"It is, make no mistake, the best management answer for our chaotic times." -Tom Peters Adhocracy: Any form of organization that cuts across normal bureaucratic lines to capture opportunities, solve problems, and get results. In an era of accelerating change, organizations, and national economies, most likely to succeed are those with the ability to adjust and adapt. Robert H. Waterman Jr., coauthor of the best-selling In Search of Excellence, shows how and what this sort of innovation must become a way of life for business organizations across the board. What is needed is an environment that fosters the use of an ad-hoc problem-solving technique, in effect an "adhocracy" that functions outside the often initiative-stifling bureaucracy. Drawing on twenty-five years' experience in management consulting, Waterman offers clear instructions on how to establish adhocracy and make it work: creating task forces and independent business units, even two people meeting in a hallway to solve a common problem. A lively and insightful work, this should become an essential handbook for managers at all levels who recognize the need to redefine the rules for success.

Adhocracy: The Power to Change (The Larger Agenda)

Business & Money

Robert H. Waterman

Management & Leadership

Whittle Direct Books

Television has long been identified as a dead hand on culture; but George Gilder suggests here that this centralized, authoritarian institution is also a dying technology and that the telecomputer - a powerful interactive system that will affect all aspects of life, from education to business to leisure time - will replace it. America is presently at the forefront of telecomputer development, but government restrictions - such as those that limit the wide use of fibre-optic technology - may hinder the American companies in the vanguard. Gilder's optimistic message is that the United States has only to unleash its industrial resources to command the "telefuture", in which new technology will overthrow the stultifying influence of mass media and renew the power of individuals.

Life after television (The Larger agenda series)

Gilder, George F.

The book is about educating your children. According to the book, saving our schools is not just a matter of improving test scores or teaching children to read but it should be a vision of what it is we wish children to know.

The Book Wars : What It Takes to Be Educated in America

Atlas, James

Bestselling author Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, The Money Culture) takes a journalistic romp through the clashing cultures of Japan and the United States, revealing how the vast differences between them affect every aspect of the current trade war. Pacific Rift dramatizes the basic misconceptions that Americans and Japanese have about each other.

Pacific Rift: Adventures in the Fault Zone Between the US and Japan (The Larger Agenda Series)

LEWIS, Michael

International

Slight shelf wear. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Solid Book.

The New Genetics : The Human Genome Project and Its Impact on the Practice of Medicine

Science & Math

Jaroff, Leon

Evolution

Nearly a billion dollars in federal contracts have been awarded to peer review organizations with the mandate to evaluate the way our Medicare dollars are spent. This explosive and provocative study examines the wide range of results of this program and its impact on the healthcare community.

The Doctor Watchers : How the PROs Police Medicine

Vibbert, Spencer

Surgeon Koop : Medicine and the Politics of Change

Surgeon Koop : Medicine and the Politics of Change

Literature & Fiction

Easterbrook, Greg

Contemporary

Inside Medical Washington: Standing Up for Doctor's Rights in the Nation's Capital

Inside Medical Washington

Sammons, James H.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

The logic of health-care reform (The Grand Rounds Press)

The logic of health-care reform (The Grand Rounds Press)

Starr, Paul

The former surgeon writes of his own near-death experience after being diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease and lapsing into a coma. The fragility of health and robustness of imagination merge when this seemingly healthy man's legs collapse suddenly beneath him, propelling him into a 23-day coma triggered by Legionnaire's Disease. Here, Selzer relives his illness, allowing the reader a highly personal glimpse into his delirium as he skates the line between life and death. This tale of survival remains unsentimental as Selzer grounds what was surely a terrifying experience in humor, emphasized by use of third person narrative.

Raising the Dead

SELZER, Richard

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Adhocracy: The Power to Change (The Larger Agenda)

Life after television (The Larger agenda series)

The Book Wars : What It Takes to Be Educated in America

Pacific Rift: Adventures in the Fault Zone Between the US and Japan (The Larger Agenda Series)

The New Genetics : The Human Genome Project and Its Impact on the Practice of Medicine

The Doctor Watchers : How the PROs Police Medicine

Surgeon Koop : Medicine and the Politics of Change

Inside Medical Washington

The logic of health-care reform (The Grand Rounds Press)

Raising the Dead