Since its publication Complex Adaptive Leadership has become a Gower bestseller that has been taught in corporate leadership programmes business schools & universities around the world to high acclaim In this updated paperback edition Nick Obolensky argues that leadership should not be something only exercised by nominated leaders It is a complex dynamic process involving all those engaged in a particular enterprise The theoretical background to this lies in complexity science & chaos theory
- spoken & written about in the context of leadership for the last 20 years but still little understood We all seem intuitively to know leadership 'isn't what it used to be' but we still cling to old assumptions which look anachronistic in changing & challenging times Nick Obolensky has practised researched & taught leadership in the public private & voluntary sectors In this exciting book he brings together his knowledge of theory his own experience & the results of 19 years of research involving 2500 executives in 40 countries around the world The main conclusion from that research is that the more complex things become the less traditional directive leadership is needed Those operating in the real world nonetheless need ways of coping The book is focused on helping practitioners struggling to interpret & react to increasingly VUCA (Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguous) times The book will particularly appeal to practitioners wishing to improve their leadership effectiveness as well as for students & researchers in the field of leadership
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Revision of A first course in complex analysis with applications -- 2nd ed -- A2009 444 pages Zill Dennis G ...

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Textbooks even excellent ones are a reflection of their times Form & content of books depend on what the students know already what they are expected to learn how the subject matter is regarded in relation to other divisions of mathematics & even how fashionable the subject matter is It is thus not surprising that we no longer use such masterpieces as Hurwitz & Courant's Funktionentheorie or Jordan's Cours d' Analyse in our courses The last two decades have seen a significant change in the techniques used in the theory of functions of one complex variable The important role played by the inhomogeneous Cauchy-Riemann equation in the current research has led to the reunification at least in their spirit of complex analysis in one & in several variables We say reunification since we think that Weierstrass Poincare & others (in contrast to many of our students) did not consider them to be entirely separate subjects Indeed not only complex analysis in several variables but also number theory harmonic analysis & other branches of mathematics both pure & applied have required a reconsidera- tion of analytic continuation ordinary differential equations in the complex domain asymptotic analysis iteration of holomorphic functions & many other subjects from the classic theory of functions of one complex variable This ongoing reconsideration led us to think that a textbook incorporating some of these new perspectives & techniques had to be written ...

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision & purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear & companionable book leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex organized & adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals Based on her work at the Santa Fe Institute & drawing on its interdisciplinary strategies Mitchell brings clarity to the workings of complexity across a broad range of biological technological & social phenomena seeking out the general principles or laws that apply to all of them Richly illustrated Complexity A Guided Tour-winner of the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science-offers a wide-ranging overview of the ideas underlying complex systems science the current research at the forefront of this field & the prospects for its contribution to solving some of the most important scientific questions of our time ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Based on over 70 incidents that took place in the USA Compliance recounts this chilling true story in which the line between obedience & manipulation is hauntingly blurred On a particularly busy day at a Ohio fast food joint high-strung manager Sandra (Ann Dowd
- Garden State) receives a phone call from a police officer informing her that an employee a pretty young blonde named Becky (Dreama Walker of Gossip Girl & The Good Wife) has stolen money from a customer Convinced she&s only doing what&s right Sandra commences the investigation following instructions from the officer at the other end of the line no matter how invasive they become As we watch we ask ourselves two questions “ Why don’t they just say no?” & the more troubling " Am I certain I wouldn&t do the same?" The cast delivers startlingly authentic performances that make the appalling events unfolding onscreen all the more difficult to watch – but impossible to turn away from
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on over 70 incidents that took place in the USA Compliance recounts this chilling true story in which the line between obedience & manipulation is hauntingly blurred On a particularly busy day at a Ohio fast food joint high-strung manager Sandra (Ann Dowd
- Garden State) receives a phone call from a police officer informing her that an employee a pretty young blonde named Becky (Dreama Walker of Gossip Girl & The Good Wife) has stolen money from a customer Convinced she&s only doing what&s right Sandra commences the investigation following instructions from the officer at the other end of the line no matter how invasive they become As we watch we ask ourselves two questions “ Why don’t they just say no?” & the more troubling " Am I certain I wouldn&t do the same?" The cast delivers startlingly authentic performances that make the appalling events unfolding onscreen all the more difficult to watch – but impossible to turn away from
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This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon what it is like to cut into people's bodies & the terrifying
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Complicit is a gripping psychological thriller by the highly acclaimed & Top Ten bestselling author Nicci French Who is more deadly? An enemy? A friend? Or a lover? Bonnie Graham is in her friend's flat She is alone except for the dead body lying in a pool of blood What happened? What will she do? & is any or all of it her fault? Bonnie is a music teacher who has spent a long hot summer in London rehearsing with a band It was supposed to be fun but the tricky knots of the band's friendships unravel with each passing day What was meant to be a summer of happiness music & love turns deadly as lovers betray passions turn homicidal & friendship itself becomes a crime Someone in the band must be a killer Is it Bonnie? & if not
- who is it? Praise for Nicci French' Relentlessly addictive Friendship & betrayal has never been so deadly' Mirror'A gripping crime mystery an accomplished thriller' Woman' Exerts a vice-like grip' Daily Telegraph' Reels in readers from the start' Independent
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