Every manager or business owner knows that the most precious and scarce commodity is talent. And it's a seller's market-with scrappy dot.com start-ups vying with traditional corporations for the best and the brightest, while traditional competitors lure them away with flexible benefits packages, stock options, and opportunities for advancement. On the front lines are managers, who are rarely trained in the finer points of hiring, but whose decisions are playing an increasingly crucial role. In the author's trademark no-nonsense, from-the-trenches style, Finding, Recruiting, and Keeping Peak Performers offers valuable ideas for winning the talent war by seeing the hiring process from the candidate's point of view, exploring non-traditional recruiting sources (including the Internet), and motivating people to stay with the company once they've signed on.

Finding, Hiring, and Keeping Peak Performers: Every Manager's Guide

Business & Money

Chambers, Harry E.

International, Institute For Strategic

Business Culture

Basic Books

Examining the relationship between defence spending and economic performance in the Middle East and South Asia, the author finds evidence that the military expenditures of developing countries do not necessarily reduce their economic growth. Defence spending can act as an economic stimulus by financing heavy industry and speeding the acquisition of advanced technologies, as well as providing employment and attracting investment. Robert Looney analyzes several countries' defence and development spending over the 1980s, incorporating an appraisal of regional rivalries and arms races. He concludes with an assessment of future spending patterns and his estimates of the economically sustainable spending limits for each country.

Economic Causes And Consequences Of Defense Expenditures In The Middle East And South Asia

Looney, Robert

Winterford, David

Economics

Westview Press

BUECHLER, H. C. / J.-M. BUECHLER: MANUFACTURING AGAINST THE ODDS. SMALL-SCALE PRODUCERS IN AN ANDEAN CITY. BOULDER, CO, 1992, xvi 311 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Manufacturing Against The Odds: The Dynamics Of Gender, Class, And Economic Crises Among Small-scale Producers (Conflict and Social Change Series)

Buechler, Hans

Buechler, Judith-Maria

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