The Three Faces of Leadership takes readers inside the minds of CEOs who have been celebrated by the Harvard Business Review over the last decade of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews with these famous CEOs, Mary Jo Hatch, Monika Kostera and Andrzej K. Kozminski demonstrate how business leaders today use aesthetics, specifically storytelling, dramatizing and mythmaking, to lead their companies successfully. They look at how they inspire organizations through their creativity, virtue...
Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely unmanageable, such as art, academia and creativity. Some it supported and others it destroyed, but there are few areas in modern societies that have been untouched by it. What is the meaning of management now almost omnipresent and all-powerful in our...
"Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme," remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of Corrections prisoner {#289-128}, early in this haunting collection. Three sections – {#289-128} Property of the State, {#289-128} Poet-in-Residence (Cell 23), and {#289-128} Poet in New York – frame the countless ways in which the narrator's body and life are socially and legally rendered...
Die Rückabwicklung der sog. Bauträger-Altfälle nach dem Urteil des BFH vom 22.08.2013 (Az. V R 37/10) hat in den letzten Jahren sowohl Rechtsprechung als auch Literatur in höchstem Maße beschäftigt. Die entstandenen Problemfelder sind gekennzeichnet durch vielfältige Konflikte zwischen fiskalischen Interessen und dem dringenden Wunsch nach Rechtssicherheit auf Seiten der Baubranche. Trotz hoher praktischer Relevanz erfolgte bislang keine umfassende Aufarbeitung der insolvenzrechtlichen...