Managing mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances

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Clint Swindall

"Clint's last book, Engaged Leadership, was a business fable about the importance of companies and managers in building and maintaining a culture of employee engagement, recognizing that companies who foster environments for their employees where the employees feel so content and motivated to be at work that they become more committed and involved in their jobs, which ultimately makes the company more productive. But what do you need to build that kind of engaged culture at work? You need employee participation. And how do you get employees to be more committed and involved in their jobs? That's the basis for this book. Clint's view is that there are 5 work/life aspects that employees need balance in order for employees to be engaged at their job: Career, Health, Finances, Relationships, and Character. And this book will have appeal to both management, and the employees themselves, because it takes effort on both parts to put processes in place to cultivate and maximize those five aspects of life inside and outside of the office"--

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Abel P. Edmond

Le stress, l'anxiété, l'attente en tension, l'appréhension, les incertitudes nous poussent souvent à brûler la chandelle par les deux bouts. Il peut en résulter une fatigue chronique, une démoralisation et même une dépression majeure. Mais il ne suffit pas simplement de comprendre cette dynamique pour changer notre attitude et nos comportements. Il nous faut des moyens concrets, applicables dans notre quotidien, pour obtenir un résultat durable. Abel Edmond a justement élaboré une méthode participative pour nous aider à modifier notre vie au travail, là où il le faut.

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Christopher W. Moore

More than ever before, mediation has become an integral part of resolving disputes in our increasingly contentious society. While labor, family, and divorce conflicts made up the major part of mediation practice just a decade ago, the field has exploded in recent years to include applications in a broad - and still growing - range of commercial, interpersonal, public, and international arenas. Throughout this period of dynamic growth, the first edition of The Mediation Process, originally published in 1986, has led the way as the best resource in the field for a generation of practitioners and trainers, students in degree programs, and professionals in corporate, legal, health care, education, and governmental arenas. This long-awaited new edition has been revised and expanded to provide not only an updated bibliographical resources section to facilitate further research but also comprehensive coverage of the most contemporary issues in mediation practice, including applications in such important new areas as commercial, community, cross-cultural, court-based, environmental, public policy, and international mediation; five variations of the mediator role - the social network, benevolent, administrative/managerial, vested interest, and independent mediators - that demonstrate the universality of the mediation process and forms of assistance provided to parties in disputes across cultures; and recent efforts to further good practice in mediation, including the development of ethics code; the training, qualification, and certification of mediators; and the development of university and professional school courses in mediation.

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Rohan Gunatillake

Covers the basic principles and techniques of mindfulness meditation and presents sixty exercises which show how the practice can be incorporated into daily life.