Download or read book Pivotal Strategies written by Lynn C. Lewis and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pivotal Strategies examines the rhetorical contexts and motivations that determine how and why people choose writing studies as a discipline, especially as the field begins to take more seriously an antiracist imperative that requires more conscious listening and promotion of work from scholars representing traditionally underrepresented voices. Because undergraduate degrees in writing studies are relatively new, claiming the discipline has required reinvention and revision at personal and professional levels far different than any other discipline. Suspicions about the viability of the discipline linger in many departments and universities, as well as outside the academy, leading writing studies scholars to develop innovative strategies to deal with covertly hostile attitudes. Within the collection, contributors name explicit claiming strategies from the discipline’s beginnings to the contemporary moment, locating opportune spaces, negotiating identities and fostering resilience, and developing allegiances by foregrounding their embodiment as underrepresented members of academia through a commitment to social justice and equity. Responding to current conversations on the worth of education with honest stories about the burdens and joys of becoming and being an academic, Pivotal Strategies features a spectrum of voices across racial, gender, class, and age categories. This collection not only makes the discipline more visible but also helps map the contemporary state of writing studies.
Download or read book The Pivotal States written by Robert Chase and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foreign policy framework proposed here assumes that of the world's 140 developing states, there is a group of pivotal states whose futures are poised at critical turning points, and whose fates will strongly affect regional and even global security. These nine states - Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, Brazil, Algeria, and Mexico - are the ones upon which the United States should focus its scarce foreign policy resources. Events of the past year in Indonesia, India, and Pakistan have already affirmed the wisdom of this policy. In a series of cogent, original case studies, area experts explore the pivotal states strategy for each of the nine states.
Download or read book Pivotal Deterrence written by Timothy W. Crawford and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Crawford explains the political dynamics of pivotal deterrence and the conditions under which it is likely to succeed, while examining some of its most impressive feats and failures. German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's agile approach to the 1870s Eastern Crisis, which prevented war between Russia and Austria-Hungary, is contrasted with Britain's ambiguous and ill-fated maneuvers to deter Germany and France in July 1914. Shifting to the 1960s Cold War, Crawford explores the successes and setbacks in U.S. efforts to prevent NATO allies Greece and Turkey from fighting over Cyprus and to defuse the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Prep Push Pivot written by Octavia Goredema and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance your career with this insightful playbook for underrepresented women In Prep, Push, Pivot, award-winning career coach and author Octavia Goredema delivers an indispensable career coaching guide for women looking for a new job, dealing with job loss, pivoting to a new career, or returning to the workforce after an extended absence. You'll discover practical strategies you can implement at crucial times during your career, ensuring your considerable talents and skills are used to their full potential. In this important book, you'll: Discover your true worth, cement your career values, and carve out a realistic and aspirational career plan Learn how to position yourself for a promotion, navigate a break in your career, and integrate your role as a mother or caregiver with your professional life Deal with monumental career changes, contribute to the development of the women around you, and benefit from an array of professional resources in your journey forward Perfect for women who are ready to overcome any obstacles that await them, Prep, Push, Pivot is a thoughtful road map to help women chart their professional and personal success.
Download or read book Good Strategy Bad Strategy written by Richard Rumelt and published by Currency. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
Download or read book Pivot to the Future written by Omar Abbosh and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proven, effective strategy for reinventing your business in the age of ever-present disruption Disruption by digital technologies? That's not a new story. But what is new is the "wise pivot," a replicable strategy for harnessing disruption to survive, grow, and be relevant to the future. It's a strategy for perpetual reinvention across the old, now, and new elements of any business. Rapid recent advances in technology are forcing leaders in every business to rethink long-held beliefs about how to adapt to emerging technologies and new markets. What has become abundantly clear: in the digital age, conventional wisdom about business transformation no longer works, if it ever did. Based on Accenture's own experience of reinventing itself in the face of disruption, the company's real world client work, and a rigorous two-year study of thousands of businesses across 30 industries, Pivot to the Future reveals methodical and bold moves for finding and releasing new sources of trapped value-unlocked by bridging the gap between what is technologically possible and how technologies are being used. The freed value enables companies to simultaneously reinvent their legacy, and current and new businesses. Pivot to the Future is for leaders who seek to turn the existential threats of today and tomorrow into sustainable growth, with the courage to understand that a wise pivot strategy is not a one-time event, but a commitment to a future of perpetual reinvention, where one pivot is followed by the next and the next.
Download or read book Entrepreneurial Strategies of Professional Service Firms written by Andreas B. Günther and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past years, knowledge-intensive industries have gained significant importance as economic factor, giving rise to professional service firms (PSFs) such as law firms, accounting firms, or consultancies. Following this development, the research interest especially in the strategies pursued by PSFs has grown substantially. However, past research focused mainly on strategies of established, mature PSFs, leaving academics as well as potential entrepreneurs without guidance on what newly founded, entrepreneurial PSFs should pay attention to in order to ensure lasting competitive advantages. Based on an explorative grounded theory analysis of two outstanding commercial law firm spin-offs in Germany, this work advances the research in this field. In addition to a detailed case study report, it offers a comprehensive theoretical framework and argues that PSFs have to employ a set of seven specific entrepreneurial strategies – including for example service delivery, people development, and client acquisition strategies – in order to successfully manage the entrepreneurial phase. In providing examples for the growing PSF industry, the findings on commercial law firm spin-offs also inform entrepreneurship research in other professions
Download or read book How Nations Learn written by Arkebe Oqubay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is catch-up rare and why have some nations succeeded while others failed? This volumes examines how nations learn by reviewing key structural and contingent factors that contribute to dynamic learning and catch-up.
Download or read book Pivotal Politics written by Keith Krehbiel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politicians and pundits alike have complained that the divided governments of the last decades have led to legislative gridlock. Not so, argues Keith Krehbiel, who advances the provocative theory that divided government actually has little effect on legislative productivity. Gridlock is in fact the order of the day, occurring even when the same party controls the legislative and executive branches. Meticulously researched and anchored to real politics, Krehbiel argues that the pivotal vote on a piece of legislation is not the one that gives a bill a simple majority, but the vote that allows its supporters to override a possible presidential veto or to put a halt to a filibuster. This theory of pivots also explains why, when bills are passed, winning coalitions usually are bipartisan and supermajority sized. Offering an incisive account of when gridlock is overcome and showing that political parties are less important in legislative-executive politics than previously thought, Pivotal Politics remakes our understanding of American lawmaking.
Download or read book Something in the Soil written by Patricia Nelson Limerick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Patricia Limerick is simply one of the best writers alive."--Garry Wills
Download or read book Empirical study on Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives on Environment and Sustainability with due emphasis on Indian Origin Conglomerates written by Vinodhini Yallagandala and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2024 in the subject Environmental Sciences - Sustainability, grade: 15, Osmania University (Amjad Ali Khan College of Business administration), course: MBA, language: English, abstract: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as a pivotal strategy for businesses aiming to enhance their environmental and sustainability performance. This study explores the multifaceted impact of CSR on environmental sustainability, highlighting how CSR initiatives can drive green innovation, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and promote sustainable business practices. By analyzing data from specific Indian origin Conglomerates, the research demonstrates that CSR initiatives not only fulfill regulatory requirements but also meet stakeholder expectations, leading to improved environmental outcomes. The findings suggest that these conglomerates engaging in the above programmes are better positioned to attain Sustainability Development Goals, thereby contributing to the planet Earth. CSR has also emerged as a pivotal strategy for businesses aiming to balance economic growth with environmental stewardship and social equity. It also explores the impact of CSR initiatives on environmental sustainability, examining how these businesses can integrate sustainable practices to mitigate their ecological footprint through. The research adopted an empirical study as well as conceptual analysis through a rigorous literature review with a sample of 25 conglomerates of India. The findings of the analysis have been presented and concluded the results accordingly.
Download or read book Short Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management written by Wayne F. Cascio and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Short Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management provides a concise treatment of the key elements of strategic HRM using an innovative risk-management approach. It emphasizes the importance of the decisions, processes and choices organizations make about managing people and shows how workforce management directly affects strategic organizational outcomes. It provides guidance for managers on how to make better human capital decisions in order to achieve strategic success more effectively. Reflecting an increasing uncertainty in global business, Cascio and Boudreau consider ways of dealing with risk in managing human capital. Numerous examples in every chapter illustrate key points with real business cases from around the world.
Download or read book The Ethical Algorithm written by Alex Morgan and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2024-07-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the Ethical Dimensions Shaping Our AI-Driven Future Attention: In a world where artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming our lives, how do we ensure that these powerful systems serve humanity's best interests? The Ethical Algorithm: Safeguarding Humanity in AI dives deep into the crucial ethical considerations that must guide AI development and deployment. Interest: This enlightening book begins by laying a solid foundation in AI ethics, drawing from historical contexts and early ethical considerations. You'll delve into the intricacies of privacy and data protection, learning about the risks and the ways to mitigate them. From there, explore the challenging terrain of bias and fairness in AI algorithms, discovering effective strategies to detect and reduce biases. With crisp clarity, it elucidates the importance of transparency and explainability, providing a roadmap for communicating complex AI decisions effectively. Desire: As you turn the pages, your understanding will deepen with real-world case studies on accountability, the impact of AI on employment, and ethical challenges in healthcare. You'll tackle the pressing issues of security and robustness, ensuring AI systems remain resilient against threats. The book also sheds light on the ethical dimensions of AI in law enforcement, highlighting the balance between surveillance and ethical use. Finally, the global perspectives and policy recommendations will empower you to envision collaborative, worldwide solutions for ethical AI practices. Action: The Ethical Algorithm: Safeguarding Humanity in AI isn't just a theoretical discourse; it's a practical guide for anyone committed to fostering ethical AI systems. This book equips you with the knowledge and tools to advocate for and design AI that respects human rights, safeguards privacy, and promotes fairness and accountability. Embark on a journey to understand and shape the future of AI, ensuring it aligns with humanity's most cherished values. Get your copy today and join the movement to safeguard our future in an AI-driven world!
Download or read book Strategic Engineering written by Jacques Arcade and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of increasing complexity, uncertainty and difficulty in the design and implementation of reforms, companies, organizations and institutions must strive to capitalize on the prevailing disarray by acting wisely in overcoming it. Strategic engineering is part of an integrative, tool-based approach, inspired by the life sciences and Âcreative recursionÂ. This book is structured into three parts, which correspond to the three main phases of the strategic engineering approach: observe and discern; judge and arbitrate; act and intervene. Strategic Engineering has wide appeal, relevant to senior leaders, decisionmakers, managers and practitioners within businesses, government and local authorities. It is also intended for those who wish to develop their capability in anticipatory or transformative management within economic, sociopolitical and strategic contexts.
Download or read book Gentrification A Working Class Perspective written by Kirsteen Paton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the enduring relationship between class and the urban. Class is so clearly articulated in the urban, from the housing crisis to the London Riots to the evocation of housing estates as the emblem of ’Broken Britain’. Gentrification is often presented to a moral and market antidote to such urban ills: deeply institutionalised as regeneration and targeted at areas which have suffered from disinvestment or are defined by ’lack’. Gentrification is no longer a peripheral neighbourhood process: it is policy; it is widespread; it is everyday. Yet comparative to this depth and breadth, we know little about what it is like to live with gentrification at the everyday level. Sociological studies have focused on lifestyles of the middle classes and the working-class experience is either omitted or they are assumed to be victims. Hitherto, this is all that has been offered. This book engages with these issues and reconnects class and the urban through an ethnographically detailed analysis of a neighbourhood undergoing gentrification which historicises class formation, critiques policy processes and offers a new sociological insight into gentrification from the perspective of working-class residents. This ethnography of everyday working-class neighbourhood life in the UK serves to challenge denigrated depictions which are used to justify the use of gentrification-based restructuring. By exploring the relationship between urban processes and working-class communities via gentrification, it reveals the ’hidden rewards’ as well as the ’hidden injuries’ of class in post-industrial neighbourhoods. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive ’sociology of gentrification’, revealing not only how gentrification leads to the displacement of the working class in physical terms but how it is actively used within urban policy to culturally displace the working-class subject and traditional
Download or read book Knowledge Management in Organisations written by Lorna Uden and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zusammenfassung: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Knowledge management in Organizations, KMO 2024, which took place in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, during July 29-August 1, 2024 The 33 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are organized in subject areas as follows: Knowledge Transfer and Sharing; Knowledge in Business and Organisation; Innovation and Knowledge Creation; KM and Education; KM Process and Model; Information and Knowledge Management Systems; AI, IT and New Trends in KM; and Healthcare
Download or read book Cellular Osmolytes written by Laishram Rajendrakumar Singh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
