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In Knowledge Leadership, Cavaleri and Seivert describe the dawning of a new era in which individuals are leading rather than managing knowledge. In the past, many knowledge-based initiatives have failed because leaders underestimated the powerful link between knowledge and performance improvement and also because they mistakenly thought that information was the same as knowledge. Cavaleri and Seivert claim that, while information is a necessary precursor to knowledge, it is not sufficient in itself for improving business performance.
The authors describe notable organizations that use the pragmatic knowledge strategies they describe to gain competitive advantage. Pragmatic knowledge is the result of individuals developing a deeper understanding of how (and why) things work best in practice. The process of creating pragmatic knowledge transforms key lessons from systems thinking, total quality management, and organization learning into a powerful new business strategy.
To help readers apply the concepts and tools in this book, Cavaleri and Seivert draw on case examples and a decade of original cross-cultural research about knowledge leadership. They also invite readers to use The Knowledge Bias Profile to discover their knowledge leadership style. The book systematically outlines a user-friendly strategy for becoming a knowledge leader and for building high-performing, knowledge-based organizations.
* Applies well-respected theories of the learning organization and the knowledge-creating company to improving corporate leadership in the knowledge economy
* Based on research with hundreds of managers in the US and Asia
* Provides a simple framework for improving leader's knowledge gained from experience
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The conventional wisdom that leaders are born, not made, ignores how leaders learn from their experiences. The value of the knowledge their learning imparts varies widely-some learn valuable and useful lessons, which they can then apply effectively, giving their companies distinct advantage in today's complex and fast-paced competitive environment. Based on a study of several hundred managers in the United States and Asia, this book shows how managers create knowledge from their experiences and use it more or less effectively. The authors draw on the theories of Senge's learning organization, and Nonaka and Takeuchi's knowledge-creating company, and on their extensive research base to provide a simple framework that leaders can use to create more effective knowledge from their experiences and to transform their corporate cultures into knowledge-creating companies that support effective learning for all employees to drive innovation and competitiv
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A practical and useful approach to Knowledge Leadership,.......2005-10-28
Hank Hadders does a fine job summarizing important features of Knowledge Leadership and I won't repeat any of his remarks.
Let me first say that this is a book I'll keep close to my desk for ready reference. It is full of practical advice about how to turn knowledge into learning. Cavaleri and Seivert recommend that we experiment with our behavior to generate concrete experience which we think thoughtfully about before deciding what is the value of what we have learned. Then we can apply our knowledge to take effective action to solve problems and make decisions.
This model is dynamic and meant to be acted upon continuously throughout our life. Knowledge is always provisional; that is, meant to be tested by some new experiment which generates experience that may or may not confirm what we think we know. By the way, what we think we know is often wrong. Cavaleri and Seibert convincingly demonstrate the power of our biases to lead us astray. Constant feedback from the environment and from those we work with is necessary to provide truth value to our knowledge.
I must admit, I loved this book and recommend it highly. Clearly written with many useful examples, Knowledge Leadership will help the reader to practice taking an active approach to learning that builds on constant experiment to deepen understanding of an ever changing world. This is not simply a book to be read and thought about; it is a call to action. In Knowlege Leadership Cavaleri and Seibert give us the tools to turn action into useful knowledge.
Buy this book. You won't be disappointed.
Knowledge Leadership, a job for everyone.......2005-08-09
"Stimulate passion for (knowledge) exploitation ánd exploration !". That's the message Steven Cavaleri and Sharon Seivert offer us in this thoughtful new book. Organizations can create more value when the innovative knowledge leadership principles, described in this book produce results that are difficult to imitate. Knowledge leaders can discover unique ways to use knowledge to realize sustainable competitive advantage. But what does this really mean in practice? How do we get there? How can we become more pragmatic in using knowledge to improve performance - both as individuals and organizations? What can we learn from theory, science, business practice (companies as Toyota) and history ? These and many other questions are clearly answered by the authors all in the context of the intriguing process of what they call knowledge leadership.
Cavaleri, one of the founding fathers of what has come to be known as The New Knowledge Management (TNKM) and Seivert suggest to leaders that it's time to shift their perspective toward envisioning how knowledge can be used to drive performance to higher levels. And that knowledge in organizations is better led than managed. The book reflects this theme using the eclectic and inclusive thinking of its authors throughout all 359 pages of the book. For example, the authors use strict dichotomies between various learning styles, personality types, and organizational systems. And through their delicate balancing act, they always lead the reader to higher levels of synthesis, balance, and harmony in envisioning a new role for knowledge in companies. This book is aimed toward all levels of knowledge-workers, including everyone in a company from the CEO on down. Everyone can become a Knowledge Leader. The authors focus early in the book on the importance of Personal Knowledge Development - something that is missing from most conventional Knowledge Management (KM) approaches.
Knowledge Leadership is a rare book in that in builds on a deep philosophical understanding to explain how learning, knowledge and action can be united in the form of a practical knowledge strategy. The authors describe a new and wonderful unified Pragmatic framework with converging concepts from KM, OL, TQM and action learning, all based on the conceptual foundations established by renowned American intellectual, Charles Sanders Peirce. The authors use Peirce's philosophy of Pragmatism to intricately weave an approach that links knowledge to business performance by building upon the scientific method of experimentation.
The first six chapters deal with explaining a pragmatic approach to knowledge leadership, while chapters seven to eleven deal with using pragmatic knowledge to improve performance in both personal and corporate settings. Chapters twelve to fifteen describe the normative model of a pragmatic FAST-Knowledge-based Organization (FAST is an acronym that describes knowledge that is Functional + Timely and Adaptive + Sustainable). Finally chapter sixteen puts it all together providing a meta-framework using 5-Point Dynamic Mapping.
Knowledge Leadership is a colourful book that uses the dramatic personality archetypes first proposed by Arthur Koestler: the Yogi and Commissar. This provides a solid base for describing the roots of knowledge leadership found within theories of learning. Using this model, readers are able to assess their own knowledge-creating style. Chapter 3 presents a short form of the Knowledge-Bias profile. I found this profile an amazing tool to diagnose my own leadership style (and to compare it with the results of their cross-cultural study) to learn the benefits and limitations of my own style.
Organizational failures are often caused by ineffectiveness, but few management approaches address this problem. The authors stress the importance of pragmatic knowledge as the missing link for improving business performance. They carefully lay out the basic concepts of their model: a pragmatic and fallabilist perspective on knowledge. I agree with the authors that our own lessons of experience about what works best in practice, will enable us to know what actions are truly most effective. The authors take a bold step to propose a company-wide approach in which all people create pragmatic knowledge based upon their own problem solving experiences, and openly interact with others in Communities (of Inquiry) to validate new knowledge claims. It is clear that Knowledge Development is truly the domain of us all.
Cavaleri and Seivert then take a final, brave step in the last section of the book. They introduce a normative model called the FAST-Knowledge-Based Organization (KBO). It is a prescriptive model and specifies an end state vision and the necessary innovative organizational principles (self-organisation, balancing high levels of innovation and knowledge creation with improvement in productivity and efficiency), etc.
I rate this book with 5 stars. This book is very well written, easy to read (good summaries, stories and examples), and provides lots of new stimulating visions, concepts, models, and engaging assessment tools and tests. My conclusion is that the authors brilliantly (re)tell the tale of TNKM for a more general public in an understandable way, and by doing so enriched TNKM and management science with their elaborated concept- perhaps it should be called "The New Knowledge Leadership"? But how to deal with the tension between the new Knowledge Leader and an Old Organization?
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Values at Work is an analysis of organizational dynamics with wide- ranging implications in an age of market globalization. It looks at the challenges businesses face to maintain people-oriented work systems while remaining successful in the larger economy. George Cheney revisits the famous Mondragón worker-owned-and-governed cooperatives in the Basque Country of Spain to examine how that collection of innovative and democratic businesses is responding to the broad trend of "marketization."
The Mondragón cooperatives are changing in important ways as a direct result of both external pressures to be more competitive and the rise of consumerism, as well as through the modification of internal policies toward greater efficiency. One of the most remarkable aspects of the changes is that some of the same business slogans now heard around the globe are being adopted in this set of organizations renowned for its strongly held internal values, such as participatory democracy, solidarity, and equality. Instead of emphasizing the special or unique qualities of the Mondragón experience, this book demonstrates the case's relevance to trends in all sectors and across the industrialized world.
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Values at Work?.......2000-06-17
With Values at Work George Cheney has made a timely and significant incursion into a number debates, including the nature of empowerment, the current infatuation with teamwork, and the social and economic effects of globalization. This is no mean feat as the subject matter of the book, ostensibly at least, addresses a limited area of specialized interest: the recent activities of the Spanish Basque region's Mondragón cooperative network. Using Mondragón as his focus, however, Cheney skilfully and persuasively comments on many issues that face us all in the early twenty first century, whether we be students of organizations or employees subject to the effects of "downsizing," teamwork, or corporate mission statements. In doing this he also neatly interweaves other secondary material from the US, New Zealand, and other parts of Europe.
Of course, in the past there has been a great deal of interest shown in cooperatives in general and in Mondragón in particular, most famously the pioneering urban ethnographer and sociologist William Foote Whyte's long-term study (Whyte and Whyte 1991). For many the heyday of cooperatives in Western capitalist economies where the 1960s and 1970s when they became identified with radical politics and workers' control movements. As studies of that period have shown (for example, Landry 1985), many of these experiments in workers' control descended into financial unviability and self-exploitation. Cheney shows us that this "degeneration thesis" was recognised by the Fabian Socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webb as early as the 1890s but he also notes that degeneration is not the inevitable destiny of all cooperatives. Indeed, the continued viability of Mondragón is testimony to this. In fact, it is Mondragón's very longevity that makes it so interesting because it is a cooperative that has lasted long enough not only to find itself emeshed in an increasingly globalized economy but also to live through the recent explosion of interest in "participation," "commitment," and the creation of corporate "values." This observation actually makes it doubly interesting because participation, commitment and a strong value system are the very features that have always sustained Mondragón's constituent firms. The basic question Cheney wishes to address is: How have these features been transformed in the face of recent social, economic, and managerial developments?
Not unexpectedly, the straightforward nature of Cheney's basic question belies a much more complex range of contextual and explanatory issues. In this respect it is much to Cheney's credit that he has done such a good job of organizing his response to the question in a clear and comprehensible manner. As a writer Cheney is an adept stylist who works through what is sometimes difficult and diverse source material in a way that renders it intelligible to the uninitiated without ever selling it (or the reader) short. No doubt, his background in communication studies has been something of an asset here, both practically and conceptually, and he brings to the field of management and organization studies a refreshing breadth of knowledge and experience.
The main device that Cheney deploys to make sense of Mondragón's recent experiences is to separate matters into sets of internal and external pressures. Thus, external pressures relate, among other things, to the rise of consumerism and need to compete in globalized markets whilst internal pressures now include the search for greater productive efficiency through contemporary management techniques such as total quality management and teamwork. One of Cheney's key arguments is that internal pressures, formerly characterised by collectivity and democracy, have yielded to external competitive pressures and, in the process, been transformed in some way. This framework is posed against a backdrop where "values at work" (a nice double-message) are taken to have important material and ideational effects. As Cheney succinctly puts it, "When we say that someone practices what he preaches, we don't really mean that the preaching itself isn't a type of practice" (p.25).
Cheney's theoretical interests squarely lie within what the sociologist Poitr Sztompka calls the "culturalist turn" of social science where the study of axiological, normative, and cognitive matters is prioritized. In Chapter 1 Cheney provides a useful summary of previous relevant studies of values at work for readers unfamiliar with this approach as it pertains to organizations. The first problem he addresses is how to attribute "values" to an organization without committing an act of anthropomorphization. His response is to argue for (and undertake) an ethnography that examines how values are produced and reproduced, not by faceless and monolithic organizations, but by the very people who make them what they are. Take one of Mondragón's foundational ideals, that of "participation." According to Cheney we can only understand what this means in an organization if we study, "... who's in the 'loop', what people in meetings are saying, how much they're saying, how they're saying it, who's talking and who's not, what's not being said, what options are not being considered, and so on." (p.25). Although Cheney's focus is primarily culturalist in Sztompka's terms, the chapter closes by outlining the ways in which the internal and external pressures facing Mondragón intersect along social and economic dimensions in three main ways: (1) the "rational" market that is frequently used to legitimate value systems is not quite so rational as many suppose; (2) some organizations, especially cooperatives, have internal limits to growth that are not necessarily explicable using economic principles; and, (3) those very economic principles are ultimately mere stories themselves, a socially constructed discourse that is based on nothing more concrete than "values" like trust, obligation, and the sanctity of contracts.
Chapter 2 provides the main historical and contextual discussion of the book. Cheney presents the reader with an outline of what is a fascinating and salutary story of an alternative approach to successful business. Perhaps most interesting are the local cultural, social, and political factors operating in the Basque region after World War Two. Unlike many cooperative movements in other countries, Mondragón had no direct link with the organized labor movement. This is because, under General Franco's particular brand of Fascism, free and independent labor unions were effectively banned until his death in 1975 when Spain began to emerge as a modern European democracy. In the case of Mondragón this vacuum was filled by the members of the Catholic Church. Add to this particular context the politics of Basque separatism and what you have, as Cheney points out, is a situation where values at work are closely aligned with a broader system of strong cultural values. Indeed, he attributes the longevity of Mondragón to a sense of solidarity that had dual roots in regional opposition to Franco and the "liberation theology" of certain sections of the Church. The issue that Mondragón now faces, however, is how to sustain a strong value system given that Spain has become a modern secular state operating in an increasingly globalized economy. In Chapter 3 (with assistance from Yudit Buitrago) Cheney takes individual sets of values at Mondragón and looks at how they have been transformed. Thus he examines how internationalization has created pressures for growth and increased competitiveness. He then goes on to look at how Mondragón's sense of solidarity has been affected (especially as it relates to matter of equality and autonomy) before going on explore the impact that management practices like TQM and HRM have had. Finally, he assesses the changing meaning of participation at Mondragón. In the light of these developments, according to Cheney, the important question Mondragón now faces "... is not Can they keep their core social values intact? but Do they want to?" (p.112). I think that this question is worth asking about all organizations that espouse strong value systems.
Cheney concludes his book by seeking out the practical lessons of Mondragón's recent experiences. Although he concedes that Mondragón's context is singular he also points to some more general implications for other organizations in other settings. For my money one of the most interesting is the emergence of a dual loyalty system that has accompanied the introduction of team-based working at Mondragón. Here we see a situation where the values developed by teams (cf. Barker 1999) could potentially reinforce or undermine broader value systems of the organization. It is Cheney's ability to draw out these issues and make them relevant to a wider audience that makes his book so valuable. Ultimately, it also a hopeful book: Cheney shows us that things like participation and autonomy are not unquestionably "good" things but, then again, they need not be a Troja
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Special attention is given to breeding, caging, and maintaining the health of these beautiful birds. Advice is included on how to raise doves anywhere from rural areas to crowded urban neighborhoods. Over 30 beautiful, full-color photos. Paperback / 64 Pages / 6 1/2 x 7 7/8 / 1994
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Best Book For Raising Doves/Pigeons.......2007-01-22
I bought this book, and it's sister book Pigeons, the day after I was given an orphan day-old pigeon chick to raise way back in 1997. Normaly I deal with domestic birds (bantams, budgies, ect.) so when my Pidgie came to me, I knew the basics, but I also knew I didn't know enough about pigeons to raise him on my own. These 2 books were all I needed, they provide all the info needed to raise happy healthy pigeond and doves from chick to adult. I am so glad these 2 German classics had been translated and reprinted into English, I don't know what I would have done without them.
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Doves.......2005-10-26
This book is great. I looked for the information in this book all over the place for months. This book has absolutely everything you need or would want to know about being a dove owner. This book should be in every dove owner's book collection.
Domesticated Ringneck Doves.......2001-11-03
There is not enough information given on the domesticated Ringneck Dove. The book emphasizes too much on avaries and wild dove behavior and husbandry. It actually states that keeping a Dove in a cage is not a good idea when the Ringneck is a very good cage bird--but they do have specific husbandry requirements that need to be addressed.
The Best Book on doves I have found.......2000-11-28
As a dove owner,I have found this book to be a very clear treatment of dove species, behavior, and health needs. The pictures are interesting and the information provided is far superior to other books on doves that I have read. My only complaint is that more information could be provided on nutrition, but since most dove are such easy keepers (mostly eating seed, millet spray, whole wheat bread, vegetables, and grit) the information on this need not be extensive. I would recommend this book to anyone who is considering adding a dove to their household.
Generally well-written but really about wild species only.......2000-09-16
The major flaw in this book is that it is nearly totally devoted to the wild dove and pigeon species. It makes very little reference to the domesticated Ringneck and White Doves (Streptopelia risoria), which make excellent, tame pets and have different requirements, in terms of caging and care. Also, what references it does make to domesticated doves is somewhat confusing and inconsistent.
For example, photos of domesticated Ringneck and White Doves (Streptopelia risoria) are labeled, alternatively, "collared pigeons" on page 16, and "collared doves" on pages 37 and 40. However, on page 5, the birds labeled as "collared doves" are probably the Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia deocato). I realize that both species may be described by the same common names. However. I think the author should have done a better job in describing which is which, since 'Streptopelia risoria' is extremely domesticated and suitable as a finger-tamed house pet whereas 'Streptopelia deocato' is a wild species suitable only for an outdoor aviary.
This confusion is not only in the photos but in the text as well. For example, the sections on "Housing" and "Doves as Pets" make little or no distinction between the wild and domesticated species. It implies all doves are basically untamable and require large aviaries but then also gets into a discussion about cages. Cages are really only suitable for domesticated species but the book doesn't SAY this anywhere. There is also no mention, anywhere in the book, of the great pet qualities that domesticated Ringneck and White Doves have. So, in my opinion, this book would be very confusing for someone who purchased a tame, domesticated Ringneck or White Dove and want to know how to care for their new pet.
I think this book would be fine if it just stuck to wild dove species. In fact, it should be renamed "Wild Doves". Domesticated Ringneck and White Doves (Streptopelia risoria) really deserve their own separate book but, unfortunately, there really isn't one out there yet. "Doves" by Michael Gos makes a better distinction between domesticated and wild species but his book also tries to cover both types, in one one book, and can also be similarly confusing in text and photo labeling.
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Since the first edition of this book, 17 years ago, aquaculture has consolidated its position as an important means of producing food and as a contributor to global food security. Cage aquaculture too has continued to expand apace. The third edition of this important, useful and well-received book maintains the original aim of providing a thorough synthesis of information on cages and cage aquaculture practices with data and examples encompassing all major world regions.Fully updated, the book 's comprehensive contents include details of the origin and principles of cage aquaculture and an overview of its current position. Contents of the chapters following include key information on cage design and construction, site selection, environmental impacts and environmental capacity, management, and potential problems in cage aquaculture systems. A comprehensive reference list and index are included to help readers.The third edition of Cage Aquaculture is essential reading for all personnel involved in fish and shellfish farms that use cages, and for all those embarking on a career in aquaculture. Cage manufacturers and others supplying the aquaculture trade will find much of commercial use within the book. All those involved in aquaculture research and equipment design should have a copy of this most useful book. All libraries in universities and research establishments where aquaculture, environmental science, aquatic science, fish biology and fisheries are studied and taught should have several copies available to users.
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The site specific impact on the benthic fauna was assessed within a 4.64 km^2 area of intensive aquaculture situated on the eastern side of Hios island (Aegean Sea, Greece) at 11 stations seasonally between November 2000 and October 2001. The benthic fauna showed marked changes in species numbers, diversity and faunal abundance between farm and control sites. The polychaetes Nereis diversicolor, Scolelepis fuliginosa and Capitella capitata were the most dominant species at the farm sites (35% of the total abundance), whilst the most dominant species at the control sites were the polychaete Hyalinoecia brementi and the sipunculid Aspidosiphon muelleri (23% of the total abundance). Species richness, diversity and evenness were higher at the control sites whereas numerical abundance was higher at the farm sites. K-dominance curves suggest a minor impact on the benthic community at the farm sites and temporal changes on macrobenthic assemblages.
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Publication:
Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Alabama Academy of Science
Page: 18
Distributed by Thomson Gale
Book Description
Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant is written to help the 100,000+ post-graduate students and professionals who need to write effective proposals for grants. There is little or no formal teaching about the process of writing grants for NIH, and many grant applications are rejected due to poor writing and weak formulation of ideas. Procuring grant funding is the central key to survival for any academic researcher in the biological sciences; thus, being able to write a proposal that effectively illustrates one's ideas is essential. Covering all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding, this volume offers clear advice backed up with excellent examples. Included are a number of specimen proposals to help shed light on the important issues surrounding the writing of proposals. The Guide is a clear, straight-forward, and reader-friendly tool.
Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant Writing is based on Dr. Yang's extensive experience serving on NIH grant review panels; it covers the common mistakes and problems he routinely witnesses while reviewing grants.
Customer Reviews:
Exactly what I needed........2007-10-02
Leave it to a guy at UCLA to write the perfect "how to" write a grant. Dr Yang's book was recommended by colleagues at UCLA, and they were right on the money. Very helpful for those of us not altogether familiar with the process. Unless you are an expert (in which case you would be writing your own book), this should be in your library.
Great quick read regarding NIH grant writing.......2007-05-27
This is a great, quick read that is clear and can help you focus on key topics in preparing an NIH grant. I particularly like the emphasis on clarity of writing and making an interesting story, instead of the usual drudgery. It is short enough that you can read it in one sitting, before sitting down to write. It is much less detailed than the Ogden book, "Research Proposals", with a different emphasis, on clarity of writing. If you are looking for a book for a class, I'd suggest Ogden. But if looking for a quick read for the novice to get them started the Yang book is great, due to its brevity and clarity.
Excellent, Excellent Book............2007-02-09
I have worked with the NIH for quite some time. I also worked at the University of Pittsburgh for more than 4 years doing research with the NIH. This is an indispensible book. It goes very well paired with "Government Funding and You". I'd highly suggest both books.
Kelli
A concise step-by-step guide on writing grants.......2006-06-05
This book is full of tips and hints how maximizing the impact of your ideas in a grant application. Examples of effective writing and lists of common pitfalls give concrete guidance on writing a grant that conveys your ideas in their best light. The author also explains the perspective of the grant reviewers who read and score your grant.
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