Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Dejà Vu All Over Again -- Undercommitment -- How Goals Fuel the Spiral -- Reflection -- Chapter 2 Why Are We So Obsessed with Goals? -- Winners and Losers -- We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover -- Remember, Time Is Money -- You Think You're Better Than Me? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Restarting capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe -- From breakdown to peripheral capitalism -- Technical change and profit rate Before and after the fall -- Capital accumulation in the Central and Eastern European countries -- Restarting capitalism and unequal development: Winners and losers -- 7. The forgotten continent: Falling behind in Africa -- A brief history of African countries after independence -- Technical regress and the profit rate in African countries -- Natural resources, profit rate, and accumulation -- The new frontier in the making -- Conclusion: Worldwide lessons for catching-up -- The necessary conditions for catching up -- Is (re)industrialization synonymous with catching up and reducing backwardness? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: La física de altas energías: ciencia, tecnología y sociedad / José Manuel Sánchez Ron -- Cultura, ciencia y tecnologías de la vida: biotecnología y desarrollo en distintos contextos culturales / Emilio Muñoz Ruiz -- Dos visiones de la civilización tecnológica / Langdon Winner -- Ciencia y tecnología como sistemas culturales / Manuel Medina -- Ciencia y cultura en el cambio de siglo. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PRECISIONES SOBRE EL CONCEPTO DE (...) -- 2.2.3. ¿HAY EN WINNER UNA CONCEPCIÓN DETERMINISTA? -- 2.3. ACERCA DE DOS LIMITACIONES DEL MODELO (...) -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 6 Why = Solution -- Solving One Problem Really Well -- Building the Right Solution -- Building a Sustainable Business -- Chapter 7 How = Scale -- The Sales Organization -- Sales Organization and Customer Alignment -- The Technology Organization -- Chapter 8 How to Use the VCIF -- The VCIF in Action: An Investment We Made -- Who -- What -- When -- Where -- Why -- How -- An Investment We Didn't Make -- Who -- What -- When -- What -- Where -- Why -- How -- Stages -- Part III Notes to Stakeholders -- Chapter 9 The Venture Capital Role -- The Basics of a Venture Capital Firm -- Winners Lose a Lot -- Metrics -- My First Trial by Fire -- Chapter 10 Notes for Students…”

“…Reveals a proven implementation model that has accelerated breakthrough results Shares over 40 new, innovative best practices common to Malcolm Baldrige, Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame, Sterling quality, Fortune 100 Best, APQC, and Forbes award winners Provides a CPM Process Blueprint and diagnostic to score your organization and establish a plan for your award winning performance Offers a fresh approach to integrating proven methodologies proven by case companies that have been awarded over 100 awards Includes key process maps, strategic planning frameworks, strategy maps, customer and competitor intelligence methods, balanced scorecards, comparative tables, project plans, testimonials, charts, graphs, and screen shots of CPM, CRM, BSC and KM systems. …”

“…Buck (1938), Gabriela Mistral (1945), Nelly Sachs (1966), Nadine Gordimer (1991), Toni Morrison (1993), Wisława Szymborska (1996), Elfriede Jelinek (2004), Doris Lessing (2007), Herta Müller (2009), Alice Munro (2013), Swetlana Alexijewitsch (2015) This volume presents the 14 female winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, e.g. Lagerlöf, Sachs, Jelinek, Müller, Munro. …”

“…Nation-branding is an unescapable part of globalisation, which is a market-oriented process dominated by the West and predicated on the creation of winners and losers. Hence, efforts to strengthen the national brand or reputation of specific Nordic countries with the aid of gender equality as a political and symbolic value inevitably help to reinforce already established global hierarchies where the Nordics play the role of moral superpower. …”

“…Prizes and privileges, which determined the athletes’—and especially the winner’s— social status and were thus crucial to the agones’ appeal, were then attended to by several papers. …”

“…"History from Loss challenges the common thought that 'history is written by the winners' and explores how history makers in different times and places across the globe have written histories from loss, even when this has come at the threat to their own safety. …”

“…Trade policies create both 'winners' and 'losers', as some actors stand to benefit and others are left behind. …”

“…It presents a selection of projects from former and new winners and theoretical texts from Manuel de Solà-Morales, president of the 2008 award, Dietmar Steiner, director of Architekturzentrum Wien and a jury member since 2002, the architect and president of the 2010 jury, Rafael Moneo and David Bravo, secretary of the 2010 award…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Recognizing That You Are at a "VisiCalc or iPad Moment"Spotting a Winner; Collaboration and Communication; Is Innovation Insight or Luck?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Our Research Methodology Is Grounded in Primary Sources and Fieldwork CHAPTER TWO - An Altered Strategic Landscape: The Shifting Regional Balance of Power; Traditional Balance-of-Power Dynamics Are Shifting to Non-Arab States; The Rise of Iran: The Big Winner of the Iraq Conflict?; The Arab Response: More Hedging Than Balancing; The Two Faces of Iran in the Arab World; Suspicion of Iran Does Not Necessarily Translate into Pro-American Positions; Regional Ambivalence Toward Both Iran and the United States Undermines U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Effect on Operating Performance The K-12 Educational Sector Experience with the MBNQA; Winners of the Baldrige Award in Education; Chugach School District (CSD), Alaska7; Pearl River School District (PRSD), New York 8; Other Users of the Baldrige Criteria; Implications for Education; Institutional Self-Assessment May Be Inherently Beneficial; The Baldrige Process Supports Accountability; Educators May Find It Difficult to Understand and Translate the Criteria; Some Caveats; CHAPTER THREE; Toyota Production System/Lean Manufacturing; Overview of TPS/Lean Manufacturing; Focus on the Value Stream…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.1.8 Testing Authenticity3.1.9 A Note on Adjusting Criteria; Phase 4 Scoring, Weighting, and Sorting; 4.1 Scoring, Weighting, and Sorting; 4.1.1 Filtering Out Losers; 4.1.2 Selecting Winners; Phase 5 Deep Testing; 5.1 Deep Testing; 5.2 Fair Versus Unfair Testing; 5.3 Identifying Needs; 5.3.1 Deep-Testing Availability; 5.3.2 Deep-Testing Possession/Control; 5.3.3 Deep-Testing Confidentiality; 5.3.4 Deep-Testing Utility; 5.3.5 Deep-Testing Integrity; 5.3.6 Deep-Testing Authenticity; 5.3.7 Cryptography Advice from Anthony J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…And the Decisive Factor That Will Determine the Winners; End the Senseless Zombie Slaughter…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…HARD-STYLE MANAGEMENT; Anima as Bread Winner; Tribal Day Care; CHAPTER THREE GATHERING IN CORPORATE TRIBES; Gathering as Shopping; Nurturing in Corporations; Anima and Corporate Profits; What Makes a Good Corporate Gatherer; How to Reward Corporate Gatherers; The Velvet Carpet; Vulnerabilities and Blind Spots; CHAPTER FOUR ON THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMUS; Warriors, Infanticide, and Cannibalism; The New Warriors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 Momentum Thinking Essentials -- Chapter 1 Embracing Your But -- Our Broken Buts -- Two But Basics -- Stating the 1But -- Stating the Because -- Stating the 2But -- Elon Musk's Fuzzy But -- Chapter 2 No Buts Allowed -- The Tragic Buts of Facebook and Lehman Brothers -- The No-Buts Policy Makes Dumb Ideas Stupid: Ask Coke -- Spanx, Adobe, and the 1But Winner -- We Need Bolder Buts -- Building Braver Buts -- The Science of Buts -- Waiting for the Quantum But -- Saving But-Head -- Rescuing 1But-Guy -- Chapter 3 This Book Saved My But -- Chapter 4 Getting Your But in Shape -- The Pain in Your But -- What's Behind Your But -- Best Buy's Big Buts -- Uber's Bigger Buts -- Chapter 5 Advanced Butology -- Gnarly Buts -- Chain of Buts -- Rediscovering Your But -- Proteins Got a Brand New But -- Hidden Buts -- Chapter 6 Bad Buts -- Lewis and Clark's Historic Buts -- Cheating Buts -- Volkswagen's Gassy But -- Don't Be a Lazy But -- Don't Argue with Your But -- Part 2 The Two But Rule in Practice -- Chapter 7 The Social Life of Buts -- Drunken Buts -- The Gaps in Your But -- Exposing Your But -- Chapter 8 Playing with Your But -- Timing Your But -- Butting In -- The Odious But -- The Empathetic But -- The But of an Ass -- Chapter 9 Old Buts and New Buts -- Airbnb and Paul Graham's Old But Breakthrough -- Runaway Buts -- The End of Buts -- Chapter 10 Putting Your But to Work -- Leaning Into Your But -- Five Buts -- The Two But Retrospective -- Chapter 11 Managing Your But -- 2But Tools -- Two But Notation -- Artificial Buts -- Two-But Buddy -- Protecting Your Buts -- Teaching AI to Embrace Its But -- Part 3 Life's Big Buts -- Chapter 12 You and Your But -- Everyday Buts -- Fixing the Fan -- Surviving Parenting Purgatory -- Changing Careers -- Chapter 13 Business Buts…”

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