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The Services Shift
Robert E. Kennedy, Ajay Sharma
By now, most business people, pundits, and politicians in the United States and other developed nations have come to grips with the phenomenon of manufacturing jobs moving offshore: The process is variously referred to as "outsourcing" or "offshoring. " But a far bigger wave of change is approaching the shores of those same developed nations: the globalization of services. Where are the jobs going? Which companies benefit –– or could benefit? How exactly does services offshoring work? How do you "get in the game"? Who makes a good partner? And what are the policy implications? The Services Shift answers all these questions, and more, offering powerful insights for managers, public policymakers, and citizens alike.
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Wikinomics
Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Using the collaborative-software “wiki” concept as their theme, the authors address how the Internet’s social network offers new, decentralized ways to produce content, goods, services and profit.
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The New Mainstream
Guy Garcia
A new America is emerging. As the multiculturalism of Hispanics, African Americans, Asians and new immigrants comes together, they forge a New Mainstream-based culture and economy that will soon overcome the Anglocentric “Old” Mainstream. Corporations, politicians, institutions and the media will not only have to accept and understand the New Mainstream, but they will have to embrace it and become part of it. In The New Mainstream, journalist and multimedia entrepreneur Guy Garcia offers a wake-up call and a road map to the new multicultural reality in America, creating a corporate survival guide for the uncharted markets of the 21st century.
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In the Company of Owners
Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse, Aaron Bernstein
Recently, stock options have gotten a bad reputation as the run-up in the stock market during the 1990s allowed some corporate executives to pursue unethical strategies to pump up their stock and cash in on their options, while employees saw huge potential fortunes disappear overnight. The problems were a consequence of abuse of stock options, not the concept itself. In the Company of Owners shows how and why stock options and the risk of ownership should be given to most of the work force.
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Free Agent Nation
Daniel H. Pink
The Organization Man is dead. Long live the Free Agent. Pink explains the reasons for the development of widespread free agency and how it impacts your company and your industry.
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The Agenda
Michael Hammer
The author of Reengineering the Corporation presents nine core principles critical to contemporary corporate success. Among Hammer’s agenda items: “managing without structure” and “creating order where chaos reigns.”
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The Weightless Society
Charles Leadbeater
A radical innovation in basic political, social and economic institutions is required to spread the benefits of the knowledge economy, argues Charles Leadbeater in this eloquent and provocative analysis of today’s society.
