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Nameless Organizational Change
by Glenn Allen-Meyer with Neil Katz
(Talwood Craig Publishing Co., $24.95) The best book of the month is this practical recasting of change management. Forget the flag-waving calls to action, says the author. Instead,
he advocates a low-key, action-based
approach that acknowledges change as an
everyday event at work and focuses on a no-nonsense process.
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Digital Capital
by Don Tapscott, David Ticoll and Alex Lowy
(Harvard Business School Press, $27.50) Tapscott and partners take a good shot at defining the current state of cyberbusiness by identifying five major business Web meta-models: agoras, aggregations, value chains, alliances
and distributive networks. The authors clearly describe the main design features, alternative models and key success factors and provide major examples for each.
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PeopleSmart
by Mel Silberman and Freda Hansburg
(Berrett-Koehler, $16.95) PeopleSmart
is a paperbound self-training session in interpersonal skills. The authors
organize the presentation into eight skill sets, such as feedback, conflict resolution, influencing and
team-working skills. Each includes practical techniques, exercises for practicing them and tips for building them into your everyday behavior.
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Money from Thin Air
by O. Casey Corr
(Times Books, $25) Seattle Times
journalist Corr traces Craig McCaw's empire-building career from cable to cellular to his current ventures in satellites and fiber-optic networks. Along the way, he enumerates McCaw's management techniques and throws in a decent history of the cellular phone industry.
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The $100 Billion Allowance
by Elissa Moses
(John Wiley & Sons, $29.95) Based on a
study of 27,000 teenagers in 44 countries, this book identifies the commonalties among teens worldwide. It also describes major regional markets and 18 countries, including Norway, home of the
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