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Extraordinary Outcomes

Author : Iris R. Firstenberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111893833X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Outcomes written by Iris R. Firstenberg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steel your team against the unexpected by planning for uncertainty Extraordinary Outcomes presents an innovative approach to thinking and planning, giving leaders a playbook for dealing with uncertainty. Written by internationally recognized authorities on problem solving and creativity in organizations, this book provides an alternative outlook on business strategy and people management for leaders navigating uncertain waters, where the future is anything but guaranteed. The framework is the result of research in multiple fields and the authors' experiences with individuals, teams, and organizations, with examples from real-world situations that illustrate the concepts and dynamics at work to give readers deeper insight. The focus is on conquering uncertainty – eliminating it where possible, reducing it where it can be reduced, and embracing it when it's inevitable. Traditional ways of thinking and planning do not work in the face of an uncertain future. Frequently there are just no guarantees, nothing written in stone, and even a fortune-teller couldn't accurately predict the outcome. Extraordinary Outcomes helps leaders prepare for that, with strategies geared toward preparedness and embracing uncertainty. Learn why skills and talent are only two pieces of a bigger puzzle Discover how to better galvanize the team, and keep them motivated long-term Connect to a purpose that inspires enthusiastic engagement Conquer uncertainty, and develop a strategy for dealing with mistakes No one likes to be caught off guard, and the consequences can be severe at the organizational level. Leaders can't be psychic, but they can plan for possible outcomes and always have a solution at the ready. For those who like to have an answer for everything, Extraordinary Outcomes provides a roadmap toward an uncertainty-proof strategy for doing business.

Shaping Regional Futures

Author : Valeria Lingua
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030235734
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Shaping Regional Futures written by Valeria Lingua and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the role of regional design and visioning in the formation of regional territorial governance to offer a better understanding of (1) how a recognition of spatial dynamics and the visualization of spatial futures informs, and is informed by, planning frameworks and (2) how such design processes inform co-operation and collaboration on planning in metropolitan regions. It gathers theoretical reflections on these topics, and illustrates them by means of practical experiences in several European countries. Innovatively associating ideas with knowledge, it appeals to anyone with an interest in planning experiments in a post-regulative era. It aims at an increased understanding of how practices, engaged with the imagination of possible futures, support the creation of institutional capacity for strategic spatial planning at regional scales.

Shaping the Next One Hundred Years

Author : Robert J. Lempert
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833034855
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Shaping the Next One Hundred Years written by Robert J. Lempert and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2003-07-18 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sophisticated reader ought to view with great skepticism the prospect of answering questions about the long-term future. The checkered history of predicting the future-from the famous declarations that humans would never fly to the Limits to Growth study to claims about the "New Economy"-has dissuaded policymakers from considering the effects of their decisions more than a few months or years ahead. However, today's choices will significantly influence the course of the twenty-first century. New analytic methods, enabled by modern computers, may transform our ability to reason systematically about the long term. This report reviews traditional methods of grappling with the morrow, from narratives to scenario analysis, which fail to address the multiplicity of plausible long-term futures. The authors demonstrate a quantitative approach to long-term policy analysis (LTPA). Robust decision methods enable decisionmakers to examine a vast range of plausible futures and design near-term, often adaptive, strategies to be robust across them. Reframing the question "What will the long-term future bring?" as "How can we choose actions today that will be consistent with our long-term interests?" these methods provide powerful analytic support to humans' innate capacity for "what-if-ing." Choosing the challenge of sustainable development as an example, the authors discuss how these methods may be applied to real-world LTPA and a wide range of other challenges of decisionmaking under conditions of deep uncertainty.

Creativity and Conflict Resolution

Author : Tatsushi Arai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135214778
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Conflict Resolution written by Tatsushi Arai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how creative ways of resolving social conflicts emerge, evolve, and subsequently come to be accepted or rejected in inter-group relations. Creativity and Conflict Resolution explores a subject with which political communities involved in social conflict have always grappled: creative ways of imagining and actualizing visions of conflict resolution. This is an ambitious question, which concerns human communities at many different levels, from families, regional-independence movements, and national governments, to inter-state alliances. The author argues that unconventional viability lies at the heart of creativity for transcending seemingly intractable inter-communal conflicts. More specifically, conflict resolution creativity is a social and epistemological process, whereby actors involved in a given social conflict learn to formulate an unconventional resolution option or procedure. Demystifying the origin of unthinkable breakthroughs for conflict resolution and illuminating theories of creativity based on 17 international case studies, this book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, peace and conflict studies, human security and IR. Tatsushi Arai is an Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Transformation at the SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont, USA. He has a PhD in Conflict Resolution from George Mason University, Washington DC, and extensive practical experience in the field.

Department of Defense Appropriations for 1993

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1993 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Re-Forming Capitalism

Author : Wolfgang Streeck
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614459
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Re-Forming Capitalism written by Wolfgang Streeck and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfgang Streeck has written extensively on comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key issues in this field: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, the limitations of rational design and economic-functionalist explanations of institutional stability, and the recurrent difficulties of restraining the effects of capitalism on social order. In the classification of the 'Varieties of Capitalism' school, Germany has always been taken as the chief exemplar of a 'European', coordinated market economy. Streeck explores to what extent Germany actually conforms to this description. His argument is supported by original empirical research on wage-setting and wage structure, the organization of business and labor in business associations and trade unions, social policy, public finance, and corporate governance. From this evidence, Bringing Capitalism Back In traces the current liberalization of the postwar economy of democratic capitalism by means of an historically-grounded approach to institutional change. This is an important book in comparative political economy and key reading across the social sciences for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Political Economy, Sociology, comparative business systems.

The New Realism

Author : Robert W. Cox
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349253030
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The New Realism written by Robert W. Cox and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new realism differs from Cold War neorealism by including a broad range of non-state forces, peoples' and social movements, that challenge the exclusive dominance of states and the global economy in the making of future world order. The resurgence of civilisations brings a variety of perspectives to interpreting the present and imagining the future. Medium-term factors influence this mix of forces: the uncertainties of US policy, the fragmentation of the former Soviet Union, global social polarisation, and a new form of people-based regionalism.

Shaping the Next One Hundred Years

Author : Robert J. Lempert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780833032751
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Shaping the Next One Hundred Years written by Robert J. Lempert and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Narrative Shape of Truth

Author : Ilya Kliger
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271037989
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Narrative Shape of Truth written by Ilya Kliger and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Draws on philosophical and novelistic texts from the Western European and Russian canons to explore a crucial moment in the epistemological history of narrative and present a nonreductive way of conjugating the histories of philosophy and the novel"--Provided by publisher.

Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference

Author : Megan Loumagne Ulishney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019287070X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference written by Megan Loumagne Ulishney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference develops an interdisciplinary conversation between evolutionary biology, feminist philosophy, and theology in order to illuminate the entanglement of Christian thinking about original sin with theologies of sexual difference. It then assesses the opportunities for rethinking original sin and its implications for theologies of sexual difference in light of developments in evolutionary biology and feminist theology and philosophy. Despite some resistances in the present age to conceptions of both original sin and meaningful sexual differences, this study argues that both can provide essential insights that help to make sense of some of the features of human life in the twenty-first century, especially the stubborn persistence of inequality, poverty, environmental degradation, and the pernicious patterns of sexual violence and abuse that have been uncovered by the #MeToo movement. To this end, Megan Loumagne Ulishney marshals resources from a variety of places-Augustine of Hippo, feminist theology, the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, John Paul II, and a new group of feminist philosophers known as the New Feminist Materialists-to develop an analysis of original sin and sexual difference that is grounded in both scientific and theological insights about creaturely life. The project cultivates a sense of wonder at the diversity and unpredictability of human biology, a value for the role of creativity in the human participation that partially shapes our ongoing evolution, and humility about the extent to which we can predict and control the future of the evolution of our species. It illuminates the interdependencies that define creaturely life, the persistent entanglement of nature and culture, the centrality of desire to human identity and behaviour, and the role played by biology in the transmission of sin. It develops a vision of material life as evolving, generative, and imbued with activity, but also as simultaneously infected with sin and saturated with the divine.

Emerging Voices in Science and Theology

Author : Bethany Sollereder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000590887
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Voices in Science and Theology written by Bethany Sollereder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume engages with the relative absence and underrepresentation of female voices in the field of science and religion, which tends to be dominated by male academics who are in the later stages of their careers. It makes a valuable contribution to correcting this imbalance by showcasing the work of a talented set of rising female scholars, which is not necessarily explicitly feminist in content or approach. All the authors featured are at a relatively early stage in their careers with diverse backgrounds and interests. Engaging with traditional and new questions, they promise to contribute much to the future development of the field of science and religion.

The Shaping of Ambient Intelligence and the Internet of Things

Author : Simon Elias Bibri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462391424
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Shaping of Ambient Intelligence and the Internet of Things written by Simon Elias Bibri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent advances in ICT have given rise to new socially disruptive technologies: AmI and the IoT, marking a major technological change which may lead to a drastic transformation of the technological ecosystem in all its complexity, as well as to a major alteration in technology use and thus daily living. Yet no work has systematically explored AmI and the IoT as advances in science and technology (S&T) and sociotechnical visions in light of their nature, underpinning, and practices along with their implications for individual and social wellbeing and for environmental health. AmI and the IoT raise new sets of questions: In what way can we conceptualize such technologies? How can we evaluate their benefits and risks? How should science–based technology and society’s politics relate? Are science-based technology and society converging in new ways? It is with such questions that this book is concerned. Positioned within the research field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), which encourages analyses whose approaches are drawn from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, this book amalgamates an investigation of AmI and the IoT technologies based on a unique approach to cross–disciplinary integration; their ethical, social, cultural, political, and environmental effects; and a philosophical analysis and evaluation of the implications of such effects. An interdisciplinary approach is indeed necessary to understand the complex issue of scientific and technological innovations that S&T are not the only driving forces of the modern, high–tech society, as well as to respond holistically, knowledgeably, reflectively, and critically to the most pressing issues and significant challenges of the modern world. This book is the first systematic study on how AmI and the IoT applications of scientific discovery link up with other developments in the spheres of the European society, including culture, politics, policy, ethics and ecological philosophy. It situates AmI and the IoT developments and innovations as modernist science–based technology enterprises in a volatile and tense relationship with an inherently contingent, heterogeneous, fractured, conflictual, plural, and reflexive postmodern social world. The issue’s topicality results in a book of interest to a wide readership in science, industry, politics, and policymaking, as well as of recommendation to anyone interested in learning the sociology, philosophy, and history of AmI and the IoT technologies, or to those who would like to better understand some of the ethical, environmental, social, cultural, and political dilemmas to what has been labeled the technologies of the 21st century.

Department of Defense Appropriations for 1993: Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Army

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Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1993: Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Army written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to shape the competitive advantage of firms in unpredictable contexts

Author : Ludovica Moi
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
ISBN 13 : 8835152690
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book How to shape the competitive advantage of firms in unpredictable contexts written by Ludovica Moi and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2023-04-27T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 365.1297

Trends Shaping Education 2019

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264308385
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Trends Shaping Education 2019 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever wonder whether education has a role to play in preparing our societies for an age of artificial intelligence? Or what the impact of climate change might be on our schools, families and communities? Trends Shaping Education examines major economic, political, social and ...

Career Change Teachers

Author : Meera Varadharajan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811660387
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Career Change Teachers written by Meera Varadharajan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adopting Tomorrow's Technology: Navigating the Impact of Future Innovations

Author : MANOJ JAIN
Publisher : Astitva Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9358385014
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Adopting Tomorrow's Technology: Navigating the Impact of Future Innovations written by MANOJ JAIN and published by Astitva Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-12-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world racing towards an unparalleled future, we stand at the crossroads of endless possibilities and boundless potential. Technology, once a tool, has become the architect of our destiny, reshaping existence itself. As we gaze into the horizon of innovation, we ask: Are we prepared for the profound changes ahead? ""Adopting Tomorrow's Technology” : Navigating the Impact of Future Innovations takes you on an enthralling journey through rapidly evolving technological advancements. This book serves as your guide, navigating the maze of emerging technologies that redefine our world. From the wonders of AI and augmented reality to sustainable living and humanity's fusion with technology, we delve deep into currents of change sweeping us into an era of unprecedented progress. Embark with me to explore future communication, digital dilemmas, space’s mysteries, quantum computing, mind-computer connections, and AI warfare. Ponder the challenges of privacy and the tantalizing prospect of mind uploading. Drawing on my journey as an I.T. pioneer and entrepreneur, I invite you to join this odyssey through technology's frontiers. As we navigate this shifting landscape, let's question, reflect, and embrace the unpredictable future. This book illuminates, guiding us to unlock technology's boundless potential. As we peel back layers of innovation and peer into the heart of the tech revolution, remember: the future isn't what happens to us; it's what we shape, mold, and create. Are you ready for technology's impact on our lives? Buckle up for an exhilarating and enlightening journey. Together, let’s unveil the future and the incredible transformation it promises.