Upsizing the Individual in the Downsized Organization tells managers not only how to survive today's business turbulence, but how to structure companies large and small for a global, wired environment. As technology creates a world in which work must be done anytime and anyplace, a company's competitive edge will be how it interconnects its people. Johansen and Swigart explain their model of a flexible “fishnet organization: to help managers meet this daunting challenge.

Upsizing The Individual In The Downsized Corporation: Managing In The Wake Of Reengineering, Globalization, And Overwhelming Technological Change

Business & Money

Johansen, Robert

Swigart, Rob.

Management & Leadership

Basic Books

Explores the challenges resulting from downsizing

Upsizing The Individual In The Downsized Organization: Managing In The Wake Of Reengineering, Globalization, And Overwhelming Technological Change

Biography & History

Originally published as an interactive novel on computer disk in 1986, Portal is the story of an astronaut who returns to earth from a mysteriously aborted mission prematurely awakened from suspended animation. One hundred years have passed; animals and plants thrive, cities stand intact. Every human being however has disappeared. With the help of a slowly-reviving computer network, the astronaut begins to piece together the events of the last century. He learns of the child prodigy Peter Devore, of a world orchestrated by stunning new technologies, and of Peter's race against time to unlock the secrets of the Portal.

Portal: A dataspace retrieval

St.Martin's Press

When a boatload of environmentalists is murdered and the cause of death is found to be an exotic venom, Lieutenant Cobb Takamura and biologist Chazz Koenig begin an investigation

Venom

Literature & Fiction

United States

St Martins Pr

While working in Hawaii, Charles Koening is recruited by a local policeman to help uncover the mystery behind a series of deaths, an investigation which leads both his wife and him into a dangerous high-level game

Vector

After his bored and ignored wife, Penny Gamesh, ends it all by sticking her head inside a microwave oven and checking into the afterlife, her husband, Barney, discovers he loves her and wants her back. He engineers a daring computer crime, plugging into a network of government computers, and travels back in time to Mesopotamia, 2542 B.C., to talk to King Gilgamesh, who tried to unlock the secrets of immortality. There, Barney falls in love with Pennys former incarnation, a temple prostitute. And he explores his capacity for love and friendship and challenges the mystery of death. The results surprise everyone.

Time Trip (Coronet Books)

Coronet Books

Little America is a modern Oedipal romp through hilarious adventures as the major characters race westward toward their destinies in Little America, Wyoming, in the bicentennial year of 1976. Orville Hollinday has always struggled to both please and get even with his father, Senior, who constantly belittles him. Orville keeps trying to blow up Seniors Cadillacs. Senior just doesnt notice. He moves to Little America to find among things, a girl just like the girl, Flora, who married his father. He doesnt know that Senior and Flora, each with a different partner, will ultimately make surprise appearances in Wyoming.

Little America

Houghton/Mifflin

Little America : A Novel

Little America : a novel

The Time Trip - 1st Edition/1st Printing

After his bored and ignored wife, Penny Gamesh, ends it all by sticking her head inside a microwave oven and checking into the afterlife, her husband, Barney, discovers he loves her and wants her back. He engineers a daring computer crime, plugging into a network of government computers, and travels back in time to Mesopotamia, 2542 B.C., to talk to King Gilgamesh, who tried to unlock the secrets of immortality. There, Barney falls in love with Pennys former incarnation, a temple prostitute. And he explores his capacity for love and friendship and challenges the mystery of death. The results surprise everyone.

The Time Trip

Houghton Mifflin Co (P)

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