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In this fresh and provocative book, Anthony DiMaggio uses the war in Iraq and the United States confrontations with Iran as his touchstones to probe the sometimes fine line between news and propaganda. Using Antonio Gramsci’s concept of hegemony and drawing upon the seminal works of Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, and Robert McChesney, DiMaggio combines a rigorousempirical analysis and clear, lucid prose to enlighten readers about issues essential to the struggle for a critical media and a...
| Автор | Anthony DiMaggio |
In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin’s state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected occupation by union members and their allies. The protests to defend collective bargaining rights were militant and practically unheard of in this era of declining union power. Nearly forty years of neoliberalism and the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression have battered the labor movement, and workers have been largely complacent in the face of...
| Автор | Michael D. Yates |
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
The last two decades have seen an explosive increase in the ethnic diversity of the workforce, growth in international business, and the emergence of many more multinational companies.The potential for problems as companies operate across borders and managers manage in countries which have different values, norms and cultural behaviors is great. By looking at organizational psychology in a cross-cultural context, we can gain an understanding of the challenges facing organizations and business...
| Автор | Colin P. Silverthorne |
What is your Technical Reference Model strategy? If you find that you havent accomplished one of the goals for one of the steps of the Technical Reference Model strategy, what will you do to fix it? What are your personal philosophies regarding Technical Reference Model and how do they influence your work? What is the problem and/or vulnerability? What Technical Reference Model data do you gather or use now? This one-of-a-kind Technical Reference Model self-assessment will make you the...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
The management and labor culture of the entertainment industry. In popular culture, management in the media industry isfrequently understood as the work of network executives, studio developers, andmarket researchers—“the suits”—who oppose the more productive forces ofcreative talent and subject that labor to the inefficiencies and risk aversionof bureaucratic hierarchies. However, such portrayals belie the realityof how media management operates as a...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
What new services of functionality will be implemented next with Capability security ? Are there any easy-to-implement alternatives to Capability security? Sometimes other solutions are available that do not require the cost implications of a full-blown project? Are you measuring, monitoring and predicting Capability security activities to optimize operations and profitability, and enhancing outcomes? What, related to, Capability security processes does your organization outsource? What are...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
The corporate mega-mergers of the 1980s and 1990s raise many troubling questions for social scientists and legal scholars. Do corporate globalism and the new, streamlined corporation help or hinder the development of civil society? Does the new power that increasingly deregulated businesses wield undermine the rights of citizens, or is this threat being exaggerated? Who has the authority to get things done in a corporation's name and who can be held legally responsible for a...
| Автор | David Sciulli |
What vendors make products that address the Service networking needs? Can you add value to the current Service networking decision-making process (largely qualitative) by incorporating uncertainty modeling (more quantitative)? What potential environmental factors impact the Service networking effort? What types of data do your Service networking indicators require? Do you have a flow diagram of what happens? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Does your organization participate in the collaborative projects with local companies? Do industry collaborative projects enhance employees learning? Who has power to make decisions, and about what, in the context of a collaborative project? Are there collaborative projects among the surveyed companies and 3PLs to greening transport and logistics services, and if so, to what extent? Do you have examples of collaborative projects with stakeholders or see opportunities for collaboration? This...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
During the last twenty years, voices from the First Nations have become louder, expressing their own solutions to problems that have plagued their communities since contact with the Europeans. Their traditional ways of thinking and living have become more visible to those from outside First Nations. Recent directions of First Nations in Northern Ontario have focused on strengthening political, economic, and social systems to promote community healing. This was an important subject for the third...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
What metadata needs to be available in real time? What existing data sources could be leveraged? Have innovations been implemented that have improved the facilitys operations? What funding model is most compatible with the primary use cases? Are downstream processes using that data, and if so, how? This powerful Senior Software Engineer self-assessment will make you the reliable Senior Software Engineer domain expert by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Senior...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Who will manage the integration of tools? Consider your own Human learning project, what types of organizational problems do you think might be causing or affecting your problem, based on the work done so far? Does a Human learning quantification method exist? What role does communication play in the success or failure of a Human learning project? What is the problem and/or vulnerability? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Although Patricia M. Boyer won a scholarship to McMaster University with the highest mathematics marks in Ontario and graduated at age 19, literature and languages were her specialty. She first worked as a public librarian, next as a secondary school teacher, then as a newspaper editor. A community leader in arts and theatre, Patricia was devoted to human rights action in her local community and around the world, church work, drama, the education of children with disabilities, and music. Each...
| Автор | Patricia M. Boyer |
How do you measure security risk and carry out risk assessments? What assets or information does your organization have that unauthorized individuals would want? Are the risk assessments structured in accordance with the guidance so as to identify hazard events, assess the probability of occurrence, and determine the potential consequences of the event? Is the monitoring plan linked to risk assessments to make sure highest risk areas are covered? Does your organization have an Information...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
"An excellent introduction to issues surrounding the postwar French welfare state."— Archives «An important and groundbreaking book.» —Martin A. Schain, New York University Little noticed by much of the world, France, during the 1960s and 1970s, developed into one of the most generous welfare states in the world. This book describes and explains this spectacular growth, and examines some of the problems that have emerged in its wake. The distinguished contributors to...
| Автор | John Ambler |
Renowned author and journalist Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos uses her talent for investigative reporting to take us deep into the poorest villages in India. Yet, far from being passive victims of their circumstances, the women who live there have joined forces and are making astute use of microcredit to break the cycle of poverty. Microcredit was made famous by Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and consists of very small loans made primarily to women for the production of essential commodities or...
| Автор | Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos |
What would have to be true for the option on the table to be the best possible choice? Does the problem have ethical dimensions? Is it needed? What are the tasks and definitions? What Decentralization of power improvements can be made? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
For anyone contemplating starting a small business with potential sales of a few thousand dollars up to the two million level, and for those who currently run their own businesses, this is the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide available. The Canadian Small Business Survival Guide will not only instruct beginners whose business knowledge is limited, but also provide a wealth of interesting information for experienced entrepreneurs. The author has covered every imaginable facet of running a...
| Автор | Benj Gallander |
Which information does the Games as service business case need to include? Is there a clear Games as service case definition? How will you know that a change is an improvement? In the past few months, what is the smallest change you have made that has had the biggest positive result? What was it about that small change that produced the large return? Political -is anyone trying to undermine this project? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not only form knowledge and social relationships in the digital and physical world, but...
| Автор | John Cheney-Lippold |
Who qualifies to gain access to data? Who is the main stakeholder, with ultimate responsibility for driving Functional Database Model forward? An organizationally feasible system request is one that considers the mission, goals and objectives of the organization, key questions are: is the Functional Database Model solution request practical and will it solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity to achieve company goals? Is special Functional Database Model user knowledge required? Do...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
In 2006, prominent businessman John Darch met with a man named Wicha Promyong. That meeting led to the establishment of an equal partnership business venture—a partnership that goes beyond fair trade and shows that capitalism can have a human side. Today the Doi Chaang Coffee Company’s coffee can be found across the world.Mark Pendergrast takes the reader on a journey through time and place as he leads us through the history of the ancient, persecuted hill tribe, the Akha,...
| Автор | Mark Pendergrast |
Will Adaptive learning deliverables need to be tested and, if so, by whom? How do you cross-sell and up-sell your Adaptive learning success? What Adaptive learning data should be managed? Does the Adaptive learning task fit the client's priorities? What are your best practices for minimizing Adaptive learning project risk, while demonstrating incremental value and quick wins throughout the Adaptive learning project lifecycle? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |