![]() ![]() Under his influence those same companies began to manage their employees in more productive ways. ![]() Not long before Drucker arrived on the scene companies such as General Electric and Ford Motors had embraced the business model of efficiency experts. Such ideas were revolutionary in their time. With his unique combination of analytical observation and empathetic insight, he might be said to have been a pragmatic liberal, or a capitalistic humanist. He came to believe that organizations had the potential to bring out the best in people, and that employers would benefit from the win-win situation of fostering a workplace that brought dignity and a sense of community to the human spirit. ![]() ![]() How did he reconcile such two apparently contradictory approaches to the art of management? Keep in mind that Drucker was also the author of that famous dictum “what gets measured, gets improved”. The difference that Drucker brought to management can be summed up in a single phrase – he focused on human relationships, not on numbers alone. Drucker (1909-2005) invented modern management because of his work we have accepted the idea that being a manager is a viable career choice, worthy of the same consideration given to law, medicine, engineering or architecture. More than a dozen years after his passing, the legacy of famed business writer Peter Drucker looms large in strategic thinking. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One of the strangest aspects of the cultural legacy of Lolita, the story of a man in his late 30s who kidnaps and repeatedly rapes a 12-year-old girl, is the fact that so many people through the decades have read it as a love story. “I didn’t know that was an option,” she recalled thinking at the time. She couldn’t check the book out from her local library - every copy had been lost or stolen - but she discovered the text on a rudimentary website and felt a thrill when she realized it was about a sexual relationship between a girl around her own age and a much older man. In a Rolling Stone profile, he declared his favorite book was Lolita. ![]() Later, she read everything she could find about him. She remembers trembling through the meal, struggling to contain her excitement as she watched the charismatic front man tear apart a bread roll with his hands. ![]() Russell’s father happened to be a DJ for King’s radio station, and he arranged a dinner. Dylan, then in his late 20s, was coming to town with his band, the Wallflowers, and he wanted to meet Stephen King, the local royalty. It was 1997, and the novelist was 13 years old, precocious and bored, living on an isolated lake some 15 miles east of Bangor, Maine. Kate Elizabeth Russell traces the beginning of her obsession with Lolita to an encounter with the musician Jakob Dylan. ![]() ![]() ![]() An award-winning playwright, television writer/producer and filmmaker, Adriana’s screen credits include writer/director of the major motion picture of her debut novel, Big Stone Gap, the adaptation of her novel Very Valentine and director of Then Came You. Adriana grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where she co-founded The Origin Project, an in-school writing program serving over 1,700 students in Appalachia. Her work is published in 38 languages around the world. ![]() She is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including her latest, The Good Left Undone- an instant New York Times best seller, Book of the Month pick and People’s Book of the Week. Beloved by millions of readers around the world for her "dazzling" novels ( USA Today), Adriana Trigiani is “a master of palpable and visual detail” ( Washington Post) and “a comedy writer with a heart of gold” ( New York Times). ![]() ![]() Or can it? Then one day, in another accident, C meets a man both mysterious and familiar, a man who is also searching for someone and for his own place in the world. Here is her brother's face, the light in his eyes, the way he seems to recognize her, too. ![]() But their mother can't give up hope and launches an organization dedicated to missing children.Īs C grows older, she sees her brother everywhere: in bistros, airplane aisles, subway cars. Their father leaves, starts another family elsewhere. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt. One day, when they're alone together, there is an accident and Wayne is lost forever. ![]() I want to tell you how it felt.Ĭassandra Williams is twelve her little brother, Wayne, is seven. How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the award-winning author of The Old Drift. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He explains how a job-site accident cost him his arm, his sanity (during the early part of an extended recuperation) and his wife (whom he had physically threatened after the accident transformed him into something other than himself). ![]() A self-made millionaire, Edgar Freemantle narrates the novel in a conversational, matter-of-fact tone. And where the isolation in the former had a family cut off from society by a frigid northern winter, the setting of the latter is a mysterious Florida key, lush and tropical in its overgrowth, somehow immune to commercial development. In both cases, isolation has severe effects on the psyche of an artist, yet where the former novel found its protagonist in a lethal state of writer’s block, the latter sees a one-time building magnate transformed into an impossibly prolific and powerful painter, due to circumstances beyond his control. ![]() This could be considered a companion piece to The Shining, offering plenty of reversals on that plot. The prolific master of psycho-horror returns to the mysteries of the creative process, a subject that has inspired some of his most haunting work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Claustrophobic and terrified, alone, in a dimly lit upright coffin, where only my scared petrified face stared back at me. I was about seven and was lost within a dimly lit mirror maze. It may have something to do with a harrowing event I had as a child. I find the whole premise of the circus alluring but also haunting, there is something about the way it rolls into town, a caravan of the perverse and strange. Where the bright lights dazzle, the entertainment is breathtaking and with the introduction of the freak shows the oddities are arestingly peculiar. People seem to be drawn to the circus like puss from a boil, ensnared within its tendril like fingers that creep and crawl through neighbourhoods, latching on and enticing people with the promise of the spectacular, offering an escapism to the trappings of their lives and all the fun of the fair. ![]() The circus is something that has been drawing people to it since 1782 when the first recorded circus performed at the Amphithéâtre Anglois in Paris. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sweet mother of god! I feel like I need a xanax, a hug, and a room with padded walls after that ending. And he’s struck me so hard as to knock me completely off-balance. He’s big and forbidden, but somehow, that makes him infinitely more striking. The chemistry between Kane and Temperance is off the charts HOT! Although I will admit I think I love the Hero of this book a lot more than Mount. I didn’t fully start to love the series until I was able to get the Hero’s POV and that’s how I feel after having read book two of the ”Savage Trilogy. The same thing happened to me while reading the ”Mount Trilogy”. I’m starting to realize that I have a thing for all of Meghan March’s sexy alpha males. And that would be the final nail in my coffin. I should be cursing her, but all I want to do is make her feel the same storm that’s raging inside me. I’ve always been so fucking smug that I didn’t. Every man has one thing that could lead to his downfall. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'd love to hear more about Rose and Jason, but I'm also looking forward to book 2, The Serpent's Shadow. It is the first of Lackey's Elemental Masters series, all of which feature reinterpreted fairy tales in the same time period and system of magic, but not the same protagonists. The Fire Rose was immensely satisfying, detailed, and an utter joy to read. There was a perfect blend of romance, mystery, and action. The plot delivered on every promise it made, but using the plans characters made that were at odds, I never knew who was going to come out on top. It was jarring the first few times, but I discovered that it allows the characters to plot individually and for us to know what's being planned without the characters knowing. ![]() The story is written mostly in third-person from Rose's point of view, but some sections switch to Jason's or Jason's secretary, Paul du Mond's. Jason is fascinating too, mysterious and larger than life, and undeniably sexy despite (or because of) his realistic flaws. ![]() Rose is a marvelous heroine, feminine and intelligent and vulnerable and resourceful. When she arrives she discovers that there are no children for her to tutor, and instead she will be translating old magic books for Jason because he has suffered a debilitating injury and is unable to read them himself. Show More Rosalind Hawkins is left destitute by the death of her father, and has to travel across the country to take a tutoring job offered by the mysterious Jason Cameron. ![]() ![]() ![]() Proteins called transcription factors drive particular steps in differentiation by controlling the activity of specific genes. This work provides a synthetic biology framework to approach cell fate determination and suggests a landscape-based explanation of fixed induction sequences for targeted differentiation.Ĭells in animals use a process called differentiation to specialize into specific cell types such as skin cells and liver cells. ![]() Experiments, guided by model predictions, reveal that sequential inductions generate distinct cell fates by changing landscape in sequence and hence navigating cells to different final states. We show that cells indeed gravitate towards local minima and signal inductions dictate cell fates through modulating the shape of the multistable landscape. Here we tested different topologies and verified a synthetic gene circuit with mutual inhibition and auto-activations to be quadrastable, which enables direct study of quadruple cell fate determination on an engineered landscape. ![]() However, few studies have experimentally demonstrated how underlying gene regulatory networks shape the landscape and hence orchestrate cellular decision-making in the presence of both signal and noise. ![]() The process of cell fate determination has been depicted intuitively as cells travelling and resting on a rugged landscape, which has been probed by various theoretical studies. ![]() ![]() ![]() The forbidden romance that grows between Beatriz and Andrés begins quickly without falling into the trap of insta-love. To survive, she enlists the help of the only priest who will listen to her, Padre Andrés, but he, too, harbors dangerous secrets. Beatriz quickly realizes, however, that she is being watched, and the house she thought would save her might just kill her. When Rodolfo Solórzano, a wealthy military man associated with the newly-created Provisional Government, takes an interest in Beatriz at a ball, she jumps at the chance to marry him despite her mother’s protests. In it, Cañas delivers a chilling and compelling story that melds a childhood fear of the dark with the impacts of colonialism and Catholicism in Mexico after the War of Independence.Īfter the death of her father, a general in the war, Beatriz and her mother are forced to live off the charity of a distant relative, smiling in high society with the men who killed her father for his allegiance to the ousted emperor. ![]() The book follows Beatriz, a mestiza woman, and her fight to survive the haunted hacienda she has recently been charged with. Isabel Cañas’s debut horror novel, “The Hacienda,” explores more than just fear. ![]() |