Mission Possible: Becoming a World-Class Organization While There's Still Time
In the ever growing trend of the downsizing of companies in the '90s, the biggest challenge for both the large corporations and the growing small and medium-size companies is: how can a manager concentrate on improving the existing organization while at the same time keeping a focus and creating an all-important future plan of that same organization? Blanchard offers a new model for improving your present organization while designing its replacement. Simultaneous hardcover release from McGraw-Hill. 2 cassettes.
As baby boomers approach retirement age and the work patterns of younger workers constantly change, many organizations worldwide are experiencing a far-reaching knowledge bleed. Therefore, it is imperative that organizations find ways to best leverage and retain that vital knowledge before workers leave the organization and attrition occurs.
Functional Grammar in the ESL Classroom: Noticing, Exploring and Practicing
A set of easy to use techniques helps students discover for themselves how grammar works in real world contexts and how grammatical choices are not just about form but about meaning. Sample teaching ideas, covering a wide range of grammatical topics including verb tense, voice, reference and the organization of texts, accompanies each procedure.
Incredibly Easy Project Management: A Mildly Heretical Perspective
This book is a management manual with particular emphasis on the control of projects across all sectors of government, civil society and industry. It covers the gamut through planning, organization, responsibility, communication, contracts and montoring.
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authorized Edition
Mark Twain is his own greatest character in this brilliant self-portrait, the first of three volumes collected by the Mark Twain Project on the centenary of the author's death. It is published complete and unexpurgated for the first time. (Twain wanted his more scalding opinions suppressed until long after his death.) Eschewing chronology and organization, Twain simply meanders from observation to anecdote and between past and present.
