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The Fiefdom Syndrome
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Author : Robert Herbold
language : en
Publisher: Crown Currency
Release Date : 2004-08-24
The Fiefdom Syndrome written by Robert Herbold and has been published by Crown Currency this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-24 with Business & Economics categories.
The turf battles and territorial “fiefdoms” that undermine so many companies—and how to break through them, by long-term Microsoft COO Robert J. Herbold There is a potentially infectious condition inside virtually all organizations that can cause more damage than economic downturns, management upheavals, and global business shifts. Until now it has had no name. But it has impacted some of the world’s leading companies, including Procter & Gamble, IBM, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft. Robert J. Herbold, the COO who brought corporate discipline to a young Microsoft organization and helped to transform it into a mature global giant, calls it the Fiefdom Syndrome. And it happens at organizations large and small, profit and nonprofit, at the individual level as well as the group and divisional level. It can undercut a company’s effectiveness, and in extreme cases it has shaken entire industries and taken down major corporations. The problem begins when individuals, groups, or divisions—out of fear—seek to make themselves vital to their organizations and, unconsciously or sometimes deliberately, try to protect their turf and others’ perceptions of them. It is a natural human tendency, dating back to the origins of our species, but if it isn’t managed properly, the damage caused by these “fiefdoms” can spell the death knell of what should have been a strong and vital organization. People who create fiefdoms can become dangerously insular, losing perspective on what is happening in the world outside their own control. They hoard resources. They are determined to do things in their own way, often duplicating or complicating what should be streamlined throughout the company, leading to runaway costs, increased bureaucracy, and a loss of agility and speed. In The Fiefdom Syndrome, Bob Herbold exposes the myriad ways such fiefdoms can compromise a company’s effectiveness—as well as show what managers, companies, and individuals can do to break up fiefdoms and conquer the turf wars. Illustrated with countless examples from Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, IBM, and other corporations, The Fiefdom Syndrome is an essential tool in every manager’s toolkit.
Fiefdom
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Author : Dan Abnett
language : en
Publisher: Abaddon Books
Release Date : 2014-08-14
Fiefdom written by Dan Abnett and has been published by Abaddon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-14 with Fiction categories.
“Gene the Hackman, top dog, him done the great Walk Around. Not for him the darkness, not for him the Time of Ice that we know today.” Evelyn War is a Believer. She knows that in the Old Time, long before the Time of Ice, the Masters fought a war with Them, great chitinous beasts that stalked the world and rended and killed. She knows that the Masters set fierce, doglike Aux like her to watch over their great sleep and to keep Them off their Lawn. She knows that the stories are not just lessons in the ways of war. Them were real. But in the frozen ruins of Berlin, Them have not been seen for many years. Now the Aux fight among themselves and say all that was just stories. They scorn Evelyn and mock her warnings. But the ice is melting, and the whistling calls of Them can be heard in the tunnels of the U-Bahn once more....
Fiefs And Vassals
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Author : Susan Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 1996
Fiefs And Vassals written by Susan Reynolds and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Civilization, Medieval categories.
Fiefs and Vassals has changed our view of the medieval world. It offers a fundamental challenge to orthodox conceptions of feudalism. Susan Reynolds argues that the concepts of the fief and of vassalage, as understood by historians of medieval Europe, were constructed by post-medieval scholarsfrom the works of medieval academic lawyers and tha they provide a bad guide to the realities of medieval society.This is a radical new examination of relations between rulers, nobles, and free men, the distillation of wide-ranging research by a leading medieval historian. It has revolutionized the way we think of the Middle Ages.
Thy Fiefdom Comes
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Author : David KoChin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Thy Fiefdom Comes written by David KoChin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fantasy fiction, Australian categories.
"Forgive me. Scientists have cloned their humanoid prize-fighters and sweat-shop workers... using my technology. And terrorists are breeding their suicide soldiers by the thousands. They've bombed everything. Even my dinosaur park. The T'rexes have escaped. What have I caused? Another Dark Age?" Two thousand years later, humanoids wage war with sword and shield against the surviving human fiefdoms. Wingless Mad Dragons roam the tropical wastelands, ghosts haunt the ruins, and 'magic' comes from 21st century artefacts. Seventeen-year-old Raf Kenne, a rickshaw-puller from the slums of JungKalif, is conscripted into a warlord's army. With his band of slum-boy soldiers, Raf guards a settlers' convoy through the wastelands. But a humanoid army is in close pursuit, seeking revenge for past atrocities. Tormented over a love triangle with a rich settler's daughter and a rival suitor, Raf must focus on surviving the humanoid attacks while scavenging the ruins to find artefacts to sell - for he is desperate to raise his father's ransom. Artefacts such as FBI flak-jackets that make excellent armour, and solar powered juke-boxes that blare out rock music in the middle of a battle. Then, he finds a 21st century artefact that promises to change his life... the lives of the convoy... and even the entire fiefdom...
Freedom To Fiefdom Volume One
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Author : MR William N Beverley
language : en
Publisher: Schismatic Books
Release Date : 2016-08-23
Freedom To Fiefdom Volume One written by MR William N Beverley and has been published by Schismatic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-23 with categories.
Freedom to Fiefdom Volume One (The Descent of Mankind) presents a detailed description of European history, and by extension the history of "Western Democracy" - mainly set within the common era (the years AD). This is used to show the impact on humanity of the principle of social natural selection when taken to ideological extremes, as opposed to natural selection by biological mutation. Five psychological and political hypotheses are deduced in order to rationalise the prevalence of inequity and mortal indignity in global society today. This monochrome paperback version consists of only small annotations to the 1st edition hardback full colour version.
Fief
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Author : Lisa J. Steele
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-11-01
Fief written by Lisa J. Steele and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-11-01 with categories.
Clientelism And Nationality In An Early Soviet Fiefdom
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Author : Timothy K. Blauvelt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-30
Clientelism And Nationality In An Early Soviet Fiefdom written by Timothy K. Blauvelt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-30 with Political Science categories.
Based on extensive original research, this book tells the astonishing story of early Soviet Abkhazia and of its leader, the charismatic Bolshevik revolutionary Nestor Lakoba. A tiny republic on the Black Sea coast of the USSR, Abkhazia became a vacation retreat for Party leaders and a major producer of tobacco. Nestor Lakoba became the unquestioned boss of Abkhazia, constructing a powerful local ethnic "machine" that became an influential component of Soviet patronage politics, provoking along the way accusations of nepotism, corruption, blood feuds, embezzlement, racketeering, and extrajudicial murder on a scale that shocked even hardened Communist Party investigators. Lakoba and his group faced a series of trials, investigatory commissions, and tribunals over allegations of malfeasance, yet they were repeatedly able to convince their powerful patrons of their irreplaceability, until at last they were destroyed through a public show trial during the peak of the Stalinist Terror. Through the prism of tiny Abkhazia, this book provides invaluable insights into the nature of the early Soviet system and the governance of Soviet national republics.
Freedom To Fiefdom
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Author : William Beverley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Freedom To Fiefdom written by William Beverley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Freedom of information categories.
Freedom To Fiefdom Volume Two
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Author : MR William Neil Beverley
language : en
Publisher: Schismatic Books
Release Date : 2015-12-01
Freedom To Fiefdom Volume Two written by MR William Neil Beverley and has been published by Schismatic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with categories.
Freedom to Fiefdom Volume Two (The Rise of the Global Predator) presents a wide background for the determination of European history, of Western Democracies, and of global welfare (or its absence) today that is a consequence of the human invention of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; and to a slightly lesser degree, other religious and socio-political ideologies and fantasies. The nature of Western Democracy is also a consequence of Europe's tribal, and later imperial contact with the rest of the world over a period that may have begun in the most remote antiquity, and that continues to the present day. Most of the world's older empires are described, including: Chinese, Greek, Roman, Jewish, Islamic, Asian Steppe, Frankish and Holy Roman, to mention just a few, and the often common weaknesses that made them all susceptible to similar fates are identified. More recent empires such as the Ottomans, Russians and Americans, all of which typify territorial and ideological aggrandisement are covered and, for perspective, the entirety of geological history is briefly and succinctly presented with the aim of giving some sense of phenomenological scale to the five hypotheses presented in Volume One, and to overall human history from which those hypotheses are derived. Both volumes one and two are richly supported by maps, tables, and time-lines. This monochrome paperback version consists of only small annotations to the 1st edition hardback full colour version.
Fiefdom A Transparent Domain Boundary Recognition System Using A Fuzzy Mean Operator
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Fiefdom A Transparent Domain Boundary Recognition System Using A Fuzzy Mean Operator written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Protein domain prediction is often the preliminary step in both experimental and computational protein research. Here we present a new method to predict the domain boundaries of a multidomain protein from its amino acid sequence using a fuzzy mean operator. Using the nr-sequence database together with a reference protein set (RPS) containing known domain boundaries, the operator is used to assign a likelihood value for each residue of the query sequence as belonging to a domain boundary. This procedure robustly identifies contiguous boundary regions. For a dataset with a maximum sequence identity of 30%, the average domain prediction accuracy of our method is 97% for one domain proteins and 58% for multidomain proteins. The presented model is capable of using new sequence/ structure information without re-parameterization after each RPS update. When tested on a current database using a four year old RPS and on a database that contains different domain definitions than those used to train the models, our method consistently yielded the same accuracy while two other published methods did not. A comparison with other domain prediction methods used in the CASP7 competition indicates that our method performs better than existing sequence-based methods.