KNOWLEDGE workers

KNOWLEDGE workers

 
Not Everyone Gets a Trophy Tulgan, Bruce John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2009 Diversity, Human Resources, Management

As members of Generation Y enter the workforce in ever-increasing numbers, they bring with them a new set of attitudes that can present unique challenges to their managers, many of whom come from older generations. It...

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Flight Capital Heenan, David Davies-Black Publishing , 2005 Global Business, Human Resources, Major Works

The U.S. has always been known to attract the world’s best and brightest—talented immigrants who have created the vast wealth and intellectual capital that have contributed so abundantly to America’s technological and...

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The World Is Flat Friedman, Thomas L. Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2005 Global Business, Innovation, Major Works, Productivity

Although outsourcing is the current hot topic, Friedman reports that outsourcing is just one dimension of a much more fundamental phenomenon unfolding today – the flattening of the world. Massive technological...

 
 
A Whole New Mind Pink, Daniel Riverhead , 2005 Human Resources, Major Works, Personal Growth

In A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink describes a new era already underway in the global economy - the Conceptual Age. Success in this new era calls for a set of skills and talents that have been largely...

 
 
The 8th Habit Covey, Stephen R. The Free Press , 2004 Leadership, Major Works, Management, Personal Growth

Covey’s first book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has helped tens of millions of individuals in business, government, education, and families to focus on effectiveness and dramatically...

 
 
Free Agent Nation Pink, Daniel H. Warner Books , 2001 Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Personal Growth

William Whyte’s “Organization Man”-“[The] ones of our middle class who have left home, spiritually as well as physically, to take the vows of organization life …who are the mind and soul of our great self-perpetuating...