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  • Up the Organization

    How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits

    by Robert C. Townsend, Warren Bennis ...
    Series Book 144 - J-B Warren Bennis Series
    Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend’s bestseller first among eighty books that “every manager must read. ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Up the Organization

    How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits

    by Warren Bennis, Robert C. Townsend ...
    Narrated by Robert Blumenfeld ...
    Series series J-B Warren Bennis Series

    Unabridged

    4 hours 34 min

    This commemorative edition remains true to the 1970 original text with alphabetical entries defining Townsend's unique, often hilarious and always provacative take on business. Now with a new chapter on leadership, a Warren Bennis foreword, and essays from many of Townsend's influential friends, including Bob Davids, former CEO of Radica Games, former New Yorker editor Robert Gottlieb, and USC ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Inequality and Globalization

    Improving Measurement through Integrated Financial Accounts

    by Archawa Paweenawat, Robert M. Townsend ...
    Series series
    A remedy for the gap between micro and macro data, making measures of inequality and national income consistent with each otherIncreasing inequality, the impact of globalization, and the disparate effects of financial regulation and innovation are extraordinarily important topics that fuel spirited policy debates. And yet the facts underlying these debates are of doubtful accuracy. In reality, as ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • History's Babel

    Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880–1940

    by Robert B. Townsend ...
    From the late nineteenth century until World War II, competing spheres of professional identity and practice redrew the field of history, establishing fundamental differences between the roles of university historians, archivists, staff at historical societies, history teachers, and others.In History's Babel, Robert B. Townsend takes us from the beginning of this professional shift—when the work ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Financial Systems in Developing Economies

    Growth, Inequality and Policy Evaluation in Thailand

    by Robert M. Townsend ...
    Unique in its approach and in the variety of methods and data employed, this book is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth evaluation of the financial system of Thailand, a proto-typical Asian developing economy. Using a wealth of primary source qualitative and quantitative data, including survey data collected by the author, it evaluates the impact of specific financial institutions, ... Read more

    $73.79 USD

  • Distributed Ledgers

    Design and Regulation of Financial Infrastructure and Payment Systems

    by Robert M. Townsend ...
    An economic analysis of what distributed ledgers can do, examining key components and discussing applications in both developed and emerging market economies.Distributed ledger technology (DLT) has the potential to transform economic organization and financial structure. In this book, Robert Townsend steps back from the hype and controversy surrounding DLT (and the related, but not synonymous, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Terpsichore's Fire - A True Story of Obsession

    by Robert Townsend ...
    Where were you and what were you doing during the summer and autumn of '84? I will try to tell my story as accurately as I can remember, with all the important and relevant events included and described. Make of it what you will, for I'm darned if I can make much sense of it. How did it happen? Why did it happen? And, much more importantly, why did it have to stop happening? For this is the story ... Read more

    Free

  • The Reimagined PhD

    Navigating 21st Century Humanities Education

    by Leanne M Horinko, Jordan M Reed, James M Van Wyck, Leonard Cassuto, Robert Townsend, Robert Weisbuch, Michael J. McGandy0, Augusta Rohrbach1, Joseph M. Vukov2, Melissa Dalgleish3, Karen Wilson4, Stephen Aron5, Vernita Burrell6, William Fenton7, Alexandra M. Lord8, Paula Chambers9 ...
    Long seen as proving grounds for professors, PhD programs have begun to shed this singular sense of mission. Prompted by poor placement numbers and guided by the efforts of academic organizations, administrators and faculty are beginning to feel called to equip students for a range of careers. Yet, graduate students, faculty, and administrators often feel ill-prepared for this pivot. The ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Further Up the Organization

    by Robert Townsend ...
    Narrated by Robert Townsend ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    Robert Townsend, the author of the best seller Up the Organization, is the former CEO of Avis …and the man credited with Getting Avis to Try Harder! Townsend’s Theory Y Management Style is well worth memorizing or at least reviewing weekly! ... Read more

    $9.50 USD

  • Households as Corporate Firms

    An Analysis of Household Finance Using Integrated Household Surveys and Corporate Financial Accounting

    by Krislert Samphantharak, Robert M. Townsend ...
    Series Book 46 - Econometric Society Monographs
    This investigation proposes a conceptual framework for measurement necessary for an analysis of household finance and economic development. The authors build on and, where appropriate, modify corporate financial accounts to create balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows for households in developing countries, using an integrated household survey. The authors also illustrate ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Executioner's Son

    Book Three in the Long War Series

    by Robert Ernest Townsend ...
    Series Book 3 - The Long War
    It is 1953. Danton Larionov, son of NKVD major Wolf Larionov, lives in Suzdal, ancient Russia's capital and spiritual center. Its medieval fortresses, monasteries, and nunneries are now an NKVD Gulag. Screams punctuate the night. Woman's Wood, a tract of ancient forest, emanates deathly silence. The rasputitsa, Russia's spring thaw, ejects those buried in mass graves, brings the murdered to the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Executioner's Son

    Book Three in the Long War Series

    by Robert Ernest Townsend ...
    Series Book 3 - The Long War
    It is 1953. Danton Larionov, son of NKVD major Wolf Larionov, lives in Suzdal, ancient Russia's capital and spiritual center. Its medieval fortresses, monasteries, and nunneries are now an NKVD Gulag. Screams punctuate the night. Woman's Wood, a tract of ancient forest, emanates deathly silence. The rasputitsa, Russia's spring thaw, ejects those buried in mass graves, brings the murdered to the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD