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Praise For Corporate Reputation: 12 Steps to Safeguarding and Recovering Reputation

"In a sea of business books, Corporate Reputation is a beacon of light for all leaders and future leaders looking for direction in the treacherous waters of a volatile business environment. It delivers a message that's provocative, insightful, and needs to be heard."
—Heidi Henkel Sinclair, Director of Communications, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

"Every CEO, senior executive, and, increasingly, board member now appreciates the importance of building and protecting a company's reputation. Anyone who depends upon or shapes a company's reputation—customers, employees, news media, NGOs, and bloggers—will benefit from reading Dr. Gaines-Ross's book and will learn more about the influence they wield over corporate reputations."
—Dr. Robert G. Eccles, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School

"At a time when companies are facing unprecedented reputation crises comes a timely primer from Dr. Gaines-Ross that tells us what companies need to do to bring their reputations back from the brink. The book's 12-step reputation recovery model captures what we know about effective crisis management, and brings the process to life with a host of detailed case examples. It's right on the mark!"
—Dr. Charles Fombrun, CEO, Reputation Institute

"Finally, a book that clearly, realistically, and compellingly explains how companies of all types and sizes can protect and restore an invaluable company asset—corporate reputation. Brilliant insights and practical solutions leap from each page! A definite must-read for business professionals everywhere."
—Anthony Sardella, CEO, Evolve24 and Adjunct Professor at the Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis.
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This practical guide enables church deacons, trustees, and other lay and ordained leaders to evaluate the current security status of their church to encourage improved protection of buildings and people..
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Property Management, published by Institute of Real Estate Management on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1845 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: An internal control system consists of a set of procedures that are intended to protect assets, ensure the reliability of accounting information and improve operational efficiency. It is an essential component of business management because it minimizes the possibility of errors, theft and misstatements of accounting data. Internal control is especially important for property managers because they have an obligation to protect and enhance assets entrusted to them by other people. There are a number of principles that can be adopted to ensure that effective internal control systems are in place. These include separating cash handling and accounting operations, supervising all employees and evaluating their work, limiting access to documents and documenting employee errors. Management should also demonstrate its commitment to internal control.

Citation Details
Title: Take control: safeguarding assets through good internal controls.
Author: Kevin P. MacLatchie
Publication:Journal of Property Management (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Institute of Real Estate Management
Volume: v62 Issue: n1 Page: p64(4)

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"Safeguarding Financial Stability explicates why financial stability matters, what it means, and the challenges in securing it," according to Gerard Caprio, Jr. from the World Bank. "[It is] a thoughtful and thought-provoking volume that is a must read not just for central bankers but for all concerned with financial stability." "Safeguarding Financial Stability represents a brilliant attempt to provide solid and updated foundations to policies aiming at financial stability," according to Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Executive Board Member, 1998-2005, European Central Bank. "The book is based on a thorough acquaintance with the literature, understanding of the real world, analytical skill, sense of the policy issues, familiarity with the diversity of country situations, and good judgement. The book can be already considered as required reading for anyone interested in the subject of financial stability.".
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This book examines how a phenomenological approach helps move us closer toward safeguarding our common future by evolving a more originative and informed way of thinking about the foundations of sustainable development. Phenomenology, as conceived by Heidegger, enlarges and deepens our ways of thinking about sustainable development and offers a unique methodology of environmental policy development and planning..
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This manual has been prepared as an aid to employers, employees, machine manufacturers, machine guard designers and fabricators, and all others with an interest in protecting workers against the hazards of moving machine parts. It identifies the major mechanical motions and the general principles of safeguarding them. Current applications of each technique are shown in accompanying illustrations of specific operations and machines. The methods described here may be transferred, with due care, to different machines with similar hazards. To determine whether or not safeguarding meets the requirements of the standard, any mechanical motion that threatens a worker’s safety should not remain unguarded..
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Hailed in the Foreign Service Journal as "a landmark book that should command the attention of every serious student of American diplomacy, international environmental issues, or the art of negotiation," and cited in Nature for its "worthwhile insights on the harnessing of science and diplomacy," the first edition of Ozone Diplomacy offered an insider's view of the politics, economics, science, and diplomacy involved in creating the precedent-setting treaty to protect the Earth: the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer.

The first edition ended with a discussion of the revisions to the protocol in 1990 and offered lessons for global diplomacy regarding the then just-maturing climate change issue. Now Richard Benedick--a principal architect and the chief U.S. negotiator of the historic treaty--expands the ozone story, bringing us to the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Montreal Protocol. He describes subsequent negotiations to deal with unexpected major scientific discoveries and important amendments adding new chemicals and accelerating the phaseout schedules. Implementing the revised treaty has forced the protocol's signatories to confront complex economic and political problems, including North-South financial and technology transfer issues, black markets for banned CFCs, revisionism, and industry's willingness and ability to develop new technologies and innovative substitutes. In his final chapter Benedick offers a new analysis applying the lessons of the ozone experience to ongoing climate change negotiations.

Ozone Diplomacy has frequently been cited as the definitive book on the most successful environment treaty, and is essential reading for those concerned about the future of our planet.

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