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Knowledge Unplugged announces the results of a major survey of knowledge management practice within the most influential companies in the world, by the most influential management consultancy group in the world. The McKinsey Knowledge Management team interviewed top executives and also investigated how far their plans were implemented in practice, in 40 companies in the US, Europe and Japan. In many companies they discovered a significant gap between the vision at the top and the reality on the shop floor. Knowledge Unplugged draws together their findings and presents a practical guide to improving knowledge building and sharing at all levels within an organization, vividly illustrated with case studies of best practice and common pitfalls. They argue that knowledge management is much more than simply installing a new database and can only be successful when it is at the heart of everyday personal exchanges, personal incentives and personal responsibilities at every level of the firm.
The controversial topic of sexual harassment in the United
States is explored in this unique collection of over 90 documents.
The political and social aspects of the concept of sexual
harassment are examined through such documents as legal cases that
defined and prohibited sexual harassment, government documents,
major studies, and newspaper accounts of major developments
concerning sexual harassment. Each document is accompanied by an
explanatory introduction to help high school and college students
understand how that particular document fits into larger trends,
while also making it more accessible to the reader.
The question of what sexual harassment is and how we have
developed an awareness of the concept in the late twentieth century
is explored in detail in six separate sections. The first section
reviews the definition of sexual harassment and why it is
considered illegal. The next three sections investigate sexual
harassment as it has arisen in three contexts: employment, the
military, and education. The fifth section examines the ways laws
have been expanding beyond the areas of employment, the military
and education. The final section provides the most current rulings
of the Supreme Court involving sexual harassment. These six
sections provide a comprehensive history that explores legal
prohibitions on sexual harassment, setting forth important
historical cases, while focusing on current areas of controversy,
such as same-sex sexual harassment and free speech issues.
The Vicos Project was a major effort to apply anthropology to
community development in a rural community of Andean Peru in the
1950s. Deconstructing Development Discourse in Peru is a
retrospective examination of the Vicos research and development
project through a poststructuralist lens. William Stein details the
work of North American researchers, with emphasis on factors which
limited their capacity to engage in development. Stein endeavors to
apply the work of the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, as an
aid in the interpretation of events and reactions of both North
American and Peruvian researchers.
From the prelude of the October 1973 Middle East war through the
signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty in March 1979, Kenneth
W. Stein grippingly traces American involvement in the Arab-Israeli
negotiations. He provides an extraordinary range of first-hand
accounts, recollections and anecdotes from over eighty bureaucrats,
diplomats and military leaders who participated in Arab-Israeli
peace talks in the 1970's and since.
Since the official public record remains unavailable for reasons of
national security, these interviews provide unequaled insight into
the internal divisions, political intrigue and untold stories of
the peace process. Charting the complex and often contradictory
goals of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria, the US and the USSR, Stein
chronicles the evolution of these negotiations and analyzes the key
roles of Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, and Begin. An introduction and
epilogue place this period in context of Arab-Israeli history since
1948 and the current status of the peace process.
For reasons of national security, official public records surrounding Americas involvement in the Arab-Israeli negotiations remain unavailable.Heroic Diplomacy provides an unequalled insight into the internal divisions and untold stories of the peace process. Covering an extraordinary range of first-hand accounts from over eighty bureaucrats, diplomats and military leaders who participated in Arab-Israeli peace talks from 1973 to 1978 the book charts the complex and often contradictory goals of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, the US and the USSR.
This book reports our research on detection of change processes
that underlie psychophysical, learning, medical diagnosis,
military, and pro duction control situations, and share three major
features. First, the states of the process are not directly
observable but become gradually known with the sequential
acquisition of fallible information over time. Second, the
mechanism that generates the fallible information is not
stationary; rather, it is subjected to a sudden and irrevocable
change. Thirdly, in complete, probabilistic information about the
time of change is available when the process commences. The purpose
of the book is to characterize this class of detection of change
processes, to derive the optimal policy that minimizes total
expected loss, and, most importantly, to develop testable response
models, based on simple decision rules, for describing detection of
change behavior. The book is theoretical in the sense that it
offers mathematical models of multi-stage decision behavior and
solutions to optimization problems. However, it is not
anti-empirical, as it aims to stimulate new experimental research
and to generate applications. Throughout the book, questions of
experimental verification are briefly considered, and existing data
from two studies are brought to bear on the validity of the models.
The work is not complete; it only provides a starting point for
investigating how people detect a change in an uncertain
environment, balancing between the cost of delay in detecting the
change and the cost of making an incor rect terminal decision."
Everything Old is New Again is a comparative look at two common
series of events-those that happen within the womb, and the Feasts
of the L-rd. Although they're hidden just below the surface, the
parallels between them can be clearly seen by someone fully
entrenched in both preborn life and the Torah. Did the L-rd of
Heaven really make a way for you to know Him and meet with Him
while still inside your mother's womb? Come and see With plenty of
backstory and warmth, this is a book for everyone, about 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!
The control of land remains the crucial issue in the Arab-Israel
conflict. Kenneth Stein investigates in detail and without polemics
how and why Jews acquired land from Arabs in Palestine during the
British Mandate, and he reaches conclusions that are challenging
and suprising.
Stein contends that Zionists were able to purchase the core of a
national territory in Palestine during this period for three
reasons: they had the single-mindedness of purpose, as well as the
capital, to buy the land; the Arabs, economically impoverished,
politically fragmented, and socially atomized, were willing to sell
the land; and the British were largely ineffective in regulating
land sales and protecting Arab tenants.
Neither Arab opposition to land sales nor British attempts to
regulate them actually limited land acquisition. There were always
more Arab offers to sell land than there were Zionist funds. In
fact, many sales were made by Arab politicians who publicly opposed
Zionism and even led agitation against land acquisition by Jews.
Zionists furthered their own ambitions by skillfully using their
understanding of the bureaucracy to write laws and to influence key
administrative appointments. Further, they knew how to take
advantage of social and economic cleavages within Arab society.
Based primarily on archival research, "The Land Question in
Palestine, 1917-1939" offers an unusually balanced analysis of the
social and political history of land sales in Palestine during this
critical period. It provides exceptional and essential insight into
one of the most troubling conflicts in today's world.
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