Gansberg

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Little Caesar

A Biography of Edward G. Robinson

By: Alan L. Gansberg

In this fascinating biography, Alan L. Gansberg reveals the man behind the public face, his many memorable roles among more than 100 films, and his struggle to find steady work in Hollywood again.

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Scarecrow Press

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081084950X

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9780810849501

Principles of Animal Behavior, 4th Edition

By: Lee Alan Dugatkin

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Principles of Animal Behavior, 4th Edition

By: Lee Alan Dugatkin

Since the last edition of this definitive textbook was published in 2013, much has happened in the field of animal behavior. In this fourth edition, Lee Alan Dugatkin draws on cutting-edge new work not only to update and expand on the studies presented, but also to reinforce the previous editions’ focus on ultimate and proximate causation, as well as the book’s unique emphasis on natural selection, learning, and cultural transmission. The result is a state-of-the-art textbook on animal behavior that explains underlying concepts in a way that is both scientifically rigorous and accessible to students. Each chapter in the book provides a sound theoretical and conceptual basis upon which the empirical studies rest. A completely new feature in this edition are the Cognitive Connection boxes in Chapters 2–17, designed to dig deep into the importance of the cognitive underpinnings to many types of behaviors. Each box focuses on a specific issue related to cognition and the particular topic covered in that chapter. As Principles of Animal Behavior makes clear, the tapestry of animal behavior is created from weaving all of these components into a beautiful whole. With Dugatkin’s exquisitely illustrated, comprehensive, and up-to-date fourth edition, we are able to admire that beauty anew.

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University of Chicago Press

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022644841X

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9780226448411

Tales from the Boilermaker Country

By: Doug Griffiths,Alan Karpick,Tom Schott

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Tales from the Boilermaker Country

By: Doug Griffiths,Alan Karpick,Tom Schott

Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant and triumphant, often amazing, but always uniquely human. Thus describes the stories emanating from the proud athletic tradition of Purdue University -- nearly 200 stories, as a matter of fact. Tales from Boilermaker Country includes stories about some of the most colorful characters in the school's past, such as Mike Alstott, Lin Dunn, Gene Keady, George King, Ward "Piggy" Lambert, Jack Mollenkopf, Michael "Scooby" Scearce, and Moose Skowron, to name a few. Tales from Boilermaker Country takes you back to the early days and the origins of Boilermaker sports, when the team traveled by train, and continues through the digital age, when Heisman Trophy hopeful Drew Brees was promoted for the award in cyberspace. The stories in this help to explain why fans of this Big Ten school are as loyal as they come -- and why the history of Boilermaker sports makes it one of the most interesting stories in all of major collegiate athletics.

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1582613257

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9781582613253

Communism in Hollywood

The Moral Paradoxes of Testimony, Silence, and Betrayal

By: Alan Casty

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Communism in Hollywood

The Moral Paradoxes of Testimony, Silence, and Betrayal

By: Alan Casty

Much has been written about the history of Communism in America, including the Party's appeal to many in the Hollywood community of the 1930s and 40s. While several books have offered standard accounts of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings and the blacklist in the entertainment industry, Alan Casty provides a fresh and provocative perspective. In Communism in Hollywood: The Moral Paradoxes of Testimony, Silence, and Betrayal, Casty challenges the absolute dualisms of the period: cowardly informers and heroic martyrs. Drawing on newly available material, Casty illustrates the control by the international Communist movement and the role of the Hollywood Communists themselves in fomenting the intense hostilities of the period. Casty juxtaposes the actions and statements of those who testified and 'named names' before HUAC with Communists who refused to testify and remained silent about the atrocities of the Soviet Union. By providing a scrupulous account of the full scope of the Communist Party in Hollywood, this book presents a more accurate picture of the moral quandaries faced during this dark period in American history.

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0810869497

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John Locke and the Eighteenth-Century Divines

By: Alan P.F. Sell

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John Locke and the Eighteenth-Century Divines

By: Alan P.F. Sell

Where Christian apologetics are concerned, is Locke to be endorsed, repaired, modified, or forsaken?' The diverse answers given to this question by the eighteenth-century divines form the complex subject of this book, which offers the first detailed account of his influence upon the religious thinkers of the eighteenth century. The work is based upon a thorough search of relevant materials, many of them scarce and widely dispersed. But the question is still relevant three centuries after Locke's death, and Professor Sell's objective in this volume is not only historical. From this study of the reception of Locke by the divines there emerge pressing questions about method, reason, faith, revelation, and authority which need to be addressed by those who would attempt Christian apologetics as Christianity's third millennium approaches. Although this book stands in its own right, it can also be read as a companion volume to the author's Philosophical Idealism and Christian Belief (University of Wales Press, 1995). Together, the two books represent soundings taken in important Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment intellectual traditions. The question whether an apologetic method may be found which avoids the pitfalls exposed both by the examination of Locke and the idealists, and which circumvents latter-day embargoes upon Christian apologetics, will be addressed in a third and final volume.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1597528714

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9781597528719

Michael Curtiz

A Life in Film

By: Alan K. Rode

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Michael Curtiz

A Life in Film

By: Alan K. Rode

Academy Award--winning director Michael Curtiz (1886--1962) -- whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) -- was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his unprecedented twenty-seven year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, westerns, musicals, war epics, romances, historical dramas, horror films, tearjerkers, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces. The director's staggering output of 180 films surpasses that of the legendary John Ford and exceeds the combined total of films directed by George Cukor, Victor Fleming, and Howard Hawks. In the first biography of this colorful, instinctual artist, Alan K. Rode illuminates the life and work of one of the film industry's most complex figures. He begins by exploring the director's early life and career in his native Hungary, revealing how Curtiz shaped the earliest days of silent cinema in Europe as he acted in, produced, and directed scores of films before immigrating to the United States in 1926. In Hollywood, Curtiz earned a reputation for his explosive tantrums, his difficulty communicating in English, and his disregard for the well-being of others. However, few directors elicited more memorable portrayals from their casts, and ten different actors delivered Oscar-nominated performances under his direction. In addition to his study of the director's remarkable legacy, Rode investigates Curtiz's dramatic personal life, discussing his enduring creative partnership with his wife, screenwriter Bess Meredyth, as well as his numerous affairs and children born of his extramarital relationships. This meticulously researched biography provides a nuanced understanding of one of the most talented filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813173965

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9780813173962

The 1950s

By: Richard Alan Schwartz

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The 1950s

By: Richard Alan Schwartz

Traces the history of the United States during the 1950s through such primary sources as memoirs, letters, contemporary journalism, and official documents.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108761

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9781438108766

Jerusalem, Take One!

Memoirs of a Jewish Filmmaker

By: Alan Rosenthal

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Jerusalem, Take One!

Memoirs of a Jewish Filmmaker

By: Alan Rosenthal

The British author shares his memories of working as a documentary filmmaker in Israel during the last 40 years. His stories span the Eichmann trial, the development of Israel Television, the Yom Kippur Wars, the Intifada, and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

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SIU Press

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0809323125

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9780809323128

Howard The Duck

The Complete Collection Vol. 4

By: Bill Mantlo,Steve Skeates,Alan Kupperberg

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Howard The Duck

The Complete Collection Vol. 4

By: Bill Mantlo,Steve Skeates,Alan Kupperberg

Howard the Duck's classic adventures conclude in this riotous volume! First, Howie and Bev face the geriatric menace of the Grey Panther, and do that voodoo that they do so well! But will a Christmas miracle show Howard it's a wonderful life - or quite the opposite?! He'll win a fortune - and lose a fortune! There will be animal antics with the Gopher and - Spider-Ham?! And Howard will join She-Hulk as they wrap their heads around the Cosmic Squish Principle! Plus: Two Spider-Man team-ups for the price of one! But what the heck are the Elf with a Gun and the Circus of Crime doing here? Waaaugh! Collecting HOWARD THE DUCK MAGAZINE #8-9, MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #96, HOWARD THE DUCK (1976) #32-33 and SENSATIONAL SHE-HULK #14-17 - plus material from BIZARRE ADVENTURES #34, MARVEL TALES (1964) #237 and SPIDER-MAN TEAM-UP #5.

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302499823

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9781302499822

Frank's 500

The Thriller Film Guide

By: Alan Frank

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Frank's 500

The Thriller Film Guide

By: Alan Frank

Since the coming of the talkies, the thriller has been the film-goer's favourite genre - world-wide. This guide to 500 best English language thrillers contains a brief plot summary of each film, and contemporary and later reviews. A star-rating system to assess each movie at a glance is provided. Movies by Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola, and performances by James Cagney, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Uma Thurman, Brad Pitt and John Travolta are included. The author adds his often controversial views.

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0713427280

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Ideas are Free

How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations

By: Alan G. Robinson,Dean M. Schroeder

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Ideas are Free

How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations

By: Alan G. Robinson,Dean M. Schroeder

Based on extensive research with hundreds of companies around the world and in every major field, this practical book shows how to draw the most useful ideas from frontline employees and, in the process, significantly improve the atmosphere--and success quotient--of any organization.

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1576752828

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ABC Civil Aircraft Markings 2001

By: Alan James Wright

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ABC Civil Aircraft Markings 2001

By: Alan James Wright

Covers the whole civil aviation scene regarding aircraft registered in Britain, as well as those overseas airliners likely to be seen in British skies.

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Bakeur's Dozen

By: Alan Cameron Roberts

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Bakeur's Dozen

By: Alan Cameron Roberts

Lord Reynolds, heir apparent to the sixteen-century Reynolds Castle in Southern England, is about to lose his fortune and status to a tax collector. A tax collector can do more with a pen than your ancestors ever did with a sword, says Lady Margaret Reynolds. Desperate for the money to preserve his familys 500-year heritage, Reynolds opts for illegal measures as he hires petty thieves to steal a painting by the famed artist Titian. The plan itself is a work of art. Reynolds has already hired art forger, Anton Bakeur, to make twelve copies of the Titian piece, to be sold throughout the world, making back the money Reynolds needs to keep his family castle. However, things go wrong when the petty thieves steal not the Titian but a Michelangelo, recently donated to the museum by a Mafia don. Don Carlo Manicotti is in exile in Sicily and hopes his donation will sway public opinion and allow him to return to the United States. The disappearance of his donation, however, doesnt help his cause. Now, in the name of family honorand personal prideLord Reynolds must outwit not only the art world but also the police and murderous mafia.

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1491792426

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Principles of Animal Behavior, 4th Edition

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Tales from the Boilermaker Country

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Communism in Hollywood

Communism in Hollywood

John Locke and the Eighteenth-Century Divines

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Jerusalem, Take One!

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ABC Civil Aircraft Markings 2001

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