The Prime Movers

Author : Edwin A. Locke
Publisher : AMACOM/American Management Association
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814405703

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The Prime Movers by Edwin A. Locke Pdf

The super-rich really aren't like other people. They're a rare breed that inspires awe, envy, admiration -- sometimes even hatred. They're idolized, criticized, and demonized. In short, they stand out from the rest of humanity. After all, not everyone can build personal fortunes worth billions or create dominant business empires. It takes a remarkable person, blessed with the "traits of wealth", to accomplish these things. The Prime Movers takes a penetrating look at some of these remarkable people -- and reveals seven attributes common to all great wealth creators: independent vision, an active mind, competence and confidence, the drive to action, egoistic passion, love of ability in others, and virtue. In the right mix, these traits are what makes someone a Bill Gates, Sam Walton, Mary Kay, or Ross Perot. Sometimes irreverent, sometimes surprising, but always fascinating, The Prime Movers sheds welcome light on the powerful personalities and driving forces behind the world's famous (and infamous) ultra-wealthy elite.

Author : Ferdinand Mount
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781471156021

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Prime Movers by Ferdinand Mount Pdf

Ferdinand Mount has been fascinated by the great thinkers and politicians who have shaped human history over the past two millennia In this fascinating, and provocative book, he examines the proposals for a political theory from a number of widely different historical figures. Twelve key people, from the great orator and statesman of Ancient Greece (Pericles) to the inspiration of the founding of the state of Pakistan (Muhammad Iqbal) we take a colourful and rip-roaring journey through the historical figures who have both inspired and provoked Mount in equal measure. The lives of men such as Jesus Christ, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Thomas Jefferson are discussed and comparisons are drawn between the various approaches each figure promoted in their works – whether philosophical, or political theories. For those wishing to be guided by Mount’s choices and be swept along by his brilliantly erudite prose, this will be a particular enjoyable read. Lots of colour, humour and passion governed all these people careers and Mount brings them to life like no one else can. Praise for the international-bestselling Tears of the Rajas:- 'Mount is a skilled and fluent writer who does his subject justice' --Literary Review 'Mount relates this remarkable story with a gentle wit, a lightness of touch, a boyish enthusiasm as well as a genius for the telling pen-portrait… It is a remarkable story, and cumulatively amounts to an epic panorama of British Indian history much more substantial than the 'collection of Indian tales, a human jungle book', which Mount modestly describes as his aim in the introduction.' --William Dalrymple, The Spectator 'What [Mount] provides instead is of far greater value: a perceptive antidote to nationalistic prejudicial thinking, and an opportunity for a greater understanding of the aftereffects of British imperialism in some of the world's most troubled regions.' Sunday Times 'Although Tears of the Rajas is replete with stirring tales of adventure, it is a deeply humane book. Mount's heart is at all times with the people of India, whose lives are turned upside down by blundering attempts at modernisation.' The Times

Author : David Marc,Robert J. Thompson
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0815603118

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Prime Time, Prime Movers by David Marc,Robert J. Thompson Pdf

From dominant performers such as Jackie Gleason and Carol Burnett to powerhouse producers such as Norman Lear and Steven Bochco, this book reviews the stories and styles of the most important architects of the airwaves. Milton Berle brought a "hellzapoppin'" vaudeville aesthetic to TV. Gleason used it as an autobiographical medium. Red Skelton was the classic clown from the heartland. Paul Henning, who created, wrote, and produced The Beverly Hillbillies, was himself a kid from Missouri who grew up to become a millionaire in Los Angeles. Norman Lear modeled Archie Bunker after his own cantankerous father. Steven Bochco productions, such as Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law, made TV watching respectable for yuppies. Authors David Marc and Robert J. Thompson are the most outspoken proponents of the auteur argument. Covering a broad spectrum of TV programming formats, from old-time variety shows to sitcoms, from action/adventure shows to documentaries, from gameshows to soap operas, they challenge the tastes and interests of television viewers—a group roughly equivalent to the American population at large.

Author : Rafael Ramírez,Johan Wallin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000044656140

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Prime Movers by Rafael Ramírez,Johan Wallin Pdf

This book deals with the frameworks between customers and suppliers. These frameworks link a customer's own value creating activities to the competencies and resources of the supplying firm(s). Both the short term (financial) and long term (knowledge) benefits to using this approach are discussed.

Author : Karl Ludvigsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Automobiles, Racing
ISBN : 0851840531

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Prime Movers by Karl Ludvigsen Pdf

This is the inside story of Britain's Ilmor Engineering Company. The book traces the progress of the company from its early beginnings, with Chevrolet, Leyton House, Mercedes-Benz and Sauber, right through to their many successful years in Indy Car racing.

Author : Christopher Alan Anderson
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781622878949

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The Prime Movers by Christopher Alan Anderson Pdf

"You align to Source by giving your love to your sexual other half. A man gives his (securitive) love to a woman; a woman gives her (reproductive) love to a man. That is all there is. We don't need to concern ourselves about 'loving ourselves,' as if one could. Our only concern is to love our sexual other half. Do you hear this? Only the action of giving your love to your sexual other half will keep you in alignment to Source such that the Law of Attraction will work for you. Why is this so? Because you are one (of the two) sexual Prime Movers." In this quote the author gives his overview of the problem and solution of mankind. Keywords: Metaphysics, Sovereign, Love, Spirit, Sex, Law, Life, God, Source, Enlightenment

Author : Jean-Pierre Jeannet,Thierry Volery,Heiko Bergmann,Cornelia Amstutz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030652876

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Masterpieces of Swiss Entrepreneurship by Jean-Pierre Jeannet,Thierry Volery,Heiko Bergmann,Cornelia Amstutz Pdf

This open access book focuses on Switzerland-based medium-sized companies with a longstanding export tradition and a proven dominance in global niche markets. Based upon in-depth documentation and analysis of 36 Swiss companies over their entire history, an expert team of authors presents several parallels in the pathways and success factors which allowed these firms to become dominant and operate from a high-cost location such as Switzerland. The book enhances these insights by providing detailed company profiles documenting the company history, development, and how their relevant global niche positions were reached. Readers will benefit from these profiles as they compile a diverse selection of industries, mainly active within the B2B sector, with mostly mature companies (60 years to older than 100 years since founding) and different types of ownership structures including family firms. ‘Masterpieces of Swiss Entrepreneurship’ brings unique learning opportunities to owners and leaders of SMEs in Switzerland and elsewhere. Findings are based on detailed bottom-up research of 36 companies -- without any preconceived notions. The book is both conceptual and practical. It fosters understanding for different choices in development pathways and management practices. Matti Alahuhta, Chairman DevCo Partners, ex-CEO Kone, Board member of several global listed companies, Helsinki, Finland Start-up entrepreneurs need proven models from industry which demonstrate the various paths to success. “Masterpieces of Swiss Entrepreneurship” provides deep insights highlighting these models and the important trade-offs entrepreneurial teams must consider when choosing the path of high growth or of maximum control, as they are often mutually exclusive. Gina Domanig, Managing Partner, Emerald Technology Ventures, Zurich

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262518765

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Prime Movers of Globalization by Vaclav Smil Pdf

The story of how diesel engines and gas turbines, used to power cargo ships and jet airplanes, made today's globally integrated economy possible. The many books on globalization published over the past few years range from claims that the world is flat to an unlikely rehabilitation of Genghis Khan as a pioneer of global commerce. Missing from these accounts is a consideration of the technologies behind the creation of the globalized economy. What makes it possible for us to move billions of tons of raw materials and manufactured goods from continent to continent? Why are we able to fly almost anywhere on the planet within twenty-four hours? In Prime Movers of Globalization, Vaclav Smil offers a history of two key technical developments that have driven globalization: the high-compression non-sparking internal combustion engines invented by Rudolf Diesel in the 1890s and the gas turbines designed by Frank Whittle and Hans-Joachim Pabst von Ohain in the 1930s. The massive diesel engines that power cargo ships and the gas turbines that propel jet engines, Smil argues, are more important to the global economy than any corporate structure or international trade agreement. Smil compares the efficiency and scale of these two technologies to prime movers of the past, including the sail and the steam engine. The lengthy processes of development, commercialization, and diffusion that the diesel engine and the gas turbine went through, he argues, provide perfect examples of gradual technical advances that receive little attention but have resulted in epochal shifts in global affairs and the global economy.

Author : Stanley W. Trzoniec
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760348406

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Vintage & Modern Diesel Locomotives by Stanley W. Trzoniec Pdf

EMD, General Electric, Alco, Baldwin, and Fairbanks Morse have built diesel locomotives. Their most popular vintage and modern models are covered in painstaking detail by author and photographer Stanley W. Trzoniec.

Author : Ashok Rao
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119064428

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Sustainable Energy Conversion for Electricity and Coproducts by Ashok Rao Pdf

Provides an introduction to energy systems going on to describe various forms of energy sources Provides a comprehensive and a fundamental approach to the study of sustainable fuel conversion for the generation of electricity and for coproducing synthetic fuels and chemicals Covers the underlying principles of physics and their application to engineering including thermodynamics of combustion and power cycles, fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer Details the coproduction of fuels and chemicals including key equipment used in synthesis and specific examples of coproduction in integrated gasification combined cycles are presented Presents an introduction to renewables and nuclear energy, including a section on electrical grid stability and is included due to the synergy of these energy plants with fossil-fueled plants

Author : Sir William Fairbairn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Machinery
ISBN : UCBK:C057071340

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On the principles of mechanism and on prime movers by Sir William Fairbairn Pdf

Author : William John Macquorn Rankine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Mechanical engineering
ISBN : WISC:89089692859

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A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine Pdf

Author : William John Macquorn Rankine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017434796

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A Manual of the Steam Engine and other prime movers ... With numerous diagrams by William John Macquorn Rankine Pdf

Author : Safi Bahcall
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781250185976

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Loonshots by Safi Bahcall Pdf

* Instant WSJ bestseller * Translated into 18 languages * #1 Most Recommended Book of the year (Bloomberg annual survey of CEOs and entrepreneurs) * An Amazon, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Forbes, Inc., Newsweek, Strategy + Business, Tech Crunch, Washington Post Best Business Book of the year * Recommended by Bill Gates, Daniel Kahneman, Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Pink, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Sid Mukherjee, Tim Ferriss Why do good teams kill great ideas? Loonshots reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs. Bahcall, a physicist and entrepreneur, shows why teams, companies, or any group with a mission will suddenly change from embracing new ideas to rejecting them, just as flowing water will suddenly change into brittle ice. Mountains of print have been written about culture. Loonshots identifies the small shifts in structure that control this transition, the same way that temperature controls the change from water to ice. Using examples that range from the spread of fires in forests to the hunt for terrorists online, and stories of thieves and geniuses and kings, Bahcall shows how a new kind of science can help us become the initiators, rather than the victims, of innovative surprise. Over the past decade, researchers have been applying the tools and techniques of this new science—the science of phase transitions—to understand how birds flock, fish swim, brains work, people vote, diseases erupt, and ecosystems collapse. Loonshots is the first to apply this science to the spread of breakthrough ideas. Bahcall distills these insights into practical lessons creatives, entrepreneurs, and visionaries can use to change our world. Along the way, readers will learn how chickens saved millions of lives, what James Bond and Lipitor have in common, what the movie Imitation Game got wrong about WWII, and what really killed Pan Am, Polaroid, and the Qing Dynasty. “If The Da Vinci Code and Freakonomics had a child together, it would be called Loonshots.” —Senator Bob Kerrey

Author : J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A.
Publisher : Guyer Partners
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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An Introduction to Prime Movers for Mechanical Engineers by J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A. Pdf

Introductory technical guidance for mechanical engineers interested in prime movers. Here is what is discussed: 1. MECHANICAL ENERGY 2. DIESEL ENGINES 3. TYPES OF DIESEL ENGINES 4. DIESEL FUEL SYSTEM 5. DIESEL COOLING SYSTEM 6. LUBRICATION SYSTEM 7. STARTING SYSTEM 8. GOVERNOR/SPEED CONTROL 9. AIR INTAKE SYSTEM 10. EXHAUST SYSTEM 11. SERVICE PRACTICES 12. OPERATIONAL TRENDS AND ENGINE OVERHAUL 13. GAS TURBINE ENGINES 14. GAS TURBINE ENGINE CLASSIFICATIONS 15. PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION 16. GAS TURBINE FUEL SYSTEM 17. GAS TURBINE COOLING SYSTEM 18. LUBRICATION SYSTEM 19. STARTING SYSTEM 20. GOVERNOR/SPEED CONTROL 21. COMPRESSOR 22. GAS TURBINE SERVICE PRACTICES