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“colin talbot”

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  • Unbundled Government

    A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos and Contractualisation

    Edited by Christopher Pollitt, Colin Talbot ...
    Public sector bureaucracies have been subjected to harsh criticism. One solution which has been widely adopted over the past two decades has been to 'unbundle government' - that is to break down monolithic departments and ministries into smaller, semi-autonomous 'agencies'. These are often governed by some type of performance contract, are at 'arm's length' or further from their 'parent' ministry ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Theories of Performance

    Organizational and Service Improvement in the Public Domain

    by Colin Talbot ...
    How well do governments do in converting the resources they take from us - like taxes - into services that improve the well-being of individuals, groups, and society as a whole? In other words: how well do they perform? This question has become increasingly prominent in public debates over the past couple of decades, especially in the developed world but also in developing countries. As the state ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

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    The Case Against Bill Clinton

    by Ann Coulter ...
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  • Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis

    by Barbara Carkenord ...
    Business analysis is the fastest growing field in business today and the role of the business analyst is both strategic and tactical. Business analysts are part strategist, part program or project manager, part architect and part systems analyst. They work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, and communicate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and ... Read more

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  • Revival

    The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House

    by Richard Wolffe ...
    Revival is the dramatic inside story of the defining period of the Obama White House. It is an epic tale that follows the president and his inner circle from the crisis of defeat to historic success.Over the span of an extraordinary two months in the life of a young presidency, Obama and his senior aides engaged in a desperate struggle for survival that stands as the measure of who they are and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Call to Conversion

    Why Faith Is Always Personal but Never Private

    by Jim Wallis ...

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  • The Price of Loyalty

    George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill

    by Ron Suskind ...
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's explosive account of the inner workings of the George W. Bush administration, the most secretive White House of modern times.This vivid, unfolding narrative is like no other book that has been written about the Bush presidency -- or any that is likely to be written soon. At its core are the candid assessments of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, for ... Read more

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  • Procurement Project Management Success

    Achieving a Higher Level of Effectiveness

    by Diana L. Lindstrom ...
    Procurement Project Management Success integrates supply management best practices and processes with those applicable from the field of project management. It explains how to initiate, plan, manage, and complete both simple and complex procurement projects successfully. Through the use of scheduling, communication plans, risk management and other project management processes, these procurements ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Mastering IT Project Management

    Best Practices, Tools and Techniques

    by Murali Chemuturi ...
    In previous years, setting up IT infrastructure involved just the preparation of the data center. It has become much more complex and evolved today. The infrastructure includes not only the data center facility, but also the entire organization by providing internet connectivity to customers, vendors, and company executives on the move. Mastering IT Project Management is the first book to detail ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Managing Multiple Projects: EBook Edition

    by Michael S. Dobson PMP, Deborah Singer Dobson M.Ed. ...
    Let’s face it — who among us has only a single project? Multiple projects are the norm, not the exception, and there are very good reasons why this is so. A lot of projects simply aren’t big enough to justify the investment of a full-time project manager: having only one is impractical. Depending on the availability of resources, a multiple project environment can accomplish substantial work while ... Read more

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  • The Book : the Story of Red Tail Hawk

    One Family’s Journey Through Addiction

    by K.A. Morini, Amanda Beth Randall ...
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  • Public Service Innovations in China

    Edited by Yijia Jing, Stephen P. Osborne ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume presents case studies of the transformation of China’s public services over the past decade in China. As the country has experienced fundamental changes in its demographic, economic, social and environmental structures, demands on public services have been increasing tremendously, and have become unprecedentedly diverse. In response, innovations to provide new services, expand ... Read more

    $89.09 USD