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Transforming Your Leadership Culture

By: John B. McGuire,Gary Rhodes

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Transforming Your Leadership Culture

By: John B. McGuire,Gary Rhodes

CCL fellows McGuire and Rhodes replace the common and popular myth that change in organizational culture is beyond the reach of mere mortals. They offer a practical guide for achieving feasible culture transformation by helping leaders see how leading the culture and managing the operations are two sides of the same coin. The book provides guidance and resources that helps leaders decide: (1) what change is feasible; (2) how to set practical incremental targets of change and development; and (3) what are the tools for navigating the turbulent waters of the change process.

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337

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John Wiley & Sons

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ISBN 10

0470446730

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9780470446737

The Buddha Party

How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism

By: John Powers

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The Buddha Party

How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism

By: John Powers

The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of China employs propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway opinion within the country and abroad. The narrative they create is at odds with historical facts and deliberately misleading but, John Powers argues, it is widely believed by Han Chinese. Most of China's leaders appear to deeply believe the official line regarding Tibet, which resonates with Han notions of themselves as China's most advanced nationality and as a benevolent race that liberates and culturally uplifts minority peoples. This in turn profoundly affects how the leadership interacts with their counterparts in other countries. Powers's study focuses in particular on the government's "patriotic education" campaign-an initiative that forces monks and nuns to participate in propaganda sessions and repeat official dogma. Powers contextualizes this within a larger campaign to transform China's religions into "patriotic" systems that endorse Communist Party policies. This book offers a powerful, comprehensive examination of this ongoing phenomenon, how it works and how Tibetans resist it.

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Oxford University Press

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019935815X

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9780199358151

After Lavinia

A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy

By: John Watkins

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After Lavinia

A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy

By: John Watkins

The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. When one ruler decided to make peace with his enemy, the two parties often sealed their settlement with marriages between their respective families. In After Lavinia, John Watkins traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually close relationship between diplomacy and literary production in Western Europe from antiquity through the seventeenth century, when marriage began to lose its effectiveness and prestige as a tool of diplomacy.Watkins begins with Virgil's foundational myth of the marriage between the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Latin princess, an account that formed the basis for numerous medieval and Renaissance celebrations of dynastic marriages by courtly poets and propagandists. In the book's second half, he follows the slow decline of diplomatic marriage as both a tool of statecraft and a literary subject, exploring the skepticism and suspicion with which it was viewed in the works of Spenser and Shakespeare. Watkins argues that the plays of Corneille and Racine signal the passing of an international order that had once accorded women a place of unique dignity and respect.

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Cornell University Press

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1501708511

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9781501708510

Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days

Good Old Days Series

By: Ken Tate,John Slobodnik

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Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days

Good Old Days Series

By: Ken Tate,John Slobodnik

This 48-page gift book features the nostalgic writing of Ken Tate, editor of Good Old Days and Good Old Days Specials magazines, Good Old Days books and the author of the Looking Back e-letter. The book also features over two dozen of the best-loved covers of the magazines by artist John Slobodnik. "Grandpa, tell me 'Bout the Good Old Days!" Tate takes his grandson - and the reader - back to the magical age of his youth. Those were days when the pace of life was slower and a whole lot less complicated. Slobodnik's paintings and Tate's reminiscences reflect on a time when the year was measured with the passage of the seasons, not the passage of nanoseconds as it is today. This book will be loved by anyone who lived in those days, or anyone who sometimes wishes they had.

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1592170838

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Transforming Your Leadership Culture

Transforming Your Leadership Culture

The Buddha Party

The Buddha Party

After Lavinia

After Lavinia

Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days

Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days

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