A Rising Tide Coleman, Susan; Robb, Alicia
2012, 20120101
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A Rising Tide: Financing Strategies for Women-Owned Firms is a "must read" for current and aspiring women entrepreneurs who want to learn more about the financial tools and techniques that will help ...them to launch, develop, and grow their firms.
How do businesses go beyond prescriptive policies and make the shift from the 'low road' of cost to the 'high road' of innovation and value? This ground-breaking book gives a clear analysis of the ...context and the challenges, and offers managers and consultants a range of ideas that could take their companies well beyond 'business as usual'.
The famous mezzo-soprano Ruža Pospiš-Baldani (25 July 1942, Varaždinske
Toplice), is the national diva and one of the greatest vocal artists of our time. Following
education in Varaždin (with ...Professor Ankica Opolski) and at the Music
Academy in Zagreb (Professor Marij a Borčić), she swi ly reached tops of her
grand career in the country and abroad. She remained continuously connected
to her home institution, the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. For seven years
she was the lead of the New York Metropolitan Opera, a standing guest to
the Vienna National Opera and the Bavarian National Opera in Munich. She
performed at the Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera and the Teatro de la Zarzuela
in Madrid, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Gran Teatro Liceo in Barcelona, and, in
several occasions at the Salzburg Festival. Throughout the years she established
a long-term relationship with conductors like Lovro pl. Matačić, Herbert von Karajan
and Karl Ri
ter. She performed with Zubin Mehta, Leonard Bernstein,
Wolfgang Sawallis
, Karlos Kleiber and many others. Her partners were Placido
Domingo, Luciano Pavaro
i, José Carreras, Richard Tucker, Nicolai Gedda,
Nikolaj Gjaurov, Montserrat Caballé, Renata Tebaldi, Leontyne Price and other
grand performers of the opera and concert scene. Her beautiful voice, extraordinary
musicality, grand scenic performance and top professionalism she has
presented a wide repertory of opera characters, of whom the best known are
Gluck’s Orpheus, Verdi’s Amneris and Azucena, Bizet’s Carmen, Saint-Saëns’
Dalila, Wagner’s characters of Frick, Erd and Brangän, Gotovac’s Mila Gojsalića,
etc. At the stage she interpreted the mezzo-soprano parts in numerous works of
Verdi, Bach, Brahms, Haydn, Mahler, etc. She received awards for her successful
work, of which the most famous are the life-award "Vladimir Nazor", the award
of Hrvatsko glumište (Croatian Theatre Stage) and the award "Ivan Lukačić" of
the Varaždin Baroque Evenings.
The company is under-performing, its share price is trailing, and
the CEO gets...a multi-million-dollar raise. This story is
familiar, for good reason: as this book clearly demonstrates,
structural ...flaws in corporate governance have produced widespread
distortions in executive pay. Pay without Performance
presents a disconcerting portrait of managers' influence over their
own pay--and of a governance system that must fundamentally change
if firms are to be managed in the interest of shareholders. Lucian
Bebchuk and Jesse Fried demonstrate that corporate boards have
persistently failed to negotiate at arm's length with the
executives they are meant to oversee. They give a richly detailed
account of how pay practices--from option plans to retirement
benefits--have decoupled compensation from performance and have
camouflaged both the amount and performance-insensitivity of pay.
Executives' unwonted influence over their compensation has hurt
shareholders by increasing pay levels and, even more importantly,
by leading to practices that dilute and distort managers'
incentives. This book identifies basic problems with our current
reliance on boards as guardians of shareholder interests. And the
solution, the authors argue, is not merely to make these boards
more independent of executives as recent reforms attempt to do.
Rather, boards should also be made more dependent on shareholders
by eliminating the arrangements that entrench directors and
insulate them from their shareholders. A powerful critique of
executive compensation and corporate governance, Pay without
Performance points the way to restoring corporate integrity
and improving corporate performance.
Leadership Games Kaagan, Stephen S
1998, 1999, 1998-10-16, 1998-10-01
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This book presents 25 practical, inexpensive experiential activities designed to be used in various leadership training and development programms. It centres on those areas of primary concern to ...today′s managers: team leadership, risking innovation, fostering collaboration, managing conflict, and using diversity. For each exercise there is a set of explicit directions, cues on strategic considerations including appropriate timing, indicators of successful application, as well as suggested questions to stimulate post-experience discussions with participants.
Since its publication in 2000, Public Management Reform has established itself as the standard text in the field, presenting a comparative analysis of recent changes in Public Management and Public ...Administration in a range of countries in Europe, North America, and Australasia. This completely rewritten second edition radically expands, develops, and updates the original. Two countries have been added to the comparison (making twelve countries in all) and a much fuller treatment has been provided of the European Commission (including a commentary on the recent reforms led by Vice-President Kinnock). Empirical data has been brought up to date, so as to cover many key developments of the last few years. The theoretical framework of the book has been further developed, including a challenging new interpretation of the trends in continental Europe, which are seen here as markedly different from the Anglo-American style 'New Public Management'. This second edition provides an unparalleled synthesis of developments in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the UK, the USA, and the European Commission. It is organized in an integrated format, within an overall theoretical framework that identifies the main pressures for, and trajectories of, change. It includes a multi-dimensional analysis of the results of reform, and a chapter reflecting on the dynamic relationship between management reform and politics. Extensive appendices provide an invaluable information resource for students.
Od vremena intenzivnoga razvoja pokreta kulturno-umjetničkoga amaterizma u Hrvatskoj s kraja 19. stoljeća zborni amaterizam smatran je izuzetno važnim zbog prim-jetnih izvanglazbenih implikacija u ...vidu utjecaja na oblikovanje kulturne klime sredine. Svrha rada bila je ustanoviti postoji li utjecaj zbornoga kulturno-umjetničkoga amaterizma na razvoj kulturnoga života gradova Slavonije. Rad stavlja u odnos povijesno djelovanje i doprinos amaterskih pjevačkih društava nastalih krajem 19. i početkom 20. stoljeća s područja istočne Hrvatske s njihovim današnjim doprinosom u kreiranju kulturnoga života gradova u kojima djeluju.
