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Strategy requires an ability to conceive the future, see and create
possibilities, and focus to choose a direction. Successful strategy
is a mental discipline consisting of broad ranging, flexible, and
creative thinking. Choosing the Future will help you achieve this
success by studying fundamentals such as effective group thinking,
knowing when to delay a decision for more information, balancing
contrasting modes of thought, and transforming thought into action.
Using a cycle to show the relationship among different strategic
thinking tools, Choosing the Future gives you guidance to respond
to these basic questions:
What seems to be happening?
What possibilities do we face?
What are we going to do about it?
Choosing the Future will help you advance your thinking skills.
Rather than telling you what to do, it teaches you to use your
business knowledge to discover your own ideas and strategic
direction.
Stuart Wells is Professor of Organization and Management at San
Jose State University, where he serves as Director of the Center
for Global Competitiveness and as Director of the Small Business
Institute. As founder of the Leading Edge Consulting Group and
co-founder of Corporate Wisdom, he has worked on leadership
development and strategy issues with such major corporations as
Clorox, Dupont, PepsiCo, and Proctor and Gamble. He is the author
of several books, including From Sage to Artisan: The Nine Roles of
the Value-Driven Leader.
A how-to book that advances thinking skills.
A guaranteed approach to improve the quality of strategic
thinking.
Shows how to discover your own ideas and strategic direction.
Strategy requires an ability to conceive the future, see and create
possibilities, and focus to choose a direction. Successful strategy
is a mental discipline consisting of broad ranging, flexible, and
creative thinking. Choosing the Future will help you achieve this
success by studying fundamentals such as effective group thinking,
knowing when to delay a decision for more information, balancing
contrasting modes of thought, and transforming thought into action.
Using a cycle to show the relationship among different strategic
thinking tools, Choosing the Future gives you guidance to respond
to these basic questions: What seems to be happening? What
possibilities do we face? What are we going to do about it?
Choosing the Future will help you advance your thinking skills.
Rather than telling you what to do, it teaches you to use your
business knowledge to discover your own ideas and strategic
direction. Stuart Wells is Professor of Organization and Management
at San Jose State University, where he serves as Director of the
Center for Global Competitiveness and as Director of the Small
Business Institute. As founder of the Leading Edge Consulting Group
and co-founder of Corporate Wisdom, he has worked on leadership
development and strategy issues with such major corporations as
Clorox, Dupont, PepsiCo, and Proctor and Gamble. He is the author
of several books, including From Sage to Artisan: The Nine Roles of
the Value-Driven Leader.
Five teenagers in Balintore Scotland are about to raise hell in
this rollercoaster of an adventure which sees a deadly virus
spreading across the community causing chaos, carnage and terror,
resulting in a pure horror gorefest. An original script from the
soon to be produced feature film, written by Geoff Woodbridge and
Stuart Wells.
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Boheme (Hardcover)
Charles Stuart Welles
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R801
Discovery Miles 8 010
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
In this provocative volume, Amy Stuart Wells and her co-authors
provide evidence that the laissez-faire policies of charter school
reform often exacerbate existing inequalities in our schools.
Providing the most comprehensive, critical review of charter
schools to date, this timely volume is based on the author's
in-depth study of 10 urban, suburban, and rural school districts
and 17 diverse charter schools in California, plus their analysis
of other charter schools studies from around the country. Focusing
on two central issues--accountability and equity--they explore how
charter school policies affect the lives of children, educators,
and parents in diverse social, economic, and political contexts.
The authors conclude that although the quality and experiences of
charter schools is highly varied across different contexts, the
laws that allow these schools to exist fail to assure meaningful
accountability. Meanwhile, these policies increase inequality and
stratification by pushing the educational system toward
privatization in terms of finance and admissions while failing to
target much-needed resources toward low-income communities. This
dynamic book will help educators and policymakers develop a future
policy agenda for charter school reform that will be more
responsive to the needs of all children.
This important book takes the discussion of racial inequality in
America beyond simplistic arguments of white racism and black
victimization to a more complex conversation about the separate but
unequal situation in many schools today. Amy Stuart Wells and
Robert Crain investigate the St. Louis, Missouri, school
desegregation plan, a unique agreement that since 1983 has given
black inner-city students the right to choose to attend
predominantly white suburban schools. After five years of research
and hundreds of interviews with policymakers, administrators,
teachers, students, and parents, Wells and Crain conclude that when
school desegregation is examined from these many perspectives, more
strengths than weaknesses emerge. They call for a reexamination of
now-popular school choice policies across the country so that these
policies may help to bring about more racial and social-class
integration. Stepping over the Color Line intertwines data on
student achievement and racial isolation with stories of the people
who participated in the St. Louis program. The authors set these
individuals within a broad historical and social context and
demonstrate how important linkages between the past and present
help explain why efforts to overcome racial inequality-in St. Louis
and in the larger society-are so difficult. "The authors do a
superb job of explaining how this innovative program came about,
placing it in a broad context that takes it beyond its immediate
and local implications. The book is at times heartbreaking and at
times uplifting."-Richard Zweigenhaft, co-author of Blacks in the
White Establishment? A Study of Race and Class in America
Deepening disaffection with conventional public schools has
inspired flight to private schools, home schooling, and new
alternatives, such as charter schools. Barely a decade old, the
charter school movement has attracted a colorful band of
supporters, from presidential candidates, to ethnic activists, to
the religious Right. At present there are about 1,700 charter
schools, with total enrollment estimated to reach one million early
in the century. Yet, until now, little has been known about the
inner workings of these small, inventive schools that rely on
public money but are largely independent of local school boards.
"Inside Charter Schools" takes readers into six strikingly
different schools, from an evangelical home-schooling charter in
California to a back-to-basics charter in a black neighborhood in
Lansing, Michigan. With a keen eye for human aspirations and
dilemmas, the authors provide incisive analysis of the challenges
and problems facing this young movement.
Do charter schools really spur innovation, or do they simply
exacerbate tribal forms of American pluralism? "Inside Charter
Schools" provides shrewd and illuminating studies of the struggles
and achievements of these new schools, and offers practical lessons
for educators, scholars, policymakers, and parents.
This authoritative book carefully examines the shifting terrain of
educational policy and why now, more than ever, we must bring
equity back to the center of educational reform. Drawn from recent
empirical studies of critical issues in education policy,
well-known scholars present new analyses of the current status of
past reforms, such as desegregation, ability tracking, and
affirmative action, and investigate more recent reforms, such
high-stakes testing, vouchers, and charter schools. They also
examine historical, economic, and political conditions that
generate inequalities in educational opportunity.
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