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“erik baker”

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  • Make Your Own Job

    How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America

    by Erik Baker ...
    Series series
    A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States, from Horatio Alger to Instagram influencers.How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift and persistence came to seem old-fashioned. Successful workers were increasingly expected to show initiative and enthusiasm for change—not just to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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    Make Your Own Job

    How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America

    by Erik Baker ...
    Narrated by Steve Menasche ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 48 min

    How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Successful workers were increasingly expected to show initiative and enthusiasm for change. Our culture of work today is more demanding than ever, even though workers haven't seen commensurate rewards.Make Your Own Job explains how this entrepreneurial work ethic took hold, from its origins in late ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Innovative University

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    by Clayton M. Christensen, Henry J. Eyring ...
    The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future. Through an examination of Harvard and BYU-Idaho as well as other stories of innovation in higher education, Clayton Christensen and ... Read more

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  • A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Theory

    by Todd Bridgman, Stephen Cummings ...
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    Conceived by Chris Grey, the Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap series offers an antidote to conventional textbooks. Each book takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.In Management Theory, Todd Bridgman and Stephen Cummings ... Read more

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  • The Golden Passport

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  • Men and Women of the Corporation

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    In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management thinker and consultant, shows how the careers and self-images of the managers, professionals, and executives, and also those of the secretaries, wives of managers, and women looking for a way up, are determined by the distribution of power and powerlessness within ... Read more

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  • The Culture of the New Capitalism

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  • The New Education

    How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past -- and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant changeOur current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925. It was in those decades that the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, all in an attempt to prepare young people for a world ... Read more

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  • An Inconvenient Minority

    The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence

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