ISBN: 0517482878
Godina izdanja: 1985
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Duncan Haws - Ships And The Sea
Crescent Books, New York, 1985
240 str.
tvrdi povez
stanje: vrlo dobro
30 cm | ilustrovano

Surveys the development of ship design and construction, navigation, military, merchant, and commercial sea-practice, and maritime law, from the fifth millennium B.C. to the present.

A compelling vision. Bold leadership. Decisive action. Unfortunately, these prerequisites of success are almost always the ingredients of failure, too. In fact, most managers seeking to maximize their chances for glory are often unwittingly setting themselves up for ruin. The sad truth is that most companies have left their futures almost entirely to chance, and don’t even realize it. The reason? Managers feel they must make choices with far-reaching consequences today, but must base those choices on assumptions about a future they cannot predict. It is this collision between commitment and uncertainty that creates THE STRATEGY PARADOX.

This paradox sets up a ubiquitous but little-understood tradeoff. Because managers feel they must base their strategies on assumptions about an unknown future, the more ambitious of them hope their guesses will be right – or that they can somehow adapt to the turbulence that will arise. In fact, only a small number of lucky daredevils prosper, while many more unfortunate, but no less capable managers find themselves at the helms of sinking ships. Realizing this, even if only intuitively, most managers shy away from the bold commitments that success seems to demand, choosing instead timid, unremarkable strategies, sacrificing any chance at greatness for a better chance at mere survival.

Michael E. Raynor, coauthor of the bestselling The Innovator`s Solution, explains how leaders can break this tradeoff and achieve results historically reserved for the fortunate few even as they reduce the risks they must accept in the pursuit of success. In the cutthroat world of competitive strategy, this is as close as you can come to getting something for nothing.

Drawing on leading-edge scholarship and extensive original research, Raynor’s revolutionary principle of Requisite Uncertainty yields a clutch of critical, counter-intuitive findings. Among

-- The Board should not evaluate the CEO based on the company’s performance, but instead on the firm’s strategic risk profile
-- The CEO should not drive results, but manage uncertainty
-- Business unit leaders should not focus on execution, but on making strategic choices
-- Line managers should not worry about strategic risk, but devote themselves to delivering on commitments

With detailed case studies of success and failure at Sony, Microsoft, Vivendi Universal, Johnson & Johnson, AT&T and other major companies in industries from financial services to energy, Raynor presents a concrete framework for strategic action that allows companies to seize today’s opportunities while simultaneously preparing for tomorrow’s promise.

Contents:
Primitive craft of the world
The first known ship and shipbuilding illustrations
The Phoenician traders
Nile River craft
Early warships
Biremes and triremes
Lex Rhodia
The Battle of Salamis
Syracusa
Teh Battle of Actium
Roman warships and merchantmen
Scandinavian ships
Merchant shipping in the Mediterranean
Greek fire
The Viking era
Arab influence in the Mediterranean
the lateen sail
The Norman invasion of Britain
The Crusades
The Oleron Sea Laws
The Cinque Ports
The Hanseatic League
The Danzig Ship
The merchant shipping kingdom of Jacques Coeur
Columbus and the discovery of America
Vasco da Gama
Magellan`s voyage round the world
Carpentier
The Battle of Lepanto
The voyage of the golden Hind
The Spanish Armada
The East India Company
Wasa
The buccaneers
Bereing`s voyages
Press-gangs
Lloyd`s of London
Cook`s voyages
The Boston Team Party
The first operational submarine
John Paul Jones
Mutiny on the Bounty
The first experiments in steam propulsion
Trafalgar
Clermont
The use of steam spreads throughout Europe
The Savannah
The Curacao
The first clipper ship
The Transatlantic Race
The growth of seaborn trade
Paddle versus propeller
The Great Eastern
The first ironclad
Trade and sail: wool, guano, and tea
the Clipper Era
Steam begins to take over
Whaling
The opening of the Suez Canal
The ocean liner
Turbinia
The Russo-Japanese War
Dreadnought
The motor vessel Selandia
Theh opening of the Panama Canal
The First World war
Theh submarine
The rebuilding of the merchant fleets
The last sailing ship is built
The Depression
Queen Mary
The Second World War
The beginning of specialization
The fastest passenger liner
The first atomic-powered ship
The oil tanker boom
The end of the passenger liner
Roll-on roll-off ferries
Oil rigs
Lash ships
Container ships
The Globtik London, half-a-million-tons
The experimental Dyna ship

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