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1992 was a killing year for the four computer companies most important to business buyers over the decade. All four had been dominant suppliers of minicomputers for the past fifteen or twenty years. But on July 16, the CEOs of both Digital Equipment and Hewlett Packard were pushed into retirement. On August 8, Wang Laboratories declared bankruptcy. In December, IBM halved its dividend for the first time ever, forcing the resignation of its CEO a month later. How did this happen? All four CEOs were clever and experienced. Two were founders of their companies; the other two highly successful career executives in their respective companies. All four were simply overwhelmed. And while there was no single explanation for what happened, there were definite common themes. They recur again and again in the many stories of this book. Are the deadliest changes unavoidable because strategy is too easily thwarted by cluster bombs like technological velocity, cultural inertia, obsolete business models, executive conflict, and investor expectations? The year 1992 is the fulcrum of this book, but the underlying theme is company transitions in the face of massive changes in markets, technologies, or business models – or, in other words, the limits of strategy.
1992 was a killing year for the four computer companies most important to business buyers. All four had been dominant suppliers of the preceding years. But on July 16, the CEOs of both digital equipment and Hewlett Packard were pushed into retirement. On August 9, many laboratories declared bankruptcy. In December, IBM halved it's dividend for the first time ever. This edition updates and extends earlier history.
Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how U. S. Air Force doctrine evolved through the American experience in these conventional wars only to be thwarted in the context of a limited guerrilla struggle in Vietnam. Although a faith in bombing's sheer destructive power led air commanders to believe that extensive air assaults could win the war at any time, the Vietnam experience instead showed how even intense aerial attacks may not achieve military or political objectives in a limited war. Based on findings from previously classified documents in presidential libraries and air force archives as well as on interviews with civilian and military decision makers, The Limits of Air Power argues that reliance on air campaigns as a primary instrument of warfare could not have produced lasting victory in Vietnam. This Bison Books edition includes a new chapter that provides a framework for evaluating air power effectiveness in future conflicts.
Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strategies of Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad, the strategic advice of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, the great military innovations of Baron Henri de Jomini and Carl von Clausewitz, the grounding of revolutionary strategy in class struggles by Marx, the insights into corporate strategy found in Peter Drucker and Alfred Sloan, and the contributions of the leading social scientists working on strategy today. The core issue at the heart of strategy, the author notes, is whether it is possible to manipulate and shape our environment rather than simply become the victim of forces beyond one's control. Time and again, Freedman demonstrates that the inherent unpredictability of this environment-subject to chance events, the efforts of opponents, the missteps of friends-provides strategy with its challenge and its drama. Armies or corporations or nations rarely move from one predictable state of affairs to another, but instead feel their way through a series of states, each one not quite what was anticipated, requiring a reappraisal of the original strategy, including its ultimate objective. Thus the picture of strategy that emerges in this book is one that is fluid and flexible, governed by the starting point, not the end point. A brilliant overview of the most prominent strategic theories in history, from David's use of deception against Goliath, to the modern use of game theory in economics, this masterful volume sums up a lifetime of reflection on strategy.
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Examines the factors which limit human economic and population growth and outlines the steps necessary for achieving a balance between population and production. Bibliogs
The Limits of Scientific Reasoning was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The study of human judgment and its limitations is essential to an understanding of the processes involved in the acquisition of scientific knowledge. With that end in mind, David Faust has made the first comprehensive attempt to apply recent research on human judgment to the practice of science. Drawing upon the findings of cognitive psychology, Faust maintains that human judgment is far more limited than we have tended to believe and that all individuals - scientists included—have a surprisingly restricted capacity to interpret complex information. Faust's thesis implies that scientists do not perform reasoning tasks, such as theory evaluation, as well as we assume they do, and that there are many judgments the scientist is expected to perform but cannot because of restrictions in cognitive capacity. "This is a very well-written, timely, and important book. It documents and clarifies, in a very scholarly fashion, what sociologists and psychologists of science have been flirting with for several decades—namely, inherent limitations of scientific judgment," –Michael Mahoney, Pennsylvania State University David Faust is director of psychology at Rhode Island Hospital and a faculty member of the Brown University Medical School. He is co-author of Teaching Moral Reasoning: Theory and Practice.
Building Yourself up Without Limits a Strategy to win in all Areas of Your Life will give you a new superpower for living life! The ideas are simple as well as the techniques in which to apply them. Acquiring love, success, and wealth all have their challenges that can pop up daily. When they do, they can drag us down under the weight of their stress. What you will learn in this book is about having the power to maintain and grow prosperity in all its forms one day at a time! Have you ever wondered what the core issue is that gets in the way of improving the choices we make in our daily lives? Fear! It's the main reason that our personal growth and transformations are slowed down and unfortunately for many, it is the main reason they give up on their dreams and aspirations all together. Why? Because we become paralyzed by our fear of the unknown. This kind of fear can raise its ugly head and hinder your career, creativity, relationships, money, or even your pursuit of success.Speaking about success, let's look at what the word success really means. In this book, I will teach you how simple it really is to achieve success because it's all about process. Yes, that's it: Process! If you make coffee with a used coffee filter from yesterday, I guarantee you will make an unsuccessful cup of coffee. However, use a new filter with fresh coffee grounds and you will create a successful cup of coffee. Just like making a quality cup of coffee is about the process, the outcome of our lives is all about the quality of our process. If you want to have an outstanding process for your health, career, or life in general, you must first overcome your fear.All motivational self-help books are about improving your process to find success and achieving your dreams! Sounds great, right? So, what's the problem and why are these books not successful in the long term? Because they don't offer the techniques to deal with fear in all its forms when it pops up, and folks, it pops up every day for everyone! Fear is like an enemy that has access to a 24 hour a day dressing room so it can emerge in various disguises at any time for any reason. It can appear in your head like a slacker voice saying, "Dude that report can wait till next week, let's just chill." Sometimes you may hear its voice as a lawyer, "You have no chance of succeeding so why are you putting so much energy into this project?" Even the voice of a well-meaning relative, "Fat? Nah! Your just big boned. Have another slice of cheese cake!" Then, there's also everybody's favorite pastime of "beating yourself up"; which usually follows suit after we give in to our fear and have been derailed from our process. Everybody does it, but nobody knows why! I will teach you how to deal with this fear and overcome it in a healthy manner. I've written this book to give you a new way of living and yes, a new superpower! Is that a bold claim? Perhaps. But seeing is believing and after speaking and coaching clients around the world, I've seen how the spiritually based power of building yourself up without fear-based limits has transformed the quality of life for many because it transformed the quality of their process for success. I believe in the power of this process because I live and teach it daily! That is why I'm excited to start this journey with you as you read through the pages of this book together. By doing this, you will begin to acquire for your life, a new superpower!
Brilliant...explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence." —Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here" "In this fascinating book Davies inverts the conventional neoliberal practice of treating politics as if it were mere epiphenomenon of market theory, demonstrating that their version of economics is far better understood as the pursuit of politics by other means." —Professor Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame "A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism. It offers a distinctive account of the diverse, sometimes contradictory, conventions and justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to all spheres of social life...This book breaks new ground, offers new modes of critique, and points to post-neoliberal futures." —Professor Bob Jessop, University of Lancaster Since its intellectual inception in the 1930s and its political emergence in the 1970s, neo-liberalism has sought to disenchant politics by replacing it with economics. This agenda-setting text examines the efforts and failures of economic experts to make government and public life amenable to measurement, and to re-model society and state in terms of competition. In particular, it explores the practical use of economic techniques and conventions by policy-makers, politicians, regulators and judges and how these practices are being adapted to the perceived failings of the neoliberal model. By picking apart the defining contradiction that arises from the conflation of economics and politics, this book asks: to what extent can economics provide government legitimacy? Now with a new preface from the author and a foreword by Aditya Chakrabortty.
A major rereading of Marx’s critique of political economy Now a classic of Marxian economics, The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this edition, Harvey updates his seminal text with a substantial discussion of the turmoil in world markets today. Delving into concepts such as “fictitious capital” and “uneven geographical development,” Harvey takes the reader step by step through layers of crisis formation, beginning with Marx’s controversial argument concerning the falling rate of profit and closing with a timely foray into the geopolitical and geographical implications of Marx’s work.