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"The World Health Organization's history spans more than six decades. The past twenty years has been a particularly busy period in the organization's development, given the transition from international to global health cooperation and thus the need to adapt to major changes in its operating environment. Consequently, the WHO has been a direct part of new institutional arrangements and has shared in increased funding to provide for global health....

The emergence of management in this century may have been a pivotal event of history. It signaled a major transformation of society into a pluralist society of institutions, of which managements are the effective organs. Management, after more than a century of development as a practice and as a discipline, burst into public consciousness in the management boom that began after World War II and lasted through the 1960s. What has the boom accomplished?...

Author Emmett Murphy and his associates studied 18,000 managers at 562 large and small organizations in all types of industries in the United States and around the world. Of the original 18,000, they identified just over 1,000 individuals who demonstrated exceptional leadership abilities, and then isolated the qualities that made those leaders great. Emmett Murphy and his associates have used their research findings to create a groundbreaking new...

A guide to mastering "Roberts Rules of Order" breaks down the various rules and procedures of the popular and long-lived manual for running meetings, electing officers, and setting up committees.

In his international bestseller "Leading Change," Kotter provided an action plan for implementing successful transformations. Now, he shines the spotlight on the crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and feel the need for change.

You're no idiot, of course. You know that overseeing a complex work assignment requires careful planning, good communication, teamwork, a clear objective, and responsible leadership. Whoever assumes the management mantle must anticipate possible setbacks-and work through them to achieve the desired goal. The Complete Idiot's Guide[Registered] to Project Management, Fourth Edition, will show you exactly how to organize yourself and your team to complete...