“…Taste usually occupies the bottom of the sensorial hierarchy, as the quintessentially hedonistic sense, too close to the animal, the elemental and the corporeal, and for this reason disciplined and moralised. …”

“…Great managers are experts at getting bottom-line results, but often do not understand their role in the success or failure of their organization's projects. …”

“…Available in print and digital formats. Beyond the bottom line: uncovering powerful, crucial insights hidden within China’s GDP data. …”

“…The challenges facing today's sales executives and their organizations continue to grow, but so do the expectations that they will find ways to overcome them and drive consistent sales growth.There are no simple solutions to this situation, but in this thoroughly updated second edition of Sales Growth, experts from McKinsey & Company build on their practical blueprint for achieving this goal and explore what world-class sales executives are doing right now to find growth and capture it-as well as how they are creating the capabilities to keep growing in the future.Based on discussions with more than 200 of today's most successful global sales leaders from a wide array of organizations and industries, Sales Growth puts the experiences of these professionals in perspective and offers real-life examples of how they've overcome the challenges encountered in the quest for growth.Engaging and informative, this timely book details proven approaches to tangible top-line growth and an improved bottom line. Created specifically for sales executives, it will put you in a better position to drive sales growth in today's competitive market…”

“…While too many business leaders spend their time obsessing about facts, figures, and the bottom line, it is more important for them to learn to manage relationships. …”

“…Too often, these actors try to control activity or impose their view from the top-down, rather than supporting an environment that is led from the bottom-up. We continue to see a disconnect between an entrepreneurial mindset and that of many actors who wish to engage with and support entrepreneurship. …”

“…The Good Ones presents ten crucial qualities of high-character employees, qualities that enhance employee satisfaction, client relationships, and the bottom line.You'll hear stories from managers and employees across the U.S. and beyond who reveal how honesty, courage, loyalty, and patience have helped their organizations maintain an edge over the competition. …”

“…In today's digital age, the traditional sales funnel-marketing at the top, sales in the middle, customer service at the bottom-is no longer effective. To be successful, businesses must obsess over the questions, concerns, and problems their buyers have, and address them as honestly and as thoroughly as possible. …”

“…When moral purpose becomes central to your organization, it can deliver benefits to both the bottom line and mankind: a profit meets purpose proposition.This path requires a reinvention of today's dated business model, abolishing the inefficient, siloed approach of developing a business strategy first and then later creating separate strategies for marketing, HR, manufacturing, R&D, etc. …”

“…Increased gender diversity in the modern business landscape continues to have a positive impact on bottom lines and revenue reports across the economy and offers significant benefits for ambitious women in the workplace. …”

“…Whether we run a startup or multinational, a nonprofit or academic institution, a city or a whole country, we need to embrace this change to not just survive but thrive under these new realities.In Fearless Innovation, Cisco's managing director of innovation strategy and programs explores how, no matter their function, leaders and managers can cut through the noise to understand change and deliver real results.Goryachev's actionable, consistent, and timeless innovation principles offer a blueprint to driving growth, enacting change, increasing the bottom line, and creating clear measurable value. …”

“…It includes five advanced and revised contributions, and covers (1) an introductory chapter on hydraulic structures, (2) the operation and maintenance of hydraulic structures, (3) a bottom discharge conduit for dams, (4) a review of methods of measuring streamflow using hydraulic structures, and (5) geotechnical engineering applied to earth-rock dams. …”

“…The volume addresses scholars, students, policy makers, and a broader readership interested in tackling current sustainability challenges by innovating solidarity systems and fostering bottom-up processes of eco-social transformation…”

“…Now, for the first time, Rethink offers you a how-to manual of their 55 best tools for creating a sustainable, successful creative culture―tools that will help you inspire your people, boost your bottom line and take your creative product to the next level. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Shermer decodes the scientific evidence to show that evolution is not “just a theory” and illustrates how it achieves the design of life through the bottom-up process of natural selection. Shermer, once an evangelical Christian and a creationist, argues that Intelligent Design proponents are invoking a combination of bad science, political antipathy, and flawed theology. …”
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“…Negative assessments of institutional competition emphasize that such competition may lead to a race to the bottom in terms of eroding government revenues, redistributing wealth from workers to capitalists, and limiting democracy by forcing politicians to prioritize international investment capital rather than working for their voters. …”

“…The received view fails to explain, however, how legal authority truly operates upon human beings as rational creatures with specific psychological makeups. This book takes a bottom-up approach, beginning at the microscopic level of agency and practical reason and leading to the justificatory framework of authority. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures and Table; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE - Introduction; CHAPTER TWO - Doing Business in Zones of Conflict; "State-Building"; "Soft" Security Measures; Community Relations; The Bottom Line: Risk Reduction; CHAPTER THREE - Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta; The Conflict Environment; Shell Nigeria's Conflict-Mitigation Strategy; Assessing Shell Nigeria's Response; CHAPTER FOUR - Firestone in Liberia; The Conflict Environment; Firestone's Strategy During the 1980s; Firestone's Approach in the 1990s; Firestone's Post-2000 Strategy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Matter -- Strings, Languages, and Compilers -- Context-Free Grammars, Part 1 -- Context-free Grammars, Part 2 -- Context-Free Grammars, Part 3 -- Chomsky's Hierarchy (Optional) -- Top-Down Parsing -- LL(1) Grammars -- Table-Driven Stack Parser (Optional) -- Recursive-Descent Parsing -- Recursive-Descent Translation -- Assembly Language -- S17A Simple Compiler -- JavaCC (Optional) -- Building on S2 -- Compiling Control Structures -- Compiling Programs in Functional Form -- Finite Automata -- Capstone Project: Implementing Grep Using Compiler Technology -- Compiling to a Register-Oriented Architecture -- Optimization -- Interpreters -- Bottom-up Parsing -- Yacc -- Appendix A: Stack Instruction Set -- Appendix B: Register Instruction Set…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Table of Contents; Introduction; 1.Generation X in theWorkplace; 2.Recruiting and Selectingthe Stars of Generation X; 3.Orientation for New Employees-Sending the Right Message; 4.Communicating withGen-Xers in the Workplace; 5.Training Gen-Xers in theWorkplace; 6.Mentoring Generation X; 7.Gen-Xers and CorporateCulture; 8.Managing the CreativeProcess of Gen-Xers; 9.Giving Gen-Xers the FastFeedback They Need; 10.There Is More Than Moneyat the Bottom Line; 1.A New Approach toRetention: Leaving withoutReally Leaving; 12.Management Pitfalls:Avoiding the Most Common Complaints…”