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  The Upside of Aging - How Long...

  Paul Irving

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  What can we do about the challenges of an aging America?  Solutions will require the imagination and engagement of  government, business, medicine, philanthropy and academia. With  commitment -- with a movement -- there is hope and opportunity.  Millions of aging individuals are seeking new ways to remain  healthy, active, engaged and contributing members of society.  Thoughtful leaders are beginning to pay attention and respond to  the demographic wave. Solutions are being discussed and developed.  From new approaches to wellness and health care, to senior-friendly  housing and transportation systems, to encore education and career  opportunities, to the use of new technologies and social networks  to engage seniors, innovation abounds.  The Upside of Aging: How Long Life Is Changing the World of  Health, Work, Innovation, Policy and Purpose will be an  edited book by Paul Irving, Senior Managing Director and Chief  Operating Officer of the Milken Institute, with chapters written by  American leaders who speak to the challenges and promises of our  age shift. Each chapter will acknowledge the difficulties to be  addressed and the potential solutions to be considered. In sum,  this will provide thoughtful and expert analysis about the state of  American aging, the opportunity to build a better America, and a  call to action to empower seniors and improve aging lives.

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  The Wise Advocate - The Inner...

  Art Kleiner, Jeffrey M. Schwartz...

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  In this audiobook, Art Kleiner, a strategy expert; Jeffrey Schwartz, a research psychiatrist; and Josie Thomson, an executive coach, give a transformative explanation of how cutting-edge neuroscience can help business leaders set a course toward better management.Mapping the functions of a manager onto established patterns of mental activity, they identify crucial brain circuits and their parallels in organizational culture. Strategic leaders, they show, play the role of wise advocates: able to go beyond day-to-day transactional behavior to a longer-term, broader perspective that articulates their organization's deeper purpose. True leaders can play this influencer role in an organization because they have cultivated similar self-reflective habits in their own minds.Providing a powerful guide to decision strategies and their consequences, The Wise Advocate helps managers find their own inner voice and then make that voice ring out loud and clear, with a four-step program for practice and catalytic implications for management strategy, executive education, and business results.

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  Built on Values - Creating an...

  Stephen R. Covey, Ann Rhoades,...

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  All across the country, the best and most competitive companies are  creating great cultures in which employees consider it their  pleasure to give the best possible service to customers.    Even in hard economic times, accomplishing that is not only  possible but absolutely essential.  If customers don't have  much money to spend, where are they going to spend it?  At a  place where employees sullenly and begrudgingly take their money or  one where they are happy to be of service?   Based on a patent-pending Values Blueprint process, this book  from culture change expert Ann Rhoades shows the exact steps for  curing an ailing company culture or creating a new one from  scratch. Developed from Rhoades' years of experience with  Southwest, Jet Blue, Doubletree Hotels, P.F. Chang's and the many  clients of People Ink, she has proven, over and over, that  companies that create or improve values-based cultures become  higher performers, both in customer satisfaction and in financial  return.  Rhoades helps companies get on the pathway to greatness by  turning around their cultures. The key is to focus on both the big  picture and the smallest detail at the same time.  This book  is based on that very principle. Changing a culture starts with  getting the basics right (values and behavior at the C-level). Then  the big things (hiring the right people, keeping them and  delighting customers) fall more easily into place.               This book provides a clear blueprint for how to accomplish  culture change. It also offers inspiring examples and cases from a  wide range of industries. Readers will learn:        Why "living the values" is  the first principle in leading people successfully        How to exceed the  expectations of employees and customers by living the values        How to develop a Values  Blueprint and put it into action        Why it's essential to  hire, fire and reward people based on values alone and        How to establish a  discipline for sustaining a values-centric culture

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  The Way of the Leader - 25 Ideas...

  BH Tan

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  In the history of human progress, the most fruitful developments take place at the intersection of different lines of thoughts. The timeless topic of leadership has for centuries always been dominated by the ideas and philosophies of Western thinkers, business executives, and academics. For far too long, the voice from the East has been deafeningly silent. As Asia rises in the global economy, a question that begs an answer is, "What is the leadership tradition of the East and how will it play out globally?"Leadership consultant BH Tan has written an outstanding exposition of the Asian perspective on leadership. He has drawn upon his deep appreciation of Daoist principles to propose a complementary approach to the Western-centric leadership mindset.A lifelong student of Eastern and Western thinking and leadership, he challenges some of our most cherished truths and perspectives. "Either-or" is out. The "both-and" philosophy will lead us to a better future in this complex, chaotic, yet interconnected world. This is the essence of leadership paradoxes. When we integrate both streams of thinking, we transcend contradictions and tap into greater possibilities for progress and creativity. This can only help us lead more wisely and courageously.

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  Planet India - How the Fastest...

  Mira Kamdar

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  A Lively, indispensable, cutting-edge exploration of our stake in India's gambit to transform itself from a developing country into a global powerhouse in record time.India is everywhere-Indian studios produce animated features and special effects for Hollywood movies; Indian software manages our health records; and Indian customer service centers answer our calls. A country of English speakers and a free-market democracy, with the youngest population on Earth, India is not only the fast-growing market for the next new thing but a source for the technological innovation that will drive the global economy.Yet India is also in a race against time to bring the benefits of the twenty-first century to the 800 million Indians who live on less than $2 per day, and it must do so in a way that is environmentally sustainable and politically viable on a scale never before achieved.  If India succeeds, it will not only save itself, it may save us all.  If it fails, we will all suffer. As goes India, so goes the world.Like China, Inc., Planet India will capture and catalyze the growing interest in this rising power. With in-depth research, interviews, and provocative analysis, Mira Kamdar offers a penetrating view of India and its cultural and economic impact on the United States and the world. From Bollywood to the Indian diaspora to India's effect on global politics, she reports on the people, companies, and places shaping the new India. Kamdar examines the challenges India faces while celebrating India's tremendous vitality and the opportunities this Asian democracy has to shape its own and all of our destinies.

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  The Power of Nice - How to...

  Linda Kaplan Thaler, Robin Koval

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  Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval have moved to the top of the advertising industry by following a simple but powerful philosophy: it pays to be nice. While so many companies encourage a dog-eat-dog mentality, The Kaplan Thaler Group has succeeded through chocolate and flowers.
  In The Power of Nice, through their own experiences and the stories of other people and businesses, they demonstrate why, contrary to conventional wisdom, nice people finish first.
  
  ©2006 Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval; (P)2007 Oasis Audio LLC

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