Praise for the Seamless Enterprise "The Seamless Enterprise captures the rich insights in advanced tools and methods being used to achieve breakthrough performance by effective teamwork across functions." —Ray Stata, Chairman and CEO, Analog Devices "The Seamless Enterprise is by far the best resource we have found to date in helping us understand how to become a more efficient and effective "Horizontal Organization." Dan’s unique insights and experiences with the Japanese approach to cross-functional management has been invaluable in our organization redesign efforts." —Keith Lawrence, Associate Director-Global Product Supply The Procter & Gamble Company Aspects of cross-functional management are already at work in most organizations. However, few companies are fully leveraging the true power of cross-functional teams to create dramatically improved, bottom-line results. The Seamless Enterprise is a step-by-step guide to creating teams that truly "cross functions" and are focused on improving results. Dimancescu shows managers how to build the groundwork for cross-functional management and describes a proven, six-step implementation plan. In addition, The Seamless Enterprise reveals important insights from early pioneers in the field of cross-functional management. These companies include Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Ford and Boeing.

The Plevna Battle of 1877 is described through first person accounts. Fighters, military leaders, war correspondents provide a composite description of an epic event that marked the end of Ottoman rule over its European territories. The stories told are at once: shocking / historic / dramatic

The famed General Erwin Rommel served as a First Lieutenant in the elite Wurttemberg Regiment during World War I. His war experiences in Romania during 1916-1917 are recounted from his detailed memoirs, unpublished original archival material and other sources.

In 1964, nine members of the Ledyard Canoe Club at Dartmouth College canoed the 1500 mile length of the Danube River from Germany to the Black Sea. The three month journey took them through eight countries, six of which were Communist ruled behind the Iron Curtain. Their adventure became a cover story in the National Geographic Magazine (July 1965)

Mircea Malitza, a career diplomat from Romania, witnessed and participated in major events during the entire Cold War period. An engaging personality, he earned respect from world leaders in the United States, Western Europe and emerging post-colonial countries. This account is noteworthy for its rare insights into a duality not always apparent when seen through the Cold War lens of Western eyes. There is, on the one hand, the subservience of Romania, and the entire Soviet Bloc, to Russia's dogmas and imperial aspirations. On the other hand, Romania's leaders crafted their own national 'independent path, ' often in highly creative and potentially dangerous ways. This served Romania well in opening doors to favorable Western contact, culminating, during the mid-1960s, in a period of 'liberalization' of internal and foreign policies. In time, though, these achievements were undermined by Nicolae Ceausescu's increasingly dictatorial and cruel slide into a moral and economic abyss. In these memoirs, Ambassador Malitza's recollections of the Cuban Missile Crisis are illuminating: he provides unique eye witness testimony to both the public posturing and tense behind-the-scenes diplomacy as the world was taken to the brink of nuclear war - he is the sole surviving member of the UN Security Council of that time. Revealing, too, are Malitza's accounts of the dramatic day-by-day events and secret conspiracies of the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968-and how Romania avoided a similar fate. The author reveals his encounters and professional friendships with world leaders. Private conversations with Averell Harriman - America's master diplomat with unique insights into Russia's policies - are unexpected. So, too, is the relationship with UN Secretary General U-Thant. A unique memoir written in a lively voice, and translated for this edition with great sensitivity to nuance and subtle humor, this book should please both the casual reader and the specialist.