Strategy Paradox
Iran and the Paradox of Deterrence?
Deterrence (Deterrence by punishment is a strategy by which governments threaten an immense retaliation if attacked.) If the liberals take control of the United States executive branch, and control all of the government, will they appease radical regimes and fundamental islam? Everyone knows that the leftist governments cannot carry through with a threat of violence against an aggresive enemy. Look at Europe for an example. How will Iran act when they know that although there is talk of deterrence or defensives strikes, this action WILL NOT be carried through by the liberals in power?
Since Iran knows that the UN is no real threat, the only government they have any fear of is the US. If the liberals take control, Iran will have nothing left fear. They will continue their nuclear program and once they have completed a bomb, they will probably drop it on Israel. The Liberals would do nothing to stop it.
Strategic Action Today: Success Tomorrow (The Strategy Paradox)
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Adventures in Paradox-Pod, Ls $21.36 Used – Cervantes’s “Don Quixote” confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: does the text pursue a serious or comic purpose? Does it promote the truth of history and the untruth of fiction, or the truth of poetry and the fictiveness of truth itself? In a study that aims to revise the way we read and debate “Don Quixote”, Charles Presberg discusses the topic of paradox as a governing rhetorical strategy in this most canonical of Span |
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Adventures in Paradox-Pod, Ls $35.88 Used – Cervantes’s “Don Quixote” confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: does the text pursue a serious or comic purpose? Does it promote the truth of history and the untruth of fiction, or the truth of poetry and the fictiveness of truth itself? In a study that aims to revise the way we read and debate “Don Quixote”, Charles Presberg discusses the topic of paradox as a governing rhetorical strategy in this most canonical of Span |
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Alliance Paradox: An Empirical Study of Alliance Portfolio Effects on Customer Service Quality in the U.S. Airline Industry. $80.36 New – This dissertation studies the potential paradoxical effects of alliance participation. Over the past two decades, alliance participation has become a popular firm strategy to obtain benefits that are difficult for a firm to obtain on its own. Yet, as firms increasingly participate in alliances, boundedly rational managers may not effectively manage all aspects of alliances to achieve intended alliance outcomes. Paradoxically, alliance participation may cause harm to the participating firms |
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Alliance Paradox: An Empirical Study of Alliance Portfolio Effects on Customer Service Quality in the U.S. Airline Industry. $58.04 New – This dissertation studies the potential paradoxical effects of alliance participation. Over the past two decades, alliance participation has become a popular firm strategy to obtain benefits that are difficult for a firm to obtain on its own. Yet, as firms increasingly participate in alliances, boundedly rational managers may not effectively manage all aspects of alliances to achieve intended alliance outcomes. Paradoxically, alliance participation may cause harm to the participating firms |
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Alliance Paradox: An Empirical Study of Alliance Portfolio Effects on Customer Service Quality in the U.S. Airline Industry. $80.36 Used – This dissertation studies the potential paradoxical effects of alliance participation. Over the past two decades, alliance participation has become a popular firm strategy to obtain benefits that are difficult for a firm to obtain on its own. Yet, as firms increasingly participate in alliances, boundedly rational managers may not effectively manage all aspects of alliances to achieve intended alliance outcomes. Paradoxically, alliance participation may cause harm to the participating firm |
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Alliance Paradox: An Empirical Study of Alliance Portfolio Effects on Customer Service Quality in the U.S. Airline Industry. $54.64 Used – This dissertation studies the potential paradoxical effects of alliance participation. Over the past two decades, alliance participation has become a popular firm strategy to obtain benefits that are difficult for a firm to obtain on its own. Yet, as firms increasingly participate in alliances, boundedly rational managers may not effectively manage all aspects of alliances to achieve intended alliance outcomes. Paradoxically, alliance participation may cause harm to the participating firm |
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Alliance Paradox: An Empirical Study of Alliance Portfolio Effects on Customer Service Quality in the U.S. Airline Industry. $80.36 Used – This dissertation studies the potential paradoxical effects of alliance participation. Over the past two decades, alliance participation has become a popular firm strategy to obtain benefits that are difficult for a firm to obtain on its own. Yet, as firms increasingly participate in alliances, boundedly rational managers may not effectively manage all aspects of alliances to achieve intended alliance outcomes. Paradoxically, alliance participation may cause harm to the participating firm |
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Alliance paradox: An empirical study of alliance portfolio effects on customer service quality in the U.S. airline industry. $69 This dissertation studies the potential paradoxical effects of alliance participation. Over the past two decades, alliance participation has become a popular firm strategy to obtain benefits that are difficult for a firm to obtain on its own. Yet, as firms increasingly participate in alliances, boundedly rational managers may not effectively manage all aspects of alliances to achieve intended alliance outcomes. Paradoxically, alliance participation may cause harm to the participating firms.;To unveil an alliance paradox, this dissertation first examined the relationships between alliance portfolio attributes (i.e., alliance portfolio size, multilateral alliances, alliance partner country diversity, and alliance type) and customer service quality in the U.S. airline industry. Further, I examined whether alliance experience moderates the relationships between alliance portfolio attributes and customer service quality. Altogether, five hypotheses were tested.;This dissertation relied exclusively on the longitudinal quarterly data of nine U.S. major airlines over a 20-year period between 1988 and 2007 that include Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, America West, Continental, Delta, Northwest, Southwest, United Airlines, and U.S. Airways. Data pertaining to alliance variables were collected from the Securities Data Company (SDC) database. Quarterly service quality data pertaining to customer complaint, mishandled baggage, on-time arrival, and involuntary denied boarding were collected from the Air Travel Consumer Report published by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). To detect the temporal effects of alliance portfolio attributes on service quality, a three-month lag was created between the alliances data and the service quality data.;The results show that although the relationship between alliance portfolio attributes and service quality seems to be more complex than initially proposed, the overall finding confirms the existence of an alliance paradox in |
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Ambiguity and Deterrence: British Nuclear Strategy 1945-1964 $104.51 New – Ambiguity and Deterrence focuses on the role of competing strategic beliefs in the formulation of British nuclear strategy between 1945 and 1964. Based on recently released documents, it is argued that the British approach to nuclear weapons during this formative period was characterized byparadox and ambiguity. The paradox was that while there was a widespread consensus in political and military circles in favour of nuclear deterrence, there were constant disagreements over the requiremen |
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Ambiguity and Deterrence: British Nuclear Strategy 1945-1964 $176.83 New – Ambiguity and Deterrence focuses on the role of competing strategic beliefs in the formulation of British nuclear strategy between 1945 and 1964. Based on recently released documents, it is argued that the British approach to nuclear weapons during this formative period was characterized byparadox and ambiguity. The paradox was that while there was a widespread consensus in political and military circles in favour of nuclear deterrence, there were constant disagreements over the requiremen |
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Bullseye!: Hitting Your Strategic Targets Through High-Impact Measurement $2.8 At last, in this book, the great paradox of measurement is resolved. According to the authors’ original — and revealing — research companies that manage by measurement outperform less disciplined competitors by an average three-year return on investment of 80 percent versus an average ROI of 45 percent. Yet few companies have put in place a disciplined approach for measuring the key nonfinancial, strategic performance areas that are so crucial to a firm’s success. Bullseye! treats measurement as a key senior-management business issue. The authors explore the role of measurement in adding clarity and specificity to an organization’s strategy, and in driving efforts to translate strategy into operational initiatives and business results. Organizational change and measurement experts William Schiemann and John Lingle have written the first book to provide a complete detailed blueprint for implementing a strategic measurement system. To resolve the measurement paradox, they have created as the centerpiece of Bullseye! a detailed case study that describes a four-phase process that will successfully transform any company into a measurement-managed organization. The four phases of this process are: defining a strategic business model, designing measures to support the model cascading the model and measures throughout the organization, and embedding the measures into the leadership processes of the organization. In eminently readable prose, the authors confront head-on the powerful forces that conspire to prevent a company from gaining the full value from its measurement system. In the process, Schiemann and Lingle have developed an integrative framework that covers all the major measurement areas: markets and customers, finance, people, operations, the environment, and suppliers. In fact, the authors go Beyond other published accounts of measurement systems by providing strategic tools to manage customer, community, |
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Bullseye!: Hitting Your Strategic Targets Through High-Impact Measurement $12.99 At last, in this book, the great paradox of measurement is resolved. According to the authors’ original — and revealing — research companies that manage by measurement outperform less disciplined competitors by an average three-year return on investment of 80 percent versus an average ROI of 45 percent. Yet few companies have put in place a disciplined approach for measuring the key nonfinancial, strategic performance areas that are so crucial to a firm’s success. Bullseye! treats measurement as a key senior-management business issue. The authors explore the role of measurement in adding clarity and specificity to an organization’s strategy, and in driving efforts to translate strategy into operational initiatives and business results. Organizational change and measurement experts William Schiemann and John Lingle have written the first book to provide a complete detailed blueprint for implementing a strategic measurement system. To resolve the measurement paradox, they have created as the centerpiece of Bullseye! a detailed case study that describes a four-phase process that will successfully transform any company into a measurement-managed organization. The four phases of this process are: defining a strategic business model, designing measures to support the model cascading the model and measures throughout the organization, and embedding the measures into the leadership processes of the organization. In eminently readable prose, the authors confront head-on the powerful forces that conspire to prevent a company from gaining the full value from its measurement system. In the process, Schiemann and Lingle have developed an integrative framework that covers all the major measurement areas: markets and customers, finance, people, operations, the environment, and suppliers. In fact, the authors go Beyond other published accounts of measurement systems by providing strategic tools to manage customer, community, |
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Bullseye!: Hitting Your Strategic Targets Through High-Impact Measurement By William A. Schiemann and John H. Lingle $15.95 At last, in this book, the great paradox of measurement is resolved. According to the authors’ original — and revealing — research companies that manage by measurement outperform less disciplined competitors by an average three-year return on investment of 80 percent versus an average ROI of 45 percent. Yet few companies have put in place a disciplined approach for measuring the key nonfinancial, strategic performance areas that are so crucial to a firm’s success.<P><I>Bullseye!</I> treats measurement as a key senior-management business issue. The authors explore the role of measurement in adding clarity and specificity to an organization’s strategy, and in driving efforts to translate strategy into operational initiatives and business results.<P>Organizational change and measurement experts William Schiemann and John Lingle have written the first book to provide a complete detailed blueprint for implementing a strategic measurement system. To resolve the measurement paradox, they have created as the centerpiece of <I>Bullseye!</I> a detailed case study that describes a four-phase process that will successfully transform any company into a measurement-managed organization. The four phases of this process are: defining a strategic business model, designing measures to support the model cascading the model and measures throughout the organization, and embedding the measures into the leadership processes of the organization.<P>In eminently readable prose, the authors confront head-on the powerful forces that conspire to prevent a company from gaining the full value from its measurement system. In the process, Schiemann and Lingle have developed an integrative framework that covers all the major measurement areas: markets and customers, finance, people, operations, the environment, and suppliers. In fact, the authors go Beyond other published accounts of measurement systems by providing strategic tools to manage customer, community, environmental, and regulatory stake |
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Bullseye!: Hitting Your Strategic Targets Through High-Impact Measurement By William A. Schiemann and John H. Lingle $12.99 At last, in this book, the great paradox of measurement is resolved. According to the authors’ original — and revealing — research companies that manage by measurement outperform less disciplined competitors by an average three-year return on investment of 80 percent versus an average ROI of 45 percent. Yet few companies have put in place a disciplined approach for measuring the key nonfinancial, strategic performance areas that are so crucial to a firm’s success.<P><I>Bullseye!</I> treats measurement as a key senior-management business issue. The authors explore the role of measurement in adding clarity and specificity to an organization’s strategy, and in driving efforts to translate strategy into operational initiatives and business results.<P>Organizational change and measurement experts William Schiemann and John Lingle have written the first book to provide a complete detailed blueprint for implementing a strategic measurement system. To resolve the measurement paradox, they have created as the centerpiece of <I>Bullseye!</I> a detailed case study that describes a four-phase process that will successfully transform any company into a measurement-managed organization. The four phases of this process are: defining a strategic business model, designing measures to support the model cascading the model and measures throughout the organization, and embedding the measures into the leadership processes of the organization.<P>In eminently readable prose, the authors confront head-on the powerful forces that conspire to prevent a company from gaining the full value from its measurement system. In the process, Schiemann and Lingle have developed an integrative framework that covers all the major measurement areas: markets and customers, finance, people, operations, the environment, and suppliers. In fact, the authors go Beyond other published accounts of measurement systems by providing strategic tools to manage customer, community, environmental, and regulatory stake |
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Corporate Governance, Competition, and Political Parties: Explaining Corporate Governance Change in Europe $99 The corporate governance systems of continental Europe have traditionally been quite different to those of the liberal market economies (e.g. the US and the UK). Company ownership has been dominated by incumbent blockholders, with a relatively minor role for minority shareholders and institutional investors. Business strategy has focused on the achievement of social stability—taking into account the interests of a broad group stakeholders—rather than the maximisation of shareholder value. However, since the mid-1990s, European corporations have adopted many of the characteristics of the Anglo-American shareholder model. Furthermore, such an increased shareholder-orientation has coincided with a significant role for the Left in European government. This presents a puzzle, as conventional wisdom does not usually conceive of the Left as an enthusiastic proponent of pro-shareholder capitalism. This book provides an analysis of this paradox by examining how economic factors have interacted with the policy preferences of political parties to cause a significant change in the European system of corporate governance.This book argues that the post-war support of the European Left for the prevailing blockholder-dominated corporate system depended on the willingness of blockholders to share economic rents with employees, both through higher wages and greater employment stability. However, during the 1990s, product markets became more competitive in many European countries. The sharing of rents between social actors became increasingly difficult to sustain. In such an environment, the Left relinquished its traditional social partnership with blockholders and embraced many aspects of the shareholder model.This explanation is supported through a panel data econometric analysis of 15 non-liberal market economies. Subsequent case study chapters examine the political economy of recent corporate governance change in Germany and Italy. |
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Counterinsurgency Vignettes $22.68 Used – Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics – International Politics – Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, printed single-sided, grade: None, Counterinsurgency Training Center Kabul, language: English, comment: This short paper is five vignettes that I used to support counterinsurgency training at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul., abstract: Five historical vignettes from the history of counterinsurgency that look at the paradox of strategy and learning in a co |
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Counterinsurgency Vignettes $31.47 Used – Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics – International Politics – Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, printed single-sided, grade: None, Counterinsurgency Training Center Kabul, language: English, comment: This short paper is five vignettes that I used to support counterinsurgency training at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul., abstract: Five historical vignettes from the history of counterinsurgency that look at the paradox of strategy and learning in a co |
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Crusader Kings (Video Game) $74.4 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Crusader Kings is a grand strategy game made by Paradox Interactive about the period from December 26, 1066 until December 30, 1452. It was released in 2004. Unlike other past Paradox titles (Hearts of Iron, Victoria and the Europa Universalis series), Crusader Kings focuses on building a dynasty instead of a country, having similarities to role-playing games and |
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Crusader Kings (Video Game) $42.14 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Crusader Kings is a grand strategy game made by Paradox Interactive about the period from December 26, 1066 until December 30, 1452. It was released in 2004. Unlike other past Paradox titles (Hearts of Iron, Victoria and the Europa Universalis series), Crusader Kings focuses on building a dynasty instead of a country, having similarities to role-playing games and |
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Crusader Kings (Video Game) $43.15 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Crusader Kings is a grand strategy game made by Paradox Interactive about the period from December 26, 1066 until December 30, 1452. It was released in 2004. Unlike other past Paradox titles (Hearts of Iron, Victoria and the Europa Universalis series), Crusader Kings focuses on building a dynasty instead of a country, having similarities to role-playing games and |