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UNINA9910461868203321 |
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Laudicina Paul A |
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Beating the global odds [[electronic resource] ] : successful decision-making in a confused and troubled world / / Paul A. Laudicina |
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Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, c2012 |
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1-118-41671-6 |
1-283-59892-2 |
9786613911377 |
1-118-42030-6 |
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[1st edition] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Strategic planning |
Organizational change |
Decision making |
Change (Psychology) |
Diffusion of innovations |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Praise for Beating the Global Odds; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: Global Brain Freeze; More Has Become (Much) Less; Think Pinball, Not Roulette; Disorientation and Decision Analysis; Chapter 2: Fast and Fickle; Lumbering Giants; Watch Out for Those Tuning Out and Checking Out; Chapter 3: Rudderless World; Tea Party, Occupy Movements: Birds of a Feather?; Privatizing the Gains, Socializing the Losses; The Three Deficits; Inescapable Trilemma?; The Case for Values-Based Leadership; Chapter 4: Lighten the Load and Make It Sesame Street Simple |
Sesame Street SimpleCockpit Confusion; Chapter 5: Repair Your Social Fabric; The Three-Line Whip; The Pause Principle; All in the Family; Chapter 6: Don't Wait for the Next Big Thing; Innovation: Slowing Down or Speeding Up? (I Think the Latter); Knowledge Hatcheries; Offer a Prize; Fighting Complexity with Complexity; Coming Soon: Information Overload, Tamed and Ready to Serve You?; Chapter 7: Open the |
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Aperture; Vary Your Information Diet; Be Wary of Conventional Wisdom and the Usual Experts; The Problem of Being Right Too Early; Tap into Remarkable People and Places |
Chapter 8: Turning Pixels into a Clearer PicturePowerfully Imagined and Rigorously Researched: The Structure of Scenario Thinking; Counterfactuals and Other Futures Thinking; Envisioning the Future to Inform the Present; TOP GEAR; TERMINUS; FLATLINE; CONTROL-ALT-DELETE; The Coming Chinese Commonwealth?; Pulling It All Together and Getting Ready to Beat the Global Odds; Epilogue; Afterword; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Index |
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The Answer to Global Overload Contending with the 24/7 news cycle and an endless barrage of choices and information has stymied leadership and decision-making strategies among those at the top. But we all know, this is not a just a problem for the elite. The broad-based reaction to this chaotic, unmanageable assault has been to retrench, and to focus on immediate, controllable decisions. In the process, we lose sight of the horizon. More dangerous still, is the shift we've seen from value creation to wealth creation, where information technology 1.0 has enabled a |
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UNINA9910782007803321 |
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Benavides O. Hugo (Oswald Hugo), <1968-> |
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Drugs, thugs, and divas [[electronic resource] ] : telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America / / by O. Hugo Benavides |
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Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Drugs in motion pictures |
Motion pictures - Latin America |
Television soap operas - Latin America |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Melodrama as ambiguous signifier: latin american telenovelas and Narco-dramas -- Seeing Xica and the Melodramatic unveiling of colonial desire -- Producing the global west through latin tales of seduction and enby -- Karen's seduction: the racial politics of appropriate dinner guests -- A mother's wrath and the complex disjuncturing of class -- Being narco: the evolution of a continental sensibility -- Saintly figures and icons: the migration of a continental dream -- La reina del sur: Gender, racial, and national contestations of regional identity -- Sex, drugs, and cumbia: the hybrid nature of culture -- Conclusion: the postcolonial politics of melodrama -- Ugly Betty. |
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Soap opera speaks a universal language, presenting characters and plots that resonate far beyond the culture that creates them. Latin American soap operas—telenovelas—have found enthusiastic audiences throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as in Egypt, Russia, and China, while Mexican narco-dramas have become highly popular among Latinos in the United States. In this first comprehensive analysis of telenovelas and narco-dramas, Hugo Benavides assesses the dynamic role of melodrama in creating meaningful cultural images to explain why these genres have become so successful while more elite cultural productions are declining in popularity. Benavides offers close readings of the Colombian telenovelas Betty la fea (along with its |
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Mexican and U.S. reincarnations La fea más bella and Ugly Betty), Adrián está de visita, and Pasión de gavilanes; the Brazilian historical telenovela Xica; and a variety of Mexican narco-drama films. Situating these melodramas within concrete historical developments in Latin America, he shows how telenovelas and narco-dramas serve to unite peoples of various countries and provide a voice of rebellion against often-oppressive governmental systems. Indeed, Benavides concludes that as one of the most effective and lucrative industries in Latin America, telenovelas and narco-dramas play a key role in the ongoing reconfiguration of social identities and popular culture. |
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