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Braided Organizations

Designing Augmented Human-Centric Processes to Enhance Performance and Innovation

By: Michel Zarka,Elena Kochanovskaya,William Pasmore

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Braided Organizations

Designing Augmented Human-Centric Processes to Enhance Performance and Innovation

By: Michel Zarka,Elena Kochanovskaya,William Pasmore

New digital technologies are changing the way organizations are designed and work is done. Companies that have seized this opportunity are finding that they can speed up innovation, enhance collaboration across boundaries, and enable greater commitment and creativity. This totally new approach for digitally-enabled collaboration doesn’t stop at the edge of an organization’s boundary but extends beyond it in space and time. We refer to these new ways of organizing as “braids” - an intertwined network of contributors with different capabilities, not controlled or managed by a formal hierarchy, who work together to invent ways to accomplish a common purpose in line with organization’s mission and strategy. Braids allow significant advantages over traditional, hierarchical, mechanistic and bounded ways of organizing. These include access to knowledge and capabilities that are key to achieving breakthrough levels of performance; improved coordination among individuals and groups performing interdependent tasks; increased organizational agility; enhanced knowledge-processing as experts contribute more directly to the most important technical and strategic decisions; and greater motivation, as people team together to leverage their capabilities to innovate and accelerate performance. Learning from the trailblazing experimentation of companies like Airbus, Procter & Gamble, Red Hat, and Dassault Systèmes, this book outlines how to approach designing braided organizations for a variety of purposes, such as enhancing open innovation or enabling greater supply chain adaptability in order to respond to changing customer demands. In the past, human limitations have restricted the ways we organize companies for growth. Today, there’s no excuse for allowing the organizational chart as it’s currently drawn to constrain possibilities for improved performance and innovation.

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Atheist Manifesto

The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

By: Michel Onfray

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Atheist Manifesto

The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

By: Michel Onfray

This hugely controversial work demonstrates convincingly how the world’s three major monotheistic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—have attempted to suppress knowledge, science, pleasure, and desire, condemning nonbelievers often to death. Not since Nietzsche has a work so groundbreaking and explosive questioned the role of the world’s three major monotheistic religions. If Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, Onfray insists that not only is God still very much alive but also increasingly controlled by fundamentalists who pose a danger to the nature of human morality. Documenting the ravages of religious intolerance over the centuries, the author makes a strong case against the three religions for their obsession with purity and their contempt for reason and intelligence, individual freedom, desire, and the human body, as well as their disdain for women, sexuality, and pleasure. In their place, all three demand faith and belief, obedience and submission, extolling the “next life” to the detriment of the here and now. Tightly argued, this is a work that is sure to stir debate on the role of religion in American society—and politics.

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Simon and Schuster

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1626367795

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Heidegger, the Introduction of Nazism Into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935

By: Editions Albin Michel,Emmanuel Faye

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Heidegger, the Introduction of Nazism Into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935

By: Editions Albin Michel,Emmanuel Faye

In the most comprehensive examination to date of Heidegger’s Nazism, Emmanuel Faye draws on previously unavailable materials to paint a damning picture of Nazism’s influence on the philosopher’s thought and politics. In this provocative book, Faye uses excerpts from unpublished seminars to show that Heidegger’s philosophical writings are fatally compromised by an adherence to National Socialist ideas. In other documents, Faye finds expressions of racism and exterminatory anti-Semitism. Faye disputes the view of Heidegger as a na�ve, temporarily disoriented academician and instead shows him to have been a self-appointed “spiritual guide” for Nazism whose intentionality was clear. Contrary to what some have written, Heidegger’s Nazism became even more radical after 1935, as Faye demonstrates. He revisits Heidegger’s masterwork, Being and Time, and concludes that in it Heidegger does not present a philosophy of individual existence but rather a doctrine of radical self-sacrifice, where individualization is allowed only for the purpose of heroism in warfare. Faye’s book was highly controversial when originally published in France in 2005. Now available in Michael B. Smith’s fluid English translation, it is bound to awaken controversy in the English-speaking world.

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Yale University Press

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0300120869

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9780300120868

Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa

Accelerating High-Speed Internet Access

By: Natalija Gelvanovska,Michel Rogy,Carlo Maria Rossotto

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Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa

Accelerating High-Speed Internet Access

By: Natalija Gelvanovska,Michel Rogy,Carlo Maria Rossotto

The existing telecommunications infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa MENA suffers from various regulatory and market bottlenecks that are hampering the growth of the Internet in most countries and related access to information and to potential new job sources.

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World Bank Publications

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1464801134

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History of Baalbek

By: Michel M. Alouf

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History of Baalbek

By: Michel M. Alouf

The fame of the ruins at Baalbek in Lebanon once drew many tourists. The Romans eventually built magnificent temples over a massive multi-level platform considered to be one of the only prediluvial sites that survived the flood. Here we find the amazing 1000-plus ton stones as part of the original temple platform. The largest cranes in the world would have difficulty lifting, let alone moving, these massive limestone blocks. These stones and other parts of this important site are described in this handy reference guide.

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1585090638

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Sports Law in France

By: Jean-Michel Marmayou

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Sports Law in France

By: Jean-Michel Marmayou

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of sports law in France deals with the regulation of sports activity by both public authorities and private sports organizations. The growing internationalization of sports inevitably increases the weight of global regulation, yet each country maintains its own distinct regime of sports law and its own national and local sports organizations. Sports law at a national or organizational level thus gains a growing relevance in comparative law. The book describes and discusses both state-created rules and autonomous self-regulation regarding the variety of economic, social, commercial, cultural, and political aspects of sports activities. Self-regulation manifests itself in the form of by-laws, and encompasses organizational provisions, disciplinary rules, and rules of play. However, the trend towards more professionalism in sports and the growing economic, social and cultural relevance of sports have prompted an increasing reliance on legal rules adopted by public authorities. This form of regulation appears in a variety of legal areas, including criminal law, labour law, commercial law, tax law, competition law, and tort law, and may vary following a particular type or sector of sport. It is in this dual and overlapping context that such much-publicized aspects as doping, sponsoring and media, and responsibility for injuries are legally measured. This monograph fills a gap in the legal literature by giving academics, practitioners, sports organizations, and policy makers access to sports law at this specific level. Lawyers representing parties with interests in France will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative sports law.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9403512024

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9789403512020

Le Concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838)

By: Michel Ducharme

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Le Concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838)

By: Michel Ducharme

Cet ouvrage revisite l'histoire intellectuelle et politique canadienne entre la révolution américaine et les rébellions de 1837-1838 au Haut et au Bas-Canada en la réintégrant dans le cadre des Révolutions atlantiques qui ont secoué l'Europe et l'Amérique entre 1776 et 1838. Reposant sur un cadre théorique inspiré des travaux des historiens intellectuels du monde atlantique, il traite plus particulièrement de l'importance du concept de liberté dans le développement de l'État dans les deux colonies. Il démontre que ces dernières se sont développés dès 1791 en suivant un idéal de liberté qui, tout en étant différent de la liberté à l'oeuvre au sein des mouvements révolutionnaires de la fin du XVIIIe siècle, n'en était pas moins issu des Lumières. Il présente également les rébellions de 1837-1838 comme étant en partie le résultat d'un affrontement entre deux concepts très différents de liberté.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773576029

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9780773576025

The Idea of Liberty in Canada during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838

By: Michel Ducharme

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The Idea of Liberty in Canada during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838

By: Michel Ducharme

In Idea of Liberty in Canada during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838, Michel Ducharme shows that Canadian intellectual and political history between the American Revolution and the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837-38 can be better understood by considering it in relation to the broad framework of revolution in the Atlantic world between 1776 and 1838. Inspired by intellectual histories of the Atlantic world, Ducharme goes beyond the scholarly focus on Atlantic republicanism to present the rebellions of 1837-38 as a confrontation between two very different concepts of liberty. He uses these concepts as lenses through which to read colonial ideological conflict. Ducharme traces political discourse in both colonies, showing how the differing fates and influence of republican and constitutional notions of liberty affected state development. He also pursues a number of important revisionist historical claims, including the idea that nationalist politics were not at issue in the period and that "responsible government" was never a Patriote party platform or interest. Taking a wider view allows Ducharme to provide a solid understanding of the ideological substance of political conflict and shows that, starting in 1791, Canadian colonial political culture revolved around an ideal of liberty that differed from the liberty at work within the revolutionary movements of the late eighteenth century but was nonetheless born of the Enlightenment.

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0773596267

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The Carotid and Supra-Aortic Trunks

Diagnosis, Angioplasty and Stenting

By: Michel Henry,Edward B. Diethrich,Antonios Polydorou

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The Carotid and Supra-Aortic Trunks

Diagnosis, Angioplasty and Stenting

By: Michel Henry,Edward B. Diethrich,Antonios Polydorou

Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting (CAS) is a new approach to treat a carotid stenosis. This new book provides interventional cardiologists, both as beginners or fully experienced, with a reference on all aspects of angioplasty and stenting of the carotid and supra-aortic trunks. Focusing on both the entire range of angioplasty and stenting treatment options for the surgeon treating patients on the operating table, and the range of radiological techniques used for the cardiologist to diagnose carotid artery stenosis (CAS) and associated conditions, this important book describes the best indications, the different techniques, the results, and also the limitations of CAS based on randomized studies and particularly the last published data (CREST study). Suitable for both novice and experienced interventionalists, it also addresses diagnosis of a carotid stenosis and complications from CAS and how to manage them.

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1444329820

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In Defence of Atheism

The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam

By: Michel Onfray

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In Defence of Atheism

The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam

By: Michel Onfray

In the twenty-first century, religion is making a comeback, bringing in its wake extremism of all kinds. From Christian anti-abortion campaigns to suicide bombers claiming the righteousness of Islam, we are witnessing a resurgence of fundamentalism. Michel Onfray's response to the threat of a post-modern theocracy is to lay down the principles of an authentic atheism: exposing the fiction that is God, he proposes instead a new philosophy of reason that celebrates life and humanity. In Defence of Atheism demonstrates that organised religion is motivated by worldly, historical and political power; that the three dominant monotheisms - Christianity, Islam and Judaism - exhibit the same hatred of women, reason, the body, the passions; that religion denies life and glorifies death. Onfray exposes some uncomfortable truths: Judaism invented the extermination of a people; Jesus never existed historically; Christianity was enforced with extreme violence by Constantine; Islam is anti-Semitic, misogynist, warlike and incompatible with the values of a modern democracy.

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Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Roman Frontier in Egypt

Frontières de l’empire romain : la frontière romaine en Égypte

By: David J. Breeze,Michel Reddé

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Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Roman Frontier in Egypt

Frontières de l’empire romain : la frontière romaine en Égypte

By: David J. Breeze,Michel Reddé

The Roman military remains of Egypt are remarkable in their variety and state of preservation: forts, quarries whose materials were used in the monumental buildings of Rome, roads which brought the Mediterranean into contact with the Indian Ocean; each reader of this book will enjoy learning more about the remarkable Roman inheritance of Egypt.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1789699460

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Braided Organizations

Designing Augmented Human-Centric Processes to Enhance Performance and Innovation

By: Michel Zarka,Elena Kochanovskaya,William Pasmore

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Designing Augmented Human-Centric Processes to Enhance Performance and Innovation

By: Michel Zarka,Elena Kochanovskaya,William Pasmore

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Braided Organizations

Braided Organizations

Atheist Manifesto

Atheist Manifesto

Heidegger, the Introduction of Nazism Into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935

Heidegger, the Introduction of Nazism Into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935

Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa

Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa

History of Baalbek

History of Baalbek

Sports Law in France

Sports Law in France

Le Concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838)

Le Concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838)

The Idea of Liberty in Canada during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838

The Idea of Liberty in Canada during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838

The Carotid and Supra-Aortic Trunks

The Carotid and Supra-Aortic Trunks

In Defence of Atheism

In Defence of Atheism

Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Roman Frontier in Egypt

Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Roman Frontier in Egypt

Braided Organizations

Braided Organizations

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