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Kyocera Corp.: The Amoeba Management System
by Robin CooperDescribes Kyocera's unusual approach to profit centers. The firm's basic units of operation are profit centers called "amoebas," which are sales or manufacturing units with full responsibility for their planning, decision making, and administration. Amoebas are expected to find ways to improve production and lower costs, reflecting the belief of Kyocera's founder that profits are generated during the manufacturing process.
The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics: The Platform Of Community, Humanity, And Spirituality (Creative Economy Ser.)
by Stomu Yamash’ta Tadashi Yagi Stephen HillThis book confronts the failings of current global economics to deliver the equity, sustainability and community empowerment which humanity now needs to handle a troubled future. The volume proposes an economy built from our society, not the other way around.The Kyoto Manifesto was built, layer by layer, over a period of 4 years, based on broad-ranging international symposia held in Kyoto between 2014 and 2017, hosted by the Center for the Creative Economy, Doshisha University. Not stopping at theory and untested ideas however, the Manifesto proposes practical action that will make a difference, including in the problematic technological and ecological context of humanity’s immediate and long-term future.The book is unique and innovative for it moves adventurously across very broad territory. The Manifesto draws from world philosophic arguments, including, specifically, a critique of “liberalism”, further, exploring sociology, cultural anthropology, politics, primatology and early humanity, even quantum physics. Argument is set within mainstream post-1972 economics and political economics as well as direct practical experience working to empower disadvantaged communities through the United Nations.Most importantly, the book’s analysis is deeply informed by the practice of searching for what is “sacred”, the ultimate essence of our humanity, what we can be as a human race—empowered, fulfilled individuals, deeply sharing and caring for each other across our separate cultures and lives. Stomu Yamash’ta’s On Zen performances, set the context for the Symposia, bringing different religions and cultures together across their dividing boundaries into a coherent search for peace and harmony through sacred music. Informed by alternate cultural paradigms for economics, the book probes deeply into philosophies and practices that already exist within Eastern and Western societies, and offer lessons for our future.The result is an economics that stresses harmony with nature, and balance in social relations. It places an emphasis on community—human sharing and trust—as a platform for our future, not separate from the global economy but integrated into its very foundations. This is a book for all who care: a plan for our sustainable future built from the best of what our humanity is and can offer.
The Kyoto Post-COVID Manifesto For Global Economics: Confronting Our Shattered Society (Creative Economy)
by Stephen Hill Tadashi Yagi Stomu Yamash’taThis book, The Kyoto Post-COVID Manifesto for Global Economics (KM-PC), is a sequel to our 2018 book, The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics (KM-I, 2018). It further exposes the failures of a global economic regime that, based on self-interest, has led to the enormously unequal and fragmented society of today and our decreased ability to respond and recover from the critical worldwide consequences of such a regime over time — notably, climate change. At stake is our very survival beyond the twenty-first century. The fundamental tenet of this book is that our power to heal our currently fractured society lies in the depth of our humanity — in our shared human spirit and spirituality. What is sacred or of imperishable supreme value is what we can be as a human race: empowered, fulfilled individuals, living in harmony, deeply sharing and caring for one another and the environment that sustains us across our distinct cultures and worlds in which we live. Thus, the norms in our economic relations do not have to be those of self-interest that separates us, the ever-watchful distrust represented by “the deal” and immediate economic advantage for me. Instead, we can build an economic frame for our society based on mindfulness, care, mutual human benefit, and trust — on our shared humanity. Our argument was complete and we were ready to publish. But then, suddenly, from the dawning of 2020, everything changed. COVID-19 invaded and the world as we knew it simply stopped. No one saw it coming. As authors, we waited to watch and seek to understand. The result is that the book captures the COVID trauma and, against the fractures based on self-interest already visible in today’s society, assesses the impact of COVID-19 now and for the future. Focusing on a humanity-based economics is even more important now, and this book shows why.Chapter 15 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Kyrgyz Republic: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report
by International Monetary FundA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Kyrgyz Republic: Selected Issues (Imf Staff Country Reports #No. 13/176)
by International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Dept.A report from the International Monetary Fund.
Kyrgyz Republic: Selected Issues (Imf Staff Country Reports #No. 13/176)
by International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Dept.A report from the International Monetary Fund.
Kyruus: Big Data's Search for the Killer App
by Robert F. Higgins Penrose O'Donnell Mehul BhattKyruus is used in a course at HBS on Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT and Services (EHITS). It describes a young company that has built a very large database on physicians. The company has had some early successful pilots with prominent customers, but it is now faced with choices on which markets to pursue. These markets each offer opportunity, but the company must make some decisions. As is often the case in early stage companies, these choices will affect a number of things, including organizational needs and capital requirements.
L.A. Freeway: An Appreciative Essay
by David BrodslyThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
L. A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement
by Ruth MilkmanL.A. Story shatters many of the myths about modern labor with a close look at workers in four industries in Los Angeles: building maintenance, trucking, construction, and garment production.
L.L. Bean: A Search for Growth
by Rajiv Lal Walter J. Salmon James WeberIn mid-2003, CEO Chris McCormick felt L.L. Bean was in a good position to begin to grow again. For nearly 90 years, the company sold clothing and gear for outdoor enthusiasts through its catalogs and a single retail store in Freeport, Maine. In the three decades prior to 1996, sales growth averaged nearly 20% per year. In 1995, sales hit $1 billion, but stagnated for the next six years--growing at less than 2% annually. The company responded with a structural reorganization and investment in its Internet sales channel. In 2002 and early 2003, McCormick led an effort to reduce overhead and improve its internal systems, including the elimination of 1,000 jobs--which reduced year-round headcount by nearly 15%. After these initiatives, the company remained profitable and enjoyed a strong balance sheet, but sales growth remained near zero. Most significantly, between 2000 and 2002, L.L. Bean opened three retail stores in shopping malls outside Maine. McCormick viewed these three stores as the first of a chain of stores that would form a new selling channel and enable L.L. Bean to grow. Early results from the three new stores were below expectations; L.L. Bean spent significant time examining its retail store activities in an attempt to learn where it could improve. As the company began to apply those lessons in the stores, performance picked up, fueling McCormick's optimism that L.L. Bean could grow with retail stores.
L.L. Bean, Inc.: Item Forecasting and Inventory Management
by Arthur Schleifer Jr.L.L. Bean must make stocking decisions on thousands of items sold through its catalogs. In many cases, orders must be placed with vendors twelve or more weeks before a catalog lands on a customer's doorstep, and commitments cannot be changed thereafter. As a result, L.L. Bean suffers annual losses of over $20 million due to stockouts or liquidations of excess inventory. Provides a context in which buying decisions that balance costs of overstocking and understocking when demand is uncertain are made and implemented on a routine basis.
La Causa: The Migrant Farm Workers' Story
by Richard Larios Dana Catherine de Ruiz Alex HaleyDescribes the efforts in the 1960s of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to organize migrant workers in California into a union which became the United Farm Workers.
La Ceiba: Navigating Microfinance and Relationships in Honduras (A)
by Christine Exley John Beshears Alison Wood BrooksThis case follows the program director of La Ceiba, a Honduras-based microfinance institution, as he navigates four challenging negotiation scenarios involving the organization's loan clients. Students are asked to adopt the perspective of the Program Director and to consider how they would act in these negotiation scenarios that are characterized by unclear objectives and severely asymmetric power dynamics. How should they approach negotiation situations in which the power balance is heavily in their own favor? Should they exert this power and engage in a “hard” negotiation approach? Or, are there circumstances where a “soft” negotiation approach is warranted? In addition to helping students develop a framework about when to use soft versus hard negotiation approaches, two of the notable lessons that arise are (i) the role of apologies after misusing power and (ii) how even “using one’s power for good” can translate into paternalistic outcomes.
La Ceiba: Navigating Microfinance and Relationships in Honduras (B)
by Christine Exley John Beshears Alison Wood BrooksSupplement
La chiave per iniziare a guadagnare in borsa
by Álvaro CidSono a conoscenza del fatto che molte persone vorrebbero iniziare a guadagnare nel mercato della borsa. Purtroppo, però, non hanno ancora le competenze sufficienti per conseguirlo, ed è proprio per questo che ho scritto questo libro. La sua missione è quella di aprire gli occhi a molti su quella che è l’analisi tecnica, e spiegare come può farci ottenere un grande guadagno. In queste pagine ti insegnerò la teoria che è alla base di questa analisi, così come la sua storia e altri strumenti elementari per iniziare ad investire con il piede giusto. Sono molte le persone che non hanno queste nozioni e che, nonostante questo, riescono comunque a trarre benefici dal mercato. In ogni caso, è interessante averne una conoscenza previa e non esserne sorpresi una volta che c'è in gioco il denaro reale. Nel mercato, tutta l'ignoranza in materia si traduce in perdita, prima o poi.
La chispa: Cómo activar los 10 impulsores humanos que te hacen sentir vivo
by Brendon BurchardFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Millionaire Messenger, an electrifying and inspiring book that provides the keys to motivating yourself to satisfy your highest, most essential creative and intellectual needs.
La chispa
by Brendon BurchardFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Millionaire Messenger, an electrifying and inspiring book that provides the keys to motivating yourself to satisfy your highest, most essential creative and intellectual needs.In the hyper-connected, hyper-digitized world in which we are living, the time has come to revise Abraham Maslow's classic "hierarchy of needs"--a pyramid of human drives that places the basic needs of safety and sustenance at the bottom. Burchard, a world-renowned motivational speaker and bestselling author, makes a compelling case that it's time for an entirely new approach to understanding what drives human ambition and achievement today; it's time to change the conversation about what it takes to succeed and feel alive and fulfilled in a stressful, chaotic, distracted world.In The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives that Make You Feel Alive, Burchard, using pioneering studies from the fields of positive psychology and neuroscience, as well as great stories from his own experience, identifies the ten simple drives of human emotion and happiness: Control, Competence, Congruence, Caring, Connection, Change, Challenge, Creative expression, Contribution, and Consciousness. The Charge provides the keys to understanding and activating these drives in clear and concrete ways that will inspire and help everyone find the one thing we all are searching for: more life in our lives.
La dette odieuse de l'Afrique: Comment l'endettement et la fuite des capitaux ont saigné un continent
by Léonce Ndikumana James Boyce« Un ouvrage d'avant-garde qui devrait être lu par tous soucieux de l'Afrique. D'une manière magistrale, mais facilement compréhensible et approfondie, les auteurs démolissent le mythe selon lequel les pays africains ont reçu d'importants flux nets de capitaux étrangers. Ce livre devrait modifier radicalement la pensée et la politique. » - John WeeksDans La dette odieuse de l'Afrique, Léonce Ndikumana et James K. Boyce révèlent le fait choquant que, contrairement à la perception populaire comme quoi l'Afrique ponctionne les ressources financières de l'Occident, le continent est en fait un créancier net du reste du monde. Au cours des quatre dernières décennies, plus de 700 milliards de dollars ont fui les pays d'Afrique sub-saharienne. Toutefois, les actifs de l'Afrique détenus à l'étranger sont privés et cachés, tandis que ses dettes extérieures sont publiques, dus par les peuples africains à travers leurs gouvernements.Ndikumana et Boyce montrent les liens intimes entre les prêts étrangers et la fuite des capitaux. Plus de la moitié de l'argent emprunté par les gouvernements africains dans les dernières décennies a fui dans la même année, une partie importante étant déposée dans des comptes privés dans les mêmes banques qui ont fourni les prêts. Entre temps, le service de la dette continue à drainer les ressources rares de l'Afrique, réduisant ainsi les fonds disponibles pour la santé publique et d'autres besoins de base. De façon provocatrice, les auteurs proposent que les gouvernements africains devraient répudier ces «dettes odieuses» dont leur peuple n'a tiré aucun avantage, et que la communauté internationale devrait aider dans cet effort.Un livre indispensable pour quiconque s'intéresse à l'Afrique, son avenir et ses relations avec l'Occident.
La F brica Visual: Metodos Visuales para Mejorar la Productividad
by Michel GreifUn libro importantisismo para preparar su fbrica antes de poder comenzar producci?n justo-a-tiempo, o cualquier otro programa de mejoras. Crear una fbrica visual es el primer paso para lograr participacion de sus empleados, construir un mejor ambiente de trabajo, y obtener apoyo de su personal. Los casos especificos aqui expuestos seran especialmente utiles en companias dispuestas a mejorar sus operaciones pero no muy seguras sobre como empezar. La comunicacion visual hace que toda la informacion comunmente disponible se pueda entender directamente por todos los que la ven. Esta participacion aporta nueva luz y vida a la cultura de los lugares de trabajo. Michel Greif ha viajado por toda Europa y Estados Unidos estudiando el uso de la comunicacion visual y reuniendo materiales para este libro.
La Flotte Blanche: Histoire de la Compagnie de navigation du Richelieu et d'Ontario
by Pierre Camu"Débutant en 1846 avec une flotte d'un seul navire, c'est grâce à la volonté et la ténacité de personnages remarquables tels que Jacques-Félix Sincennes, Louis-Adélard Sénécal et Louis-Joseph Forget, pour n'en nommer que quelques uns, que la Compagnie de Navigation du Richelieu a fait face aux défis du transport de produits de l'agriculture et de passagers vers des marchés plus vastes. Suite à de nombreuses fusions avec des compagnies déjà en place, elle est devenue en 1913 la mère de la Société Canada Steamship Lines qui est encore un chef de file dans les eaux canadiennes et qui joue également un rôle important et toujours en croissance à l'échelle internationale en Europe, en Asie et en Amérique latine. Avec cette oeuvre, Pierre Camu poursuit sa contribution à l'histoire de l'expansion économique du pays, en particulier dans le domaine des transports par eau. La rigueur et la profondeur de ses recherches pour ce volume sont remarquables; le ton est juste et le contexte social et économique recréé nous permet d'y pénétrer comme si on s'y retrouvait au moment présent.Cet ouvrage captivera le lecteur du début à la fin. J'ai rencontré Pierre Camu lors de mon entrée dans l'industrie maritime, il y a quarante ans, et tout au long de sa carrière j'ai pu constater son dynamisme et son amour pour cette industrie et son histoire. Je recommande la lecture de ce livre à tous ceux et celles qui s'intéressent à l'histoire des pionniers de notre pays."- Le très honorable Paul Martin
La Gestion Du Temps: Un Guide Parfait Pour Maximiser Votre Temps
by Stephen LivermoreCe livre présente les étapes et les stratégies relatives à la façon de maximiser votre vie. Il vous apprend des pratiques de qualité qui vous aideront à éviter la procrastination et les distractions afin de devenir plus productif.
La gestione della Motivazione: La gestione della Motivazione e le sue teorie
by Hiriyappa BIl management, i dipendenti e i clienti sono oggi la risorsa più importante in qualsiasi attività. Nel mondo competitivo del business contemporaneo, la motivazione riveste un ruolo importante nell'arricchimento della soddisfazione dei dipendenti e nella loro fidelizzazione, sia in termini di performance individuale che a livello di risutlati ottenuti in team o gruppi di lavoro, e in considerazione del maggiore beneficio dell'azienda o dell'organizzazione. "La gestione della motivazione" identifica il contesto teorico, del quale analizza i determinanti, i principi del mondo del lavoro, la funzione di un sistema premiante e le teorie che possono migliorare il coinvolgimento del management alla motivazione dei collaboratori. Per comprendere lo scenario sul quale si sviluppa la "motivazione", il libro analizza le teorie fondamentali dalla piramide dei bisogni di Maslow alla teoria di Mcclelland, dalla teoria dei due fattori di Herzberg e alla teoria ERG di Alderfer. Dall'analisi dei diversi fattori considerati, l'autore declina modi e strategie motivazionali in ambiente aziendale, suggerendo, inoltre, applicazioni pratiche nell'ambiente lavorativo quotidiano. Questo libro, quindi, è indirizzato specificamente a studenti di psicologia, istruzione e business e, sul piano professionale, a tutte le figure aziendali che interagiscono quotidianamente con i team e con i singoli individui. Un più ampio pubblico può essere certamente individuato in coach e trainer che devono fare della motivazione una delle principali leve del loro impegno a supporto della crescita professionale delle persone e, più in generale, a chiunque si occupi di rapporti interpersonali all'interno di un'azienda o di un'organizzazione, senza affatto escludere enti ed istituzioni di volontariato. Grazie alla struttura schematica, il libro rappresenta una lettura agevole ed offre un panorama completo ed esaustivo anche per chi si avvicina a
La Grande Alliance-Restaurant Francaise
by Claudine B. Malone Carliss Y. BaldwinPricing of meals for exclusive French restaurant.
La guida americana per avviare un impresa per la vendita all’asta
by Mark J. AllenQuesta guida commerciale americana ti mostrerà le tecniche efficaci utilizzate negli Stati Uniti per creare un’attività redditizia. Come risultato della lettura di questa guida, imparerai suggerimenti e trucchi utilizzati negli Stati Uniti per aiutarti a iniziare la tua attività con un investimento minimo. Imparerai anche quali errori fanno i nuovi imprenditori e come evitarli! Se sei interessato a guadagnare più soldi, velocemente, questa è la guida che fa per te. Oltre a suggerimenti per risparmiare tempo, idee di marketing altamente efficaci e segreti aziendali, avrai anche un piano d'azione passo passo facile da capire che ti toglie la solita insicurezza di iniziare la tua attività
La guida Americana per iniziare la tua impresa GIARDINAGGIO
by Mark J. AllenPer diventare un bravo giardiniere ci vuole molta esperienza e pazienza. Ma per fare decollare la tua impresa ed avere successo immediato occorre sapere come fare. Questa guida vi mostrerà tecniche efficaci per creare un business redditizio anche durante questi periodi economici incerti. Imparerai suggerimenti e trucchi per aiutarti a iniziare la tua attività con un investimento minimo. Imparerai a scegliere correttamente la struttura legale della tua azienda. Imparerai anche quali errori evitare! Se sei interessato a guadagnare più soldi, in fretta, questa è la guida per te. Oltre ai suggerimenti per risparmiare tempo, idee di marketing estremamente efficaci e segreti aziendali, avrai anche un facile piano di azione da seguire passo per passo, che ti farà raggiungere il successo in poco tempo!