Literary Nonfiction. Art. LGBT Studies. Edited by David J. Getsy. Before gaining widespread recognition for his sculpture and public art, Scott Burton produced a substantial body of art writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s. An eclectic and wide-ranging critic, he wrote such important texts as the introduction to the groundbreaking exhibition of Postminimal art Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form and served as an editor for both ARTnews and Art in America. In these same years, Burton became known as a performance artist, developing themes he pursued in his writing. Yet, his role as an artist-critic has rarely been discussed.SCOTT BURTON: COLLECTED WRITINGS ON ART AND PERFORMANCE, 1965-1975 brings together for the first time Burton's essays and unpublished manuscripts from these years, tracing his work as an art critic as well as his early statements on performance. In his writing, Burton championed positions that others held as mutually exclusive and antagonistic. He advocated for reductive abstract art while defending figuration, and he argued for the urgency of time-based and ephemeral art practices in the same years that he curated exhibitions of realist painting. Distinct in these diverse texts are Burton's increasing concerns with art's appeal to affects, empathies, and subjective responses; the early formulation of his desire to make art public and demotic; and his critical grasp on the implications and exclusions of mainstream narratives of art. This collection offers rich new context for Burton's sculptural work and reveals him as an important voice in the rapidly changing art world of the 1960s and 1970s.

SAP implementations are always a challenge. An enterprise will deploy its top resources, human and infrastructural, towards a SAP implementation--and yet fall short. "Why?" Simply because it is the nature of the beast. Typically, SAP implementations are large and complex, involving multiple locations, stakeholder groups and business interests. During an implementation, multiple issues can rear their heads. These issues can be functional, technical or financial. Not least, issues are human. Conflicts between project team members and stakeholder groups are often cited as reasons for less-than-stellar SAP implementations.

Now veteran ERP consultant "LaShonda Rahming" brings you expertise that will help you make your SAP implementation a success story. In "SAP Lessons Learned: Human Capital Management" she showcases the collected wisdom of thirteen leading consultants who share experiences that run the gamut from tackling post go-live resistance to increasing end-user productivity. You will find that the book brings you, in a voice that is easy to read, assimilate and put to immediate action, critical material on how to overcome common and not so common challenges within the SAP human capital management space. Among other things, you will find out how to gather detailed requirements that can be used to select your implementation partner and understand valuable information needed during your implementation, increase your understanding of change and project management and--if your SAP implementation went live already--learn techniques to increase end user productivity. This last item, although crucial, is often overlooked. As the author shares with us, a Gartner study shows that 76% of end users have a failing or substandard understanding of new systems software. Similar to the medical industry where most deaths occur due to iatrogenic death (death induced in a patient by physician's activity), this is also true in the SAP end user community where most errors and lack of efficiencies is caused by lack of end user productivity.

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