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Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach

de Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes, Janmejaya Sinha ...

Narrado por Jeffrey Schmidt ...

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6 hora 52 minutos

Executives are bombarded with bestselling ideas and best practices for achieving competitive advantage, but many of these ideas and practices contradict each other. Should you aim to be big or fast? Should you create a blue ocean, be adaptive, play to win—or forget about a sustainable competitive advantage altogether? In a business environment that is changing faster and becoming more uncertain ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

Executives are bombarded with bestselling ideas and best practices for achieving competitive advantage, but many of these ideas and practices contradict each other. Should you aim to be big or fast? Should you create a blue ocean, be adaptive, play to win—or forget about a sustainable competitive advantage altogether? In a business environment that is changing faster and becoming more uncertain
... Leer más
Shapers of Worlds Volume II

More science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers

de Edward Willett, Kelley Armstrong, Marie Brennan, Garth Nix, Candas Jane Dorsey, Jeremy Szal, Jeffrey A. Carver, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, David D. Levine, Lisa Foiles, Susan Forest, Matthew Hughes, Heli Kennedy, Helen Dale, Adria Laycraft, Edward Savio, Lisa Kessler, Ira Nayman, Carrie Vaughn, Nancy Kress, James Alan Gardner, Tim Pratt, Barbara Hambly, S.M. Stirling ...

Series Libro 2 - Shapers of Worlds
Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its second year, and including several international bestsellers and winners of every major award in the field, as well as newer authors just beginning what promise to be stellar careers.A woman seeking the power to see ... Leer más

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Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its second year, and including several international bestsellers and winners of every major award in the field, as well as newer authors just beginning what promise to be stellar careers.A woman seeking the power to see
... Leer más
Here Today

Oklahoma’s Ghost Towns, Vanishing Towns, and Towns Persisting against the Odds

de Jeffrey B. Schmidt ...

The history of Oklahoma runs through the thousands of towns that sprang up in the wake of statehood and even before then—readable in the traces of bygone days, if you know what to look for. In Here Today, Jeffrey B. Schmidt conducts readers, armchair travelers and adventurers alike, through places that tell Oklahoma’s story: towns all but disappeared, waning, or persisting despite the odds. Part ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

The history of Oklahoma runs through the thousands of towns that sprang up in the wake of statehood and even before then—readable in the traces of bygone days, if you know what to look for. In Here Today, Jeffrey B. Schmidt conducts readers, armchair travelers and adventurers alike, through places that tell Oklahoma’s story: towns all but disappeared, waning, or persisting despite the odds. Part
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Cyber Security Policy Guidebook

de Jennifer L. Bayuk, Jason Healey, Paul Rohmeyer, Marcus H. Sachs, Jeffrey Schmidt, Joseph Weiss ...

Drawing upon a wealth of experience from academia, industry, and government service, Cyber Security Policy Guidebook details and dissects, in simple language, current organizational cyber security policy issues on a global scale—taking great care to educate readers on the history and current approaches to the security of cyberspace. It includes thorough descriptions—as well as the pros and cons—of ... Leer más

$91.00 USD

Drawing upon a wealth of experience from academia, industry, and government service, Cyber Security Policy Guidebook details and dissects, in simple language, current organizational cyber security policy issues on a global scale—taking great care to educate readers on the history and current approaches to the security of cyberspace. It includes thorough descriptions—as well as the pros and cons—of
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Play and Curriculum

Play & Culture Studies

de Marleah Blom, Miranda D'Amico, Beth Ferholt, Abby Loebenberg, Robert L. Mack, Laurel Bongiorno, S. Lynneth Solis, Sudha Swaminathan, Alison Hooper, Juana Gaviria-Loaiza, Cailin Kerch, Brian A. Stone, Lora Lorentsen, Meghan Schmidt, Heather J. Pinedo-Burns, Ilfa Zhulamanova, Jeffrey Trawick-Smith ...

Series series Play and Culture Studies
Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning. Volume 15 of Play & Culture Studies focuses on the special topic on Play and Curriculum, a long waited topic to many educators and researchers in the field of play and education. This volume includes chapters reporting recent studies and practical ideas examining the ... Leer más

$38.99 USD

Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning. Volume 15 of Play & Culture Studies focuses on the special topic on Play and Curriculum, a long waited topic to many educators and researchers in the field of play and education. This volume includes chapters reporting recent studies and practical ideas examining the
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Simply Effective

How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done

de Ron Ashkenas ...

Narrado por Jeffrey Schmidt ...

Completo

6 hora 6 minutos

The level of complexity in most organizations today is staggering—and it's only getting worse. There are so many choices to be made, people to involve, processes to manage, and facts to analyze, it's impossible to get things done. And in today's hypercompetitive world, that can be fatal.Yet complexity doesn't happen on its own. Managers unwittingly create it, often through well-intended decisions. ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

The level of complexity in most organizations today is staggering—and it's only getting worse. There are so many choices to be made, people to involve, processes to manage, and facts to analyze, it's impossible to get things done. And in today's hypercompetitive world, that can be fatal.Yet complexity doesn't happen on its own. Managers unwittingly create it, often through well-intended decisions.
... Leer más
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The Normans In European History (Unabridged)

de CHARLES HOMER HASKINS ...

Narrado por Jeffrey Schmidt ...

Completo

7 hora 3 minutos

Wherever their ships took them, the Normans were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston in 1915 by the eminent Harvard medievalist, Charles Homer Haskins, chronicle the achievements of these descendants of the Vikings, whose genius for assimilation transformed them into French, English, and Sicilian citizens of well-run states. Haskins discusses the great ... Leer más

$4.99 USD

Wherever their ships took them, the Normans were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston in 1915 by the eminent Harvard medievalist, Charles Homer Haskins, chronicle the achievements of these descendants of the Vikings, whose genius for assimilation transformed them into French, English, and Sicilian citizens of well-run states. Haskins discusses the great
... Leer más
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Adrift on the Sea of Rains: Apollo Quartet Book 1

de Ian Sales ...

Narrado por Jeffrey Schmidt ...

Completo

1 horas 55 minutos

WINNER OF THE 2013 BSFA AWARD When nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, a group of US astronauts are marooned on the lunar surface. Using the "torsion field generator", a WWII Nazi Wunderwaffe previously known as the Bell, they hope to find an alternate Earth that did not suffer nuclear armageddon. But once they do discover one, how will they return home? They have a ... Leer más

$8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

WINNER OF THE 2013 BSFA AWARD When nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, a group of US astronauts are marooned on the lunar surface. Using the "torsion field generator", a WWII Nazi Wunderwaffe previously known as the Bell, they hope to find an alternate Earth that did not suffer nuclear armageddon. But once they do discover one, how will they return home? They have a
... Leer más
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Adrift on the Sea of Rains: Apollo Quartet Book 1 {Booktrack Soundtrack Edition}

de Ian Sales ...

Narrado por Jeffrey Schmidt ...

Completo

1 horas 54 minutos

This edition of Adrift on the Sea of Rains is enhanced with a musical soundtrack from Booktrack for an immersive listening experience!WINNER OF THE 2013 BSFA AWARD When nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, a group of US astronauts are marooned on the lunar surface. Using the "torsion field generator", a WWII Nazi Wunderwaffe previously known as the Bell, they hope to ... Leer más

$10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This edition of Adrift on the Sea of Rains is enhanced with a musical soundtrack from Booktrack for an immersive listening experience!WINNER OF THE 2013 BSFA AWARD When nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, a group of US astronauts are marooned on the lunar surface. Using the "torsion field generator", a WWII Nazi Wunderwaffe previously known as the Bell, they hope to
... Leer más
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The Eye With Which The Universe Beholds Itself: Apollo Quartet Book 2 {Booktrack Soundtrack Edition}

de Ian Sales ...

Narrado por Jeffrey Schmidt ...

Completo

2 hora 1 minutos

This edition of The Eye With Which the Universe Beholds Itself is enhanced with a musical soundtrack from Booktrack for an immersive listening experience!For fifteen years, Earth has had a scientific station on an exoplanet orbiting Gliese 876. It is humanity’s only presence outside the Solar System. But a new and powerful telescope at L5 can detect no evidence of Phaeton Base, even though it ... Leer más

$10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This edition of The Eye With Which the Universe Beholds Itself is enhanced with a musical soundtrack from Booktrack for an immersive listening experience!For fifteen years, Earth has had a scientific station on an exoplanet orbiting Gliese 876. It is humanity’s only presence outside the Solar System. But a new and powerful telescope at L5 can detect no evidence of Phaeton Base, even though it
... Leer más
The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors

Implications for Understanding Disability

de Brandon Boring, Brooke Bryson, Katherine Budge, Thomas Dirth, Sidai Dong, Michal Einav, Hannah Fry, Devin Guthrie, Mikki Hebl, Joshua Hicks, Yunzhen (Judy) Huang0, Joseph Maffly-Kipp1, Malka Margalit2, Megan McSpedon3, Michelle Nario-Redmond4, Jeffrey Noel5, Timothy Oxendahl6, Kevin Rand7, Tomer Schmidt-Barad8, Elisabeth Silver9, Laurel Wade0, Michael L. Wehmeyer2, Dana S. Dunn4, Erin E. Andrews5, Kathleen R. Bogart6, Timothy R. Elliott7, Elisa S. M. Fattoracci8, Anjali J. Forber-Pratt9, Alexandra Kriofske Mainella0, Vani A. Mathur1, Mackenzie L. Shanahan2, Susan Miller Smedema3 ...

Historically, interventions designed to impact the lives of disabled people were predicated upon deficits-based models of disability. This began to change with the introduction of World Health Organization (WHO) frameworks, particularly the International Classification of Function (ICF), that emphasized that disability could only be understood in the context of interactions among health, ... Leer más

$32.99 USD

Historically, interventions designed to impact the lives of disabled people were predicated upon deficits-based models of disability. This began to change with the introduction of World Health Organization (WHO) frameworks, particularly the International Classification of Function (ICF), that emphasized that disability could only be understood in the context of interactions among health,
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Elephant Tourism Business, The

de Eric Laws, Professor Noel Scott, Professor Xavier Font, Professor John Koldowski, Ann Suwaree Ashton, Liv Baker, Sumanth Bindumadhav0, Sarah Blaine1, Eric Brymer2, Naphawan Chantradoan3, Saranphat Chotmanakul4, Qingming Cui5, Susanna Curtin6, Charlotte Day7, Nilakshi Galahitiyawe8, Vivek Gurusamy9, Nicole Hausler0, Jeffrey Dale Hobbs1, Claire Jenkinson2, Naut Kusters3, Shilpa Mahbubani4, Andrew McLean5, Mucha Mkono6, Somyot Ongkhluap7, Anja Pabel8, Piengpen Na Pattalung9, Clive Phillips0, Kannapa Pongponrat1, Bongkosh Rittichainuwat2, John Edward Roberts3, Andrea Saayman4, Melville Saayman5, Jan Schmidt-Burbach6, Alokparna Sengupta7, Vinathe Sharma-Brymer8, Ramona Strödecke9, Daminda Sumanapala0, Daniel Turner1, Marjorie Van Strein2, Rebecca Winkler3, Isabelle Wolf4, Honggang Xu5 ...

Elephant tourism is a growing activity in many countries across Asia and Africa and is popular with tourists from all parts of the world. Elephant tourism has grown rapidly, providing the only viable way for elephants and their owners to survive since the banning of logging. Old logging camps have been developed into sanctuaries for some elephants, but many other camps were established as ... Leer más

$107.99 USD

Elephant tourism is a growing activity in many countries across Asia and Africa and is popular with tourists from all parts of the world. Elephant tourism has grown rapidly, providing the only viable way for elephants and their owners to survive since the banning of logging. Old logging camps have been developed into sanctuaries for some elephants, but many other camps were established as
... Leer más