1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787611103321

Autore

Flanagan Tim A. <1955->

Titolo

Leading forward : successful public leadership amidst complexity, chaos, and change / / Tim A. Flanagan and John S. Lybarger ; cover design by Michael Cook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, California : , : Jossey-Bass, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-45374-3

1-118-45376-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LybargerJohn S. <1956->

CookMichael

Disciplina

352.23/6

Soggetti

Leadership

Strategic planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"With Online Assessment"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue -- Introduction -- Agile learning capability -- Adept with ambiguity -- Adroit at thinking strategically -- Ambitious drive to excellence -- Public service assessment and personal leadership development plan -- Epilogue and acknowledgments -- Appendix a: four themes and five independent factors -- Appendix b: suggested reading -- References -- About the authors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Explains the four dimensions of effective leadership for leaders in the public sphere There is a wealth of advice available for corporate leaders, but little in the way of leadership guidance for those in government agencies. Leading Forward fills that gap by providing a development framework and assessment tool based on the four dimensions of effective leadership-empowerment, fairness, leaders, and supervisors. These four dimensions are critical competencies that leaders must develop in order to succeed now and in the future. Based on years of working with agency leaders at



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784761203321

Autore

Rickles Dean

Titolo

Symmetry, structure, and spacetime [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Elsevier Science Pub, 2008

ISBN

1-281-04745-7

9786611047450

0-08-055206-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Philosophy and foundations of physics, v.3

Classificazione

33.21

33.02

Disciplina

530.1

Soggetti

Symmetry (Physics)

Conservation laws (Physics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1. Interpretation and Formalism; 1.1 Interpretation and ontology; 1.2 Symmetry and structure; 1.3 Permutation symmetry and possibility; 1.4 A very brief primer on classical and quantum systems; Chapter 2. Space and Time in the Leibniz-Clarke Debate; 2.1 Substantivalism versus relationalism; 2.2 Inflation versus deflation; 2.3 Leibniz versus Clarke; 2.4 Sophisticated substantivalism and unsophisticated relationalism; 2.5 Looking ahead to the modern debate; Chapter 3. The Interpretation of Gauge Symmetries; 3.1 Maxwellian electromagnetism

3.2 Aspects of gauge theories3.3 Interpretive problems of gauge theories; 3.4 Why gauge?; Chapter 4. Spacetime in General Relativity; 4.1 Manifold substantivalism; 4.2 Models and worlds; 4.3 The hole argument: The view from gauge theory; Chapter 5. Responding to the Hole Problem; 5.1 Troubles with determinism; 5.2 The modalist turn; 5.3 Varieties of relationalism; Chapter 6. What Is an Observable in General Relativity?; 6.1 Defining observables; 6.2 What is the significance of relational localization?; Chapter 7. Time, Change, and Gauge; 7.1 Holes and gauge: A brief recap

7.2 What is the problem of time?7.3 A snapshot of the philosophical debate; 7.4 Catalogue of responses; 7.5 Enter structuralism; 7.6



Quantum gravity and spacetime ontology; Chapter 8. Symmetry and Ontology; 8.1 To reduce or not reduce?; 8.2 Geometric mechanics and possibility spaces; 8.3 Four views on reduction; Chapter 9. Structuralism and Symmetry; 9.1 Three types of structuralism; 9.2 To take objects or to leave them?; 9.3 Surplus, semantic universalism and minimal structuralism; 9.4 Minimal structuralism is not constructive empiricism; References; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book Rickles considers several interpretative difficulties raised by gauge-type symmetries (those that correspond to no change in physical state). The ubiquity of such symmetries in modern physics renders them an urgent topic in philosophy of physics. Rickles focuses on spacetime physics, and in particular classical and quantum general relativity. Here the problems posed are at their most pathological, involving the apparent disappearance of spacetime! Rickles argues that both traditional ontological positions should be replaced by a structuralist account according to which relational