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Storming Magic Kingdom
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John Taylor
How the assaults of Wall Street raiders threatened the survival of Walt Disney Productions, and led to a revolution in both the management and the image of the company that embodies every American's childhood; a classic tale of corporate intrigue and Wall Street maneuvering in the 1980s. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.
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The Deal of the Century: The Breakup of AT&T
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Steve Coll
The true story behind the headline-making event of AT&T's breakup that assesses the long-range implication of divestiture for consumers and for the future of telephone services.
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Breaking the Phalanx: A New Design for Landpower in the 21st Century
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Douglas A MacGregor, Center for Strategic & International Stu, Donald Kagan (Foreword by)
This work proposes the reorganization of America's ground forces on the strategic, operational and tactical levels, claiming that planes, ships and missiles can not do the job of defending America's global security interests alone.
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Preparing for the Future: Strategic Planning in the U.S. Air Force
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Michael Barzelay, Colin Campbell
While the Clinton administration and federal agencies were busy making government cost less and work better in the near-term, the US Air Force was regularly visualizing the competencies needed to assure the organization's long-term effectiveness. As a result of steady efforts to prepare for future secretaries and chief's of staff, the Air Force ...
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Dismantling Democratic States
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Ezra N Suleiman
Bureaucracy is a much-maligned feature of contemporary government. And yet the aftermath of September 11 has opened the door to a reassessment of the role of a skilled civil service in the survival and viability of democratic society. Here, Ezra Suleiman offers a timely and powerful corrective to the widespread view that bureaucracy is the source ...
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Reforming Bureaucracy: The Politics of Institutional Choice
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Gary J Miller, Jack H Knott, C Miller
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Power to the Edge Power to the Edge: Command, Control in the Information Age Command, Control in the Information Age
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David S Alberts
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Lifting the Fog of War
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William A Owens, Admiral
Is the United States an exhausted superpower? Military operations in Iraq, Somalia and Kosovo have resulted in defeat or stalemate. America's key weaponry is fast becoming obsolete, and its men and women in uniform are disenchanted. Yet the USA remains committed to a wide variety of conflicts around the world and is increasingly confronted by ...
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The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard
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James Burton
From the late 1960s through the mid-1980s, a small band of military activists waged war against corruption in the Pentagon, challenging a system they believed squandered the public's money and trust. This book examines that movement and its proponents and describes how the system responded to their criticisms.
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What Comes Next: The End of Big Government--And the New Paradigm Ahead
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James P Pinkerton
Our current government is failing us - the poor most dramatically. Global market forces of information and capital are destroying the old top-down politics. If present trends are allowed to continue, America will stumble into a grim Cyber Future of community breakdown and spiraling inequality - a real-life nightmare reminiscent of the fiction of ...
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The ITT Wars
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Rand V Araskog
The startling account of a hostile takeover attempt of a major American corporation (annual revenues, $20 billion). It is a story of greed, corruption, and the failure of big business during the Reagan years.
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Organizational Learning at NASA: The Challenger and the Columbia Accidents
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Julianne G Mahler, Maureen Hogan Casamayou
Just after 9:00 a.m. on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was lost over Texas. This tragic event led, as the Challenger accident had 17 years earlier, to an intensive government investigation of the technological and organizational causes of the accident. The investigation found chilling similarities between the two ...
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Victory on the Potomac: The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies the Pentagon
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James R Locher, III
War is waged not only on battlefields. In the mid-1980s a high-stakes struggle to redesign the relationships among the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the secretary of defense, and the president resulted in the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. Author James R. Locher III played a key role in the congressional effort to repair ...
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Transforming America's Military
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Hans Binnendijk
CONTENTSPart I- Foundations of TransformationChapter 1- Assessing New MissionsChapter 2- Harnessing New TechnologiesChapter 3- Choosing a StrategyPart II- Transforming the ServicesChapter 4- The Army: Toward the Objective ForceChapter 5- The Naval Services: Network-Centric WarfareChapter 6- The Air Force: The Next RoundPart III- Coordinating ...
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On the Line: The Men of MCI--Who Took on AT&T, Risked Everything, and Won!
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Larry Kahaner
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The Fall of the Bell System
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Peter Temin, Professor Louis Galambos
AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganization in history and has had international repercussions. It was a major development in American economic policy, and a prominent part of the deregulation movement of the late 1970s. This study reveals the internal decision-making process at AT&T and explains how private and public interests ...
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Worst Enemy: The Reluctant Transformation of the American Military
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John Arquilla
Worst Enemy offers an inside analysis of the events that have derailed our efforts to transform the nation's military into a leaner, lighter, and much more networked force. Mr. Arquilla places these events in historical context and assesses Donald Rumsfeld's role as secretary of defense of the post-9/11 era. Beyond articulating a thorough critique ...
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The Pentagon and the Art of War: The Question of Military Reform
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Edward Luttwak
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Transformation Under Fire: Revolutionizing How America Fights
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Douglas A MacGregor
MacGregor argues for a tight integration between air and ground forces to change the way that our armed forces organize their capacity to fight.
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Post Cold War Defense Reform (P)
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Istvan Gyarmati (Editor), Theodor Winkler, Amb. (Editor), Lord Robertson (Foreword by)
Beginning with the landslide political changes in Europe in the early 1990s, politicians and military planners started to contemplate the possible effects on military postures. Most countries, however, did not enforce plans for post-Cold War reform because they lacked political will and money, their conservative militaries resisted, and they felt ...
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The Fall of the Bell System: A Study in Prices and Politics
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Peter Temin
AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganization in history and has had international repercussions. It was a major development in American economic policy, and a prominent part of the deregulation movement of the late 1970s. This study reveals the internal decision-making process at AT&T and explains how private and public interests ...
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Defence Reform in Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro
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Timothy Edmunds
The period since 2000 has presented unprecedented opportunities for democratization and international rehabilitation for Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro. In both countries the role of defence reform in these processes has been crucial. The new governments of each have faced three primary challenges in this area: establishing and consolidating ...
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Storming the Magic Kingdom
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John Taylor
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America Can Win: The Case for Military Reform
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Gary Hart, William S Lind
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Panasonic: The Largest Corporate Restructuring in History
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Francis McInerney
Panasonic is not about any ordinary restructuring. It is about a company of $76 billion in sales, employing 355,000 people around the world, the tenth largest industrial company not in oil or autos, whose thousands of products are so universally used that it may have more customers than any firm in history. Panasonic is so big that it is one of ...
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