2012 New Releases Catalogue November - Learningemall.com

With the long decline in US manufacturing
and today's economic crisis, millions have
been thrown out of work, and many are
losing their homes. The usual economic
solutions are not working, so some
citizens and public officials are ready to
think outside of the box, to reinvent our
failing economy in order to restore long
term community stability and a more
egalitarian way of life.
There is growing interest in firms that are
owned and managed by their workers.
Such firms tend to be more profitable and
innovative, and more committed to the
communities where they are based. Yet
the public has little knowledge of their
success, and the promise they offer for a
better life.
Amongst the organizations featured in
SHIFT CHANGE are:
Mondragon Cooperative Corporation -
Begun in the 1950s, the Mondragon
co-ops have transformed a depressed
area of Spain into one of the most
productive in Europe with a high standard
of living and an egalitarian way of life.
They are owned and managed by their
workers. Seeing the achievements of the
MCC helps to overcome the
idea-widespread in North America-that
worker run cooperatives can only exist on
the economic fringe.
The Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland,
OH - This is an ambitious urban
redevelopment model, directly inspired by
Mondragon, where local institutions and
public officials are supporting green
cooperatives of previously marginalized,
predominantly African American workers,
who provide commercial laundry services,
install solar energy systems, and grow
vegetables in vast urban greenhouses.
Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives,
San Francisco, California - Started 30
years ago, there are now six of these
independent worker owned and managed
cooperative bakeries that work together to
provide the financial and legal services
they need, and to incubate new coop
bakeries.
Equal Exchange, Boston MA: Founded in
1986, Equal Exchange is one of the
largest roasters of fair trade coffee in the
world.
Reviews
� "A compelling story of real
possibilities at a time when many
think there are no solutions to this
current difficult economic situation." -
Paul Hazen, President & CEO,
National Cooperative Business
Association
� "Gorgeous! Simply beautiful! I love
what I see so far. The U.S. Federation
of Worker Cooperatives strongly
supports this project." - Melissa
Hoover, Executive Director, U.S.
Federation of Worker Cooperatives
� "One of the barriers to fostering
cooperative values and businesses in
North America is the lack of
awareness of the benefits that well
organized cooperatives with good
business practices can offer to
workers and communities. Educating
the public to the cooperative
approach to business is an important
contribution which Shift Change can
make." - Ted Howard, Executive
Director of Democracy Collaborative,
University of Maryland
Item no. : GB01110825
Format : DVD
Duration : 69 minutes
Audience : Grades 10-12, College,
Adult
Copyright : 2012
StdBkNo : 1937772381
Price : USD 295.00
BUSINESS SKILLS
MANAGING MANAGING YOUR CAREER
With Valerie Sutton
What do you enjoy doing, and how are you
uniquely qualified to build a rewarding
career out of your interests, skills, and
experience? In this course, author Valerie
Sutton guides you through the process of
proactively managing your career by
identifying your options, needs, and
interests.
Discover how to assess your experience,
work-reward values, and qualifications, all
with the goal of creating a robust career
profile that charts your future growth. The
course also shows how to fully investigate
career options and perform a gap analysis
in order to find key opportunities.
Item no. : TV03740686
Format : DVD-ROM (SingleUser,
Closed Captioned)
Duration : 45 minutes
Copyright : 2012
StdBkNo : 1596718951
Price : USD 70.00
NEGOTIATION
NEGOTIATION
FUNDAMENTALS
FUNDAMENTALS
With Lisa Gates
Coach, negotiation expert, and author Lisa
Gates demonstrates the skills empowered
communicators use to achieve mutual
benefit at the negotiation table. The
course delivers repeatable strategies for
negotiating common issues such as
asking for a raise, setting fees, promoting
teamwork, and bringing out the best in
those you manage. Along the way,
discover how to use interest-based
negotiation, distributive bargaining,
diagnostic questioning, and conflict
resolution to handle both simple and
complex negotiations.
Item no. : HH03610688
Format : DVD-ROM (SingleUser,
Closed Captioned)
Duration : 30 minutes
Copyright : 2012
StdBkNo : 1596719001
Price : USD 70.00
BUSINESS
STRATEGY
INTELLIGENT INTELLIGENT STRATEGY
STRATEGY
STRATEGY
With Richard Rumelt
� Steve Jobs' plan for Apple in 1997:
hatchet job or strategy?
� Why financial performance goals are
not strategy.
� Creating proximate goals and "riding
the wave" of change.
Bad strategy is long on goals and vision
and short on presenting a coherent set of
actions for actually solving the
fundamental problems facing an
organization. Good strategy, on the other
hand, flows from an honest diagnosis of
your most critical challenge coupled with
an action plan for specific objectives that
your organization can reasonably
accomplish to overcome that challenge.
Drawing on the successes of General
Motors in the 1920s, NASA's Apollo
program, Cisco, IKEA, and Nvidia,
Professor Rumelt defines five elements of
good strategies. First, use analytic tools to
develop insight into the nature of your
challenge. Then, define achievable
proximate objectives toward your goal,
recognize and ride the wave of change in
your industry, build a "chain link" barrier to
competition, and finally, expect and
overcome entropy and inertia from within.
Item no. : SS02500346
Format : DVD
Duration : 61 minutes
Copyright : 2012
Price : USD 95.00
BUSINESS/ECONO
MICS
ACCOUNTING ACCOUNTING FOR
FOR
MANAGERS: MANAGERS: MANAGERS: 1 1 - USING
USING
FINANCIAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
STATEMENTS
Provides an explanation of the basic
accounting equation, cash and accural
bases of accounting, the balance
sheet,the income statement, the statement
of cashflows, and ratio analysis. Two
executives provide examples of assets,
liabilities, owner's equity for enterprises,
and an overview of the types of business
decisions managers would make using
financial statements.
Item no. : NA07860018
Format : DVD
Duration : 29 minutes
Price : USD 205.00
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