Leading geriatricians and researchers present this highly practical guide to assessing older adults-contains essential insights required for multidimensional assessments on seniors in a variety of settings: home, ambulatory care centers, nursing homes, office visits. Emphasizes how to perform the assessment and when to use specific assessment tools in particular circumstances. Presents detailed guidelines on how to administer and score the assessment tools.

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

Medical Books

Beck, John C.

Osterweil, Dan

Brummel-Smith, Kenneth

Medicine

McGraw-Hill Professional

RENEWAL. REINVENTION. REGROWTH. These are just a few of the timeless success strategies that companies around the world can learn from the Japanese. The world is changing--fast. If you want to succeed in today's global market, you need to reexamine your old strategies and face the new competition head on. But how? How can you rethink your management style, reorganize your company, and redefine your corporate goals for continued success and growth? The answer: Look at Japan. Why Japan? In spite of several economic downfalls and countless challenges, Japan is on the verge of a major economic revival. Time and again, the Japanese have managed to reinvent themselves and reestablish their role as world business leaders. Inspired by the ancient ways of the Samurai, they have altered their strategies and corporate cultures, set higher goals--and achieved bigger wins. Managers at all levels can take a lesson from Japan's leading companies. Japan's Business Renaissance details a powerful new approach to business that combines Japan's oldest traditions with today's newest management innovations. In the book, the authors reveal how fundamental Japanese philosophies can be applied to modern management situations and plan a clear course of action to spark unprecedented growth in any organization. You'll discover time-tested ways to harness positive change, develop effective renewal strategies, and cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset--the hallmarks of the way of the Samurai and the reason behind Japan's current success. The book will detail the key principles that have guided Japan through the ages, and are now being used to reinvigorate Japanes business: <ul>
<li>The Samurai spirit of renewal and resourcefulness </li>
<li>The warrior's tactics to defeat your opponents </li>
<li>The philosopher's way to out-think your competition </li>
<li>The life-changing lessons of Ronin </li>
</ul>
Packed with real-life stories and examples, Japan's Business Renaissance is an essential and useful guide to business renewal that transcends culture, restores leadership, and inspires success. It will truly show you "The Way" to your organization's regrowth.

Japan's Business Renaissance: How the World's Greatest Economy Revived, Renewed, and Reinvented Itself

Business & Money

Fuller, Mark

Economics

McGraw=Hill

DoCoMo is the first dramatic success of the wireless age. Ahead of the West in technology, financials and market strength, DoCoMo is now bringing i-mode to Europe and North America. Will DoCoMo's mobile Internet (and the commerce it carries) dominate our business lives the way that Sony dominates our media rooms and Toyota our highways? DoCoMo's worldwide impact is compelling. But even greater drama is hidden inside. The real story is how DoCoMo created world-beating innovation inside a famously conservative parent, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph. Both DoCoMo's success and its innovation come from a surprising source. Talented employees, extraordinary leaders, eager customers . . . all mattered. But behind all these was an almost magical conglomeration of six factors not found in traditional case studies: Love and Strength, Impatience and Inequality, Fun and even Luck. These factors - feelings, really - drive DoCoMo's success.

DoCoMo--Japan's Wireless Tsunami: How One Mobile Telecom Created a New Market and Became a Global Force

Wade, Mitchell

Management & Leadership

Amacom Books

Language: English ISBN-10: 0875792901 ISBN-13: 978-0875792903

Breaking the Cycle of Compulsive Behavior

Beck, Martha Nibley

Religion & Spirituality

Deseret Book Co.

Think video games are kids’ stuff? Think again. According to authors John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade all those hours immersed in game culture have created masses of employees with unique attributes. This new generation that’s ninety-million strong has an amazing ability to multitask, solves problems creatively, and brings unexpected leadership to the table. But to tap these skills, we need to understand and appreciate the different ways gamers think and behave. The Kids Are Alright dispels common myths about gamers and reveals them as committed, team-oriented people who play to win.

The Kids are Alright: How the Gamer Generation is Changing the Workplace

Computers & Technology

Games & Strategy Guides

Harvard Business Review Press

In today's information-flooded world, the scarcest resource is not ideas or even talent: it's attention. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Davenport and John Beck argue that unless companies learn to effectively capture, manage, and keep it--both internally and out in the marketplace--they'll fall hopelessly behind. In The Attention Economy, the authors also outline four perspectives on managing attention in all areas of business: 1) measuring attention 2) understanding the psychobiology of attention 3) using attention technologies to structure and protect attention 4) adapting lessons from traditional attention industries like advertising Drawing from exclusive global research, the authors show how a few pioneering organizations are turning attention management into a potent competitive advantage and recommend what attention-deprived companies should do to avoid losing employees, customers, and market share. A landmark work on the twenty-first century's new critical competency, this book is for every manager who wants to learn how to earn and spend the new currency of business.

The Attention Economy : Understanding the New Currency of Business

Davenport, Thomas H.

The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business

Millones y millones de documentos circulan anualmente en las oficinas y empresas de todo el mundo. El tráfico de Internet se duplica cada doscientos días. Alrededor de doscientos mensajes fluyen diariamente hasta los despachos de los directivos... ¡Bienvenido a la economía de la atención, en la que el nuevo recurso no son las ideas, ni siquiera el talento, sino la atención propiamente dicha! Esta obra innovadora sugiere que las empresas de hoy en día están condenadas al desastre... a menos que consigan superar los déficits de atención que amenazan con alterar sustancial y negativamente el concepto de trabajo actual. Thomas Davenport y John Beck, consultores de Accenture y expertos en el tema, explican que, para los hombres de negocios, los mayores problemas se concentran en los dos elementos de la ecuación de la atención: captar y mantener la atención de los empleados, consumidores y accionistas, abrumados por la cantidad de información que se les viene encima; y dividir su propia atención frente a una gran variedad de alternativas. ¿El dilema? Aprender a gestionar este recurso esencial y limitado o fracasar. Partiendo de la base de convincentes investigaciones, los autores describen cuatro perspectivas de la gestión de la atención fundamentales para la comprensión de su incidencia en la empresa: primero, la evaluación y la distribución de la atención; segundo, la comprensión y el equilibrio de sus dimensiones psicológicas; tercero, el dominio de tecnologías más recientes y más eficaces; y cuatro, la asimilación de las enseñanzas de otros sectores, como la publicidad. Con estas perspectivas, los autores arrojan nueva luz sobre las áreas empresariales básicas, incluyendo el comercio electrónico, el liderazgo organizativo, la gestión de la información y el conocimiento, y la estrategia

La economía de la atención: El nuevo valor de los negocios (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones Paidós

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