First and fast : outpace your competitors, lead your markets, and accelerate growth / / Stuart Cross

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828191303321
• Autore: Cross Stuart
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-63157-472-8
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 158 pages)
• Collana: Strategic management collection, , 2150-9646
• Disciplina: 658.406
• Soggetti: Organizational change
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Are you fast or irrelevant? -- The decline and fall of Nokia -- What's driving the need for speed? -- Why are companies still too slow? -- Shifting focus from perfection to pace -- 2. Creating a high-speed, high-growth culture -- Avoiding the cultural danger zone -- Act like a start-up and adopt a challenger mind-set -- The cultural traffic jam: the seven most likely roadblocks -- The critical role of the "sprinter-in-chief": Richard Baker puts "the chemists" back into boots -- 3. Organizing for speed and agility -- The power of simplicity in a complex world -- Destroying silos, accelerating growth -- Decision making on the run -- Turning your organization on a dime -- 4. Rapid-fire strategy -- Strategy ain't what it used to be -- The 3Rs of strategy -- Organizing for rapid-fire strategy -- The 6-day strategy: why spend 6 months developing a 1-year plan? -- 5. Fast-lane innovation -- Releasing the innovation brakes -- Building up speed: focusing innovation on what won't change -- Shifting gear: acceleration through action -- 8 accelerators for fast-lane innovation -- 6. Implementing at pace -- The speed of light at the center of the sun -- Focus, focus, focus: you can't chase two hares -- Lead by results: the inverse relationship between detailed planning and performance management -- Think big, start small: Tesco Express versus Fresh & Easy -- Remember, delivery is the day job: the secret to rapid transformation -- 7. Allowing your customers to navigate -- Steve Jobs was an error: the customer's not always right, but that's the way to bet ; -- Who to implore and who to ignore -- How to work with customers to accelerate innovation -- Customer navigation in action: embedding customer focus at DFS -- 8. Sustaining success and kicking on -- How fast is too fast? -- Moving onto new heights -- Seven immediate steps you can take today -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: For the past 30 years, business leaders have been exhorted to move faster and adopt a "ready, fire, aim" approach to the growth of their business. As the level of change and turbulence increases in all markets, all organizations must adapt--quickly!--or risk decline and decay. But what are the real behaviors, processes, and techniques that are critical to lead your organization at pace without creating confusion, frustration, and unnecessary risk? First and Fast provides business leaders with a comprehensive and pragmatic set of tools and ideas to enable them to increase pace, build momentum, and accelerate growth in a systematic way. This book is written for business owners, chief executives, other senior executives and managers, consultants, and business advisors. Readers will benefit by learning techniques to build and lead faster, more responsive organizations that are better able to grow and thrive in a fast-changing world. Among other things, they will know how to ensure that managers don't fall into the trap of sitting on yesterday's success when they should be shifting gears to deliver tomorrow's solutions, to demonstrate the necessary fast-paced leadership behaviors on a daily basis, and to transform their business from a "busy" organization to one that is genuinely the fastest and most effective in its market.

The Life, Science and Times of Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov : Pioneer of Soviet Cryogenics / L. J. Reinders

• Record Nr.: UNICAMPANIAVAN0211823
• Autore: Reinders, Lodewijk Johannes <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, : Springer, 2018
• Titolo uniforme: The Life, Science and Times of Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
• Soggetti: 01-XX - History and biography [MSC 2020]; 80-XX - Classical thermodynamics, heat transfer [MSC 2020]; 00A79 (77-XX) - Physics [MSC 2020]
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Philosophy and the Turn to Religion / Hent de Vries

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524700403321
• Autore: Vries Hent de.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Johns Hopkins University Press
• ISBN: 0-8018-5994-8; 1-4214-3739-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xviii, 475 pages))
• Disciplina: 291.1/75
• Soggetti: Religionsphilosophie; Godsdienst; Filosofie; Philosophy and religion; Philosophie et religion - Histoire; Philosophy and religion - History; History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1999; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-459) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Revealing Revelations -- Two Misreadings -- Mikel Dufrenne's Plea for a Nontheological Philosophy -- Jean-Luc Marion's Heterology of Donation -- The Example Par Excellence -- Hypertheology -- The Unavoidable -- Yet Another "Non-Theo-Anthropological Otherness" -- Thearchy and Beyond -- The Movement Upward -- Angelus Silesius's uber -- Pseudo-Dionysius's hyper -- Emmanuel Levinas's autrement -- Jean-Luc Marion's Analogy of Hierarchy -- The Affirmative First -- The Diacritical Moment of Prayer -- Analytical Confirmations -- Formal Indications -- Heidegger and Insubordination -- Shortcuts -- Reading St. Paul Methodically -- Eschatology, the kaipos, and the [pi]apovsia -- "As Though It Were Not" -- Formal Indication: The Very Idea -- Fiat Flux -- On Becoming a Mystery to Oneself -- "Religion qua Religion": Heidegger's Humanism -- Transcendental Historicity -- The Generous Repetition -- Save the Name -- The Impossibility of Possibility -- The Death of the Other -- The Aporetic as Such -- Heidegger's Possibilism -- Virtual Debates -- The Kenosis of Discourse -- Angelus Silesius's Cherubinic Wanderer -- Save ... the Name -- Revealing Revelations Once More -- The Confessional Mode -- Apocalyptics and Enlightenment -- Idolatry and Hyperphysics -- Kant and Kafka -- The Revelation of John and the Ends of Philosophy -- Speech Tact -- Vigilance and the Ellipses of Enlightenment.
• Sommario/riassunto: Originally published in 1999. If religion once seemed to have played out its role in the intellectual and political history of Western secular modernity, it has now returned with a vengeance. In Philosophy and the Turn to Religion, Hent de Vries argues that a turn to religion discernible in recent philosophy anticipates and accompanies this development in the contemporary world. Though the book reaches back to Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, and earlier, it takes its inspiration from the tradition of French phenomenology, notably Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion, and, especially, Jacques Derrida. Tracing how Derrida probes the discourse on religion, its metaphysical presuppositions, and its transformations, de Vries shows how this author consistently foregrounds the unexpected alliances between a radical interrogation of the history of Western philosophy and the religious inheritance from which that philosophy has increasingly sought to set itself apart.De Vries goes beyond formal analogies between the textual practices of deconstruction and so-called negative theology to address the necessity for a philosophical thinking that situates itself at once close to and at the farthest remove from traditional manifestations of the religious and the theological. This paradox is captured in the phrase adieu (à dieu), borrowed from Levinas, which signals at once a turn toward and a leave-taking from God—and which also gestures toward and departs from the other of this divine other, the possibility of radical evil. Only by confronting such uncanny and difficult figures, de Vries claims, can one begin to think and act upon the ethical and political imperatives of our day.