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Predator S Game Changing Designs

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Author : George B. Graen
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2009-10-01

Predator S Game Changing Designs written by George B. Graen and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with Business & Economics categories.

When the tried and true formula for an organization’s performance (its game plan) begins to fail, it must change its game or become obsolete. Publicly recognizing that the old formula is becoming less useful and a new formula must be developed and implemented is difficult for most stakeholders, but for survival the stages of grief must be endured and the conclusion accepted. Moreover, the romance of the “grand old formula” must be overcome by the realization that a new and more attractive formula must be invented or found to replace it. The fate of thousands of organizations that did not change their games when WalMart came to town bears witness to the Iron Law of Capitalistic Markets: “Change your game when necessary to remain competitive”. As Mr. Sam Walton told my son, Mike, stay the course as long as you can, but be willing to change it when it’s not working. Clearly, Mr. Sam’s protégés got the message. This book describes game-changing designs using the latest research-based strategies for inside organizational participants from CEOs, Boards of Directors, top, middle and lower managers and participants, and those people outside with a stake in its continued performance. We have had the unique opportunity to understand from the “inside-out” both Mr. Sam Walton’s miracle at WalMart and the great turnaround at Cincinnati’s Procter and Gamble over the last 15 plus years. We conclude from these studies that Mr. Sam has become a modern patron saint of American game-changers. WalMart has been seen by most business reviewers as a clear business case study of a “stay the course” formula of “lowest price” for the customer, but our research shows that Mr. Sam created a “game-changing design culture”. Yes, Mr. Sam began to build his juggernaut using a “lowest price” strategy that changed the game by “shock and awe” strategies in small markets. Moreover, Mr. Sam next changed the game by employing advanced information technology to reduce supply chain costs and go international. Later, Mr. Sam changed the game again by partnering with his reluctant vendors and requiring that most large suppliers maintain a permanent WalMart team near WalMart headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. Later, Mr. Scott, the CEO successor to Mr. Sam, changed the game again by “going green”. In addition, the effective integrative partnering with originally adversarial supplier teams by Mike Graen’s coaches set of new standard for inter-organizational cooperation. Mr. Sam’s legacy continues to inspire new game-changing designs across many different kinds of organizations in America and beyond. Once CEOs understand that their competition is as bright and hard working as they and they need to leap-frog to new games, Mr. Sam’s examples of carefully designed and implemented game-changing research-based innovations become their bible. As our domestic and international markets have become increasingly discontinuous and what worked yesterday doesn’t work today, our CEOs should look to Mr. Sam’s approach that changed the game before his competitors many times.

Millennial Spring

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Author : Miram Grace
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2014-06-01

Millennial Spring written by Miram Grace and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with Business & Economics categories.

Our corporate dominated world is resisting the best efforts of the “under 30s” to shape it into the information age. This eBook contains information about what the careers of the “under 30s” corporation will become. This was done examining recent trends in careers of “growing-tip” companies like Apple, Boeing, Microsoft and US and international design schools. The world of careers is changing fast, and the millennials – the generation of people who became adults around 2000, or in the decade or so after – have been right in the middle of it. From Independence Square in Kyiv to the streets of Caracas, from Taksim Square in Istanbul to Zuccoti Park in New York, and from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, it’s the 30-and-under crowd courageously leading the quest for different ways. Less invested in past approaches, tech-savvy to a fault, and painfully aware of the challenges left to them by earlier generations, they’re not willing to “settle” – to make the same compromises (and mistakes) they think their parents made. And although they sometimes get rapped for being self-centered, all the evidence I see – and I’ve taught thousands of them on two continents, and even have one in my own family -- suggests that the millennials represent real hope for the future. Please consider this a call to all millennials – here, in the pages of this book, are some of the means. Get out there and create the under-30s revolution. Solve the problems your parents couldn’t. Do it together, with a conscientious eye to what works for all involved. Get out there and save the world.

The Oxford Handbook Of Leadership

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Author : Michael G. Rumsey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013

The Oxford Handbook Of Leadership written by Michael G. Rumsey and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Business & Economics categories.

This book both acknowledges the complexity emerging from the three main components of leadership--the leader, the led, and the environment--while providing a sound, foundational structure in which the complexity of this area of study can be better understood.

Communities Sustainable Experiences

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Author : Salvatore Di Dio
language : en
Publisher: Altralinea Edizioni
Release Date : 2024-06-24

Communities Sustainable Experiences written by Salvatore Di Dio and has been published by Altralinea Edizioni this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-24 with Architecture categories.

“THE TRUE DIMENSION OF CITIES IS NOT SPACE, BUT TIME” (Konstantinos Doxiadis) This shift from the spatial dimension to that of time, places the focus on the individual’s scale of perception. How individuals spend their time shapes and infuses our environments with meaning, influencing social dynamics and cultural values. The Next Generation EU project exemplifies this shift by integrating lifestyle and environmental sustainability into urban planning. The goal is to facilitate a just transition to a circular economy, redefining not only the physical layout of cities but also the lived experience of its citizens within these evolving spaces. The evolution from the “Citizens’ Sustainable eXperience” to the “Communities’ Sustainable eXperience” , in the interdisciplinary research funded by the European Union, underscores a significant progression from individual to collective experience. UX, rooted in human-centered design, focuses on optimizing products and environments for personal use and satisfaction, CX expands these principles into the realm of more-than-human-centered design, where the focus extends beyond individual users to include wider community interactions and ecosystems. Therefore, the shift from UX to CX in urban planning and design is profoundly ethical. It calls for a paradigm that prioritizes collective well-being and sustainable development, inclusivity and cooperation.

Beyond Exchange

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Author : Olga Epitropaki
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2024-10-01

Beyond Exchange written by Olga Epitropaki and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-01 with Business & Economics categories.

Beyond Exchange: Revisiting Leadership as a Relationship emerged in response to scholarly calls to steer away from the 'exchange' rhetoric and ‘give-and-take’ conceptualizations in the study of leader-follower interactions and instead shift the focus to the fundamental element of 'relationship'. The book delves into the very essence of leader-follower relationship dynamics, revisits fundamental assumptions of popular relationship-based leadership theories such as Leader-Member Exchange, takes stock of progress made in this research strand, and proposes exciting avenues for future research. This book frames leader-follower interactions as a complex and dynamic relational phenomenon that evolves over time and encompasses a multiplicity of relationship types. Relationships are not static, and one size does not fit all. The book cross-pollinates ideas from other research domains, such as relationship science, and highlights the role of the follower and the importance of affective processes, ethics, and fairness on different levels of analysis. It further extends the notion of leader-follower relationship beyond the dyad to more complex network interactions. We hope readers will find ideas that resonate, and the book helps rekindle scholarly passion for relational phenomena in organizational settings.

Predator S Game Changing Designs

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Author : George B. Graen
language : en
Publisher: Information Age Pub Incorporated
Release Date : 2009

Predator S Game Changing Designs written by George B. Graen and has been published by Information Age Pub Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Business & Economics categories.

A volume in LMX Leadership: The Series Series Editor George B. Graen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Retired) When the tried and true formula for an organization's performance (its game plan) begins to fail, it must change its game or become obsolete. Publicly recognizing that the old formula is becoming less useful and a new formula must be developed and implemented is difficult for most stakeholders, but for survival the stages of grief must be endured and the conclusion accepted. Moreover, the romance of the "grand old formula" must be overcome by the realization that a new and more attractive formula must be invented or found to replace it. The fate of thousands of organizations that did not change their games when WalMart came to town bears witness to the Iron Law of Capitalistic Markets: "Change your game when necessary to remain competitive." As Mr. Sam Walton told my son, Mike, stay the course as long as you can, but be willing to change it when it's not working. Clearly, Mr. Sam's proteges got the message. This book describes game-changing designs using the latest research-based strategies for inside organizational participants from CEOs, Boards of Directors, top, middle and lower managers and participants, and those people outside with a stake in its continued performance. We have had the unique opportunity to understand from the "inside-out" both Mr. Sam Walton's miracle at WalMart and the great turnaround at Cincinnati's Procter and Gamble over the last 15 plus years. We conclude from these studies that Mr. Sam has become a modern patron saint of American game-changers. WalMart has been seen by most business reviewers as a clear business case study of a "stay the course" formula of "lowest price" for the customer, but our research shows that Mr. Sam created a "game-changing design culture." Yes, Mr. Sam began to build his juggernaut using a "lowest price" strategy that changed the game by "shock and awe" strategies in small markets. Moreover, Mr. Sam next changed the game by employing advanced information technology to reduce supplychain costs and go international. Later, Mr. Sam changed the game again by partnering with his reluctant vendors and requiring that most large suppliers maintain a permanent WalMart team near WalMart headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. Later, Mr. Scott, the CEO successor to Mr. Sam, changed the game again by "going green." In addition, the effective integrative partnering with originally adversarial supplier teams by Mike Graen's coaches set of new standard for inter-organizational cooperation. Mr. Sam's legacy continues to inspire new game-changing designs across many different kinds of organizations in America and beyond. Once CEOs understand that their competition is as bright and hard working as they and they need to leap-frog to new games, Mr. Sam's examples of carefully designed and implemented game-changing research-based innovations become their bible. As our domestic and international markets have become increasingly discontinuous and what worked yesterday doesn't work today, our CEOs should look to Mr. Sam's approach that changed the game before his competitors many times."

The Social Process Of Lobbying

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Author : John C. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-05

The Social Process Of Lobbying written by John C. Scott and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-05 with Political Science categories.

Despite a wealth of theorizing and research about each concept, lobbying and norms still raise a number of interesting issues. Why do lobbyists and politicians engage in cooperative behavior? How does cooperative behavior in lobbying affect policy making? If democratic participation is good, why do we view lobbying as bad? Lobbying engenders debate about its effects on the political process and on policy development. Sociologists and other social scientists remain concerned about how norms emerge, the content of norms, how widely they are distributed, and how they are enforced. Political scientists study how interest groups work together and influence the political process. Based on the experience of the author, a former lobbyist, this book looks at the social norms of lobbying and how such norms work in a general framework of other norms and legal institutions in the political process. In developing this argument, John C. Scott claims that: Embedded social relationships and trust-based social norms underpin everyday interactions among policy actors. These relationships and norms have concrete impacts on the policy making process. Social relationships and norms inhibit participation in the political process by outside actors. The investigation is conducted through an innovative theoretical framework, combining existing theoretical perspectives from different disciplines, and using a variety of data and methods, including longitudinal quantitative and social network data, interviews with lobbyists, activists, and policymakers, and anecdotal and historical examples. The Social Process of Lobbying provides refreshingly new empirical evidence and theoretical analysis on how networks of trust are neither all good nor all bad but are ambivalent: they can both improve policy and fuel collusion.

Backyard Chickens For Cold Climates Winter Coop Setup Breed Guide

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Author : S.S.Gutte
language : en
Publisher: S.S.Gutte
Release Date :

Backyard Chickens For Cold Climates Winter Coop Setup Breed Guide written by S.S.Gutte and has been published by S.S.Gutte this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with House & Home categories.

Winter Chicken Care: Keep Your Flock Warm & Laying Winter doesn’t have to mean empty nesting boxes and frostbitten combs. Winter mornings on the homestead are a quiet kind of magic—crisp air, frost-kissed coops, and the soft clucking of chickens nestled safely against the cold. But for those of us raising flocks in sub-zero temperatures, that magic comes with challenges. Frostbitten combs, frozen waterers, and the constant battle to keep our feathered friends warm can turn the season of stillness into a season of stress. Are you struggling to keep your chickens warm, healthy, and productive during freezing winters? Frustrated by frozen waterers, plummeting egg production, or constant fear of frostbite? This cold-climate chicken guide is your solution! This book is your antidote to winter worry. Inside, you’ll discover: _______________________ ✅ Frostbite Prevention: Protect combs, wattles, and feet with vet-approved techniques (like petroleum jelly hacks and coop humidity control). ✅ Insulated Coop Blueprints: Step-by-step plans for DIY coops that retain heat, block drafts, and survive -40°F winters (including urban balcony designs!). ✅ Top Cold-Hardy Breeds: Detailed profiles of Chanteclers, Wyandottes, Brahmas, and other breeds built for snow, ice, and polar vortexes. ✅ Winter Feeding Strategies: High-energy diets, suet block recipes, and hydration tips to fuel your flock’s warmth and egg production. ✅ Emergency Prep: Blizzard survival kits, predator-proofing, and power outage fixes to keep your chickens safe. Why This Book Stands Out: ___________________________ Real-Life Case Studies: Learn from Alaskan homesteaders, Canadian urban farmers, and Minnesota experts who’ve mastered sub-zero chicken care. Actionable Checklists: Daily routines, monthly maintenance calendars, and quick-reference frostbite first-aid guides. No Fluff, Just Facts: Science-backed strategies balanced with homesteader wisdom. Perfect For: ____________ ✔ Homesteaders in Alaska, Canada, or Northern Europe battling extreme cold. ✔ Urban chicken keepers in cities like Toronto, Minneapolis, or Berlin. ✔ Beginners overwhelmed by winter challenges or seasoned keepers refining their setup. Don’t let winter stop your flock. Whether you’re facing a -30°F blizzard or a damp UK winter, this book equips you to keep your chickens healthy, happy, and laying all season long. Grab your copy today and turn your coop into a winter fortress!

Advanced Game Design

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Author : Michael Sellers
language : en
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Release Date : 2017-10-30

Advanced Game Design written by Michael Sellers and has been published by Addison-Wesley Professional this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-30 with Computers categories.

In Advanced Game Design, pioneering game designer and instructor Michael Sellers situates game design practices in a strong theoretical framework of systems thinking, enabling designers to think more deeply and clearly about their work, so they can produce better, more engaging games for any device or platform. Sellers offers a deep unifying framework in which practical game design best practices and proven systems thinking theory reinforce each other, helping game designers understand what they are trying to accomplish and the best ways to achieve it. Drawing on 20+ years of experience designing games, launching game studios, and teaching game design, Sellers explains: What games are, and how systems thinking can help you think about them more clearly How to systematically promote engagement, interactivity, and fun What you can learn from MDA and other game design frameworks How to create gameplay and core loops How to design the entire player experience, and how to build game mechanics that work together to create that experience How to capture your game’s “big idea” and Unique Selling Proposition How to establish high-level and background design and translate it into detailed design How to build, playtest, and iterate early prototypes How to build your game design career in a field that keeps changing at breakneck speed

Favorite Flies For The Upper Midwest

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Author : Jerry Darkes
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-11-19

Favorite Flies For The Upper Midwest written by Jerry Darkes and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-19 with Sports & Recreation categories.

This new entry in the Stackpole Favorite Flies series covers flies for the Upper Midwest—Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. This area has fishing that is very different than the rest of the Midwest (Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois), and Jerry Darkes leads anglers through it. The Favorite Flies series pulls together fifty important (either from a historical or fishing or both standpoint) flies from a particular region, tied by anglers with close ties and local knowledge of the place. Each fly featured in a spread that includes large, easy to see image, recipe, tying notes, and a supplemental image or possibly a few tying steps if a technique needs to be illustrated. This book, though not a tying manual, showcases important flies that work well on the water for a given area and a fishing/tying resource and tribute to the region.