Author: Publisher:
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Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Research Report
Author: Personnel Literature
Author: Summary of Active Awards and Completed Projects of the Division of Policy Research and Analysis
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.). Division of Policy Research and AnalysisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy policy
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Project Management
Author: Peter W. G. MorrisPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191629383
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Project Management presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40 scholars to chart the development of the subject over the last 50 years or more as an area of increasing practical and academic interest. It suggests we could be entering an emerging 'third wave' of analysis and interpretation following its early technical and operational beginnings and the subsequent shift to a focus on projects and their management. Topics dealt with include: the historical evolution of the subject; its theoretical base; professionalism; business and societal context; strategy; organization; governance; innovation; overruns; risk; information management; procurement; relationships and trust; knowledge management; practice and teams. This handbook is of particular relevance to those interested in the research issues underlying project management.
Leading Change
Author: James O'ToolePublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345402545
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"[An] important new book . . .Mr. O'Toole puts soul and values squarely back into a vital topic, leadership." --Tom Peters The New York Times Book Review "A deeply philosophical and eminently practical study of leadership as change." --James MacGregor Burns Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, and author of Leadership Current management philosophy advocates an outmoded Machiavellian approach to running organizations: Leaders are told in countless books that they can only accomplish their goals by being tough, manipulative, dictatorial, or paternalistic as the situation requires. In Leading Change, noted management theorist James O'Toole proposes a provocative new vision of leadership in the business world--a vision of leadership rooted in moral values and a consistent display of respect for all followers. As O'Toole brilliantly demonstrates, values-based leadership is not only fair and just, it is also highly effective in today's complex organizations. When leaders truly believe that their prime goal is the welfare of their followers, they get results. The finest leaders--from political giants like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln to contemporary CEOs like Max De Pree and James Houghton--have always shared leadership with their followers. They create organizations that encourage change and self-reevaluation; they foster an atmosphere of open-mindedness and fresh thinking, in which assumptions can be challenged and goals reassessed. Grounded in the ideas of moral philosophy, Leading Change powerfully transcends the standard how-to management primer to define a challenging new approach to leadership. As O'Toole so persuasively argues, growth and change are possible, indeed necessary, and they will be effected by individuals who have the stature and the courage to lead morally. This important book, at once thought-provoking and totally practical, is bound to take its place as one of the landmark business volumes of our times. "Jim O'Toole has written the essential work for organizations to survive and thrive in today's changing world. His intellectually penetrating thinking shows us how the sometimes conflicting problems we wrestle with--often in piecemeal fashion--fit together to form a complete picture, even as the picture itself continues to change. His message is so critical to the very existence of every organization that any leader who fails to heed his advice condemns his or her company to mediocrity and/or early death. It's that basic." --Warren Bennis Professor and founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California Author of An Invented Life and Why Leaders Can't Lead
Technology Assessment Activities in the Industrial, Academic, and Governmental Communities
Author: United States. Congress. Technology Assessment BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology and state
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Harnessing the Genie
Author: Michael H. GornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Beskriver hvorledes USAF benytter videnskaben og den teknologiske udvikling til at optimere sin Air Power også på længere sigt
Forecasting in the Social and Natural Sciences
Author: Kenneth C. LandPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400940114
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Social and natural scientists often are called upon to produce, or participate, in the pro duction of forecasts. This volume assembles essays that (a) describe the organizational and political context of applied forecasting, (b) review the state-of-the-art for many fore casting models and methods, and (c) discuss issues of predictability, the implications of forecaSt errors, and model construction, linkage and verification. The essays should be of particular interest to social and natural scientists concerned with forecasting large-scale systems. This project had its origins in discussions of social forecasts and forecasting method ologies initiated a few years ago by several social and natural science members of the Social Science Research Council's Committee on Social Indicators. It became appar ent in these discussions that certain similar problems were confronted in forecasting large-scale systems-be they social or natural. In response, the Committee hypothesized that much could be learned through more extended and systematic interchanges among social and natural scientists focusing on the formal methodologies applied in forecasting. To put this conjecture to the test, the Committee sponsored a conference at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, on June 10-13, 1984, on forecasting in the social and natural sciences. The conference was co-chaired by Committee members Kenneth C. Land and Stephen H. Schneider representing, respectively, the social and natural science mem bership of the Committee. Support for the conference was provided by a grant to the Council from the Division of Social and Economic Science of the National Science Foundation.
The Federal Transit Administration's Proposed Rule on the New Starts and Small Starts Programs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and TransitPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Professional Development of Officers Study: Policy impact analysis
Author: United States. Department of the Army. Professional Development of Officers Study GroupPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description