An organization's culture lies at the heart of its ability to perform. In the knowledge economy, new rules are emerging and organizations must rethink how they will compete by leveraging their tacit knowledge - their intangible assets - in order to create and sustain a strategic advantage. In this book, Hubert Saint-Onge and Charles Armstrong, two corporate leaders who have been in the forefront of using knowledge management to gain strategic advantage, focus on knowledge-based customer relationships, innovative internal structures, and self-initiated learning cultures, in order to explain the building blocks that must be in place to create and sustain a knowledge-based culture within organizations-a culture that they argue is integral to a high-performance organization. An organization's culture lies at the heart of its ability to perform. In the knowledge economy, new rules are emerging and organizations must rethink how they will compete by leveraging their tacit knowledge - their intangible assets - in order to create and sustain a strategic advantage. In this book, Hubert Saint-Onge and Charles Armstrong, two corporate leaders who have been in the forefront of using knowledge management to gain strategic advantage, focus on knowledge-based customer relationships, innovative internal structures, and self-initiated learning cultures, in order to explain the building blocks that must be in place to create and sustain a knowledge-based culture within organizations-a culture that they argue is integral to a high-performance organization. This book provides a blueprint for creating and leading organizations with strong knowledge-based cultures to achieve breakthrough performance. Using the idea of conductivity, the authors describe the successful organization of the future as one that increases the quality and flow of knowledge within the organization and within its network of suppliers, customers, and other collaborators. The narrative is based on the thoughts, experience, and models of Hubert Saint-Onge and Charles Armstrong, who have successfully led high-performance companies in the financial services sector and the engineering and manufacturing sector. Each chapter includes practical examples from their experience and from other successful leaders.

While most analyses of Korean politics have looked to elites to explain political change, this new and revised edition of Korean Society examines the role of ordinary people in this dramatic transformation. Taking the innovative theme of 'civil society' - voluntary organizations outside the role of the state which have participated in the process of political and social democratization - the essays collected here examine Korea as one of the most dramatic cases in the world of ordinary citizens participating in the transformation of politics.
Key topics are discussed including:
*Comparisons of Korean democratization to the experiences of post-authoritarian regimes elsewhere in the world
*Comparisons of the theory of civil society as developed in Western Europe and America
*The legacy of Korea's Confucian past for contemporary politics and society
*Close examinations of various civil society movements
*South Korea and North Korea
Conceptually innovative, up-to-date and timely, the new edition of this book will be an invaluable resource for students of contemporary Korea, Asian politics and the global struggle for democracy.

An organization's culture lies at the heart of its ability to perform. In the knowledge economy, new rules are emerging and organizations must rethink how they will compete by leveraging their tacit knowledge - their intangible assets - in order to create and sustain a strategic advantage. In this book, Hubert Saint-Onge and Charles Armstrong, two corporate leaders who have been in the forefront of using knowledge management to gain strategic advantage, focus on knowledge-based customer relationships, innovative internal structures, and self-initiated learning cultures, in order to explain the building blocks that must be in place to create and sustain a knowledge-based culture within organizations-a culture that they argue is integral to a high-performance organization. An organization's culture lies at the heart of its ability to perform. In the knowledge economy, new rules are emerging and organizations must rethink how they will compete by leveraging their tacit knowledge - their intangible assets - in order to create and sustain a strategic advantage. In this book, Hubert Saint-Onge and Charles Armstrong, two corporate leaders who have been in the forefront of using knowledge management to gain strategic advantage, focus on knowledge-based customer relationships, innovative internal structures, and self-initiated learning cultures, in order to explain the building blocks that must be in place to create and sustain a knowledge-based culture within organizations-a culture that they argue is integral to a high-performance organization. This book provides a blueprint for creating and leading organizations with strong knowledge-based cultures to achieve breakthrough performance. Using the idea of conductivity, the authors describe the successful organization of the future as one that increases the quality and flow of knowledge within the organization and within its network of suppliers, customers, and other collaborators. The narrative is based on the thoughts, experience, and models of Hubert Saint-Onge and Charles Armstrong, who have successfully led high-performance companies in the financial services sector and the engineering and manufacturing sector. Each chapter includes practical examples from their experience and from other successful leaders.

While most analyses of Korean politics have looked to elites to explain political change, this new and revised edition of Korean Society examines the role of ordinary people in this dramatic transformation. Taking the innovative theme of 'civil society' - voluntary organizations outside the role of the state which have participated in the process of political and social democratization - the essays collected here examine Korea as one of the most dramatic cases in the world of ordinary citizens participating in the transformation of politics.
Key topics are discussed including:
*Comparisons of Korean democratization to the experiences of post-authoritarian regimes elsewhere in the world
*Comparisons of the theory of civil society as developed in Western Europe and America
*The legacy of Korea's Confucian past for contemporary politics and society
*Close examinations of various civil society movements
*South Korea and North Korea
Conceptually innovative, up-to-date and timely, the new edition of this book will be an invaluable resource for students of contemporary Korea, Asian politics and the global struggle for democracy.

Charles Armstrong is the author of Little Bad Bubba-The Kid People Loved to Hate. He holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Texas Western College and a master's degree in Education from the University of Texas at El Paso. Charles began his Christian walk in the late 1940's at Summit Methodist Church in Marshall, Texas. He served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1969. He was stationed at Ft. Bliss, Texas, and Sattahip, Thailand. He taught Sunday school for fourteen years and middle school for thirty years. As a middle school teacher, he was twice elected Teacher of the Year. He lives with his wife, Carol, in El Paso, Texas.

Laugh And Pray Today is a collection of poems, some funny and some containing Bible truths. It's for all boys and girls everywhere, even those in their second childhood. I mixed poems together in this way because I believe our God is filled with love and joy. I don't see Him as a dark, somber God, but rather One who loves to laugh, and One who delights in His children. The message I want to convey to children is that once they have exchanged their life for the life of Christ, and are born again, they can relax and be at peace with themselves. They can put smiles on their faces and enjoy life as they experience the love and joy that only comes with knowing Jesus Christ in a personal way.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. 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. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Mountain Water Brooks, And Other Poems Charles Armstrong Fox S.W. Partridge, 1885

This is the story of Bubba Jackson, a thirteen-year-old boy whose dreadful life illustrates the fact that God, in His great love and mercy, never abandons us. Bubba is the product of a broken home. His father deserted the family several years earlier, and he lives with his alcoholic mother, who resents being stuck with him. He makes terrible grades in school, is picked on by other students, and fails at practically everything he does. Even though Bubba is desperate for love and acceptance, he often tries to get even with the people who have hurt him. This almost always results in terrible problems for everyone involved, until the one person he hurts the most leads him down a strange new path. Charles Armstrong was born-again as a child. He doesn't remember the exact date. All he knows is that the moment Christ came into his life, he went from death to life and became a child of the living God. In the years that followed, Charles often felt like he had let God down. He tried and failed many times to live the life he thought God expected of him. The harder he tried, the worse he failed, until he finally understood that no matter how hard he tried, he would never be able to do it. That's when he realized that God didn't even want him to try. What God wanted was for Charles to die to himself and trust Jesus to live His life through him. The burden was transferred from Charles' shoulders to His. It was a bright new day.

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.