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Putting it all together:
Insight from SIGMA partners
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sustainability picture.
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... available inthe Krotona Inn,
including a space for the working of the ritual that came
to be known as the Krotona Service.
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Its major room
was therefore a high-ceiling auditorium, seating about
350 ... provide clues to discovering the spiritual meanings
embodied in Gill’s mature architecture.
The use of Moorish styling inthe Krotona Inn and most
of the other prominent buildings of Krotona may be ... occupied the other two dwellings and claimed a
financial interest inthe property.
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South of the Ternary lay the Italian Gardens, centered on
a lotus pool.
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At the southeast corner of these...
... at right angles to the pin, though in some cases the pin comes
straight from the head. The pins are very long, some measuring as much as 12 inches. Inthe very interesting
find at Armoy, County ... south of the railway bridge
in Moghaun north, on the west side of the line of the great fort, and opposite the lough, when they undermined
a kind of cist. The fall of one of the containing-stones ... uncertain. The illustrations
will make the evolution of the celt clear. The first step was the broadening of the cutting-edge, and moving the
thickest part up to the centre of the blade; the next...
... under the non-food grain sector, plantation crops
have recorded the maximum growth in area during the period 1976-'77 to
1995-'96 as revealed by the enormous increase in their area index ... cent.' In South India tea is mainly
grown in
Nilgiris, Anamallais, Kaman Devan Hills and over the slopes of
mountains stretching down to the plains of Kerala.
Table 4.13 shows the
State-wise ...
Growers
in the Plantation
Sector
There is predominance of small growers
in
the plantation sector. Table
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reveals the share of small growers
in
the production of plantation crops
in
South...
... recombinant mPC1 ⁄ 3, the presence of
the 87 kDa form in excess of the 66 ⁄ 71 kDa facilitates
isolation of the enzyme and helps in maintaining the
enzymatic activity at a proper level. The observed ... represents a most interesting feature. Indeed,
in the majority of known zymogens, the inhibitory
function resides inthe N-terminal portion [18,19].
However, in some systems, removal of C-terminal
sequences ... shown that the
cysteine-rich domain of PC5 ⁄ 6A was responsible for
membrane tethering, thus insuring cell-surface anchor-
ing [37]. In other cases, the CT-peptide contains integ-
ral transmembrane...
... hypothesized that the termini could play a
decisive role inthe unzipping of the b-sheet [26] and
this may explain the observed decrease in stability.
Altogether, the decrease inthe intrinsic ... temperature [14]. Therefore, the tendency to
increase the coefficients inthe presence of the stabil-
izing solutes reflects the strengthening of the hydrogen
bond network. These findings are in line with ... 1974–1979].
The principal structural difference between these two proteins is the
absence of the hairpin loop inthe rubredoxin from D. desulfuricans. There-
fore, mutants of D. gigas rubredoxin bearing...
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Implementing Your Communications Strategy
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Company-Level BusinessCommunication Trends
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Developing EffectiveBusinessCommunication within Teams
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Developing EffectiveBusinessCommunication ... proposals
Reports
The individual presentation process is presented in Part 3. The topics include the following:
ã Defining your purpose
ã Analyzing your audience
ã Gathering supporting materials
ã Organizing ... Ron Hein - " ;The Fast Forward MBA inBusiness Communication& quot;
Displayed lists are created by simply pulling inthe left and right margins around a piece of information. Changing the font,...
... acrossthe globe, Heineken was faced with
delivering their training program inthe various countries in which
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BUSINESS ACROSS CULTURES
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Standard systems
Improved standard
systems by learning ... different meaning to their world from the
meaning you give to yours. Thus the next step is to respect these dif-
ferences and accept the right of others to interpret the world in the
way they have ... about how the individual responds to the dilemma with
regard to how they might reconcile the opposing choices. In order to
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THE ORGANIZATION OF MEANING
THE ORGANIZATION OF MEANING
The organization...
... looking into the possibility of
doing businessin China, they had their brochure translated
into Chinese and handed it out during every interaction with
their Chinese contacts.
At a certain point, ... looking at it. They sat inthe seats and they crawled into
the engines to have a feel. Westerners say “Were they kidding? Why
did they want to know how the engines felt?” It was to get into the
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BUSINESS ... decided
to introduce online trading but in a more subtle and sophisticated
way than Schwaab. The sophistication lay in how they combined
(reconciled) the different cultures of the Internet and the financial
consultant.
First,...
... gain
the highest return on their investments inthe financial services sec
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tor, holding a core value of integrity and transparency.
But business environments and challenges are changing continu
-
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BUSINESS ... of these explicit constructs in order to
check whether they were still the best way of delivering and rein
-
forcing those values. When the products of culture become sacred
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BUSINESS ACROSS ... organization has no intrinsic values beyond
these goals; the organization is an instrument to the specific
needs of the individuals inthe organization. Responsibilities
and tasks within this type of...
... that we’re one of them,”
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Reconciliation: to get the support of the leaders so they underline
themselves the importance of learning and creativity.
They become servant ... creative individuals
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Now let’s look at what both organizations produced inthe light of
their corporate cultures.
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Acting Innovatively: ... Americans
were too often, in team meetings, discussing this or that initiative.
They kept changing tack and trying something new, instead of keep
-
ing to agreed avenues of inquiry. They rarely spent...
... at the archetypes in detail.
Let’s recap.
The archetypes for the first category – independents – are the Inno
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cent, the Explorer, and the Sage. Everyone is, in their own way,
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BUSINESS ACROSS ... and
strategy feed into each other in a continuous crafting process. The
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MARKETING ACROSS CULTURES
Tactical emerging
marketing: shoot the
next idea from the hip
Creating short-term ideas
Developing a ... learning and growing
in freedom and open-mindedness. Sage brands are universalistic,
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ț The Caregiver
The Creator
The Ruler
ț
ț
ț
ț
ț
The Innocent
The Explorer
The...
... organization. They have many offices
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Multi-local argument (by the head of US advertising)
The success we had in many countries including the US and in
other major ... cannot use them in other cultures. The most
obvious ones are the use of language and the researchers them
-
selves. They are all local. But the type of instruments will also be
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BUSINESS ACROSS ... an online questionnaire works
well inthe US, you might ask the same questions (etic) in another
format such as face-to-face-interviewing (emic) in Burkina Faso. In
the adjustment of your instruments,...