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Category : Bricklayers
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer
Author: The Garment Worker
Author: Constructing California
Author: Kimberly Johnston-DoddsPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Technical Assistance Guide for Federal Construction Contractors
Author: United States. Office of Federal Contract Compliance ProgramsPublisher:
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Bread Upon the Waters
Author: Rose PesottaPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780875461274
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Barons of Labor
Author: Michael KazinPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025205461X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
From the depression of the 1890s through World War I, construction tradesman held an important place in San Francisco's economic, political, and social life. Michael Kazin's award-winning study delves into how the city’s Building Trades Council (BTC) created, accumulated, used, and lost their power. He traces the rise of the BTC into a force that helped govern San Francisco, controlled its potential progress, and articulated an ideology that made sense of the changes sweeping the West and the country. Believing themselves the equals of officeholders and corporate managers, these working and retired craftsmen pursued and protected their own power while challenging conservatives and urban elites for the right to govern. What emerges is a long-overdue look at building trades as a force in labor history within the dramatic story of how the city's 25,000 building workers exercised power on the job site and within the halls of government, until the forces of reaction all but destroyed the BTC.
Organized Labor...
Author: Samuel GompersConstitution and Rules of Order
Author: Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Building trades
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Author: Richard RumeltPublisher: Currency
ISBN: 0307886239
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
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