In this practical how to guide Bjarne P Tellmann General Counsel & SVP of Pearson draws upon more than 20 years of leading top legal organisations across Europe Asia & the United States to provide a structured plan for upgrading your legal team in an age of disruption The challenge In an era of exponential change the role of the general counsel (GC) has become one of the most complex intense & challenging in the corporate world GCs must lead unify & inspire diverse groups of people across the globe with subtlety & diplomacy The stakes have never been higher & the consequences of getting it wrong can be existential GCs must react to these challenges with ever-fewer resources & at a time when the legal profession itself is undergoing disruption The response To succeed in this new normal GCs must become their own chief executives They must lead communicate inspire build cultures manage talent formulate & execute strategies ensure efficacy anticipate & manage risk & manage quality control
- all in addition to being top-notch lawyers This book gives GCs the battle plan they need to get there in three parts Part I looks at the hardware including how to assess risk design winning teams optimise spend choose the best partners & select smart technology Part II focuses on the software including how to nurture a world-class legal culture & develop talent Part III considers two highly critical threads that weave their way through the transformational journey change management & the need to develop a strategic roadmap While primarily aimed at in-house legal leaders the book will also have broader appeal as many of the approaches & principles are universal In particular law firm partners lawyers at all levels & leaders from other support functions will find much to draw upon as will government lawyers suppliers to the legal industry such as alternative service providers & technology outfits & consultants The book will also be of interest to academics & law students teaching & taking courses on in-house legal practice
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This book introduces business-government relations in the institutional context of the United States from a practitioner's perspective It provides the historical descriptive & comparative accounts of the public & private sectors the different roles government plays with business including several conceptual models to understand the social interactions between the two sectors & various economic policies associated with business Business-government relations are framed into three different social economic contexts The sociopolitical arena in which government's role as agent of business interest groups & government's limited role as social architect are introduced The local economic development in which government acts as a promoter of partner with & buyer from business The global market where government mainly plays a role as promoter of domestic business In the course of discussion a set of skills such as searching government jobs starting a business analyzing stakeholders ethical reasoning advancing a business agenda leveraging public resources contracting with government interpreting global trends doing business abroad & leveraging international resources are introduced & exercised ...

This is the first survey in many years to explore contemporary apartments not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance An introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing through its most innovative 20th-century exemplars from the urbane blocks of Auguste Perret & Henri Sauvage in Paris to the landscaped housing estates of Weimar Germany & the visionary schemes of Le Corbusier The heart of the book features 38 recent & ongoing projects designed by leading international studios & rising talents Buildings range from social housing & micro apartments to 'vertical villages' megastructures & luxury high-rises Each project is considered for the way in which it enriches the lives of residents & the city & is shown through drawings & photographs taken from the street & within The book also

Includes:: interviews with such contemporary masters of apartment design as Michael Maltzan Lorcan O' Herlihy Edouard Francois & Bjarke Ingels As our cities grow more crowded it is critical that we produce large-scale buildings that enhance the lives of their inhabitants their surroundings & the urban environment as a whole Building Community offers dozens of proven successes to designers & apartment-dwellers

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Ideal for students on all construction courses Topics presented concisely in plain language & with clear drawings Updated to include revisions to Building & Construction regulations The Building Construction Handbook is THE authoritative reference for all construction students & professionals Its detailed drawings clearly illustrate the construction of building elements & have been an invaluable guide for builders since 1988 The principles & processes of construction are explained with the concepts of design included where appropriate Extensive coverage of building construction practice techniques & regulations representing both traditional procedures & modern developments are included to provide the most comprehensive & easy to understand guide to building construction This new edition has been updated to reflect recent changes to the building regulations as well as new material on the latest technologies used in domestic construction Building Construction Handbook is the essential easy-to-use resource for undergraduate & vocational students on a wide range of courses including NVQ & BTEC National through to Higher National Certificate & Diploma to Foundation & three-year Degree level It is also a useful practical reference for building designers contractors & others engaged in the construction industry ...

The software development ecosystem is constantly changing providing a constant stream of new tools frameworks techniques & paradigms Over the past few years incremental developments in core engineering practices for software development have created the foundations for rethinking how architecture changes over time along with ways to protect important architectural characteristics as it evolves This practical guide ties those parts together with a new way to think about architecture & time ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play After six weeks of gruelling competition England is battling reigning champions Australia The two teams are inseparable after eighty minutes the game drags deep into extra time with just two minutes left on the clock England rumble to within 40 yards of the post The ball is sent spiralling back to Jonny Wilkinson the golden boy of English rugby in a split second he drop kicks for goal & a chance for sporting immortality From Director James Erskine (The Battle of the Sexes Pantani The Accidental Death of a Cyclist) & producer Victoria Gregory (Senna Man on Wire) Building Jerusalem combines scintillating match action extraordinary original interviews with the key players including Jonny Wilkinson Sir Clive Woodward Martin Johnson & Matt Dawson with never-before-seen behind the scenes & match footage It is an astonishing story of pressure expectation & courage tracing the roots of success back to the professionalization of the game in the 90s culminating in that glorious World Cup campaign of 2003 that turned Woodward s poisoned chalice into a golden cup ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play After six weeks of gruelling competition England is battling reigning champions Australia The two teams are inseparable after eighty minutes the game drags deep into extra time with just two minutes left on the clock England rumble to within 40 yards of the post The ball is sent spiralling back to Jonny Wilkinson the golden boy of English rugby in a split second he drop kicks for goal & a chance for sporting immortality From Director James Erskine (The Battle of the Sexes Pantani The Accidental Death of a Cyclist) & producer Victoria Gregory (Senna Man on Wire) Building Jerusalem combines scintillating match action extraordinary original interviews with the key players including Jonny Wilkinson Sir Clive Woodward Martin Johnson & Matt Dawson with never-before-seen behind the scenes & match footage It is an astonishing story of pressure expectation & courage tracing the roots of success back to the professionalization of the game in the 90s culminating in that glorious World Cup campaign of 2003 that turned Woodward s poisoned chalice into a golden cup ...

Building Language using LEGO (R) Bricks is a flexible & powerful intervention tool designed to aid children with severe receptive & expressive language disorders often related to autism & other special educational needs This practical manual equips you for setting up & adapting your own successful sessions Downloadable resources enable you to chart progress in the following key areas- The use of receptive & expressive language- The use & understanding of challenging concepts- Joint attention- Social communication Help children with complex needs to communicate with this unique tool derived from the highly effective LEGO (R)-Based Therapy ...

Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller self-contained microservices But developing these systems brings its own set of headaches With lots of examples & practical advice this book takes a holistic view of the topics that system architects & administrators must consider when building managing & evolving microservice architectures Microservice technologies are moving quickly Author Sam Newman provides you with a firm grounding in the concepts while diving into current solutions for modeling integrating testing deploying & monitoring your own autonomous services You'll follow a fictional company throughout the book to learn how building a microservice architecture affects a single domain Discover how microservices allow you to align your system design with your organization's goals Learn options for integrating a service with the rest of your system Take an incremental approach when splitting monolithic codebases Deploy individual microservices through continuous integration Examine the complexities of testing & monitoring distributed services Manage security with user-to-service & service-to-service models Understand the challenges of scaling microservice architectures ...

Move over native apps New progressive web apps have capabilities that will soon make you obsolete With this hands-on guide web developers & business execs will learn how-and why-to develop web apps that take advantage of features that have so far been exclusive to native apps Features that include fast load times push notifications offline access homescreen shortcuts & an entirely app-like experience By leveraging the latest browser APIs progressive web apps combine all of the benefits of native apps while avoiding their issues Throughout the book author Tal Ater shows you how to improve a simple website for the fictional Gotham Imperial Hotel into a modern progressive web app Plus Understand how service workers work & use them to create sites that launch in an instant regardless of the user's internet connection Create full-screen web apps that launch from the phone's homescreen just like native apps Re-engage users with push notifications even days after they have left your site Embrace offline-first & build web apps that gracefully handle loss of connectivity Explore new UX opportunities & challenges presented by progressive web apps ...