Explosion hazards in the process industry

Explosion Hazards in the Process Industry Publisher: Gulf Publishing | Pages: 439 | 2005-10-15 | ISBN 0976511347 | PDF | 17 MB Explosions in the process industries injure or kill hundreds, if not thousands, of workers every year. They occur in process plants, refineries, platforms and pipelines all over the world. Millions of dollars are spent repairing damages, replacing equipment and rebuilding facilities in the wake of this destruction. The loss of human life adds another dimension to these tragedies. This book explores different types of explosions that can occur in a facility and the necessary steps to guard against them. A clear set of preventative measures, rules and standards combine to make this book a convenient guide to real-world applications. Additional theoretical issues in the use of probabilistic equations and scenarios make this book an absolute neccesity for process industry safety.

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Winning the influence game: what every business leader should know about government

Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards, Usha Thakrar, "Winning the Influence Game: What Every Business Leader Should Know about Government" Wiley | 2001-03-26 | ISBN: 0471383619 | 272 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB

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Undue influence: how the wall street elite puts the financial system at risk

Charles R. Geisst, "Undue Influence: How the Wall Street Elite Puts the Financial System at Risk" Wiley | 2004-11-22 | ISBN: 0471656631 | 314 pages | PDF | 4,8 MB

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Intellectual Property Rights: Innovation, Governance And the Institutional Environment

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing | 2006-09-30 | ISBN 1845422694 | PDF | 359 pages | 1.2 MB

Intellectual property policy has been framed too commonly in terms of refining and strengthening legal rights. As intellectual property grows in scope and importance, the limitations of this narrow approach have become all too apparent. This important collection puts the policy problems in proper perspective by assembling the work of leading scholars and researchers who examine intellectual property rights in terms of how they actually work in legal, economic, and institutional contexts.Brian Kahin, University of Michigan and formerly White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, US

For a long time we have thought about IPRs as a policy instrument to avoid a “tragedy of commons”. The essays collected by Birgitte Andersen show that in the XXI century economy there is another, and so far underestimated, danger: a sort of “tragedy of markets” where every knowledge or cultural expression becomes privatised. This will generate a greater knowledge and culture divide, with an increased corporate dominance. Those who are afraid of the dangers of exclusion and that believe that open access to science, technology and culture will lead us in a more intriguing world will find convincing arguments and explanations in this volume. Daniele Archibugi, Italian National Research Council, Italy

There is a growing need to understand the role of the regulation of intellectual property rights (IPRs), in order not only to achieve economic performance, growth and sustainable development at corporate, sectoral and global levels, but also to provide a higher quality of life for communities worldwide.

Intellectual Property Rights is cutting edge in addressing current debates affecting businesses, industry sectors and society today, and in focusing not only on the enabling welfare effects of IPR systems, but also on some of the possible adverse effects of IPR systems. The main areas covered in the book are:
the global commons in an era of corporate dominance and privatisation of the public domain, including science, culture, and healthcare under TRIPS the rationales for IPRs, and the importance of an appropriate design of an IPR regime in achieving its objectives opening the black box of IPR offices and critically reviewing how they affect economic performance in both theory and practice coordinating the institutions (state versus sector institutions, knowledge networks, innovation systems) creating and extracting financial and non-financial value from patents and copyrights.

This book challenges the existing mainstream thinking and analytical frameworks dominating the theoretical literature on IPRs within law, economics, management, politics and regulation theory. It is relevant for policymakers, business analysts, industrial and business economists, researchers and students.

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Decision Making: Descriptive, Normative, and Prescriptive Interactions

Cambridge University Press | 1988-10-28 | ISBN: 0521368510 | 636 pages | DjVu | 32,8 MB
The analysis of decision making under uncertainty has again become a major focus of interest. This volume presents contributions from leading specialists in different fields and provides a summary and synthesis of work in this area. It is based on a conference held at the Harvard Business School. The book brings together the different approaches to decision making - normative, descriptive, and prescriptive - which largely correspond to different disciplinary interests.

Mathematicians have concentrated on rational procedures for decision making - how people should make decisions. Psychologists have examined how poeple do make decisions, and how far their behaviour is compatible with any rational model. Operations researchers study the application of decision models to actual problems. Throughout, the aim is to present the current state of research and its application and also to show how the different disciplinary approaches can inform one another and thus lay the foundations for the integrated analysis of decision making. The book will be of interest to researchers, teachers - for use as background reading for a decision theory course - students, and consultants and others involved in the practical application of the analysis of decision making. It will be of interest to specialists and students in statistics, mathematics, economics, psychology and the behavioural sciences, operations research, and management science.

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The W.D. Gann Method of Trading: A Simplified, Clear Approach

Windsor Books | 1990-10-01 | ISBN: 0930233425 | 196 pages | PDF | 6,5 MB
Examines the methods of the world’s most legendary trader, W.D. Gann. Puts Gann’s work in clear, understandable terms. Presents a logical, easy-to-use method of trading.

After reading this book, you’ll know that turning points can be found and accurate price projections made. In all markets and all time frames. The rules are fully automatic. Filled with over 70 charts showing the method in use.

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Digital Day Trading; Moving from One Winning Stock Position to the Next

Dearborn Trade Pub | 1999-05 | ISBN: 0793131138 | 269 pages | PDF | 5,1 MB
Can you think faster than the market? If so, you may have what it takes to profit from day trading. More and more professional traders are reaping rewards from market volatility.

The money making potential for stock day-traders is equal to that of futures traders because of the favorable cost of entry. The electronic environment also provides great opportunities for success in this growing field.

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Inspiration: Capturing the Creative Potential of Your Organization

Nicholas Ind, Cameron Watt “Inspiration: Capturing the Creative Potential of Your Organization”
Palgrave Macmillan | 2004-09-18 | ISBN: 1403920583 | 256 pages | PDF | 1 MB
This book examines how organizations can best develop and manage a creative environment and creative potential. The authors argue that organizations consist of people who have creative potential to think in new ways and yet are often denied the opportunity to do so. The goal of the organization should be to create a structure and culture that encourages the conditions in which creativity can flourish. This will generate significant competitive advantages for the organization by offering clear differentiation, by communicating positive brand attributes to stakeholders that will strengthen the organization’s intangible assets and by providing a creative and challenging environment that will attract and retain the best staff.

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ERP Optimization: Using Your Existing System to Support Profitable E-Business Initiatives

Cindy Jutras “ERP Optimization: Using Your Existing System to Support Profitable E-Business Initiatives”
CRC | 2002-12-10 | ISBN: 1574443321 | 192 pages | PDF | 2,8 MB
Existing ERP systems are being used to support an increasing amount of critical e-business initiatives, even though this is far from their original purpose. While ERP can form a foundation for successfully meeting e-business needs, future success will be derived not only from a firm, supportive foundation, but from a solid e-business superstructure that guides your company through a value chain that has grown longer and more complex. ERP Optimization provides a technology-centric approach to leading your company through an e-transformation. It shows you how to leverage current investments in information systems while minimizing disruptions to the core business of the enterprise. Written in a business vernacular, the book effectively bridges the gap between technology and business strategy. The author takes you through the process of defining e-business goals and accessing and maximizing current systems capabilities. She details the steps required to assume a leadership position within an integrated business community and demonstrates how to support secure information exchanges with customer, suppliers,and partners. ERP alone is not enough to secure and maintain a superior position in today’s economy, but it can provide the backbone and infrastructure of enterprise applications that are the necessary, essential prerequisites to conducting e-business. Whether you are an executive today, or hope to be one in the future, ERP Optimization gives you the tools to lead your organization successfully into the e-business world.

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The Ten-Minute Trainer: 150 Ways to Teach it Quick and Make it Stick!

Sharon L. Bowman, Dave Meier “The Ten-Minute Trainer: 150 Ways to Teach it Quick and Make it Stick!”
Pfeiffer | 2005-09-15 | ISBN: 0787974420 | 300 pages | PDF | 6,3 MB
Discover more than one hundred of Sharon Bowman’s training-room-proven exercises and activities — many derived from the high-impact strategies of NLP and Accelerated Learning — and reduce delivery time, increase retention and improve knowledge and skill transfer. These back-pocket activities are easy, quick, topic-related, and fun, and you can draw on with a minimum of preparation.
The Ten-Minute Trainer features a variety of exercises, ranging from one to ten minutes in length, and provides content-specific exercises as well as activities for transitioning between topics and gauging understanding. You’ll find a useful answer section that explains the brain research behind the book and a special section on learning styles that ties in with the philosophy of “learn it fast and make it last.”

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Team Players and Teamwork, Completely Updated and Revised: New Strategies for Developing Successful Collaboration

Jossey-Bass | 2008-02-08 | ISBN: 0787998117 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,05 MB
Praise for Team Players and Teamwork

“In the new edition of Team Players and Teamwork Glenn Parker updates his landmark compendium on the essential effect of cross-functional teamwork to encompass the added complexities of globalization facing team leaders and team members in the twenty-first century. Anyone participating on or managing members of a cross-functional team will benefit from reading this essential guide to successful teamwork.”
-Jeffrey W. Warmke, vice president, global project management and leadership, Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development

“Glenn Parker has the unique combination of sound thinking and clear writing. In his recent version of Team Players and Teamwork he succeeds in taking this combination of skills to a higher level.”
-Sivasilam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan, president, Workshops by Thiagi, Inc.

“Glenn’s book is a must-read for team leaders and team members who are looking for a comprehensive set of tools and ideas to help teams perform more effectively. Glenn offers practical wisdom-based on years of first-hand experience-that is unparalleled in the field of team dynamics.”
-Robert Hoffman, executive director, organization development and talent management, oncology business unit, Norvartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

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Hotel Management and Operations

Wiley | 2006-02-24 | ISBN: 0471470651 | 496 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB
This Fourth Edition helps readers develop the wide-ranging knowledge and analytical skills they need to succeed in todays burgeoning and dynamic hotel industry. This comprehensive volume encourages critical thinking by providing different points of view through contributions from sixty leading industry professionals and academics. Within a coherent theoretical structure, this updated edition enables readers to formulate their own ideas and solutions.

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Leadership: Project and Human Capital Management

Butterworth-Heinemann | 2006-02-09 | ISBN: 0750668962 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
Success in project management requires the project manager to operate at many levels and deal with a myriad of internal and external stakeholders. Leadership in the project management requires the vision, ability and courage to guide individuals and teams to rewarding experiences.

Project Managers often expect to achieve a great deal, but need to realise they can achieve little without the efforts of others. This book focuses on the complexity and issues of leadership in project management. The book provides:
* assist project managers in their understanding of what leadership is and how leadership influences the outcome of project success
* demonstrate how empowerment can be used to achieve results and positive project outcomes
* demonstrate how to engage and influence others to achieve project goals
* define the theoretical and practical boundaries of decision making within the context of multiple stakeholder projects
* provide an insight into what it takes to build high performance project teams
* provide a communication taxonomy for managing multiple stakeholders and demonstrates how conflict should be managed

* Achieve your project management goals by providing clear leadership
* Build and develop an effective project team
* Demonstrates how to engage and influence stakeholders and team members to achieve project goals

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Facilitating Multicultural Groups: A Practical Guide

Christine Hogan “Facilitating Multicultural Groups: A Practical Guide”
Kogan Page | 2007-05-01 | ISBN: 0749444924 | 342 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
Facilitators are being called upon to work in international and cross-cultural arenas more than ever before. Facilitating Multicultural Groups provides a practical approach for facilitators to enhance their skills when working with people from diverse backgrounds. Based on research and facilitator experiences, it takes the facilitator step-by-step through ideas, processes, and frameworks that are designed to assist with workshop preparation, facilitation, and evaluation. It gives advice on how to adapt learning materials to suit specific situations and offers techniques to deal with conflict. Complete with definition of terminology, useful quotations, references, and electronic resources to follow up on areas of interest, this is essential reading for anyone facilitating multicultural groups.

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Special Events: Event Leadership for a New World

Wiley | 2004-10-14 | ISBN: 0471450375 | 528 pages | PDF | 6 MB

More and more, special events courses are being taught in hospitality and events management courses.

Written by the foremost authority on event management, and with expanded coverage of leadership and its role in successful planning, this book provides a handy reference for events professionals and the tools necessary for beginners to pursue a career in special events management.

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Trust and Reputation for Service-Oriented Environments: Technologies For Building Business Intelligence And Consumer Confidence

Wiley | 2006-07-11 | ISBN: 0470015470 | 374 pages | PDF | 3,1 MB

Trustworthiness technologies and systems for service-oriented environments are re-shaping the world of e-business. By building trust relationships and establishing trustworthiness and reputation ratings, service providers and organizations will improve customer service, business value and consumer confidence, and provide quality assessment and assurance for the customer in the networked economy.

Trust and Reputation for Service-Oriented Environments is a complete tutorial on how to provide business intelligence for sellers, service providers, and manufacturers. In an accessible style, the authors show how the capture of consumer requirements and end-user opinions gives modern businesses the competitive advantage.

Trust and Reputation for Service-Oriented Environments:

Clarifies trust and security concepts, and defines trust, trust relationships, trustworthiness, reputation, reputation relationships, and trust and reputation models.
Details trust and reputation ontologies and databases.
Explores the dynamic nature of trust and reputation and how to manage them efficiently.
Provides methodologies for trustworthiness measurement, reputation assessment and trustworthiness prediction.
Evaluates current trust and reputation systems as employed by companies such as Yahoo, eBay, BizRate, Epinion and Amazon, etc.
Gives ample illustrations and real world examples to help validate trust and reputation concepts and methodologies.
Offers an accompanying website with lecture notes and PowerPoint slides.
This text will give senior undergraduate and masters level students of IT, IS, computer science, computer engineering and business disciplines a full understanding of the concepts and issues involved in trust and reputation. Business providers, consumer watch-dogs and government organizations will find it an invaluable reference to establishing and maintaining trust in open, distributed, anonymous service-oriented network environments.

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Coaching at Work: Powering your Team with Awareness, Responsibility and Trust

Jossey-Bass | 2006-12-01 | ISBN: 0470017112 | 348 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB

“This book comes at a time when we are asking searching questions: How exactly do we earn the loyalty, trust and commitment of our people? How do we balance the needs of our organisations to do more with less with the need to create environments in which people can grow, develop and achieve their aspirations? The answers lie within each of those through whom so much can be achieved. This book is the key to unlocking them.”
–Gareth Ford, Training & Development Manager, Atkins

“Perfect Timing! Amongst the vast selection of coaching literature, this book is powerful in 3 ways.
* It has the potential to engage even the most ardent cynic to “have a go”
* It releases a well-timed boost to existing passionate believers of coaching
* It is invaluable to anyone with responsibility for managing, training and development, with well thought-out strategic and realistic approaches to creating and implementing a coaching culture in any business.”
–Fiona Green, Training Manager, ScS Upholstery plc

“How much of your team’s full potential do you see at work? 90%? 30%? 60%? Many of us simply don’t know. In a world of relentless change is it any wonder that so much can interfere with how well we perform at work. In a practical approach Matt Somers explores how coaching can be used to release that potential. Matt recognises that the reaction in the work place to coaching can range from mild apathy to downright hostility. It is this firm grip on reality that considerably increases the reader’s chances of becoming a successful coach. In today’s business environment ignore the principles and ideas embodied in this book at your peril!”
–Simon Hepinstall, Chief Executive, Storey Carpets Limited

“This is an extremely practical book underpinned by a powerful coaching model that is carefully defined and applied throughout. Matt’s candid and insightful approach provides accessible information for those new to coaching and those wanting to refine their coaching approach. There are number of coaching texts emerging onto the scene and it is refreshing to see a book so grounded in managerial and organizational reality.”
–Jane Turner, Programme Director - Coaching, Newcastle Business School,Northumbria University

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So Smart But…: How Intelligent People Lose Credibility - and How They Can Get it Back

Jossey-Bass | 2006-10-27 | ISBN: 0787985740 | 224 pages | PDF | 1,1 Mb
This fascinating book demonstrates that to be a good communicator and therefore an effective manager, a person must have five qualities in order to be viewed as totally credible–competence, character, composure, sociability, and extroversion. While some executives seem to possess all these qualities and be born with savvy communication skills, Weiner shows how anyone can find ways to make measurable improvements in how they present themselves that will enhance their credibility.

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How to Prepare a Business Plan (Business Enterprise)

192 pages | Kogan Page; 5th edition (April 28, 2008) | 0749449810 | PDF | 1 Mb
A good business plan is the best means of impressing potential financial backers. Indeed, without such a plan no bank or venture capital house will consider a loan for start-up or expansion. How to Prepare a Business Plan describes the best way to prepare a business plan that will get the financial backing needed. Now updated with case studies and information on technology and the internet, it includes cash flow forecasts and sample business plans, as well as advice on expanding a business, planning the borrowing and monitoring business progress. Every new business needs a comprehensive and detailed plan if it is to survive. How to Prepare a Business Plan helps aspiring entrepreneurs take this step.

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Sense and Respond: The Journey to Customer Purpose

Palgrave Macmillan | 2005-08-06 | ISBN: 140394573X | 224 pages | PDF | 1 MB

The authors argue that lean production should be driven by the desire to achieve optimal customer service by sensing and responding to the customer. The customer is at the center of the process and the organization needs to respond in a holistic way so that the customer can impact on the design and delivery of products and processes. The book is based upon substantial research and practice by leading practitioners and heralds a paradigm shift in thinking on these issues.

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