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Negocie para ganar

Desarrollo de las competencias para lograr resultados.

La negociación forma parte de la relación y se da allí donde los seres humanos tratan sus diferencias. Empresarios, directivos, políticos, mandos, amigos, parejas, familiares, negocian constantemente; muchas veces sin contar con el entrenamiento y preparación específicos para ello, es decir, sin tener la competencia ...

Adiós a las reuniones improductivas!

Adquiera competencias y habilidades para celebrar reuniones exitosas.

Las reuniones improductivas son una pérdida de dinero, de esfuerzo, tiempo y desmotivan a los asistentes. La implantación de un sistema de gestión de la calidad implica ahorro de gastos, mejora continua, desarrollo de competencias y gestión de procesos como forma de garantizar el futuro ...

Evaluar la gestión y la calidad

Herramientas para la gestión de la calidad y los recursos humanos.

Las organizaciones, sus dirigentes y sus técnicos necesitan herramientas para la gestión de la calidad y los recursos humanos. A lo largo del libro se insiste en que no se tomen decisiones ni se hagan cambios sin haber medido previamente las variables que correspondan. El ...

Tomar decisiones y resolver problemas

Cómo potenciar las competencias del equipo.

Tomar decisiones y resolver problemas son dos competencias que toda persona debería tener y desarrollar. Las personas incompetentes en estos temas, que no usan una metodología y sistema para el desempeño de sus funciones, no encajan en las organizaciones de éxito. El autor presenta en ...

Conflicto y violencia en América

Delicuencia juvenil

¿Asistencia terapéutica versus justicia penal?

with the stroke of a pen

The economic evolution of American health care

from Marcus Welby to managed care

The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their distrust justified and can confidence be restored? David Dranove, a leading health care economist, tackles ...

Creative Destruction

How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures.

Contents: 1. Trade between Cultures 2. Global Culture Ascendant: The Roles of Wealth and Technology 3. Ethos and the Tragedy of Cultural Loss 4. Why Hollywood Rules the World, and Whether We Should Care 5. Dumbing Down and the Least Common Denominator 6. Should National ...

Emblems of pluralism

Cultural differences and the state.

From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throughout the history of the United States. The subject continues to be important in many ...

Globalization and Human Rights

Contents: I. CITIZENSHIP 1. Who Has a Right to Rights? Citizenship's Exclusions in an Age of Migration 2. Tourism, Sex Work, and Women's Rights in the Dominican Republic II. COMMODIFICATION 3. Interpreting the Interaction of Global Markets and Human Rights 4. Economic Globalization ...

Locke and the Legislative Point of View

Toleration, Contested Principles, and the Law.

The specter of democracy

In this rethinking of Marxism and its blind spots, Dick Howard uses a critical rereading of Marx as a theorist of democracy to offer his audience an alternative way to think about this political ideal. He argues that it is democracy, rather than Marxism, that ...

The cybernetic theory of decision

New dimensions of political analysis.

The claims of culture

Equality and Diversity in the Global Era.

Contents: Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction On the Use and Abuse of Culture 2. "Nous" et les "Autres" (We and the Others) Is Universalism Ethnocentric? 3. From Redistribution to Recognition? The Paradigm Change of Contemporary Politics 4. Multiculturalism and Gendered Citizenship 5. Deliberative Democracy and Multicultural ...

Islamic political ethics

Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict.

Searching for a corporate savior

the irrational quest for charismatic CEOs

Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and ...

Narrowing the Nation's Power

The Supreme Court Sides with the States.

Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights

The Battle over Litigation in American Society.

Globalización y mujer