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From Recognition to Support: Gaining a Foothold--Moving Innovation from Idea to Reality
by Harvard Business Review PressRecognizing an idea's potential is an important step in the innovation process. But getting the right people to recognize the idea--that is, people with the power to allocate resources--is another hurdle, and one that demands substantial organizational skill and entrepreneurial drive. This chapter identifies practical steps the entrepreneur/innovator can take to move beyond initial recognition to a situation involving greater support. It covers the critical role of the idea champion and other supporters, the importance of timing in gaining recognition and support, and how to build a business case for an innovative idea and overcome resistance. This chapter was originally published as chapter 4 of "Harvard Business Essentials: The Innovator's Toolkit."
From Renos to Riches
by Ian SzaboFROM RENOS TO RICHESTHE CANADIAN REAL ESTATE INVESTOR'S GUIDE TO PRACTICAL AND PROFITABLE RENOVATIONSAs an investor, part of providing a residence for your tenants is providing a place where they will feel at home and want to stay. How do you do this affordably and strategically? Many landlords will either do a minimal amount of work-and work that has no lasting value-or at the other end of the spectrum, go overboard, using expensive materials and paying for extra and unnecessary labor. Rental renovations are meant as a long-term investment with your best asset in mind-your tenant. Knowing what renovations to undertake and how to do them will guarantee that money is well spent on long-term renovations that last the life of the property and decrease tenant turn-over and loss of rental income.From Renos to Riches is the product of the author's experience as a renovator and investor in residential properties. It offers the reader insights into these key areas: how to assess and cost a renovation and determine if it makes financial sense; what's involved in contracting out a job; how to keep to budget and timelines; how to green your property; jobs you can tackle yourself; design tricks that are inexpensive but look like a million bucks; and much more. With this book you can grow the value of your portfolio of properties; increase cash flow through strategic renovations and decrease expenses by saving money on maintenance by doing the job right the first time; reduce energy usage; and create goodwill with the people who drive your business-your tenants.
From Reproduction to Evolutionary Governance: Toward an Evolutionary Political Economy (Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science #20)
by Kiichiro YagiThis book combines modern evolutionary economics and classical political economy. Modern evolutionary economics with its pluralistic and contingent view of reproduction does not presuppose equilibrium or harmonious reproduction. A society that consists of multiple agents needs to establish an order from the interactions of those agents. The book introduces a normative and a practical dimension where mutual justification occurs through the act of exchange. Mutual justification ultimately leads to the emergence of social and economic order, an approach that the author dubs “approval theory.” The division of labor proceeds alongside the emergence of money and capital, and the book discusses the dual structure of the real and financial economy that is the consequence. It then interprets collective action using the twin concept of voice and exit and proposes the concept of evolutionary governance to explain the politico-economic aspects of the social economy.As such, this book shows the promising direction in which the modern political economy is now proceeding, in accordance with the contingent process of evolutionary reproduction. Further, two collaborating authors supply a game-theoretical interpretation of approval theory and an exploration of the evolution of dynamical systems, respectively.
From Research to Market: A Comprehensive Guide
by Alvaro OssaUnlock the secrets to transforming research into impactful products and services that reach the market. This book is a vital resource for anyone involved in the journey from academia to commercialization. It outlines the main stages and key milestones of technology transfer in a clear and engaging manner, featuring real-world examples of successful university research outcomes. Analyse the circumstances behind their success and learn the essential steps for a successful technology transfer process. Designed as a go-to reference for researchers, doctoral and master's students, scientific entrepreneurs, and academics focused on innovation and entrepreneurship, this book is also invaluable for technology managers at universities, research centres, and public agencies. Enhance your understanding of technology transfer and gain practical knowledge to navigate this complex field successfully.
From Research to Practice in the Design of Cooperative Systems: Results and Open Challenges
by Parina Hassanaly Maria Antonietta Grasso Jean-François Boujut Cédric Masclet Julie DugdaleCOOP 2012 is the tenth COOP conference, marking twenty years from the first conference in 1992. In this special anniversary edition we asked researchers and practitioners to reflect on what have been the successes and the failures in designing cooperative systems, and what challenges still need to be addressed. We have come a long way in understanding the intricacies of cooperation and in designing systems that support work practices and collective activities. These advances would not have been possible without the concerted effort of contributions from a plethora of domains including CSCW, HCI, Information Systems, Knowledge Engineering, Multi-agent systems, organizational and management sciences, sociology, psychology, anthropology, ergonomics, linguistics, etc. The COOP community is going from strength to strength in developing new technologies, advancing and proposing new methodological approaches, and forging theories.
From Research to Teaching: A Guide to Beginning Your Classroom Career
by Michael KibbeIt's a long way from the research carrel to the classroom. No matter your personality, your prior experience, or the specifics of your situation, the transition from graduate studies to teaching involves a set of challenges for which no one is ever fully prepared. In this practical guide Michael Kibbe, author of From Topic to Thesis, provides a helpful companion for the journey. With plenty of personal examples and tested advice, Kibbe covers preparation for teaching, best practices in the classroom, self-evaluation, and the discovery of your mission and method. He also reflects on the spiritual lives of professors, including social media practices, Sabbath, and relationships. From Research to Teaching is the concise, accessible resource every new and aspiring professor needs.
From Residency to Retirement: Physicians' Careers over a Professional Lifetime (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
by Terry MizrahiFrom Residency to Retirement tells the stories of twenty American doctors over the last half century, which saw a period of continuous, turbulent, and transformative changes to the U.S. health care system. The cohort’s experiences are reflective of the generation of physicians who came of age as presidents Carter and Reagan began to focus on costs and benefits of health services. Mizrahi observed and interviewed these physicians in six timeframes ending in 2016. Beginning with medical school in the mid-1970s, these physicians reveal the myriad fluctuations and uncertainties in their professional practice, working conditions, collegial relationships, and patient interactions. In their own words, they provide a “view from the front lines” both in academic and community settings. They disclose the satisfactions and strains in coping with macro policies enacted by government and insurance companies over their career trajectory. They describe their residency in internal medicine in a large southern urban medical center as a “siege mentality” which lessened as they began their careers, in Getting Rid of Patients, the title of Mizrahi’s first book (1986). As these doctors moved on in their professional lives more of their experiences were discussed in terms of dissatisfaction with financial remuneration, emotional gratification, and intellectual fulfillment. Such moments of career frustration, however, were also interspersed with moments of satisfaction at different stages of their medical careers. Particularly revealing was whether they were optimistic about the future at each stage of their career and whether they would recommend a medical career to their children. Mizrahi's subjects also divulge their private feelings of disillusionment and fear of failure given the malpractice epidemic and lawsuits threatened or actually brought against so many doctors. Mizrahi’s work, covering almost fifty years, provides rarely viewed insights into the lives of physicians over a professional life span.
From Right to Reality
by Helena Ribe Ian Walker David RobalinoThis study highlights the interaction between social protection (SP) programs and labor markets in the Latin America region. It presents new evidence on the limited coverage of existing programs and emphasizes the challenges caused by high informality for achieving universal social protection for old age income, health, unemployment risks and anti-poverty safety nets. It identifies interaction effects between SP programs and the behavioral responses of workers, firms and social protection providers, which can further undermine efforts to expand coverage, summarizing evidence from recent work across the region. The book argues for a re-design of financing to eliminate cross subsidies between members of contributory programs and subsidies that effectively tax income from formal employment. It advocates well-targeted, tax-funded, tapered subsidies to provide incentives to the savings efforts of low-income workers, coupled with an effective safety net for the extreme poor who have no capacity to contribute to financing their own social protection arrangements. It also argues for the consolidation of programs and harmonization of benefits packages across different insurers. The book develops an overall conceptual framework and presents in-depth analysis of the main SP sectors of pensions, health, unemployment insurance and labor market programs, and safety net transfers.
From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda: Building a Bridge to a Sustainable Future
by Liz Thompson Felix Dodds Jorge Laguna-CelisTwenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit", the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies. Written by practitioners and participants involved in the multilateral process of negotiations, this book presents a unique insider analysis of not only what happened and why, but also where the outcomes might impact in the future, particularly in the UN development agenda beyond 2015. The book throws light on the changing nature of multilateralism and questions frequent assumptions on how policy is defined within the UN. It shows that Rio+20 was more than an international meeting; it represented a culminating point of decades of successes and failures and a watershed moment for seminal concepts, ideas and partnerships including the Green Economy, zero tolerance on land degradation, the introduction of Sustainable Development Goals, the creation of national measurements of consumption, production and well-being that are intended to go beyond GDP, the introduction of national green accounting and the commitment of billions of dollars for sustainable development partnerships, including Sustainable Energy for All. The authors conclude by mapping out a new agenda for development in 2015, when the current Millennium Development Goals framework is due to expire. An agenda that will restore faith in the UN and inspire a global response to the demographic, economic and environmental challenges that will define our future in the decades to come.
From Risk Profiling to Enterprise Resilience: Interdependencies in Management (ISSN)
by Piotr Jedynak Sylwia BąkFrom Risk Profiling to Enterprise Resilience introduces readers to a new approach to risk profiling theory and methodology, as well as relationships between an enterprise’s risk profile and its resilience to crises.Given the need to reflect on changes in approaches to risk and risk management in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the book attempts to characterize the interdependencies between risk profiling processes and the processes of shaping and improving enterprise resilience. After reading the book, the readers will firstly gain theoretical knowledge of risk management in non-crisis and crisis conditions, risk mitigation and risk profiling. Secondly, they will also acquire the practical skills of performing risk profiling, identifying risk mitigation actions, perceiving relationships between individual enterprises’ risk profiles (and their changes), and the building and improving of their resilience. The inclusion of graphics, tables, diagrams, charts, instructions and recommendations will make the content is also easy to understand for a non-specialist audience.This book will be of great interest entrepreneurs, managers and risk management professionals, who can use the content included in the book in their management processes, as well as stakeholders of various enterprises, business and academic communities and students of all levels.
From Rural Village to Global Village: Telecommunications for Development in the Information Age (LEA Telecommunications Series)
by Heather E. HudsonFrom Rural Village to Global Village: Telecommunications for Development in the Information Age examines the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on both the macro level--societal, socio-economic, and governmental--and sector level--education, health, agriculture, entrepreneurship--emphasizing rural and developing regions. Author Heather E. Hudson examines the potential impact of ICTs by reviewing the existing research and adding her own findings from extensive fieldwork in ICT planning and evaluation. The volume includes case studies demonstrating innovative applications of ICTs plus chapters on evaluation strategies and appropriate technologies. She also analyzes the policy issues that must be addressed to facilitate affordable ICT access in rural and developing regions. This discussion relates to the larger “digital divide” issue, and the impact that access to communication technology--or the lack of it--has on communities and societies. This comprehensive volume is a valuable resource for scholars, professionals, researchers, and students in telecommunications law and policy, media economics, international communication, and communication and development fields. It is also suitable for use as an advanced-level text in these areas.
From Sabotage to Support: A New Vision for Feminist Solidarity in the Workplace
by Joy L. Wiggins Kami J. AndersonWomen are acculturated within systems that encourage them to sabotage one another; this book shows how they can break free of this cultural programming and use whatever privilege and power they have to raise each other up.Joy Wiggins and Kami Anderson advocate that the only way women can successfully support each other is by addressing the varying intersections of our individual power and privileges, particularly focusing on how some privileges are inherited along lines of race, class, sexuality, and geography. When we fully examine how we have power in certain situations and not in others, we start to see where we can lend privilege to create truly inclusive spaces for the historically underrepresented and marginalized. Wiggins and Anderson look at how the dynamics of privilege and power have played out in the history of the feminist movement and identify and break down socialized behaviors and ideologies that trigger implicit bias and microaggressions. And they provide tools to interrupt negative thoughts and actions so women can nurture mutual support and show up as their authentic selves. Each chapter features a dialogue between them reflecting on how issues of race, privilege, and power have played out in their lives and their friendship.The system of patriarchy has created an environment for women to knowingly and unknowingly sabotage each other—it is not inherent in women themselves. This book teaches us how to take an active approach to becoming better allies for each other and by so doing improve our world and end the cycle of injustice.
From Safety to Safely: Principles and Practice of Systemic Potentials Management
by Erik HollnagelThe conventional interpretation of safety, known as Safety-I, denotes a condition where as little as possible goes wrong, and the focus of practical efforts in management or analysis is on the occurrence of unacceptable outcomes and on how to reduce their number to an acceptable level, ideally zero. The emphasis is therefore on how to manage safety as such, as seen in the ubiquitous safety management systems (SMS). As Professor James Reason astutely points out, this raises the interesting question of how it is possible to learn about something, let alone manage it, if it is studied only in situations in which it is absent. The solution proposed by and described in this book is to stop using safety as a noun and instead use it as an adverb: safely.Now often referred to as Safety-II, this solution is the logical consequence of resilience engineering and will require new methods, several of which already exist and have proved their worth in practice for years. The question ceases being what to manage and becomes how to manage. Managing safety is protective, hence a non-productive cost, which at best avoids a loss. Conversely, managing safely is productive and can generate revenue in addition to preventing or avoiding losses; aviation and mining are prime examples.From Safety to Safely provides a practical perspective on managing safely, illustrating a practical form of synesis. It offers a new understanding of safety, combining concerns for productivity and safety rather than juxtaposing them, and it shows how to manage complex industrial and social systems in the spirit of resilience engineering and synesis. It is the first book to completely dispense with the loaded term "safety" while offering a practical and viable alternative. Spoiler alert: this book does not mention or analyse any celebrated accidents.This book is for all middle and senior managers, board members, and independent consultants seeking to ensure safe, revenue-generating operations.
From Saturday Night to Sunday Night: My Forty Years of Laughter, Tears, and Touchdowns in TV
by Dick EbersolA memoir by the legendary television executive detailing his pioneering work on Saturday Night Live, Sunday Night Football, the Olympics, the NBA, music videos, late night, and more.Think of an important moment in live TV over the last half-century. Dick Ebersol was likely involved. Dropping out of college to join the crew of ABC&’s Wide World of Sports, Ebersol worked the Mexico City Olympics during the famous protest by John Carlos and Tommie Smith as well as the Munich Olympics during the tragic hostage standoff. He went on to cocreate Saturday Night Live with Lorne Michaels and later produced the show for four seasons, helping launch Eddie Murphy to stardom. After creating Friday Night Videos and partnering with Vince McMahon to bring professional wrestling to network TV, he next took over NBC Sports, which helped turn basketball into a global phenomenon and made history as the first broadcaster to host the World Series, the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, and the Summer Olympics in the same year; it was Ebersol who was responsible for Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic flame in Atlanta. Then, following a plane crash that took the life of his fourteen-year-old son Teddy and nearly killed him, he determinedly undertook perhaps his greatest career achievement: creating NBC&’s Sunday Night Football, still the #1 primetime show in America. The Today show&’s headline-making hosting changes, the so-called &“Late-Night Wars,&” O.J. Simpson&’s Bronco chase—Ebersol had a front-row seat to it all. From Saturday Night to Sunday Night is filled with entertaining and illuminating stories featuring such boldface names as Billy Crystal, Michael Jordan, Bill Clinton, Jay Leno, Peyton Manning, Michael Phelps, and Larry David. (Ebersol even inspired the famous Seinfeld episode in which George Costanza pretends he didn&’t quit his job.) More than that, the book offers an insightful history and analysis of TV&’s evolution from broadcast to cable and beyond—a must-read for casual binge-watchers and small-screen aficionados alike.
From Saviour to Guarantor: EU Member States' Economic Intervention During the Financial Crisis (ROMA TRE Business And Finance Collection)
by Fabio Bassan Carlo D. MotturaFrom Saviour to Guarantor.
From Saviour to Guarantor: EU Member States’ Economic Intervention During the Financial Crisis (Roma Tre Business and Finance Collection)
by Fabio Bassan Carlo D. MotturaState guarantees commonly function as financial panacea, allowing states to consolidate banking systems and create intergovernmental funds. Rules surrounding state guarantees were relaxed during the 2007-2008 financial crisis, allowing states to use them for financing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and workers' severance payments. Despite many multi-level interventions in many areas after the financial crisis, from international treaties to EU regulations, no specific regulation has been put in place to control state guarantees. This book addresses the subject of state guarantees in the Eurozone, and questions the stability of the instruments implemented so far by states and by the European Union. Using a methodology combining law and finance, it examines the tools adopted by European institutions and Member States in the EU's evolving institutional context, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the tools themselves as well as of the new European institutional framework. It also addresses the unconventional measures adopted by the European Central Bank, its role as safeguard for European state guarantees and its interaction with the European Union and national courts. In From Saviour to Guarantor the authors suggest that the absence of specific regulatory interventions and the variety and vagueness of existing rules has resulted in state guarantees further destabilising public international finance.
From School to Work
by Harry T. Smith J. J. Littrell James H. LorenzFrom School to Work helps students make smooth transitions from their classrooms to meaningful jobs. The text emphasizes the skills students need to succeed in school, at work, and on their own.
From Science to Business: Summary of a Workshop
by Catherine Jay DidionScientists, engineers, and medical professionals play a vital role in building the 21st- century science and technology enterprises that will create solutions and jobs critical to solving the large, complex, and interdisciplinary problems faced by society: problems in energy, sustainability, the environment, water, food, disease, and healthcare. As a growing percentage of the scientific and technological workforce, women need to participate fully not just in finding solutions to technical problems, but also in building the organizations responsible for the job creation that will bring these solutions to market and to bear on pressing issues. To accomplish this, it is important that more women in science and engineering become entrepreneurs in order to start new companies; create business units inside established organizations, mature companies, and the government; and/or function as social entrepreneurs focused on societal issues. Entrepreneurship represents a vital source of change in all facets of society, empowering individuals to seek opportunity where others see insurmountable problems. From Science to Business: Preparing Female Scientists and Engineers for Successful Transitions into Entrepreneurship is the summary of an August 2009 workshop that assesses the current status of women undertaking entrepreneurial activity in technical fields, to better understand the nature of the barriers they encounter, and to identify what it takes for women scientists and engineers to succeed as entrepreneurs. This report focuses on women's career transitions from academic science and engineering to entrepreneurship, with a goal of identifying knowledge gaps in women's skills as well as experiences crucial to future success in business and critical for achieving leadership positions in entrepreneurial organizations. From Science to Business makes the case that in addition to educating women scientists and engineers in rigorous problem solving, it is equally important to provide exposure and training to impart the skills that will enable more women to move from the role of expert to that of leader in dynamic new business enterprises. This book will be of interest to professionals in both academia and industry, graduate and post-graduate students, and organizations that advocate for a stronger economy.
From Science to Startup
by Anil SethiThis book charts the experiences, pitfalls andknowledge behind leading scientific ideas to successful startups. Written byone of Switzerland's top serial entrepreneurs, this book is a must-read forscientists and academicians who want to see their idea turn into a product andchange the market. It is also pertinent for finance and business professionalswho aspire to become technology entrepreneurs. Starting with personal qualities of an entrepreneur, AnilSethi discusses successful ideas, technology evaluation, team formation,patents and investor expectations. To guide the entrepreneur, this book alsoanalyzes deal closing, equity conversion and ideal exit strategies to follow. Ultimately Anil Sethi reveals the 'inside track' which helps understand what drives entrepreneurs and whatthey wouldn't admit.
From Score to System: How the Net Promoter Score (NPS) Grew from a Metric to a Management System
by Fred Reichheld Rob MarkeyIn 2003, when loyalty economics expert Fred Reichheld created the Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a new way of measuring how well an organization generates customer loyalty, no one could have predicted how swiftly this easy-to-understand, open-source metric would catch on. Thousands of innovative companies--Apple, American Express, Zappos, Intuit, eBay, Southwest Airlines, and Facebook, to name just a few--adopted the Net Promoter Score as a way to track the loyalty, engagement, and enthusiasm of their customers. Then, over time, these same companies discovered new methods to expand the impact of NPS--using it to build employee engagement and customer loyalty--and it became something much bigger: a management system capable of transforming entire organizations. In this powerful introductory chapter, Reichheld and his Bain colleague Rob Markey share the back story of NPS. You'll learn how the "S" in NPS came to stand not only for a score but also for a system and a spirit of leadership--a distinctive philosophy that inspires organizations to enrich the lives of those they touch. You'll also be introduced to The Ultimate Question--"On a zero-to-ten scale, how likely is it that you would recommend us to a friend or colleague?"--and to the three categories of customers who respond to it: promoters, passives, and detractors. The impact of this chapter is best summed up in Reichheld's own words: "...The Net Promoter system will help you run a better business, do more satisfying work, and build relationships that yield a more fulfilling life."
From Scratch
by Allen SalkinBig personalities, high drama-the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of the Food Network, now about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary: the business, media, and cultural juggernaut that changed the way America thinks about food. In October 1993, a tiny start-up called the Food Network debuted to little notice. Twenty years later, it is in 100 million homes, approaches a billion dollars a year in revenue, and features a galaxy of stars whose faces and names are as familiar to us as our own family’s. But what we don’t know about them, and the people behind them, could fill a book. Based upon extensive inside access, documents, and interviews with hundreds of executives, stars, and employees all up and down the ladder, Allen Salkin’s book is an exhilarating roller-coaster ride from chaos to conquest (and sometimes back). As Salkin takes us inside the conference rooms, studios, homes, restaurants, and after-hours meetings, we see a salty Julia Child lording it over the early network performers; a fragile Emeril Lagasse staggering from the sudden public shock of cancellation; a very green Rachael Ray nearly burning down the set on her first day; a torn Tyler Florence accepting the Applebee’s job he knows he can’t refuse, but with a chill running down his spine; a determined Bobby Flay reinventing himself once again to survive. Paula Deen, Tom Colicchio, Anthony Bourdain, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, Martha Stewart, Guy Fieri, Cat Cora: Salkin illuminates the people we thought we knew, and the ones we never knew about, in this irresistible story of the intersection between business, television, pop culture, food-and us. .
From Scratch
by Allen SalkinTwenty Years of Dish from Flay and Fieri to Deen and DeLaurentiis... Includes a New Afterword! I don t want this shown. I want the tapes of this whole series destroyed. Martha Stewart In those days, the main requirement to be on the Food Network was being able to get there by subway. Bobby Flay She seems to suggest that you can make good food easily, in minutes, using Cheez Whiz and chopped-up Pringles and packaged chili mix. Anthony Bourdain This is the definitive history of The Food Network from its earliest days as a long-shot business gamble to its current status as a cable obsession for millions, home along the way to such icons as Emeril Lagasse, Rachael Ray, Mario Batali, Alton Brown, and countless other celebrity chefs. Using extensive inside access and interviews with hundreds of executives, stars, and employees, From Scratch is a tantalizing, delicious look at the intersection of business, pop culture, and food. INCLUDES PHOTOS But what we don't know about them, and the people behind them, could fill a book. Based upon extensive inside access, documents, and interviews with hundreds of executives, stars, and employees all up and down the ladder, Allen Salkin's book is an exhilarating roller-coaster ride from chaos to conquest (and sometimes back). As Salkin takes us inside the conference rooms, studios, homes, restaurants, and after-hours meetings, we see a salty Julia Child lording it over the early network performers; a fragile Emeril Lagasse staggering from the sudden public shock of cancellation; a very green Rachael Ray nearly burning down the set on her first day; a torn Tyler Florence accepting the Applebee's job he knows he can't refuse, but with a chill running down his spine; a determined Bobby Flay reinventing himself once again to survive. Paula Deen, Tom Colicchio, Anthony Bourdain, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, Martha Stewart, Guy Fieri, Cat Cora: Salkin illuminates the people we thought we knew, and the ones we never knew about, in this irresistible story of the intersection between business, television, pop culture, food--and us.
From Security to Community Detection in Social Networking Platforms (Lecture Notes in Social Networks)
by Jalal Kawash Panagiotis Karampelas Tansel ÖzyerThis book focuses on novel and state-of-the-art scientific work in the area of detection and prediction techniques using information found generally in graphs and particularly in social networks. Community detection techniques are presented in diverse contexts and for different applications while prediction methods for structured and unstructured data are applied to a variety of fields such as financial systems, security forums, and social networks. The rest of the book focuses on graph-based techniques for data analysis such as graph clustering and edge sampling. The research presented in this volume was selected based on solid reviews from the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks, Analysis, and Mining (ASONAM '17). Chapters were then improved and extended substantially, and the final versions were rigorously reviewed and revised to meet the series standards. This book will appeal to practitioners, researchers and students in the field.
From Self-fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest: Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present
by Ewa MazierskaContrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in common. After the Second World War both the East and the West adopted a mixed system, containing elements of both socialism and capitalism, and from the 1980s on the whole of Europe, albeit at an uneven speed, followed the neoliberal agenda. This book examines how the economic systems of the East and West impacted labor by focusing on the representation of work in European cinema. Using a Marxist perspective, it compares the situation of workers in Western and Eastern Europe as represented in both auteurist and popular films, including those of Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Andrzej Wajda, DušanMakavejev, Jerzy Skolimowski, the Dardenne Brothers, Ulrich Seidl and many others.
From Selling to Managing: Guidelines for the First-Time Sales Manager
by Ronald BrownThe sudden transformation from player to coach is a dramatic one, and managers are usually expected to make the transition under their own steam. This dilemma is faced by many high-powered salespeople. A compact primer on making the difficult move from a narrow independent workstyle to a host of diverse responsibilities, this guidebook is written in a quick-grasp, conversational style perfect for the new sales manager. In clear, simple terms it shows how to:* Plan sales force operations efficiently* Implement the plan* Appraise the sales force and operations* Control operations* Communicate up and down in the organization* Recruit and maintain the sales forceFrom Selling to Managing gives the newly appointed manager everything he or she needs to be a success -- again.