New Releases by Eric Lin

Rather than building strategy around the people they have, organizations should develop a better understanding of the roles that will be most critical in executing the most promising strategy, and then putting top performers in those positions. The authors demonstrate how this can be accomplished using data analysis and examples from professional soccer and the retail industry.

Increased use of digital collaboration tools are making employee contributions more visible within their organizations and connecting them with wider networks — both of which can provide them with more options for career growth. The authors researched the effects of increased visibility into individual performance and found evidence that it leads to increased mobility. That means managers need to worry about retaining not only their stars, but also their A-/B+ talent.

Changing employers has been linked to larger pay increases for executives and managers. Although survey-based studies suggest that men gain more than women, an analysis of more than 2,000 job moves found that executive women are commanding bigger increases than men when switching employers. In certain contexts, female executives can use these external moves to increase their own compensation and perhaps narrow the gender pay gap overall.

「接班及傳承」是許多企業都會面臨到的問題 如何為企業選定最適任的接班人、確保順利接班 本書告訴你《尋找CEO接班人》應知的大小事 當一間頗具規模的公司執行長被解僱、離職或退休而沒有成功的接班人時，公司費用會迅速增加，高達七、八位數的資遣費和七位數的獵才服務費均只是開端。之後，董事會成員的介入、專業顧問人士（全部按小時收費）的參與、交通機票費用、搬遷租房、在職訓練等等，時間越長，耗費的數字就越高。 而這些僅屬於可以量化的費用影響，與真正看不見對公司的其他負面影響相比，它們有時顯得微不足道。高層的動盪和不確定性會影響整個組織的規畫與營運，並使一些有價值的員工開始在其他企業尋找新舞台。失敗的接班計畫與過程甚至會使一個優良的公司慢慢癱瘓，造成對公司、股東與員工各種面向的損失。 實務上，如果沒有計畫好接班的正確「步驟」與「時程」，那麼即便是公司找到所謂「最完美的接班人選」，最終仍可能是白忙一場與徒勞無功。有許多公司的接班人主要交由現任CEO決定，並由他來進行挑選與培訓接班人。但將下任老闆的選擇委派給現任老闆往往是一個錯誤。 為什麼呢？現任CEO在選擇和培養接班人方面，往往存在固有的利益與情感衝突：大多數CEO內心都不願、也不想承認自己可以真正被取代。而且接班人的實力與能力越強，這種衝突感反而越高。事實上，董事會才是公司最重要的治理單位，董事會理應負責選擇下一位領導者並承擔責任，CEO接班失敗通常是董事會允許接班計畫脫離其常規議程的結果。 如今，許多公司的業務模式都面臨著巨大的威脅與挑戰，這些公司的領導者過去在這些業務模型中或許擁有出色的運營經驗，但是，這可能不足以帶領公司進行必要的變革。 好的接班人計畫需要正確的視野，以及對時間、人力和資源進行投資，這些投資是值得的。沒有妥善的計畫所衍生的成本、費用可高達數十億美元。此外，公司管理CEO接班人計畫的過程也反映了總體管理企業的能力，正確執行是公司可以控制自己命運的重要使命之一。 作者許書揚與專業人才顧問MGR團隊，擁有非常豐富的HR相關經驗，在本書中提出許多觀點，也彙整了不同企業的作法與故事，如果您也想為企業尋找接班人，或者落實在各部門，要尋找安排重要接班幹部，細讀本書，相信會為企業經營帶來不同的想法，對公司的未來與成長更有幫助。 名人推薦（依姓名筆畫順序排列） 亓存志 | 埃森哲諮詢（accenture）大中華區企業技術創新事業部董事總經理 王嘉昇 | HPE Taiwan董事長 江順成 | 鈊象電子股份有限公司總經理（股票代碼：3293） 吳堉文 | 全科科技股份有限公司董事長（股票代碼：3209） 呂慶盛 | 霈方國際股份有限公司董事長（股票代碼：6574） 李岳倫 | 美商宏智國際顧問有限公司（DDI）台灣區董事總經理 李紹唐 | 二代大學校長 林棨璇 | 愛爾蘭商明導國際股份有限公司（Mentor, A Siemens Business）副總裁，台灣暨東南亞區總經理 林雅莉 | 財團法人溫世仁文教基金會執行長 林祺斌 | 荷蘭商聯想股份有限公司台灣分公司（Lenovo）總經理 林群弼 | 埃森哲諮詢（accenture）大中華區互聯網行業董事總經理 林鴻明 | 信驊科技股份有限公司董事長暨總經理（股票代碼：5274） 邱明琪 | 台灣睛姿股份有限公司（JINS）總經理 胡孝揚 | 台灣飛利浦股份有限公司（PHILIPS TAIWAN）總經理 張華禎 | 玩美移動股份有限公司創辦人&CEO 張鴻瑜 | 美商銳碼科技股份有限公司（RIMAGE）亞太地區總裁 梁進利 | 聖暉工程科技股份有限公司董事長（股票代碼：5536） 莊永順 | 研揚科技股份有限公司董事長（股票代碼：6579） 許泰源 | 實威國際股份有限公司總經理（股票代碼：8416） 陳 欣 | 台灣源訊科技股份有限公司（ATOS）總經理 陳姿安 | 新加坡商美納里尼醫藥有限公司台灣分公司（A. MENARINI Singapore Pte. Ltd., Taiwan Branch）總經理 陳劍威 | 撼訊科技股份有限公司總經理（股票代碼：6150） 陳鴻儀 | 連展投資控股股份有限公司總經理（股票代碼：3710） 曾頴堂 | 希華晶體科技股份有限公司董事長（股票代碼：2484）、韋僑科技股份有限公司董事長（股票代碼：6417） 游紫華 | 心突破股份有限公司董事長 焦平海 | 合晶科技股份有限公司董事長（股票代碼：6182） 黃亞興 | 時碩工業股份有限公司董事長兼總經理（股票代碼：4566） 楊香容 | 益群創意股份有限公司 人才發展總監 葉庭君 | 美商宏智國際顧問有限公司（DDI）亞太區副總裁 葉瑞斌 | 愛普科技股份有限公司獨立董事（股票代碼：6531） 趙玉煇 | 澳洲意高大藥廠（EGO PHARMACEUTICALS）總經理 劉安炫 | 京元電子股份有限公司總經理（股票代碼：2449） 劉奕成 | 將來商業銀行股份有限公司總經理 潘健成 | 群聯電子股份有限公司董事長（股票代碼：8299） 蔡佩芳 | 迪堡多富資訊股份有限公司（Dieboldnixdorf Taiwan）董事總經理 蔡惠卿 | 上銀科技股份有限公司總經理（股票代碼：2049） 賴佳怡 | 台灣恩益禧股份有限公司（NEC Taiwan）董事總經理 簡民智 | 大眾電腦集團總經理（股票代碼：3701） 蘇峯正 | 隆達電子股份有限公司董事長（股票代碼：3698）

If you want to uplift your career as an event manager in the global events industry, this book will be a trusted friend and a powerful tool in helping your work to meet the international best practice standard. Written as a practical book on event management with a writing style that is as reader-friendly as possible, this book covers all aspects of staging an event--preparing, planning, developing a business plan, designing the concept, selecting the venue, managing health, safety, security and emergencies at the event, managing people at the event, and evaluating the success of the event. The contents of this book have been aligned to the national occupational standards for the United Kingdom''s events industry. Thus, this book offers the reader not only a relevant best practice book, but also the current one for their professional reference.

Volatility in an industry should concern not only the companies within it but also the people who work for them. To stay ahead of developments that may disrupt your professional life, you must make two evidence-based diagnoses: How volatile is your industry? And what explains the volatility? The answers will equip you to disrupt your own career preemptively.

Purpose: Radiotherapy (photon [XRT], proton [PRT]) in combination with targeted therapy is a promising less toxic strategy for patients with head and neck cancer (HNSCC). Niraparib is an orally bioavailable poly-(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP)-1 and PARP-2 inhibitor, which targeting DNA damage repair (DDR). Whether niraparib can influence the response of HNSCC cells to XRT or PRT, and the impact of niraparib on the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of PRT versus XRT are unknown. We investigated these unknowns in human HNSCC cell lines of differing human papillomavirus (HPV) status. Methods: Cell lines HN5, SqCC/Y1 (HPV-), and UPCI-SCC-154, UPCI-SCC-152 (HPV+) were used. Cellular colony forming (assessed by plating efficiency), radiosensitivity (assessed by clonogenic cell survival assay), and radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs, assessed by 53BP1 foci) were determined. Niraparib (1 u00b5M) was given 1 h before irradiation. Results: Niraparib reduced colony formation in HN5 (85.7% relative to untreated) and UPCI-SCC-154 (69.3% relative to untreated) cells. Niraparib enhanced the radiosensitivity of all 4 cell lines at 0.1 cell survival fraction; and improved RBEs with versus without Niraparib were also observed (Figure 1). Niraparib prolonged the presence of DSBs at 24h after XRT or PRT in these cells (Figure 2). Conclusion: Niraparib enhanced radiosensitivity of 4 HNSCC cell lines to both PRT and XRT, with improved RBEs by a possible mechanism of Niraparib inhibited DDR. These data suggest that Niraparib may have potential to improve the efficacy of both PRT and XRT in patients with HNSCC. Further in vivo and mechanistic studies are warranted.

We explore how an organization''s financial misconduct may affect pay for former employees not implicated in wrongdoing. Drawing on stigma theory we hypothesize that although such alumni did not participate in the financial misconduct and they had left the organization years before the misconduct, they experience a compensation penalty. Our results support this prediction. The stigma effect increases in relation to the job function proximity to the misconduct, recency of the misconduct, and an employee''s seniority. Collectively, our results suggest that the stigma of financial misconduct could reach alumni employees and need not be confined to executives and directors that oversaw the organization during the misconduct.

The compressible flow structure in front of deforming droplets in a continuously accelerating supersonic flow was examined in a draw-down supersonic wind tunnel which allowed relative velocities as high as Mach 1.8. 100-micron diameter droplets were generated upstream of the tunnel entrance using a Droplet-On-Demand generator. Direct backlit and schlieren imaging were performed in order to verify the experimental configuration and image the shock structure, respectively. The test liquid employed was 2-propanol due to its non-volatile nature and ease of injection. Theoretical predictions provide a first order approximation for several bow shock parameters. The schlieren images were processed to highlight the droplet and bow shock structure. Measurements of blurred shock thickness and Mach angle were found to be generally consistent with theoretical predictions. The time scales of shock formation and shock reaction to droplet deformation were estimated to be much less than the time scale associated with droplet breakup.

Platelet rich plasma has been an extremely hot topic in the sports medicine community in the recent years. In part due to high profile athletes partaking in PRP treatment instead of traditional treatment for their injuries. This paper examines current human PRP literature, some animal literature, and explores the science behind PRP.

The classification of consumable media by mining relevant text for their identifying features is a subjective process. Previous attempts to perform this type of feature mining have generally been limited in scope due having limited access to user data. Many of these studies used human domain knowledge to evaluate the accuracy of features extracted using these methods. In this thesis, we mine book review text to identify nontrivial features of a set of similar books. We make comparisons between books by looking for books that share characteristics, ultimately performing clustering on the books in our data set. We use the same mining process to identify a corresponding set of characteristics in users. Finally, we evaluate the quality of our methods by examining the correlation between our similarity metric, and user ratings.

PSD-95-like membrane associated guanylate kinsases (PSD-MAGUKs) are multidomain scaffolding proteins involved in AMPA and NMDA receptor trafficking and clustering at synapses. As proteins with multiple protein-protein interaction domains, they have a capacity to interact with many integral membrane receptors, cytoskeletal components, and signaling molecules although how these interactions are regulated is unclear. Multiple conformational states for some PSD-MAGUKs have been described and could act to regulate the availability of their individual domains. However, an in vivo demonstration of these conformations, especially in neurons, and an understanding of what defines their conformational states is lacking. In the work presented here, conformations of PSD-MAGUKs and how they are regulated were inverstigated using a FRET-based approach where the N- and C-termini of SAP97beta, PSD-95alpha and SAP102 were tagged with a mCherry and Venus FRET pair. By measuring changes in intramolecular FRET, we demonstrate in HEK293 cells and in neurons that PSD-MAGUK proteins alter between "compact" and "extended" conformations. Further, we reveal that interactions between PSD-MAGUKs and different NMDAR and AMPAR subunits are dependent on PSD-MAGUK conformation. These studies also find that transitions between conformational states are regulated by changes at different sites at the PSD-MAGUK N-termini, the L27 protein interaction domain (SAP97beta), the palmitoylation site (PSD-95alpha), and the zinc-binding domain (SAP102). Parallel electron microscopy measurements at the PSD confirm and extend the conclusions about PSD-95alpha conformation based on FRET measurements. Our results reveal the dynamic nature of the structure of PSD-MAGUKs, identify a novel regulatory role for their N-termini, and provide mechanistic insight into how PSD-MAGUK family proteins determine their selection of different binding partners.

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