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Something within Me: A Personal and Political Memoir
by Michael WilsonThe late Honourable Michael Wilson was a Canadian politician and business professional. As Minister of Finance under Brian Mulroney, Wilson was one of the key negotiators of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement – one of Canada’s most important economic agreements in the last 50 years, later superseded by NAFTA. In addition, Wilson was responsible for implementing the controversial Goods and Services Tax (GST), which remains key to the federal government today. After his life in Parliament, Wilson served as Ambassador to the United States and Chancellor of the University of Toronto. Outside of politics, Wilson was active in raising awareness of mental health issues following the traumatic loss of his son, Cameron, to suicide. Devoting considerable time to advocacy, he established the Cameron Parker Holcombe Wilson Chair in Depression Studies at the University of Toronto and served as Board Chair for the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Something within Me highlights how Wilson’s personal life blended with his political life and accomplishments, detailing his advocacy for mental health awareness as well his involvement in important pieces of legislation that made significant impacts in Canadian political and economic history. These deeply personal stories, particularly those of a father grappling with his son’s illness and death, remind us of the lives behind the political personas that shape our world.
Something's Got to Give: Balancing Work, Childcare and Eldercare
by Chris Higgins Linda DuxburyA perfect storm of factors are brewing that will redefine dependent care in the coming decades. Delayed marriage and parenthood, longer life-spans, lower birthrates, and the health policy shift to informal caregiving have drastically increased the number of employees whose mental and physical health suffers due to an inability to balance work, childcare, and eldercare. Employers also feel the pinch as this inability to balance a myriad of demands is negatively impacting their bottom line. Something’s Got to Give is a comprehensive overview of the challenges faced by employees and employers as they try to respond to this dramatic demographic change. Linda Duxbury and Christopher Higgins utilize an original and rich data set–gathered from 25,000 Canadians who are employed full time in public, private, and not-for-profit organizations--to demonstrate the urgent need for workplace and policy reforms and support for employed caregivers. The authors’ timely work provides practical advice to managers and policy-makers about how to mitigate the effects of employee work-life conflict, retain talent, and improve employee engagement and productivity. Business and labour leaders as well as employees who truly care about their careers and industries can’t afford to ignore the solutions that Something’s Got to Give thoughtfully provides.
Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn: Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained from Our Losses
by John C. Maxwell John Wooden#1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell believes that any setback, whether professional or personal, can be turned into a step forward when you possess the right tools to turn a loss into a gain. Drawing on nearly fifty years of leadership experience, Dr. Maxwell provides a roadmap for winning by examining the eleven elements that constitute the DNA of learners who succeed in the face of problems, failure, and losses.1. Humility - The Spirit of Learning2. Reality - The Foundation of Learning3. Responsibility - The First Step of Learning4. Improvement - The Focus of Learning5. Hope - The Motivation of Learning6. Teachability - The Pathway of Learning7. Adversity - The Catalyst of Learning8. Problems - The Opportunities of Learning9. Bad Experiences - The Perspective for Learning10. Change - The Price of Learning11. Maturity - The Value of Learning Learning is not easy during down times, it takes discipline to do the right thing when something goes wrong. As John Maxwell often points out--experience isn't the best teacher; evaluated experience is.
SOA Modeling Patterns for Service Oriented Discovery and Analysis
by Michael BellLearn the essential tools for developing a sound service-oriented architectureSOA Modeling Patterns for Service-Oriented Discovery and Analysis introduces a universal, easy-to-use, and nimble SOA modeling language to facilitate the service identification and examination life cycle stage. This business and technological vocabulary will benefit your service development endeavors and foster organizational software asset reuse and consolidation, and reduction of expenditure.Whether you are a developer, business architect, technical architect, modeler, business analyst, team leader, or manager, this essential guide-introducing an elaborate set of more than 100 patterns and anti-patterns-will help you successfully discover and analyze services, and model a superior solution for your project,. Explores how to discover servicesExplains how to analyze services for construction and productionHow to assess service feasibility for deploymentHow to employ the SOA modeling language during the service identification and examination processHow to utilize the SOA modeling patterns and anti-patterns for service discovery and analysisFocusing on the Service-Oriented Discovery and Analysis Life Cycle Stage, this book will help you acquire a broad SOA Modeling knowledge base and leverage that to increase efficiency and productivity in the workplace.
Somos el 99%: Una vuelta en bici por la desigualdad
by Gonzalo Fanjul Suarez Marc Graño PlazaSomos en 99% es un libro para abrir los ojos, informarte y descubrir qué medidas puedes tomar para cambiar una realidad que te afecta tanto o más que a nadie. #Somosel99 Vivimos en un mundo en el que: - el 1% de la población toma decisiones contrarias al interés del 99% restante. - uno de cada cinco jóvenes no puede terminar la educación primaria. - con solo una cuarta parte de la comida de se desperdicia al año, podríamos alimentar a los 800 millones de personas que pasan hambre. Escrito con un lenguaje ameno y cercano y con ilustraciones y gráficos, Somos el 99% recoge la historia de cinco personajes (yde sus bicicletas), para informarnos, ponernos en la piel de personas afectadas de distinta manera por la discriminación y proponer medidas sencillas que todos podemos aportar para que la distribución de la riqueza y de las oportunidades sea más igualitaria.
The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World #49)
by Gregory ClarkA surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomesHow much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries. Using a novel technique—tracking family names over generations to measure social mobility across countries and periods—renowned economic historian Gregory Clark reveals that mobility rates are lower than conventionally estimated, do not vary across societies, and are resistant to social policies.Clark examines and compares surnames in such diverse cases as modern Sweden and Qing Dynasty China. He demonstrates how fate is determined by ancestry and that almost all societies have similarly low social mobility rates. Challenging popular assumptions about mobility and revealing the deeply entrenched force of inherited advantage, The Son Also Rises is sure to prompt intense debate for years to come.
Soñar es poder.La historia y las claves del éxito del español que consiguió acompañar al presidente Obama hasta la Casa
by Juan VerdeLa autobiografía personal y profesional del hombre que codirigió la campaña internacional de reelección de Obama en su camino a la Casa Blanca, un libro necesario e inspiracional con el mensaje claro de que no hay imposibles y de que tú sí puedes conseguir tus sueños. ¿Cómo un joven español de familia humilde puede convertirse en un empresario y asesor de éxito y llegar a trabajar con Bill y Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, entre otros, y llegar a convertirse una pieza clave dentro del Gobierno de Barack Obama? ¿Cuáles son las claves de su éxito? En Soñar es poder el asesor del presidente Obama Juan Verde escribe en primera persona las peripecias que lo llevaron a Estados Unidos y cómo allí descubrió cuál era su sueño y cómo luchó para conseguirlo. Una historia plagada de entusiasmo y de lucha, de convicción y de valentía, un guion que comienza en una pequeña localidad de Gran Canaria y que termina en Washingtonen la Casa Blanca. Juan Verde te habla en esta obra de la importancia de creer en un sueño, de sentir pasión por lo que haces, de lo importante que es asumir riesgos y de ponerte siempre al servicio del otro. Estos tres últimos son para él no sólo los tres pilares sobre los que se construye una carrera de éxito, sino que constituyen su propia filosofía de vida.
La sonda del viento
by Enfermera SaturadaEnfermera Saturada regresa con su particular visión del mundo sanitario cargada de humor negro e ironía. La salud es algo muy serio, por eso es mejor tomársela con humor. Así lo cree esta enfermera que recorre los pasillos a toda pastilla y que en La sonda del viento analiza con detalle las muestras de sus pacientes y todo lo que le rodea. Desde lo complicado que es aparcar en los hospitales hasta las cenas de empresa, pasando por todo el catálogo de cacharritos para revisarnos la salud en casa, las contraseñas imposibles de recordar o los momentos más surrealistas vividos en la puerta de Urgencias y en el laboratorio. Porque aunque no lo creamos para el análisis de heces es suficiente una muestra del tamaño de una nuez. Un divertido viaje al corazón de un hospital que bien podría ser el nuestro. Porque el humor no cura las heridas ni acaba con las listas de espera, pero al menos lo hace todo más soportable.Héctor Castiñeira nació en Lugo y se graduó en Enfermería por la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Especialista en Enfermería del Trabajo, ha cursado másteres en Formación del Profesorado, Urgencias y Emergencias, Comunicación Científica y en Seguridad Clínica. Experto en cuidados críticos del paciente adulto y neonatal, Héctor ha trabajado como enfermero en el Servicio Madrileño de Salud, en Emerxencias Sanitarias de Galicia 061 y en el Servizo Galego de Saúde, donde en la actualidad desarrolla su labor asistencial. Considerado el perfil más influyente en gestión sanitaria por la IMF Business School, es colaborador semanal desde hace varios años en medios de comunicación (Antena 3, La Sexta, TVE, Radio Galega, RNE o El Mundo) donde realiza divulgación de temas de salud y desde donde ayuda a combatir las fake news de la salud. Embajador de la iniciativa Salud sin Bulos y miembro de la Asociación Española de Comunicación Científica, ha recibido importantes premios nacionales en reconocimiento a su labor de promoción, defensa y visibilidad de la profesión enfermera. Críticas:«El enfermero escritor que vacuna contra el aburrimiento».El Mundo «El humor como terapia sanitaria y medio de supervivencia».El Periódico «Su autor consigue lo que parece imposible, describir con humor la precaria situación de las enfermeras españolas».Cadena SER
Sonder Holdings Inc: Using Technology to Solve Hospitality's Frictions
by John Deighton Leora KornfeldCase
Sonderbetriebsvermögen im Rahmen unternehmerischer Dispositionen über Sachgesamtheiten (Forschungsreihe Rechnungslegung und Steuern)
by Felix WerthebachAusgangspunkt der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist das Entscheidungsproblem des Mitunternehmers, wie mit diesem SBV, das zwar steuerliches Betriebsvermögen der Personengesellschaft darstellt, eigentumsmäßig gleichwohl nur dem Gesellschafter zuzuordnen ist, im Rahmen von betriebswirtschaftlichen Umstrukturierungs- und Übergabevorgängen (Dispositionen über Sachgesamtheiten) zu verfahren ist. Hierzu werden zunächst die Bausteine der Identifizierung von Sonderbetriebsvermögen herausgearbeitet und die steuerlichen Konsequenzen der Bewegung von SBV innerhalb der einzelnen Dispositionsvorgänge (unentgeltlich - entgeltlich – gegen Gewährung oder Minderung von Gesellschaftsrechten) gezogen. Sodann erfolgt die Optimierung jeder einzelnen Fallgruppe anhand eines entwickelten steuerlichen Zielsystems, verbunden mit hieraus abgeleiteten Handlungsempfehlungen für den betrieblichen Entscheider.
The Song Machine: Inside The Hit Factory
by John Seabrook“An utterly satisfying examination of the business of popular music.” —Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic Over the last two decades a new type of hit song has emerged, one that is almost inescapably catchy. Pop songs have always had a "hook," but today’s songs bristle with them: a hook every seven seconds is the rule. Painstakingly crafted to tweak the brain's delight in melody, rhythm, and repetition, these songs are highly processed products. Like snack-food engineers, modern songwriters have discovered the musical "bliss point." And just like junk food, the bliss point leaves you wanting more. In The Song Machine, longtime New Yorker staff writer John Seabrook tells the story of the massive cultural upheaval that produced these new, super-strength hits. Seabrook takes us into a strange and surprising world, full of unexpected and vivid characters, as he traces the growth of this new approach to hit-making from its obscure origins in early 1990s Sweden to its dominance of today's Billboard charts. Journeying from New York to Los Angeles, Stockholm to Korea, Seabrook visits specialized teams composing songs in digital labs with new "track-and-hook" techniques. The stories of artists like Katy Perry, Britney Spears, and Rihanna, as well as expert songsmiths like Max Martin, Stargate, Ester Dean, and Dr. Luke, The Song Machine shows what life is like in an industry that has been catastrophically disrupted—spurring innovation, competition, intense greed, and seductive new products. Going beyond music to discuss money, business, marketing, and technology, The Song Machine explores what the new hits may be doing to our brains and listening habits, especially as services like Spotify and Apple Music use streaming data to gather music into new genres invented by algorithms based on listener behavior. Fascinating, revelatory, and original, The Song Machine will change the way you listen to music.
The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams
by Seth GodinA soulful re-envisioning of what work and leadership can be, from the visionary mind of renowned author and thought leader, Seth GodinThe Song of Significance is a rousing contemplation on work: why it is the way it is, why it&’s gotten so bad, what all of us–especially leaders–can do to make it better.Economic instability and the rise of remote work have left us disconnected and disengaged. Alarmed managers are responding with harsh top-down edicts, layoffs, surveillance and mandatory meetings. Workers are responding by quiet quitting and working their wage. But it doesn't have to be this way.Through 144 provocative stanzas, legendary business author Seth Godin gets to the heart of what ails us; he shows what&’s really at the root of these trends, and challenges us to do better in ways that matter.The choice is simple. We can endure the hangover of industrial capitalism, keep treating people as disposable, and join in the AI-fueled race to the bottom. Or we come together to build a significant organization that enrolls, empowers, and trusts everyone to deliver their best work, no matter where they are.This is a book to share with bosses and co-workers, to discuss and put to action. No matter what our role, it&’s within our power to change. Because, as Godin writes, &“Humans aren&’t a resource. They are the point.&”
Song of the Stubborn One Thousand: The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-87
by Peter ShapiroOn September 9, 1985, one thousand mainly Mexican women workers in Watsonville, California, the "frozen food capital of the world," were forced out on strike in response to an attempt by Watsonville Canning owner, Mort Console, to break their union. They returned to work eighteen months later. Not one had crossed the picket line. A moribund union has been revitalized, and Watsonville's Latino majority emerged as a major force in local politics.At a time when organized labor was in headlong retreat, the Watsonville Canning strike was a dramatic show of the power of women workers, whose struggle became a rallying point for the Chicano movement.Apart from its sheer drama, the strikers' story illuminates the challenges facing a group of ordinary working people who waged a protracted and ultimately successful struggle against seemingly insurmountable odds.
Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality (Anthropology of Contemporary North America)
by Daniel Scott SoulelesSince the early 1980s, private equity investors have heralded and shepherded massive changes in American capitalism. From outsourcing to excessive debt taking, private equity investment helped normalize once-taboo business strategies while growing into an over $3 trillion industry in control of thousands of companies and millions of workers. Daniel Scott Souleles opens a window into the rarefied world of private equity investing through ethnographic fieldwork on private equity financiers. Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss documents how and why investors buy, manage, and sell the companies that they do; presents the ins and outs of private equity deals, management, and valuation; and explains the historical context that gave rise to private equity and other forms of investor-led capitalism. In addition to providing invaluable ethnographic insight, Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss is also an anthropological study of inequality as Souleles connects the core components of financial capitalism to economic disparities. Souleles uses local ideas of “value” and “time” to frame the ways private equity investors comprehend their work and to show how they justify the prosperity and poverty they create. Throughout, Souleles argues that understanding private equity investors as contrasted with others in society writ large is essential to fully understanding private equity within the larger context of capitalism in the United States.
Songs of the Factory: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance
by Marek KorczynskiIn Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable by permeating their workday with pop music on the radio. The first ethnographic study of musical culture in an industrial workplace, Songs of the Factory draws on socio-musicology, cultural studies, and sociology of work, combining theoretical development, methodological innovation, and a vitality that brings the musical culture of the factory workers to life. Music, Korczynski argues, allows workers both to fulfill their social roles in a regimented industrial environment and to express a sense of resistance to this social order. The author highlights the extensive forms of informal collective resistance within this factory, and argues that the musically informed culture played a key role in sustaining these collective acts of resistance. As well as providing a rich picture of the musical culture and associated forms of resistance in the factory, Korczynski also puts forward new theoretical concepts that have currency in other workplaces and in other rationalized spheres of society.
Songy 2011: Restructuring to Survive (Or, Surviving to Restructure?)
by Charles F WuIn 2001, Songy Partners, an Atlanta based real estate developer, was facing three distressed investments within their portfolio each with distinct sets of challenges. Having weathered a myriad of issues during the Global Financial Crisis which included operational shortfalls, failed partnerships, bankruptcies, lender consolidations, lagging tenant demand, low investment liquidity, and pending loan maturities, Songy needed a path forward for these three assets. Songy's lenders were threatening to foreclose on all three properties and also call on personal guarantees. The case addresses Songy's decisions leading up to and during the crisis. Which of the firm's challenges might have been avoidable, did the company have any leverage with its creditors, what tactics might the company employ to save its properties? Within this context, what are Songy's responsibilities to his investors?"In 2011, Songy Partners, an Atlanta based real estate developer, was facing three distressed investments within their portfolio each with distinct sets of challenges. Having weathered a myriad of issues during the Global Financial Crisis which included operational shortfalls, failed partnerships, bankruptcies, lender consolidations, lagging tenant demand, low investment liquidity, and pending loan maturities, Songy needed a path forward for these three assets. Songy's lenders were threatening to foreclose on all three properties and also call on corporate guarantees. The case addresses Songy's decisions leading up to and during the crisis. Which of the firm's challenges might have been avoidable, did the company have any leverage with its creditors, what tactics might the company employ to save its properties? Within this context, what are Songy's responsibilities to his investors?
Songy 2011: Restructuring to Survive (Or, Surviving to Restructure?)
by Charles F WuIn 2011, Songy Partners, an Atlanta-based real estate developer, was facing three distressed investments within their portfolio each with distinct sets of challenges. Having weathered a myriad of issues during the global financial crisis that included operational shortfalls, failed partnerships, bankruptcies, lender consolidations, lagging tenant demand, low investment liquidity, and pending loan maturities, Songy needed a path forward for these three assets. Songy's lenders were threatening to foreclose on all three properties and also call on corporate guarantees. The case addresses Songy's decisions leading up to and during the crisis. Which of the firm's challenges might have been avoidable? Did the company have any leverage with its creditors? What tactics might the company employ to save its properties? Within this context, what are Songy's responsibilities to his investors?
Sonhando com a Rua da Esperança.
by Eder HolguinSonhando com a Rua da Esperança por Eder Holguin De viver nas ruas de Medelim, na Colômbia, para se tornar um empreendedor de sucesso em Nova York De viver nas ruas de Medelim, na Colômbia, para se tornar um empreendedor de sucesso em Nova York Hoje, Eder é um empreendedor de sucesso de Nova York na indústria de mídia on-line e CEO de uma empresa de marketing digital. No entanto, quando criança, em meados dos anos 80, ele fugi de uma vida doméstica assustadora e acabou vivendo por anos nas ruas de Medelim, na Colômbia. Era uma existência arriscada, no que foi descrito nessa época como o "lugar mais perigoso da terra". Onde governantes internacionais de drogas como Pablo Escobar governavam, onde você poderia ser baleado por olhar para o cara errado da maneira errada. Sonhando com a Rua da Esperança é a história de como ele passou de morar nas ruas para se tornar um empreendedor de sucesso. O livro está na tradição clássica da maioridade e prova que, embora a vida possa ser feia e brutal, até os mais desfavorecidos podem superar as probabilidades e encontrar a felicidade, a sua própria Rua da Esperança. A narrativa avança e soa com autenticidade; muitas vezes é triste, chocante, mas, no final das contas, edificante e motivacional.
The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy
by Joel Beckerman Tyler GrayA fascinating study on the influence of sound—and how companies wrangle its power to affect our moods, our shopping habits, and our lives. From movie scores and national anthems to cell-phone dings and squeaky shoes, sound and music impact how we perceive the stories, situations, and products we encounter every day. In The Sonic Boom, composer and strategic sound expert Joel Beckerman reveals sound&’s surprising power to influence our decisions, opinions, and actions in ways we might not even notice: discordant ambient noise can induce anxiety; ice cream truck jingles can bring you back to your childhood. You don&’t need to be a musician or a composer to harness the power of sound. Companies, brands, and individuals can strategically use sound to get to the core of their mission, influence how they&’re perceived by their audiences, and gain a competitive edge. Whether you&’re a corporate giant connecting with millions of customers or a teacher connecting with one classroom of students, the key to an effective sonic strategy is the creation of &“boom moments&”—transcendent instants when sound connects with a listener&’s emotional core. &“Equal parts sociological study and business advice, using unique everyday examples—for instance, how the fate of the Chili&’s fajita empire rested on the sound of the sizzling platter, and how Disneyland approaches soundscapes for a fully immersive experience—to explain how sound effects our mood and shopping habits.&” —Entertainment Weekly &“Music defines us. Joel Beckerman knows. Let him tell you all about it.&” —Anthony Bourdain &“The Sonic Boom reveals the music and structured cacophony of everyday life.&” —Moby
Sonic Boom: The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros. Records, from Hendrix to Fleetwood Mac to Madonna to Prince
by Peter Ames CarlinFrom journalist Peter Ames Carlin—the New York Times bestselling music biographer who chronicled the lives and careers of Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, the Beach Boys, and Paul Simon—Sonic Boom captures the rollicking story of the most successful record label in the history of rock and roll, Warner Bros Records, and the remarkable secret to its meteoric rise.The roster of Warner Brothers Records and its subsidiary labels reads like the roster of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Prince, Van Halen, Madonna, Tom Petty, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers, and dozens of others. But the most compelling figures in the Warner Bros. story are the sagacious Mo Ostin and the unlikely crew of hippies, eccentrics, and enlightened execs who were the first in the music business to read the generational writing on the wall in the mid-1960s. By recruiting outsider artists and allowing them to make the music they wanted, Ostin and his staff transformed an out-of-touch company into the voice of a generation. Along the way, they revolutionized the music industry and, within just a few years, created the most successful record label in the history of the American music industry.How did they do it? It all goes back to the day in 1967 when the newly tapped label president Mo Ostin called his team together to share his grand strategy for the struggling company: “We need to stop trying to make hit records. Let’s just make good records and turn those into hits.”With that, Ostin ushered in a counterintuitive model that matched the counterculture. His offbeat crew reinvented the way business was done, giving their artists free rein while rejecting out-of-date methods of advertising, promotion, and distribution. And even as they set new standards for in-house weirdness, the upstarts’ experiments and innovations paid off, to the tune of hundreds of legendary hit albums.It may sound like a fairy tale, but once upon a time Warner Bros Records conquered the music business by focusing on the music rather than the business. Their story is as raucous as it is inspiring, pure entertainment that also maps a route to that holy grail: love and money.Includes black-and-white photographs
Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed
by Gregg EasterbrookThere are signs the recession is about to end. So what comes next? Growth will resume. But economic uncertainty will worsen, making what comes next not just a boom but a nerve-shattering SONIC BOOM. Gregg Easterbrook - who "writes nothing that is not brilliant" (Chicago Tribune) - is a fount of unconventional wisdom, and over time, he is almost always proven right. Throughout 2008 and 2009, as the global economy was contracting and the experts were panicking, Easterbrook worked on a book saying prosperity is about to make its next big leap. Will he be right again? SONIC BOOM: Globalization at Mach Speed presents three basic insights. First, if you don't like globalization, brace yourself, because globalization has barely started. Easterbrook contends the world is about to become far more globally linked. Second, the next wave of global change will be primarily positive: economic prosperity, knowledge and freedom will increase more in the next 50 years than in all of human history to this point. But before you celebrate, Easterbrook further warns that the next phase of global change is going to drive us crazy. Most things will be good for most people - but nothing will seem certain for anyone. Each SONIC BOOM chapter is based on examples of cities around the world - in the United States, Europe, Russia, China, South America - that represent a significant Sonic Boom trend. With a terrific sense of humor, pitch-perfect reporting and clear, elegant prose, Easterbrook explains why economic recovery is on the horizon but why the next phase of global change will also give everyone one hell of a headache. Forbes calls Easterbrook "the best writer on complex topics in the United States" and SONIC BOOM will show you why.
Sonoco Products Co. (A): Building a World-Class HR Organization
by David A. Thomas Boris Groysberg Cate ReavisDescribes the steps the vice-president of human resources takes in revamping an HR function that was noncooperative and, at times, competitive and introducing the company to the notion of HR as a strategic business partner. Explores changes made to the company's compensation, performance management, and succession planning processes. Teaching Purpose: To allow students to think strategically about reorganizing the human resources department to support business strategy and serve as a business partner.
Sonoco Products Company (A): Building a World-Class HR Organization (Abridged)
by David A. Thomas Boris GroysbergDescribes the steps the vice-president of human resources takes in revamping an HR function that was noncooperative and, at times, competitive and introducing the company to the notion of HR as a strategic business partner. Explores changes made to the company's compensation, performance management, and succession planning processes.
SonoSite: A View Inside
by Clayton M. Christensen Jeremy B. DannAfter its spin-off from one of the world's largest ultrasound makers, Sonosite attempts to popularize a new kind of handheld ultrasound units. Sonosite needs to decide if it should focus on new markets that will value the portability and ease of use of its products, or if it should evolve its offerings so that they appeal to radiologists and cardiologists, the largest purchasers of ultrasound systems.