The Exchange Rate System and the Imf: A Modest Agenda (Policy Analyses in International Economics) (Policy Analyses in International Economics)
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    The Exchange Rate System and the Imf: A Modest Agenda (Policy Analyses in International Economics) (Policy Analyses in International Economics)
    Morris Goldstein
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    Legal Aspects of Privatisation: A Comparative Study of European Implementations
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      Legal Aspects of Privatisation: A Comparative Study of European Implementations
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      To present a comprehensive analysis of the concept of privatisation its origins and limits, (b) To identify the legal and institutional framework for privatisation in different European countries from a comparative perspective; (c) To define and analyse particularly legal issues which arise during the privatisation transactions: e.g. labour law, competition law etc.; (d) To evaluate which features of the successful legal and organisational framework of privatisation have been successful so as to provide guidelines for those individuals and organisations participating in the privatisation exercises. This work found out that there is no simple, internationally applicable recipe for privatisation; various legal methods and techniques can be used to privatise state owned enterprises. Because each country has different circumstances, it is impossible to provide a unique model for privatisation; each country needs to design its own model according to its circumstances. Privatisation is an essential but insufficient element for structural economic reform in the economy and society. Privatisation is not a panacea, it is not the solution to every economic and administrative problem; selling an enterprise to the private sector does not mean an end to all problems. Also privatisation is not an overnight process or a magic touch; it will be a lengthy process. Furthermore, a decision that something can be privatised does not mean that it should be privatised. In that context, privatisation is not good or bad; it is an economic and social instrument. If it is well designed it may bring substantial benefits to the economy and society. In many countries, many state owned enterprises, particularly the ones which are financially weak, have still not been privatised. This finding revealed that the privatisation process will be in the political and economic agenda for at least few more decades.

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      The main aims of this thesis are as follows: (a) To present a comprehensive analysis of the concept of privatisation its origins and limits, (b) To identify the legal and institutional framework for privatisation in different European countries from a comparative perspective; (c) To define and analyse particularly legal issues which arise during the privatisation transactions: e.g. labour law, competition law etc.; (d) To evaluate which features of the successful legal and organisational framework of privatisation have been successful so as to provide guidelines for those individuals and organisations participating in the privatisation exercises. This work found out that there is no simple, internationally applicable recipe for privatisation; various legal methods and techniques can be used to privatise state owned enterprises. Because each country has different circumstances, it is impossible to provide a unique model for privatisation; each country needs to design its own model according to its circumstances. Privatisation is an essential but insufficient element for structural economic reform in the economy and society. Privatisation is not a panacea, it is not the solution to every economic and administrative problem; selling an enterprise to the private sector does not mean an end to all problems. Also privatisation is not an overnight process or a magic touch; it will be a lengthy process. Furthermore, a decision that something can be privatised does not mean that it should be privatised. In that context, privatisation is not good or bad; it is an economic and social instrument. If it is well designed it may bring substantial benefits to the economy and society. In many countries, many state owned enterprises, particularly the ones which are financially weak, have still not been privatised. This finding revealed that the privatisation process will be in the political and economic agenda for at least few more decades.

      Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End
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      • A life explained
      • Great concept! Wish it had been a better read.
      • The Dynamics of Success
      • "patience" --needed to read this book from begin to end
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      Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End
      Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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      Release Date: 2006-02-28

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      Rosabeth Moss Kanter will convince you that the goal of winning is not losing two times in a row. In her view, success and failure are not events, they are self-fulfilling tendencies. "Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair--consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes." says Kanter, a Harvard Business School Professor and author of The Change Masters.

      She applies the literature of cognitive psychology (dissonance, explanatory models, learned optimism) to explore the winning and losing streaks of a diverse lineup including the BBC, Gillette, Verizon, Continental Airlines, the Chicago Cubs, and Target. The result is a brilliant anatomy lesson of the big decisions and the small gestures that build and restore confidence.

      Three cornerstones are clearly detailed: "Accountability," the actions that involve facing facts without humiliation; "Collaboration," the rituals of respect that create teamwork, and "Initiative/Innovation," the "kaleidoscope thinking" that unlocks energy and creativity. A standout chapter describes how Nelson Mandela created a culture of confidence in South Africa. Some readers may wish for more strategies about positive habits of mind in individuals. Others will search for a quick fix. Instead, Moss Kanter's in-depth examples and ideas about resilient organizations will become required reading. They add up to a persuasive and informed optimism. --Barbara Mackoff

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      From the locker room to the living room to the boardroom—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.

      Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?

      There’s a fundamental principle at work–confidence–that makes the difference between winning and losing in any competition, be it a high school basketball game or a high-stakes business situation. In Confidence, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter shows why organizations of all types may be brimming with talent but not be winners. Based on her extraordinary investigation of success and failure in companies such as Continental Airlines and Verizon and sports teams such as the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles, as well as the arenas of education, health care, and politics, Kanter explores a new theory and practice of success and provides people in leadership positions with a prescriptive program for maintaining a winning streak or turning around a downward spiral.

      Packed with brilliant, practical ideas, Confidence provides fresh thinking about success in all facets of life—from the factors that can make or break corporations and governments to the keys for successful relationships in the workplace or at home.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars A life explained.......2007-09-19

      This book is about me, you, my company, you company and our countries. Rosabeth details with exact science why we experience highs and unfortunately the lows. What you will learn is how to stop the lows from continuing, pulling them round and start back on an upward path. I loved this book because of the frank and direct way the author tells her stories and research. Anyone that has ever experienced emotions on both sides of the scale ought to read this for an explanation why they happened and how you can stop them ever happening again. A great book!

      Gary May
      Author: SELLING: Powerful New Strategies for Sales Success

      3 out of 5 stars Great concept! Wish it had been a better read........2007-04-24

      I'm torn in this review... LOVED the high points and the premise - intriguing and powerful... the concepts are tought provoking and the illustrations on point. In between the strong points are redundant, nauseating passages that preach the obvious, as if trying to create a sense of framework, but doing it unnecessarily. Reads like long winded Tom Peters. A shorter book without those passages would have been much better. It's worth reading for the good parts. Darn, wish she'd had a tougher editor and better writing because the concept has the potential for 5 stars.

      5 out of 5 stars The Dynamics of Success .......2007-03-23

      With the recent surge in books about presidential politics, national intelligence failures, international terrorism, the testimonies of present and past military heroes, and Iraq, it is refreshing to read a book that is enormously informative and has no political agenda. "CONFIDENCE: HOW WINNING STREAKS AND LOSING STREAKS BEGIN & END" analyzes the underlying mechanics, often self-imposed, which cause a company or sports franchise to spiral down into the Inferno of the "Circle of Doom."

      "CONFIDENCE: HOW WINNING STREAKS AND LOSING STREAKS BEGIN & END" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a fascinating look at how companies, sports franchises, banks and governments rise and fall or struggle against repetitive patterns of losing.

      Whether you are a baseball fan or not, most people were captivated by the dramatic unfolding story of the Chicago Cubs during last year's 2003 pennant race. You may remember it. The Chicago Cubs were up 3 games to the Florida Marlins 2 games in the National Championship. Late in the game, a fly ball out to left field drifts into foul territory, a long-time Cubs fan wearing a hat and headphones reaches out over the railing to catch a major league baseball. At the same moment, the left-fielder Moises Alou drifts over, straddles the wall, and leaps up to make the catch. The fan inadvertently knocks the ball out of Moises Alou's glove. Instead of two outs in the 8th and a probable trip to the World Series, the breaking of a "demon curse" and the end losing streak that spans decades, Luis Castillo walks to first base. That moment begins the Florida Marlin offensive. The Chicago Cubs lose, and turn the fan Steve Banter into a pariah. Author Rosabeth Moss Kanter states that there was something else far deeper in the losing mentality of the Chicago Cubs. You don't throw off decades of losing in one season. It is a long struggle that takes time and the correct approach.

      This brief incident encapsulated universal understandings and feelings which people have for their own plights, i.e. breaking out of bad luck cycles, being labeled a continual underdog, losing no matter what you try to do and how hard you work, or struggling to regain any semblance of financial control and mirrored reward over your life. It is universal, compassionate and instinctive. At a human and emotional level, this is what "CONFIDENCE: HOW WINNING STREAKS AND LOSING STREAKS BEGIN & END" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter is about. Though the book presents the emotional and financial, even desperate, needs that people and their teams have for winning, whether corporate or sports, whether public or private, whether new or old, it spells out how losing deteriorates the human spirit and will, and more importantly what you can do to change your loss and regain your dignity and your confidence. CONFIDENCE is about far more than just anecdotal stories about success and failure.

      Rosabeth M. Kanter is an Ernest L. Arbuckle professor of business administration at Harvard University. Author of 16 books, she specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. She has been hired by major international corporations and governments for her organizational expertise. She is a senior adviser to IBM's award-winning Reinventing Education initiative. Between the years 1989 to 1992, she also served as Editor of the Harvard Business Review. Professor Rosabeth Kanter has received 21 honorary doctoral degrees and was ranked in the 100 most important women in America and the 50 most powerful women in the world.

      In her book "CONFIDENCE: HOW WINNING STREAKS AND LOSING STREAKS BEGIN & END", Professor Kanter examines in detail the collective strategies and behaviors of a myriad of corporations and sports franchises. The author traveled around the world to interview the leaders of great companies, and observe the companies at their basic levels in action. With the discipline of a gifted surgeon who discovers, analyzes, and excises a cancerous tumor from a body, she presents in strategies of great leaders, who turn around powerful failing corporations. She outlines and highlights the universal operatives which lead companies and teams into a spiraling out-of-control spins into the realm which she calls the "Circle of Doom." She explains why certain intervention techniques worked to not only save a losing company, but also to make it thrive as a winner. At the root of each company and team, confidence is made or broken.

      If you are a college student studying business administration, a charismatic CEO forged by years of discipline and hard work, an aspiring sole-proprietor of a small graphics or telecommunications company, the athletic director or coach of a college football, basketball or soccer team, or merely a weekend couch-potato watching every play of his Philadelphia Eagles hoping that, since their turnaround, this is the year that they win the Super Bowl, then this book is for you.

      In a chapter called "The First Stone: Facing Facts and Reinforcing Responsibility," Professor Kanter traces the history of the Gillette Corporation, a global company whose name is a household word in over 200 countries, bitut Gillette took a financial plunge in the early 1980's, "a near-death experience." It recovers at the end of the decade to significant profits and regained pride, only a few years later to slip again into another downward spiral. However, Kanter explains how with a team mindset, Gillette opened communications and dialogue, national and international managers admitted and took responsibility for their problems, and simultaneously developed an innovative shaving system called Venus, as well as the marketing and advertising other products and companies. Gillette turned around.

      In this revealing and informative book, Kanter tells story after story detailing the dynamics of diverse groups, lessons in the struggles of life. Nelson Mandela, of Jeffrey Lurie, who bought a losing Philadelphia Eagle franchise, signed Donovan McNabb against even the mayor of Philadelphia's protests. Kanter discusses the building of the NovaCare Complex, the investment in the players by showing confidence in them. Kanter subtitles one part of the Philadelphia Eagles story as: "Culture Change: A Long Road to Success."

      Great companies have great vision. Great leaders have great vision. "CONFIDENCE: HOW WINNING STREAKS AND LOSING STREAKS BEGIN & END" gives you an inside look at the dreams and visions, the courage and work, the strategies, the failures and disappointments, and the most importantly and on a basic level how we lose, how we win, and how to reverse a losing streak. It does not matter if you are interested in business, in government systems, in sports teams, in the arts, in public or private education, or your major concern over the day-to-day downward struggles you experience in your family, "CONFIDENCE: HOW WINNING STREAKS AND LOSING STREAKS BEGIN & END" is worth your time and your money.

      John M. Weiskopf
      author, "THE ASCENDANCY"
      [...]

      1 out of 5 stars "patience" --needed to read this book from begin to end.......2006-12-28

      I had great expectations of this book as it started out OK. But soon (within a couple chapters) I realized that the author had run out of new things to say. While there are some non-fiction authors that can captivate and entertain an audience with a single concept (ie... Gladwell w/"Tipping Point/Blink"), this author's writing style seems unusually laborious and repetitive -- languishing in incomprehensible detail. Sad to say, but I think I would have been better off just reading a synopsis of this book.

      4 out of 5 stars A professorial look at the key components of confidence.......2006-11-06

      Why do winning streaks and losing streaks continue in sports, business, politics, education and even in individual personal lives? The answer, according to Harvard University business administration professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, is "not in our stars, but in ourselves." Winners have, and losers lack, a distinct, learnable, positive attitude toward the future, which Kanter boldly sums up in a word: confidence. Drawing on more than 300 interviews with top coaches, business people and other leaders, and using data from two surveys of more than 1,200 companies, Kanter illustrates the keys to confidence with case studies of various organizations, especially some win-from-behind sports teams. While many pearls are hidden at the bottom of her text, be prepared to dive through a murky sea of verbiage to find them. Nevertheless, we recommend it confidently to those who want a (mostly) painless refresher on managerial basics, especially morale building.
      Confidence: How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End
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        Confidence: How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End

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        ASIN: 0739314033
        Release Date: 2004-08-31

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        From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.

        Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?

        There’s a fundamental principle at work—the vital but previously unexamined factor called confidence—that permits unexpected people to achieve high levels of performance through routines that activate talent. Confidence explains:

        • Why the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team continues its winning ways even though recent teams lack the talent of their predecessors
        • Why some companies are always positively perceived by employees, customers, Wall Street analysts, and the media while others are under a perpetual cloud
        • How a company like Gillette or a team like the Chicago Cubs ends a losing streak and breaks out of a circle of doom
        • The lessons a politician such as Nelson Mandela, who resisted the temptation to take revenge after being released from prison and assuming power, offers for leaders in both advanced democracies and trouble spots like the Middle East

        From the simplest ball games to the most complicated business and political situations, the common element in winning is a basic truth about people: They rise to the occasion when leaders help them gain the confidence to do it.

        Confidence is the new theory and practice of success, explaining why success and failure are not mere episodes but self-perpetuating trajectories. Rosabeth Moss Kanter shows why organizations of all types may be brimming with talent but not be winners, and provides people in leadership positions with a practical program for either maintaining a winning streak or turning around a downward spiral.
        Confidence is based on an extraordinary investigation of success and failure in companies such as Continental Airlines, Seagate, and Verizon and sports teams such as the University of North Carolina women’s soccer team, New England Patriots, and Philadelphia Eagles, as well as schools, health care, and politics.

        Packed with brilliant, practical ideas such as “powerlessness corrupts” and the “timidity of mediocrity,” Confidence provides fresh thinking for perpetuating winning streaks and ending losing streaks in all facets of life—from the factors that can make or break corporations and governments to the keys for successful relationships in the workplace or at home.


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        Confidence: How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End (Unabridged on 11 CDs)
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          Why do the Yankees always seem to win and the Red Sox fade? Why do companies such as Dell and Gillette never seem to lose their halo? What lessons does Nelson Mandela offer leaders in trouble spots like the Middle East. From sports to business and the most complicated political situations, a common element, a truth, persists: people succeed when leaders give them the confidence to do so. In CONFIDENCE, Kanter, a former editor of "Harvard Business Review" and an advisor to prominent corporations and community organizations, such as IBM and the Girl Scouts, offers a new theory and practice of success in which winning and losing are not mere episodes but self-perpetuating trajectories. She demonstrates why organizations of all types may be brimming with talent but not winners, and why character, perseverance, and a winning tradition count more than money and superstars.
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            Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End
            Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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              Barbecued Ribs, Smoked Butts, And Other Great Feed (Knopf Cooks American Series)
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              Barbecued Ribs, Smoked Butts, And Other Great Feed (Knopf Cooks American Series)
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              "Jeanne Voltz has written a definitive book on barbecuing. She understands the varying tastes and the techniques of each region she covers, and this is The book on barbecue. I love it."

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              "A wonderful, no-nonsense book. So inspired, soul-warming, and professional is Voltz's whole approach to barbecue and those foods related to it that I think it's safe to say that you can now throw out other cookbooks you might have on the subject."

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              I highly recommend!
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              C. Clark Hale , Sandra Lyon , and Bob
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              4 out of 5 stars Good book for your collection.......2007-07-17

              I liked the book. It had good recipes and information. But it also has a weakness that most barbecue books have. It doe not guide the user on setting the fire and how to maintain it. I wish it had dedicated a whole chapter to it.
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              5 out of 5 stars If you want to learn how to barbecue and grill better buy this........2007-06-13

              As the author Smoky Hale points out most barbecue books, bibles and manuals throw a few pages of instruction and a lot of recipes at you. This is the only book I found that actually gives meaningful instruction. If you have a question not covered by the book email the author and he'll answer it. He also has a website with an "Ask Smoky" FAQ page but it's still well worth buying the book.

              It covers everything from selecting your meat to selecting your equipment, from preparing your meat to preparing your "fire", and a myriad of rubs, sauces and recipes as well.

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              This book is the bible of BBQ. I read several books and checked the internet sites and this is far and away the best. Mr. Hale not only teaches you proper technique for cooking he teaches you WHY the techniques work. I recently did my very first brisket in a high quality offset style cooker using Mr. Hale's recipes and instructions and it was one of the most tender, juicy and flavorful briskets I've ever had. If you only buy one BBQ book - this is the one to get!

              5 out of 5 stars Pretty Darned Good Book.......2001-08-13

              Far from being faint praise, saying that this is a "pretty darned good bbq book" is the greatest compliment one bbq'er could make to another. As a life long (ex-Kansas City) proponent of the slow, lazy method of cooking ribs and other treats, this is undoubtedly the most dead-on manual for anybody who wants greater insight into cooking outdoors. For the novice, it is a definitive introduction to serious grilling and bbq. For those of us who have spent as much time trying to figure out WHY we try to coax any goodness out of a nasty cut of meat like the brisket as we do actually doing it, it is a great resource. The book is filled with information that will improve the efforts of bbq'ers of any level. This is the one bbq book every cook should own.
              Great American Grilling (Grill By the Book)
              Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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              Great American Grilling (Grill By the Book)
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              5 out of 5 stars Great American Grilling - A Great Book!.......2000-06-19

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