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Measurement Madness

Recognizing and Avoiding the Pitfalls of Performance Measurement

By: Dina Gray,Pietro Micheli,Andrey Pavlov

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Measurement Madness

Recognizing and Avoiding the Pitfalls of Performance Measurement

By: Dina Gray,Pietro Micheli,Andrey Pavlov

A clearer, more accurate performance management strategy Over the past two decades, performance measurement has profoundly changed societies, organizations and the way we live and work. We can now access incredible quantities of data, display, review and report complex information in real time, and monitor employees and processes in detail. But have all these investments in collecting, analysing and reporting data helped companies, governments and people perform better? Measurement Madness is an engaging read, full of anecdotes so peculiar you'll hardly believe them. Each one highlights a performance measurement initiative that went wrong, explains why and – most importantly – shows you how to avoid making the same mistake yourself. The dangers of poorly designed performance measurement are numerous, and even the best how-to guides don't explain how to avoid them. Measurement Madness fills in the gap, showing how to ensure you’re measuring the right things, rewarding the behaviours that deserve rewarding, and interpreting results in a way that will improve things rather than complicate them. This book will help you to recognize, correct and even avoid common performance measurement problems, including: Measuring for the sake of measuring Assuming that measurement is an instant fix for performance issues Comparing sets of data that have nothing in common and hoping to learn something Using targets and rewards to promote certain behaviours, and achieving exactly the opposite ones. Reading Measurement Madness will enable you to design a simple, effective performance measurement system, which will have the intended result of creating value in your organization.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119970709

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Proceedings of the 11th Italian Conference on Sensors and Microsystems, Lecce, Italy, 8-10 February 2006

By: Pietro Siciliano

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Proceedings of the 11th Italian Conference on Sensors and Microsystems, Lecce, Italy, 8-10 February 2006

By: Pietro Siciliano

This volume presents the new objectives of physics on self-organizing systems composed of multi-components, in order to create a new field and establish universal comprehension in physics. The book covers broad topics such as the thermodynamic time asymmetry in both transient and stationary nonequilibrium states, the seriousness of auxiliary conditions in physicochemical processes and biological systems, the quantum-classical and micro-macro interfaces which are familiar in mesoscopic physics, the purification scheme of quantum entanglement, topics on gamma-ray bursts, and the walking mechanism of single molecular motors.

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World Scientific

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9812793399

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9789812793393

Francesco Cupani - Naturalista contemporaneo

By: Pietro Proietto

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Francesco Cupani - Naturalista contemporaneo

By: Pietro Proietto

Ripercorrere le tappe degli uomini che dal '600 al '700 hanno scritto la storia scientifica, palermitana e non solo è una cosa che inorgoglisce ancora di più le nostre origini. In pochi conoscono le gesta di chi ha reso famoso il nome di Misilmeri fuori da un normale contesto storico; il nome di questo paese, infatti, più che raccontato nei libri di storia viene fuori nei testi accademici di storia naturale o magari nei libri di scienze, è questo dovuto, soprattutto, al fatto di aver ospitato Francesco Cupani, l'uomo che rivoluzionò l'impostazione classica della botanica e delle scienze naturali in generale.

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113

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Lulu.com

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1291626654

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9781291626650

Saint Gianna Molla

Wife, Mother, Doctor

By: Pietro Molla

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Saint Gianna Molla

Wife, Mother, Doctor

By: Pietro Molla

This is the inspiring story of a canonized contemporary woman. Gianna Molla (1923-1962) risked her life in order to save her unborn child. Diagnosed with uterine tumors during her fourth pregnancy, she refused a hysterectomy that would have aborted the child, and opted for a riskier surgery in an attempt to save the baby. Herself a medical doctor, Molla did give birth to the child, but succumbed to an infection. An Italian woman who loved skiing, playing piano, attending concerts at the Milan Conservatory, Molla was a dedicated physician and devoted wife and mother who lived life to the fullest, yet generously risked death by cancer for the sake of her child. A unique story, co-authored by her own husband, with his deeply moving personal insights of the heroic witness, love, sacrifice and joy of his saintly wife. A woman for all times and walks of life, this moving account of the multi-faceted, selfless St. Gianna Molla, who made the ultimate sacrifice to save her unborn child, will be an inspiration to all readers. Illustrated "A woman of exceptional love, an outstanding wife and mother, Gianna Molla gave witness in her daily life to the demanding values of the Gospel." - Pope John Paul II

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Ignatius Press

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1681494159

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Rediscovering Léon Brunschvicg’s Critical Idealism

Philosophy, History and Science in the Third Republic

By: Pietro Terzi

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Rediscovering Léon Brunschvicg’s Critical Idealism

Philosophy, History and Science in the Third Republic

By: Pietro Terzi

Léon Brunschvicg's contribution to philosophical thought in fin-de-siècle France receives full explication in the first English-language study on his work. Arguing that Brunschvicg is crucial to understanding the philosophical schools which took root in 20th-century France, Pietro Terzi locates Brunschvicg alongside his contemporary Henri Bergson, as well as the range of thinkers he taught and influenced, including Lévinas, Merleau-Ponty, de Beauvoir, and Sartre. Brunschvicg's deep engagement with debates concerning spiritualism and rationalism, neo-Kantian philosophy, and the role of mathematics in philosophy made him the perfect supervisor for a whole host of nascent philosophical ideas which were forming in the work of his students. Terzi outlines Brunchvicg's defence of neo-Kantian judgement, historical analysis and the inextricability of the natural and humanist sciences to any rigorous system of philosophy, with wide-ranging implications for contemporary scholarship.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350171689

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Italian Mathematics Between the Two World Wars

By: Angelo Guerraggio,Pietro Nastasi

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Italian Mathematics Between the Two World Wars

By: Angelo Guerraggio,Pietro Nastasi

This book describes Italian mathematics in the period between the two World Wars. It analyzes the development by focusing on both the interior and the external influences. Italian mathematics in that period was shaped by a colorful array of strong personalities who concentrated their efforts on a select number of fields and won international recognition and respect in an incredibly short time. Consequently, Italy was considered a third mathematical power after France and Germany.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3764375124

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Jacques Lacan and Cinema

Imaginary, Gaze, Formalisation

By: Pietro Bianchi

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Jacques Lacan and Cinema

Imaginary, Gaze, Formalisation

By: Pietro Bianchi

Psychoanalysis has always been based on the eclipse of the visual and on the primacy of speech. The work of Jacques Lacan though, is strangely full of references to the visual field, from the intervention on the mirror stage in the Forties to the elaboration of the object-gaze in the Sixties. As a consequence, a long tradition of film studies used Lacanian psychoanalysis in order to explain the influence of the subject of the unconscious on the cinematographic experience. What is less known is how the late Lacanian reflection on the topic of analytic formalization opened up a further dimension of the visual that goes beyond the subjective experience of vision: not in the direction of a mystical ineffable but rather toward a subtractive mathematisation of space, as in non-Euclidean geometries. In an exhaustive overview of the whole Lacanian theorization of the visual, counterpointed by a confrontation with several thinkers of cinema (Eisenstein, Straub-Huillet, Deleuze, Ranciere), the book will lead the reader toward the discovery of the most counterintuitive approaches of Lacanian psychoanalysis to the topic of vision.

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Routledge

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0429915306

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9780429915307

“Pouring Jewish Water Into Fascist Wine”

Untold Stories of (Catholic) Jews from the Archive of Mussolini’s Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi

By: Robert Aleksander Maryks,Pietro Tacchi Venturi

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“Pouring Jewish Water Into Fascist Wine”

Untold Stories of (Catholic) Jews from the Archive of Mussolini’s Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi

By: Robert Aleksander Maryks,Pietro Tacchi Venturi

This book offers a critical edition of the petitions in their original Italian language that (Catholic) Jews residing in Italy submitted to the Fascist General Administration for Demography and Race (Demorazza) in order either to be “discriminated,” i.e., not subjected to various provisions of Mussolini’s racial laws.

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BRILL

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9004216707

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9789004216709

Foundations of Old Prussian

Philology and Linguistics

By: Pietro U. Dini

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Foundations of Old Prussian

Philology and Linguistics

By: Pietro U. Dini

The Old Prussian language has always puzzled linguists. While other Baltic languages, such as Lithuanian and Latvian, have remained in use to the present day, Old Prussian was extinguished at the beginning of eighteenth century, and the extant Old Prussian linguistic corpus is quite limited in scope. Drawing on two bilingual vocabularies and three Lutheran Catechisms (as well as onomastic evidence and several other minor texts), this work critically explores the linguistic and historiographical contours of Old Prussian.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666901911

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9781666901917

Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects

A New Translation and Critical Edition

By: Giovanni Pietro Bellori,Hellmut Wohl

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Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects

A New Translation and Critical Edition

By: Giovanni Pietro Bellori,Hellmut Wohl

This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Carvaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by the seventeenth-century antiquarian Giovan Pietro Bellori. Originally conceived as a continuation of Vasari's famous Lives, it is a fundamental source for seventeenth-century Italian art and artistic theory, providing detailed descriptions of extant and lost works of art, while casting light on the cultural politics of contemporary Rome and the relations between Rome and France. The importance of Bellori's Lives lies in the scrupulous documentation of artists, many of whom he knew personally; the author's detailed descriptions of their works; and his exposition of the classicist theory of art in the introductory lecture, the Idea. This volume contains the twelve Lives published in the original edition of 1672 and three Lives (Guido Reni, Andrea Sacchi, and Carlo Maratti) that survive in manuscript form and that were published for the first time in 1942.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521781876

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9780521781879

Phylogensesis of Beauty

By: Pietro Gaietto

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Phylogensesis of Beauty

By: Pietro Gaietto

Phylogenesis of beauty by Pietro Gaietto is a scientific treatise on the origins and general evolutionary outcome of beauty, from the beginning of the world to the present. Beauty has never before been the object of scientific study, nor has its evolution. Gaietto has integrated human products, including art, into the general evolution of beauty in nature, noting that man's object follow the same rules of evolutionary transformation found in organic and inorganic physical forms. Gaietto's hypothesis on the transformation of beauty concerns all the kingdoms of nature as they have appeared in chronological order from the earliest geological ages, and as discovered by geologists, paleontologists, and paletnologists. The book's scientific analysis of beauty in human artifacts excludes questions of quality, even if they exist, as well as the idea of ugliness, because man intentionally produces only beautiful things.

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Lulu.com

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1291842950

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Measurement Madness

Recognizing and Avoiding the Pitfalls of Performance Measurement

By: Dina Gray,Pietro Micheli,Andrey Pavlov

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Measurement Madness

Recognizing and Avoiding the Pitfalls of Performance Measurement

By: Dina Gray,Pietro Micheli,Andrey Pavlov

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Measurement Madness

Measurement Madness

Proceedings of the 11th Italian Conference on Sensors and Microsystems, Lecce, Italy, 8-10 February 2006

Proceedings of the 11th Italian Conference on Sensors and Microsystems, Lecce, Italy, 8-10 February 2006

Francesco Cupani - Naturalista contemporaneo

Francesco Cupani - Naturalista contemporaneo

Saint Gianna Molla

Saint Gianna Molla

Rediscovering Léon Brunschvicg’s Critical Idealism

Rediscovering Léon Brunschvicg’s Critical Idealism

Italian Mathematics Between the Two World Wars

Italian Mathematics Between the Two World Wars

Jacques Lacan and Cinema

Jacques Lacan and Cinema

“Pouring Jewish Water Into Fascist Wine”

“Pouring Jewish Water Into Fascist Wine”

Foundations of Old Prussian

Foundations of Old Prussian

Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects

Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects

Phylogensesis of Beauty

Phylogensesis of Beauty

Measurement Madness

Measurement Madness

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