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A volume in Research in Management ConsultingSeries Editor Anthony F. Buono, Bentley UniversityThe 13th volume in the RMC series, The Changing Paradigm of Consulting, is based on the best paperspresented at the Academy of Management's Management Consulting Division's fourth internationalconference (2009) on the underlying dynamics within the fast-paced world of business and managementconsulting. Held in Vienna, Austria, the conference brought together academicians, consultants andorganizational practitioners to examine the changes taking place within the consulting field. The book's 19 chapters are divided into five sections thatexplore the emergence and implications of this new paradigm, delineating and illustrating the paradigm shift taking placing within consulting,exploring the ramifications for global consulting, examining the challenges inherent in attempts to capture collaboration and cooperation in interorganizationalnetworks, analyzing the push toward the professionalization - and professionalism - of consultancy, and assessing new approaches tomanagement consulting, focusing on innovative instruments, tools and intervention frameworks. The book captures the myriad complexities anduncertainties faced by consultants and their clients and the concomitant search for appropriate mindsets, attitudes and orientations as well as methods,tools and techniques. As each of the chapters indicates, while there are significant challenges facing the consulting industry, there are also a number ofpromising frameworks and approaches that can help us successfully meet these challenges.

An attempt to equip you with new levels of thinking and new skill sets to make you more successful at leading and developing yourself and others in a variety of contexts. With structured activities and proven techniques from people who have successfully applied the lessons found in this book, Leadership and Personal Development, you will be armed with an effective approach to development.

A volume in Research in Strategic AlliancesSeries Editor T. K. Das, City University of New YorkStrategic Alliances in a Globalizing World is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliancesthat will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategicalliances. In particular, the books in the series will cover new views of interdisciplinary theoreticalframeworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, andemerging areas of inquiry. The series will also include comprehensive empirical studies of selectedsegments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence ofstrategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series will seek todisseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that will enable interestedprofessionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances.Strategic Alliances in a Globalizing World contains contributions by leading scholars in the field ofstrategic alliance research. The 11 chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics that speakto the growing role of strategic alliances in a globalizing business world. The chapter topics cover both the broader issues, such as the creation ofcompetitive advantage and expanding into institutionally different countries, and the more focused problems of alliance formation, contractualgovernance, governance structure choice, the development of alliance capability, the containment of opportunism, relationship management,sensemaking, and the intersection of culture and legitimacy. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, andcollectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy areas of alliance research in the globalization context.

This book helps leaders focus on, and achieve, their main purpose the development and maintenance of a high performing organization. You will find the habits, actions, and tactics that have worked in that crucible and what I believe will continue to work under the dynamic conditions leaders face today.The book is framed around six habits gleaned from leaders who have successfully answered the following questions. Do I need to think differently? What is the environment telling me? Where are we going and where do we need to go? How do I position myself and/or my organization, team and individuals to take advantage of opportunities presented by the environment? How do I multiply myself though other people? How do I find and turn talent into performance? How do I ignite the soul of followers to achieve greatness beyond what anyone imagined possible? How do I know if we are succeeding? How do we continually adapt to change and maintain profitability and our competitive advantage?The Strategic leader answers those questions by identifying the actions and tactics used to establish a holistic learning approach to leading. It accomplishes its objective by describing how strategic leaders use new actions and tactics jumping the curve, minimum specifications, organizational fitness, generative conversations, chunking change, lighting the way, running for daylight, bonding, bridging, bartering, and institution building to create direction, establish alignment and commitment, in order to produce results in a dynamic globalizing world.In the first section you will discover the value of the leader's Wheel to develop a high performing organization. In the following chapters you will discovering the six habits that enable you to turn the Wheel: acquiring a strategic mindset, artistry, anticipating, articulating, aligning and assuring. Your path to discover these secrets will be aided by two original self assessment tools: The Strategic Thinking Questionnaire (STQ) and the Strategic Leadership Questionnaire (SLQ) which are available to those who purchase the book.

Examines theoretical assumptions as well as the application of innovative strategies that optimize the interface between young children and ICT from a global perspective. Despite divergent perspectives, the chapter authors share a commitment to explore the immersion of ICT into the lives of young children and consider the educational value of these tools.

Uncovers the aspects of teaching that are so hard to measure and quantify, and explores why some teachers have that ""X"" factor. This is achieved by interviewing people who are either current or retired teachers, or who were positively affected by a teacher.

Offers a concise overview of English language learning issues from foundations to current reform to practical guidelines to implement in the classroom. It provides a variety of theoretical essays, reports of research and practical guides to teaching ESL/EFL/bilingual populations.

Brings together contributions from leading scholars in different fields of psychology - cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, cultural psychology, methodology of psychology - to discuss methodological issues that were more thoroughly understood

Emphasizes the crucial relationship between education and political participation in Zambia. This book highlights citizenship education as essential for the country's social development. It analyzes the role of the media, women's groups and youth in enhancing the political, educational, and by extension, the economic lives of the Zambian people.

Describes game-changing designs using research-based strategies for inside organizational participants from CEOs, Boards of Directors, top, middle and lower managers and participants, and those people outside with a stake in its continued performance.

Focuses on the key ideas in the work of John Dewey and their relevance for the world today. The author does this by imagining continuation of highly evocative article that Dewey published in the New York Times in 1933. Dewey wrote from the posture of having visited Utopia.

(Originally Published in 2007 by Symposium Books)This book seeks to raise the discussion of globalisation's effects on teacher education, development and work, and its reforms and institutions, to a more theoretical and analytical level, and to provide specific examples in the comparative tradition to illustrate teacher policy in the context of education systems' widespread variability and complexity. The contributors critically analyse current arrangements in teacher education, development and work, and highlight the forces that enter in this contested terrain, the sources of conflict and convergence, and the implication of these for teaching and learning, and for indigenous forms of knowledge and knowledge construction in the globalisation era.

Examines the role of three factors, God, Money, and Politics, in what we will call the epistemological theory of blindness; that is the theory of the construction of knowledge on blindness and touch by social and cultural change. This book also illustrates how this development has, in the main, been motivated by an attempt to assert or gain power.

Explores issues related to educational leadership in various settings in the 21st century. This title argues that the context for leadership within many nation states and international scenarios involves interaction between multiple and diverse social cultures.

Per Linell took his degree in linguistics and is currently professor of language and culture, with a specialisation on communication and spoken interaction, at the University of Linkoeping, Sweden. He has been instrumental in building up an internationally renowned interdisciplinary graduate school in communication studies in Linkoeping. He has worked for many years on developing a dialogical alternative to mainstream theories in linguistics, psychology and social sciences. His production comprises more than 100 articles on dialogue, talkininteraction and institutional discourse. His more recent books include Approaching Dialogue (1998), The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (2005) and Dialogue in Focus Groups (2007, with I. Markova, M. Grossen and A. Salazar Orvig).

Discusses about preparing our thinking, feeling, and acting for the expanding 'knowledge era.' This title presents a discussion of what an appropriate knowledge-driven corporation (KDC) is. It explores a number of design issues about this transformed charter company and presents two examples of knowledge-driven corporations.

Highlights the features that represent life online, specifically in and around the territory of e-learning. This title begins with an exploration of culture and attempts to locate the learner within a number of digital subcultures that have arisen around technologies such as mobile and handheld devices, collaborative online spaces, and podcasting.

Presents a framework for understanding questions like why does one organization thrive while another struggles for survival even though both are operating in the same industry, or how can some of the largest global organizations perform so poorly after being colossal leaders in their industry?

Contains articles by marketing field's researchers and academicians. This book includes literature reviews, methodologies, empirical studies, trends, international developments, guidelines for implementation, and suggestions for theory development and testing.

This reference is a guide to the vast and sometimes bewildering body of research on the grading of student writing. The volume includes entries for more than 1300 books and articles on grading published between 1970 and 1996. Each entry includes an annotation that summarizes the work and its importance.

Part of a series that explores and explains the lived experiences of Asian and Americans as they acculturate to American schools, develop literacy, and claim their place in US society and examines important issues in Asian American education and socialization. This book is useful for scholars and educational practitioners.

A work by educators in the field working with women's literacy that reveals the many ways in which addressing women's empowerment through literacy impacts lives.

An official book series of the AERA Music Education Special Interest Group, this publication aims to strengthen the research and educational base of music education. A particular emphasis of this series is the presentation of research reflecting diverse musical education settings involving students, teaching and learning.