Good to Great and the Social Sectors A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
Product Description: ... Jim Collins Answers the Social Sector with a Monograph to Accompany Good to Great. 30-50% of those who bought Good to Great work in the Social Sector. This monograph
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 4 Date: 2009-06-16
Summary: Collins' Answer for NonprofitsReview: ... Jim Collins didn't need to write this little book-I almost felt like he was doing us a favor for writing it. Still, if you liked Good to Great, then this is a valuable
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 4 Date: 2009-04-28
Summary: Important research InfoReview: ... I'm retired from the USG and working for a Management Consulting Company, that has recently developed a Public Leadership Institute. I ordered and read Good to
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-04-14
Summary: For Profit sector Execs should read this tooReview: ... For profit execs should read this book too if they found Collins Good to great helpful and even if they didn't find his original Good to Great book helpful. Great
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-02-13
Summary: A Great Book for Nonprofit Board MembersReview: ... I have used this book for board retreats and board training. Collins hits the mark by clarifying how a nonprofit differs from a for profit or business. Too many
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-01-24
Summary: Why "Good to Great"?Review: ... I have purchased several copies of this book to give out to Staff and others I feel will benefit. I am doing this with other books I have purchased. The analogy
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Great Expectations Penguin Classics
Product Description: ... A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful,
...moreReview: ... An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable.
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-22
Summary: No one did it betterReview: ... In my opinion, Charles Dickens remains the writer who defined the art of characterization in the 19th century. This novel contains a bevy of characters that the
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 2 Date: 2009-06-21
Summary: OVERratedReview: ... In the first twenty or thirty pages, I was pleasantly surprised by Dickens's humor and had great expectations for his storytelling and prose-writing talent. I mean
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-19
Summary: I always have Great Expectations when it comes to Dickens...Review: ... Pip is an orphan. His nagging sister and weakling of a brother-in-law are raising him. He doesn't have much, yet is compelled to help an escaped convict with food
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-07
Summary: A High Schooler's Prespective on Great ExpectationsReview: ... Well, I was looking through some of the reviews posted here on amazon just to get an idea of what to write because this is my first review, and saw that a few people
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 4 Date: 2009-05-26
Summary: Puffin Classics: Charles DickensReview: ... I read Charles Dickens's book Great Expectations. This book is about a young boy named Pip. Pip lives with his older sister Mrs. Gargery who is married to a black
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Good to Great Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don t
Product Description: ... The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance
...moreReview: ... 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
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-07-03
Summary: A must read for top managementReview: ... Although I'm just in the first few chapters of this book, I've found it very useful. Mr. Collins and his teams have a very interesting approach to what makes a
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-29
Summary: ...and the Unabridged Audio CD is even betterReview: ... I could echo the hundreds of examples of positive feedback from other reviewers of the hardcover edition, which I also own, but I'd like to add comments regarding
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-26
Summary: Great Book!Review: ... I was referred to this book by a friend and now I am thanking him. With each chapter I found myself reflecting on my own companies and seeing how I can tranform
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-14
Summary: What's Beyond Great?Review: ... I speak all over the country--in almost every presentation, I mention Good to Great. Based on a study that took five years to complete; Collins studied 28 companies.
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-09
Summary: Don't order from Famous BooksReview: ... I never received my order, and it is so old now that Amazon does not even consider it a "recent order". I have received no responses from the seller, and the way
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The Great Influenza The story of the deadliest pandemic in history
Product Description: ... At the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-22
Summary: Very informativeReview: ... This book explains the science of the epidemic in understandable terms. A must read for non-healthcare persons interested in the mechanisms of pandemics.
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 4 Date: 2009-06-17
Summary: Adrift on an ocean of deathReview: ... I hate to say this, because I consider John Barry our finest social historian, but the subtitle to "The Great Influenza" is pure baloney. Nobody knows for sure,
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 4 Date: 2009-06-08
Summary: Historical yet spellbindingReview: ... I was very surprised at how interesting and captivating I found this read to be. History buffs should like it, medical proffessionals should like it, and those
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 3 Date: 2009-06-05
Summary: "only influenza..."Review: ... an excellent book, excellently read by Scott Brick. however, the pounding repetition of "It was influenza, only influenza..." distracts from the narrative. this
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-05
Summary: Why you should read this bookReview: ... John Barry's book is like reading a novel. It is captivating, thrilling, and most of all scary. The author lays out in great detail the origin, evolution, and impact
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The Great Depression Ahead How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History
Product Description: ... The first and last economic depression that you will experience in your lifetime is just ahead. The year 2009 will be the beginning of the next long-term winter
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 2 Date: 2009-07-04
Summary: Adequate arguments for the author's vision of the futureReview: ... A lot of these reviews amuse me. They duly note Dent's strong grasp of history and economics, then accuse him of relying 'only' on those things to talk about his
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-07-03
Summary: Read it & Heed it!Review: ... As often happens, Amazon knocks me off and destroys my review before I have a chance to publish. The book is good & although I still have chapters 7 & 9 to read,
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 1 Date: 2009-06-12
Summary: This book only is full of wrong speculations that only bring fearReview: ... Mr.Harry Dent knows a lot about history, demographics and that's all. This book is full of speculation that may mislead you or induce you fear. Basically he suggests
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 1 Date: 2009-06-11
Summary: The great astrology?Review: ... I had a feeling I was reading a book of Nostradamus on the future of finance, markets and demography. Between 2019 and 2014?? Between 2018 and 2025?? In the next
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 1 Date: 2009-05-24
Summary: Dent is Wrong - Proof BelowReview: ... I love how Dent is now touting how to prosper in the depression - His last book "The Next Great Bubble Boom" made promise after promise that failed to deliver -
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Great Emergence The How Christianity Is Changing and Why emersion Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Product Description: ... Rooted in the observation that massive transitions in the church happen about every 500 years, Phyllis Tickle shows readers that we live in such a time right now.
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 1 Date: 2009-06-26
Summary: Great Emergence flawed, but mercifully shortReview: ... The best thing is to about this book is that it is as short in pages as it is in scholarship.
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-11
Summary: PHILLIS TICKLE IS A WOMAN FOR ALL AGESReview: ... I am a huge fan of Ms.Tickle. She taught me writing at Rhodes College years ago. It was almost impossible to get into her classes, as they were the first to close.
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-10
Summary: Excellent Overview From an Historical Perspective, and More.Review: ... It's hard to see history when you are in the middle of it. Phyllis Tickle helps make sense of the church that is morphing back to relevance for 21st Century post-moderns.
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-08
Summary: Tickle tickles new ways of seeing thingsReview: ... Very accessible and thought-provoking. Much like James Burke's "The Day The Universe Changed" in terms of tying critical "hinge points" together to reveal an understandable
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 2 Date: 2009-04-28
Summary: superficial, artificial, and...importantReview: ... For the last twenty years Phyllis Tickle has been one of the more notable and quotable commentators on the changing landscape of American religion. In 1992 she
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F Scott Fitzgerald s the Great Gatsby Bloom s Modern Critical Interpretations
Product Description: ... Self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby epitomizes the decadence of the 1920s Jazz Age in this tale of rise and decline, told with detached curiosity by his neighbor and
...moreReview: ... In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new --something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary,
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 2 Date: 2009-06-30
Summary: so soReview: ... I really tried to like this book more because it does occassionally work. Unfortunately, it just didn't grab me. The only things I really liked about it were the
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-29
Summary: LoriReview: ... The book arrived in a timely manner. It was a brand new book. The last used book of the same title I ordered was missing 20 pages.
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 4 Date: 2009-06-23
Summary: Classic, enduring, fun, but a bit triteReview: ... This is one of the best books I've read. My only complaint is that it was not as deep and as strange as I like, but lack of depth in the world was the author's
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-21
Summary: A FAVORITEReview: ... THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered one of the best novels of the 20th century, primarily because it is. If you haven't read it, read it.
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-18
Summary: A Distinctive GemReview: ... "More critical writing exists on The Great Gatsby than on any other work of American fiction" - according to the back matter of F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby,
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Let the Great World Spin A Novel
Product Description: ... In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a
...moreReview: ... Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009 : Colum McCann has worked some exquisite magic with Let the Great World Spin , conjuring a novel of electromagnetic force that
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 4 Date: 2009-07-02
Summary: unless the 2nd half of 09 is amazing this is in the top 10 of the yearReview: ... This is my first encounter with Colum McCann, though it won't be my last. A beautifully constructed novel (or novel-in-stories, if you're picky) that reveals the
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 3 Date: 2009-07-02
Summary: A mixed bag of a book for meReview: ... This book took me awhile to get through. For me, it wasn't the type of story that I wanted to read every spare moment I had, or one that I would stay up extra
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 1 Date: 2009-06-30
Summary: It's tough to give a bad reviewReview: ... I don't often give books bad reviews. This is my first one-star review here on Amazon. Now, understand, I'm simply "Average Mrs. America" with no degree in literature.
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-29
Summary: Powerful Literature that Will Leave You Feeling ThunderstruckReview: ... LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN begins in New York City with the thoughts and observations of the spectators of Phillipe Petit as he sets out to walk the tightrope between
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 2 Date: 2009-06-29
Summary: Dense and Time ConsumingReview: ... I admittedly read the first segment only, and made the decision to go no further. Very quickly, I found myself drowned in very dense narrative and dialogue crammed
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The Great Divorce
Product Description: ... What if anyone in Hell could take a bus trip to Heaven and stay there forever if they wanted to? In The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis again employs his formidable
...moreReview: ... The Great Divorce is C.S. Lewis's Divine Comedy : the narrator bears strong resemblance to Lewis (by way of Dante); his Virgil is the fantasy writer George MacDonald;
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-26
Summary: One of Lewis' classicsReview: ... A man takes a bus trip from Hell to Heaven and learns many things along the way. Those accompanying him all have their own reasons for going, but many decide to
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 4 Date: 2009-06-14
Summary: Outside the BoxReview: ... C.S. Lewis takes you on a trip that will vastly expand your horizons in "The Great Divorce". It's a 'get out of hell free' ticket to heaven where you will meet
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-06-05
Summary: My Favorite Book Of All TimeReview: ... Read this book once and you will be like "it is ok", read it again and you will start to see some of the brilliance of C.S. Lewis. Read it a third time and you
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-05-26
Summary: an interesting journey, from the depths of woeReview: ... The Great Divorce is a modern twist on Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno. C S Lewis used Dante's basic theme of a solitary man (assumed to be the author) suddenly
...moreCustomer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2009-05-26
Summary: ONE OF MY FAVORITESReview: ... This book helped me gain a new perspective on heaven. It wonderfully written and though it is fiction it really reaches deep into your mind and asks you to think...
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