From the world’s leading thinker on innovation and New York Times bestselling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma , Clayton M. Christensen, comes an unconventional book of inspiration and wisdom for achieving a fulfilling life. Christensen’s The Inn...

A revised and updated edition of an acknowledged classic of the Organizational Development literature. Over 30,000 of first and second editions sold.

The Center for Creative Leadership's continuing studies of executives have found that learning on the job is the best way for a person to develop. Often people are given new positions in order to provide them with developmental experiences. But what if such a transfe...

There is a growing sense today that organizations and the people who make them up are, to repeat a figure of speech recently used by Robert Kegan, in over their heads. As diversity becomes the rule and change the sole constant, complexity is increasing. It is general...

World Development Indicators, the World Bank's respected statistical publication presents the most current and accurate information on global development on both a national level and aggregated globally. This information allows readers to monitor the progress made to...

A number of countries committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), aimed at eradicating extreme poverty, and improving the welfare of people by the year 2015. The book assesses whether universal primary education can be achieved by 2015. The study...

World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. The 400-page print edition allows users to consult 600 indicators for 152 economies and 14 country groups in more than 87 tables. A current overview of the mo...

Author Nicholas Mahurin brings practical business basics to the convergence of information technology with transcription service. Prepare for the technology impact Prepare to thrive--not perish Meet the Future MT Learn to convert a threat into a competitive ad...

The results of marketing research can inform marketing decisions such as in concept/product testing, market segmentation, competitive analysis, customer satisfaction studies, etc. and illustrates the need for measurement. The book summarizes all essential measurem...

This book is designed to help leaders more intentionally seek out and design their own developmental assignments (and to help others do the same). It focuses in particular on how to shape your current job and nonwork pursuits so that these activities will provide opp...

In this compelling leadership fable, The Change Agent illustrates the awesome impact that culture has on desired results and provides a proven methodology for transforming corporate culture! The Challenge : Fewer than 30% of American workers are fully engaged at...

Business Start Up Fees Internet Research Workbook is a workbook for finding licensing, regulations and fee information before starting a business.

The 2007 Global Monitoring Report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) assesses the contributions of developing countries, developed countries, and international financial institutions toward meeting universally agreed development commitments. Fourth in a serie...

Globalization is a subject we have heard and read so much about. Here is the first of a series of monographs designed to unmask the truth behind globalization. Eventually, The UNSPOKEN TRUTH series of booklets will cover a wide array of topics which, like globaliza...

If you want to own or manage a breakout company, R. Neil Thiessen can make it happen-and he'll save you frustration, time, and money, to boot. Proven in myriad industries, Thiessen's Diamond Solution is a powerful tool for gaining insight into your business and un...

Africa Development Indicators 2007/8 (ADI) is the latest annual report from the World Bank on social and economic conditions across the continent. ADI is designed to provide a set of key indicators to monitor development outcomes in the region. It is an important ref...

This book provides profiles of over 50 countries with 54 development indicators about people, environment, economy, technology, infrastructure, trade and finance, all in one handy, pocketsized volume. A must have for anyone interested in today's development challenge...

Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology)) Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern w...

Rising densities of human settlements, migration and transport to reduce distances to market, and specialization and trade facilitated by fewer international divisions are central to economic development. The transformations along these three dimensions-density, dist...

It's time to let the CATS out of the bag . . . Curiosity might have killed the proverbial cat, but without it very real achievements would never occur. With this book as your guide, you’ll learn how to spark your innate curiosity, pounce on problems i...