The World is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century
Thomas L. Friedman
The explosion of advanced technologies now means that suddenly knowledge pools and resources have connected all over the planet, levelling the playing field as never before, so that each of us is potentially an equal - and competitor - of the other.
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The Uncertain art of management

Harry Onsman, Australian Institute Of Management

Practical guidelines to help managers increase individual performance, make better decisions, and lead with integrity.

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10 Tips for Dealing with a Bully Boss (journal article)
By Bob Weinstein
From CIO November 2007
Do you have a bad manager? Someone who makes your life miserable all week by criticizing your every move?

3 ways to be more creative: relax, exercise and sleep more (journal article)
By Diann Daniel
from CIO November 2007
If you're stressed and out of shape, so is your brain.

The Age of turbulence : adventures in a new world

Alan Greenspan

Autobiography of Alan Greenspan, the former Chairman of the US Reserve Bank.

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Sharing, privacy and trust in our networked world: a report to the OCLC membership
Source: OCLC
"We know that privacy is important to users, and to librarians, but we also know that sharing and open access matter."

Chinese economic performance in the long run - 2nd edition revised and updated

Source: Angus Maddison / OECD

Uses a comparative approach to explain why China’s role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years. Concludes that China will resume its role as the world’s largest economy by 2015.

The Extreme future : the top trends that will reshape the world in the next 20 years
James Canton
"Discover the trends that will create risk and opportunity in the future, which include: the strategies businesses must implement to compete [and] the innovations that will transform the global economy." - cover.
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Economic freedom - the good and the ugly (journal article)
by Fred Argy
from AQ Vol. 79 No. 5 September/October 2007
"Has Australia gone too far down the road of economic freedom, or should we be seeking to go further? In the end, policy decisions must depend on what kind of society one is trying to promote - one that gives the highest priority to individual liberty, or to material wellbeing, or to social equality and cohesion."

The Heart and soul of leadership [book]
Barker, Carolyn & Australian Institute Of Management

Chapters include: The problem with leadership: defining what we don’t understand -- Women and Australian leadership: beyond the current paradigms -- Power, influence and action: making leadership work.

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China Rising - growing pains of a superpower

New Scientist special issue

10 November 2007

This special issue has articles about the Innovation Nation; the people's quantum computer; beyond the great firewall; and stem-cell revolutionaries; small farmer/big pharma.

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The World Café : shaping our futures through conversations that matter [book]Brown, Juanita & Isaacs, David

"The World Cafe is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization's or community's own collective intelligence around its most important questions." "Filled with stories of actual Cafe dialogues in business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, this uniquely crafted book demonstrates how the World Cafe can be adapted to any setting or culture. Examples from such varied organizations as Hewlett-Packard, American Society for Quality, the nation of Singapore, the University of Texas, and many others, demonstrate the process in action." "Along with its seven core design principles, The World Cafe offers practical tips for hosting "conversations that matter" in groups of any size - strengthening both personal relationships and people's capacity to shape the future together."--BOOK JACKET.
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Managers in the firing line: contributing factors to workplace bullying by staff (journal article)
by Sarah Branch, Sheryl Ramsay and Michelle Barker
from Journal of Management and Organization, Vol. 13 No. 3 September 2007
To date, most of the research into workplace bullying has focused on managers
and colleagues as the perpetrators of bullying in the workplace. By contrast, little is known about ‘upwards bullying’, where managers are the targets. We argue that in order to more fully understand workplace bullying as a whole, the phenomenon of upwards bullying requires research and attention.

Australian Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs): a study of high performance management practices (journal article)
by Rietha Wiesner, Jim McDonald and Heather C. Banham
From Journal of Management & Organization, Vol. 13 No. 3 September 2007
This study attempts to fill some of the gaps in existing studies by considering a wide range of high performance management practices in Australian SMEs. ... It is evident from the findings in this study that high performance practices in SMEs stand to benefit from modernisation and improvement.

ARIS design platform : getting started with BPM [book]

Davis, Rob & Brabänder, Eric
A practical text which explains how to this software package to create real business models, establish company-wide business process management and structure a process architecture.
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Governmental efficiency in our time: Is the 'what' really more important than the 'how'? (article)
by John Bohte
From Public Administration Review, Vol. 6 No. 5 September/October 2007
"Hindy Lauer Schachter argues that obtaining a more accurate and nuanced understandingof public sector effi ciency becomes possible when government offi cials engage citizens in the process of defining desired policy outcomes. In her view, efficiency is a politically defined value."

Focus or fold
Maresca, Sergio Carlo

How to differentiate your product/service when your competitor has a lower price, how to build high-trust business relationships quickly, and how to overcome price objections without entering into a price-discounting war.

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In-house coaching and mentoring (article)
by John Frost
from Training Journal, August 2007, pp 52-55
The author examines the pros and cons of turning managers into coaches.
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Training the over-50s: herding cats or honing champions? (article)
by Dianne Bown-Wilson
from Training Journal, September 2007, pp 38-41
This article explores the challenges of developing our older workforce.
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"Friends, Romans, countrymen..." (article)
by Michael Anthony Holliday
From Training Journal, September 2007, pp 33-36
In the first of a series of articles on advanced communication, the author discusses presentation skills.
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Human performance improvement : building practitioner competence
Rothwell, William J. et al.
"Shows you how to: discover and analyze performance gaps, plan for future improvements in human performance, and design and develop cost-effective interventions to close performance gaps." - cover.
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Deeper in debt : Australia’s addiction to borrower money
Keen, Steve / Centre for Policy Development

"Explains the dynamics to debt accumulation and the statistical evidence that our current borrowing trends cannot go on forever." - page 3.

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Victoria’s public transport : assessing the results of privatisation

Allsop, Steve / Institute of Public Affairs
Finds that the privatisation of passenger trains and trams was largely successful, and that it resulted in increased patronage and improvements in reliability.
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Tax competition : much to do about very little
Davidson, Sinclair / Centre for Independent Studies (Australia)
"As globalisation and international capital mobility have increased, tax policy-makers and revenue collectors ... have become concerned about the revenue implications of tax competition among countries." - page vii.
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