From Selling to Managing: Guidelines for the First-Time Sales Manager

Ronald Brown

Business & Money

AMACOM/American Management Association

In the book Anticipate, the author digs through six decades of new product development theory and practice to find out what really works. Not surprisingly, innovation (especially now, in this age of global commoditization) is the driver of success. And leading companies have turned to small, agile teams to pursue it in earnest. What many companies don't realize, however, is how much innovation depends on effective implementation and creative problem solving. This book reveals proven principles and techniques -- pulled together in the form of a unifying "architecture" -- for maximizing effort, empowering agile teams, and creating sizeable competitive advantages.

Anticipate. The Architecture of Small Team Innovation and Product Success

Red Bluff Publishing

The Black College Mystique

This study compares the culture of black colleges and universities a generation ago with those that exist today, and makes projections into the future, based on a comprehensive review of professional literature and an analysis of the management skills of contemporary black college leaders. The book considers the assets and liabilities of historically Black colleges and discusses the ways in which Black colleges can be of help to non-Blacks (including white students) who can benefit from the unique kind of education offered by such schools. The mission of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) a generation ago focused on opening doors closed to students because of their scores on standardized aptitude tests, providing remedial and supportive services to students whose academic backgrounds reflect low levels of achievement, combining academic as well as vocational course concentrations, modifying instructional methods and techniques to meet students where they are, and take them to the higher levels they are capable of attaining. This mission of opening new opportunities, giving support to overcome deficits of the past, and preparing students for professional and academic vocations continues today for these institutions.

Politics & Social Sciences

Charles V. Willie

Richard J. Reddick

Social Sciences

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The main theme of this book is that the use of filtered spaces rather than just topological spaces allows the development of basic algebraic topology in terms of higher homotopy groupoids; these algebraic structures better reflect the geometry of subdivision and composition than those commonly in use. Exploration of these uses of higher dimensional versions of groupoids has been largely the work of the first two authors since the mid 1960s. The structure of the book is intended to make it useful to a wide class of students and researchers for learning and evaluating these methods, primarily in algebraic topology but also in higher category theory and its applications in analogous areas of mathematics, physics, and computer science. Part I explains the intuitions and theory in dimensions 1 and 2, with many figures and diagrams, and a detailed account of the theory of crossed modules. Part II develops the applications of crossed complexes. The engine driving these applications is the work of Part III on cubical $\omega$-groupoids, their relations to crossed complexes, and their homotopically defined examples for filtered spaces. Part III also includes a chapter suggesting further directions and problems, and three appendices give accounts of some relevant aspects of category theory. Endnotes for each chapter give further history and references. A publication of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Distributed within the Americas by the American Mathematical Society.

Nonabelian Algebraic Topology: Filtered Spaces, Crossed Complexes, Cubical Homotopy Groupoids (EMS Tracts in Mathematics)

Science & Math

Philip J. Higgins

Rafael Sivera

Mathematics

European Mathematical Society

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