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Dave Ulrich wants human-resources managers to start doing "the real work" of companies: improving customer service and increasing shareholder value. Ulrich, a business professor at the University of Michigan, is editor of Delivering Results, a collection of 15 Harvard Business Review articles on managing human resources. In the lead essay, "A New Mandate for Human Resources," Ulrich argues that many companies pigeonhole human-resources managers as "incompetent, value-sapping support staff" useful only for shuffling paperwork and dealing with red tape. "It's time to destroy the stereotype and unleash HR's full potential," Ulrich writes. HR should be focused on results--for example, by executing strategy and developing better ways to manage benefits and information, he says.

The articles in this book are aimed at helping HR pros excel at work. "Good Communication That Blocks Learning," authored by Chris Argyris, says that to be truly creative, managers and employees must start asking tougher questions of each other and worry less about politics. "Changing the Way We Change," written by Richard Pascale, Mark Millemann, and Linda Gioja, examines successful turnarounds at Sears, Shell, and the U.S. Army. In "Opening the Books," John Case writes that employees are more motivated if management shares financial goals and income statements. The book also includes Harvard Business classics like "The Core Competence of the Corporation" by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel and "What is Strategy?" by Michael Porter. HR professionals, company executives, and people interested in business management will enjoy this book and profit from it. --Dan Ring

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The profession of human resources is at a crossroads. Although a small but increasingly vocal faction is questioning both the value and the need for HR, in fact, HR has never been more necessary. The challenges facing today's businesses demand speed, responsiveness, learning, and teamwork-in short, organizational capabilities. And HR is uniquely positioned to deliver organizational capabilities, but only if it is willing to abandon many of its traditional functions, assume an entirely new role, and develop a new agenda.

Delivering Results collects some of the best articles from the Harvard Business Review and creates a resource that addresses the need for HR to re-invent itself as a strategic player capable of generating organizational capabilities. With an introduction from Dave Ulrich, author of the bestselling Human Resource Champions, this collection examines the new skills, roles, and purpose that HR must cultivate if it is to add value. The goal of this timely Harvard Business Review book is to define a new era in management, one in which HR is no longer considered a bureaucratic department devoted to staffing, policy, and compensation, but is looked to as a partner in shaping and directing strategic outcomes.

The contributions in provide an enlightening look at issues such as change, strategic unity, innovation, and intellectual capital, revealing how HR must take a leadership role in contributing to these initiatives. The articles are organized around four categories-Delivering Core Capabilities, Creating Strategic Clarity, Making Change Happen, and Creating Intellectual Capital-to help HR professionals answer questions such as: * How do we fight and win the war for talent? * How do we create value? * How do we profitably grow our business? * How do we facilitate both individual and organizational learning? For the work of HR to directly contribute to employee, customer, and shareholder value, it must guide the development of organizational capabilities that turn strategy into action. Delivering Results reveals the power of HR strategies to influence not just individual, but company performance, offering actionable strategies that yield results from the factory line to the boardroom. A Harvard Business Review Book.

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A major shift in thinking from doables to deliverables.......2001-10-01

"This is a great time for those interested in human resources." Dave Ulrich (editor) writes, "Human resource issues have become central to business deliberations, surfacing in boardrooms where executives plan and in conference rooms where managers act. Discussions often seek answers to (some) questions...In many ways, these are not new questions. The difference today lies in the approach taken to answer them: Increasingly, the spotlight is falling on human resource issues. To answer these questions, line managers and HR professionals must rethink and redefine human resources...HR professionals have responded to this increased scrutiny with a major shift in thinking from their previous focus on 'doables' to a new, more proactive focus on 'deliverables.' Doables focus on improving HR practices, upgrading HR professionals, and reengineering HR departments. Doables emphasize actions, activities, and what happens. Deliverables refocus attention on outcomes, results, and value created from doing HR work."

In this context, Dave Ulrich says that while few disagree that HR practices, professionals, and departments should refocus on deliverables or results, discussions have just begun as to what constitutes HR results. And, according to him, emerging questions for HR include the following:

1. What are HR results?

* HR results as firm performance

* HR results as capabilities

2. What capabilities may be defined as HR results?

* Creating strategic clarity: be a strategic partner

* Making change happen: be a change agent

* Creating intellectual capital: be an employee champion

3. How does a results focus shift HR responsibility, practices, departments, and professionals?

Finally, he says that this antology provides readers with a clear point of view on HR results and offers specific definitions and examples of those results.

Highly recommended.

Delivering Results - A New Mandate for HR Professionals.......2000-06-23

Dave Ulrich, considered by many to be the leading voice of HR strategy and implementation, compiles a selection of various authors' essays into a wonderfully thoughtful and practical collection.

This book is organized into 4 main sections... 1. Delivering Core Capabilities 2. Creating Strategic Clarity: Becoming a strategic partner 3. Making Change Happen: Becoming a change agent 4. Creating Intellectual Capital: Becoming an employee champion

These four sections summarize Ulrich's views on the ever chaning role of Human Resources in not only today's workplace, but tomorrow's.

I recommend this book to any business professional seeking to better understand how employees can better reach their potential, as well as to any HR professional seeking to expand his or her vision of what the profession is capable of accomplishing.

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Delivering results: A new mandate for human resource professionals.(Review) (book review): An article from: International Labour Review
Masaru Ishida
Manufacturer: International Labour Office
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Title: Delivering results: A new mandate for human resource professionals.(Review) (book review)
Author: Masaru Ishida
Publication: International Labour Review (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: International Labour Office
Volume: 139 Issue: 3 Page: 359

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This text invites students to learn the essentials of astronomy within the larger context of understanding how science works. It allows students to focus on central ideas upon which the relevant facts hang. It is accessible and, because math is set off in boxes, allows instructors to teach students of differing math abilities. It covers the history of astronomy, elementary physics concepts, the Solar System, the origins of the Universe, and stars and galaxies.

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With increasing use of polymers in sophisticated industrial applications, it is essential that mechanical engineers have a solid understanding of these compounds. This text provides a thorough introduction to polymers from a mechanical engineering perspective, treating stresses and deformations in structural components made of polymers. The authors discuss the time-dependent response of polymers and its implications for mechanical response; mechanical response for both time-dependent and frequency-dependent material properties; and the application of the stress-strain-time relation to determine stresses and deformations in structures. With numerous examples and extensive illustrations, this book will help advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as practicing mechanical engineers, to make effective use of polymeric materials.

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Clear introduction to the dynamic behavior of viscoelastic materials.......2007-05-24

This is perhaps the best text available for the linear theory of viscoelastic material behavior. The presentation is straightforward and quite thorough. Primary focus is on the modeling of time or frequency dependent responses to arbitrary load and/or displacement histories. Very useful for improving the fidelity of computer simulations of dynamic systems that incorporate elastomeric isolators (e.g. fea or multi-body system dynamics).

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This is an account of studies of the function and evolution of colorful plumage in the House Finch. It is also an engaging study on the evolution of sexual selection in birds and a lively portrait of the challenges and constraints of experimental design facing any field investigator working with animal behavior. Part I sets the stage for modern studies of the function of plumage coloration with a review of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Part II focuses on the proximate control and present function of plumage coloration. Part III takes a more explicitly evolutionary approach to the study of plumage coloration using biogeography and phylogeny to test hypotheses for why specific forms of plumage color display have evolved. It concludes with an account of comparative studies that have been conducted in the House Finch and other cardueline finches and the insight these studies have provided on the evolution of carotenoid-based ornamental coloration.

A Red Bird in a Brown Bag: The Function and Evolution of Colorful Plumage in the House Finch

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A Red Bird in a Brown Bag: The Function and Evolution of Colorful Plumage in the House Finch
Geoffrey E. Hill
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Title: Consider imaging in heart failure Tx decisions: assessments of left ventricular size and systolic function can demonstrate myocardial viability.
Author: Robert Finn
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Imaging helps guide heart failure treatments: assessments of left ventricular size and systolic function can demonstrate myocardial viability.(Cardiovascular ... : An article from: Family Practice News

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Imaging helps guide heart failure treatments: assessments of left ventricular size and systolic function can demonstrate myocardial viability.(Cardiovascular ... : An article from: Family Practice News
Robert Finn
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Title: Imaging helps guide heart failure treatments: assessments of left ventricular size and systolic function can demonstrate myocardial viability.(Cardiovascular Medicine)
Author: Robert Finn
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Volume: 35 Issue: 20 Page: 22(1)

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Assessment of left ventricular function using doppler echocardiography: A comparison with invasive indices in experimental models

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Assessment of left ventricular function using doppler echocardiography: A comparison with invasive indices in experimental models
Andrea Elizabeth Pernell
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ASSESSMENT OF VENTRICULAR FUNCTION: ETTORE MAJORANA INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE SERIES, VOL. 21 (HB) "

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ASSESSMENT OF VENTRICULAR FUNCTION: ETTORE MAJORANA INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE SERIES, VOL. 21 (HB) "
angelo, Robert D. Leachman, Jan Raineri
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Physiologic assessment of left ventricular systolic and diastolic performance (Current problems in cardiology)

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Physiologic assessment of left ventricular systolic and diastolic performance (Current problems in cardiology)
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A Fool No More

How can I like this more than Philippa Gregory's Boleyn stories??

The Queen's Fool: A novel

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The Queen's Fool: A Novel
Philippa Gregory
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A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love.

It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee. Her gift of "Sight," the ability to foresee the future, is priceless in the troubled times

of the Tudor court. Hannah is adopted by the glamorous Robert Dudley, the charismatic son of King Edward's protector, who brings her to court as a "holy fool" for Queen Mary and, ultimately, Queen Elizabeth. Hired as a fool but working as a spy; promised in wedlock but in love with her master; endangered by the laws against heresy, treason, and witchcraft, Hannah must choose between the safe life of a commoner and the dangerous intrigues of the royal family that are inextricably bound up in her own yearnings and desires.

Teeming with vibrant period detail and peopled by characters seamlessly woven into the sweeping tapestry of history, The Queen's Fool is another rich and emotionally resonant gem from this wonderful storyteller.

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Recommended.......2007-09-14

This is the first Philippa Gregory novel I've read, and I chose this one because of the slight fantasy of the main character's "sight" that she uses to foretell events. This aspect I would have enjoyed had the author used it more; however, then it would be even more of a fantasy than historical fiction. Regardless, the story held my interest and I liked the characters.

A Fool No More.......2007-08-27

Another drama of the Tudors by Philippa Gregory. I enjoyed this one more than "The Other Boleyn Girl" because the main character had spunk and independence, unusual for a girl in those days. Although a vassal to a Lord with his own agenda, she developed a deep love for Queen Mary and was a loyal friend to her through all her suffering. For the first time, I got a clear picture of the conflict between Mary and Elizabeth before and after the death of their young brother the King. Both made huge mistakes but were strong women to be reckoned with. Hannah serves both but is still her own woman. Very exciting events unfold as the balance of power shifts back and forth between these two woman and their supporters. Adding to the drama is the fact that Hannah and her family are Jews passing as Christians during a time when heretics were burned at the stake.

How can I like this more than Philippa Gregory's Boleyn stories??.......2007-08-07

I don't know how it's possible that I liked "The Queen's Fool" even more than "The Other Boleyn Girl", and "The Boleyn Inheritance" which I loved. I think it's partially the addition of Hannah Green the young jewish girl escaping the Spanish Inquisition and becoming the Queen's Fool, telling the story. Having Hannah tell the story introduces how great an effect all the european countries and their politics have on other European countries.

I am sure it is also the fact that these stories build on each other, with characters whose families and circumstances are already familiar from the book before. I encourage you to read in sequence - and I encourage you to READ these stories and learn some history. Even if it is couched in some fiction, you still learn and this way is so much more fun. My friends are now as hooked as I am -- this many people can't all be wrong.

The Queen's Fool: A novel.......2007-08-02

Intriguing! Great descriptions of the Tudor court in a suspense filled, exciting time in history. Had me hooked.

WONDERFUL.......2007-07-19

Ms. Gregory's The Queen's Fool is as beautifully written as her other historical fiction novels. We continue the story of the Tudor line in England, but instead of being guided through a queen's view or a princess's view, we read through the eyes of Hannah the Fool. Hannah is a wonderful character who grows from an apprentice tomboy to a desirable woman. We pick up the story from Henry VIII's last wife to see his son, Edward IV, on the throne. Edward, ruled through the Duke of Northumberland, dies and the throne is shoved into the hands of Jane Grey (Northumberland's relation). The victory is short-lived, because Mary (Henry VIII's first and only child with Katharine of Aragon) raises an army to fight for her as Queen. Though she wins, it is not long before her sister, Princess Elizabeth (Henry VIII's first and only child with Anne Boleyn), conspires to take the throne. Hannah is thrown in between the half-sisters and must use her Sight as a gift to help both women. The story line is filled with historical fact, tweaked enough to give a well rounded account of The reign of Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I. WONDERFUL!

Queen's Own Fool: A Novel of Mary Queen of Scots

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Wonderful historical fiction
A Wonderful Book!
My first love!
A Fantastic Piece of Historical Fiction!
An excellent Historical Fiction novel

Queen's Own Fool: A Novel of Mary Queen of Scots
Jane Yolen , and Robert Harris
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"Where history ends, storytelling begins," writes Jane Yolen in her author's note to this exciting novel based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Only a few facts are known about Mary's young female jester, le Jardiniere, but Yolen and her collaborator, Scottish writer Robert Harris, have created a fascinating girl narrator based on this historical oddity. Le Jardiniere relates the true and tragic tale of the ill-fated 16th-century queen of Scotland.

In 1559, when a ragtag troupe of traveling entertainers is snatched from the sodden streets of Rheims to amuse the bored visiting French court, 13-year-old Nicola Ambruzzi impresses the queen with her wit and honesty. The beautiful young Mary takes the girl under her protection as "the queen's own fool," commissioned to speak the truth boldly amid the fawning lies and schemes of the courtiers. Around them swarm secret plots, duplicity, and betrayal; death is a constant threat.

After her weak boy-husband King Francis dies, the kindhearted Mary is unwilling to hear Nicola speak the truth about her suitors. She experiences two disastrous marriages, first with the handsome wastrel Darnley and then--for political expediency--with his murderer, the treacherous Bothwell. When he plots against her, she must flee back to Scotland to try to resume her throne in the midst of swirling conflict between the Protestant lords and their Catholic rulers. Nicola's wit and daring get them through some dangerous situations, but Mary is eventually imprisoned in the stark castle of Lochleven, where their hairsbreadth attempts at escape wind up a story from history as exciting and deeply affecting as any of Yolen's fantasy novels. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell

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Nicola Ambruzzi, a poor traveling player, is an unlikely person to end up "fool"and friend to Mary Queen of Scots. But tumbling and clowning at court, she catches the young queen's eye and heart. As Mary is caught in the winds of fate--running from France to Scotland, confronted by rebellious lords and her unpredictable Scots, Nicola--Le Jardiniere--is there, buffeting and aiding the queen with her wit and wiles.

This epic adventure by Jane Yolen and Robert Harris takes us into the intimate circle of one of the most intriguing queens of all time, the courageous Mary Queen of Scots.

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Wonderful historical fiction.......2006-10-19

Most people know a lot about Queen Elizabeth I. Few people know much about Queen Mary of Scotland. This is a story about Mary and her fascinating history.

This is historical fiction at its best; the book sticks to true facts very closely and tells of a story that is not well known. I loved this book. I loved that there was a story out there about Mary Queen of Scots, and that this book was also wonderfully written. Once I started, I couldn't put it down. The reader gets a clear idea of what it was like then, and they also get to learn all about an incredible woman.

The story describes Mary's first marriage, then continues to describe her return to Scotland from France. Nicola, the queen's "fool", is the narrarator who tells the story. She is very close to Mary and tells us everything that goes on in Mary's life. After they return to Scotland, Mary (I'm not spoiling the story; it's history, and this is how it happened) married twice more, both times awful marriages that only caused harm.

Besides the fact that the history is really cool, it's also great how it's written. So go on. Read it, read it! It's so easy to love.

A Wonderful Book!.......2006-10-04

I loved this book! I bought it from our library's used book sale, I figured it might at best give me some background for my son's history study this year. I was so impressed! I read it in about 3 days, and highly recommend it.

The story is told through the eyes of the female "fool", or jester, of Mary Queen of Scots, Nicola Ambruzi (La Jardinierre, the Garden Girl). While we don't know much about her, we do know from court documents that she existed, and that she was the favored fool of Mary. The novel delves into so many known historical events, telling them from a completely personal point of view. The historical fact-finding is incredible, and the plot and character personalities are sure to involve even a reluctant reader, right from the start.

This book gets my highest recommendation - I will even be reading most of it with my son (4th grade) later this year, to help him understand the politics, beliefs and court life of the late Middle Ages.

My first love!.......2005-11-15

When I was in high school, I hated to read teen magazines much less real books. I struggled with a learning disorder and was stuck at a low reading level so I could never enjoy reading. My mom checked this book out at the library for me with little hope that would read it. It was strange but I just picked it up and started reading. I kept reading and turning the pages and I just couldn't put it down! I found it so incredibly captivating! I loved it so much! I never thought I'd enjoy reading so much. After that I started picking up more and more books and my reading level shot straight up! This may seem off topic but believe me, this book helped me sooo much! It really is my first love!

A Fantastic Piece of Historical Fiction!.......2005-09-26

I have to say that I absolutely LOOOVVEE this book!! It only took me two days (And nights of late night reading) to finish and I could barely force myself to put it down. This is a masterful tale and brilliantly written. I HIGHLY recommend it.

An excellent Historical Fiction novel.......2005-09-09

This was a fantastic book. The characters were cool, the setting was very nice, and I loved the character of Nicola!

This book is about a girl who becomes the fool (this is similar to a court jester) of Mary, Queen of Scots. It follows her through Mary's sad story, right up to the flight to England.

Overall, I recommend this book to any historical fiction fan interested in this period.

3 PHILIPA GREGORY Books: The Other Boleyn Girl / Wideacre : A Novel / The Queen's Fool: A Novel (Unboxed Set of Books)

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