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Surfing the Edge of Chaos

The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business

By: Richard Pascale,Mark Milleman,Linda Gioja

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Surfing the Edge of Chaos

The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business

By: Richard Pascale,Mark Milleman,Linda Gioja

Surfing the Edge of Chaos is a brilliant, powerful, and practical book about the parallels between business and nature—two fields that feature nonstop battles between the forces of tradition and the forces of transformation. It offers a bold new way of thinking about and responding to the personal and strategic challenges everyone in business faces these days.

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0609808834

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The Learning Edge

What Technology Can Do to Educate All Children

By: Alan Bain,Mark E. Weston

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The Learning Edge

What Technology Can Do to Educate All Children

By: Alan Bain,Mark E. Weston

After billions of dollars, thousands of studies, and immeasurable effort by educators at all levels, why is the performance of students and teachers so unaffected by technology? Moreover, what should be done to extract genuine benefit from the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution? In this groundbreaking book, technology and education experts Alan Bain and Mark Weston provide research-based evidence for how the widespread application of ICT can provide powerful learning opportunities that lead to lasting gains and achievement. They show how the integrated use of technology at all levels of the educational system can greatly expand collaborative learning opportunities by giving all educational stakeholders powerful problem-solving tools and solutions. The approaches presented here are grounded in over twenty years of experience working with classroom teachers, school leaders, association members, and policymakers.

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257

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Teachers College Press

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0807770892

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9780807770894

Cities Reducing Poverty

How Vibrant Communities Are Creating Comprehensive Solutions to the Most Complex Problems of Our Times

By: Mark Cabaj

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Cities Reducing Poverty

How Vibrant Communities Are Creating Comprehensive Solutions to the Most Complex Problems of Our Times

By: Mark Cabaj

This book explores the efforts of collaborative groups in six different Canadian cities as they work to reduce poverty, as part of Vibrant Communities, a cross-Canada effort of many cities to reduce poverty in Canada by creating partnerships that make use of the most important assets -- people, organizations, businesses, and governments. The six groups in this group are: a project that seeks to get long-term unemployed job seekers trained and transported to jobs across the sprawling region of Niagara; a coalition pressing Calgary City Council to pass (and maintain) a subsidized bus pass for people with low incomes; a grassroots network of citizens' partnership clubs in Montréal working to turn around a forgotten neighbourhood; an unusual collection of local organizations in Surrey working to get homeless day labourers back into the mainstream; a high-level roundtable of civic leaders in Hamilton mobilizing the community to make it the best place to raise a child; and a business-led group in Saint John that aims to reduce that city's poverty rate by one half.

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121

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BPS Books

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1926645987

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9781926645988

Human Resource Management in the Knowledge Economy

New Challenges, New Roles, New Capabilities

By: Mark L. Lengnick-Hall,Cynthia A. Lengnick-Hall

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Human Resource Management in the Knowledge Economy

New Challenges, New Roles, New Capabilities

By: Mark L. Lengnick-Hall,Cynthia A. Lengnick-Hall

This volume synthesizes thinking on knowledge management and intellectual capital from a broad range of sources and identifies how human resource management can make a value-added contribution.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1576751597

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Surfing the Edge of Chaos

The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business

By: Richard Pascale,Mark Milleman,Linda Gioja

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Surfing the Edge of Chaos

The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business

By: Richard Pascale,Mark Milleman,Linda Gioja

Every few years a book changes the way people think about a field. In psychology there is Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence. In science, James Gleick's Chaos. In economics and finance, Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street. And in business there is now Surfing the Edge of Chaos by Richard T. Pascale, Mark Millemann, and Linda Gioja. Surfing the Edge of Chaos is a brilliant, powerful, and practical book about the parallels between business and nature -- two fields that feature nonstop battles between the forces of tradition and the forces of transformation. It offers a bold new way of thinking about and responding to the personal and strategic challenges everyone in business faces these days. Pascale, Millemann, and Gioja argue that because every business is a living system (not just as metaphor but in reality), the four cornerstone principles of the life sciences are just as true for organizations as they are for species. These principles are: Equilibrium is death. Innovation usually takes place on the edge of chaos. Self-organization and emergence occur naturally. Organizations can only be disturbed, not directed. Using intriguing, in-depth case studies (Sears Roebuck, Monsanto, Royal Dutch Shell, the U.S. Army, British Petroleum, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems), Surfing the Edge of Chaos shows that in business, as in nature, there are no permanent winners. There are just companies and species that either react to change and evolve, or get left behind and become extinct. Some examples: Parallels between Yellowstone National Park and Sears show why equilibrium is a dangerous place in both nature and business. How Monsanto used a "strange attractor" to move to the edge of chaos to alter its identity and transform its culture. The unlikely story of how the U.S. Army embraced the ideas of self-organization and emergence. Why the misapplication of linear logic (reengineering a business or attempting to eradicate predators in nature) will inevitably fail. The stories in Surfing the Edge of Chaos are of pioneering efforts that show how the principles of living systems produce bottom-line impact and profound transformational change. What's really striking about them, though, is their reality. They are about success and failure, breakthroughs and dead-ends. In short, they are like the business you are in and the challenges you face.

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Surfing the Edge of Chaos

Surfing the Edge of Chaos

The Learning Edge

The Learning Edge

Cities Reducing Poverty

Cities Reducing Poverty

Human Resource Management in the Knowledge Economy

Human Resource Management in the Knowledge Economy

Surfing the Edge of Chaos

Surfing the Edge of Chaos

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