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The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook is a guide to the major sites of the Revolutionary War as well as to the most authoritative books on the war written during the last fifty years. Composed of nearly 150 entries on sites including battle fields and encampments; forts; museums; and meeting houses and gathering places such as Faneuil Hall in Boston and Keeler Tavern in Ridgefield, Connecticut, this guidebook is an essential reference for anyone interested in Revolutionary War history. Entries include essays from the most authoritative and accessible books on the American Revolution, including such classic works as Barbara Tuchman's The First Salute and David Hackett Fischer's Washington's Crossing, as well as a number of illuminating primary documents by Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and others. The essays provide context and overview, giving a sense of the major figures and events as well as the course of the Revolution. Frances Kennedy, general editor, provides connecting narrative throughout the text, which moves chronologically from the pre-Revolutionary years up through 1787. The resulting book is encyclopedic in scope yet accessible to the general reader. Accompanied by historical maps, it offers a comprehensive picture of how the Revolutionary War unfolded on American soil, and also points readers to the best writing on the subject in the last fifty years.
Innovation has become one of the primary core competencies of
effective organizations. It leads to changes in products, services,
organizational design, processes, strategies, and the systems that
support them. It occurs when someone has an idea, shares it with
others, and all find ways to turn the idea into action. The sharing
is a critical step. Creative ideas blossom in a collaborative
environment. Implementation depends on collaboration. The chapters
in this volume explore a variety of methods and settings that show
how collaboration can be utilized to enable and enhance innovation.
The innovation may be incremental or breakthrough and evident at
any level of organization: team, community of practice, project or
program, company, joint venture, alliance, partnership, or supply
chain.
Intangible forms of capital are being recognized in both research
and practice as essential resources for fueling company growth.
Forms of intangible capital include: intellectual, organizational,
human, relationship, social, political, innovation, and
collaborative. This volume consists of papers that focus on
collaborative capital -- broadly defined as the organizational
assets that enable people to work together well. It is manifested
in such outcomes as increased innovation and creativity, commitment
and involvement, flexibility and adaptability, leveraging of
knowledge, and enhanced learning. Collaborative capital represents a core competency or strategic
resource essential for building competitive advantage by enabling
the creation of networks of conversations and relationships.
However, it is seldom developed in a deliberate and systematic way,
but rather as an incidental outcome of formal and informal
organizational change. It may be deliberately increased by change
in organizational systems, practices, design, learning, and
culture. The term collaborative capital has seldom been used in research literature dealing with how people work together. Consequently, the meaning, measurement, and impact of collaborative capital in practice have not been explored to any significant extent. The papers in this volume launch that process with teaming contexts ranging from alliances and partnerships, to cross-national teams and cross-disciplinary teams.
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