A follow-up to his best-selling E-Learning, Beyond E-Learning explains the most current thinking on how organizations learn and apply what they know to be successful, and explores the increasingly important role that technology plays, not as an end in itself but as a vital means to get there. The book also provides a clear path for helping to integrate learning—including e-learning—knowledge management, and performance support, and will help training professionals and the organizations they serve go beyond common myths and misconceptions about training and e-learning, focus training/learning activities directly on organizational know-how, and implement a framework that can (at last) be a catalyst for true organizational learning.
The key to success in any organization is management and leadership. But effective management is elusive to many CPA firms because the partners are neither trained nor skilled at it. This monograph provides firms with Best Practices for how to manage a CPA firm and how to structure the leadership group.A must-read for partners who want to run their firms like a real business, this monograph offers an exhaustive examination of the Managing Partner role. Detailed job descriptions for management positions are provided. Also addressed are firm governance issues such as how decisions are made, how voting works, the role of committees, the role of a partner, partner accountability, communications and strategic planning.
Internet and intranet technologies offer tremendous opportunities to bring learning into the mainstream of business. E-Learning outlines how to develop an organization-wide learning strategy based on cutting-edge technologies and explains the dramatic strategic, organizational, and technology issues involved. Written for professionals responsible for leading the revolution in workplace learning, E-Learning takes a broad, strategic perspective on corporate learning. This wake-up call for executives everywhere discusses: • Requirements for building a viable e-learning strategy • How online learning will change the nature of training organizations • Knowledge management and other new forms of e-learning Marc J. Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Hillsborough, NJ) is an independent consultant specializing in knowledge management, e-learning strategy and the reinvention of training. Prior to this, he was a senior direction and kowledge management field leader for consulting firm DiamondCluster International.
A twisted thriller of loss, betrayal and violence. Broken lives collide against a harsh cityscape in this haunting tale of duplicity. Detective Ash Aiken, a burned out cop, reinstated, tracks the bloody trail of a serial killer in the most controversial manhunt to hit his beat. Though dedicated to his work, he's tormented over the wife and boy who ran out on him. Saddled with a deceitful partner, Aiken looks to protect his turf by hiring a private investigator to help find his family. But the PI is caught in his own lethal web, targeted for death by a vengeful crime boss. As the killer continues his deadly rampage, he falls for a woman tormented by her own bitter past, willing to destroy anyone who gets in the way of her wants and desires.
When CPA firms create a vision, reduce it to goals, put both in writing, assign responsibilities and establish a means of accountability for achieving the goals, they are much more likely to achieve their vision than without this process. Perhaps more than any other aspect of CPA firm management, strategic planning is acknowledged by firms as both critically important to their success and very difficult to implement. This monograph captures the proprietary approach used by Marc Rosenberg, for over 20 years, in guiding CPA firms in strategic planning. Two overarching goals have driven Marc's approach: keep it simple and GET RESULTS.
CPA firms have long searched for the key to unlocking the secrets of practicedevelopment. This book teaches growth-minded firms time-honored tactics thatstill work, how to spend marketing dollars wisely and outpace the competitionwhile embracing bold new ideas. Featuring proprietary methods, documentation, and case studies, it presents cutting-edge advice from three experts who areconsistently acknowledged by Accounting Today as among the Top 100 MostInfluential People in the fiel
The consciousness raising result of shared experiences and excursions toward Enlightenment. A journey of the mind through a ten year experience of studies in practical philosophy, meditation and sailing with friends, family and alone aboard a small sailboat on Long Island Sound.
Teachers the world over are discovering the importance and benefits of incorporating popular culture into the music classroom. The cultural prevalence and the students' familiarity with recorded music, videos, games, and other increasingly accessible multimedia materials help enliven course content and foster interactive learning and participation. Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom: Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube provides ideas and techniques for teaching music classes using elements of popular culture that resonate with students' everyday lives. From popular songs and genres to covers, mixes, and mashups; from video games such as Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero to television shows like American Idol, this exciting collection offers pedagogical models for incorporating pop culture and its associated technologies into a wide variety of music courses. Biamonte has collected well-rounded essays that consider a variety of applications. After an introduction, the essays are organized in 3 sections. The first addresses general tools and technology that can be incorporated into almost any music class: sound-mixing techniques and the benefits of using iPods and YouTube. The middle section uses popular songs, video games, or other aspects of pop culture to demonstrate music-theory topics or to develop ear-training and rhythmic skills. The final section examines the musical, lyrical, or visual content in popular songs, genres, or videos as a point of departure for addressing broader issues and contexts. Each chapter contains notes and a bibliography, and two comprehensive appendixes list popular song examples for teaching harmony, melody, and rhythm. Two indexes cross-reference the material by title and by general subject. While written with college and secondary-school teachers in mind, the methods and materials presented here can be adapted to any educational level.
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