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Team of teams : new rules of engagement for a complex world / by McChrystal, Stanley A.,author.(CARDINAL)564895; Collins, Tantum,author.(CARDINAL)411149; Silverman, David,author.(CARDINAL)712727; Fussell, Chris,author.(CARDINAL)621102;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-279) and index.Introduction -- The Proteus problem. Sons of Proteus ; Clockwork ; From complicated to complex ; Doing the right thing -- From many, one. From command to team ; Team of teams -- Sharing. Seeing the system ; Brains out of the footlocker ; Beating the prisoner's dilemma -- Letting go. Hands off ; Leading like a gardener -- Looking ahead. Symmetries.As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal played a crucial role in the War on Terror. But when he took the helm in 2004, America was losing that war badly: despite vastly inferior resources and technology, Al Qaeda was outmaneuvering America's most elite warriors. McChrystal came to realize that today's faster, more interdependent world had overwhelmed the conventional, top-down hierarchy of the U.S. military. Al Qaeda had seen the future: a decentralized network that could move quickly and strike ruthlessly. To defeat such an enemy, JSOC would have to discard a century of management wisdom, and pivot from a pursuit of mechanical efficiency to organic adaptability. Under McChrystal's leadership, JSOC remade itself, in the midst of a grueling war, into something entirely new: a network that combined robust centralized communication with decentralized managerial authority. As a result, they beat back Al Qaeda. In this book, McChrystal shows not only how the military made that transition, but also how similar shifts are possible in all organizations, from large companies to startups to charities to governments. In a turbulent world, the best organizations think and act like a team of teams, embracing small groups that combine the freedom to experiment with a relentless drive to share what they've learned. Drawing on a wealth of evidence from his military career, the private sector, and sources as diverse as hospital emergency rooms and NASA's space program, McChrystal frames the existential challenge facing today's organizations, and proposes a compelling, effective solution.
Subjects: Biographies.; McChrystal, Stanley A.; United States. Joint Special Operations Command; Organizational effectiveness.; Decentralization in management.; Organizational behavior.; Teams in the workplace.; Military administration;
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Oversight on the VA's automated data processing policy : hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on role of management in planning for decentralized automated data processing systems at multiple VA hospital sites, May 5, 1982. by United States.Congress.Senate.Committee on Veterans' Affairs.(CARDINAL)276149;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Veterans' hospitals; United States. Veterans Administration. Department of Medicine and Surgery;
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Central management in the States. by Council of State Governments.(CARDINAL)141387;
Subjects: State governments.; Decentralization in government;
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One school at a time : school based management, a process for change / by Marburger, Carl L.(CARDINAL)184486; National Committee for Citizens in Education.(CARDINAL)150125;
Bibliography: pages 77-82.
Subjects: School management and organization; Schools;
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An assessment of regulatory and administrative streamlining at the United States Department of Energy cleanup sites / prepared by the Lessons Learned Subcommittee of the Environmental Management Advisory Board and the State and Tribal Government Working Group. by National Conference of State Legislatures.Environmental Management Advisory Board.Lessons Learned Subcommittee.(CARDINAL)213913; National Conference of State Legislatures.State and Tribal Government Working Group.(CARDINAL)213829;
Subjects: Hazardous waste site remediation; Decentralization in government;
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Computer wars : how the West can win in a post-IBM world / by Ferguson, Charles H.(CARDINAL)225387; Morris, Charles R.(CARDINAL)150990;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index.Part I, The fall of IBM: Coloring the world blue -- Guerrilla warfare -- The roots of decline -- The rise of the clones -- Revenge of the nerds -- Picking through the shards -- Part II, Winning in a post-IBM world: Three contenders -- Competing in radically decentralized systems -- Winning: The basic argument -- Locking in a winning position -- Life cycle strategies -- Management strategies in high technology -- Part III, Prospects and opportunities: The next decade's market opportunity -- The future of computer companies -- Government and computers: Prologue to policy -- Toward an American technology policy.
Subjects: International Business Machines Corporation.; Computer industry.; Computer industry; Competition, International.;
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Cogeneration and decentralized electricity production : technology, economics, and policy / by Devine, Michael D.(CARDINAL)156781;
Includes bibliographies and index.
Subjects: Cogeneration of electric power and heat; Hydroelectric power plants; Wind power;
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Financial management theory in the public sector / by Khan, Aman.(CARDINAL)275222; Hildreth, W. Bartley,1949-(CARDINAL)174071;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index.Managing financial transactions efficiently : a transaction cost model of public financial management / John R. Bartle and Jun Ma -- Information asymmetry in public investment management / Brian K. Collins and Aman Khan -- Bridging the gap between contract service delivery and public financial management : applying theory to practice / Lawrence L. Martin -- Prospect theory and the municipal bond market / Kenneth A. Kriz -- Practice as interpretation in public financial management / Gerald J. Miller, Jonathan B. Justice, and Iryna Illiash -- Should financial reporting by government encompass performance reporting? : origins and implications of the GFOA-GASB conflict / William Earle Klay, Sam M. McCall, and Curtis E. Baynes -- Assessing the likely acceptance of financial management techniques in the public sector : a characteristic approach / William G. Albrecht and Rev. Thomas D. Lynch -- Fiscal decentralization : theory as reform / James Edwin Kee -- Managing structural imbalances : implications for fiscal decision making and policy / Merl Hackbart and James R. Ramsey -- E-government financial management models / Craig L. Johnson -- Integrating theory and practice : financial management reform in the U.S. Federal Government / Larry R. Jones and Jerry L. McCaffery.
Subjects: Finance, Public.;
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Implementing transportation knowledge networks / by Tucker, Sandra L.(CARDINAL)312077; United States.Federal Highway Administration.(CARDINAL)139839; American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.(CARDINAL)138446; National Cooperative Highway Research Program.(CARDINAL)281856; National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board.(CARDINAL)141287; Spy Pond Partners, LLC.(CARDINAL)312076; University of Minnesota.Center for Transportation Studies.(CARDINAL)312075;
Includes bibliographical references (page 28).Summary -- Introduction -- Initial outreach effort -- TKN products and strategies -- Business plan summary -- Summary of Transportation Knowledge Network outreach activities -- Implementation plan -- References -- Appendices.Explores a business plan for the development of Transportation Knowledge Networks (TKNs) in the United States. The business plan defines ten key products and services to be provided to transportation practitioners by the regional TKNs, with support from a national coordination function. TKNs are defined as "decentralized, managed networks linking information providers to users wherever they are located."Research sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration
Subjects: Technical reports.; Transportation libraries; Transportation and state; Transportation; Knowledge management; Business networks;
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Encyclopedia of management / by Helms, Marilyn M.,1962-(CARDINAL)214077;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Guide to Functional-Area Readings -- Essay Titles -- Activity-Based Costing -- Aggregate Planning -- Amoeba Management System -- Applicant Screening -- Appraisal System Design -- Apprenticeship Programs -- Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems -- Assessment Centers -- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -- Aufsichtsrat (Supervisory Board of Directors) and Betriebsrat (Works Council) -- Authority and Power -- Automation -- Autonomy -- Balance Sheets -- Balanced Scorecard -- Behavioral Approaches to Management -- Benchmarking -- Board of Directors -- Brainstorming -- Break-Even Point -- Breakthrough Thinking -- Budgeting -- Bundled Goods and Services -- Business Forecasting -- Capacity Planning -- Case Method of Analysis -- Cash Flow Analysis -- Cash Flow Statements -- Cellular Manufacturing -- Census of Manufactures -- Census, Economic -- Centralization and Decentralization -- Chaebol -- Chain of Command Principle -- Change and Resistance to Change -- Chaos Theory -- Coalition Building -- Commitment -- Communication -- Competitive Advantage -- Complexity Theory -- Computer Networks -- Computer Security -- Computer Technology in Human Resources -- Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing -- Computer-Based Training -- Computer-Integrated Manufacturing -- Concept Management -- Conflict Management -- Constraints -- Consultants -- Consumer Behavior -- Contingency Approach to Management -- Contingent Workers -- Continuing Education -- Continuous Improvement -- Corporate Governance.This revised edition covers 350 topics in management theories and applications, providing first-hand knowledge of such topics as: aggregate planning; business logistics; productivity measurement; and supply chain management.
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Industrial management;
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