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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- part 1 Your strategic self -- Shaping the future -- Thinking before you plan -- Becoming a strategic thinker -- Selling your strategy -- part 2 Thinking like a strategist -- Reacting is as important as planning -- Taking risks (jump your uncertainty gaps) -- Looking over your shoulder -- Knowing where the grass (really) is greener -- part 3 Creating your strategy -- Seeing the big picture -- Finding position, intention and direction -- Looking for advantages -- Making strategic decisions and choices -- Adapting to your competitive environment -- part 4 Winning with strategy -- Winning strategy games -- Creating new markets -- Getting ahead of your strategic group -- Growing your business (again and again) -- Going global without going broke -- Knowing what you can do best -- part 5 Making your strategy work -- Managing your strategy process -- Meetings for strategic minds -- Managing change, making strategy work -- Understanding what can go wrong -- Saving your company from failure -- part 6 The strategy book toolkit -- The basic (powerful) strategy questions -- Quick start strategy -- SWOT analysis -- Porter's 5 forces of competition -- Porter's generic strategies -- Burgelman's strategy dynamics model -- Porter's value chain and value system -- Core competencies and resource-based view -- Nonaka and Takeuchi's knowledge spiral -- Peters, Athos and Waterman's 7-S framework -- Scenario planning -- Ansoff's growth grid -- The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) growth share matrix -- Kim and Mauborgne's four actions -- Greiner's growth (and crisis) model -- De Wit and Meyer's strategy tensions -- Cummings and Wilson: orientation and animation -- Lewin's force field analysis…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword ; Introduction - Costanza Coppini, Georg Cyrus, and Hamaseh Golestaneh ; Session 4: Crossing Boundaries: Connectivity and Interaction ; Oman Peninsula and the Indus Valley: An Assessment of Material Exchanges during the Iron Age (c. 1300-300 BC) - Carlos Fernandez Rodriguez ; Seleucid Rule over the Gulf - Miguel Pachon Barragan ; Identity and Interaction at Togolok 1 in the Murghab Region (Southern Turkmenistan) during the Bronze Age - Luca Forni and Roberto Arciero ; The Structure of the Urartian Territory as Seen through the Distribution of Inscriptions - Dan Socaciu ; Do I Know You? Points of Contact between Northern and Central/Southern Mesopotamian Ceramic Traditions in the 2nd Millennium BC - Valentina Oselini ; Deconstructing Supportive Korai: Denoting Karyatids as Agalmata of Khthonie, Ge-Earth Goddess - Sevil Conka ; From Athirat to Aphrodite. …”

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“…Beginning from a dark wood, this modern journey features "a concealed pass though which I lead the reader--my specimen dream with its peculiarities, details, indiscretions, bad jokes--and then suddenly the high ground and the view and the question, Which way do you wish to go now?" Physician that he is, Freud appoints himself guide rather than hero, yet the way "you" wish to go is very much his prescribed way. …”

“…By showing how and why human nature is what it is, evolutionary theory can help us see better what we need to do to improve the human condition. Following evolutionary theory to its logical conclusion, Death, Hope and Sex uses life history theory and attachment theory to construct a model of human nature in which critical features are understood in terms of the development of alternative reproductive strategies contingent on environmental risk and uncertainty. …”

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“…To what extent does gender influence our behavior, thoughts, and feelings? How do ""nature"" and ""nurture"" interact to shape our identities as female or male? …”

“…It makes the case that recent macro-level trends, such as economic restructuring and technological change, mean that the social dynamics of high school can disrupt educational trajectories after high school; it looks at teenagers who do not fit in socially at school - including many who are obese or gay - to illustrate this phenomenon; and it crafts recommendations for parents, teachers and policy-makers about how to protect teenagers in trouble. …”

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