Evaluating the Year 2000 Project: A Management Guide for Determining Reasonable Care

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Title: Evaluating the Year 2000 Project: A Management Guide for Determining Reasonable Care.(Review) (book review)
Author: William L. Ferguson
Publication: Journal of Risk and Insurance (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1999
Publisher: American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc.
Volume: 66 Issue: 3 Page: 511

Article Type: Book Review

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Systems Thinking Approach

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Leave piecemeal strategic change approaches behind and learn how to plan, facilitate, and integrate your change efforts for lasting success. Enterprise-Wide Change takes you through the “Rollercoaster of Change,” showing you how to deal with resistance, regard skeptics as your best friends, and build a buy-in and stay-in strategy among your employees. The authors use the science of “Systems Thinking” ¾a comprehensive, yet simple and integrated way to analyze and build synergy from all key organizational elements needed for enterprise-wide and transformational change. This seminal book integrates what is needed to effectively transform any organization including: scanning of the environment and marketplace, clarifying the vision and core values, targeting marketplace value-added positioning, building key outcome success measures and goals, identifying critical business and human issues and opportunities, and developing the shared core strategies and action plans.

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Systems Thinking Approach.......2007-09-29

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The Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology is a comprehensive source of reference on the most important aspects of this fast-developing field, from basic concepts to advanced applications. With some 2,300 entries--700 more than the first edition, it lists fundamental terms that will remain in common usage for the foreseeable future and includes a selection of historical and highly specific entries to add context and depth. The Dictionary features entries on all the major areas relating to space technology, making this a reference of wide-ranging scope. While the emphasis is on defining the meaning of a word or phrase as it is used in the professional space community, each entry also contributes to a deeper understanding of the overall subject, both for the practicing specialist and interested layman. To assist the reader in research on a given topic, related entries are highlighted in the text and other important entries are cross-referenced. An additional key feature is a classified list of entries grouped under 13 subject headings. The Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology will be indispensable to anyone with an interest in space activity. Mark Williamson is an independent space technology consultant working in the space industry and space insurance communities. A seasoned physicist and engineer, he has over 20 years of experience in satellite communications engineering, technical management, and space consultancy. Williamson has written about 250 published magazine and journal articles. He is also author of The Communications Satellite and editorial director of Earth Space Review magazine.

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Succinct, informative presentatons.......2001-08-11

With 2300 entires covering all aspects of the technologies associatied with the exploration of space, Mark Williamson's The Cambridge Dictionary Of Space Technology is an essential, indispensable, core addition to school, community, and professional reference libraries. This thoroughly "user friendly" compendium features extensive cross-referencing and thorough descriptions, as well as classified lists of entries grouped under subject headings. Included are succinct, informative presentatons on the technologies of spacecraft, communicaitons, propulsions, launch vehicles; space shuttles, manned and unmanned spaceflights, materials, propellants, orbits, physics and astronomy, space centres and organizations. The Cambridge Dictionary Of Space Technology is a seminal, basic, exhaustive, very highly recommended reference.

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The book addresses most of the most critical interdisciplinary domains where they interact, or where they will do. A first need is to collect more light, i.e. telescopes still larger than the current 8-10 meter class ones. Decametric, and even hectometric, optical (from UV to IR wavelengths) telescopes are being studied. Whereas up to now the light collecting surface of new telescopes was approximately 4 times that of the previous generation, now this factor is growing to 10 to 100. This quantum leap urges to implement new methods or technologies developed in the optics community, both in academic labs and in the industry. Given the astrophysical goals and technological constraints, new generation adaptive optics with a huge number of actuators and laser guide stars devices have to be developed, from theoretical bases to experimental works.

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Hagiography for the 21st century.......2003-12-23

Hagiographies were, historically, written for the edification of the faithful. That describes this disappointing work rather well: for those who wish to hear only the positive, and the classic story of repentance and redemption, the basic story is competently told, and it will, perhaps, serve its purpose. But it offers little or nothing to the thinking Christian (or non-) reader: there is little or no critical evaluation of Colson and his story and (disappointing to this reader) little too on the remarkable movement that he has been so involved in creating and leading, Prison Fellowship. Colson's is an inspiring story, but little or no purpose is served by setting him up as a plaster saint. There is a fascinating tale to be told, and real Christians still struggle today with the moral ambiguities and compromises of life in the world's centres of power. Sadly, this book is not the one for them.

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Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton: Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton: Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on November 1, 2003. The length of the article is 549 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton: Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island.(Book Review)
Author: Stan Deaton
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2003
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
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