This book examines the different normative approaches politicians, bureaucrats and community actors use to frame the innovation puzzle, arguing that these create specific cultures of innovation.The authors explore the role of formal institutions and informal networks in promoting and impeding governmental innovation."

Seeking a personal prayer in every place, ANCHORHOLD refuses to let go of holiness or humanity, simultaneously clutching both. The collection introduces a half-real, half-imagined place where "a form/and beauty are] uniquely" the individual's. Laura M. Kaminski reminds us what it is like to be what we create in the world. Like the eponymous creature of Walt Whitman's "A Noiseless Patient Spider" striving to connect the spheres with its frequent webbing, then, Kaminski's ANCHORHOLD seeks to reconnect people to their humanity and an internal divinity often overlooked. This necessary collection...

This is the book that we all needed twenty or thirty years ago. Our work ethic has changed, and we as Americans have turned into whiny sissies who complain constantly. I honestly don't believe that employers and employees realize how common this detraction from productivity and profit really is. This book serves several purposes - first to make people aware of this annoying, unhealthy habit or group of habits; secondly, to address the issues in the workplace and in our personal lives, and lastly, to develop healthier, more rewarding behaviors that will allow us all more success.