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In his #1 bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. In BLINK, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. How do we make decisions–good and bad–and why are some people so much better at it than others? That’s the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in BLINK. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, examining case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the New Coke, Gladwell shows how the difference between good decision making and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can process quickly, but rather with the few particular details on which we focus. BLINK displays all of the brilliance that has made Malcolm Gladwell’s journalism so popular and his books such perennial bestsellers as it reveals how all of us can become better decision makers–in our homes, our offices, and in everyday life.Amazon.com Review
Blink is about the first two seconds of looking–the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of “thin slices” of behavior. The key is to rely on our “adaptive unconscious”–a 24/7 mental valet–that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.

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The seventh edition of Organizational Behavior in Education relates the study of educational leadership to the challenge of how students can participate effectively in school reform. Readers are challenged to develop and act upon a game plan for implementing school reform from the first chapter. The seventh edition continues to examine such aspects of organizational behavior as organizational culture, leadership, motivation, change, conflict and decision-making while maintaining high standards of scholarship and a lucid, readily accessible writing style. For anyone interested in organizational behavior particular to the arena of education.

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In response to the 2006 QDR, DoD created a human capital strategy (HCS) that could provide more flexibility in quickly accessing the right skills at the right place. It called for three initiatives: competency-based occupational planning, performance-based management, and enhanced opportunities for personal and professional growth. A panel of experts convened by RAND reviewed the HCS. This report presents the panel1s conclusions and recommendations.

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Mobile Human Capital explores the crucial role played by immigrant engineers and scientists in the successful development of the information technology industry of Silicon Valley in the 1990s. These skilled immigrants came to California?s Silicon Valley in much larger concentrations than to any other high technology region of the United States. Nearly one third of the engineers and scientists employed in the technology industry of Silicon Valley were immigrants, and they had much higher levels of education than their native counterparts. For example, most of these skilled immigrants possessed post-graduate degrees and were twice as likely to have obtained a doctorate degree. Immigrant engineers and scientists accessed the labor market in high technology in Silicon Valley following four different routes. Some of them were members of the 1.5 generation who arrived in the United States as children of immigrant parents, others worked for U.S. subsidiaries in their native countries or were foreign students at U.S. universities. Finally the ?high tech braceros? held the H-1B visa that granted them temporary contracts with high tech companies in Silicon Valley.

Mobile Human Capital: Skilled Immigrants in the Booming Times of Silicon Valley

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Mindful of the reconfigured organizational practices and ways of managing public work systems brought about by recent global economies, this latest edition of Organizational Behavior and Public Management reveals how organizational behavior enables managers to direct resources that advance the programs and policies of public and government agencies. Provides a study of the subject that is interdisciplinary, applicable, people-centered, and descriptive and prescriptive! Maintaining the features that sent the previous edition into multiple printings, this extensively updated Third Edition offers a uniquely public sector perspective of core topics, such as communication decision making leadership management ethics motivation organizational change participation performance appraisal …in addition to furnishing new information on Total Quality Management, its applicability to government, and impact on worker participation and empowerment in the workplace rewritten and enhanced chapters on information systems, organization theory, and computers;reflecting the constant changes in technology and policy environment a new section on management implications a current literature review of over 1400 citations;serving as a useful foundation for further studies and more! Written by researchers with extensive experience in the field, this timely Third Edition is excellent for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students taking courses, such as Organization Theory or Organization Behavior in Master of Public Administration (MPA) and health administration programs, as well as invaluable for public administrators, behavioral psychologists, political scientists, social workers, city planners, anthropologists, sociologists, and professionals working in nonprofit organizations or at the federal, state, and local levels of government.

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