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Managing Value in Organisations

New Learning, Management, and Business Models

By: Mr Donal Carroll

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Managing Value in Organisations

New Learning, Management, and Business Models

By: Mr Donal Carroll

The song of organisational change goes: 'Ready or not, here I come. You can’t hide...' But is change collapsonomics - everything - or have some things not changed? Managing Value in Organisations argues that traditional business thinking has produced low trust with high cost in increased disengagement: the 100 year old management model still accrues organisational debt, the business model privileges producers, and the learning model pretends individual learning produces collective learning. All are now barriers to development. Working with five organisations, Donal Carroll reinvents the management model to multiply trust, the business model for more complex customer value, and learning model for significant collective learning. He provides evidence that together, these get organisations to their next stage of development faster. In a climate of perceived increasing uncertainty and 'more for less' it invites organisations to move from default models and choose their models to 'live on purpose'. This applied business research has many new ideas: value creating research method, three new models, 'techniques' for organisations to self-assess and construct their next stage, as well as 'fecund argument, productive interference, organisational orphans' and 'facing down Facebook '. It invites readers on a risky narrative, testing one idea in five organisations, over one year through two journeys - the organisations’ and writer’s. A different business book, it seeks to capture the 'poetry and plumbing' excitement of management innovation. Managers at every level, coaches, consultants, business scholars, researchers, anyone seeking sustainable improvement, or who thinks the impossible can't be reached will find something here.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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1409460428

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9781409460428

Innovating Professional Services

Transforming Value and Efficiency

By: Mr Alastair Ross

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Innovating Professional Services

Transforming Value and Efficiency

By: Mr Alastair Ross

Innovating Professional Services provides a practical and detailed guide for change agents and leaders who are seeking to transform their firm’s performance through innovation. Alastair Ross draws heavily on his 10 years of applying best practice techniques that created measurable improvements for leading law, business service and consulting firms. Multiple case studies are used to help demonstrate the opportunities - and challenges - of driving major improvement through innovation. Read this book to see how it is possible to increase client value and reduce cost.

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299

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472427912

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9781472427915

80 Not Out: My Favourite Cricket Memories

A Life in Cricket

By: Dickie Bird,Mr H D Bird

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80 Not Out: My Favourite Cricket Memories

A Life in Cricket

By: Dickie Bird,Mr H D Bird

Hardly a week goes by without Dickie Bird visiting a county or Test match arena where he can keep up to date with all that is happening in the cricket world, while at the same time taking the opportunity to reflect, in the company of old friends and acquaintances, on his own colourful contribution to the sport that lasted for over half a century. Dickie remains the most famous umpire of them all and is still highly respected throughout the world. A lovable eccentric with a joyful sense of fun, he decided, as he approached his eightieth birthday, to recall the highlights of his life in cricket, while also providing an illuminating insight into what he has been up to since his retirement.

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1444769626

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9781444769623

Resurrection Science

Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things

By: M. R. O'Connor

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Resurrection Science

Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things

By: M. R. O'Connor

**A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 ** **A Christian Science Monitor Top Ten Book of September** In a world dominated by people and rapid climate change, species large and small are increasingly vulnerable to extinction. In Resurrection Science, journalist M. R. O'Connor explores the extreme measures scientists are taking to try and save them, from captive breeding and genetic management to de-extinction. Paradoxically, the more we intervene to save species, the less wild they often become. In stories of sixteenth-century galleon excavations, panther-tracking in Florida swamps, ancient African rainforests, Neanderthal tool-making, and cryogenic DNA banks, O'Connor investigates the philosophical questions of an age in which we "play god" with earth's biodiversity. Each chapter in this beautifully written book focuses on a unique species--from the charismatic northern white rhinoceros to the infamous passenger pigeon--and the people entwined in the animals' fates. Incorporating natural history and evolutionary biology with conversations with eminent ethicists, O'Connor's narrative goes to the heart of the human enterprise: What should we preserve of wilderness as we hurtle toward a future in which technology is present in nearly every aspect of our lives? How can we co-exist with species when our existence and their survival appear to be pitted against one another?

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466879327

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9781466879324

The U.S. Personal Saving Rate

By: Mr.Sam Ouliaris,Ms.Celine Rochon

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The U.S. Personal Saving Rate

By: Mr.Sam Ouliaris,Ms.Celine Rochon

This paper develops a time series model for aggregate consumption to predict the U.S. personal saving rate. It then uses the model to test whether there has been a structural break in consumption behavior because of the 2008 financial crisis. Before the crisis, the personal saving rate was trending downwards. However, in 2008 there was a significant rise in the saving rate that continued until the end of 2012, suggesting a permanent change in household behavior. To assess this issue formally, the unknown parameters of the model are estimated using data for 1961Q1-2007Q4, a period which precedes the crisis. The model is then used to predict the saving rate from 2008Q1 onwards and to assess whether the rise in the saving rate after 2008 was due to sizable, but transitory, income/wealth shocks or to changes in the underlying elasticities between saving and its determinants (hence structural). The statistical evidence suggests there was no structural break in the household saving behavior, implying that the rise in the saving rate during 2008-2012 was caused by the negative shocks to income, employment and wealth. This result explains why the saving rate resumed its decline in 2013, as real disposable income, employment and net worth recovered. Assuming that the real growth in these determinants remains strong, the estimated model predicts continued negative pressures on the current account deficit and further external imbalances attributable to the U.S. household sector.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484360982

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9781484360989

Dissecting Saving Dynamics

Measuring Wealth, Precautionary, and Credit Effects

By: Mr.Christopher Carroll,Mr.Martin Sommer,Mr.Jiri Slacalek

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Dissecting Saving Dynamics

Measuring Wealth, Precautionary, and Credit Effects

By: Mr.Christopher Carroll,Mr.Martin Sommer,Mr.Jiri Slacalek

We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate’s long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s - 2007), and recent substantial increase (2008 - 2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious ‘buffer stock’ model of optimal consumption in the presence of labor income uncertainty and credit constraints. Saving in the model is affected by the gap between ‘target’ and actual wealth, with the target wealth determined by credit conditions and uncertainty. An estimated structural version of the model suggests that increased credit availability accounts for most of the saving rate’s long-term decline, while fluctuations in net wealth and uncertainty capture the bulk of the business-cycle variation.

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International Monetary Fund

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1475505698

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Change and Continuity in the 2016 Elections

By: Mr John Aldrich,Jamie L. Carson,Brad T. Gomez,Mr David Rohde

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Change and Continuity in the 2016 Elections

By: Mr John Aldrich,Jamie L. Carson,Brad T. Gomez,Mr David Rohde

Is America in the midst of an electoral transformation? What were the sources of Trump's victory in 2016, and how do they differ from Republican coalitions of the past? Does his victory signal a long-term positive trajectory for Republicans' chances in presidential elections? Change and Continuity in the 2016 Elections attempts to answer those questions by analyzing and explaining the voting behavior in the most recent election, as well as setting the results in the context of larger trends and patterns in elections studies. New co-author Jamie L. Carson brings years of congressional and elect.

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449

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CQ Press

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1544320280

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9781544320281

Terms of Trade Shocks and the Current Account

By: Mr.Paul Cashin,Mr.C. John McDermott

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Terms of Trade Shocks and the Current Account

By: Mr.Paul Cashin,Mr.C. John McDermott

This paper examines the relationship between terms of trade shocks, private saving, and the current account position. The relationship between these variables is theoretically ambiguous: an adverse transitory terms of trade shock can either induce a deterioration or an improvement in the current account, depending on whether the resulting income effects are greater or less than the resulting substitution effects. The substitution effects involve both intertemporally substituting consumption and intratemporally substituting consumption between importables and nontradables. The relative strength of these substitution effects is estimated using data for five OECD countries during 1970/95; both are found to exert large and significant effects on the current account balance.

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145197504X

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Book's by Mr Donal Carroll

Managing Value in Organisations

Managing Value in Organisations

Innovating Professional Services

Innovating Professional Services

80 Not Out: My Favourite Cricket Memories

80 Not Out: My Favourite Cricket Memories

Resurrection Science

Resurrection Science

The U.S. Personal Saving Rate

The U.S. Personal Saving Rate

Dissecting Saving Dynamics

Dissecting Saving Dynamics

Change and Continuity in the 2016 Elections

Change and Continuity in the 2016 Elections

Terms of Trade Shocks and the Current Account

Terms of Trade Shocks and the Current Account

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