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In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In Better, Simpler Strategy, Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee shows how these companies achieve more by doing less. At a time when rapid technological change and global competition conspire to upend traditional ways of doing business, these companies pursue radically simplified strategies. At a time when many managers struggle not to drown in vast seas of projects and initiatives, these businesses follow simple rules that help them select the few ideas that truly make a difference.
Better, Simpler Strategy provides readers with a simple tool, the value stick, which every organization can use to make its strategy more effective and easier to execute. Based on proven financial mechanics, the value stick helps executives decide where to focus their attention and how to deepen the competitive advantage of their business.
How does the value stick work? It provides a way of measuring the two fundamental forces that lead to value creation and increased financial success--the customer's willingness-to-pay and the employee's willingness-to-sell their services to the business. Companies that win, Oberholzer-Gee shows, create value for customers by raising their willingness-to-pay, and they provide value for talent by lowering their willingness-to-sell. The approach, proven in practice, is entirely data driven and uniquely suited to be cascaded throughout the organization.
With many useful visuals and examples across industries and geographies, Better, Simpler Strategy explains how these two key measures enable firms to gauge and improve their strategies and operations. Based on the author's sought-after strategy course, this book is your must-have guide for making better strategic decisions.
How far would you travel for love? In her sparkling memoir, journalist Alison Singh Gee learns that love, riches, and a place to call home can be found in the most unexpected places.
Alison Singh Gee was a glamorous magazine writer with a serious Jimmy Choo habit, a weakness for five-star Balinese resorts, and a reputation for dating highborn British men. Then she met Ajay, a charming and unassuming Indian journalist, and her world turned upside down. Traveling from her shiny, rapid-fire life in Hong Kong to Ajay's native village, Alison learns that not all is as it seems. Turns out that Ajay is a landed prince (of sorts), but his family palace is falling to pieces. Replete with plumbing issues, strange noises, and intimidating relatives, her new love's ramshackle palace, Mokimpur, is a broken-down relic in desperate need of a makeover. And Alison wonders if she can soldier on for the sake of the man who just might be her soul mate. This modern-day fairytale, WHERE THE PEACOCKS SING, takes readers on a cross-cultural journey from the manicured gardens of Beverly Hills, to the bustling streets of Hong Kong and finally to the rural Indian countryside as Alison comes to terms with her complicated new family, leaves the modern world behind, and learns the true meaning of home.
Автор: Gee, Kimberly Название: Refreshing drink ISBN: 1398254169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398254169 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1107.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
In this generously illustrated volume, the distinguished teacher, author, and critic Joyce Brodsky brings together works by the expatriate Chinese painter Yun Gee and his Chinese American daughter, Li-lan, exploring connections between each artist's life and paintings.
Yun Gee (1906-1963) was born in China, emigrated as a young man to San Francisco, and after living there and in Paris, spent the latter part of his life in New York City. Li-lan was born in New York to Yun Gee and Helen Wimmer Gee. She still lives and works in and near the city of her birth but has also spent long periods in Japan and more recently in China. Father and daughter alike exemplify the desire to live and work in freedom from the restrictions of national identity, a choice that permits openness to different cultures. For Yun Gee and Li-lan, this openness was never a reflection of trends in the art world but was an element of life itself, fully embraced and therefore embodied in each artist's paintings.
Both artists can be understood as cosmopolitan and transnational figures - citizens, in Homi Bhabha's terms, of contemporary culture's “middle passage.” This book, then, although not primarily theoretical, is informed by ideas of hybridity, transnationalism, and cosmopolitanism. As artists who have embraced multinational, multicultural, and multiracial experiences, Yun Gee and Li-lan have combined those experiences intrinsically, sometimes in spite of the pain that such a complex passage may entail.
Li-lan was exposed to Yun Gee's paintings and his cultural sophistication when she was a child, and this exposure was crucial to her artistic being. In turn, she has broadened and deepened the audience for her father's art through her archival work, her conservation of and her efforts to encourage exhibitions of his work.
For more about Li-lan visit: http://www.li-lan.com
The reasons behind the increase in autism diagnoses have become hotly contested in the media as well as within the medical, scholarly, and autistic communities. Jordynn Jack suggests the proliferating number of discussions point to autism as a rhetorical phenomenon that engenders attempts to persuade through arguments, appeals to emotions, and representational strategies.
In Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks, Jack focuses on the ways gender influences popular discussion and understanding of autism's causes and effects. She identifies gendered theories like the “refrigerator mother” theory, for example, which blames emotionally distant mothers for autism, and the “extreme male brain” theory, which links autism to the modes of systematic thinking found in male computer geeks. Jack's analysis reveals how people employ such highly gendered theories to craft rhetorical narratives around stock characters--fix-it dads, heroic mother warriors rescuing children from autism--that advocate for ends beyond the story itself while also allowing the storyteller to gain authority, understand the disorder, and take part in debates.
Autism and Gender reveals the ways we build narratives around controversial topics while offering new insights into the ways rhetorical inquiry can and does contribute to conversations about gender and disability.
Автор: Rankin-gee, Rosa Название: Last kings of sark ISBN: 1398518646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398518643 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1915, this textbook `is intended as an introduction to some recent developments of Maxwell`s electromagnetic theory which are directly connected with the solution of the partial differential equation of wave-motion`. An extensive knowledge and understanding of mathematics is considered a pre-requisite, as is knowledge on the existing theorems surrounding such study.
Автор: Rankin-gee, Rosa Название: Dreamland tr ISBN: 1471193829 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471193828 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1543.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Dreamland is a postcard from a future Britain that`s closer than we think.
Автор: Rankin-gee, Rosa Название: Dreamland pa ISBN: 1471193845 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471193842 Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1648.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Dreamland is a postcard from a future Britain that`s closer than we think.
Автор: Rosa Rankin-Gee; Read by Katie Scarfe Название: Last Kings of Sark ISBN: 1427259887 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781427259882 Издательство: Macmillan USA Рейтинг: Цена: 5517.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Rosa Rankin-Gee Название: The Last Kings of Sark ISBN: 1844089304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844089307 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1668.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Jagger, T. P. Название: Hide And Geek ISBN: 0593377958 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593377956 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 827.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Since its publication in 1998, this text has offered the only systematic examination of corporate renewal, offering a rational approach for dealing with financially distressed companies. It contains the first logical and orderly discussion of a number of modern business issues including outsourcing, turnaround management and quality management.
Автор: Robyn Gee Название: Better English ISBN: 0746058438 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780746058435 Издательство: Usborne Рейтинг: Цена: 1418.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Aimed at children aged nine and over, this book will encourage them to improve their English skills in a fun and lively way. It points out common mistakes and misspelt words in written English, showing how they can be avoided. The book is packed with quizzes, tests, games and tips.
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