This is a study of the ideas and creative forces that went into shaping the language of 20th-century music. The author's argument is based on a consideration of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, during the course of which he makes forays into the related arts.

Language of Modern Music

Arts & Photography

Donald Mitchell

Music

Faber Faber Inc

The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution is the first book to show you how to add 20 times more revenues at 96 percent less cost from the same time and effort. This book builds on the principles in the world-wide best seller, The 2,000 Percent Solution. Examples alternate between explaining how for-profit companies can grow profits by 400 times and showing how nonprofit organizations can serve 400 times as many beneficiaries. The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution is a brilliant distillation of essential management principles that everyone, and I mean everyone, can use to drive dramatic acceleration of performance. It's packed with great stories that make the principles easy to understand, embrace, and apply. Whether you're a leader in a big, small, for-profit, or not-for-profit organization, you need this book. Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business School, best-selling author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin & End

The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution

Business & Money

Carol Coles

Management & Leadership

Mitchell and Company Press

Organizations, like people, are creatures of habit. They tend to approach problems and practices in predictable ways. This revolutionary book argues that such ingrained habits, which often masquerade as efficient procedures, actually obstruct growth. And while it's no small task to unblock "stalled thinking" (we resist at every turn), the payoff is immense. Forget 100 percent improvement; the achievable goal is expanded to breakthrough 2,000 percent progress. THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION introduces "stallbusting" a process that shows you how to recognize typical stalls and overcome them. The book also helps you understand why companies habitually 'think small' in order to feel comfortable and in control. And it explains that only by learning to break certain patterns can we stride rapidly forward, solve seemingly impossible problems, and arrive sooner and more easily at the future. Through unorthodox examples ranging from the Titanic to Leonardo da Vinci's bicycle, The 2,000 Percent Solution redirects our knee-jerk reactions, or stalls, and gets readers on the road to sustainable change. The book examines such ubiquitous dodges as the Psychology-of-Disbelief Stall, the Tradition Stall, and the Bureaucratic Stall -- each from the stallbusters' point of attack. You'll find concise directions for overcoming these causes of organizational inertia and inefficiency. In addition, you'll learn about a new set of thought processes for designing and implementing solutions that will reap benefits 20 times greater or faster than the same tired "normal" solutions. Packed with specific advice on process improvement for going beyond today's best practices through better measurement and performance management, THE 2,000 PERCEMT SOLUTION is an outside-the-box guide to removing the blinders at every level of business in order to focus on different areas, set higher standards, and pursue them in new, more effective ways.

The 2,000 Percent Solution: Free Your Organization from "Stalled" Thinking to Achieve Exponential Success

Robert Metz

Amacom Books

Authors Donald Mitchell and Carol Coles conducted a ten-year study of companies that had grown the fastest over a three-year period. Their research reveals that while unsuccessful companies doggedly apply outdated business models, the successful ones improve their models every two to four years.
The Ultimate Competitive Advantage provides a straightforward, systematic method any company can use to review and improve its business model and each of its key components: pricing, costs of doing business, and benefits added. Dozens of concrete examples from companies of all sizes and types are provided.

The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Secrets of Continually Developing a More Profitable Business Model

B. Thomas Golisano

Robert B. Knutson

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Reformer, rebel, political activist; amongst his many achievements E D Morel directed the first great humanitarian campaign of the 20th Century which brought King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal and genocidal regime in the Congo to an end. Following the transfer of power from the King to the Belgian Government in 1908, Morel went on to become the dominant figure in the Union for Democratic Control (UDC) during the First World War. He revealed the 'secret treaties and lies' leading up to the conflict and campaigned for a just and lasting peace.  Reviled by Lloyd George's ruling coalition government, Morel was sent to prison for 6 months in 1917. On his release he became a major figure in the Labour Party, directing most of his energies against the terms and conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. In the election of 1922 he won a seat for Dundee, defeating the incumbent, Winston Churchill. Shortly before his death he was nominated for the Nobel Prize, with the Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, and 120 labour members as signatories to the nomination.

The Politics of Dissent

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Silverwood Books

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