Introduction to Management Science

Introduction to Management Science 

By: Bernard W. Taylor III

The objective of management science is to solve the decision making problems that confront and confound managers in both the public and the private sector by developing mathematical models of those problems. These models have traditionally been solved with various mathematical techniques, all of which lend themselves to specific types of problems. Thus, management science as a field of study has always been inherently mathematical in nature, and as a result sometimes complex and rigorous. When I began writing the first edition of this book in 1979, my main goal was to make these mathematical topics seem less complex and thus more palatable to undergraduate business students. To achieve this goal I started out by trying to provide simple, straightforward explanations of often difficult mathematical topics. [download]

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How To Be A People Magnet

How To Be A People Magnet

By: Leil Lowndes

It’s not just a song. We all need a little help from our friends. If not now, tomorrow. Or the day after. Or the year after. Some people never realize it until it’s too late. They invest in stocks, bonds, or real estate thinking money is going to give them the security and happiness they seek. Sadly, they neglect the most important investment of their lives time spent finding, making, and nurturing true friendships and true lasting love relationships. Sometimes we are a nation of blockheads so blinded by sex, that we don’t see the true love for the birds and the bees. (Not that there’s anything wrong with the birds and the bees we’re going to talk about those captivating little critters But with no myths, no false magic.) We’re going to get real about love and sex. Because all too often the lovebird sings sweet lies, and the bee stings too hard. [download]

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How To Be Happy at Work

How To Be Happy at Work 

By: Arlene S. Hirsch

It was Monday morning, and my week wasn’t getting off to a great start. Stuck in traffic on the Kennedy Expressway, I was already late for my first appointment with a corporate client. As I fiddled with the radio looking for a traffic report, a commercial caught my attention: “Allison, do you want to be a ballerina when you grow up?” a man asked. “Please, Daddy,” a tiny voice replied. “I’m only three. I’m not planning to make any career decisions until I’m six.” I don’t remember the product they were advertising (what could it possibly be?). But that clever two-line dialogue is permanently etched in my memory, reminding me of how much we are encouraged and how much we encourage others to define ourselves by our work. [download]

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George Fox-An Autobiography

George Fox-An Autobiography

By: Rufus M. Jones, M.A. LITT.D. 

There are mysterious moments in the early life of the individual which we call “budding periods.” They are incubation crises, when some new power or function is coming into being. The budding tendency to creep, to walk, to imitate, or to speak, is an indication that the psychological moment has come for learning the special operation. There are, too, similar periods in the history of the race, mysterious times of gestation, when something new is coming to be, however dimly the age itself comprehends the significance of its travail. These racial “budding periods,” like those others, have organic connection with the past. They are life-events which the previous history of humanity has made possible, and so they cannot be understood by themselves. [download]

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Goddess of The Hunt

Goddess of The Hunt 

By: Tessa Dare

A knock on the door in the dead of night could only mean disaster. Jeremy pulled a pair of worn breeches on under his nightshirt and stumbled toward the bedchamber door. A fire? He didn’t smell smoke. Perhaps a Walthamfamily emergency? An urgent message from his steward, maybe unrest at Corbinsdale would not come as a surprise. A memory assailed him, unbidden. Unnerving. His heart thudded wildly in his chest. He paused, clutching the door handle, cursing his body for recalling so quickly what he’d worked long years to forget. Logic caught up to his racing pulse, reining it in. The dim glow of banked coals cast ominous shadows, but Jeremy forced the room into focus. This was not that night. He was in his usual bedchamber at Waltham Manor, not wandering Corbinsdale Woods. [download]

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Identity and Strategy

Identity and Strategy 

By: Olaf G. Rughase

This book is about strategy making. Over the last 50 years, academics, consultants, and practitioners have been thinking hard about strategy, providing many often powerful analytical tools, frameworks and processes. And for many years, the academic discipline of strategic management had an impressive impact on organizational practice. But times have changed. When I talk to managers about strategy and strategy making today, they often roll their eyes and their body language waves this topic aside. Asked for reasons or underlying experiences that cause their refusal, they often answer in the form of a question: ‘What about strategy implementation?’ When inquiring further it turns out that this question actually refers to their practical experience many strategies are not realized. [download]

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