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 Dare to Be Great: Unlock Your Power to Create a Better World by Polly Higgins English | May 1st, 2020 | ISBN: 075099410X | 224 pages | EPUB | 1.23 MB 'I know it may not yet look like it, but we are sowing the seeds of greatness for countless generations to come. That is the Great Work of our times. Yours and mine.' This is a book unlike any other. It does not tell you what you must do, it does not set out a guide for the 10 definitive steps to becoming great by next Thursday. Dare To Be Great is both a playful, inspirational conversation and a heartfelt, lived call, daring each one of us and our society as a whole to become truly great.  Shrinivas Pandit, "Dabawalas: Lessons for Building lasting success based on values" English | 2009 | ISBN: 0070148066 | PDF | pages: 124 | 1.7 mb "Businesses go through dramatic twists and turns. Some survive, while quite a few fall by the way-side. Corporate heads grapple with this and are keen to find a sustainable model for making organisations last. Dabawalas, the story of Mumbai's ubiquitous homemade food delivery men stands in sharp contrast. A 115-year-old business enterprise, run by semi-literate group of people, that has sustained itself through the vicissitudes of change presents a role model. Through a dialogue between four characters, the book brings to the fore key characteristics of successful organisations - values, decentralised decision-making, continuous value addition to customer care and many more. Besides this, the book includes take-aways for leaders and managers to imbibe for building lasting success based on values."  Customer Advisory Boards: A Strategic Tool for Customer Relationship Building By David L Loudon, Tony Carter 2003 | 180 Pages | ISBN: 0789015579 | PDF | 2 MB Learn why customer advisory boards are so successfulвЂ"and how to create one for any business! From a leading authority in business management comes a book to give your company the winning edge. Customer Advisory Boards: A Strategic Tool for Customer Relationship Building examines the customer advisory board (CAB)вЂ"one of the most effective competitive tools for building and maintaining customer satisfaction. This business guide shows how to create and make use of an effective CAB, and how doing so can give your company a marketing advantage and improve vital aspects of business, including customer responsiveness, trust-building, and customer satisfaction. Customer Advisory Boards focuses on bringing companies and customers closer together utilizing input and advice from a CAB. This book shows how to use three types of customer basesвЂ"existing customers, potential customers, or former buyersвЂ"to form three different types of advisory boards: corporate strategy boards to plan future investments, product planning boards to create new product, and launch success boards to improve existing product. Using the information in this book, your company can transform from being customer focused to customer driven. Customary advisory boards benefit your company by: improving sales contact and dialogue dynamics of the company enabling the company to see itself through the customers’ eyes sharing ideas and suggestions to improve a company’s programs and services to its customers showing that the company values its customers’ opinions and wants to improve for them providing access to expertise and experience from a wide range of necessary disciplines without legal liability Customer advisory boards also benefit the board members by: giving them opportunities to offer practical advice that can affect a company allowing them to establish personal and professional contacts from each other rewarding them with company perks and products giving them a sense of belonging and empowerment With case studies, appendices, notes, references, and surveys, Dr. Tony Carter has created an illuminating, educational research tool for company owners and managers. Whether applied to a corporation, a medical or religious institution, or a not-for-profit organization, Customer Advisory Boards will help increase customer loyalty and satisfaction.  Cultural Economy and Television in Jamaica and Ghana: #decolonization2point0 by Deborah Hickling Gordon English | EPUB | 2020 | 202 Pages | ISBN : 3030380645 | 2.7 MB This book proposes contemporary decolonization as an approach to developing cultural economies in the Global South. It presents the account of the transformation of television in Jamaica and Ghana to audiovisual subsectors; from cultural institutions to cultural industries and then subsectors of emerging cultural economies as representative case studies. 'Glocal' changes are presented within five organizing phenomena:  Crusades: Volume 18 by Benjamin Z Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Iris Shagrir 2020 | ISBN: 0367375354 | English | 310 pages | EPUB | 5.5 MB Crusades covers the seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history.  Crop Breeding: Genetic Improvement Methods by Pasquale Tripodi English | PDF | 2021 | 284 Pages | ISBN : 107161200X | 8.5 MB This volume describes breeding methods for the development of biparental and multiparental mapping populations. Chapters detail lab protocols for high-throughput isolation of nucleic acids and metabolites, high performing genotyping approaches, mapping strategies for QTLs, mutation identifications, computational, bioinformatic pipelines, tissue culture-based and transformation methods for androgenesis, ploidy modification, and RNA interference.
 Critical companion to Emily Dickinson: a literary reference to her life and work By Sharon Leiter 2007 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0816054487 | PDF | 6 MB Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson is an encyclopedic guide to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, one of the most famous and widely studied American poets of the 19th century. Known for her wit and preference for seclusion from the outside world, Dickinson rarely left her home in Amherst, Mass., preferring instead to write quietly from the confines of her bedroom. This new title contains close readings and critical analyses of more than 150 of Dickinson's best-known poems, including ''Because I could not stop for Death,'' ''I felt a funeral, in my Brain,'' ''I died for Beauty - but was scarce,'' and ''I like to see it lap the miles.'' The different aspects of Dickinson's life that influenced her work are also discussed, including family, friends, teachers, townspeople, editors, and correspondents. In this single-volume reference, admirers, general readers, and lovers of poetry will discover hundreds of entries covering every aspect of Dickinson's life and work. Its coverage Includes: a biography of Dickinson; entries on her most famous and most anthologized poems; the essential people in her life; spiritual and literary influences; social and religious movements; her publishing history; critical approaches to her work; important themes and metaphors; and, a foreword by noted poet Gregory Orr.
 Critical Companion to William Faulkner: A Literary Reference to His Life And Work By A. Nicholas Fargnoli, Michael Golay, Robert W. Hamblin 2008 | 576 Pages | ISBN: 0816064326 | PDF | 5 MB Critical Companion to William Faulkner - a major revision and expansion of ''William Faulkner A to Z'' - features more than 80,000 additional words. Character entries and Critical Commentary sections on Faulkner's major works have been significantly expanded, and entirely new sections providing excerpts from contemporary reviews have been added. Other new features include further reading lists for Faulkner's major novels and short stories as well as a detailed chronology of one of Faulkner's greatest and most complicated works, ''As I Lay Dying''. This title covers such topics as: descriptions of characters in Faulkner's fiction, such as Benjy and Quentin from ''The Sound and the Fury''; details about Faulkner's family, friends, colleagues, and critics; real and fictional places important to Faulkner's life and literary development, from Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi to Hollywood; interviews and speeches given by Faulkner; and, ideas and events that influenced his life and works, including slavery, the Civil War, World War I, and civil rights.
 Critical Companion to Toni Morrison: A Literary Reference to Her Life And Work By Carmen Gillespie 2007 | 496 Pages | ISBN: 0816062765 | PDF | 3 MB Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, is perhaps the most important living American author today, and certainly one of the most popular in college and high school courses. Her novels, including ''Sula'', ''Song of Solomon'', ''Beloved'', and ''Paradise'', have won almost every major award available to them. In addition, her influence as a critic, book editor, and mentor to other writers has been incalculable. ''Critical Companion to Toni Morrison'' examines Morrison's life and writing, featuring critical analyses of her work and themes, as well as entries on related topics and relevant people, places, and influences.  Critical Companion to Robert Frost: A Literary Reference to His Life And Work By Deirdre Fagan 2007 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0816061823 | PDF | 4 MB Known for his favorite themes of New England and nature, Robert Frost may well be the most famous American poet of the 20th century. His classic works include the poems ''The Road Not Taken,'' ''Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,'' ''The Death of the Hired Man,'' and many more. ''Critical Companion to Robert Frost'' is an encyclopedic guide to the life and works of this great American poet. This accessible volume combines extensive critical analysis with in-depth information on Frost's life, providing a one-stop resource for students. Coverage includes: a concise but thorough biography of Frost; entries on every one of Frost's published poems, plays, and important works of prose; criticism and interpretations of Frost's work; entries on related people, places, themes, and topics; and appendixes, including bibliographies of primary and secondary sources and a chronology. |
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