Zheng He S Art Of Collaboration

Author : Hum Sin Hoon
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814379700

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Zheng He's Art of Collaboration by Hum Sin Hoon Pdf

"Know your enemies, know yourself", advised Sun Zi in his famous Art of War (AoW). In contrast, the legendary Admiral Zheng He would have said, "Know your collaborators, know yourself", and this would be the essence of his Art of Collaboration (AoC). This book offers a fresh new approach to doing business and providing leadership in the twenty-first century, where Zheng He's peaceful and win-win collaborative paradigm present in his AoC provides an alternative to the aggressive and antagonistic mindset inherent in Sun Zi's AoW. The author has culled from the existing literature on the historical, cultural, diplomatic, and maritime-oriented Zheng He, connected the dots of his discovery of a managerial Zheng He, and wrote this book to present both the big message of Zheng He's Art of Collaboration as well as an understanding of Zheng He's specific work as a leader and manager.

Author : Sin Hoon Hum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9814414840

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Zheng He's Art of Collaboration by Sin Hoon Hum Pdf

Author : Michael Teng
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503241513

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Admiral Zheng He by Michael Teng Pdf

China's greatest transformation expert was, arguably, Admiral Zheng He. Six hundred years ago, Zheng He served the Ming Dynasty's Emperor Yongle as an overseas ambassador. Long famous as a diplomat, Zheng He may also serve as an example of a collaborative business executive who transforms others. In contrast to autocratic monarchs or "lone wolf" chief executives, Zheng He exemplified collaboration even when seeking a goal with single-minded determination. This article also examines how Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric (GE) and renowned transformational manager also used collaborative efforts to bring GE to greater heights. He also mellowed down his style as a Neutron Jack in the earlier years of his career to Transformational Jack, following the footsteps of Zheng He's art of collaboration.

Author : Michael Teng
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503232727

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Admiral Zheng He by Michael Teng Pdf

China's greatest transformation expert was, arguably, Admiral Zheng He. Six hundred years ago, Zheng He served the Ming Dynasty's Emperor Yongle as an overseas ambassador. Long famous as a diplomat, Zheng He may also serve as an example of a collaborative business executive who transforms others. In contrast to autocratic monarchs or "lone wolf" chief executives, Zheng He exemplified collaboration even when seeking a goal with single-minded determination. This article also examines how Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric (GE) and renowned transformational manager also used collaborative efforts to bring GE to greater heights. He also mellowed down his style as a Neutron Jack in the earlier years of his career to Transformational Jack, following the footsteps of Zheng He's art of collaboration.

Author : Tim Winter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226658353

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Geocultural Power by Tim Winter Pdf

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of overland and maritime connectivity stretching across more than sixty countries and incorporating almost two-thirds of the world’s population. But what does it mean to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty-first century? Geocultural Power explores this question by considering how China is couching its strategy for building trade, foreign relations, and energy and political security in an evocative topography of history. Until now Belt and Road has been discussed as a geopolitical and geoeconomic project. This book introduces geocultural power to the analysis of international affairs. Tim Winter highlights how many countries—including Iran, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and others—are revisiting their histories to find points of diplomatic and cultural connection. Through the revived Silk Roads, China becomes the new author of Eurasian history and the architect of the bridge between East and West. In a diplomatic dance of forgetting, episodes of violence, invasion, and bloodshed are left behind for a language of history and heritage that crosses borders in ways that further the trade ambitions of an increasingly networked China-driven economy.

Author : Angela M. Labrador,Neil Asher Silberman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190676612

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The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice by Angela M. Labrador,Neil Asher Silberman Pdf

The field of cultural heritage is no longer solely dependent on the expertise of art and architectural historians, archaeologists, conservators, curators, and site and museum administrators. It has dramatically expanded across disciplinary boundaries and social contexts, with even the basic definition of what constitutes cultural heritage being widened far beyond the traditional categories of architecture, artifacts, archives, and art. Heritage now includes vernacular architecture, intangible cultural practices, knowledge, and language, performances and rituals, as well as cultural landscapes. Heritage has also become increasingly entangled with the broader social, political, and economic contexts in which heritage is created, managed, transmitted, protected, or even destroyed. Heritage protection now encompasses a growing set of methodological approaches whose objectives are not necessarily focused upon the maintenance of material fabric, which has traditionally been cultural heritage's primary concern. The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice charts some of the major sites of convergence between the humanities and the social sciences, where new disciplinary perspectives are being brought to bear on heritage. These convergences have the potential to provide the interdisciplinary expertise needed not only to critique but also to achieve the intertwined intellectual, political, and socioeconomic goals of cultural heritage in the twenty-first century. This volume highlights the potential contributions of development studies, political science, anthropology, management studies, human geography, ecology, psychology, sociology, cognitive studies, and education to heritage studies.

Author : Jarmila Ptáčková,Ondřej Klimeš,Gary Rawnsley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811555923

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Transnational Sites of China’s Cultural Diplomacy by Jarmila Ptáčková,Ondřej Klimeš,Gary Rawnsley Pdf

This edited volume presents the results of a three-year comparative study on Chinese cultural diplomacy (CD) across Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, which contributes to the broader theoretical debate on China`s increasing soft power in international relations. The study, ‘China's Cultural Diplomacy and the Role of Non-State Actors’ was conducted by a research team at the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic from 2015 to 2018. This book pays special attention to China’s localized forms of CD, focusing on the regional variations and involvement of non-state actors, especially local actors outside China. Local actors involved in Chinese CD diplomacy are characterized by their intermediary status as working for the aims of two states, while trying to bridge conflicts and enhance mutual understanding. This book will be of interest to scholars, diplomats, and China watchers.

Author : Laurence Bergreen,Sara Fray
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781626721234

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Seven Voyages by Laurence Bergreen,Sara Fray Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author Laurence Bergreen and author Sara Fray comes this immaculately researched history for young readers detailing the life of Zheng He, his complex and enduring friendship with his emperor, and the epic Seven Voyages he led that would establish China as a global power. 1405. The central coast of China. At nearly seven feet tall, Admiral Zheng He looked out at the sea before him. For the next three decades, the oceans would be his home, as he would command over 1,500 ships and thousands of sailors in seven journeys that would predate the heart of the European Age of Exploration. Over his seven epic journeys, Zheng He explored the Northern Pacific and Indian Oceans, traveling as far as the east coast of Africa, expanding Chinese power globally, warring with pirates, and capturing enemies along the way in the name of his emperor, Zhu Di. But this giant figure was not always at the helm of a ship.

Author : Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789812303295

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Admiral Zheng He and Southeast Asia by Leo Suryadinata Pdf

Admiral Zheng He and Southeast Asia commemorates the 600th anniversary of Admiral Zheng Hes maiden voyage to Southeast Asia and beyond. The book is jointly issued by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and the International Zheng He Society. To reflect Asian views on the subject matter, nine articles written by Asian scholars Chung Chee Kit, Hsu Yun-Tsiao, Leo Suryadinata, Tan Ta Sen, Tan Yeok Seong, Wang Gungwu, and Johannes Widodo have been reproduced in this volume. Originally published from 1964 to 2005, the articles are grouped into three clusters. The first cluster of three articles examines the relationship of the Ming court, especially during the Zheng He expeditions, with Southeast Asia in general and the Malacca empire in particular. The next cluster looks at the socio-cultural impact of the Zheng He expeditions on some Southeast Asian countries, with special reference to the role played by Zheng He in the Islamization of Indonesia (Java) and the urban architecture of the region. The last three articles deal with the route of the Zheng He expeditions and the location of the places that were visited.

Author : Tai Wei Lim,Henry Hing Lee Chan,Katherine Hui-Yi Tseng,Wen Xin Lim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783269310

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China's One Belt One Road Initiative by Tai Wei Lim,Henry Hing Lee Chan,Katherine Hui-Yi Tseng,Wen Xin Lim Pdf

Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Silk Road Economic Belt component of the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative at Kazakhstan in 2013. OBOR is a development strategy and framework that focuses on connectivity and cooperation among countries primarily in Eurasia. It consists of two main components, the land-based "Silk Road Economic Belt" (SREB) and ocean-going "Maritime Silk Road" (MSR). This book studies the equilibrium or balance between overland and maritime trade routes of OBOR. This book has two major sections. The interpretive section examines contemporary media narratives related to the OBOR initiative and how contemporary commentators appropriate narratives about historical events related to the maritime Silk Road to interpret current policy agendas and legitimize diplomatic or economic exchanges. In terms of institutional studies, the chapters related to Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will look at the issues facing the Bank in its quest in forming a new world platform for multilateral development financing. The other section, the empirical case study of the publication highlights the fact that Euro-China High Speed Rail (HSR) and Central Asia-China HSR are not viable at the moment as passenger volume is not sufficient to justify the HSR line. This section examines the overland route of the OBOR and looks at recent Chinese HSR history and conventional sub-high speed rail technology development, and identifies technical & economic criteria determining the appropriate technology for a certain line. The chapter in this section will use the developed criteria to analyze the various rail linkage projects currently under study in the OBOR framework, highlight the economic, bureaucratic and geo-political challenges that these projects likely face and lay down conditions that will determine the outcome of these projects.

Author : William N. Brown
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9789811980367

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Splendors of Quanzhou, Past and Present by William N. Brown Pdf

This open access book explores the past and present of Quanzhou (Zayton) and the rich diversity and tolerance that kindled Quanzhou's innovativeness and helped it prosper both commercially and culturally--values that are today being embraced by China's global trade partners. Quanzhou (Zayton), Marco Polo's port of departure and Columbus' goal in China, was not only the start of the Maritime Silk Road and the Middle Age’s greatest port but also centuries ahead of its time in its tolerance and diversity. The fabled "City of Light" had 7 mosques for its 40,000 Muslims, some of whom served in government, as well as 3 Franciscan cathedrals funded in part by the emperor, Jewish synagogues, and centers for Nestorian Christians, Hindus, Taoists, Manicheans, Jains, etc. As Franciscan Bishop Andrew of Perugia wrote in 1322, "Tis a fact that in this vast empire, there are people of every nation under heaven, and every sect, and all and sundry are allowed to live freely according to their creed." In 2021, UNESCO designated "Quanzhou, Emporium of the World," as a world heritage site, and the city is now the hub of the Belt and Road Initiative, the 21st Century Silk Road, which was inspired by ancient Quanzhou.

Author : Thanh-Dam Truong,Knio Karim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319135519

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The South China Sea and Asian Regionalism by Thanh-Dam Truong,Knio Karim Pdf

This book offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the current crisis in the South China Sea. Moving beyond the spirit of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the mechanisms of which are limited to physical geography, it demonstrates how epistemological insights from the field of critical realist philosophy can reveal the importance of cultural and structural conditioning processes in social interactions, processes which shape the conditions for the emergence of crisis points along a spectrum of conflict and cooperation. The potential for conflict resolution and the emergence of new regions in Pacific Asia much depends on the nature of such interactions at many levels (political-economic, semiotic and cultural) based on perceptions of what constitutes the "common" versus a Sinicised version of "Lebensraum".

Author : Grant Frederick Rhode
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682478677

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Great Power Clashes along the Maritime Silk Road by Grant Frederick Rhode Pdf

Current concerns in maritime Eurasia are centered on rising powers China and India. By way of background to understanding the current regional great power rivalry within maritime Eurasia, this book asks what we can learn from historic Eurasian maritime geopolitical players and their interactions that will inform and enlighten today’s international relations practitioners. Great Power Clashes along the Maritime Silk Road examines three seminal historical cases of maritime clashes in the China Seas, four in the Indian Ocean, and one in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Each of these is an example of local or regional conflict reflecting the circumstances of time and place. The cases have been chosen to provide a comparative framework of significant premodern maritime clashes distributed along the full Eurasian maritime perimeter. Lessons include understanding struggles between continental and maritime powers in Eurasia, and understanding the decisive impact that naval leadership, intelligence, technology, alliances, and identity have had in the past and will have on the future.

Author : Bagoes Wiryomartono
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811534058

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Traditions and Transformations of Habitation in Indonesia by Bagoes Wiryomartono Pdf

This book raises the issue of the practice of patrimonial power with a focus on habitations, particularly in the urban areas of Indonesia. An assemblage of interdisciplinary studies within the framework of environmental humanities, covering the arts, architecture, urban studies, geography, cultural anthropology, and sociology, this multifaceted framework divulges the interactive connectivity between Indonesia’s patrimonial culture and the socio-culturally constructed system of habitation. The interdisciplinary study of the pertinent practices of patrimonial power that have been represented and been manifested by various political and traditional regimes in terms of the built environment and habitation in Indonesia contributes to a new understanding of Indonesian urban spatial development, from the pre-colonial era to the present. The book poses that in order to understand the politics of Indonesia, one must understand the culture and tradition of the political leadership of the country. The author presents such an understanding in exploring and unpacking the relationship between people and place that constructs, develops, sustains, and conserves Indonesian culture and traditions of habitation. This book is of interest to graduate scholars and researchers in Asian Studies in numerous disciplines, including urban studies, urban planning and design, political science, architecture, anthropology of space, public administration, and political philosophy.

Author : Fatimah Ahmedy,Jakaria Dasan
Publisher : Universiti Malaysia Sabah Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789672738329

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Share Models for Leaders by Fatimah Ahmedy,Jakaria Dasan Pdf

This book, SHARE Models for Leaders, consists of nine chapters outlining relevant and practical approaches as guidance for implementing shared leadership among university academia in community engagement. The model is in line with the aspirations of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and concepts of the University for Society that aimed to enhance the deliverance of the Universiti Malaysia Sabah’s third mission with measurable impacts. The main strength and practicality of the SHARE Model are emphasised on the three interrelated elements of Shared leadership, action-based 6-step plan, and relationship-building. This book fulfils the expectation of assisting university academia for readiness and willingness on transferring relevant knowledge to the society through shared leadership and building relationship with multiple entities highlighting the existence of a university as a central figure to ignite the positive impact on the well-being of the community. The leadership transformation brought through the knowledge transfer platform from academia is the essence of the action-based component which is explained thoroughly in this book. The model is implemented at Kg. Marakau in Ranau, Sabah, selected as the focused community to deliver various knowledge transfer programmes with a primary focus to improve its socio-economy and well-being while serving as the guidance for one of the signature programmes under AKEPT (Akademi Kepimpinan Pendidikan Tinggi), Sustainable Development Goals Leadership: University for Society (SDGU4S). The uniqueness of the model can be viewed through the inclusion of an exemplary community of Kg. Kilimu in Ranau practices shared leadership among its leaders leading to the village’s success as one of the best rural communities in Sabah. There are valuable experiences shared by established SDG practitioners who successfully implemented knowledge transfer programmes in various regions of Malaysia.