ЗОЛУШКА КАПИТАЛИЗМА РОССИНА

ЗОЛУШКА КАПИТАЛИЗМА РОССИНА

Это геополитическая сказка. По этому сценарию вырастают три сестры Америсса, Евезия и Руссина. В них, как и в любой другой семье, царили любовь, сострадание, но также и много соперничества, романтики и ненависти. Все эти игры и заговоры, романсы определяют жизнь миллионов граждан по всему миру. В такой сказке не всегда то, что ты видишь, это реальность, просто зеркало, реальность, созданная могучими силами.С древних времен страны находились под властью империй, растущими или умирающими. В Старой Европе игра престолов меняла правительства и политику. На других континентах действовали другие политические интересы. Но за последние 500 лет сверхдержавы построили империи, которые диктуют торговлю, верования и политику другим подчиненным странам и даже регионам, навсегда меняя наш мир.

Educational Administration and History

Educational Administration and History

In the past 40 years there have been a number of significant developments across the fields of educational administration and history. In this volume, the authors have selected a number of key issues to illustrate and trace these changes. The seven articles by leading scholars in the field offer an analysis of contemporary educational administration, history and policy debates and how this has impacted on teachers, leaders, schools and the education sector. This book offers readers a valuable insight into continuing and contemporary debates in the field and the authors offer a refreshing interpretation of these debates. This book provides a rich analysis from a range of theoretical, methodological perspectives and highlights the extent to which these debates remain a contemporary concern.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Educational Administration and History.

International Trade and Neoliberal Globalism

International Trade and Neoliberal Globalism

International trade must be analysed within the historical context within which it occurs. Behind the statistics on trade flows lie power structures, class interests and international hierarchies. These change over time and how countries respond to them has critical implications for their citizen’s well-being.In this book, the history of trade in Australia, Canada and Mexico is analysed. Trade agreements are analysed in detail to explore the new forms that dependence and subordination have taken. Arguing that the free trade agreements are significantly biased in favour of the United States, the contributors analyse how each of the three countries are being subject to specific forms of re-peripheralisation and examine possible alternatives for a progressive future based on an integration in the global economy which enhances, rather than limits, democracy and social justice. By providing an historical and critical account of trade policy in the three countries, the book provides a welcome antidote to the ahistorical accounts of free trade supporters.

Integration of Process Planning and Scheduling

Integration of Process Planning and Scheduling

Both process planning and scheduling are very important functions of manufacturing, which affect together the cost to manufacture a product and the time to deliver it. This book contains various approaches proposed by researchers to integrate the process planning and scheduling functions of manufacturing under varying configurations of shops. It is useful for both beginners and advanced researchers to understand and formulate the Integration Process Planning and Scheduling (IPPS) problem effectively.Features Covers the basics of both process planning and scheduling Presents nonlinear approaches, closed-loop approaches, as well as distributed approaches Discuss the outfit of IPPS in Industry 4.0 paradigm Includes the benchmarking problems on IPPS Contains nature-algorithms and metaheuristics for performance measurements in IPPS Presents analysis of energy-efficient objective for sustainable manufacturing in IPPS

Innovationship

Innovationship

Siamo abituati a credere che gli ingredienti fondamentali per fare innovazione con successo siano due: il capitale finanziario e quello tecnologico. In realtà oggi queste risorse sono ampiamente disponibili e accessibili. Ma per avere successo l’ingrediente fondamentale – ed è qui la novità di rilievo introdotta dal libro – è rappresentato dal capitale relazionale di chi guida e governa i processi di innovazione. Tutte le fasi tipiche dell’innovazione – dalla generazione del concept al suo sviluppo e trasformazione in nuovi prodotti e servizi – possono essere accelerate, rese più efficaci ed efficienti sfruttando la capacità di gestire e valorizzare al meglio il patrimonio relazionale di cui imprenditori, founder e manager dispongono. Il testo contiene un’approfondita analisi di ciò che la ricerca nel campo del management ha rivelato sulle interconnessioni tra capitale relazionale e processi di innovazione. Prendendo spunto dai concetti chiave, dalle tassonomie e dai modelli esistenti, approfondisce l’analisi di un ampio numero di casi – esperienze e punti di vista di noti protagonisti di processi di innovazione di successo, italiani e internazionali - in cui il capitale relazionale ha giocato un ruolo chiave nel successo dell’innovazione. Il testo, impostato in maniera narrativa, è corredato di indicazioni, tools e modelli da utilizzare nella pratica, con l’intento di lasciare al lettore una serie di metodologie e di riferimenti sintetici e grafici attraverso cui attivare e valorizzare il circolo virtuoso esistente tra innovazione e capitale relazionale. Perché l’innovazione di successo sarà sempre più quella guidata e alimentata da un corretto utilizzo delle relazioni.

Managing Sustainable Business Relationships in a Post Covid-19 Era

Managing Sustainable Business Relationships in a Post Covid-19 Era

This book explores how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted businesses of all types around the world. It investigates and consolidates the relationships that businesses have with their key stakeholders in order to shed light on the complexity of the challenges and corresponding solutions. The authors identify 12 key stakeholders and, utilizing the stakeholder theory, argue for a Dodecahedron shaped stakeholder model being prevalent wherein each stakeholder group has equal stake in importance and a need for all to cooperate in their relationships.Featuring examples for each type of business relationship (e.g., B2B, consumer, government, stakeholder), this book offers researchers, students, scholars and policy makers a framework for creating resilience in business relationships during current and future crises. 

La banque des quatre saisons

La banque des quatre saisons

À la différence de grandes banques qui, de la capitale, ont essaimé en province, le Crédit Agricole est né de la base, la commune ou le canton, avant de se structurer au niveau du département, de la région et, plus tard, de l’État. À l’origine - à la fin du XIXe siècle -, le Crédit Agricole a été créé par et pour les agriculteurs en appliquant les principes altruistes mis en valeur par le grand mouvement mutualiste qui s’étendait alors sur l’Europe, en Allemagne et en France notamment. D’un établissement bancaire modeste spécialisé dans le crédit à l’agriculture, le Crédit Agricole est devenu, en quelques décennies, une grande banque universelle ouverte à tous. L’« établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial » s’est transformé en 1988 en une société anonyme au capital de 4,5 milliards de francs qui figure, après les banques japonaises, au premier rang des banques dans le monde. « La banque des quatre saisons », c’est l’« épopée » du Crédit Agricole de 1899 à nos jours, racontée à travers la vie d’une Caisse régionale - celle du « Sud-Est » à Lyon -, la plus ancienne de France, aujourd’hui la première en province par l’importance de son réseau et de ses activités, après celle de l’Île de France. Charles André, qui de 1952 à fin 1983 y a exercé des fonctions de direction, mêle ses souvenirs personnels - à travers de savoureuses anecdotes tant au niveau local que national -, à la grande fresque qui couvre la quasi-totalité du XXe siècle dans laquelle s’entrecroisent les faits historiques, économiques et sociaux. Écrit dans un style alerte et vigoureux, « La banque des quatre saisons » se lit comme un roman. Mais n’est-ce pas un roman historique moderne ? J.T.

Intercultural Business Negotiations

Intercultural Business Negotiations

Negotiations occupy a prominent place in the world of business, especially when it comes to international deals. In an increasingly global business environment, understanding and managing cultural differences is key to successful negotiations.This book highlights two basic components of negotiations: the Deal and the Relationship. Countries and cultures place different value and priority on these components both in the negotiation process and in the outcome. Intercultural Business Negotiations provides a guiding framework that is both refined and contextualized and provides managers with the key skills necessary to navigate difficult negotiations where partners may differ in terms of culture, communication style, time orientation, as well as personal and professional backgrounds. The book systematically examines both dispositional and situational aspects of negotiations in interaction with cultural factors. Intercultural Business Negotiations is an accessible resource for managers, leaders, and those interested in or studying business negotiations globally. It is accompanied by an author run companion website containing negotiation simulations, instructions for players, and teaching notes for instructors.

The Network Challenge (Chapter 20): Relating Well: Building Capabilities for Sustaining Alliance Networks

The Network Challenge (Chapter 20): Relating Well: Building Capabilities for Sustaining Alliance Networks

In an environment of rapid and discontinuous change, managers have turned to alliances to access the resources they need. But research on alliances shows that more than half fail, demonstrating the difficulty of managing these relationships. Based on their extensive research on alliances, the authors explore the relational capabilities needed for building and managing successful alliances. Using the case of Royal Philips, they explore the role of strategy, structure, systems, people, and culture in alliance success. They also discuss the need for ongoing adaptation and renewal of relational capabilities as the business and its environment change.

Online Learning Systems

Online Learning Systems

This book discusses the newest approach to online learning systems in higher education. As e-Learning platforms change their mechanisms for data processing and storage, there is a need to move these systems toward being more efficient and smarter. This book covers online learning systems and their application to large-scale data along with the technological aspects of these processes and problem-solving methods.Online Learning Systems: Methods and Applications with Large-Scale Data discusses the efficiency measurement and environmental impact of online education. The book offers a parametric evaluation and categorization of online learning systems and provides an exploration of big data ecosystems in cloud computing. Descriptive analytical methods that assist in finding solutions for big data challenges are also covered within the book.The book is written for academicians, which includes teachers, students, and higher education policymakers who believe in transforming the education industry, as well as research scholars and those working in education technology and artificial intelligence. Industry professionals involved in education management and those working in e-Learning companies will also find this book useful.

Mindshift

Mindshift

Mindshift reveals how we can overcome stereotypes and preconceived ideas about what is possible for us to learn and become.   At a time when we are constantly being asked to retrain and reinvent ourselves to adapt to new technologies and changing industries, this book shows us how we can uncover and develop talents we didn’t realize we had—no matter what our age or background. We’re often told to “follow our passions.” But in Mindshift, Dr. Barbara Oakley shows us how we can broaden our passions. Drawing on the latest neuroscientific insights, Dr. Oakley shepherds us past simplistic ideas of “aptitude” and “ability,” which provide only a snapshot of who we are now—with little consideration about how we can change.     Even seemingly “bad” traits, such as a poor memory, come with hidden advantages—like increased creativity. Profiling people from around the world who have overcome learning limitations of all kinds, Dr. Oakley shows us how we can turn perceived weaknesses, such as impostor syndrome and advancing age, into strengths. People may feel like they’re at a disadvantage if they pursue a new field later in life; yet those who change careers can be fertile cross-pollinators: They bring valuable insights from one discipline to another. Dr. Oakley teaches us strategies for learning that are backed by neuroscience so that we can realize the joy and benefits of a learning lifestyle. Mindshift takes us deep inside the world of how people change and grow. Our biggest stumbling blocks can be our own preconceptions, but with the right mental insights, we can tap into hidden potential and create new opportunities.

Być jak Superman. Teoria i praktyka osiągania niemożliwego

Być jak Superman. Teoria i praktyka osiągania niemożliwego

Przepływ. To pojęcie na pewno obiło Ci się o uszy, ale być może myślisz, że jest ono tylko kolejnym modnym słowem bez większego znaczenia. A jednak przepływ naprawdę istnieje i może mieć kolosalne znaczenie w życiu każdego z nas. I na pewno kiedyś już miałeś okazję go doświadczyć. To ten stan, w którym działasz jak natchniony, coś pochłania Cię całkowicie, a wyniki przechodzą najśmielsze oczekiwania. Przepływ zwykle przytrafia się ludziom od czasu do czasu, ale można spróbować go zaprogramować. I o tym jest właśnie ta książka.

Leading Contemporary Economists

Leading Contemporary Economists

This book describes the important contributions of several contemporary economic figures including recent Nobel Laureates. Describing their work and putting it into an historical perspective, these chapters explain how their work constitutes a major contribution to the discipline of economics and how it has broadened economic science. Co-Editor of

Identifying the Forces Driving Frequent Change in PMOs

Identifying the Forces Driving Frequent Change in PMOs

Project Management Offices (PMOs) are not etched in stone. They are complex entities which go through frequent transformations during their average two-year life span. So, what does that mean to project professionals? Identifying the Forces Driving Frequent Change in PMOs answers this question for both researchers and practitioners based on a three-year research effort focused on the organizational change process surrounding the transformation of a PMO. Seventeen case studies and 184 responses to a questionnaire provide the foundation. Results show the temporary nature of PMOs and reveal that significant changes in PMOs can be associated with an organization's internal and external environment.

Traité de codétermination

Traité de codétermination

 « Codétermination » : un mot savant, un concept clivant, un dispositif innovant, relatifs au gouvernement de l’entreprise, dans plus d’une douzaine de pays européens, à contre-courant de l’économie mondiale dominée par la finance. Deux traits : au sommet, dans les conseils d’administration, les salariés débattent avec les actionnaires des orientations stratégiques ; à la base, dans des conseils d’établissement, ils disposent, vis-à-vis du management, de réelles prérogatives, en matière d’organisation du travail. Ainsi l’Europe a-t-elle inventé, au XXe siècle, de quoi fonder une nouvelle entreprise – et pourtant elle regarde ailleurs. Des chercheurs de huit disciplines (économie, gestion, droit, philosophie politique, sociologie du travail, histoire européenne, science comptable, anthropologie) ont travaillé ensemble pendant plusieurs années afin de résoudre l’énigme et de déployer le paradigme méconnu, qui va bien au-delà de l’entreprise. Ce traité n’a ni équivalent ni précédent.

I segreti della mente milionaria

I segreti della mente milionaria

“Dammi cinque minuti e riuscirò a prevedere il tuo futuro finanziario per il resto della tua vita!” Grazie ai suoi principi, T. Harv Eker, presidente della Peak Potentials Training, una delle più grandi training companies degli Stati Uniti, è diventato milionario in soli due anni e mezzo. Con il suo umorismo, incanta il pubblico che proviene da tutto il mondo per partecipare ai suoi seminari. Fino a oggi i suoi insegnamenti hanno raggiunto più di 250.000 persone. Ora, per la prima volta, egli condivide i suoi segreti in questo libro rivoluzionario.

The Ethical Coaches’ Handbook

The Ethical Coaches’ Handbook

What does it mean to be ethical as a coach? Just how ethical are you? How does ethics influence your coaching and how do you know if you are engaging in ethical practice? This important and eye-opening volume provides critical insight from the thought leaders in coaching across a full range of ethical issues.Presented in four parts, this new handbook works to guide the reader towards ethical maturity to strengthen their practice, though examination of theory and thought provoking practice examples. Part 1, Foundations of Ethics in Coaching, provides a detailed overview of the basic principles of ethical coaching. Part 2, Ethics in Coaching Practice, details specific examples of where you will need to think ethically and be guided by good ethics within your practice. Part 3, Pushing the Boundaries of Ethical Thinking in Coaching, dives deeper into topics such as race, managing mental health, the environment and marketing. Part 4 consists of twelve case studies which encourage you to think about putting the theory of the book into practice.The Ethical Coaches’ Handbook will provide ideal support to students, practitioners and coach educators looking to deepen, broaden and enhance their ethical coaching practice.

Intelligent Data Analytics in Media Communication to Improve Public Health Care

Intelligent Data Analytics in Media Communication to Improve Public Health Care

This new book offers vital insights into the use of data analytics in social media for effective communication for health promotion and illness prevention and for healthcare information security, harnessing the power of data mining tools and techniques, artificial intelligence, and other advanced technologies.The book discusses collecting information intelligently from social media, which has sparked the interest of the biomedical and health informatics communities. It shows how using consumer-generated data can improve the effectiveness of public health messages as well as for better healthcare outcomes while cutting costs. It looks at data mining and analytic tools with deep and machine learning technologies for the development of effective communication strategies, for the early detection of health conditions, for using social media for health promotion and disease prevention messages, and more.The book covers digital issues in healthcare, such as cybersecurity threats and provides useful ways to manage these risks. It also looks at how mental health is portrayed in the media and the strength of social media activism movements, as seen by the #Stoptrolling movement. The COVID-19 epidemic highlighted the significance of clear, accurate, and timely communication in healthcare, and this book investigates how social media platforms played a critical role in sharing critical information during this worldwide disaster.Intelligent Data Analytics in Media Communication to Improve Public Health Care provides a thorough and forward-thinking study of using today advanced technology for improving healthcare via the creative use of social media and technology.

As a Lady Would Say Revised and Expanded

As a Lady Would Say Revised and Expanded

Have you ever been in a situation in which you were caught off guard, left speechless, or, worse yet, put your foot in your mouth?So much depends on being a lady. A true one knows that the question, “How are you today?” isn’t an invitation for her to unload the day’s ordeals. She knows that her unsolicited opinion of a friend’s fuzzy lime green sweater dress isn’t necessary, and she certainly knows better than to nag or spout gender clichés when the man in her life refuses to stop and ask for directions.As a Lady Would Say is every  woman’s guide to being delicate in an indelicate world of awkward situations, difficult people, and thorny social dynamics. Sheryl Shade’s clever cataloging of real-world scenarios is a humorous look at how a lady should respond in any number of life’s irksome situations, along with a guide to which words should never leave her mouth. Get ready to question your own feminine sensibilities, and examine the way you interact with the world around you.