Design processes wisely.Grow your business endlessly.“Design for Operational Excellence is a blueprint for a joined up, end-to-end designed operation that makes Operational Excellence a reality. The b
A close look at Steve Bannon's long career working at the crumbling heart of core institutions of US power that shows us the historical context and present contours of the rising spectre of American fascism. Steve Bannon is often identified as the strategic brain behind the rise of Trumpism. But his personal savvy and ideological bombast are not alone responsible for his success at mobilizing masses of Breitbart readers, War Room podcast listeners, and Republican voters in support of a far-right political insurgency in the US. Chaos Agent: Steve Bannon and the New American Fascism shows how Bannon became the communications hub and agent provocateur of the neofascist MAGA wing of the American right. The key to Bannon's success is his mobilization of fantasy and emotion on a mass scale. His method is madness--the triggering of chaos and disruption via paranoid fantasies and apocalyptic visions. Fears of economic collapse and terror of the return of the colonized and oppressed haunt his
The second adventure in the gripping and mysterious eco-adventure series The Light Thieves from Helena Duggan, bestselling author of A Place Called Perfect. 'Fizzling with ideas, (The Light Thieves is) a wildly imaginative adventure which reads like a blockbuster movie.' - Christopher EdgeThe energy from the sun is being stolen. It's a catastrophe for the planet and every living thing on it! Friends Grian, Jeffrey and Shelli are desperately trying to work out how it's happening.But they know tech genius Howard Hansom is somehow behind the theft. So they must not use any of Hansom's smart technology because it will track them wherever they go. The three young heroes need to find a strange black mirror to help with their mission.But time is running out and the world is getting darker... 'The Light Thieves is a feast of fun, fiction, fantasy and fear. Opens with a bang and never lets up until the last page.I loved it.' - Eoin Colfer
Clever, quirky and hugely imaginative, discover the eagerly anticipated new eco-adventure series from the bestselling author of A Place Called Perfect.Who would you trust to save the world...a boy or a billionaire?The earth has shifted on its axis and a mysterious dark mark has appeared on the sun - the whole world is in peril! But billionaire tech genius Howard Hansom has a plan...When Grian's sister goes missing he's convinced she has run off to Hansom's new city to help save the world. But when Grian and his two friends Jeffrey and Shelli track her there they find that nothing is quite as it seems.Why is everything so secret? Where is the mysterious Area 13? What does Howard Hansom want with all the people he has enticed to live in his city?The days are getting darker but what's really happening to the sun?
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This new interdisciplinary work presents system dynamics as a powerful approach to enable analysts build simulation models of social systems, with a view toward enhancing decision making.
How "Aha!" really happens.When do you get your best ideas? You probably answer "At night," or "In the shower," or "Stuck in traffic." You get a flash of insight. Things come together in your mind. You
Once Barack Obama joined the presidential race and attended events with wife at his side, the media, bloggers, and people everywhere started buzzing about Michelle's toned arms--and asking how on eart
