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You've read the headlines: industry after industry (airlines,
automakers, drug companies, high tech) battered by globalization,
deregulation, and commoditization. The Darwinian struggle to
deliver profitable products and services keeps getting more brutal
as competitive advantage gaps get narrower and narrower. Anything
you invent today will soon be copied by someone else - probably
better or cheaper. Many companies thrive during the early stages of
their life cycle, reveling in bursts of energy and advancement,
only to fall slack during periods of inertia and die out while
others surge ahead. But some notable companies have figured out how
to deal with Darwin at every phase of their evolution - making
changes on the fly while fending off challenges from every quarter.
Dealing with Darwin will help you understand your company's role in
its market ecosystem; where your competitive advantage came from in
the past and how it will change in the future; what kinds of
differentiation will be most rewarded in your current marketplace;
and how to transform your internal dynamics to overcome the inertia
that threatens every bold innovation. Bestselling author Geoffrey
Moore has consulted for dozens of major companies on this challenge
of innovation versus inertia. But in the fall of 2002, he got an
unprecedented offer from John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco Systems:
unlimited access to Cisco's management processes, with permission
to reveal exactly how Cisco continues to innovate relentlessly as a
mature enterprise. This collaboration led to the case study that
forms the heart of the book - not just an insider story but a
masterpiece of management analysis. Dealing with Darwin, Moore's
most ambitious work to date, offers nothing less than a new unified
theory of the evolution of markets. Drawing on hundreds of
different examples, Moore illuminates how established companies can
prevent their own extinction - not by throwing resources wildly at
every potential innovation, but by moving forward with precision,
courage, and smart timing. "Geoff Moore is the master at creating a
vocabulary for management strategy that captures the competitive
dynamics of the times. In Dealing with Darwin, he uses this
signature skill to tackle the fundamental challenge of
twenty-first-century business - how to create profitable growth in
an increasingly competitive global economy. His models are helpful
both for focusing innovation strategy and for improving
productivity, and they have played an important role in the
continuing evolution of our company." -John T. Chambers, President
and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco Systems, Inc. "Dealing with
Darwin provides a lucid and engaging perspective on managing
innovation, an integral component of Motorola's vision of seamless
mobility. Moore's frameworks - his theory of innovation types, his
ideas about the impact of business architecture on innovation, and
his model for resource recycling to fund ongoing innovation efforts
- all have relevant application in today's rapidly evolving and
increasingly competitive marketplace." -Edward J. Zander, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, Motorola "Globalization is driving
everyone to rethink their innovation strategies, and that not only
includes SAP but most of our customers as well. For some time we
have been using the models and vocabulary outlined in this book to
help chart our own future and to better understand our customers'
changing needs. Geoff's experience and insight have made him a
valued adviser during a time of critical transition in our
industry." -Dr. Henning Kagerman, CEO, SAP AG "With Dealing with
Darwin, Geoff Moore has provided the first practical guide to
successfully navigate the dynamics of product and market innovation
at all phases of the business cycle. This is a must read to
successfully compete in the twenty-first century." -William T.
Coleman, Chief Executive Officer, Cassatt Corporation; Cofounder
and Former Chairman, BEA Systems, Inc. "The book's provocative,
well-illustrated lessons on innovation strategies are a
breakthrough for Geoffrey Moore; he crosses the chasm from
rapid-growth, high-tech companies to those facing maturity, slow
growth, and commoditization." -Robert S. Kaplan, author of The
Balanced Scorecard; Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business
School "Dealing with Darwin is a lucid bridge that links good
conceptual theory with good management practice. Geoffrey Moore
gets it. His understanding of the management of innovation is
without equal." -Clayton Christensen, Professor of Business
Administration, Harvard Business School
In the area of urologic oncology, laparoscopic techniques were met
with a 'let's wait and see attitude.' Only recently have outcome
data exceeding 5 years become available, thus solidifying the place
of laparoscopy in treating genitourinary malignancy. Laparoscopic
radical nephrectomy was the first urologic laparoscopic procedure
for cancer to significantly decrease the side effects of open
surgery while giving equivalent or improved disease specific
outcomes. Scepticism about cancer control and difficulty in
learning the procedure delayed the dissemination of these
techniques to the patient and limited laparoscopic teaching to a
few academic laparoscopic centers of excellence. The purpose of
this beautifully illustrated surgical text is to share the
experience gained by experts of urologic laparoscopy in teaching
techniques found to be effective and reproducible. Robert Moore and
Jay Bishoff firmly believe that Minimally Invasive Uro-oncologic
Techniques will propagate the educational waves started by
innovative, courageous surgeons who questioned long-standing,
deeply rooted beliefs about surgical norms in order to decrease
patient morbidity.
Almost 15 years since its original publication the bestseller "We
Were Soldiers Once And Young" (1992) is still required reading in
all branches of the military. Every day the authors receive letters
from readers wanting to know what's happened to the characters they
came to admire such as Ed 'Too Tall to Fly' Freeman and Bruce 'Old
Snake' Crandall. There are also questions about whether they are
still in touch with their North Vietnam counterparts and where they
are now. Many of these questions are finally answered in "We are
Soldiers Still", which recounts a unique journey back to the
battlefields by the commanders and veterans of both sides - a
journey which ended with the authors and some of the comrades
stranded overnight, alone, on the isolated field code-named Landing
Zone XRay where so many perished. They will tell what was learned
and felt during a night when a meteor shower filled the sky and
peace came upon them. The authors mix gritty and vivid detail with
reverence and respect for their comrades. Their authority on the
military, their ability to capture man's sense of heroism and
brotherhood, and readers' fascination with their story is sure to
make this a must-buy book for all history buffs. While "We Were
Soldiers" brought to life an important moment in US history, "We
are Soldiers Still" will illuminate how that history has changed
the authors, the men involved, and our country.
With the increasing focus on science education, growing attention
is being paid how science is taught. Educators in science and
science-related disciplines are recognizing that distance delivery
opens up new opportunities for delivering information, providing
interactivity, collaborative opportunities and feedback, as well as
for increasing access for students. This book presents the guidance
of expert science educators from the US and from around the globe.
They describe key concepts, delivery modes and emerging
technologies, and offer models of practice. The book places
particular emphasis on experimentation, lab and field work as they
are fundamentally part of the education in most scientific
disciplines. Chapters include: Discipline methodology and teaching
strategies in the specific areas of physics, biology, chemistry and
earth sciences. An overview of the important and appropriate
learning technologies (ICTs) for each major science. Best practices
for establishing and maintaining a successful course online.
Insights and tips for handling practical components like
laboratories and field work. Coverage of breaking topics, including
MOOCs, learning analytics, open educational resources and
m-learning. Strategies for engaging your students online. A
companion website presents videos of the contributors sharing
additional guidance, virtual labs simulations and various
additional resources.
In this thesis, the author describes the development of a software
framework to systematically construct a particular class of weakly
coupled free fermionic heterotic string models, dubbed gauge
models. In their purest form, these models are maximally
supersymmetric (N = 4), and thus only contain superpartners in
their matter sector. This feature makes their systematic
construction particularly efficient, and they are thus useful in
their simplicity. The thesis first provides a brisk introduction to
heterotic strings and the spin-structure construction of free
fermionic models. Three systematic surveys are then presented, and
it is conjectured that these surveys are exhaustive modulo
redundancies. Finally, the author presents a collection of
metaheuristic algorithms for searching the landscape for models
with a user-specified spectrum of phenomenological properties, e.g.
gauge group and number of spacetime supersymmetries. Such
algorithms provide the groundwork for extended generic free
fermionic surveys.
With the increasing focus on science education, growing attention
is being paid how science is taught. Educators in science and
science-related disciplines are recognizing that distance delivery
opens up new opportunities for delivering information, providing
interactivity, collaborative opportunities and feedback, as well as
for increasing access for students. This book presents the guidance
of expert science educators from the US and from around the globe.
They describe key concepts, delivery modes and emerging
technologies, and offer models of practice. The book places
particular emphasis on experimentation, lab and field work as they
are fundamentally part of the education in most scientific
disciplines. Chapters include: Discipline methodology and teaching
strategies in the specific areas of physics, biology, chemistry and
earth sciences. An overview of the important and appropriate
learning technologies (ICTs) for each major science. Best practices
for establishing and maintaining a successful course online.
Insights and tips for handling practical components like
laboratories and field work. Coverage of breaking topics, including
MOOCs, learning analytics, open educational resources and
m-learning. Strategies for engaging your students online. A
companion website presents videos of the contributors sharing
additional guidance, virtual labs simulations and various
additional resources.
In this thesis, the author describes the development of a software
framework to systematically construct a particular class of weakly
coupled free fermionic heterotic string models, dubbed gauge
models. In their purest form, these models are maximally
supersymmetric (N = 4), and thus only contain superpartners in
their matter sector. This feature makes their systematic
construction particularly efficient, and they are thus useful in
their simplicity. The thesis first provides a brisk introduction to
heterotic strings and the spin-structure construction of free
fermionic models. Three systematic surveys are then presented, and
it is conjectured that these surveys are exhaustive modulo
redundancies. Finally, the author presents a collection of
metaheuristic algorithms for searching the landscape for models
with a user-specified spectrum of phenomenological properties, e.g.
gauge group and number of spacetime supersymmetries. Such
algorithms provide the groundwork for extended generic free
fermionic surveys.
Pastels Are Pretty Much The Polar Opposite Of Chalk is about the
syntax of distinction, unlikely comparison and the colorful drama
that comes with choosing between actions, people and things.
Scenarios of rupture are set in malls, bedrooms, tawdry boardwalks,
train stations and hospitals, as tinsel rains down slowly in the
background. Here Nathaniel G. Moore's cryptically majestic language
bears witness to staged altercations between hedonism vs. hunger,
domesticity vs. pedestrian excess, cross-hatched gesture vs. harsh
reality. This book asks questions: Do I like pretzels? What kind of
pretzels do I prefer? How do I feel? Would I rather watch a car
chase or be in one? What is Golden Flint? Do they sell that at the
grocery store? Have I told you the story of when I fell in love
with you? Like a psycho smart alec with a velvet tongue, this book
provides answers to all the question in wonderfully wrought
riddles.
Melissa always knew that her family wasn't perfect, but she never
suspected the shocking truth]]
In Shattered Silence Melissa Moore shares the true story of her
life as the daughter of the notorious "Happy Face" serial killer.
As she slowly realizes the full extent of the gruesome crimes her
father has committed, Melissa also begins to realize that she
cannot change her fatherall she has control over is her own life
and deciding how she will move on.
Told with heartbreaking sincerity, this uplifting story of
optimism and finding joy, even in the face of overwhelming
adversity, will inspire you to face your own challenges with a
similar attitude of hope.
The third International Symposium on the Scientific Basis for
Nuclear Waste Management was held in Boston, Massachusetts, on
November 17-20, 1980, as part of the Annual Meeting of the
Materials Research Society. The purpose of this Symposium was to
provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of scientific
research dealing with all levels and types of radioactive wastes
and their management. Since its inception in 1978, this annual
Symposium has provided a unique opportunity for scientists of
widely differing backgrounds to share in such discussions. The
proceedings of the first two meetings were published as Volumes 1
and 2 in this series. The fourth Symposium is scheduled to be held
in the autumn of 1981. The efforts of many people went into making
this meeting a success. The scope of the 1980 Symposium was guided
by the follow ing Steering Committee: K. J. Notz (Chairman), Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, USA G. H. Daly, Department of Energy,
USA D. E. Ferguson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA R. H.
Flowers, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, UK F. Girardi, Ispra
Establishment, Italy T. Ishihara, Radioactive Waste Management
Center, Japan R. W. Lynch, Sandia Laboratories, USA S. A. Mayman,
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Canada G. J. McCarthy, North Dakota
State University, USA E. Merz, Kernforschunganlage Jillich, FRG L.
Nilsson, KBS Project, Sweden D. M. Rohrer, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, USA R. Roy, Pennsylvania State University, USA T. "E.
Scott, Ames Laboratory, USA C."
Published in Association with the Online Learning Consortium
E-learning has entered the mainstream of higher education as an
agent of strategic change. This transformation requires e-learning
leaders to develop the skills to innovate successfully at a time of
heightened competition and rapid technological change. In this
environment e-learning leaders must act within their institutions
as much more than technology managers and assume the prime role of
helping their institutions understand the opportunities that
e-learning presents for faculty, for students, and for client
organizations in the community. They need to prepare to participate
in policy development around these opportunities. They must
understand the multiple dimensions of practice in the
field-operations, administration, and working within the complex
culture of a higher education institution-while also functioning as
scholars of the field who can bring the best ideas from other
institutions to help shape policy around e-learning. The second
edition builds on the success of the first edition and presents
both the collective expertise of veterans who have pioneered the
field for 20 years, and of a rising generation of e-learning
leaders that are transforming online programs at their own
institutions, to address these challenges. This edition has been
updated and expanded to reflect the increasing complexity of the
field. New and updated topics include: The evolving role of the
chief online learning officer Issues of diversity as more women and
minorities enter leadership roles in the field The increasing role
of learning analytics and data-based decisions The potential
tensions involved in cohort-based versus individualized
instruction. The increasing need for faculty professional
development The affordances of cloud computing, adaptive learning,
artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and mobile
learning to the field The open educational resources movement and
the implications for institutional policy and practice The
challenges of an increasingly complex competitive environment
Accessibility There are few comparable positions in higher
education than that of e-learning leaders who work across multiple
academic and support units and whose work fundamentally affects the
institution as a whole. This volume is written for them.
This study is aimed at identifying the mechanisms through which women can reach positions of power in public life. The study highlights the processes which may contribute new impulse to the vitality of the industrialized countries, introducing models characterized by flexibility and creativity both in enterprises and politics.
Published in Association with the Online Learning Consortium
E-learning has entered the mainstream of higher education as an
agent of strategic change. This transformation requires e-learning
leaders to develop the skills to innovate successfully at a time of
heightened competition and rapid technological change. In this
environment e-learning leaders must act within their institutions
as much more than technology managers and assume the prime role of
helping their institutions understand the opportunities that
e-learning presents for faculty, for students, and for client
organizations in the community. They need to prepare to participate
in policy development around these opportunities. They must
understand the multiple dimensions of practice in the
field-operations, administration, and working within the complex
culture of a higher education institution-while also functioning as
scholars of the field who can bring the best ideas from other
institutions to help shape policy around e-learning. The second
edition builds on the success of the first edition and presents
both the collective expertise of veterans who have pioneered the
field for 20 years, and of a rising generation of e-learning
leaders that are transforming online programs at their own
institutions, to address these challenges. This edition has been
updated and expanded to reflect the increasing complexity of the
field. New and updated topics include: The evolving role of the
chief online learning officer Issues of diversity as more women and
minorities enter leadership roles in the field The increasing role
of learning analytics and data-based decisions The potential
tensions involved in cohort-based versus individualized
instruction. The increasing need for faculty professional
development The affordances of cloud computing, adaptive learning,
artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and mobile
learning to the field The open educational resources movement and
the implications for institutional policy and practice The
challenges of an increasingly complex competitive environment
Accessibility There are few comparable positions in higher
education than that of e-learning leaders who work across multiple
academic and support units and whose work fundamentally affects the
institution as a whole. This volume is written for them.
Christopher G. Moore's prize-winning series of crime novels set in
Bangkok has been translated into eleven languages and critically
acclaimed around the world. Featuring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred
American lawyer working as a PI in the dangerous and steamy Thai
capital, the books offer gripping plots, fascinating characters,
and unparalleled insight into one of the world's most entrancing
cities. In Paying Back Jack, Calvino agrees to follow the "minor
wife" of a Thai politician and report on her movements. His client
is Rick Casey, a shady American whose life has been darkened by the
unsolved murder of his idealistic son. But what seems to be a
simple surveillance job pulls Calvino into a quest for revenge, as
well as a perilous web of political allegiance. Calvino narrowly
escapes an attempt on his life and then avoids being framed for a
murder only through the calculated lever-pulling of his best
friend, Thai police colonel, Pratt. But unknown to our man in
Bangkok, in an anonymous apartment tower in the center of the city,
a two-man sniper team awaits its shot, a shot that will change
everything. Paying Back Jack is classic Christopher G. Moore:
densely-woven, eye-opening, and riveting.
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In the nearly twenty years he has lived in Bangkok, Christopher G.
Moore has written nine novels starring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred
American lawyer working as a PI in the dark and steamy Thai
capital. Internationally acclaimed, the prizewinning novels have
been translated into ten languages. Now Spirit House, the first
novel in the series, is finally available in North America.
A farang is dead and the Bangkok police have a confession the next
morning from a young paint-thinner addict. He claims he killed Ben
Hoadly, an expat Brit, but Calvino has his doubts when he sees
heavy bruises on the kid's face. In no time Calvino is working both
sides, out to find the killer for Hoadly's wealthy father, and
eager to clear the addict's name for a beautiful friend who runs a
charity in the slums. With the help of his best friend, Pratt, a
Shakespeare quoting Thai police colonel, and his loyal assistant,
Ratana, Calvino plunges into the dangerous world of addicts,
dealers, fortune tellers, inexpensive hit men, oversexed
foreigners, and professional bar girls. Spirit House is a thrilling
introduction to Vincent Calvino and Christopher G. Moore's Bangkok.
In November 1965, the air mobile 1st Cavalry Division, led by Lt.
Col. Moore and accompanied by reporter Galloway, landed in a remote
valley in the central highlands of South Vietnam--and were met by
3,000 seasoned North Vietnamese Regulars. Today, the Ia Drang
battle is taught at the U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Air Force
Academy, and the Army, Navy, and Air Force war colleges. *A moving
account of one of Vietnam's most savage battles *A tale of
endurance, self-sacrifice and friendship *Based on hundreds of
interviews of men who fought there, including North Vietnamese
commanders `A gut-wrenching account of what war is really about,
which should be a"must" read' - General Norman Schwarzkopf `Between
experiencing combat and reading about it lies a vast chasm. But
this book makes you almost smell it' - Wall Street Journal `There
are stories here that freeze the blood . . . The men who fought at
Ia Drang could have no finer memorial' - New York Times Book Review
In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry,
under Lt. Col. Hal Moore's command, were dropped by helicopter into
a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately
surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later,
only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to
pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and
Albany constituted one of the Vietnam War's most significant
battles. How these men persevered makes a vivid portrait of war at
its most inspiring and devastating. General Moore and Joseph
Galloway, the only journalist on the ground throughout the
fighting, have interviewed hundreds of men who fought there,
including the North Vietnamese commanders. This dramatic account
presents a picture of men facing the ultimate challenge and dealing
with it in ways they would have found unimaginable only a few hours
earlier. It reveals to us, as rarely before, man's most heroic and
horrendous endeavor. HAROLD G. MOORE is a West Point graduate, a
master parachutist, and an Army aviator. He commanded two infantry
companies in the Korean War and was a battalion and brigade
commander in Vietnam. JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY spent fifteen years as a
foreign and war correspondent based in the Far East and the Soviet
Union. Now a senior writer with US News& World Report, he
covered the Gulf War and co-authored Triumph without Victory.
Living on the Fault Line is the long awaited new book from Geoffrey
Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, two
bestselling works that have helped guide the high-tech revolution.
Moore focuses on the most important business question for the early
twenty-first century: the age of the Internet. How can companies
living on the fault line of rapid, disruptive, technological change
be managed successfully? -Old management truths are dead -
Twentieth century business models must be replaced - The dot.com
revolution is changing every aspect of business - Blue chip
companies are under direct assault from new companies that nobody
had even heard of last year Living on the Fault Line will reset the
management agenda in the age of the Internet and is essential
reading for all companies both old and new. Simultaneous
publication with HarperCollins US release Guaranteed Business Book
of the Month slots with key retailers Major PR coverage across the
media including FT, The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Observer
Massive direct mail promotion to leading FT 500 multinationals
Crossing the Chasm has sold over 50,000 copies worldwide Huge
internet marketing campaign
Despite its increasingly secure place in the world, the People's
Republic of China remains dissatisfied with its global status. Its
growing material power has simultaneously led to both greater
influence and unsettling questions about its international
intentions. China also has found itself in a constant struggle to
balance its aspirations abroad with a daunting domestic agenda.
This authoritative book provides a unique exploration of the
complex and dynamic motivations behind Beijing's foreign policy.
The authors focus on China's choices and calculations on issues
such as the ruling Communist party-regime's interests,
international status and image, nationalism, Taiwan, human rights,
globalization, U.S. hegemony, international institutions, and the
war on terrorism. Taken together, the chapters offer a
comprehensive diagnosis of the emerging paradigms in Chinese
foreign policy, illuminating especially China's struggle to
engineer and manage its rise in light of the opportunities and
perils inherent in the post-cold war and post-9/11 world.
Ranger qualified Lieutenant Colonel John Lock provides the first
complete chronicle of the elite U.S. Army Rangers in this second,
revised edition.
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