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Hope Is Important $26.34 The members of Idlewild were barely in their twenties when they recorded their debut, Hope Is Important. Quite taken with the grunge surge of the early '90s, distorted guitars and textured basslines mosh among Roddy Woomble's screeching vocals, which are also abrasive and wounded. The first half of Hope Is Important has a high-speed disposition of punk chaos reminiscent of Nirvana's Bleach. "You've Lost Your Way" and "4 People Do Good" rampage with angst-ridden themes, and classic vocalic disarray and complexity. "I'm Happy to Be Here Tonight" is where Idlewild truly shines -- an indie anthem wholeheartedly passionate. They may be from the working-class mass of Scotland, but Idlewild's members are intellects with a twist. Hope Is Important exudes the fiery nature of four young guys yearning to make their own way in modern rock despite the popularity of the three-chord riff. Lyrically, the poetry behind such wordplay isn't as apparent as it would be on their follow-up, 100 Broken Windows. But it's there, and it's enjoyably humorous. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, Rovi Performers: Ken Rice - Violin; Rod Jones - Guitar; Salli Carson - Vocals

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A Very Important Day $7.99 Two hundred nineteen people from thirty-two different countries make their way to downtown New York in a snowstorm to be sworn in as citizens of the United States.

Sing for Very Important People $33.44 The Free Design always sounded a bit like a pop group for children, and they made the leap there themselves on their wonderful 1970 album Free Design Sing for Very Important People. Inspired by Peter, Paul & Mary's Peter, Paul and Mommy album and the fact

Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us $11.99 Bring up the subject of customer service phone calls and the blood pressure of everyone within earshot rises exponentially. Otherwise calm, rational, and intelligent people go into extended rants about an industry that seems to grow more inhuman and unhelpful with every phone call we make. And Americans make more than 43 billion customer service calls each year . Whether it's the interminable hold times, the outsourced agents who can't speak English, or the multitude of buttons to press and automated voices to listen to before reaching someone with a measurable pulse -- who hasn't felt exasperated at the abuse, neglect, and wasted time we experience when all we want is help, and maybe a little human kindness? Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us is journalist Emily Yellin's engaging, funny, and far-reaching exploration of the multibillion-dollar customer service industry and its surprising inner-workings. Yellin reveals the real human beings and often surreal corporate policies lurking behind its aggravating façade. After reading this first-ever investigation of the customer service world, you'll never view your call-center encounters in quite the same way. Since customer service has a role in just about every industry on earth, Yellin travels the country and the world, meeting a wide range of customer service reps, corporate decision makers, industry watchers, and Internet-based consumer activists. She spends time at outsourced call centers for Office Depot in Argentina and Microsoft in Egypt. She gets to know the Mormon wives who answer JetBlue's customer service calls from their homes in Salt Lake City, and listens in on calls from around the globe at a FedEx customer service center in Memphis. She meets with the creators of the yearly Customer Rage Study, customer experience specialists at Credit Suisse in Zurich, the founder and CEO of FedEx, and the CEO of the rising Internet retailer Zappos.com. Yellin finds out which country complains about service the most (Sweden), interviews an actress who provides the voice for automated answering systems at many big corporations, and talks to the people who run a website (GetHuman.com that posts codes for bypassing automated voices and getting to an actual human being at more than five hundred major companies. Yellin weaves her vast reporting into an entertaining narrative that sheds light on the complex forces that create our infuriating experiences. She chronicles how the Internet and global competition are forcing businesses to take their customers' needs more seriously and offers hope from people inside and outside the globalized corporate world fighting to make customer service better for us all. Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us cuts through corporate jargon and consumer distress to provide an eye-opening and animated account of the way companies treat their customers, how customers treat the people who serve them, and how technology, globalization, class, r

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Meeting of Important People $4.99 We believe it is important to preserve what makes music special, and make it easy to craft listening experiences. At MOG, browse millions songs and play them instantly. Or just turn on radio where you can stop and replay songs. You can also create playlists for any occasion, and even download songs to your mobile. We are dedicated to employing the cleanest but most powerful technology so you can enjoy music as much as ever.

Important and Famous People $37.89 This book is in New - Excellent condition

Important People of the Revolutionary War $17.48 This book is in Used condition

Important People Of Revolution $10.95 Diane Smolinski is a Heinemann Raintree author.

An address to the people of Ireland on the present important crisis. $12.88 An address to the people of Ireland on the present important crisis.

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Sing for Very Important People [Bonus Tracks] $19.3 Sing for Very Important People [Bonus Tracks]

An Address To The People Of Ohio, On The Important Subject Of The Next Presidency; $11.78 An Address To The People Of Ohio, On The Important Subject Of The Next Presidency;

On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects $30.95 Caspar Hare makes an original and compelling case for "egocentric presentism," a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our own particular point of view. A natural thought about our first-person experience is that "all and only the things of which I am aware are present to me." Hare, however, goes one step further and claims, counterintuitively, that the thought should instead be that "all and only the things of which I am aware are present." There is, in other words, something unique about me and the things of which I am aware. On Myself and Other, Less Important Subjects represents a new take on an old view, known as solipsism, which maintains that people's experiences give them grounds for believing that they have a special, distinguished place in the world--for example, believing that only they exist or that other people do not have conscious minds like their own. Few contemporary thinkers have taken solipsism seriously. But Hare maintains that the version of solipsism he argues for is in indeed defensible, and that it is uniquely capable of resolving some seemingly intractable philosophical problems--both in metaphysics and ethics--concerning personal identity over time, as well as the tension between self-interest and the greater good. This formidable and tightly argued defense of a seemingly absurd view is certain to provoke debate.

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Myself and Other More Important Matters $5.41 Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day'. Long recognised as one of the world's leading business thinkers (over a million copies of his books have been sold around the world), in Myself and Other More Important Matters he leaves the management territory he has so effectively and influentially mapped in the past to explore the wider issues and dilemmas - both moral and creative - raised by the turning points of his long and successful life.Here he investigates the big issues of how life can best be lived as they have emerged from the unfolding of his life and his unique and influential understanding of what really matters. From supplying oil by boat to an area larger than England as a bullish young Shell executive in Borneo to realising that there was a big difference between describing the development of a 'portfolio' life (made up of a variety of activities for a range of purposes and pay) in theory and actually himself leaving behind full-time employment, from helping to start up the London and Open business schools to listening and talking to people all over the world about how they want to manage their lives, Handy's telling of his experiences proves both revealing and significant.

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From People to People $16.27 From People to People

What is more important: People or Process?

At Bridge, we have recently summarized the key success factors in offshoring into 5 P's: People, Process, Preparation, Performance, and Profit. Now I am always struggling to put either People or Process on the first place. Because without the right people, any process will fail. But without the right Process, the best People might be able to perform?

In an article about the common underestimation of the People factor in outsourcing deals, Joe Vales and Kerry Ann Vales make some points I couldn't agree to more. Companies tend to send extended RFP's to outsourcing suppliers and make huge lists of buying criteria, but such documentation frequently forget to really deal with people. As an outsourcer you want to have a match with everyone on the supplier side, both on the side of the account manager that you will frequently interact with, as well as the individual programmers or team leaders that will do your work. By focusing on the hard facts and nailing everything down into solid contracts, we forget about the soft factors, which have a much bigger impact on making outsourcing work. In the end of the day, no contract and no proven fact from the past can define the success in an outsourcing deal. It is the people working in the deal who decide if it becomes a success or not.

Some interesting statements from the article from Vales Consulting:

‘Nevertheless, service providers struggle to identify the people in the proposal who will run key aspects of the engagement. They consistently state that it's tough in the RFP process to identify and hold the key executives who will run a relationship in six months or more when a contract is signed. Yet, the service provider still expects the buyer to agree to a five or 10-year contract based on the people in to-be-filled positions. It is crazy and a reason why many service providers lose the must-win deal. '

‘This is an environment where a handshake is often more important than a detailed Service Level Agreement or a new technology platform. To succeed in this environment, an outsourcing service provider has to assign a sales and delivery team that can earn the respect of the small business owner and become part of his/her inner circle of trusted advisors.'

My personal experience is that most service providers fail to recognize this importance. Before I set up three captive centers for Bridge in Ukraine, Moldova and India, we used to cooperate with suppliers mainly in Ukraine. The general inclination is to skip all the preparation work and get on with executing projects as soon as possible. In many cases, I did not even know who were the people working on our projects, nor was I supposed to know, because there was an account manager who was my interface and if I had a technical question, I could speak to the project manager. What about the people doing the actual work? They are the most crucial aspect to do it right.

To create that solid fundament to make outsourcing work, we have to start with the People. Does the account manager whom I speak to gain my trust? Is he reliable and does he know how outsourcing works? Do I have an influence on the hiring process to build my team? Can I visit the offshore office to meet anyone who has an influence on my projects? A buyer needs to have a personality match with the supplier and should as well have full control over the decision who will join his team.

If you have any questions, please send it to h.messer@bridge-outsourcing.nl 

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About the Author

As Gobal Sourcing Expert, I help IT companies and organisations with an IT department, achieve growth and profitability. 

Many people wonder what Global sourcing or outsourcing can do for their organisation. They want to save on IT costs and are looking for IT staff. 
There are many stories about companies that move (IT) work to India or Eastern Europe. But how do you do this?

How do you make outsourcing work? How do you find the right supplier? Does India fit better or Eastern Europe and why?

Global sourcing is a complex arena and not something you do overnight. Many entrepreneurs, directors, CIO's and COO's have difficulties taking the right
steps and have different reasons for that:

- They don't know where to start and which steps to take (how do I develop an effective strategy? How do I setup my processes? How do I find the right 
supplier? What are the pitfalls, what should I pay attention to?)

- It looks like something which other people do but not them or something only multinationals do, but somewhere in their mind they wonder if it is the 
right thing to move part of their work overseas. 

Do you know people who say such things? Or do you recogize it yourself?

Take the first steps to make offshoring work for your organisation

- Develop a clear strategy for the next years
- Find the right supplier
- Develop effective processes and continuously improve them
- Put the right man on the right seat in your offshore team

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