All Summaries
All Summaries
In Barons of the Sky, Biddle describes the birth and evolution of an important American industry-the Aerospace Industry. Biddle addresses the questions of how and why a liberal democracy has allowed...
Training programs are only as effective as the trainers who design them, and 10 Steps to Successful Training explains in detail the characteristics, actions and behaviors that define truly successful...
As part of an experiment in context and perception, world renowned violinist Joshua Bell stood in a corner of a Washington D.C. metro station during the morning rush hour. Wearing street clothes, he pulled out his...
In The New Social Learning, the authors make the case that the deepest, most enduring impact of social media might be on workforce learning. They show how social media can improve the way companies...
Workplace learning can help businesses achieve greater success. Unfortunately, its value is often underrated and easily underestimated. It is up to the professional spearheading workplace learning initiatives within...
Satisfied employees generally begin a description of their workplace by mentioning its unique or attractive benefits. Quickly, however, their comments turn to descriptions of the atmosphere, or feel, of the work...
In the late 1970s, Robert Lucas, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, published The Death of Keynes, in which he stated that Keynesian economics was dead, having been replaced by "total chaos" in...
Since 2007 food prices have risen rapidly worldwide, creating hunger and unrest. In Endless Appetites, Alan Bjerga contends that deregulated commodities trading is the cause for the hunger and unrest....
Organizational change is difficult, expensive, time consuming, and, increasingly, the way of the business world. In the global marketplace, the pace of radical adjustments due to shifting markets, cultures, supplies,...
During the past few years, hundreds of start-ups appeared on the Internet. Hundreds went public, becoming instant blue chips, and allowing many investors to see their Internet stocks increase in value by 400 percent or...
