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Many people are surprised to learn English is not the official language of the United States. Erin E. Crowley of Shrewsbury was among them until she began research in preparation for participation in Cazenovia College’s annual Great Debate on April 28.
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t $9.95 Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, “Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?” In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their… |
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Strengths-Based Leadership $12.08 For decades, Gallup scientists have researched the topic of leadership. They’ve surveyed a million work teams, conducted more than 50,000 in-depth interviews with leaders, and even interviewed 20,000 followers to ask what they admired in the most important leader in their life. The results of that research are unveiled in Strengths-Based Leadership. Using Gallup’s discoveries, authors Tom Rath… |
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The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Collins Business Essentials) $8.75 The importance of teams has become a clich… |