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Wherever there is something to be lost or gained, there is the
potential for disagreement. To find a constructive way forward when
interests and priorities differ, decision makers need skills in
negotiation. 'Negotiation' outlines crucial techniques for reaching
agreements in business situations.
Drawing on modern business examples throughout, 'Change' is a
pragmatic overview of change management for today's decision maker.
It outlines key techniques for the whole change process, from
understanding the catalysts for change to overcoming resistance.
Many of the world's greatest businesses are family owned, and with
this comes the threat of family feuding, sibling rivalries, and
petty jealousies. "Family Wars" takes readers behind the scenes on
a rollercoaster ride through the ups and downs of some of the
biggest family-run companies in the world, showing how family
in-fighting has threatened to bring about their downfall. Covering
families such as Ford, Gucci, McCain, Guinness, Gallo, and
Redstone, "Family Wars" is an astonishing expose of the way
families do business and how family in-fighting can threaten to
blow a business apart. Whether it's Brent Redstone's court case
with his father and sister or the family feud over Henry Ford's
$350 million trust fund, the book reveals the origins, the extent,
and finally the resolution of some of the most famous family feuds
in recent history. "Family Wars" also provides valuable advice for
anyone involved in a family business, offering suggestions on how
to avoid such problems.
Risk provides a concise overview of how uncertainty can affect your
business, what you can do to manage it, and how it affects decision
making - in theory and in reality. Featuring modern examples, this
book aims to help readers identify risks wherever they arise and
choose the right way to deal with them for their business.
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship
between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or
"hero-athlete narratives, " that circulated orally in Sicily and
Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on
the colorful stories told about athletes in later sources, the
fragments of Simonides and the surviving odes of Pindar and
Bacchylides, it argues that epinician was formed in opposition to
orally transmitted narratives and that these two forms-epinician
and the "hero-athlete narrative "-promoted opposed political
visions, with epinician promoting the Deinomenid empire and its
structures and the hero-athlete narrative opposing Deinomenid rule.
Combining an intimate knowledge of the material culture of the
Greek West with an innovative use of available source material, The
Poetics of Victory in the Greek West exposes the rich intersections
between athletics and politics in Sicily and Italy, offering a new
and compelling account of Deinomenid self-promotion and of the
varied and complex communities that operated under Deinomenids'
control or within their shadow. Further, by establishing models of
production and interpretation for the orally transmitted narratives
and bringing them into dialogue with epinician, The Poetics of
Victory in the Greek West reveals much about epinician as a form,
how it developed in the West, what meanings it already carried and
what meanings it accrued as it was appropriated by Hieron after
Gelon's death.
Athletics represented an important institution through which the
Greek aristocracies sought to maintain their privileged political
position. Victory, however, had always involved the use of others,
such as charioteers, jockeys, and trainers, and in the late archaic
and early classical period the relationship between the victors and
these helpers changed radically. This threatened the political
value of athletics and thus undermined the utility of the
institution for aristocrats. Nigel Nicholson examines how
aristocrats responded to these changes through a study of victory
memorials. New Historicist in method, the book draws on odes,
dedications, vases, and coins, as well as anecdotes about the
victors. It asks how the vulgar details of winning are represented
by the memorials, and it assumes that the value of athletics was
always under threat, from groups both inside and outside the elite.
The result is a fascinating look at one area of social struggle in
ancient Greece.
Athletics represented an important institution through which the
Greek aristocracies sought to maintain their privileged political
position. Victory, however, had always involved the use of others,
such as charioteers, jockeys, and trainers, and in the late archaic
and early classical period the relationship between the victors and
these helpers changed radically. This threatened the political
value of athletics and thus undermined the utility of the
institution for aristocrats. Nigel Nicholson examines how
aristocrats responded to these changes through a study of victory
memorials. New Historicist in method, the book draws on odes,
dedications, vases, and coins, as well as anecdotes about the
victors. It asks how the vulgar details of winning are represented
by the memorials, and it assumes that the value of athletics was
always under threat, from groups both inside and outside the elite.
The result is a fascinating look at one area of social struggle in
ancient Greece.
A new approach to job change analysis is provided by this large scale study of the causes and outcomes of job change, focusing on one of the most influential segments of society middle to senior level managers.
This is a book about traders in financial markets: what they do,
the kind of people they are, how they perceive the world they
inhabit, how they make decisions and take risks. This is also a
book about how traders are managed-the best and the worst
examples-and about the institutions they inhabit: firms, markets,
cultures and theories of how the world works. How these
institutions function, how traders are managed, and how traders
view the world, all have profound effects on the wider financial
environment. This book explores these relationships and their
implications theoretically and empirically. The data discussed in
this book on a three-year project researching the psychological and
social influences on the behavior and performance of traders in
investment banks. One hundred and eighteen traders and managers in
four leading organizations participated. Data was collected through
semi-structured interviews supplemented by questionnaries, measures
of personality, risk propensity and a novel computer based measure
designed to assess illusion of control and other cognitive biases.
The authors' approach to writing this book is explicitly
interdisciplinary. hey draw on sociology, psychology and econics in
order to illuminate the work of traders and the world they inhabit.
The book is a significant contribution to the growing body of
research and literature suggesting that if we are to effectively
understand financial markets and the actors who inhabit them, the
insights of neo-classical financial economics need supplementing
with a broader range of social science approaches. The book will be
of value to researchers interested in the functioning of financial
institutions and markets, to those with an interest in market
regulation and to practitioners wishing to benefit from an
analytical perspective on the challenges facing traders and their
managers.
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