Modern References to Aid in Organizational Improvement and Change A number of excellent recent books have addressed themselves to helping executives cope with and guide organizational improvement and change in the era of QMS. One of the most useful of these books is The Executive Guide to Improvement and Change by Beecroft, Duffy, and Moran (2003). ... This book is designed to help managers and executives understand the many different approaches to organizational change and improvement. ... The book covers a variety of techniques ranging from auditing to teamwork, Six Sigma to Customer S...

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Warren Blank's book defines the nine natural laws of leadership that a person should posses to help their business life operate effectively. Blank begins the book defining what leadership really means. ... Leadership is also defined as the art of influencing, directing, guiding, and controlling others in such a way as to obtain their willing obedience, confidence, respect and loyal cooperation in accomplishment of an objective. ... Finally, the book talked about leadership as a self-referral process. ... This is very unfortunate since there is very good information in this book but it...

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For example, the compensation differential among the guides shaped people's beliefs about their relative status in the expedition. ... Ever since Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air was published. The book turned into a TV movie; mountaineers hit the lecture circuit in large numbers; and inevitably, the notion of scaling the peaks, reaching the summit, and bagging the big ones began to infect the business lexicon. ... I think the book Into Thin Air was an important book for managers. ... Managers will also realize from this book that they must take great care to separate facts from ass...

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If, as our text book states, "A 25-year study by the Gallup Organization of 80,000 leaders found that the greatest leaders in the world don't share a common set of characteristics " (p. 174), then how can we determine if a pastor has what it takes to be both a great preacher and a great leader? ...

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For instance, the book by Williams (2009) painted changes caused by technology as inevitable and impactful. ... This information is useful in determining the instructional behaviors based on the best practices – cooperative learning, project-based learning, problem-based approach, instructor's learning of technologies, instructor acting as a guide or coach, concentrating on teaching skills as well as content and individualized instruction (Prensky, 2010). ...

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"Small businesses, like any others, have to look at diversity from an internal and external perspective," asserts Anita Rowe, diversity consultant and co-author of Managing Diversity: A Complete Desk Reference and Planning Guide. ... Author, Kanu Kogod, in a book titled, The Workshop for Managing Diversity, identifies main sources of potential diversity problems in the workplace and offers suggestions about turning diversity into a positive asset that enhances productivity and effectiveness. ...

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"Small businesses, like any others, have to look at diversity from an internal and external perspective," asserts Anita Rowe, diversity consultant and co-author of Managing Diversity: A Complete Desk Reference and Planning Guide. ... Author, Kanu Kogod, in a book titled, The Workshop for Managing Diversity, identifies main sources of potential diversity problems in the workplace and offers suggestions about turning diversity into a positive asset that enhances productivity and effectiveness. ...

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