global crises and the crisis of global leadership

... s : The future, Mr Gittes! The future Stephen Gill Introduction: global crises and the crisis of global leadership Stephen Gill The subject of this book is global crises and the crisis of global ... connected to and Global crises and the crisis of global leadership inscribed in the restructuring of global political and civil society – and, indeed, connected to the reconstitution of the self in ... developed and sustained in situations of crisis? What is the role in this regard of the institutions of global governance (such as the G8 and G20), the media or leadership by experts? Global crises and...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 21:55

... the processes of a corporate driven globalisation which continues to swell the ranks of the poor in all countries of both the South and the North Dennis Brutus Professor Emeritus, Professor of ... some of the gains of service delivery, the ideology and practice of cost recovery became more dominant in a number of ways First, there is the question of how cost recovery influenced the then-Department ... 1994, and the linkages between South Africa and the process of globalisation Therefore apart from the case studies and the survey material, we have included chapters which consider the theoretical...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... the processes of a corporate driven globalisation which continues to swell the ranks of the poor in all countries of both the South and the North Dennis Brutus Professor Emeritus, Professor of ... some of the gains of service delivery, the ideology and practice of cost recovery became more dominant in a number of ways First, there is the question of how cost recovery influenced the then-Department ... 1994, and the linkages between South Africa and the process of globalisation Therefore apart from the case studies and the survey material, we have included chapters which consider the theoretical...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20

... The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities STUART HALL If I address the crisis of the humanities in the face of the problem of social technology, I want to so first of ... inability of the students they were getting to read and write; and it had to with that typical figure, a stereotype of the 1960s, called in England "the The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis ... Fremont.) The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities 21 himself has so far abjured the construction of a list in the manner of E D Hirsch, but has offered instead the ten commandments...

Ngày tải lên: 05/05/2014, 22:57

... coincidence The cult of leadership The buck and the bucks stop here The argument so far References 88 88 92 93 95 98 102 102 103 The myth of leadership The CEO system The management ideas market The ... with their feet, moving from one kind of organization to another, is the engine of the evolution of the corporate form For lack of anything better, we have put up with the unfair and demanding ... of people from companies and not all of them return when growth resumes.) The importance of these changes lies not so much in themselves, as in the options they offer able people to satisfy their...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... list of candidates for the CEO job are: the current position of the candidate, and the performance and stature of the candidate’s company These automatically exclude from the candidates’ pool the ... each other on their influence on the team and their competence Kilduff and Anderson, and a group of independent observers did the same All three sets of judges reached the same conclusions The ... McKillop, the CEO and chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland respectively; Adam Applegarth and Dr Matt Ridley, CEO and chairman of Northern Rock respectively; Andy Hornby and Lord Stevenson, CEO and chairman...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... landscape of each firm is a creature of the fitness landscapes of other firms In the past, there were only a few climbers and they were too far apart to affect each other Nowadays, the landscapes ... gauges and equipment, the cars of one road could not be transferred to the track of another In 1865 the Boston Board of Trade put the cost of unloading and reloading freight between Boston and Chicago ... the people and for the people There was no intention, no strategy, no directing CEO A combination of the idea of a free encyclopedia, the internet, and wiki software triggered a global orgy of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... shifts in the world economy, such as the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, European integration, the opening up of China and globalization in general Another partnership theme has been the replacement ... power On the Deering and Murphy grid the most comfortable habitats for a CEO-led company are command and control, and hearts and minds The hierarchical shape of such organizations, and the power ... Other attributes of managerial capitalism, including management and leadership, also lose much of their meaning CEO-led companies don’t fit in there They’re too big, they’re the wrong shape and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... the removal of the institution’s head; of the position of CEO The CEO-led system, in the power it gives to individuals (untested during their climbs to the top for prudence and competence), and ... advocate the replacement of hierarchies by what they call “heterarchies” in which the employees “make decisions for themselves and one another horizontally.” I approve fully of the sentiment and the ... value added by the CEO in the company’s strategic and other balance-sheet moves, and appropriate in a company committed to openness and candor, if the board, the board committees, and the executive...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... is the impetus behind the progression The larger the business and the higher the volume of transactions, the more salaried managers were required to administer and coordinate, and the thicker the ... Proposition As Chandler’s MuBEs grew and came to dominate major sectors of the economy, “they altered the basic structure of these sectors and of the economy as a whole.” They did not replace the market, ... stood the test of time does not alter the fact that The Visible Hand is a wonderful and important book, and a worthy winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes It was the first to address the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 05:20

... limit on the deductibility of the pay of some senior executives of public companies participating in the TARP The gathering storm A puzzling feature of the U.S and to a lesser extent the U.K debates ... regulators and, in common parlance, “rip it and the rest of us off.” They’re grabbing more than their fair shares Their rewards are out of all proportion to the economic value they create for the shareholders ... don’t get paid for the value they add or the time they work Their income takes the form of a levy on the assets that pass through their hands, or are entrusted to their care It is the same for senior...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 05:20

... success, and that depended on the status of their mates They had to judge the quality of possible mates, find allies in the tribes into which they married and improve the well-being of their children ... successfully grown and launched into the system.” Just as there is synergy in the parenting styles of the mother and father, with one protecting and the other preparing, so there is, in my view, ... nuts, and roots might be growing, and the colors of their ripeness Men hunted, 152 Business at a Crossroads and needed a sense of direction and location, of where they were, so they could find their...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 05:20

... shifts in the world economy, such as the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, European integration, the opening up of China and globalization in general Another partnership theme has been the replacement ... power On the Deering and Murphy grid the most comfortable habitats for a CEO-led company are command and control, and hearts and minds The hierarchical shape of such organizations, and the power ... Other attributes of managerial capitalism, including management and leadership, also lose much of their meaning CEO-led companies don’t fit in there They’re too big, they’re the wrong shape and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 05:20

... "With the rise of the modern corporation, the emergence of the organiza­ tion required by modern technology and planning and the divorce of the owner of capital from control of the enterprise, the ... ing like Thailand, and how the original crisis countries of the 1990s have, to their horror, found themselves once again at the edge of the abyss About This Book Let me admit at the outset that ... Israel, found them­ selves the men of the hour They were not alone: by the mid-1980s many Latin American economists had abandoned the statist views of the fifties and sixties in favor of what came...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 21:24

... genocides, and the trafficking of drugs, arms and human beings The decline of the nation-state is reflected not only in the loss of geopolitical power and the start of an era of apolarity, but also in the ... contracts and in negotiating their global strategies, these enterprises are not really exposed to the policies of the free market so in vogue in the political and academic discourse of the end of the ... elected decide the value of a country’s currency, the price of its raw materials, the cost of credit, and the prices of energy or food These unknown persons thus affect the fate of millions of people...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 13:35

... competitiveness and productivity growth, on the one hand, and the demand as well as exchange rates of its trading partners, on the other Few of these, especially the demand from the rest of the rich ... Economist 2011a)1 (further discussed in Chapter 7) The spread and speed of the contagion effect of the crisis and the closely interwoven global economy If the geographical scope of globalization has ... Another striking feature of the situation is that the geographical spread of the downturn expanded sharply over the four global recessions The 2008–2009 recession stood out as the most global and...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 11:35

... studies of the crisis rhetoric of the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Ireland and the European Commission and the European Central Bank The crisis hit hard and fast in the United Kingdom and ... is the focus of the bulk of existing research on emergencies and crises) In formal terms, the ultimate explanandum of the study of the rhetoric of crisis exploitation is twofold: the nature and ... support for their claims about the severity and causes of the crisis, for their own handling of the crisis and for their proposed policy stances going into the future? In each case study, the author:...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 16:03

... The gist of their response was that, while they had their finger on the pulse and their eye on the data, they had made two related diagnostic mistakes: the error of extrapolation and the (rather ... his close study of the history of the Arab states of Spain and North Africa, he told a story of the rise and fall of regimes, in which rulers play the role of the predator and there is something ... under the same title: The Global Minotaur’ In it, Joseph and I put forward the working hypothesis that the defining characteristic of the global political economy was the reversal of the flow of...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 13:49

... say it, the wisdom of the experts The elegance of the process was one of the many attractions to me of assuming the role of chair of the Panel I could pretend that it was the major reason, and in ... chapters 4.6 and 4.9) The clearing of land to rear cattle and sheep, and the development of railways, refrigeration, and other technologies, have made meat, milk, and their products cheap and plentiful ... of men and women aged 18 and above had a BMI of over 25, and 2.9 per cent of them had a BMI of over 30 See figure 1.4 for projections of the proportions of men and women who will have a BMI of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... and the Challenge of Global Warming Economics and the Challenge of Global Warming is a balanced, rigorous, and comprehensive analysis of the role of economics in confronting global warming, the ... horizon, the high degree of scientific and economic uncertainty (not unrelated to the centuries-long timescale), the scale of the damages that may arise, and the global character of the challenge and ... Indeed, the larger the fraction of damages borne by poor countries, the lower the monetized damages, the weaker the abatement policy, and the more damages they will suffer The root problem is, of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:21