Choosing Small

Author : Bo Burlingham
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101992333

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Small Giants by Bo Burlingham Pdf

How maverick companies have passed up the growth treadmill — and focused on greatness instead. It’s an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, making great contributions to their communities, and finding great ways to lead their lives. In Small Giants, veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside fourteen remarkable companies that have chosen to march to their own drummer. They include Anchor Brewing, the original microbrewer; CitiStorage Inc., the premier independent records-storage business; Clif Bar & Co., maker of organic energy bars and other nutrition foods; Righteous Babe Records, the record company founded by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco; Union Square Hospitality Group, the company of restaurateur Danny Meyer; and Zingerman’s Community of Businesses, including the world-famous Zingerman’s Deli of Ann Arbor. Burlingham shows how the leaders of these small giants recognized the full range of choices they had about the type of company they could create. And he shows how we can all benefit by questioning the usual definitions of business success. In his new afterward, Burlingham reflects on the similarities and learning lessons from the small giants he covers in the book.

Author : Jay Feldman,Lisette López,Katherine G. Simon
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015062628469

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Choosing Small by Jay Feldman,Lisette López,Katherine G. Simon Pdf

Choosing Small With low achievement and high drop-out rates plaguing our larger public high schools, communities across the country are creating smaller, more personalized schools that share a larger campus. Drawing on the Coalition of Essential Schools' longtime experience in school design, Choosing Small offers practical and strategic guidance for educators interested in transforming their high school. Featuring interviews with educators experienced in school conversion, the book covers all aspects of the conversion planning and implementation process such as engaging a broad array of stakeholders, working with the district, creating vision statements for the new schools, building leadership and management structures, and identifying curricular options as well as instructional needs. Praise for Choosing Small "Choosing Small provides necessary lessons onhigh school conversions, one of the most difficultreform efforts of our time." —Theodore R. Sizer, founder,Coalition of Essential Schools "A guide to creating the kind of schooling thatour young people need and deserve." —Ron Wolk, founding editor, Education Week "Anyone in a school leadership position who istrying to create high schools for the twenty-firstcentury should read this book." —John Welch, superintendent, Highline Public Schools, Burien, Washington "This book is for those who have ever gone toschool, been in a school, or realized we coulddo more for our children." —Jamie Kane, principal, Skyview High School, Thornton, Colorado "A must-read for anyone interested inimproving learning outcomes for young peoplethrough smaller, redesigned high schools." —John A. Sanchez, executive director, East Side House Settlement, the Bronx, New York

Author : Bo Burlingham
Publisher : Portfolio Trade
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1591841496

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Small Giants by Bo Burlingham Pdf

Profiles fourteen companies that have achieved high levels of success by focusing on the quality of their products and services, rather than their bottom-line profits, in a guide for small businesses that reveals how to earn consistent revenues by becoming purpose-driven. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Author : Milton Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015013018844

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Dynamic Economic Analysis by Milton Harris Pdf

In industrial organization and labour economics, many of the most interesting recent contributions have encompassed explicit dynamics as well as extensive form games. This book collects and explains a number of the most widely used techniques in dynamic economic analysis.

Author : Gene Howard Golub
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780199206810

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Milestones in Matrix Computation by Gene Howard Golub Pdf

The text presents and discusses some of the most influential papers in Matrix Computation authored by Gene H. Golub, one of the founding fathers of the field. Including commentaries by leading experts and a brief biography, this text will be of great interest to students and researchers in numerical analysis and scientific computation.

Author : Willy Susilo,Yi Mu,Jennifer Seberry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642314483

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Information Security and Privacy by Willy Susilo,Yi Mu,Jennifer Seberry Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2012, held in Wollongong, Australia, in July 2012. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fundamentals; cryptanalysis; message authentication codes and hash functions; public key cryptography; digital signatures; identity-based and attribute-based cryptography; lattice-based cryptography; lightweight cryptography.

Author : Marcus Brazil,Martin Zachariasen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319139159

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Optimal Interconnection Trees in the Plane by Marcus Brazil,Martin Zachariasen Pdf

This book explores fundamental aspects of geometric network optimisation with applications to a variety of real world problems. It presents, for the first time in the literature, a cohesive mathematical framework within which the properties of such optimal interconnection networks can be understood across a wide range of metrics and cost functions. The book makes use of this mathematical theory to develop efficient algorithms for constructing such networks, with an emphasis on exact solutions. Marcus Brazil and Martin Zachariasen focus principally on the geometric structure of optimal interconnection networks, also known as Steiner trees, in the plane. They show readers how an understanding of this structure can lead to practical exact algorithms for constructing such trees. The book also details numerous breakthroughs in this area over the past 20 years, features clearly written proofs, and is supported by 135 colour and 15 black and white figures. It will help graduate students, working mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists to understand the principles required for designing interconnection networks in the plane that are as cost efficient as possible.

Author : Lidong Chen,Guang Gong
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781439840375

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Communication System Security by Lidong Chen,Guang Gong Pdf

Helping current and future system designers take a more productive approach in the field, Communication System Security shows how to apply security principles to state-of-the-art communication systems. The authors use previous design failures and security flaws to explain common pitfalls in security design.Divided into four parts, the book begins w

Author : Michael J. Klarman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199942046

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The Framers' Coup by Michael J. Klarman Pdf

Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views." One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to believe that they also had interests. Based on prodigious research and told largely through the voices of the participants, Michael Klarman's The Framers' Coup narrates how the Framers' clashing interests shaped the Constitution--and American history itself. The Philadelphia convention could easily have been a failure, and the risk of collapse was always present. Had the convention dissolved, any number of adverse outcomes could have resulted, including civil war or a reversion to monarchy. Not only does Klarman capture the knife's-edge atmosphere of the convention, he populates his narrative with riveting and colorful stories: the rebellion of debtor farmers in Massachusetts; George Washington's uncertainty about whether to attend; Gunning Bedford's threat to turn to a European prince if the small states were denied equal representation in the Senate; slave staters' threats to take their marbles and go home if denied representation for their slaves; Hamilton's quasi-monarchist speech to the convention; and Patrick Henry's herculean efforts to defeat the Constitution in Virginia through demagoguery and conspiracy theories. The Framers' Coup is more than a compendium of great stories, however, and the powerful arguments that feature throughout will reshape our understanding of the nation's founding. Simply put, the Constitutional Convention almost didn't happen, and once it happened, it almost failed. And, even after the convention succeeded, the Constitution it produced almost failed to be ratified. Just as importantly, the Constitution was hardly the product of philosophical reflections by brilliant, disinterested statesmen, but rather ordinary interest group politics. Multiple conflicting interests had a say, from creditors and debtors to city dwellers and backwoodsmen. The upper class overwhelmingly supported the Constitution; many working class colonists were more dubious. Slave states and nonslave states had different perspectives on how well the Constitution served their interests. Ultimately, both the Constitution's content and its ratification process raise troubling questions about democratic legitimacy. The Federalists were eager to avoid full-fledged democratic deliberation over the Constitution, and the document that was ratified was stacked in favor of their preferences. And in terms of substance, the Constitution was a significant departure from the more democratic state constitutions of the 1770s. Definitive and authoritative, The Framers' Coup explains why the Framers preferred such a constitution and how they managed to persuade the country to adopt it. We have lived with the consequences, both positive and negative, ever since.

Author : Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III,,Roger L. Kemp,Jonathan Rosenthal
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780786476787

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Small Town Economic Development by Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III,,Roger L. Kemp,Jonathan Rosenthal Pdf

We tend to associate small town economic development with the decline of the rural United States--empty houses, shuttered shops and rusting factories. A common diagnosis of sluggish small town recovery is their lack of lifestyle amenities that attract new residents and businesses. Yet many small towns have shown progress and potential in recent years. This collection of recent articles by experts presents stories of small-town America's struggle and describes innovations and practices behind successful revivals.

Author : Carme Àlvarez,Maria Serna
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540345985

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Experimental Algorithms by Carme Àlvarez,Maria Serna Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Experimental and Efficient Algorithms, WEA 2006, held in Menorca, Spain, May 2006. The book presents 26 revised full papers together with 3 invited talks. The application areas addressed include most fields applying advanced algorithmic techniques, such as combinatorial optimization, approximation, graph theory, discrete mathematics, scheduling, searching, sorting, string matching, coding, networking, and more.

Author : Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency (Chicago, Ill.).
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : PRNC:32101043554011

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Publications by Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency (Chicago, Ill.). Pdf

Author : William Freeman Fox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Community development
ISBN : UCR:31210023593583

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Size Economies in Local Government Services by William Freeman Fox Pdf

Author : Ettore Lanzarone,Francesca Ieva
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319020846

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The Contribution of Young Researchers to Bayesian Statistics by Ettore Lanzarone,Francesca Ieva Pdf

The first Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting, BAYSM 2013, has provided a unique opportunity for young researchers, M.S. students, Ph.D. students, and post-docs dealing with Bayesian statistics to connect with the Bayesian community at large, exchange ideas, and network with scholars working in their field. The Workshop, which took place June 5th and 6th 2013 at CNR-IMATI, Milan, has promoted further research in all the fields where Bayesian statistics may be employed under the guidance of renowned plenary lecturers and senior discussants. A selection of the contributions to the meeting and the summary of one of the plenary lectures compose this volume.

Author : Thomas R. Zentall,Edward A. Wasserman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199930661

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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition by Thomas R. Zentall,Edward A. Wasserman Pdf

In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition contains sections on perception and illusion, attention and search, memory processes, spatial cognition, conceptualization and categorization, problem solving and behavioral flexibility, and social cognition processes including findings in primate tool usage, pattern learning, and counting. The authors have incorporated findings and theoretical approaches that reflect the current state of the field. This comprehensive volume will be a must-read for students and scientists who want to know about the state of the art of the modern science of comparative cognition.