Against the background of comparatively low unemployment compared with Europe, Daniel Quinn Mills examines the flexible labor market in the United States. In particular, he tries to answer questions like - What has happened to the social contract between employer and employee in America in the...

Daniel Quinn Mills introduces a new management system -- GEM (Goals, Empowerment, Measurement) and contracts it with two traditional systems -- ODS(A) (Organize, Deputize, Supervise -- Autocratic) and ODS(P) (Organize, Deputize, Supervise -- Participative). A professional manager should know and...

To survive in today's turbulent business climate, organizations must transform themselves into 'learning organizations'. Daniel Quinn Mills and Bruce Friesen explain several characteristics of a successful learning organization. First, it should possess mechanisms which transfer learning from an...