African Media And Ict4d: Documentary Evidence - A Baseline Study On The State Of Media Reporting On Ict Information Society And Issues In Africa

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This book is a milestone in the development of Africa's information society. It measures the long distance between performance and potential of the continent's media in regard to bridging the digital divide. The study shows how Africa's information elite is afflicted by information-poverty when it comes to understanding and executing their role in communicating about Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). The striking findings and the cogent recommendations will be of value to Governments, media practitioners and institutions.

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Everything partners need to create a "business prenup" that will protect a business if someone leaves.

If you're like many entrepreneurs, being in business means working with one or more co-owners. But what will happen to your company if a co-owner:

wants out of the business?

wants to retire?

goes through personal bankruptcy?

wants to sell his shares to someone else?

goes through a divorce?

passes away?

To make sure there's a smooth transition following someone's departure, it's essential that you create a sort of "premarital agreement" for your business with a "business buyout agreement" (or "buy-sell agreement"). This legal document clarifies when co-owners can sell their interest, the circumstances when someone must sell, who can buy into the business and what price will be paid.

Business Buyout Agreements walks you through creating your own contract, which is included on CD-ROM and as a tear-out. It provides all the tax and legal information you need at every step.

List of Forms

Buy-Sell Worksheet

Buy-Sell Agreement (Ownership Agreement)

Customer Reviews:

Solving a Potentially Big Problem.......2005-09-02

I've seen partnerships start up, full of promise and mutual love. I've seen very few last very long. And the breaking up of the partnership has usually been pretty messy. It's a lot like a divorce, where a pre-nuptial would have saved everybody a lot of pain.

This book first sets the stage by describing what can happen. What happens when one of the partners wants to quie, goes through a messy divorce (he's a good partner, but now you're partner with his ex!), or if he is simply disabled (alcohol or Alzheimer's).

The answer, of course, is advance planning. Business Buyout Agreements does a lot of this planning for you. It describes the situation, what should be included, all the things that you need to think about. In fact, it describes more situations than you are ever likely to think about in advance.

The book includes a CD-ROM which has a worksheet and a buyout agreement that has been successfully used by dozens if not hundreds of companies.

Dance Lessons: Six Steps to Great Partnerships in Business & Life

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A Solid Effort!
Fantastic & Practical for Professional & Personal Life!

Dance Lessons: Six Steps to Great Partnerships in Business & Life
Chip R Bell , and Heather Shea
Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1576750434

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In today's increasingly complex business world, partnerships are continually becoming more important and more ubiquitous. Along with those traditional relationships customarily forged between colleagues working for the same company, however, the associations crafted between customers, vendors, unions, and even competitors may actually be the ones that ultimately make or break a business venture. And Chip R. Bell and Heather Shea, consultants as well as top-level executives, believe that the usually neglected "irrational, illogical and emotional" aspects of such coalitions are the real keys to their success. They dissect the heart and soul of these critical alliances in Dance Lessons: Six Steps to Great Partnerships in Business & Life, and in the process offer pragmatic suggestions for forming, maintaining, and, when necessary, dissolving them. Building on the metaphor identified in their title, prolific author Bell and former dancer-actor Shea convincingly point out the unexpected similarities that exist between partnerships in the boardroom and partnerships on the dance floor--and persuasively outline the benefits that can be derived from proficiency at each. "Partnerships are forever becoming and never complete," they write. "Like great dances, great partnerships are never perfect; there is always another lesson to be learned, another routine to be practiced." --Howard Rothman

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Organizations today are lean, agile, and focused, which means that partnerships are more crucial than ever to success. From outsourcing to strategic alliances, businesses depend on partners to help them meet marketplace challenges and achieve financial goals. But what does a good partnership depend on? There are many books that explain the organizational dynamics. But until now, no book has focused on the single most important component: the human factor.

Customer Reviews:

A Solid Effort!.......2001-06-21

Chip R. Bell and Heather Shea take a crack at a much overlooked business skill: partnering. While many management gurus espouse the growing importance of partnerships and alliances to modern business, advice on how to actually implement and manage these relationships is much harder to find. Dance Lessons uses simple, emotional language in mapping out guidelines for successful partnering. These guidelines tend more toward general, interpersonal relationships than specific business cases. In fact, much of the book’s content could be re-titled “How to Have a Successful Marriage” without changing so much as one word. Despite this lack of hard business focus, we...recommend this book on the strength of the intelligent exercises that the authors suggest for use in each stage of the partnering process. While Dance Lessons might be light on the numbers and factual examples that business readers have come to expect, the passion that the authors bring to the subject will leave you highly conscious of the critical, but often neglected, personal aspects of business partnerships.

Fantastic & Practical for Professional & Personal Life!.......1999-01-07

The dance metaphor quickly engages the reader. Relating the different reasons, goals, and values in a partnering relationship to a tango, waltz, line dance, twist, or swing creates great images. The illustrations on style let the reader understand: Good scenarios for partnering Guidelines for being a great partner Partnership in the context of realtionships with suppliers & vendors, other departments, and blending cultures through a merger or acquistion. The applications for this book are for all businesses who interface with other businesses or departments to better serve their customers. Dance Lesson: Six Steps to Great Partnerships in Business and Life is revolutionary. The possibilities for expanding capabilities and opportunities through partnership are rich.

The Power of Partnerships: The Next Step Beyond Tqm, Reengineering and Lean Production

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The Power of Partnerships: The Next Step Beyond Tqm, Reengineering and Lean Production
John L. Mariotti
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishers
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ASIN: 1557867178

Strategically Integrated HRD: A Six-Step Approach to Creating Results-Driven Programs

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Strategically Integrated HRD: A Six-Step Approach to Creating Results-Driven Programs
Jerry W. Gilley , and Ann Maycunich Gilley
Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Tango:Dance of Self-Discovery - Fun & Simple Steps to Passionate Partnerships & Soulful Living

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Tango is a metaphor for revealing a personal passion
Not about Tango at all
TANGO - My personal dance of self-discovery
A "must" read, A "must experience"!
Don't Just Read this Book - Think @ it & Do it! It Works!

Tango:Dance of Self-Discovery - Fun & Simple Steps to Passionate Partnerships & Soulful Living
Katherine Carol
Manufacturer: Tango Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

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As we cross into a new millennium, we're experiencing a major shift in how we make our lives count. We see how our safe, predicitable structures (belief systems, government, management, etc.) fail to deal with the fast pace of life. We feel awkward. So we resolve to work harder..do more with less. But that distracts us from our true purpose. It takes us away from who we are.

We no longer need the old Newtonian linear approach that relies on external structures to make us feel secure. It is time to move inside and listen to our internal belief systems for safety and begin to follow our heart's unique rhythm.

As we lead from our own ideals rather than responding to outside influences we learn the dance of self-discovery. We dance the Tango--the perfect exlixir for our trying times.

We learn to develop a new relationship with time and begin to see it as our friend and partner not our problem. Through this fun and provocative playbook we design a vision for our future, look at what we believe in, where we need to grow to reach our dreams and learn to savor the journey through life each day. We learn from the dance of Tango that we are always connected and we can dance through life with grace and a touch of elegance.

Customer Reviews:

Tango is a metaphor for revealing a personal passion.......2002-01-02

Most of us are unaware of the ways in which music, writing and drawing can unveil the secrets we have hidden inside ourselves. This book will help even the most "creatively challenged" (such as myself) unleash long-untapped resources within. As Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina's greatest writer) wrote about the problem of tango: "The tango can be debated, and we have debates over it, but it still guards, as does all that is truthful, a secret."
Find your own truths, your own passions and your own secret to happiness in the pages of Tango.

Not about Tango at all.......2001-10-23

This is a very interesting book if you need to develop a personal philosophy and i would guess writing it did Katherine Carol a pile of good.It can be a bit cheesy and most of the material has been used many times by psychologists. The format is good.
My beef is that she used the word Tango. Sometimes she uses the analogy of the dance but always so obliquely that you wonder why she bothered. It would certainly fox a few readers who had never danced Tango. As an avid Tanguero, I had hoped this book might widen my insight into the dance. Sadly, not a word. There is nothing in the book that would interest anyone who has arrived at it by a trawl through Tango book references. Not a fraud. A misnomer

TANGO - My personal dance of self-discovery.......2000-11-10

Tango

Katherine continues to inspire, challenge, and guide me through my professional and personal journey. Her greatest gift for me has been the ability to walk with me through my path of rediscovering my passion. After many self-fulfilled bunny trails, Katherine and Tango have me cruising down life's path with a clear road map, filled with anticipated beautiful scenery along the way. - Sandy Hardy, Imagine Enterprises

A "must" read, A "must experience"!.......2000-04-15

Katherine Carol's book provides a wonderful opportunity for "everyone" to experience joy and purpose in their lives. The concept of 'self' and 'self-discovery' may seem trite and over-written these days; however, this book offers a practical, simple and pragmatic approach to 'life balance' and change. As a professional, this book has helped me best understand my work enviroment and, as a person, has begun to lead me on a fantastic journey of living life to its full extent!

Don't Just Read this Book - Think @ it & Do it! It Works!.......2000-04-13

Just when you think you've overloaded yourself with self-help, discovery, & 'how to' materials, Tango - Dance of Self-Discovery comes along! As a Professional Coach and Workshop leader, I have invested greatly in learning through other's books. Yet, this one so engaged me, I bought some scented markers and started looking at those patterns Katherine talks about in her book. This is the book you don't just read, you do the book. Regardless of gender, race, creed, or age, you'll find value, if you work the exercises, some fun, some challenging. You'll move & learn forward! Highly recommended for: 1. Coaches to share with clients as an exploration tool 2. Those on the 'edge' of a transition - career, college, retirement, empty nesters! 3. Recognition gifts for Business Performance outcomes. 4. Yourself - Just get it - then DO it!

12 steps to non-profit sponsorship success.: An article from: Fund Raising Management

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12 steps to non-profit sponsorship success.: An article from: Fund Raising Management
Sylvia Allen
Manufacturer: Hoke Communications, Inc.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Fund Raising Management, published by Hoke Communications, Inc. on May 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1669 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Nonprofit organizations can benefit significantly from sponsorship partnerships. This relationship involves partnering with companies or business organizations from the for-profit sector. Aside from giving them an opportunity to have a new source of revenue, these partnerships provide different cross-promotional, public relations and other marketing possibilities. Twelve steps to ensure success of non-profit sponsorships are presented.

Citation Details
Title: 12 steps to non-profit sponsorship success.
Author: Sylvia Allen
Publication: Fund Raising Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1996
Publisher: Hoke Communications, Inc.
Volume: v27 Issue: n3 Page: p46(3)

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Another step taken towards real partnership.( Te Runanga O Aotearo NZNO national komiti): An article from: Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand

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Another step taken towards real partnership.( Te Runanga O Aotearo NZNO national komiti): An article from: Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand

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This digital document is an article from Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, published by New Zealand Nurses' Organisation on June 1, 2004. The length of the article is 6035 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Another step taken towards real partnership.( Te Runanga O Aotearo NZNO national komiti)
Publication: Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2004
Publisher: New Zealand Nurses' Organisation
Volume: 10 Issue: 5 Page: 30(1)

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Brokerages step up battle for luxury billings.: An article from: Westchester County Business Journal

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Brokerages step up battle for luxury billings.: An article from: Westchester County Business Journal
Alex Philippidis
Manufacturer: Westfair Communications, Inc.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Westchester County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on March 7, 2005. The length of the article is 983 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Brokerages step up battle for luxury billings.
Author: Alex Philippidis
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 7, 2005
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 44 Issue: 10 Page: 7(2)

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Building Supportive High Schools: A Step-By-Step Guide to Developing Staff, Curriculum, and Partnerships to Help At-Risk Students (By Teachers For Teachers series)

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Building Supportive High Schools: A Step-By-Step Guide to Developing Staff, Curriculum, and Partnerships to Help At-Risk Students (By Teachers For Teachers series)
Jacqueline Elfiki , Ferdinand Fuentes , Margaret Maccini , and Margaret McDevitt
Manufacturer: The Project for School Innovation
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A critical step for the radio of the future. (France).(companies form partnership to develop hybrid digital broadcasting network): An article from: European Telecom

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Publication: European Telecom (Newsletter)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: Information Gatekeepers, Inc.
Volume: 7 Issue: 9 Page: 7(2)

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Por fin un libro práctico .......2005-05-25

Encantado con este libro, por el equilibrio entre teoría y experiencia vivida. Tiene mucha información para el contexto latinoamericano y es autentico a primera vista.

A book on Entrepreneurship, by an exceptional entrepreneur!.......2004-05-18

I have gone through the process of starting a new venture and I can't think of anything important that isn't covered by Andy Freire's book. He has managed to put together a concise yet complete perspective on entrepreneurship in emerging markets.
I am about to launch a new business, and "Pasion por Emprender" has been a great review of the issues I will soon face again. Even from my recent MBA years, I don't recall a better book for someone who is about to start a new company.
Don't expect to get a checklist of things to consider in a start up, but rather something much more valuable; the experience and advise of one of Latin America's most successful entrepreneurs.

Excelente libro! Por fin un libro aplicable!.......2004-05-17

El libro de Andy Freire me parecio excepcional. Un libro de clara aplicabilidad al proceso de emprender. Claro, con ejemplos y experiencias concretas Una obra maestra.

Sticks & Stones: The Art of Grilling on Plank, Vine and Stone (The Game & Fish Mastery Library)
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You can cook more than just fish on a plank!

The Sticks & Stones Cookbook

Does not rate five stars!

Salmon recipe on cover is to-die-for!

Absolutely Fantastic, Unbelievable, The Best

Sticks & Stones: The Art of Grilling on Plank, Vine and Stone (The Game & Fish Mastery Library)
Ted Reader , and Kathleen Sloan
Manufacturer: Willow Creek Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Here is cooking at it's most primal - using natural elements to create food imbued with flavor, touched by fire and licked with smoke! Inspired by the Northwest Native art of plank-grilling, this modern method adapts itself to the home grill where seasoned meats, fish and seafood cook slowly in their own oils and flavors and scent not found in any other form of cooking. This is the definitive modern guide to an elemental (not to mention fun) culinary art using woods, hot stones and rocks.

Customer Reviews:

You can cook more than just fish on a plank!.......2006-03-02

And I thought the only thing you could cook on a plank was fish or steak! This book has everything from appetizers to veggies to dessert! Cook it all on the grill!

Some of the recipes are more involved than I would want to do on a plank. I like the plank for simplicity, and this book goes beyond that. But if you love the plank and you love the BBQ, you'll love this book!

The Sticks & Stones Cookbook.......2003-01-31

This cookbook has shown me a whole new way of grilling. I'd never planked before and this cookbook told me how and let me know what to expect. Grilling and smoking at the same time - what great flavor and simple to do. You just have to make sure your planks are well soaked as the instructions point out.
I've used recipes from this book to entertain friends and has it ever made me look good. Several have even gone out and purchased the book.
This book proves you don't have to eat out to have fabulous meals.

Does not rate five stars!.......2002-10-11

Very disappointed. The 2 lead recipes used in the TV cooking demo as well as in the book are very good. That's it. Many ingredients are either difficult to find or unobtainable which makes some recipes practically useless, if you want to follow it for the correct results. Other recipes include the use of store-bought BBQ sauces, which can alter the taste completely, depending on what brand used. BBQ sauce recipes should have been included. Certainly not worth [the money spent on it]! Don't waste your money. Go to the BBQ or Food.tv websites for not only free, but much better results.

Salmon recipe on cover is to-die-for!.......1999-11-10

Everyone who loves salmon or who loves to barbecue needs to read this book; it's amazing what a wood plank can do to a fish! We weren't sure at first if Reader was nuts, or a genius. He's a genius! We didn't have exactly what we needed (a cedar plank instead of alder, a Copper River Coho instead of Chinook), but the results were incredibly delicious! The combination of the wood smoke and the marinade ingredients made for an exotic, but simple and fast way to prepare an entire fish. Four of us did our best to devour a 10+ lb fish in one sitting. We didn't succeed, but had a good time trying.

We are eager to try other recipes, but are at the wood-gathering stage. We wish the book had a guide to different woods and the foods they work well with so we'd feel more comfortable with our own experimenting (cooking this way is expensive if you have to go to the lumber yard for wood). We live near orchard country and have access to a variety of fruit woods in addition to apple, and aren't too far from both coastal and interior forests where different types of trees grow.

Folks who are lucky enough to figure out what to do with a few salmon every year need to try this cooking method.

Absolutely Fantastic, Unbelievable, The Best.......1999-08-17

It is incredible. I am so proud to have been able to write this book. It was definitly a lot of fun to put together. Recipes that are simple and delicious. The most difficult thing about my book is that you must seach for the planks, vines, stone slabs, pine needles, leaves etc. But that is actually a lot of fun. And once you begin to creat the recipes it truly is a joy to make and even more to eat. I hope that those who adventure into buying Sticks and Stones truly enjoy the recipes. Let me know what you think. Chef Ted Reader

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