Tough calls [[electronic resource] ] : AT&T and the hard lessons learned from the telecom wars / / Dick Martin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783279003321
• Autore: Martin Dick <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : AMACOM, c2005
• ISBN: 0-8144-2846-0
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 294 p
• Disciplina: 384/.06573
• Soggetti: Telecommunication - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-286) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Don't dance to the music of your own buzz -- Understand the power of symbols -- Take control -- Complete the CEO -- Expect the dumbing down of reality -- Work inside out toward your customers -- Don't let plugging leaks become an obsession -- Casting is everything -- Pay attention to the power of the few -- Don't confuse politics and public relations -- Say good-bye to the rah-rah brother- and sisterhood -- Stay off the treadmill of expectations -- It's okay to change your mind -- Credibility breaks all ties -- Reimagine your company's mission -- Practice ambidextrous leadership.

Justifying America's wars : the conduct and practice of US military intervention / / Nicholas Kerton-Johnson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785267603321
• Autore: Kerton-Johnson Nicholas.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-135-16934-9; 1-135-16935-7; 1-282-78227-4; 9786612782275; 0-203-86167-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary security studies
• Disciplina: 355/.033573
• Soggetti: Intervention (International law); Just war doctrine; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Kosovo War, 1998-1999; Afghan War, 2001-2021; Iraq War, 2003-2011; United States Military policy; United States Military policy Case studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Setting the context: Intervention and norms in international society; 3 The Gulf War; 4 The Kosovo intervention; 5 The intervention in Afghanistan; 6 The Iraq War; 7 Conclusion; Afterword: President Obama's discourse on Iran; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines the justifications for, and practice of, war by the US since 1990, and examines four case studies: the Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. The author undertakes an examination of presidential speeches and public documents from this period to determine the focal points on which the respective presidents based ; their rhetoric for war. The work then examines the practice of war in the light of these justifications to determine whether changes in justifications correlate with changes in practice. In particular, the justificatory discourse finds four key themes that