Download or read book Alliance Advantage written by Yves L. Doz and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a decade of reeningeering and downsizing, many companies are leaner, more efficient, and acutely focused on their core business. Yet today's growth opportunities in global markets and new technologies demand a wider range of skills. More and more, firms must turn to alliances-often with their rivals-to meld the right resources for pursuing new opportunities. However, few managers are accustomed to working with undefined boundaries between collaboration and competition, with the need to combine unfamiliar skills, with networks of interdependent alliances, and with complex value creation strategies. Nor has their experience with traditional joint ventures prepared them for this world of intricate alliance webs. Alliance Advantage aims to help today's managers and their companies be more successful in their efforts to create, guide, and thrive with alliance strategies. Most conventional wisdom about alliances has focused on the formal design of bilateral alliances, devoting too little attention to the strategic underpinnings and too little commitment to building relationships. With Alliance Advantage, strategy experts Yves Doz and Gary Hamel convincingly argue that it is the strength of alliance strategies and the frequently overlooked internal processes that play the decisive role in shaping eventual outcomes. In a fundamentally new perspective on the way alliances are formed and managed, the authors reveal the analysis, processes, and partner interactions that enable allies to meet their strategic goals. Drawing on principles of strategy, organizational design, organizational learning, and collaborative management, this is the definitive resource for both understanding and leveraging the powerful advantages of alliances. Alliance Advantage provides both conceptual and practical tools for analyzing the design and performance of alliances. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive guide that will help managers build new collaborations and improve existing ones. Each chapter examines a different aspect of an alliance, from selecting the right partners to minimizing conflicts to determining further commitments. Companies such as Xerox, Boeing, Honda, and Corning, among others, provide examples of successful and unsuccessful partnerships, painting a vivid picture of the conditions that can make or break an alliance. Successful alliances, say Doz and Hamel, require constant attention. With Alliance Advantage, they offer today's best opportunity to study, understand, and increase the effectiveness of strategic alliances.
Download or read book MY LADY MIDNIGHT written by Laurie Grant and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Could One Hide A Noble Heart? Alain, Baron of Hawkswell, knew his children's winsome nursemaid was not all she seemed. Nay, beneath her serf's homespun lay a golden soul whose mysterious allure would change his life forever…! Lady Claire de Coverly dared not reveal her Norman identity or her duplicitous mission to the imposing Lord of Hawkswell Castle, for to do so would destroy the joy she found with his children and end the exquisite passion she felt in his arms…!
Download or read book Shifters Alliance written by Shaun L. Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends tell of a relic so precious that civilizations have fallen trying to control it. A Crystal of terrifying power that will open Gateways to uncharted lands and enslave all who look upon it. When the Crystal is stolen from its protectors, the world is thrown into chaos.17-year-old Kerri's parents have vanished. Taken under the protection of the Clan, Kerri is trained in the art of combat. She vows to always protect her loved ones, no matter the cost. Everything changes when Kerri's friends are kidnapped and taken through a Gateway into an unknown land rife with danger, where shapeshifting clans threaten war, and no one can be trusted. As Kerri attempts to save her friends, she uncovers secrets of her past that will alter the course of her life forever. As the fight for the Crystal escalates, an ancient evil watches, waiting impatiently to strike...
Download or read book La ceremonie de l alliance entre la France l Angleterre Faicte dernier deuxiesme Feurier en l Eglise des Feuillans En presence du Roy des Princes grands Seigneurs de la Cour written by England and published by . This book was released on 1620 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One written by Conrad Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the United Kingdom, but it's no country you know. No place you ever want to see, even in the howling, shuttered madness of your worst dreams. You survived. One man. You walk because you have to. You have no choice. At the end of this molten road, running along the spine of a burned, battered country, your little boy is either alive or dead. You have to know. You have to find an end to it all. One hope. The sky crawls with venomous cloud and burning red rain. The land is a scorched sprawl of rubble and corpses. Rats have risen from the depths to gorge on the carrion. A glittering dust coats everything and it hides a terrible secret. New horrors are taking root. You walk on. One chance.
Download or read book Alliance of Evil written by Robert L. Maginnis and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alliance of Evil establishes that without a doubt the United States and her allies are locked in a prophetic global confrontation on many fronts, a new kind of dual Cold War with the Russians and Chinese. The Russian Federation under a populist authoritarian leader seriously threatens the West - ideologically, through cyber-space and militarily thanks to that country's heavy investment in sophisticated mass killing weapons. The People's Republic of China is a great power with global ambitions led by a new kind of authoritarian communist leader focused on rapidly growing the world's most populous nation economically and militarily. Together, China and Russia collaborate on many fronts to dominate the future world and that relationship could well become the catalyst that leads to the biblical end times. The Alliance of Evil reveals ¿¿A realistic view of the prophetic scriptures regarding the end times and whether China, Russia and the United States are players in the final scenario.¿Sixteen indicators of a new dual Cold War-like future with China and Russia pitted against the United States and her allies.¿How the new dual Cold War is fanned by American arrogance, hubris which reflects the weakened, perhaps declining United States.¿The similarities and differences between the old Cold War (1945-1991), United States versus the Soviet Union, and the new dual Cold War are stark, sobering and frightening.¿How, as prophesied, China and Russia emerged as a new kind of great power duo which are now aligning themselves against the U.S. for a final showdown.¿Four modern "battlegrounds" host the new dual Cold War confrontation; any one of which could well explode into apocalyptic global war. ¿How the Trump administration's national security strategy intends to shape the new dual Cold War international environment while avoiding kinetic conflict if that is possible.¿A futuristic view of how the duo of Russia and China might morph into a real end times provoking catalyst thanks to previously unfathomable technologies such as hypersonic nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and artificial intelligent platforms as well as geopolitical relations that are only now beginning to emerge.
Download or read book Alliance Capitalism written by Michael L. Gerlach and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For anyone interested in Keiretsu (Japan's enterprise groups), Gerlach's Alliance Capitalism is a must-read. He offers insightful and comprehensive analyses of their character, behavior, and recent rapid transformation. His knowledgeable discussion of their roles in Japanese economic performance supplements as well as challenges the increasing number of analyses offered by Japanese and American economists of the many aspects of Keiretsu."—Kozo Yamamura, University of Washington
Download or read book The End of an Alliance written by Robert L. Messer and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: End of an Alliance: James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt, Truman, and the Origins of the Cold War
Download or read book The Clone Alliance written by Steven L. Kent and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third in the national bestselling series-military science fiction on the edge. Rogue clone Wayson Harris is stranded on a frontier planet-until a rebel offensive puts him back in the uniform of a U.A. Marine, once again leading a strike against the enemy. But the rebels have a powerful ally no one could have imagined.
Download or read book Enduring Alliance written by Timothy Andrews Sayle and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some seventy years after its inception, some consider its foundation uncertain and its structure weak. At this moment of incipient strategic crisis, Timothy A. Sayle offers a sweeping history of the most critical alliance in the post-World War II era. In Enduring Alliance, Sayle recounts how the western European powers, along with the United States and Canada, developed a treaty to prevent encroachments by the Soviet Union and to serve as a first defense in any future military conflict. As the growing and unruly hodgepodge of countries, councils, commands, and committees inflated NATO during the Cold War, Sayle shows that the work of executive leaders, high-level diplomats, and institutional functionaries within NATO kept the alliance alive and strong in the face of changing administrations, various crises, and the flux of geopolitical maneuverings. Resilience and flexibility have been the true hallmarks of NATO. As Enduring Alliance deftly shows, the history of NATO is organized around the balance of power, preponderant military forces, and plans for nuclear war. But it is also the history riven by generational change, the introduction of new approaches to conceiving international affairs, and the difficulty of diplomacy for democracies. As NATO celebrates its seventieth anniversary, the alliance once again faces challenges to its very existence even as it maintains its place firmly at the center of western hemisphere and global affairs.
Download or read book Operation Gladio written by Paul L. Williams and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This disturbing exposé describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe. Journalist Paul L. Williams presents evidence suggesting the existence of “stay-behind” units in many European countries consisting of five thousand to fifteen thousand military operatives. According to the author’s research, the initial funding for these guerilla armies came from the sale of large stocks of SS morphine that had been smuggled out of Germany and Italy and of bogus British bank notes that had been produced in concentration camps by skilled counterfeiters. As the Cold War intensified, the units were used not only to ward off possible invaders, but also to thwart the rise of left-wing movements in South America and NATO-based countries by terror attacks. Williams argues that Operation Gladio soon gave rise to the toppling of governments, wholesale genocide, the formation of death squads, financial scandals on a grand scale, the creation of the mujahideen, an international narcotics network, and, most recently, the ascendancy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a Jesuit cleric with strong ties to Operation Condor (an outgrowth of Gladio in Argentina) as Pope Francis I. Sure to be controversial, Operation Gladio connects the dots in ways the mainstream media often overlooks.
Download or read book Knights of the Alliance written by Stefanie Chu and published by Canari. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years have passed and he has forgotten her. But Mirari would still do anything to save her childhood friend from the executioner’s sword. Meanwhile, Fangbane has spent his life trying to end centuries of social and political hostility. As his fame spreads, brave Knights rally to his cause. But to truly succeed, Fangbane must have two others: Gaven, the headstrong warrior he helped put on death row, and Mirari, a simple merchant with a past as secretive as her formidable magical ability. Their aid could be the difference between success and failure. Can Gaven put aside his apathy to fully commit to the alliance? Will Mirari become a worthy fighter and subdue her desire for revenge? With the threat of a growing movement of underground vigilantes bent on tipping the system, the Knights must act quickly. Time is running out to rid the world of evil. * * * PRAISE FOR "KNIGHTS OF THE ALLIANCE" * * * Finalist for Book of the Year - Indies Today Awards 1st Place Debut Author - Feathered Quill Book Awards 2nd Place Best Fantasy - Feathered Quill Book Awards Best New Fiction - Firebird Book Awards “Strong, solid, and a world fully imagined.” -Reader Views “Rare and dazzling. Combines the best of contemporary imagination.” -AuthorsReading “Actually original. No cliches or love triangles. Just a good fantasy read.” -Goodreads Review If you thrive on quality action, humor, and political intrigue, then you’ll love this Young Adult / New Adult series. Immerse in this epic heroic tale today!
Download or read book European Alliances and Alignments 1871 1890 written by William Leonard Langer and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origins of Alliance written by Stephen M. Walt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. Walt makes a significant contribution to this topic, surveying theories of the origins of international alliances and identifying the most important causes of security cooperation between states. In addition, he proposes a fundamental change in the present conceptions of alliance systems. Contrary to traditional balance-of-power theories, Walt shows that states form alliances not simply to balance power but in order to balance threats. Walt begins by outlining five general hypotheses about the causes of alliances. Drawing upon diplomatic history and a detailed study of alliance formation in the Middle East between 1955 and 1979, he demonstrates that states are more likely to join together against threats than they are to ally themselves with threatening powers. Walt also examines the impact of ideology on alliance preferences and the role of foreign aid and transnational penetration. His analysis show, however, that these motives for alignment are relatively less important. In his conclusion, he examines the implications of "balance of threat" for U.S. foreign policy.
Download or read book Bloodline written by L. R. Saul and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shenna, a thief and outlaw, impulsively rescues a group of strangers from certain death, and is seriously wounded for her trouble. Now in her debt, the group nurses Shenna back to health. But for Shenna, remaining with the group poses a threat far deadlier than her injury, for she hides a great secret.
Download or read book Journal written by Society of Oriental Research and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L Alliance written by Franz Hünten and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
