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IN MIXED COMPANY has shown a substantial increase in popularity and acclaim with each successive edition. Consequently, in the Fifth Edition, the author preserved the essence of previous versions, and expanded somewhat the central unifying theme that cooperation in small groups is usually superior to competition. In Mixed Company thoroughly addresses the theme of cooperation in small groups. The communication competence model continues to guide discussions of key small group concepts and processes. Systems theory also remains as a key theoretical component of the text and finally, an extensive discussion and analysis of power in small groups continues to separate IN MIXED COMPANY from other textbooks.
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In Mixed Company.......2005-09-05
The book was in slightly worse condition than stated, pages and cover were very bent, but the shipping was very speedy.
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The third edition of Engineering Design represents a major reorganization and expansion. The revision has resulted from the recognition that engineering students need more structure to guide them through the design process. Chapters have been reordered to be more in the natural progression of the design process. The book is broader in content than most design texts, but now contains much more prescriptive guidance on how to carry out design.
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Emphasizing teamwork, leadership and technology, this book distinguishes itself in two major ways: its emphasis on teamwork and leadership skills and its integration of ethics and diversity throughout. This book is especially timely because of the recent attention given to teams in business and industry, the examination of technology's role in small group communication, and the growing awareness that professionals need to examine their own leadership competence and understand the ethical and social implications of the groups in which they participate.
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Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success (J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership))
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One part of your job as a leader is to create commitment to your organization's vision. In order to do this, you have to communicate the vision effectively. In this guidebook we suggest many ways to communicate a vision. We also discuss how to deal with a resistant audience and what to do in the event that you yourself are resistant. You'll learn how to communicate a vision to others in ways that will help them understand it, remember it, and then go on to share it themselves.
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Practical and Easy ways to Create and Communicate Vision.......2007-08-05
Very nice vision examples. Helpful understanding the key characteristics that must be in place for a vision to be successfully communicated. Long list of creative ideas of how to communicate vision to all your stakeholders. Good read.
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Communicating with Your Team focuses on the communication skills necessary in workplace teams. Incorporates strategies for forming teams, establishing team goals, solving team problems, and becoming a leader. Text contains 10 workshops highlighting key workplace communication topics, special features, appropriate literature selections, Internet connections and project-based exercises.
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This digital document is an article from Wide-Format Imaging, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 485 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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Improve all key communication skills within the context of achieving team goals. This workshop systematically presents core communication skills such as active listening, giving and receiving feedback constructively, and reacting to others' ideas. Time Required: 4 hours
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"Communicating for Care" is a book written to assist the successful formation of a team with the Alzheimer's patient, caregiver and doctor. It is designed to eliminate the fears of the patient and caregiver in communicating with the doctor. Many times a person is intimidated by the doctor and leaves the visit with unanswered concerns. This is unfortunate and does not have to be. Communication is crucial considering, as of today, there are over four million Americans suffering from Alzheimer's disease. As America ages, there will be many more Americans with Alzheimer's disease. There is no question that someone in the family will either have Alzheimer's disease or will be a caregiver for someone suffering with it. This book will assist patients, family members, and caregivers to understand the disease and to communicate effectively with their doctors.
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This digital document is an article from Security Technology & Design, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1708 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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Despite calls for better co-operation between countries and different cultures, there is still confrontation between people, groups and nations. But at the same time they are exposed to common problems which demand co-operation for the solution of these problems. Cultures and Organizations helps to understand the differences in the way strategists and their followers think, offering practical solutions for those in business to help solve conflict between different groups.
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Wonderful framework for thinking about cultural differences.......2007-09-20
A must-read for anyone interested in the subject area.
The new and revised content also relate Hofstede's original groundbreaking research to the more recent work of other renowned scholars in the field (such as Ronald Inglehart of the Univ of Michigan and the World Values Survery). These links make his work even more compelling and make you start to think that we may be inching closer to a more universally agreed upon framework for thinking about cultural differences.
A must have resource for highly effective multicultural / multinational leadership..........2007-05-29
As a combat tested USAF E3 AWACS command pilot (over 1900+ hours of total flight experience), this book is a potent resource for anyone seeking to gain insights on how best to manage a multicultural / multinational workspace.
Excellent insights while entertaining to read.......2007-05-24
Having just survived a merger of two companies, I was searching to find the right words to explain the differences in cultures I was experiencing. Although this book focuses on national cultures, I found the explanations of the dimensions of culture and how they manifest themselves in different behaviors appropriate for corporate situations. The last few chapters deal explicitly with corporate culture, but I found these chapters less insightful than the others. The book is very well written and organized, with tables summarizing key concepts and entertaining anecdotes to illustrate the points. Because I've traveled internationally for business, I was familiar with other works on culture, but none were as helpful as this book. I now have the vocabulary to articulate the differences I see.
Monumental Book Well Worth the Read.......2007-03-06
The father and son team of Geert and Geert Jan Hofstede have done a remarkable job breaking down the (measurable) elements of the world's cultures, usingt the somewhat antiquated IBM studies combined with more recent (less comprehensive) studies. The end result is that nations can be evaulauted on the basis of criteria such as "uncertainty avoidance," "individualism" and "power distance from superiors."
The work is enlightening and helpful to anyone who works internationally. It is also useful to break down one's own nation (for example, some Americans lean toward the British way of thinking while others are more German-like). The same criteria that divide nations also divide families within a society.
Businessmen, missionaries, pastors, counselors, journalists, and social scientists should devour these materials!
This should be required reading for anyone planning to live overseas or anyone who deals with internationals. In short, this book is relevant to our modern "shrinking" world and quite well done.
Like most significant works, this volume has its weak points.
Although the authors claim to espouse a "values neutral" position (which I have always argued is an impossible and illogical position), their Dutch/Swedish preferences ring out loudly and clearly (humanistic, environmnetalist, etc.). Although the authors do make a serious attempt to look at things from other perspectives, they simply cannot divorce themselves from their own cultural preferances. This is not bad -- they simply need to be above board and stop pretending to take the role of the neutral outsider (at least to better influence those of us who are American conservatives; we are big into distinguishing between fact and evaluation of fact; these evaluations are always done through a person's own personal gridwork).
The authors also have occasional trouble connecting a few dots. For example, on the bottom of p. 355, the Hofstedes are tactfully scolding the U.S. for its lack of foreign aid (again, showing their own bias), but on the top of p. 356 they add, "Looking back to half a century of development assistance, most observers agree that the effectiveness of much of the spending has been dismal." They then say those countries which did improve did so because of their cultural values, not foreign aid. But they seem incapable of concluding that good intentions (and even money) is not the most effective way to solve these problems. They just don't get it.
The same is true with contributions through governments to Tsunami relief. It should be expected that individualistic countries would be more prone to give as individuals, not as collective societies. Rather than look at total giving (or perecentage) OF A SOCIETY, they authors confuse a society with its government. Lots of missed "dot connections" in this work.
Despite the books weakspots, it is overwhelming strong and rich with fascinating content. It is a "mind opening" work -- well worth the read. You simply must read this one!
Pioneering work.......2006-04-24
This is a pioneering book, which provides a generalist approach to dealing with cross-cultural issues with many excellent examples. Hofstede was one of the first to bring the study of how culture affects human interaction in the field of business. The quantifying approach is very similar to what cultural anthropologists use. As with all pioneering works there is some criticism about conflict resolution as other reviewers have pointed out. Another central criticisms of this model has been that nation state and culture are always presumed to be the same. Local culture does not follow political boundaries. Globalization has also changed some of the observations initially made by Hofstede.
Some readers might be tempted to think of people in simple categories or stereotypes, which is precisely what Hofstede counsels that we should attempt to avoid. Cultures and organizations gives good insights on how "Groupthink" controls our lives and how we could improve interaction.
Hofstede's tools for understanding different national cultures are widely used by cross-cultural trainers all over the world and taught in many fields.
This is a good book for international managers and students of culture. HR-practitioners working in multicultural organizations might find this a bit theoretical but nonetheless useful for understanding underlying causes for human behaviour.
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How to resolve money conflicts in your light and relationships
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Handy tool for an advisor.......2007-03-20
Dealing with couples exhibiting different backgrounds and attitudes towards money, and finances in general, is a challenge. Olivia Mellan has developed a strategy and a book that gauges people's money styles and addresses the need to recognize and how to adapt to each other's differences. I found this an important, basic tool that needed to be in my library, and in my toolkit as an fee-only financial advisor who works with couples.
A Great Finance Book for Couples!.......2005-11-10
Chances are, if you're in a relationship you've experienced differences of one kind or another, after all, opposites do attract. However, while many differences can prove to be beneficial to a relationship, conflicting money personalities can often cause serious financial problems. In Money Harmony, psychotherapist and author, Olivia Mellan, provides helpful exercises, dialogues, and other communication techniques to not only resolve these conflicting issues, but more importantly, to restore harmony to the relationship. I definitely agree with John Gray, PH.D. and author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus... every couple should learn the techniques described in this book! - Copyright 2005 by Michelle Jones, editor of BetterBudgeting.com
Wise counsel for financial counselors.......2002-08-06
This is a very helpful and insightful book for financial advisors! Understanding a client's money personality is essential to rendering helpful and practical advice and counsel.
So is understanding the money dynamics of marriag and couple relationships. I have found this book to be of tremendous help in my financial planning practice. HIGHLY recommended!
Robert A. Caldwell, CPA
maybe I'm the only one who didn't like it, but..........2002-04-29
I find Mellan's categorization of people as "money monks"; hoarders, avoiders, etc. to be somewhat simplistic. At different times, I have fit into several of these categories (and still do). I don't like advice from an author who seems intent on making me fit her theory.
There is commonsense advice in here on money and relationships but I was so irritated at the author's tone, which struck me as somewhat patronizing, that I didn't benefit from any of it.
Learn your own money "style" -- and your mate's.......1998-10-14
Psychotherapist Olivia Mellan has seen the relationship problems that money conflicts can cause. As she puts it, "money is never just money." Her experience with couples who clash over finances is laid out in this helpful book, where you'll learn how to identify your own money "style." Since that may differ from your mate's, Mellan offers advice on how to resolve communication problems about handling money, and set financial goals that'll work for both of you.
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The Unvarnished Truth.......2007-04-26
About 6 years ago I visited the White Eagle Conference Center in beautiful central New York. This is a quaint place that must have been a real marquee in its time. On one of their obviously long under used book shelves (seemed like nothing had been touched for at least 2 decades) I noticed this book, an original copyrighted 1932 version. I couldn't put it down. It presented a thoroughly well written, seminal treatment of the conflicts that senior leaders exhibit even today, a full 75 years later. It explained in vivid detail the deeply entrenched, inextricible human behavior that is observed consistently by senior leaders from organization to organization today. The plain and simple bottom line is that unless you're an insider, you're nothing more than overhead to be tolerated. The SEC was created by sheer necessity to protect the public. Businesmen 'talk' about how they care about other people but the unvarnished truth is that their friends and family are the only ones who matter. This book is great foundational work providing insight to the reasons why we need a strong SEC. The only thing that has changed in the human conditon is technology. The DNA that drives human behavior hasn't changed for thousands of years.
Dated Classic .......2004-12-07
"The Modern Corporation and Private Property" was hailed as an instant classic when it appeared in 1932. To my knowledge, it was the first book to spell out how modern corporate capitalism is characterized by pervasive oligopoly and the separation of management from ownership. These points are still valid today, and remind us that modern capitalism has little in common with the social system analyzed by Adam Smith and other Classical economists. However, most of "The Modern Corporation and Private Property" is taken up with an out-of-date, pre-SEC review of corporate finance law as it existed in 1930. As a result, the book will be of little interest to most modern readers, even though it is a "must" purchase for any serious library of books on economics or corporate governance.
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Outlines of Modern Chinese Law: Legal History, Contracts, Agency, Sales, Bailments and Carriers, Partnership, Property, Domestic Relations, Succession, Private Corporations, Negotiable Instruments, Criminal Law (China Studies: Studies in Chinese History and Civilization)
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