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  • Seven Strategy Questions

    A Simple Approach for Better Execution

    by Robert Simons ...
    To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into the day-to-day actions carried out in your company. That means channeling resources into the right efforts, achieving the right balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone pulling in the same direction. How to keep all this on track?Identify critical gaps in your strategy execution ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Levers Of Organization Design

    How Managers Use Accountability Systems For Greater Performance And Commitment

    by Robert Simons ...
    The design of an organization--the accountability system that defines roles, rights, and responsibilities throughout the firm--has a direct impact on the performance of every employee. Yet, few leaders devote focused attention to how this design is chosen, implemented, and adjusted over time. Robert Simons argues that by viewing design as a powerful and proactive management lever--rather than an ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Levers of Control

    How Managers Use Innovative Control Systems to Drive Strategic Renewal

    by Robert Simons ...
    Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more traditional diagnostic control systems, Simons identifies three new control systems that allow strategic change: belief systems that communicate core ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Superintelligence on the Horizon

    Steering the Course of Cybersecurity

    by Felipe Chavarro Polanía ...
    Narrated by Robert Simons ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 31 min

    As we stand at the precipice of an era marked by unprecedented technological advancement, the emergence of superintelligent AI systems heralds both transformative opportunities and profound risks for the future of humanity. In "Superintelligence on the Horizon: Navigating the Future of AI Governance and Cybersecurity," Felipe Chavarro Polanía offers a comprehensive and thought-provoking ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Stones

    Who They Are and What They Teach

    by Robert Simmons, Naisha Ahsian, Hazel Raven ...
    • Explores 455 crystals, minerals, gemstones, and their metaphysical energies, including vivid color photographs for each stone• For each stone, shares its scientific information, its element and chakra correspondences, its history, and its physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits• Includes guidance on how to work with crystals and stones and also explores the concept of crystal ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Driverless Cars, Urban Parking and Land Use

    by Robert A. Simons ...
    The subject of driverless and even ownerless cars has the potential to be the most disruptive technology for real estate, land use, and parking since the invention of the elevator. This book includes new research and economic analysis, plus a thorough review of the current literature to pose and attempt to answer a number of important questions about the effect that driverless vehicles may have on ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Talking About Race

    Alleviating the Fear

    Edited by Steven Grineski, Julie Landsman, Robert Simmons III ...
    What is it that gives many of us White people a visceral fear about discussing race?Do you realize that being able to not think about or talk about it is a uniquely White experience?Do you warn your children about how people might react to them; find store staff following or watching you; get stopped by the police for no reason?The students of color in your classroom experience discrimination ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • The Gold Coin of Great Falls

    by Robert W. Simons ...
    This is a story of adventure and mystery that takes place 700 years from now. Tanei, a fogeign student from East Africa, and her fellow students at the University of Great Falls attempt to find the origin of a small gold coin, so that they can find additional artifacts to help them learn why our current civilization collapsed. As they search for the old and seemingly homeless woman who found the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Attention and Orienting

    Sensory and Motivational Processes

    Edited by Peter J. Lang, Robert F. Simons, Marie Balaban, Robert Simons ...
    Orienting is the gateway to attention, the first step in processing stimulus information. This volume examines these initial stages of information intake, focusing on the sensory and motivational mechanisms that determine such phenomena as stimulus selection and inhibition, habituation, pre-attentive processing, and expectancy. Psychophysiological methods are emphasized throughout. The ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Evidence-Informed Nursing

    A Guide for Clinical Nurses

    Edited by Pamela Abbott, Robert Mc Sherry, Maxine Simmons ...
    This introductory text to evidence-based practice provides nurses and other health professionals with a clear idea of why they should use research information as a basis for high-quality patient care and how they should use that information in the clinical setting. In a logical progression which helps the student build knowledge systematically the text looksat:*the rationale for evidence-based ... Read more

    $43.96 CAD

  • Control in an Age of Empowerment

    by Robert Simons ...
    Series series Harvard Business Review Classics
    In Control in an Age of Empowerment, Robert Simons explains how to give employees the freedom to innovate while protecting your firm from loose cannons. Using powerful examples, Simons shows how to apply four powerful management "levers" to balance autonomy with control: Traditional diagnostic control systems, Belief systems, Boundary systems, and Interactive control systems. Used in concert, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Learning

    Edited by Jos van der Linden, Robert-Jan Simons, Tom Duffy ...
    The book you are now reading aims to bring together research and theory on "new learning, "which is te term used to refer to the new learning outcomes, new kinds of learning processes, and new instructional methods both wanted by society and currently stressed in psychological and educational theory. Many people keep asking about “new learning.” Is it really a new way of learning? Are there really ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD