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Robert S. Kaplan , David P. Norton

The Strategy-Focused Organization.How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment.

Anul aparitiei: 2000

In today's business environment, strategy has never been more important. Yet research shows that most companies fail to execute strategy successfully. Behind this abysmal track record lies an undeniable fact: many companies continue to use management processes-top-down, financially driven, and tactical-that were designed to run yesterday's organizations. Now, the creators of the revolutionary performance management tool called the Balanced Scorecard introduce a new approach that makes strategy a continuous process owned not just by top management, but by everyone. In The Strategy-Focused Organization, Robert Kaplan and David Norton share the results of ten years of learning and research into more than 200 companies that have implemented the Balanced Scorecard. Drawing from more than twenty in-depth case studies-including Mobil, CIGNA, Nova Scotia Power, and AT&T Canada-Kaplan and Norton illustrate how Balanced Scorecard adopters have taken their groundbreaking tool to the next level. These organizations have used the scorecard to create an entirely new performance management framework that puts strategy at the center of key management processes and systems. Kaplan and Norton ...

Robert D. Kaplan

Fantomele Balcanilor.

Editura: Antet

Anul aparitiei: 2007

De la asasinatul care a dat startul natiunilor in primul razboi mondial, pana la razboaiele etnice din Yugoslavia, Balcanii au fost intotdeauna crucea pe care o are de purtat omenirea. Kaplan, calatorind prin tarile balcanice incearca sa inteleaga, cu mintea lui de american, aceasta minunata reteta a dragostei si urii, a frumosului si abjectiei. Tara noastra se bucura de un larg spatiu in cartea sa, consideratiile asupra ei fiind uneori socante - niciodata insa lipsite de realism.

Leslie Kaplan

Psihanalistul

Editura: Trei

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Simon este psihanalist. Este ardent, ludic, deschis hazardului. Cu el, in cabinetul sau, analizantii, povestile lor tragice, comice, intrebarile lor, ceea ce se intampla in timpul sedintelor si ceea ce se intampla in afara acestora. In contrapunct, o femeie, Eva, care incearca sa gandeasca lumea si viata citindu-l si recitindu-l pe Kafka. Pentru ca, si intr-un caz, si in celalalt, nu este vorba despre altceva decat despre gandire. A trai si a gandi, a nu trai fara a gandi. Toate personajele acestei carti sunt niste eroi, caci infrunta conflictul dintre dorinta lor de adevar si pasiunea lor pentru ignoranta: sunt niste eroi prin gandire, niste eroi ai gandirii. In acelasi timp, sunt toata lumea, sunt fiecare dintre noi. Daca gandim, suntem vii, ne schimbam, ne putem schimba. Si-atunci, evident, se intampla multe lucruri: povestirea este mereu pe cale de a se infaptui, ca identitate, nicicand data, deoarece sensul se iveste din fiecare detaliu si este legat de fiecare detaliu. Iar acesta este motivul pentru care ultimul cuvant este in lume, aceasta nenumarata acumulare de detalii si de posibilitati.

Robert D. Kaplan

Iarna la Mediterana. Tunisia, Sicilia, Dalmatia si Grecia

Editura: Polirom

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Traducere de Monica Lachner si Ciprian Dumea „«Iarna la Mediterana» este o carte superba. Ne-am obisnuit deja cu stilul limpede si convingator al lui Robert Kaplan, insa ceea ce ne surprinde aici este gratia lirica a scrierii sale, precum si legatura lui personala cu locurile si oamenii pe care ni-i prezinta. Citind cartea, parca as fi fost alaturi de el in aceste neobisnuite peregrinari catre unele dintre cele mai vechi civilizatii ale lumii.” (Jane Alexander) „Asemenea unor scriitori clasici precum Lawrence Durrell si Henry Miller, Kaplan nu relateaza prea multe amanunte despre el insusi sau despre scopul calatoriei sale. Detaliile referitoare la tot felul de personaje intimplatoare si necazuri marunte sint rare. In schimb, autorul face o gratioasa descriere a istoriei paminturilor pe care paseste, lasindu-se absorbit in virtejul unor evenimente ce s-au petrecut cu secole inainte ca el sa-si cumpere primul bilet de tren.” (Publishers Weekly)Cuprins: Tigroaica • Muzeul Parintilor Albi • Masa lui Iugurta • Abstractionismul islamic al lui Paul Klee • Frumusetea cenusiului • Templul fara glas • Un oras de teracota ...

Robert D. Kaplan

La rasarit, spre Tartaria

Editura: Polirom

Anul aparitiei: 2002

Traducere de Dorin Nistor, Simona Drelciuc, Alina Pelea. In 1993, Robert D. Kaplan a publicat o carte care a devenit clasica pentru scrierile-reportaj,

Robert D. Kaplan

Politici de razboi. De ce necesita conducerea politica un etos pagin

Editura: Polirom

Anul aparitiei: 2002

Traducere de Corneliu Veres. Cartea prezinta o serie de lideri politici straluciti, asa cum au aparut ei de-a lungul istoriei. Sun-tzu indeamna liderii

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Sandra N. Kaplan, Joseph S. Renzulli, Carol Ann Tomlinson

The Parallel Curriculum: A Design to Develop Learner Potential and Challenge Advanced Learners

Editura: Corwin Press

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Packed with sample units, rubrics, and more, this updated bestseller helps teachers develop and implement a curriculum that moves students along the continuum toward expertise.

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

The Kitchen Classroom: 32 Visual GFCF Recipes to Boost Developmental Skills [With CDROM]

Editura: Woodbine House

Anul aparitiei: 2010

For kids who need extra help with sensory integration, motor, language, communication and attention skills, cooking offers a multitude of opportunities to help them work on these skills while having fun. Professional cooking teacher and parent of a son with autism, Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, shows how, with a little planning and preparation, parents and teachers can make cooking a rich learning experience, as well as a chance to connect with their child or student. THE KITCHEN CLASSROOM includes a book for parents and teachers with 32 quick and tasty Gluten-Free (GF) and Casein-Free (CF) recipes with specific teaching tips and a color photo of each finished dish. Also included is a CD-ROM with simple step-by step instructions and almost 500 color photos illustrating the process of each recipe in detail so kids (readers and non-readers) can follow along, see what happens next, and practice doing some steps on their own. Print the photo sequences and put them in a binder for future use, or view them on your laptop during cooking sessions. THE KITCHEN CLASSROOM engages kids of all ages (as young as 18 months) and can be used with students with a variety of developmental or learning ...

Fred Kaplan

Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

Editura: Harper Perennial

Anul aparitiei: 2010

"Fred Kaplan's Lincoln offers penetrating insights on Lincoln's ability to explain complex ideas in language accessible to a broad range of readers and listeners." -- James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books "A fine, invaluable book. . . . Certain to become essential to our understanding of the 16th president. . . . Kaplan meticulously analyzes how Lincoln's steadily maturing prose style enabled him to come to grips with slavery and, as his own views evolved, to express his deepening opposition to it." -- Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World Fascinating. . . . persuasive and] highly perceptive." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times From acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan comes an illuminating look at the life of Abraham Lincoln that chronicles his genius with language.

Cynthia Kaplan

Why I'm Like This: True Stories

Editura: Harper Perennial

Anul aparitiei: 2007

Cynthia Kaplan takes us on a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking journey through her unique, uncensored world--her bungled romantic encounters and unsung theatrical experiences; her gadget-obsessed father, her pill-popping therapist, and her eccentric grandmothers; her fearless husband, whom she engages in an ongoing battle over which of them is the most popular person in their apartment; and, of course, her vengeful, power-hungry one-year-old son. Kaplan's voice is a lot like the one in our heads--the one that most of us are only willing to listen to late at night . . . maybe while locked in a closet. What a relief it is that someone finally admits that she is afraid of nearly everything; that she is jealous even of people whose lives are on the verge of collapse; and that she has, at times, tried to pass for a gentile.

Alice Kaplan

French Lessons: A Memoir

Editura: University of Chicago Press

Anul aparitiei: 1994

Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. Kaplan begins with a distinctly American quest for an imaginary France of the intelligence. But soon her infatuation with all things French comes up against the dark, unimagined recesses of French political and cultural life. The daughter of a Jewish lawyer who prosecuted Nazi war criminals at Nuremburg, Kaplan grew up in the 1960s in the Midwest. After her father's death when she was seven, French became her way of "leaving home" and finding herself in another language and culture. In spare, midwestern prose, by turns intimate and wry, Kaplan describes how, as a student in a Swiss boarding school and later in a junior year abroad in Bordeaux, she passionately sought the French "r," attentively honed her accent, and learned the idioms of her French lover. When, as a graduate student, her passion for French culture turned to the elegance and sophistication of its intellectual life, she found herself drawn to the language and ...

Vivian Jeanette Kaplan

Ten Green Bottles

Editura: St. Martin's Press

Anul aparitiei: 2004

The winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award is a compelling true story of one family's journey from Nazi-occupied Austria to the ghettos of Shanghai. "Emotional power and vivid immediacy."--"Maclean's."

James Kaplan

Frank: The Voice

Editura: Doubleday Books

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Bestselling author Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in a triumphant new biography that includes many rarely seen photographs. He reveals Sinatra as man, as a musician, and as a tortured genius.

Jerry Lewis, James Kaplan

Dean and Me: A Love Story

Editura: Broadway Books

Anul aparitiei: 2006

In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of his fifty-year friendship with Dean Martin. They were the unlikeliest of pairs--a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got together, something clicked--something miraculous--and audiences saw it at once. Before long, they were as big as Elvis or the Beatles would be after them, creating hysteria wherever they went and grabbing an unprecedented hold over every entertainment outlet of the era: radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution. The millions flowed in, seemingly without end--and then, on July 24, 1956, ten years after it all started, it ended suddenly. After that traumatic day, the two wouldn't speak again for twenty years. And while both went on to forge triumphant individual careers--Martin as a movie and television star, recording ...

Rosalind Kaplan

The Patient in the White Coat: My Odyssey from Health to Illness and Back

Editura: Kaplan Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Kaplan, Jerry Kaplan

Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure

Editura: Penguin Books

Anul aparitiei: 1996

Kaplan, a well-known figure in the computer industry, founded GO Corporation in 1987, and for several years it was one of the hottest new ventures in the Valley. Startup tells the story of Kaplan's wild ride: how he assembled a brilliant but fractious team of engineers, software designers, and investors; pioneered the emerging market for hand-held computers operated with a pen instead of a keyboard; and careened from crisis to crisis without ever losing his passion for a revolutionary idea. Along the way, Kaplan vividly recreates his encounters with eccentric employees, risk-addicted venture capitalists, and industry giants such as Bill Gates, John Sculley, and Mitchell Kapor. And no one - including Kaplan himself - is spared his sharp wit and observant eye.

ROBERT D. KAPLAN

Răzbunarea geografiei

Editura: Litera

Anul aparitiei: 2014

Kaplan susţine că, pentru a înţelege evenimentele curente – conflictele religioase, războaiele, instabilitatea politică –, e de ajuns să aruncăm o privire asupra hărţii. El e de părere că, atunci când fundamentele politice sunt zdruncinate, harta este cea care oferă primele indicii pentru a discerne o logică istorică legată de ce are să urmeze. În Răzbunarea geografiei, Kaplan foloseşte harta ca un punct de pornire şi explică situaţii actuale diverse, precum: • De ce graniţele ţărilor arabe precum Siria şi Irakul ar putea fi mai puţin artificiale decât par şi cum panarabismul extrem al lui Assad şi ura sa faţă de Israel au reprezentat dintotdeauna un substitut al slabei identităţi a Siriei ca stat • De ce Teheranul manifestă influenţă de la Marea Mediterană şi până în Afghanistan şi că actualul regim iranian va cădea fiindcă nu este sincronizat cu istoria iraniană • Cum explică geografia criza datoriilor din Europa • De unde vin cinismul şi paranoia Rusiei şi ale lui Putin • De ce puterea Chinei este de necontestat, cum de ar putea deveni China superputerea Asiei şi de ce are de înfruntat totodată ...

Kaplan, David

Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails, with More Than 500 Recipes

Anul aparitiei: 2014

The definitive guide to the contemporary craft cocktail movement, from one of the highest-profile, most critically lauded, and influential bars in the world. Death & Co is the most important, influential, and oft-imitated bar to emerge from the contemporary craft cocktail movement. Since its opening in 2006, Death & Co has been a must-visit destination for serious drinkers and cocktail enthusiasts, and the winner of every major industry award--including America's Best Cocktail Bar and Best Cocktail Menu at the Tales of the Cocktail convention. Boasting a supremely talented and creative bar staff--the best in the industry--Death & Co is also the birthplace of some of the modern era's most iconic drinks, such as the Oaxaca Old-Fashioned, Naked and Famous, and the Conference. Destined to become a definitive reference on craft cocktails, Death & Co features more than 500 of the bar's most innovative and sought-after cocktails. But more than just a collection of recipes, Death & Co is also a complete cocktail education, with information on the theory and philosophy of drink making, a complete guide to buying and using spirits, and step-by-step instructions for mastering key ...