1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460505303321

Autore

Thompson Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), <1956->

Titolo

Border odyssey : travels along the US/Mexico divide / / Charles D. Thompson, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-292-77199-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Disciplina

972/.1

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Mexican-American Border Region

United States Foreign relations Mexico

Mexico Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""1. Evidence of Things Not Seen""; ""contents""; ""2. The Border Etched in Bones""; ""3. Traveling the Valley of the Shadow""; ""4. Two Kinds of Flight""; ""5. Of Roads, Fences, and Neighbors""; ""6. Boca Chica Sunset""; ""7. The Ghosts of Palmito Ranch""; ""8. El Ranchero""; ""9. Border Guards""; ""10. Brownsville Raids""; ""11. Rio Grande Guardians""; ""12. Progress?""; ""13. World's Most Honest Man""; ""14. Cowboy Priests""; ""15. The Hand-Drawn Ferry""; ""16. Prohibition Bar""; ""17. Border Walker""; ""18. The Road to Eagle Pass""; ""19. Border Ambassador""

""20. The Last Stay at Del Rio""""21. Seminole Canyon""; ""22. Braceros in Murder City""; ""23. Fort Davis and the Buffalo Soldiers""; ""24. National Park on the Line""; ""25. Pancho Villa and the Pink Store""; ""26. Smoke on the Apachería""; ""27. A Grandmother Mourns at the Wall""; ""28. Fences and Neighbors""; ""29. Ground Zero of the Border Crisis""; ""30. Altar and Sacrifice""; ""31. Phoenix Rising""; ""32. Tohono Sacred Peak and Desert Deaths""; ""33. Campesinos Sin Fronteras""; ""34. The Wall of Shame and Entrepreneurship""; ""35. Graves of Unknown Farmworkers""

""36. Desert View Tower and the X-Men""""37. Walking Alone through



Friendship Park""; ""38. As If It Were Not There""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145418603321

Autore

Mognetti Jean Frédéric

Titolo

Out of the Ashes [[electronic resource] ] : Tools for Recovering Corporate Health

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, : Wiley, 2008

ISBN

1-119-20167-5

1-281-32293-8

9786611322939

0-470-75434-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Disciplina

387.7068

658.4/06

658.406

Soggetti

Airlines - Management

Airlines -- Management

Corporate turnarounds

Organizational change

Corporate turnarounds - Management

Airlines

Management

Business & Economics

Transportation Economics

Management Styles & Communication

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Relational Coaching; Preface; Contents; Part I: The Ways of Coaching; Introduction: the paths towards coaching; Chapter 1: From Intake to Intervention: the Outlines of a Profession; Chapter 2: From Stigma to Status: the Growth of a Profession; Chapter 3: From Prize-fighting to



Prizes for All: the Active Ingredients; Chapter 4: From Intervention to Interaction: Relational Coaching; Part II: The Ways of Research; Introduction: the paths towards research; Chapter 5: Coachees Have Their Say: Which Interventions Work for Us?

Chapter 6: 'I Doubt therefore I Coach': Critical Moments of Less Experienced CoachesChapter 7: 'I Struggle and Emerge': Critical Moments of Experienced Coaches; Chapter 8: Coaches Have Their Say: How to Handle Critical Moments?; Part III: The Ways of Excellence; Introduction: the paths towards excellence; Chapter 9: Training and Accreditation of the Executive Coach; Chapter 10: Continuing Professional Development of the Executive Coach; Chapter 11: Library of the Executive Coach; Chapter 12: Future of the Executive Coach; Appendix A: 80 Critical Moments of New Coaches

Appendix B: 78 Critical Moments of Experienced CoachesAppendix C: Case Study: Tamara; Appendix D: Verbatim Transcript: Ken; Appendix E: Code of Conduct for Executive Coaches; 1 General principles; 2 Code of ethics; 3 Code of practice; Appendix F: Intake Instruments and Checklists; 1 For the recipient of coaching; 2 For the coach; 3 For triangular contracts; Literature; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Take a management journey to the heart of the restructuring of SN Brussels Airlines, sharing the dos and don'ts of Jean-Frédéric Mognetti's three years of hands-on experience as restructuring catalyst to the company. In 2002 SN rose out of the ashes of Belgian airline SABENA, witnessing a remarkable turnaround and returning to continuing profits as early as the second year of operations, even going on to acquire Virgin Express in 2005. This was achieved with a modest equity investment of €150 million, 12 times less than the cash that Swiss International Airlines, SN's former sister company, bu