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An extraordinarily handy warm-up and focus guide.......2004-07-09
58 1/2 Ways To Improvise In Training is an anthology of games and activities especially designed to create an environment of active improvisation, experimentation, imagination, and energy. Physical and verbal activities alike serve as icebreakers and means to shake people out of their morning doldrums, whether for a team meeting or workshop training session. Each activity is presented with a recommended number of participants, estimated time, and a star rating indicating how focuses that activity is on bringing out a high energy level, individual strengths, team coordination, or visual, verbal, and physical skills. Instructions for the trainer to say aloud to the participants, sidecoach recommendations, debriefing questions to ask of the participants after the activity, and suggested variations or developments for each activity make 58 1/2 Ways To Improvise In Training easy to understand and apply to immediate practical use. An extraordinarily handy warm-up and focus guide for bringing the best out of groups of people.
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pioneers of american ginseng growth.......2007-04-07
MR PERSONS IS A WELL EDUCATED MAN IN THIS AREA OF AGRICULTURE THAT DOES NOT GET ALOT OF PRESS. HE DISCUSSES THE PLUS/MINUSES OF CULTIVATION, TYPE OF CULTIVATION AND LABOR INVOLVED, THE BOOK IS VERY THOROUGH. I WOULD HIGHLY SUGGEST THE BOOK FOR ANYONE CONSIDERING A HOBBY FARM, AN ALTERNATIVE STREAM OF REVENUE, OR JUST SIMPLY INTERESTED IN THE SUBJECT. AUTHORS STYLE OF WRITING IS VERY EASILY READ AND UNDERSTOOD.
The most informative source I have yet found........1999-01-11
The subject accuracy and abundance is great! I haven't found a more comprehensive source. The information presented is simple and straight forward. The pictures are invaluable to the person not familiar with the growing of Ginseng. The various recommendations are full of first had wisdom and hit the mark. All together- an excellent choice for any level grower!
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Sacred Space: A Feminist Vision of Astrology
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This is a book about Washington Consensus capitalism and the controversies its encroachment causes in Japan and Germany. Many people in both those countries share the assumptions dominant today in Britain and America-that managers should be intent solely on creating shareholder value and that shareholders' financial logic alone should determine who buys what company on the stock exchange. That way efficiency (and hence global welfare) will be maximized. The Japanese and German advocates of full-bloodied market capitalism are not having it all their own way, however. In both countries there are articulate defenders of what they consider to be a better way of life, informed by a more human, more social-solidary, set of values. Dore traces the fascinating debates which ensue on corporate governance, on worker rights, on supplier relations, on cartels and anti-trust, on pensions and welfare. He also analyses actual changes in economic behaviour-an essential means of sorting out a lot of the muddle and double-talk not just in the internal debates themselves, but even more in the foreign reporting of them. These accounts of the battle for the national soul in Japan and Germany constitute one of the finest contributions to the 'diversity of capitalism' debate. Dore's account should be read by anyone who is interested to know whether, for all the talk of globalization, that diversity is going to survive.
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Good book with wrong conclusions.......2005-08-15
I disagree with the conclusions which contain a good deal of left-wing simplifications and pessimism (I believe that Germany and Japan will preserve many of their characteristics and prosper!). However, no doubt an interesting piece of work, which I recommend especially now that changes in the two countries mentioned above are finally accelerating (while the US is starting a phase of decline after a very successful decade).
Review of Journal of Economic Literature.......2003-04-07
This review appeared in JEL, Dec. 2002, by RICHARD A. WERNER Sophia University, Tokyo.
Hardly a day passes without the financial press asserting that Japan's economic structure is responsible for the long recession and demanding "badly needed" structural changes. The results of a decade of apparently vigorous counter-cyclical policies have been disappointing. It is therefore not surprising that many experts agree with the Bank of Japan's argument that deep structural reforms are needed to enhance growth. A similar story is being told about Germany. Recent economic weakness is seen by the European Central Bank as evidence that structural re-form is "needed"-a view enthusiastically sup-ported by the financial press (who, according to Dore, constitute an interested party benefiting from the "financialization" that results from introducing U.S.-style capitalism). As Francis Fukuyama argued, the "Anglo-Saxon" free market and stock market based system has become the global standard. It is this mainstream view that Ronald Dore's important and refreshing book is directed against. It deserves praise not just for Dore's courage in defending an unpopular cause.
The book is very timely: it points out the advantages of German/Japanese welfare capitalism just when it is becoming an endangered species. It is rich in detail, yet surprisingly concise. It is analytical, yet highly readable and full of illuminating examples. It combines an eye for macro-economic implications with sound micro-economic and management- level insights. Finally, Dore's book provides an analysis of the ongoing pressures on welfare capitalism and how its salient features are now changing. Dore's readers benefit from his decades of experience and seminal work on the Japanese firm. The relatively smaller weight given to Germany is the book's main (though acknowledged) weakness.
Dore identifies key features that make Ger-man/ Japanese capitalism different from the "Anglo- Saxon" variety familiar from textbooks. The former produces benefits due to its cooperative nature and long-term orientation. The Anglo-Saxon model is good for the shareholders. The Germans and Japanese maintained market mechanisms, but eliminated shareholders as the main beneficiaries. Instead of serving the few, a form of capitalism was born that succeeded in creating a decent quality of life for the many- employees and society at large.
Dore is a must-read for any economist, precisely because he challenges our preconceptions. As is increasingly recognized in the literature, once unrealistic assumptions such as perfect information and efficient markets are relaxed, there is no guarantee that markets left to their own devices will produce socially optimal results. The designers of the German and Japanese systems based their institutional designs on a more realistic description of the world. By focusing on mutually beneficial cooperation and coordination, they managed to internalize externalities, minimize information costs, and, most of all, motivate individuals. They recognized that "utility functions" are interdependent, people compete in hierarchical fashion and have a common desire for justice and fairness of organizational arrangements. Recent growth theories acknowledge the importance of the human resource aspect of "labor." While neglected in static models and policy advice, human resources are at the center of the German/Japanese model.
With regard to the premise that capital is the scarce resource and that "labor" will normally be in fairly abundant supply, Dore says, "It is amazing that anyone can seriously sustain this view in a world awash with so much liquidity that its movement from one country to another keeps exchange rates in perpetual motion" (p. 15). Human resource mobilization requires institutional design. "The whole discussion of modal behavioral dispositions as a factor in the functioning of economic systems tends to be avoided among economists who wish to believe that what they teach their students are theorems about THE economy, determined by the universal utility function of MAN" (p. 38). Not so in Japan, where people tend "to be good at discerning possibilities of cooperation which can be of general benefit, and at devising organizational forms which can reap those benefits in ways which all participants can consider fair" (p. 38).
One such organizational form is the system of industry associations, which are modern incarnations of the medieval guild structure. Due to their public goods character, resulting cartels may be welfare-enhancing. The cooperative orientation does not mean there is no competition. As Dore explains well, competition can be fierce, as the system combines markets and hierarchies. The tendency towards the formation of cartels is counteracted by relatively low concentration ratios in many industries (due to bank finance and cross-shareholdings which result in fewer hostile takeovers) and inter-firm rivalry due to lifetime employment.
Just when economists are beginning to recognize these issues, Germany and Japan are moving toward adopting the Anglo-Saxon model. These changes increase "financialization" and thus the share of economic activity devoted to profit-seeking by shifting ownership certificates from A to B. Adopting U.S.-style capitalism means that Germany and Japan are importing its disadvantages and social problems. Dore asks: Can it be efficient to devote ever more people to servicing "gambling on uncertainties in financial markets" with analysis, advice, appraisal, advertising? As increasingly strong shareholders demand "value," will social welfare or overall fairness increase? One issue remains: If it is so successful, why is Dore one of the few to defend welfare capitalism?
Recent weak economic performance is blamed on the system, and it is seen to have out-lived its usefulness. Whether this is really true must be investigated, though it is beyond the scope of Dore's book. In my forthcoming book (2003, Princes of the Yen, Japan's Central Bankers and the Structural Transformation of the Economy, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe) I provide evidence that the Japanese recession was not due to the economic structure but instead to a central bank aiming at dismantling welfare capitalism.
All in all, Dore's book succeeds in raising and illuminating these challenging issues. It deserves much attention. It also shows the need for further research on this topic-and soon, before this species of capitalism becomes extinct.
Stock Market Capitalism.......2001-01-04
"...a thoughtful and provocative book on how global capitalism may evolve" Jeffrey Garten, Dean of Yale Management School
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Title: Stock Market Capitalism; Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany Versus the Anglo-Saxons. (Book Reviews). (book review)
Author: John Groenewegen
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Chicksands
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Book is revealing..........2002-05-30
This is a difficult review for me to write because I think Mr. Atkins could have shared his days serving his country in an ELITE force such as the USAFSS, (United States Air Force Security Service), during the Cold War era, in a more suitable way. He has the capability of writing a much better memoir. He reveals many sexual aspects of his three years at Chix far too often. One nice clean scene would have sufficed. As an Analyst he does speak of his and others'technical areas with expertise, however, once an oath, ALWAYS an oath, until one dies.
Book is revealing..........2002-05-30
This is a difficult review for me to write because I think Mr. Atkins could have shared his days serving his country in an ELITE force such as the USAFSS, (United States Air Force Security Service), during the Cold War era, in a more suitable way. He has the capability of writing a much better memoir. He reveals many sexual aspects of his three years at Chix far too often. One nice clean scene would have sufficed. As an Analyst he does speak of his and others'technical areas with expertise, however, once an oath, ALWAYS an oath, until one dies.
Don't Waste Your Money!.......2002-02-15
Being a former Chicksands member myself, I looked forward to reading this book. How disappointing. This author needed an editor in the worst way! This amatuer attempt is filled with many, many errors. I hope Mr. Atkin was more succesful in his Air Force career. Don't waste your money.
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- Chicksands: A Millennium of History
- An Excellent Historical work about Chicksands
- An Excellent Historical work about Chicksands
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Chicksands : A Millennium of History
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APPEALING - INCREDIBLE READ!.......2002-07-09
Somehow lost my first review: CHICKSANDS: A Millennium of History is a noble piece of work. This is no routine historical book. It is fresh and lively in approach, and the research is impeccable. The people, events, backgrounds and settings equal credibility and realism. I know of some who have served at Chicksands in the USAFSS, and I am happy to see that Mr. Grayson has instilled their service to the top of the "hill" with this beautiful and well written tome to celebrate such unique history. Mr. Grayson, have you heard of Simon & Schuster? Random House? They need to see this book. Thank you for your foresight and talent to bring this historical work to the American people.
Chicksands: A Millennium of History.......2002-01-02
I have read this publication a few times and always find it to be interesting and well presented. I have met Mr. Grayson several times and find him to be knowledgeable about Chicksands and interested in facts that present the best summary of the base and history of the site. His interest in preserving current history is well presented as he fills us in on the past.
An Excellent Historical work about Chicksands.......1999-10-23
The work by Bill Grayson about Chicksands is professionalism at its best. His detailed study of Chicksands from the days early occupation by the Gilbertine Order to the occupation by the RAF and USAF/SS as an intelligence listening post is accurate and done in precise detail. His ability to convey the position of the military forces' use of Chicksands during WWII and the Cold War is excellent. This work by Mr. Grayson is a keepsake of knowledge that those of us who served our country at Chicksands will long hold in esteem and honor. A worthwile addition to any library.
An Excellent Historical work about Chicksands.......1999-10-23
The work by Bill Grayson about Chicksands is professionalism at its best. His detailed study of Chicksands from the days early occupation by the Gilbertine Order to the occupation by the RAF and USAF/SS as an intelligence listening post is accurate and done in precise detail. His ability to convey the position of the military forces' use of Chicksands during WWII and the Cold War is excellent. This work by Mr. Grayson is a keepsake of knowledge that those of us who served our country at Chicksands will long hold in esteem and honor. A worthwile addition to any library.
Excellent history of RAF Chicksands.......1999-10-13
This is an excellent book which details the history of Chicksands, a location near Shefford in Bedfordshire, England. Chicksands started out as a monastery, became a manor house, and ended up as a secret listening post for the RAF and later the USAF. The book details a lot of the midevial history of the site, and at times can be a little slow reading. Having lived and worked at Chicksands for about 2 1/2 years, I was glad to see a book that details the history of the place. The book is a fitting tribute to all who worked or lived there, from the monks in the 1100's to the USAF personnel who were there until closure in 1995.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Supply Chain Management, published by National Association of Purchasing Management, Inc. on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 8441 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the author: This article provides evidence about the current sourcing strategies for indirect spend from a survey of 124 organizations. The study found that, despite the recent prominence of reverse auctions and outsourcing options, the most frequently cited external sourcing management approach for indirect spend is long-term collaboration with preferred suppliers. There was also evidence that indirect spend suffers from a lack of internal support, maverick purchasing, and fragmentation of spend within the organization.
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Title: Sourcing indirect spend: a survey of current internal and external strategies for non-revenue-generating goods and services.
Author: Andrew Cox
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Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: National Association of Purchasing Management, Inc.
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Page: 39(13)
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