As the current recession ends, many workers will not be returning to the jobs they once held--those jobs are gone. In The New Division of Labor, Frank Levy and Richard Murnane show how computers are changing the employment landscape and how the right kinds of education can ease the transition to the new job market.The book tells stories of people at work--a high-end financial advisor, a customer service representative, a pair of successful chefs, a cardiologist, an automot...

The QuickStudy Management guide can be helpful for students or corporate executives. The guide contains a full array of management topics from ethics to globalization.

Selected as one of the "Best Books on Innovation, 2008" by BusinessWeek magazineNamed the "Best Human-Capital Book of 2008" by Strategy + Business magazineA crash course in the business of learning-from the bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution…"Provocatively titled, Disrupting Class is just what America's K-12 education system...

Your organization needs older workers more than ever: They transfer knowledge between generations, transmit your company's values to new hires, make excellent mentors for younger employees, and provide a "just in time" workforce for special projects.Yet more of these workers are reporting to people younger than they are. This presents unfamiliar challenges that--if ignored--can prevent you from attracting, retaining, and engaging older employees.In Managing the Older Worker...

Our lives represent the sum total of what we negotiate. And throughout history, Hominids have had two choices of interaction: peaceful negotiation or violent conflict. Research presented in Negotiating Beyond Tomorrow demonstrates we are hard wired to negotiate in one respect, but often do not understand the complexity of this multipart system. Using research conducted over the last century generally, and the last two decades specifically, a model of negotiation as a system involving three...

Competitive Strategy for Media Firms introduces the concepts and analytical frameworks of strategic and brand management, and illustrates how they can be adapted according to the characteristics of distinct media products. Working from the premise that all media firms must strategize in response to the continuing evolution of new media, author Sylvia M. Chan-Olmsted offers applications of common business approaches to the products and components of the electronic media industry, a...

This eBook is intended to serve as a simple step-by-step guide to developing a cost-effective performance reporting tool or data sharing tool that is based on MS Excel and using MS SharePoint as a platform. The guide can be used in developing a reporting mechanism for any type of data of any discipline. The eBook will focus on explaining the basic structure of the reporting tool with a basic design to ensure the flow of data from source. Simple cosmetics tips from design and macro coding w...

This easy-to-read book integrates research and performance-based concepts in order to demystify and debunk the conventional wisdom about education. For many years, education has been beset by myths - myths that it can't be fixed with new concepts, that it takes specialists to diagnose what's wrong, that research doesn't reflect the real world, that the lessons of business cannot be generalized to education. This book takes on these misunderstandings and shows precisely what educators may d...

A Survival Guide To Getting The Most Work Done You Can In The Least Amount of TimeDo you find yourself with more time-consuming work to do in less time than ever?Are you constantly under time pressure to get "urgent" things out? And then answer a bunch of endless what-if questions that require you to refigure everything out over and over again "urgently"?Wouldn't it be good if you had "more resources" to help you out with these endless tedious tasks?This is ...