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Ally Die Geschichte von Allison und Robert
by A. G. Keller Kathi MaierAlle kannten Ally als selbstsichere, attraktive, unabhängige, witzige und spontane Frau. Alle kannten Ally als selbstsichere, attraktive, unabhängige, witzige und spontane Frau. Robert war bekannt als der erfolgreiche Chirurg, dem es aufgrund seiner Schönheit nie an Frauen fehlte. Seit dem ergreifenden Heiratsantrag, den Robert Allison machte, sind zwei Monate vergangen. Und jetzt veröffentlicht die New York Times die lang ersehnte Verlobung des Doktor Watts auf der Titelseite. Es stand fest, sie würden heiraten. Sie mussten nur noch einen Termin finden, der in ihre engen Terminkalender passte. Alles lief nach Plan, bis Allison eines Abends Robert in einem der exklusivsten Restaurants der Stadt überrascht. Eine große, blonde Frau mit ellenlangen Beinen hing an seinem Arm. Bereute Robert etwa seinen voreiligen Entschluss, seinem geliebten Single-Leben ein Ende zu setzen? Oder bildete Allison sich das aufgrund ihrer Nervosität der anstehenden Hochzeit alles nur ein?
Mia
by Chris Axcan A. G. KellerMia est une fille normale, heureuse, romantique et rêveuse. Elle avait dix-huit ans quand elle a été repoussée par Connor, son amour platonique d'adolescence. « Tu es une gamine pour moi! », c'était la dernière chose qu'il lui a dit avant de disparaître. Huit ans ont passé, Mia viens de se diplômer en médecine, et continue de vivre avec son père, elle a sa meilleure amie Allison et un fiancé qui l'adore. Sa vie est tranquille et routinière, mais tout n’est pas parfait pour Mia comme tout le monde croient, elle est obsédée de découvrir les motifs que sa mère a eus de l'abandonner. Un secret de famille dont personne ose parler. Connor Blair est un chirurgien de renom, un homme sûr de lui-même, ambitieux, arrogant et séduisant á enragé. Un terrible accident a changé sa vie, et a fait qu'il se convertisse en homme incapable de maintenir une relation avec une femme pour plus d'une nuit. Une rencontre inespérée avec le passé, les fera vivre des situations qui les mettront à l’épreuve, et bien qu'ils partagent la même carrière, ils ont de styles de vie très différents, en leur prouvant que pas tout est basé sur des puissantes émotions et mystères á résoudre. Mia se verra dans une croisée de chemins, où choisir avec qui rester sera une décision bien compliquée.
Mia
by A. G. KellerMia was eighteen when Connor, her unrequited teenage crush, rejected her, "You're too young for me!" That was the last thing he said before disappearing from her life. Eight years have passed, and Mia has just graduated as a pediatrician doctor; she continues to live with her father and has her best friend, Allison, and a boyfriend who loves her. She has a quiet and ordinary life, but not everything is as perfect for Mia as everyone believes because she is obsessed with discovering the truth behind the family secret that no one can speak of. Connor Blair is a successful surgeon, confident, ambitious, and attractive. A terrible accident changed his life, making him become a man unable to maintain a relationship with a woman for more than one night. An unexpected encounter with their past leads them through situations that will put them to the test and although they share the same career, both have different lifestyles, showing them that not everything is based on strong emotions and mysteries to be solved.
Mia
by A. G. Keller Tania SolelunaMia è una ragazza giovane, allegra, romantica e sognatrice. Aveva diciotto anni quando si innamorò di Connor, l'amore platonico dell'adolescenza. «Sei solo una bambina per me» fu l'ultima cosa che disse prima di sparire. Sono passati otto anni. Mia è in procinto di diventare medico, vive con il padre, per vicina ha la sua migliore amica Allison e un fidanzato che la adora. La sua vita è tranquilla e ordinaria, ma non tutto è perfetto, lei vive nell'ossessione di sapere perché sua madre l'ha abbandonata. Un segreto familiare che nessuno ha il coraggio di rivelare. Connor Blair è un famoso medico chirurgo, un uomo sicuro di sé, ambizioso, prepotente e facile all'ira. Un terribile incidente ha cambiato la sua vita a tal punto da diventare un uomo incapace di mantenere con una donna una relazione lunga più di una notte. Un incontro improvviso con il passato, che farà vivere ai protagonisti situazioni che li metteranno alla prova e, anche condividendo la stessa carriera lavorativa, lo stile di vita completamente differente li dividerà tra emozioni forti e misteri, obbligandoli a scegliere. Mia si troverà a un bivio, da una parte ci sarà la noiosa routine, dall'altra l'insicurezza del domani.
Mia (Mia Ser. #Vol. 3)
by A. G. KellerMia é uma garota normal, feliz, romântica e sonhadora. Ela tinha dezoito anos quando foi rejeitada por Connor, seu amor platônico da adolescência: “Você é uma menina para mim!” Foi a última coisa que ele disse a ela antes de desaparecer. Oito anos se passaram, Mia acabou de se formar como médica, continua morando com seu pai, tem sua melhor amiga Allison por perto e um namorado que a ama. Sua vida é calma e rotineira, mas nem tudo é perfeito para Mia como todo mundo acredita, ela está obcecada em descobrir os motivos que sua mãe teve para abandoná-la. Um segredo de família sobre o qual ninguém é capaz de falar. Connor Blair é um médico cirurgião de sucesso, um homem autoconfiante, ambicioso, insistente e raivoso. Um terrível acidente mudou sua vida e ele se tornou um homem incapaz de manter um relacionamento com uma mulher por mais de uma noite. Um encontro inesperado com o passado fará com que passem a viver situações que os testem e, embora compartilhem a mesma carreira, ambos têm estilos de vida muito diferentes, mostrando que nem tudo se baseia em emoções fortes e mistérios a serem resolvidos. Mia estará em uma encruzilhada, onde escolher com quem ficar será uma decisão complicada.
Growth of the International Economy, 1820-2015
by Michael Graff A. G. Kenwood A. L. LougheedKenwood and Lougheed’s classic book has been the benchmark introduction to the development of the global economy for decades. For this fifth edition, Michael Graff has brought the story up to date to include events from the early part of the twenty first century – continued globalization, the emergence of Asia as an economic power and the greater role played by business on the international scene. Beginning with the industrial revolution, the book charts the long nineteenth century, the impact of colonialism, the fast pace of technology growth and the impact of global wars. New features to this edition include: a prologue explaining the initial conditions faced by the world economy in 1820, detailing the beginnings of international trade and the influence of slavery greater coverage of developing countries increased coverage of World Wars I and II and of the twentieth century a number of appendices outlining the economic concepts and theories underlying the text This new edition of Growth of the International Economy provides the reader with a clear understanding of the factors which have been instrumental in creating the economic environment we face two hundred years after the industrial revolution.
Technological Diffusion and Industrialisation Before 1914 (Routledge Library Editions: The Economics and Business of Technology #24)
by A. G. Kenwood A. L. LougheedPublished in 1982 this is an introductory study of the international spread of modern industrial technology. The book considers the preconditions necessary for a country to adopt effectively modern industrial technology in the nineteenth century and the mechanisms by which this technology spread from one country to another. A global view is adopted and thus the book supplements others which are concerned with the industrial developmet of individual countries during the same period. It will be invaluable to anyone seeking an understanding of the early history of capitalism.
Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy
by A. G. Lafley Roger L. Martin Jan W. Rivkin Nicolaj SiggelkowArticle
Harvard Business Review: Customer Loyalty Is Overrated
by A. G. Lafley Roger L. Martin Rita Gunther Mcgrath Scott Cook David Champion Jorgen Vig KnudstorpFrom the January-February 2017 issue. Focus on habit instead. A theory of cumulative advantage.
Life's Work: Mike Krzyzewski
by Timothy Butler Mike Krzyzewski Karen Harris David Harding A. G. Lafley Adi Ignatius Roger L. Martin Ian C. Macmillan Rita Gunther Mcgrath Hal Gregersen Brent Adamson Ron Ashkenas Scott Cook Scott Berinato Leslie K. John Nicholas Toman David Champion Alison Beard Martin Ihrig Michael Mankins Mitchell Lee Marks Philip Mirvis Anthony Heyes Cristina Gomez Daniel Mochon Doug Mcmillon Erik Roelofsen Frederic Cumenal Janet Schwartz Jorgen Vig Knudstorp Oliver Emrich Samina Karim Steven Prokesch Tao YueThe famous Duke University basketball coach discusses his four-decade career, how he recruits and disciplines his players, the difference between college basketball and Olympic basketball, and how he views retirement.
Playing to Win
by A. G. Lafley Roger L. MartinThis is A.G. Lafley's guidebook. Shouldn't it be yours as well?Winning CEO A.G. Lafley is now back at the helm of consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble. If you want to know the strategy he'll use to restore P&G to its former dominance-read this book.Playing to Win, a noted Wall Street Journal and Washington Post bestseller, outlines the strategic approach Lafley, in close partnership with strategic adviser Roger Martin, used to double P&G's sales, quadruple its profits, and increase its market value by more than $100 billion when Lafley was first CEO (he led the company from 2000 to 2009). The book shows leaders in any type of organization how to guide everyday actions with larger strategic goals built around the clear, essential elements that determine business success-where to play and how to win.Lafley and Martin have created a set of five essential strategic choices that, when addressed in an integrated way, will move you ahead of your competitors. They are: (1) What is our winning aspiration? (2) Where will we play? (3) How will we win? (4) What capabilities must we have in place to win? and (5) What management systems are required to support our choices? The result is a playbook for winning.The stories of how P&G repeatedly won by applying this method to iconic brands such as Olay, Bounty, Gillette, Swiffer, and Febreze clearly illustrate how deciding on a strategic approach-and then making the right choices to support it-makes the difference between just playing the game and actually winning.Playing to Win outlines a proven method that has worked for some of today's most celebrated brands and products. Let this book serve as your new guide to winning, as well.
Playing to Win: 1. Strategy Is Choice
by A. G. Lafley Roger L. MartinPlay to Win: How Strategy Really Works is an 8-chapter books published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Rotman School of Management Dean Roger L. Martin. The authors present a framework for creating strategy based on a decade of work at P&G. The framework is a strategic choice cascade, made up of 5 decision points that apply to companies of all sizes and in all markets. The model guides leaders in making choices around a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems and is enriched by using the context of P&G's experience. The authors provide perspectives on how to put the framework into practice, offering practical tips and personal insights. In Chapter 1, Strategy Is Choice (28 pages), the authors use the story of P&G's revitalization of the Oil of Olay brand to introduce their strategic framework, a "strategic choice cascade" of five questions that help a company develop a shared understanding of its strategy and the plan to achieve it. The authors look at each question in the framework as well as the interaction among them.
Playing to Win: 2. What Is Winning?
by A. G. Lafley Roger L. MartinPlay to Win: How Strategy Really Works is an 8-chapter books published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Rotman School of Management Dean Roger L. Martin. The authors present a framework for creating strategy based on a decade of work at P&G. The framework is a strategic choice cascade, made up of 5 decision points that apply to companies of all sizes and in all markets. The model guides leaders in making choices around a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems and is enriched by using the context of P&G's experience. The authors provide perspectives on how to put the framework into practice, offering practical tips and personal insights. Chapter 2, What Is Winning? (16 pages), looks at the first question in the choice cascade about the company's winning aspiration. This aspiration defines the company's purpose and establishes the context for the strategy to follow. The authors emphasize that a successful company focuses on winning -not just participating-to be able to prioritize and commit to the difficult choices that inevitably arise. The authors explore winning aspirations through two real world examples: the GM launch of Saturn and P&G's decision to outsource global business services at the end of the 1990s. The chapter includes an essay, "Strategy as Winning."
Playing to Win: 3. Where to Play
by A. G. Lafley Roger L. MartinPlay to Win: How Strategy Really Works is an 8-chapter books published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Rotman School of Management Dean Roger L. Martin. The authors present a framework for creating strategy based on a decade of work at P&G. The framework is a strategic choice cascade, made up of 5 decision points that apply to companies of all sizes and in all markets. The model guides leaders in making choices around a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems and is enriched by using the context of P&G's experience. The authors provide perspectives on how to put the framework into practice, offering practical tips and personal insights. Chapter 3, Where to Play (23 pages), moves to the second step of the framework, making market decisions connected company's winning aspiration. Market choices define the company's business focus and set the stage for the challenges to come. The authors divide these choices into five dimensions: geography, product type, consumer segment, distribution channel, and vertical stage of production. They explain that while these dimensions are the same for all companies, the significance of each dimension is variable, and they illustrate with an analysis of P&G's Bounty brand. The authors also discuss the role of the competitive arena and highlight common problems that companies face in making market decisions. They look in depth at how P&G found new markets for established brands.
Playing to Win: 6. Manage What Matters
by A. G. Lafley Roger L. MartinPlay to Win: How Strategy Really Works is an 8-chapter books published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Rotman School of Management Dean Roger L. Martin. The authors present a framework for creating strategy based on a decade of work at P&G. The framework is a strategic choice cascade, made up of 5 decision points that apply to companies of all sizes and in all markets. The model guides leaders in making choices around a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems and is enriched by using the context of P&G's experience. The authors provide perspectives on how to put the framework into practice, offering practical tips and personal insights. Chapter 6, Manage What Matters (29 pages), examines the last step in the model, management systems. The authors argue that successful strategy requires a company's leaders to actively implement and support its strategy with the right processes and systems. This includes implementing systems for creating and reviewing the strategy, creating structures to support the organization's core capabilities, and taking measures to ensure that the strategy is working. The authors look at the importance and role of corporate culture, communication channels, and measurement tools, drawing on a number of approaches and strategies employed by P&G management teams. The chapter includes the essay "Communicating to the Organization."
Playing to Win: 7. Think Through Strategy
by A. G. Lafley Roger L. MartinPlay to Win: How Strategy Really Works is an 8-chapter books published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Rotman School of Management Dean Roger L. Martin. The authors present a framework for creating strategy based on a decade of work at P&G. The framework is a strategic choice cascade, made up of 5 decision points that apply to companies of all sizes and in all markets. The model guides leaders in making choices around a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems and is enriched by using the context of P&G's experience. The authors provide perspectives on how to put the framework into practice, offering practical tips and personal insights. In Chapter 7, Think Through Strategy (23 pages), the authors provide guidance on how to organize strategic thinking and synthesize complex data. They offer a framework, called the "strategic logic flow," which identifies four major dimensions for leaders to consider-the industry, the customers, a company's relative position, and the competition-and then present seven questions that systematically evaluate these four dimensions. The strategic logic flow allows management to identify key areas of analysis to generate competitive advantage. The authors explain the seven questions using examples from many of P&G's business units. The chapter includes the essay "The Long Road to the Logic Flow."
Playing to Win: 8. Shorten Your Odds
by A. G. Lafley Roger L. MartinPlay to Win: How Strategy Really Works is an 8-chapter books published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Rotman School of Management Dean Roger L. Martin. The authors present a framework for creating strategy based on a decade of work at P&G. The framework is a strategic choice cascade, made up of 5 decision points that apply to companies of all sizes and in all markets. The model guides leaders in making choices around a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems and is enriched by using the context of P&G's experience. The authors provide perspectives on how to put the framework into practice, offering practical tips and personal insights. Chapter 8, Shorten Your Odds (28 pages), explores group decision making and provides practical insight on how to put the strategic choice cascade into practice. The authors critique the traditional approach to generating "buy-in" and offer a process to focus on the critical questions for determining strategy. This process enables leaders to "reverse engineer" the possible outcomes and make informed choices. The authors walk the reader through seven steps from framing a choice and broadening the options, to using a strategic logic flow and testing outcomes. The chapter includes two essays "The Most Important Question In Strategy" and "The Power of an Outside Strategy Partner."
Playing to Win: Conclusion. The Endless Pursuit of Winning
by A. G. Lafley Roger L. MartinPlay to Win: How Strategy Really Works is an 8-chapter books published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Rotman School of Management Dean Roger L. Martin. The authors present a framework for creating strategy based on a decade of work at P&G. The framework is a strategic choice cascade, made up of 5 decision points that apply to companies of all sizes and in all markets. The model guides leaders in making choices around a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems and is enriched by using the context of P&G's experience. The authors provide perspectives on how to put the framework into practice, offering practical tips and personal insights. In their Conclusion, The Endless Pursuit of Winning (6 pages), the authors provide a brief recap of their strategic model and offer their perspective on implementing strategy in a changing and volatile world. They outline the common mistakes that companies make in creating a strategy, such as targeting too many customer types, competing in too broad a marketplace, and not choosing a distinctive strategy. They also outline key indicators of a winning strategy, including internal strategic tools and external factors such as customer response and competitor relationships.
Playing to Win: Introduction, How Strategy Really Works
by A. G. Lafley Roger L. MartinPlay to Win: How Strategy Really Works is an 8-chapter books published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Rotman School of Management Dean Roger L. Martin. The authors present a framework for creating strategy based on a decade of work at P&G. The framework is a strategic choice cascade, made up of 5 decision points that apply to companies of all sizes and in all markets. The model guides leaders in making choices around a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems and is enriched by using the context of P&G's experience. The authors provide perspectives on how to put the framework into practice, offering practical tips and personal insights. The book's Introduction, How Strategy Really Works (6 pages), lays the foundation by highlighting the central concepts. The authors define strategy as making choices of what to do and what not to do, and explain why this process is essential to understanding and planning for a business. They explain briefly how they developed their framework during their time at P&G, but they also believe that this strategic process applies to companies of all sizes. The chapter ends with a look at common, yet ineffective, ways that leaders tend to approach strategy, thus setting up the arguments presented in the chapters.
Seizing the White Space
by A. G. Lafley Mark W. JohnsonBusiness model innovation is the key to unlocking transformational growth-but few executives know how to apply it to their businesses. In Seizing the White Space, Mark Johnson gives them the playbook.Leaving the rhetoric to others, Johnson lays out an eminently practical framework that identifies the four fundamental building blocks that make business models work. In a series of in-depth case studies, he goes on to vividly illustrate how companies are using innovative business models to seize their white space and achieve transformational growth by fulfilling unmet customer needs in their current markets; serving entirely new customers and creating new markets; and responding to tectonic shifts in market demand, government policy, and technologies that affect entire industries. He then lays out a structured process for designing a new model and developing it into a profitable and thriving enterprise, while investigating the vexing and sometimes paradoxical managerial challenges that have commonly thwarted so many companies in their unguided forays into the unknown.Business model innovators have reshaped entire sectors-including retail, aviation, and media-and redistributed billions of dollars of value. With road-tested frameworks, analytics, and diagnostics, this book gives executives everything they need to reshape their businesses and achieve transformative growth.
The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation
by Ram Charan A. G. LafleyHow you can increase and sustain organic revenue and profit growth . . . whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job. Over the past seven years, Procter & Gamble has tripled profits; significantly improved organic revenue growth, cash flow, and operating margins; and averaged earnings per share growth of 12 percent. How? A. G. Lafley and his leadership team have integrated innovation into everything P&G does and created new customers and new markets. Through eye-opening stories A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan show how P&G and companies such as Honeywell, Nokia, LEGO, GE, HP, and DuPont have become game-changers. Their inspiring lessons can help you learn how to: • Make consumers and customers the boss, not the CEO or the management team • Innovate to grow a mature business • Develop higher growth, higher margin businesses • Create new customers and new markets • Revitalize a business model • Reach outside your own business and tap into the abundant brainpower and creativity of the world • Integrate innovation into the mainstream of your managerial decision making • Manage risk • Become a leader of innovation We live in a world of unprecedented change, increasing global competitiveness, and the very real threat of commoditization. Innovation in this world is the best way to win—arguably the only way to really win. Innovation is not a separate, discrete activity but the job of everyone in a leadership position and the integral, central driving force for any business that wants to grow organically and succeed on a sustained basis. This is a game-changing book that helps you redefine your leadership and improve your management game. From the Hardcover edition.
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Graffiti Palace: A Novel
by A. G. LombardoA brilliant, exhilarating debut novel that retells The Odyssey during the 1965 Watts Riots—like nothing you’ve ever read beforeIt’s August 1965 and Los Angeles is scorching. Americo Monk, a street-haunting aficionado of graffiti, is frantically trying to return home to the makeshift harbor community (assembled from old shipping containers) where he lives with his girlfriend, Karmann. But this is during the Watts Riots, and although his status as a chronicler of all things underground garners him free passage through the territories fiercely controlled by gangs, his trek is nevertheless diverted. Embarking on an exhilarating, dangerous, and at times paranormal journey, Monk crosses paths with a dizzying array of representatives from Los Angeles subcultures, including Chinese gangsters, graffiti bombers, witches, the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, and others. Graffiti Palace is the story of a city transmogrified by the upsurge of its citizens, and Monk is our tour guide, cataloging and preserving the communities that, though surreptitious and unseen, nevertheless formed the backbone of 1960s Los Angeles.With an astounding generosity of imagery and imagination, Graffiti Palace heralds the birth of a major voice in fiction. A. G. Lombardo sees the writings on our walls, and with Graffiti Palace he has provided an allegorical paean to a city in revolt.
Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy (Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy)
by A. G. LongDeath and immortality played a central role in Greek and Roman thought, from Homer and early Greek philosophy to Marcus Aurelius. In this book A. G. Long explains the significance of death and immortality in ancient ethics, particularly Plato's dialogues, Stoicism and Epicureanism; he also shows how philosophical cosmology and theology caused immortality to be re-imagined. Ancient arguments and theories are related both to the original literary and theological contexts and to contemporary debates on the philosophy of death. The book will be of major interest to scholars and students working on Greek and Roman philosophy, and to those wishing to explore ancient precursors of contemporary debates about death and its outcomes.