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Winning the Knowledge Transfer Race
Brief Summary
Knowledge is information that is essential to transact business in ways that improve employee performance and an organization's competitiveness. It is vital to treat such knowledge--which can be anything from trade secrets and patents to information on sales, distribution, or financing--as cherished intellectual capital. In order to innovate quickly and convert wisdom into profits you must transfer this capital in a deliberate, systematic way.
Winning the Knowledge Transfer Race shows managers how to leverage intellectual capital knowledge to achieve extraordinary results and win against fierce competition. Michael English and William Baker, pioneers and practitioners in the development and application of benchmarking and best practices, provide the solutions and practical steps for managing intellectual capital at the highest level and incorporating it into your company's best practices.
This breakthrough book examines how intellectual capital shapes markets and delivers products and services. You'll see how to apply knowledge transfer strategy into your department and organization.
Then, the authors introduce you to the best practices of some of the world's most profitable companies--such as IBM, Raytheon, Verizon, Xerox, Buckman Labs, General Electric, and Toyota--in knowledge transfer, benchmarking, and process improvement. They reveal how to duplicate these approaches, enabling you to:
• Achieve effective knowledge transfer at the highest levels of efficiency
• Innovate knowledge-based products and services with tremendous speed
• Make sharing and collaboration an integral part of every employee's job
• Stay at the forefront of changes in technology
• Increase customer satisfaction and gain market share
To stay ahead in the global race for growth and profit, Winning the Knowledge Transfer Race is the only book you need to cross the finish line first.
ISBN:0071457941
Author:Michael J English and William H Baker
Flight of the Buffalo Soaring to Exce...
Brief Summary
Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
A hardcover bestseller now in paperback presents a management program that encourages employee leadership--which today's companies must have more of if they are to survive the coming decades.
ISBN:9780446670081
Author:James A. Belasco and Ralph C. Stayer
How Apple Inc Changed the World
Brief Summary
Two guys named Steve, working in a garage, created a prototype computer designed to be different in a way no one thought possible: It would be easy to use. Those two Steves, one now a billionaire and still at the head of Apple, not only succeeded with that product, but they also broke ground in the business world in ways few thought possible:
They proved you could not only have fun at work, but pursuing a capitalist dream could be hip. How did Apple do it? How did it go from making computers that made a difference but not much of a dent in the overall market to creating a device (the iPod) and a music service (iTunes) that has changed the way we buy and experience music?
And how did the Macintosh and its successors capture the hearts and minds of computer users so deeply that being a Mac person makes you a member of a special club? That's what this book is all about. How Apple Inc. Changed the World will inspire students eager to launch a business career or work in the technology sector. Apple has never been afraid to chart its own path and readers will learn what makes the company tick.
ISBN:9788184950540
Author:Jason D OGrady
100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings
Brief Summary
100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get By Without Even Trying
Funny because it's true. From the creator of the viral sensation "10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings" (5+ million views and hundreds of thousands of shares) comes the must-have book you never knew you needed, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings. In it, you will learn how to appear smart in less than half the time it takes to actually learn anything.
You know those subtle tricks your coworkers are all guilty of? The constant nodding, pretend concentration, useless rhetorical questions? These tricks make them seem like they know what they’re doing when in fact they have no clue. This behavior is so ingrained, so subtle, and so often mistaken for true intelligence that identifying it, calling it out, or compiling it into an exhaustive digest has never been attempted. Until now.
Complete with illustrated tips, examples, and scenarios, 100 Tricks gives you actionable ways to use words like "actionable,” in order to sound smart. Every type of meeting is covered, from general meetings where you stopped paying attention almost immediately, to one-on-one meetings you zoned out on, to impromptu meetings you were painfully subjected to at the last minute. It’s all here.
Open this book to any page and find an easy-to-digest trick with an even easier-to-digest illustration, guiding you on:
• How to nail the big meeting by pacing and nodding
• Most effective ways to listen to your coworkers while still completely ignoring them
• The key to making your presentations "interactive.”
If you hadn’t noticed these behaviors before, you will see them now—from your colleagues, your managers, and soon yourself. Each trick is a mirror to the reality of what happens in meetings, told in the form of hilariously bad advice—advice that you might just want to take. But probably not. But maybe.
ISBN:9781449476052
Author:Sarah Cooper
Get Your Shit Together by Ruth Field
Brief Summary
The B!tch is back... and she's brought The Grit Doctor along for the ride.
What's in your handbag? To-do lists scrawled on the back of receipts? An unpaid bill? Half a chocolate bar, covered in fluff? Is your handbag a metaphor for the rest of your life? Has becoming a capable, poised grown-up turned out to be more complicated than you imagined?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, and if you're tired of the crappy stuff in life grinding you down, then it's time to stop whining and Get Your Sh!t Together.
With this funny, frank, and tough-talking guide, Ruth Field and The Grit Doctor will help you:
Tackle daunting problems like a fearless superwoman
Figure out what you want from life and find the courage to Go For It
Learn how to get more sh!t done in less time
Stop feeling bad about your less-than-perfect life (because perfection's overrated anyway)
She taught you how to run; now she's going to teach you how to run your life!
ISBN:B00CTFJMJE
Author:Ruth Field
How Not to Come Second The Art of Win...
Brief Summary
Seven practical and powerful pitch proposal techniques aimed at securing new clients and business make up the core of this indispensable guide to being the most organized, prepared, and best equipped in the competitive realm of new-business proposals.
Valuable proposal checklists help ensure that a proposal pitch is complete before presentation and examples of successful pitches and information on what prospective clients look for, as well as common mistakes, are also discussed.
ISBN:9781904879626
Author:David Kean
Secrets of Success from The Co Founde...
Brief Summary
Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses innovation, creativity and the secrets of being a successful entrepreneur, through stories from his remarkable life and career.
Things A Little Bird Told Me
From GQ's 'Nerd of the Year' to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positive and remarkably savvy co-founder of Twitter -- the social media platform that singlehandedly changed the way the world works. Now, Biz tells fascinating, pivotal, and personal stories from his early life and his careers at Google and Twitter, sharing his knowledge about the nature and importance of ingenuity today. In Biz's world:
• Opportunity can be manufactured
• Great work comes from abandoning a linear way of thinking
• Creativity never runs out
• Asking questions is free
• Empathy is core to personal and global success
In this book, Biz also addresses failure, the value of vulnerability, ambition, and corporate culture. Whether seeking behind-the-scenes stories, advice, or wisdom and principles from one of the most successful businessmen of the new century, THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME will satisfy every reader.
ISBN:9781455528721
Author:Biz Stone
Miss Uhuru 1963 Working for Mzee Jomo...
Brief Summary
Miss Uhuru 1963: Working for Mzee Jomo Kenyatta” an autobiography by Mrs. Elizabeth Mumbi Madoka
Her autobiography "Miss Uhuru 1963" captures a rich history of her interaction with the first family and includes snippets of her interaction with the current president Uhuru Kenyatta growing up and how she met her husband as they both worked for the first president of Kenya.
Gatundu Kiambu County, he and her dad were close acquaintances way before Kenyatta became president. Her beauty is to behold which explains why she was crowned miss Uhuru on 14th December 1963 in a beauty pageant organized by the Daily Nation and graced by the President and first lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta.
ISBN:MissUhuru1963
Author:Elizabeth Mumbi Madoka
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Brief Summary
Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life.
But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow’s best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A trickster and a rogue, Wednesday seems to know more about Shadow than Shadow does himself.
Life as Wednesday’s bodyguard, driver, and errand boy is far more interesting and dangerous than Shadow ever imagined. Soon Shadow learns that the past never dies . . . and that beneath the placid surface of everyday life a storm is brewing—an epic war for the very soul of America—and that he is standing squarely in its path.
ISBN:9780062472106
Author:Neil Gaiman
Bird song A Novel of Love and War by ...
Brief Summary
Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present.
As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient.
Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.
ISBN:9780679776819
Author:Sebastian Faulks
Birth of a Theorem A Mathematical Adv...
Brief Summary
In 2010, the French mathematician Cédric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a proof that he devised with his close collaborator Clément Mouhot to explain one of the most surprising theories in classical physics. Birth of a Theorem is Villani's own account of the years leading up to the award. It invites readers inside the mind of a great mathematician as he wrestles with the most important work of his career.
But you don't have to understand nonlinear Landau damping to love Birth of a Theorem. It doesn't simplify or over explain; rather, it invites readers into a collaboration. Villani's diaries, e-mails, and musings enmesh you in the process of discovery.
You join him in unproductive lulls and late-night breakthroughs. You're privy to dining-hall conversations at the world's greatest research institutions. Villani shares his favorite songs, his love of manga, and the imaginative stories he tells his children. In mathematics, as in any creative work, it is the thinker's whole life that propels discovery--and with Birth of a Theorem, Cédric Villani welcomes you into his.
ISBN:9780374536671
Author:Cedric Villani and Malcolm DeBevoise
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Brief Summary
Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter nostalgia and longing for his home continent.
Years ago and worlds away Sepha could never have imagined a life of such isolation. As his environment begins to change, hope comes in the form of a friendship with new neighbors Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter.
But when a series of racial incidents disturbs the community, Sepha may lose everything all over again.
ISBN:9781594482854
Author:Dinaw Mengestu
Bad News Last Journalists in a Dictat...
Brief Summary
In 2009, Anjan Sundaram began a journalist's training program in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Often held up as a beacon of progress and modernity in Central Africa, the regime of President Paul Kagame—which took over after the 1994 genocide ravaged Rwanda’s population—has been given billions of dollars in Western aid.
And yet, during Sundaram’s time there, almost every reporter he instructed was arrested or forced to leave the country, caught in a tightening web of strict media control.
With Bad News, Sundaram offers an incredible firsthand look at the rise of dictatorship and the fall of free speech, one that’s important to understand not just for its implications in Rwanda, but for any country threatened by demands to adopt a single way of thinking.
ISBN:9781101872154
Author:Anjan Sundaram
The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
Brief Summary
At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 per cent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terrorism. We live in an age when the 30-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the electorate's thinking, and America is in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous administration in sharing the truth with the citizenry.
Related to this and of even greater concern is the current administration's lack of interest in the process by which the truth is ascertained - first among which are an embrace of open inquiry, in which unexpected and even inconvenient facts can lead to unexpected conclusions. How did the US get here? And how much damage has been done to the functioning of American democracy and its role as steward of its national security? Never has there been a worse time for the US to lose the capacity to face the reality of long-term challenges, from national security to the economy, from issues of health and social welfare to the environment.
As "The Assault on Reason" shows us, there is precious little time to waste. Drawing on a life's work in politics as well as on the work of experts across a broad range of disciplines, Al Gore has written a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking.
ISBN:9780747591597
Author:Al Gore
The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Lea...
Brief Summary
The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day: Revitalize Your Spirit and Empower Your Leadership
In the spirit of his best-selling The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader, John Maxwell offers thoughts on proven leadership qualities and crucial issues that affect leadership success.
These basic principles of success can be applied to business and private life, helping anyone reach their full potential. Twenty-one powerful statements help leaders maximize their assets and overcome their weaknesses, encouraging them to lead with their hearts as well as their minds. Daily readings include sections which help readers integrate and apply each day's material.
ISBN:0020049074329
Author:John C. Maxwell
The Empires New Clothes The Myth of t...
Brief Summary
In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actually does. How is it organized and what has held it together for so long? How important is the Queen's role as Head of the Commonwealth? Most importantly, why has it had such a troubled recent past, and is it realistic to imagine that its fortunes might be reversed?
In The Empire's New Clothes, Murphy strips away the gilded self-image of the Commonwealth to reveal an irrelevant institution afflicted by imperial amnesia.
He offers a personal perspective on this complex and poorly understood institution, and asks if it can ever escape from the shadow of the British Empire to become an organization based on shared values, rather than a shared history
ISBN:9780190911157
Author:Philip Murphy
The Heart of Change by John Kotter
Brief Summary
The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
Why is organizational change so hard? Because in order to make any transformation successful, you must change more than just the structure and operations of an organization—you need to change people’s behavior. And that is never easy.
The Heart of Change is your guide to helping people think and feel differently in order to meet your shared goals. According to bestselling author and renowned leadership expert John Kotter and coauthor Dan Cohen, this focus on connecting with people’s emotions is what will spark the behavior change and actions that lead to success. The Heart of Change is the engaging and essential complement to John Kotter’s international bestseller Leading Change.
Building off of Kotter’s revolutionary eight-step process, this book vividly illustrates how large-scale business change can work. With real-life stories of people in organizations, the authors show how teams and individuals get motivated and activated to overcome obstacles to change—and produce spectacular results.
Kotter and Cohen argue that change initiatives often fail because leaders rely too exclusively on data and analysis to get buy-in from their teams instead of creatively showing or doing something that appeals to their emotions and inspires them to spring into action. They call this the see-feel-change dynamic, and it is crucial for the success of any true organizational transformation.
Refreshingly clear and eminently practical, The Heart of Change is required reading for anyone facing change and looking to build their leadership skills.
ISBN:9781578512546
Author:John Kotter and Dan S. Cohen
The Seed Akamba Christian Heritage by...
Brief Summary
‘The SEED’ chronicles the beginning of Christianity in the Eastern Africa region now partly known as Kenya. The book interrogates the basis of the Akamba Christian Heritage as the gate keepers of the interior of East Africa from the East Coast Africa, tracing it from the 1840s’ arrival of Dr. Krapf and Chief Kivoi wa Mwenda at the Eastern Africa Coast now Mombasa.
Krapf’s visit into Ukambani, specifically, Ikutha in Kitui where the process of Christianizing the interior of Africa begun and took root in the region.
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ISBN:9789966193537
Author:Dr Timothy Nzyoki Ndambuki
The Black Jacobins by C L R James
Brief Summary
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.
This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba.
It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean.
ISBN:9780679724674
Author:C L R James
The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli
Brief Summary
The indispensable new work from the author of the international and Sunday Times bestseller The Art of Thinking Clearly
Have you ever...
• Spent too long on a PowerPoint presentation?
• Lost sight of what makes you happy?
• Failed to reach a long-term goal?
• Become infuriated by queuing, tax or parking tickets?
• Broken a promise you knew you'd keep?
Since the dawn of civilization, we've been asking ourselves what it means to live a good life: how should I live, what will truly make be happy, how much should I earn, how should I spend my time? In the absence of a single simple answer, what we need is a toolkit of mental models, a guide to practical living.
In The Art of the Good Life, you'll find fifty-two intellectual shortcuts for wiser thinking and better decisions, at home and at work. They may not guarantee you a good life, but they'll give you a better chance.
ISBN:9781473667488
Author:Rolf Dobelli
