Marcel Latouche draws from his years of experience as an executive, consultant and lecturer to discuss leadership in general and more specifically its impact in the corporate world. With the economy in constant flux due to many factors, he calls for a change in the style and substance of leadership. This book is aimed to look at some values which people seem to have forgotten and attempts to bring them back into perspective to facilitate a new management style for the next millenium. LEADERSHIFT, is an informative, practical and indispensable study that attempts to dissect the essential issues affecting progress and human development. It will motivate the readers to make a shift in their leadership beliefs, whereby leaders stop doing but instead allow people to do. It will inspire change in corporate culture through the use of the four pillars of teamwork and the fostering of the five principles of trust.
I said What? Is the fourth book by Marcel Latouche. It is a collection of columns, articles, blogs and speeches dealing with policies and politics at different levels of government. All the material in the book is dated and provides an insight into the saying: “Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it”. Latouche’s background in economics and finance allows him to express his thoughts on matters concerning public sector finance and public policy. His style is oratory and his writing is simple and easy to follow. The material covered comprises challenges regarding local, provincial, and national governments in Canada. In addition he identifies the effect of international matters and issues concerning Canada’s largest trade partner and neighbor the United States of America, There is no conclusion in this book. Agree with the author or not, his belief that past is prologue, makes a compelling case to read this book, because much of what is deliberated is about being proactive instead of being reactive.
This book deals with Markov chains and Markov renewal processes (M/G/1 type). It discusses numerical difficulties which are apparently inherent in the classical analysis of a variety of stochastic models by methods of complex analysis.
Marcel Latouche draws from his years of experience as an executive, consultant and lecturer to discuss leadership in general and more specifically its impact in the corporate world. With the economy in constant flux due to many factors, he calls for a change in the style and substance of leadership. This book is aimed to look at some values which people seem to have forgotten and attempts to bring them back into perspective to facilitate a new management style for the next millenium. LEADERSHIFT, is an informative, practical and indispensable study that attempts to dissect the essential issues affecting progress and human development. It will motivate the readers to make a shift in their leadership beliefs, whereby leaders stop doing but instead allow people to do. It will inspire change in corporate culture through the use of the four pillars of teamwork and the fostering of the five principles of trust.
The human race is all too pre-disposed to think in terms of us and them. Europeans have always laid claim to the Ancient Greeks they are our Greeks, our ancestors but their legacy reaches further than we could ever imagine. Their influence stretches from the Japanese to the Cossacks, from Ancient Rome to Indonesia. In this path-breaking new volume, the great French historian Marcel Detienne focuses on Eurocentric approaches which have trumpeted the Greeks and their democratic practices as our ancestors and the superiority of the Western tradition to which they gave rise. He argues that such approaches can be seen as narrow-minded and often covertly nationalistic. Detienne advocates what he calls comparative anthropology which sets out to illuminate the comparisons and contrasts between the beliefs, practices and institutions of different ancient and modern societies. Detienne aims to put the Greeks in perspective among other civilisations and also to look afresh at questions of political structure, literacy, nationhood, intellect and mythology. The work of Marcel Detienne has made an enormous impact on our thinking about the Greeks in areas such as rationality, literacy and mythology, and in this new volume he challenges once again our conception of the Greeks and their impact on the modern world.
This unique text collects more than 400 problems in combinatorics, derived distributions, discrete and continuous Markov chains, and models requiring a computer experimental approach. The first book to deal with simplified versions of models encountered in the contemporary statistical or engineering literature, Algorithmic Probability emphasizes correct interpretation of numerical results and visualization of the dynamics of stochastic processes. A significant contribution to the field of applied probability, Algorithmic Probability is ideal both as a secondary text in probability courses and as a reference. Engineers and operations analysts seeking solutions to practical problems will find it a valuable resource, as will advanced undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics, statistics, operations research, industrial and electrical engineering, and computer science.
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