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For over a million years man has been trying to predict his future.He has always failed-and his failures are buried the dust of history. Legendary fortune tellers, prophets, oracles, medicine men, astrologers, numerologists, mystics, charlatans, and…

In the 1990s, project management moved from a little-used industrial engineering
discipline to the engine of managing America’s work. Prior to 1990, project
management techniques were unknown to most corporate managers who considered
projects to…

As far back as we go in our study of the way mankind has
lived, from the earliest reaches of recorded history and even from
the times of the prehistoric monuments studied by archeology,
we find men applying their labor to the resources of Nature…

The object of this paper is to discuss money-making; to examine its prevalence as an aim among people
generally and the moral standards which obtain among those who consciously seek to make money.
The desire to make money is common to most men.…

Sometimes luck beats planning. I have been fortunate in my professional career,
a career that began in 1973 as an accountant and continued into operations management
and management consulting. Without realizing it—through a series of
different…

The youngish-looking man who so vigorously swung off the train at Restview, wore a pair of intensely dark
blue eyes which immediately photographed everything within their range of vision--flat green country, shaded
farm-houses, encircling wooded…

Many people have helped in the writing of this book, and the
authors are indebted and grateful to all of them. Some deserve a
special mention: Sarah Taylor at the Management Consultancies Association
for allowing us to make use of the detailed…

Many people have helped in the writing of this book, and the
authors are indebted and grateful to all of them. Some deserve a
special mention: Sarah Taylor at the Management Consultancies Association
for allowing us to make use of the detailed…

Ialways swore that if I ever won an Oscar Award, I wouldn’t stand
on stage and bore the world while thanking everyone and their
brother. Now I understand why award winners do this. We all owe a
debt of gratitude we can never fully repay to…

The idea for this book developed in October 1996 on the eve of the passage of the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) in discussions with a colleague
who specialized in intellectual property law and had been practicing for
some 15 years, litigating…