Valuation: Setting Sound Business Goals

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Outlines an effective evaluation methodology for assessing the value of any organization
Valuation offers methods to accelerate the achievement of explicitly stated goals through external means and discusses the implications for valuation that would aid in the prioritization and execution of the most favorable strategies. Filled with numerous checklists and forms, this comprehensive resource addresses important valuation issues for many different situations.

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Practical guide to strategic leadership.......2007-07-16

Hundreds of business books, many from famous authors, seek to explain strategic planning and management. This book from George Norton provides a practical approach that can easily be used by both for-profit and non-profit organizations. It would also be a very useful tool for consultants.

What makes Mr. Norton's approach unique is the step-by-step instructions he provides, involving key leaders and stakeholders in the planning and assessment process. Most impressive is the way the author explains straightforward methods for valuation and financial analysis, with guidelines on how to apply the results to future plans.

This book is highly recommended for organizational leaders, especially those who desire a practical approach to strategic planning.

Discover Who You Are.......2003-04-16

Our organization -- all the 12 top guys -- got copies and spent a couple days a month for 5 months going through all the steps in this book. Wow -- we now all agree on what we're good at, how to consistently increase cash flow, and -- most importantly -- what to NOT spend time on. Most of our time is now spent cheerleading and stressing our beliefs, letting the guys and gals on the line make decisions which agree with these.

Definitely not just for the public, professional manager. This stuff really works for the small company too!

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Measuring Performance in Public and Nonprofit Organizations (The Jossey-Bass Nonprofit and Public Management Series)
Theodore H. Poister
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ASIN: 078794999X

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In recent years, a commitment to increased accountability and improved performance has become essential in both governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations. To help managers and executives in their ongoing quest for greater accountability and improved performance Theodore H. Poister, offers a comprehensive resource for designing and implementing effective performance measurement systems at the agency level. The ideas, tools, and processes in this vital resource will help organizations develop measurement systems to support such results-oriented management approaches as strategic management, results-based budgeting, performance management, process improvement, performance contracting, and employee incentive systems. Using this book as a guide, public and nonprofit organizations can accurately measure outputs, efficiency, productivity, effectiveness, service quality, and customer satisfaction, and use the resulting data to strengthen decision-making and improve agency and program performance.

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Great book .......2007-09-09

Especially good insights into overcoming the resistence of nonprofit employees to the culture of organizational improvement - how to move them toward benchmarking and performance measurement.

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Unlike the myriad points of light we gaze at in the night sky, our nearest star allows us to study the wonders of stellar workings at blindingly close range--from a mere 93 million miles away. And what do we see? In this book, two of the world's leading solar scientists unfold all that history and science--from the first cursory observations to the measurements obtained by the latest state-of-the-art instruments on the ground and in space--have revealed about the Sun. Following the path of science from the very center of this 380,000,000,000,000,000,000-megawatt furnace to its explosive surface, Nearest Star invites readers into an open-ended narrative of discovery about what we know about the Sun and how we have learned it.

How did the Sun evolve, and what will it become? What is the origin of its light and heat? How does solar activity affect the atmospheric conditions that make life on earth possible? These are the questions at the heart of solar physics, and at the center of this book. Having made optical solar observations with many solar telescopes and in the rockets and satellites, the authors bring their extensive personal experience to this story of how astronomers study the Sun, and what they have discovered about phenomena from eclipses to neutrinos, space weather, and global warming. Richly illustrated with an assortment of pictures from the latest solar missions and the newest telescopes, this book is a very readable, up-to-date account of science's encounter with our nearest star.

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Fascinating Science of the Sun.......2005-05-26

I enjoyed reading this book. Sometimes it can be easy to forget just how fascinating our sun really is. This book helps in this regard. It describes the theories of what the sun was like 5 billion years ago, compared with what it is like today. It discusses the visible part of the sun, as well as the interior of the sun. It also discusses the process of what makes the sun shine, as well as affects on earth, as well as space weather. All is very fascinating, though very complex. At times it is difficult to follow, and at times it gets slightly off the topic. Nevertheless, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about our sun.

Loaded with information.......2002-04-08

Many books that popularize certain scientific topics for a broad readership tend to be rather chatty and include several historical and biographical snipets. Not this book; it's densely packed with scientific information on its subject matter. From theories on the what happens in the sun's interior to the observed effects that solar activity has here on earth, this book covers most of it in fair detail. It is written clearly and the topics are well organized. Several colour plates, charts and diagrams do much to illustrate the ideas presented. Complete with a glossary, a list of references and an index, this book is well put together. It can serve as a springboard for readers who would like more details on certain specialized aspects of the workings of our nearest star. An excellent read!!

Good but tries to cover too much.......2002-02-01

This is a remarkably wide-ranging overview of topics relating to the Sun. It is, in fact, probably rather more wide-ranging than it needs to be. Rather than focusing on the subtitle, it includes chapters on eclipses and earth's climate as well as seemingly rather pointless asides on topics like carbon dating.

The core, however, is quite good, covering the history of solar science as well as our current understanding. A standout chapter covers planned space missions that will investigate the Sun, something I found particularly interesting since I am currently working on one of them (STEREO) and have worked on others in the past.

In summary, when it's good it's very good, but it tries to cover more than it needs to and disappoints in that respect.

you may never look at the sun the same way again.......2001-07-09

Popular science books have to walk a difficult line between scientific detail and an accessible level of simplification. Golub and Pasaschoff do an admirable job here of elucidating what is a highly technical and intricate field. I was reading from only a high-school level of physics knowledge but found most of the book to be comprehensible. Some points left me wondering but sometime I would like to reread and try to work these out. The authors writing style is commendably clear and delineates well what is known, what is likely and what is yet to be discovered using a set of great diagrams and also some beautiful colour slides. Frequently, you may find yourself wondering, "how can they possibly know in such detail about such a distant object?" Fortunately the authors provide excellent and entertaining histories of how our understanding of the sun has developed over the millenia and these are often the most interesting part. The best thing about the book overall though has to be the authors' enthusiasm for the subject which truly imparts to the reader a sense of awe and wonder for our nearest star. Although the subject matter is not as exotic as you might find in The Elegant Universe or Brief History of Time, this too is a highly entertaining and well written exposition of contemporary science for the layman.

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There are many different analytical techniques used to identify and quantify a wide range of substances in complex matrices such as the atmosphere, factory air, water, plants, soils, foods and industrial and pharmaceutical products. It is therefore of critical importance for researchers in many fields in both industry and academia to be familiar with the most suitable methods for their own applications, and to know how to get the best results when using these methods. Analytical Chemistry of Complex Matrices systematically discusses the key elements of the analytical process, from definition of the problem through sampling and separation, to calculation of the analytical result and ultimately the solution to the problem. Subsequent chapters are arranged by analyte type (such as inorganic, organometallic and organic analytes) rather than by analytical technique, and present selected analytical problems involving a broad range of analytes and matrices. A wide range of techniques is covered, from classical techniques such as gravimetry and titrimetry to state-of-the-art instrumental techniques such as high performance liquid chromatography and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Worked calculations are included throughout and careful attention is paid to the underlying chemistry of each analytical method. Analytical Chemistry of Complex Matrices will be of great interest to all research students and practising scientists whose work involves qualitative and quantitative analyses of complex matrices. Its highly practical approach, combined with the broad range of analytes, matrices and techniques considered, will make it an invaluable source of information to all such workers in both industry and academia.

Chemical Analysis in Complex Matrices (Ellis Horwood Series in Analytical Chemistry)

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Chemical Analysis in Complex Matrices (Ellis Horwood Series in Analytical Chemistry)

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Sibling rivalry and intergenerational conflict are not limited to human beings. Among seals and piglets, storks and burying beetles, in bird nests and beehives, from apples to humans, family conflicts can be deadly serious, determining who will survive and who will perish. When offspring compete for scarce resources, sibling rivalry kicks in automatically. Parents sometime play favorites or even kill their young. In More Than Kin and Less Than Kind, Douglas Mock tells us what scientists have discovered about this disturbing side of family dynamics in the natural world.

Natural selection operates primarily for the benefit of individuals (and their genes). Thus a family member may profit directly, by producing its own offspring, or indirectly, by helping close kin to reproduce. Much of the biology of family behavior rests on a simple mathematical relationship called Hamilton's rule, which links the benefits and costs of seemingly altruistic or selfish behavior to the degree of relatedness between individuals.

Blending natural history and theoretical biology, Mock shows how Hamilton's rule illuminates the study of family strife by throwing a spotlight on the two powerful forces--cooperation and competition--that shape all interaction in the family arena. In More Than Kin and Less Than Kind, he offers a rare perspective on the family as testing ground for the evolutionary limits of selfishness. When budgets are tight, close kin are often deadly rivals.

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And you thought YOUR family was psychotic! .......2007-01-24

Most of us have at least one or the other horror story to tell about our family: like when your older brother tried to suffocate you while you peacefully and helplessly lay in your crib; or when your mother unjustly punished you for the mess your sister had made in the bedroom; or that time when you almost broke your youngest brother's arm and felt good about it. And, of course, you might remember having wished at least once or twice that you had been an only child or that you had actually been adopted and came originally from much nicer and richer parents. All these instances run counter to the idea that families should be protective, loving nests where we learn the values of cooperation and altruism. Honour your parents, be nice to your siblings, and for God's sake stop whining just because your sister got more chocolate mousse than you for dessert!

Douglas Mock proposes a different approach to the issue of family conflict. His main argument being: what might seem unfair, cruel, even dangerous in a relationship between parents and children or between siblings does not imply that a particular family is dysfunctional. Quite the opposite, this may just indicate how successful -- and therefore functional -- the family is. In order to understand this, our notions of individual and family relationships need a slight rearrangement: we should regard everything from a genetic point of view. The question then being: are certain less appealing attitudes and actions advantageous for the replication of genes in the long run?

Interestingly, what it all comes down to is economics -- and lots of luck. After all, selfish genes are annoyingly calculating instances, only concerned with getting spread as much and as cheaply as possible. All organisms, as vehicles for genes, have therefore been selected throughout the generations to be quite shrewd and self-absorbed reproducers. Even if it means sacrificing an offspring or a sibling.
Throughout the book Mock shows how far this calculating principle can actually go. It involves everything from parents producing more offspring than they can actually feed, mothers culling their young without a flicker of regret, and big bullying siblings pecking or starving their younger weaker siblings to death while the parents watch indifferent (and yawn!). All this is accompanied by photos representing such actions.
The good news being: if an organism is born in a favourable territory and resourceful year (or if its older, nasty sibling(s) happen to die early), it might just survive the hectic nesting period and go on to produce its own bunch of kids. A success story, after all -- one to which billions of individual organisms currently on the planet can attest to. We've made it! The main winners, of course, are the genes, who can go on playing their replication game.

For all its worth, Mock uses a delightfully uncompromising method: he hardly makes any mention of humans at all. The book provides lots of examples of conflict in bird, insect, fish and even fruit families. Not surprisingly, wherever he looks he finds similar behavioural traits. (And every now and then, with charming wit, the author does remind us that we shouldn't think humans are all that different -- as in the following sentence: "From lowly dung beetles to the courts of human royalty, even the simplest families are anything but simple.")

Needless to say, the book might seem a bit discouraging. However, it is in fact not only very entertaining, but also -- for those of us who, like Petrarch, believe that enlightenment is the only true consolation in this world -- an eye opener. Like every good sociobiology book, it shows that, in the words of the author, behavioural traits are above all "subject to the unsentimental shaping powers of natural selection." And for better or for worse, this implies lots of conflict and losses.
All in all, More Than Kin is a valuable contribution to a relatively innovative but already somewhat widespread approach to life on this planet, teaching us to look beyond morality (and moral panics) and concentrate on ultimate (evolutionary) reasons behind many a disturbing factor. The answers might not always be cheery but they certainly makes sense. Which is, in the end, all that any good philosophy book can provide.

More than fiction but less than science.......2005-02-28

In this popular work on the evolution of siblicide, Mock has posied that bird ususally hatch more than the optimal nuber of offpsrings, as insurance policy in case of an unexpected boom in resource availability that can sustain an abnormallly large brood.

However, Mock also believes that the parents deliberately handicapped the non-core, marginal offspring, which is born smaller than its core siblings, which tend to kill it irrespective of the food availablity. Now it boggles the mind as to WHY would the parents spent all the resources in an egg that it, in most case, believes will be finished off (if the offspring is destined to be executed, why invest in it?), especially in birds with long life histories, and WHY the core offsprings do not eat the marginal one if all thet care about is monopolize the food and take out the competition?

Mock has not cared to research on the fact that may be the evolutionary mechanisms do not work clock-like and that the parents may sometimes give birth to a large brood even in times of deprivation, and that the marginal offspring may be culled due to the risks pathogens/infections (that would explain why the carcass is not eaten!) posed to other offsprings.

All in all, the book is nice story telling, but unfortunately it's not science.

Academically impressive.......2004-12-08

Sibling rivalry and conflicts between relatives aren't limited to human beings, as is common perceived: animals and all creatures often experience deadly family conflicts when offspring compete for resources. Douglas Mock is Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oklahoma: his studies in More Than Kin And Less Than Kind: The Evolution Of Family Conflict blend natural history and theoretical biology with social insights to draw some important conclusions on the nature of family strife as it is determined by cooperative and competitive patterns. Academically impressive, More Than Kin And Less Than Kind is a recommended addition to university library Sociology and Social Psychology collections.

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This book is based on lecture notes developed for a one-semester graduate course entitled "The Interaction of Radiation with Matter", taught in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The main objective of the course is to teach enough quantum and classical radiation theory to allow students in engineering and the applied sciences to understand and have access to the vast literature on applications of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation in materials research. Besides presenting the fundamental physics of radiation interactions, the book devotes individual chapters to some of the important modern-day experimental tools, such as nuclear magnetic resonance, photon correlation spectroscopy, and the various types of neutron, x-ray and light-scattering techniques.

Interaction of Particles and Radiation with Matter

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Interaction of Particles and Radiation with Matter
Vsevolod V. Balashov
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Beginning with a concise introduction on the constituents of matter (elementary particles, atomic nuclei, atoms and molecules), this course on the structure of matter focuses on the interaction of particles and radiation with matter. The course is divided into fourteen lectures with each ranging from physical fundamentals to current topics in subatomic and atomic research, thus making links to modern applications. Currently important topics such as channeling, the interaction between molecular ions and matter, and muon-catalyzed fusion are also discussed. The text is suitable as an introduction for graduate students and as a reference for scientists.

Charged Particle and Photon Interactions with Matter: Chemical, Physicochemical, and Biological Consequences with Applications

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Charged Particle and Photon Interactions with Matter: Chemical, Physicochemical, and Biological Consequences with Applications

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Charged Particle and Photon Interactions with Matter offers in-depth perspectives on phenomena of ionization and excitation induced by charged particle and photon interactions with matter in vivo and in vitro. This reference probes concepts not only in radiation and photochemistry, but also in radiation physics, radiation biochemistry, and radiation biology as well as recent applications in medicine and material, environmental, space, and biological science and engineering. It studies reports on the interactions of high-energy photons, specifically in the vacuum ultraviolet-soft X-ray region to offer fundamental information on the primary processes of the interactions of charged particles with matter.

Interactions of very energetic charged particles with matter: Final report (AFCRL-TR-73-0143)

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Interactions of very energetic charged particles with matter: Final report (AFCRL-TR-73-0143)
Peter J McNulty
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