Olivia Parr Rud's book highlights the emerging practices in organizational development in terms of business intelligence. Many books discuss the importance of emotional intelligence in the corporate environment, but this book goes a step further. It takes the position that the speed of change and advancements in technology deem these competencies essential to business survival. Parr Rud looks at components of chaos theory, complex adaptive systems, and quantum physics to provide a scientific framework for the new corporate examples and explains why these competencies are critical, given the speed of change, globalization, and advancement in technology and business intelligence.
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This year while attending SAS Global Forum 2009 in Washington, DC, Shelly Goodin (SAS Press marketing specialist and host of "The Cover Story: SAS Publishing's Podcast Series") interviewed 19 SAS authors, 2 popular SAS users, and 3 willing SAS colleagues. The end result is a collection of 18 dynamic podcast interviews and 1 montage (featuring a sound bite from each participating interviewee).
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