New Releases by Richard Greene

Richard Greene is the author of The Little Guide to Writing for Impact (2024), The National Fifth Reader (2023), The Caterpillar and the Butterfly (2022), A Curmudgeon's Guide to Postmodern Times (2022), Collected Poems (2021).

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The Little Guide to Writing for Impact

release date: Mar 12, 2024
The Little Guide to Writing for Impact
"There is a tsunami of research being produced by social scientists, and most of them hope that their work will have impact on public policy. This book will provide specific real-world examples of what works-and what doesn''t. By way of illustration and examples will include a good pitch for an op-ed for a regional or a major newspaper"--

The National Fifth Reader

release date: Jul 23, 2023
The National Fifth Reader
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

The Caterpillar and the Butterfly

release date: Jul 21, 2022
The Caterpillar and the Butterfly
A collection of autobiographical poems by Richard Greene. Richard Greene has been writing poetry intensively since he retired from a 38-year career in international development in the mid-1990s. A lawyer by training, he fell into his development career by accident when, after law school, though planning not to practice law but interested in international affairs, he accepted an unsolicited job offer from the U.S. Agency for International Development. After a few years in Washington (or Foggy Bottom, as the location of the U.S. foreign policy establishment is known), he was assigned as legal advisor to the USAID mission in Laos and there discovered that the development business suited his interests and inclinations very well. Greene wrote poetry beginning in the 8th grade and continued through college where he studied with a Professor, Henry Rago, who later became editor of Poetry magazine, the leading U.S. poetry journal. However, he wrote few poems after law school as he became absorbed in international development, but turned back to poetry as he neared retirement.

A Curmudgeon's Guide to Postmodern Times

release date: Jun 13, 2022
A Curmudgeon's Guide to Postmodern Times
Now revised and updated with new aphorisms! Reader beware: This book contains material that disparages cherished beliefs, opinions and institutions including political and religious ones. While some readers may find that material refreshingly irreverent, others may find it offensive. The aphorism quoted on the cover, Patriotism, piety and chastity are all much overrated virtues, offers a relatively mild example. Some of the aphorisms offer potentially even more offensive material, so proceed with caution. Here are a few examples of Mr. Greene''s aphorisms: Sex wouldn''t be nearly so interesting if it weren''t so widely forbidden. The truly strong are those who aren''t driven by the need to prove their strength. Lawyers, actors and politicians must fool others. In the process they often fool themselves. We tend to forget that not all mothers are saints, nor all soldiers heroes. The most important measure of civilization is compassion, not technology, culture, sophisticated institutions, power or the gross national product.

Collected Poems

release date: Dec 23, 2021

To Talk of Many Things

release date: Dec 02, 2021
To Talk of Many Things
Richard Greene has been writing poetry intensively since he retired from a 38-year career in international development in the mid-1990s. A lawyer by training, he fell into his development career by accident when, after law school, though planning not to practice law but interested in international affairs, he accepted an unsolicited job offer from the U.S. Agency for International Development. After a few years in Washington (or Foggy Bottom, as the location of the U.S. foreign policy establishment is known), he was assigned as legal advisor to the USAID mission in Laos and there discovered that the development business suited his interests and inclinations very well. Greene wrote poetry beginning in the 8th grade and continued through college where he studied with a Professor, Henry Rago, who later became editor of Poetry magazine, the leading U.S. poetry journal. However, he wrote few poems after law school as he became absorbed in international development, but turned back to poetry as he neared retirement.

Painting with Words

release date: Nov 08, 2021
Painting with Words
A collection of poems describing the exterior world, such as: Orinocos of the Imagination I''ve never been to the Orinoco and have seen few photos of it, but I feel I know its sinuous lengths, winding between thick jungle walls, flashing silver in the sun, delicate waterfalls threading from cloud-shrouded cliffs, dense foliage adorned with birds of kindergarten colors and jaguars that merge into shadow, the insistent music of bird cry and monkey chatter, dugouts and caimans scoring its sleek waters, those who people its valley gliding nearly naked through twilight forests, dappled by the distant sun. I know these lush landscapes from my dreams.

Becoming Old

release date: Oct 26, 2021
Becoming Old
A collection of poems on aging, such as: I See Myself Becoming Old My closet is full of suits I don''t wear anymore. Nothing I need to wear them for. There are days when I stay in my pajamas till noon. I picture my heirs looking at my wardrobe one day asking "Can you think of anyone who can use these or should we give them to Goodwill?" Or, "Would you like this tie as a remembrance of Dad?" As I read the obits of the recently deceased, which I took to doing a few years ago, I compare their ages to mine. Then there''s the arthritis in my hands and feet. My left foot aches when I walk and I suffered a rupture in a time-worn tendon not long ago. I have more trouble lifting things and getting around. Don''t jump over puddles anymore for fear of the damage I might do coming down. (No more kicking up heels for me.) What will it be next, the incipient cataracts? My hearing isn''t what it used to be. I don''t think I need a hearing aid yet, though my daughter disagrees. Or will it be something unforeseen like that ill-fated tendon? I see myself becoming old, yet it''s as if I were watching it happen to somebody else.

The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene

release date: Jan 12, 2021
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene
A Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair. One of the most celebrated British writers of his generation, Graham Greene’s own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner narratives of war and politics across the world; he witnessed the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Mau Mau Rebellion, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the guerrilla wars of Central America. His classic novels, including The Heart of the Matter and The Quiet American, are only pieces of a career that reads like a primer on the twentieth century itself. The Unquiet Englishman braids the narratives of Greene’s extraordinary life. It portrays a man who was traumatized as an adolescent and later suffered a mental illness that brought him to the point of suicide on several occasions; it tells the story of a restless traveler and unfailing advocate for human rights exploring troubled places around the world, a man who struggled to believe in God and yet found himself described as a great Catholic writer; it reveals a private life in which love almost always ended in ruin, alongside a larger story of politicians, battlefields, and spies. Above all, The Unquiet Englishman shows us a brilliant novelist mastering his craft. A work of wit, insight, and compassion, this new biography of Graham Greene, the first undertaken in a generation, responds to the many thousands of pages of letters that have recently come to light and to new memoirs by those who knew him best. It deals sensitively with questions of private life, sex, and mental illness, and sheds new light on one of the foremost modern writers.

Roulette russa. La vita e il tempo di Graham Greene

release date: Jan 01, 2021

The National Fourth Reader

release date: Sep 10, 2020
The National Fourth Reader
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Russian Roulette

release date: Sep 08, 2020
Russian Roulette
Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene''s own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A restless traveller, he was a witness to many of the key events of modern history - including the origins of the Vietnam War, the Mau Mau Rebellion, the betrayal of the double-agent Kim Philby, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the guerrilla wars of Central America.Traumatized as a boy and thought a Judas among his schoolmates, Greene tried Russian Roulette and attempted suicide. He suffered from bipolar illness, which caused havoc in his private life as his marriage failed, and one great love after another suffered shipwreck, until in his later years he found constancy in a decidedly unconventional relationship.Often called a Catholic novelist, his works came to explore the no man''s land between belief and unbelief. A journalist, an MI6 officer, and an unfailing advocate for human rights, he sought out the inner narratives of war and politics in dozens of troubled places, and yet he distrusted nations and armies, believing that true loyalty was a matter between individuals.A work of wit, insight, and compassion, this new biography of Graham Greene, the first undertaken in a generation, responds to the many thousands of pages of lost letters that have recently come to light and to new memoirs by those who knew him best. It deals sensitively with questions of private life, sex, and mental illness; it gives a thorough accounting for the politics of the places he wrote about; it investigates his involvement with MI6 and the Cambridge five; above all, it follows the growth of a writer whose works changed the lives of millions.

Making Government Work

release date: Dec 24, 2019
Making Government Work
In this book, Barrett and Greene present evolving theories of performance management, the practices necessary for a good performance-based government, and the pitfalls that can easily be encountered along the way—andhow to avoid them. As performance management has evolved, it has encompassed many different tools and approaches including measurement, data analysis, evidence-based management, process improvement, research and evaluation. In the past, many of the efforts to improve performance in government have been fragmented, separated into silos and labeled with a variety of different names including performance-based budgeting, performance-informed management, managing for results and so on. Making Government Work: The Promises and Pitfalls of Performance-Informed Management by Katherine Barrett and Rich Greene is loaded with dozens of stories of what practitioners are currently working on—what’s working and what’s not. The benefits are ample, so are the challenges. This book describes both, along with practical steps taken by practitioners to make government work better. Readers will discover that while the authors strive to meet the documentation standards of carefully vetted academic papers, the approach they take is journalistic. Over the last year, Barrett and Greene talked to scores of state and local officials, as well as academics and other national experts to find out how performance management tools and approaches have changed, and what is coming in the near-term future. Performance management has been in a state of evolution for decades now, and so Barrett and Greene have endeavored to capture the state of the world as it is today. By detailing both the challenges and conquests of performance management in Making Government Work: The Promises and Pitfalls of Performance-Informed Management, Barrett and Greene ensure readers will find the kind of balanced information that is helpful to both academics and practitioners—and that can move the field forward.

Matchless Beauties: The Art of Pin-Up Matchbook Covers

release date: May 28, 2019
Matchless Beauties: The Art of Pin-Up Matchbook Covers
A tour-de-force presentation of beautiful images of women, used to sell everything from piston rings to lightbulbs! As an "ADDED BONUS," a special section of advertising pin-up clip-art is included, making it a handy visual reference for professional graphic and advertising designers, too! Matchless Beauties is a presentation of hundreds of classic "Girlie" matchbook covers in full color, displaying pin-ups by legendary pin-up artists such as Earl Moran, George Petty, and Alberto Vargas, as well as many unsung anonymous artists who created beautiful "Glamour Girls" to sell everything from lightbulbs to lingerie. Today''s burlesque revivalists can find inspiration in the colorful covers shown in one chapter, while hula dancers invite tourists to exotic luaus and stateside tiki bars in another. The range of applications and advertisers is astounding! Culled from one of the best private collections of matchcovers in the country, Matchless Beauties offers a fun journey into one of the most popular forms of ephemeral advertising of the 20th century. On a more practical note, this book will also serve as a handy visual reference guide for professional graphic designers looking for ideas. Whether used as inspiration or just enjoyed as sweet eye-candy, Matchless Beauties is a welcome addition to the library of anyone who appreciates feminine beauty and vintage advertising.

Spoiler Alert!

release date: May 21, 2019
Spoiler Alert!
Spoilers get folks upset—really upset. One thing that follows from this is that if you pick up a book that’s all about spoilers, it may seriously disturb you. So anyone reading this book—or even dipping into it—does so at their peril. Spoilers have a long history, going back to the time when some Greek theater-goer shouted “That’s Oedipus’s mom!” But spoilers didn’t use to be so intensely despised as they are today. The new, fierce hatred of spoilers is associated with the Golden Age of television and the ubiquity of DVR/Netflix/Hulu, and the like. Today, most people have their own personal “horror story” about the time when they were subject to the most unfair, unjust, outrageous, and unforgivable spoiler. A first definition of spoiler might be revealing any information about a work of fiction (in any form, such as a book, TV show, or movie) to someone who hasn’t encountered it. But this isn’t quite good enough. It wouldn’t be a spoiler to say “The next Star Trek movie will include a Vulcan.” Nor would it be a spoiler to say, “The story of Shawshank Redemption comes from a short story by Stephen King.” There has to be something at least a bit unexpected or unpredictable about the information, and it has to be important to the content of the work. And you could perpetrate a spoiler by divulging information about something other than a work of fiction, for example details of a sports game, to someone who has tivoed the game but not yet watched it. Timing and other matters of context may make the difference between a spoiler and a non-spoiler. It could be a spoiler to say “There’s a Vulcan in the next Star Trek movie” if spoken to someone raised in North Korea and knowing absolutely nothing about Star Trek. It can also be a spoiler to say something about a movie or TV show when it’s new, and not a spoiler when it has been around for some years. This raises the distinction between “personal spoilers” and “impersonal spoilers.” Personal spoilers are spoilers for some particular individual, because of their circumstances. You should never give personal spoilers (such as when someone says that they have never seen a particular movie, even though the plot is common knowledge. You can’t tell them the plot). Sometimes facts other than facts about a story can be spoilers, because they allow people to deduce something about the story. To reveal that a certain actor is not taking part in shooting the next episode may allow someone to jump to conclusions about the story. Spoilers need not be specific; they can be very vague. If you told someone there was a big surprise ending to The Sixth Sense or Fight Club, that might spoil these movies for people who haven’t seen them. You can spoil by mentioning things that are common knowledge, if someone has missed out on that knowledge (“Luke and Darth Vader are related”), but you usually can’t be blamed for this. People have some obligation to keep up. This means that in general you can’t be blamed for spoilers about stories that are old. “Both Romeo and Juliet are dead at the end” could be a spoiler for someone, but you can’t be blamed for it. This is a rule that’s often observed: many publications have regulations forbidding the release of some types of spoilers for a precisely fixed time after a movie release. However, some spoilers never expire, either because the plot twist is so vital or the work is so significant. So, if you’re talking to young kids, you probably should never say “Darth Vader is Luke’s father,” “Norman Bates is Mother,” “Dorothy’s trip to Oz was all a dream,” “All the passengers on the Orient Express collaborated in the murder,” “in The Murder of Roger Akroyd, the narrator did it,” “Soylent Green is people,” “To Serve Man is a cookbook,” and finally, what many consider to be the greatest and worst spoiler of them all, “The Planet of the Apes is really Earth.” Some famous “spoilers” are not true spoilers. It’s not going to spoil Citizen Kane for anyone to say “Rosebud is his sled.” This piece of information is not truly significant. It’s more of a McGuffin than a plot twist. A paradox about spoiling is that people often enjoy a work of fiction such as a Sherlock Holmes story over and over again. They remember the outline of the story, and who did the murder, but this doesn’t stop them re-reading. This demonstrates that the spoilage generated by spoilers is less than we might imagine. It’s bad to spoil, but how bad? People do seem to exaggerate the dreadfulness of spoiling, compared with other examples of inconsiderateness or rudeness. Are there occasions when it’s morally required to spoil? Yes, you might want to dissuade someone from watching or reading something you believed might harm them somehow. Also, you might issue a spoiler in order to save the world from a terrorist attack (Yes, this is a philosophy book, so it has to include at least one totally absurd example). A more doubtful case is deliberate spoiling as a protest, as occurred with Basic Instinct. The book ends with three spoiler lists: the Most Outrageous Spoiler “Horror Stories”; the Greatest Spoilers of All Time; and the Greatest Spoilers in Philosophy.

Historical Facts and Incidents Relating to the Family of Richard Greene

release date: Mar 04, 2019
Historical Facts and Incidents Relating to the Family of Richard Greene
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I soprano e la filosofia

release date: Jul 12, 2018
I soprano e la filosofia
La scomparsa prematura di James Gandolfini, il mitico Tony Soprano, ripropone l’originaria confusione tra realtà, arte e pensiero. All’inizio era il teatro, per i greci antichi luogo di farsa e tragedia della vita, palcoscenico del pensiero, dei suoi incubi e delle sue utopie. Oggi sono gli effetti speciali e l’estetica assoluta delle serie tv, tra cui I Soprano spicca per la potenza catartica di una mirabile rappresentazione della violenza. Uccido dunque sono. Tra darwinismo sociale da tardo capitalismo consumistico ed eterni istinti dell’animale uomo, questo libro si addentra nella filosofia che ci tiene incollati al video anche per le scene più scabrose. A farci spalancare occhi e mente non è il lato morboso del voyeurismo, ma l’eterna sete del sapere. La sete che vede rappresentate degnamente tutte le sfumature dell’essere umano solo nei migliori prodotti della società dello spettacolo. Dove l’eterna sovrapposizione tra realtà e finzione è solo l’inizio della scienza.

Stray Studies from England and Italy

release date: Jul 01, 2018
Stray Studies from England and Italy
Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene There are few stiller things than the stillness of a summer''s noon such as this, a summer''s noon in a broken woodland, with the deer asleep in the bracken, and the twitter of birds silent in the coppice, and hardly a leaf astir in the huge beeches that fling their cool shade over the grass. Afar off a gilded vane flares out above the grey Jacobean gables of Knoll, the chime of a village clock falls faintly on the ear, but there is no voice or footfall of living thing to break the silence as I turn over leaf after leaf of the little book I have brought with me from the bustle of town to this still retreat, a book that is the record of a broken life, of a life "broken off," as he who lived it says of another, "with a ragged edge." We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

The Ten Commandments of Peak Performance

release date: Jan 21, 2018
The Ten Commandments of Peak Performance
10 Powerful Peak Performance Principles to Create Greater Success & HappinessIn this book, 5-time Ironman Triathlete and 30-year sales executive, Rich Greene lays the 10 powerful principles you can employ in your life to create a high performance in your business and personal life. This book will show you how to:* Learn how to embrace change and make it work for you as opposed to against you. * Learn how to apply the Law of Incrementalism to accomplish more in the next year than you have in the last 5 or 10 years. * Create a laser-like focus that will enable you to be unstoppable in anything you do.* Understand how to finally attain balance in your life so that your business, personal, and spiritual lives are in sync.When you get this book, you''ll also get BONUS access to the online Time Savers program, designed to help you recapture between 8 - 40 hours a month so you can focus on achieving your goals and dreams.

The IronMan Mind Book of Quotes

release date: Jan 01, 2018
The IronMan Mind Book of Quotes
The Ironman Triathlete represents 1/100th of 1% of the population and they''ve been found to practice these ten success principles. It doesn''t matter what field or vocation you are engaged in life. If you want to be outstanding and unstoppable, you''ll focus on the principles described in this book. To help inspire you to implement these principles in your life, some of the most powerful quotations have been chosen to complement each one. Chose those principles you''d like to adopt, reflect on their meaning for you, and select your favorite quotations for inspiration.Enjoy...become inspired...and create your own unstoppable success!

La filosofia di zombie e vampiri

release date: Oct 03, 2017
La filosofia di zombie e vampiri
Zombie e vampiri hanno conquistato il centro della cultura pop, come protagonisti di serie tv, fumetti, cartoni, videogames e film. Questo libro porta le teorie di filosofi come Socrate e Cartesio nei territori dei non morti, per interrogare queste oscure creature su questioni sociali e filosofiche. Vampiri e vegetariani, in fondo, non condividono la stessa visione del mondo? E gli zombie possono aiutarci a comprendere l''essenzialità della riforma sanitaria negli Stati Uniti? E ancora: cosa potrebbe significare il famoso detto "mente sana in corpo sano" per vampiri e zombie? Le risposte a queste e altre domande attendono i lettori abbastanza intrepidi da lasciarsi coinvolgere in questa filosofica e divertente scorreria nel mondo dei non morti.

The Ten Commandments of Productive Meetings

release date: Jun 12, 2017
The Ten Commandments of Productive Meetings
It doesn''t matter the type or size of the business or organization; the challenges of having productive meetings are the same. Many meetings are boring, run longer than planned, and accomplish very little. By applying powerful yet simple methods of planning, managing, and tracking, The 10 Commandments of Productive Meetings is a guide that any business or organization can use to make meetings a thing of value. In this book, you''ll find a very simple process that you can follow to make your meetings shorter, more fun, and more productive.

Poetic Justice

Poetic Justice
After a breakup with her boyfriend, Linda wants to know what is it that people seem to have in their relationships, that make them seem perfect, that she doesn''t have. When she''s paired up with a guy (Jamal) she played in front of her clients at the salon, on a road trip, her view of him changes. And so does her feelings. And as fate would have it, their relationship is challenged from an event that they don''t see coming. And it rocks their relationship. Will Linda be able to save it? Or will it be another failed relationship.

Dante's House

release date: Jan 01, 2013
Dante's House
Richard Greene''s first collection since winning the 2010 Governor-General''s Award for Poetry, take as their subject the rumors, misunderstandings and half-truths that often comprise our knowledge of others. With an astonishing gift for capturing states of feeling, Greene''s new poems movingly reflect on the "presence and absence, glory and disarray" of our flawed life, moving from his mother''s oil paintings to harrowing conditions at a corrections facility to recollections of a much-loved mentor. The capstone of the book is the magnificent title poem. Written in fluent, colloquial terza rima and set in sun-drenched Siena during the frenzied pageantry of Il Palio-the Italian city''s bi-annual horse race-it is a brilliant, beautifully realized achievement that consolidates Greene''s reputation as an emerging master of narrative verse. Richard Greene teaches Creative Writing and British Literature at the University of Toronto. Publisher''s note.

Supporting What? Kinds of Cooperating, Functioning, Competitive Unit, Performance - Evolving Mixes of All These are What is There to Support

release date: Jan 01, 2013
Supporting What? Kinds of Cooperating, Functioning, Competitive Unit, Performance - Evolving Mixes of All These are What is There to Support
QUESTION: Genius, it is said, finds great questions more than it invents great answers. Computer support for cooperative work finds great things to support more than it invents great supports for them? ROOT PROBLEMS: Computer support for cooperative work has severely underestimated what was there to support, perhaps due to vendor haste to sell supports. And, it failed to orient properly towards continual evolution of what it supports and what supports become available in technology''s never-ending accelerating stream. METHOD: 371 MIT grads asked about “support for coordination” aspects of a four part Theory of What is There to be Supported developed from prior work in nontechnical fields studying work: cooperatings (coordinatings, organizings), functions (quality, solving, creating), competition unit (customer chains, supply chains), performance (lean and high). They were asked for issues (where things go well, go astray, delusions, insights that work in reality, etc.) The four levels were elaborated as cooperatings (8 ways groups coordinate from Mintzberg; 8 ways groups organize from Morgan), functions (4 core work functions from Kano; 30 solving functions from Xerox; 60 creativity models from Greene), competition unit (13 components from Roberts), performances (lean from Greene; high from Vaill). The RESULT reached is nine core concepts of an ontology of work: 1) spaces theories, 2) quality work theories, 3) process singularities, 4) meta-nesses (work and creativity), 5) measures of socialness, 6) rhythms of socialness (pulsed systems), 7) game-simulation-work continuum, 8) social celluar automata, 9) general empirical computation theory. Changes in who designs, who they design for, what they design -- from these nine concepts are stated as concluding hypotheses to be later tested.

Social & Idea Plasmas from Social & Idea Fusions -- Replicating Silicon Valley in China Using 45 Models of Innovation

release date: Jan 01, 2013
Social & Idea Plasmas from Social & Idea Fusions -- Replicating Silicon Valley in China Using 45 Models of Innovation
China is establishing new industrial pars ata rate greater than ever seen before in history. China is also revisiting extant industrial parks to upgrade their performance and increase their innovativity. China is also washing over both new and established such parks, a sequence of upgrades to basic urban and technical infrastructures. Study of failed replications of Silicon Valley dynamics in industrial parks in Europe and the USA are being used by China''s leadership to design and install robust edge-of-field measure of what they judge to be the key forces that push ordinary industrial concentrations into FUSION states -- where ideas, technologies, people, funds, and ventures flow till all good ones find homes that love them. The formula that is emerging, from a series of interviews conducted bia Skype across China in 2011, is -- pulsed systems, tech infrastructure upgrade rhythms, social-idea density, radical outsourced agile venture forms, measures for impact of tactics on: social index levels, flow rates, density of interaction, and finally decade-long steady defense technology demand. Parks are to be managed towards Social-Idea Fusion points, where Social-Idea Plasma states lead to radically intense, fast, dense flows that spawn globally competitive venture and technology formation rates. Finally, each of 45 models of innovation are being measured and designed into new parks, then balances among them tweaked to optimize density of idea and person measures. This paper reports the leading edge practices of the leading park founders and managers to date. These constitute an emerging new model of techno-park structure, functioning, and goal.

Multiple Models of Creativity

release date: Jan 01, 2013
Multiple Models of Creativity
The Idea of Novelty and Creativity Sciences: This entry introduces (1) the novelty and creativity sciences (creativity, invention, innovation, design, composing, business venturing, and others), (2) the idea of multiple models of each, (3) with example multiple models (meta-models) of creativity and innovation, and (4) more detailed models than are usual (here, a 64-item model of the most creative process known - natural selection). The model of creativity models that this entry presents is the most comprehensive and detailed such model yet published, at the time of this writing - a prior article on 42 models and book on 60 exist (Greene 2001, 2005). This entry also presents four size scales (compared with levels of invention in this Encyclopedia) as contexts around and under creativity and novelty sciences: excellence sciences (scale 1), some of which are creativity & novelty sciences, one of which is 60 models of creativity and 54 models of innovation, with one creativity model, natural selection, here represented by 64 dynamics.

64 Functions (& 4 Dimensions) of Leadership and Management

release date: Jan 01, 2013

Assessing Notice & Handling of 256 System Effects

release date: Jan 01, 2013
Assessing Notice & Handling of 256 System Effects
150 people who rose to the top of 63 fields in 41 nations by virtue of noticing and/or handling more system effects or noticing/handling them better than others were given questionnaires about exactly what system effects they noticed and handled. That produced 256 system effect types in a well ordered model of 64 sets of 4, ordered as 16 sets of 16. An instrument for assessing how many of the 256 system effects were noticed/handled how definitely by people was administered to 200 executives of a global firm in Tokyo, with just under 2/3s of all executives in the same success order as their system effects covered ordering. Executives who noticed/handled more system effects had more overall success (measured 5 ways). More executives departed from that ordering in the top third of success scores than in middle and lower thirds (being higher in success order than their system effects-covered order would indicate), hinting at special factors added to a general capability captured well by number of system effects types covered.

48 Capabilities of Highly Educated People

release date: Jan 01, 2013
48 Capabilities of Highly Educated People
RESEARCH QUESTIONS -- causes of top performance in traditional fields, effective operations across disciplines, & solving problem in gaps between fields 1. What causes certain people to rise to the top of all traditional disciplines? 2. What is a scientific basis for cross-discipline work? 3. What will solve the narrowness problem of traditional disciplines causing more and more problems to fall in the cracks between them? 4. Is there such a thing as “educatedness” distinct from effectiveness and creativity, such that people can be effective and/or creative in various ways yet underperform for lack of “educatedness”? The Excellence Science research project got 315 eminent people in 63 strata of society, half American, half global, to nominate what enabled the best people in their own field to rise to the top, producing 54 orthogonal fields, cutting across all traditional fields and determining who rises to their tops, then they were asked to nominate 150 people in each of those 54 orthogonals. One of those orthogonals was “educatedness”. This paper reports what 150 highly educated-acting people, thusly nominated, said constituted their own “educatedness” and “educatedness” as they encounter it in others. In doing so it provides answers, some quite partial, to all the above research questions. RESEARCH APPROACH & METHOD -- two level nomination process identifies highly educated acting people asked to specify what educatedness is: 1. tap social consensus on what “highly educated people” are capable of, if it is there and accessible via indirect approaches 2. to bypass and/or heal ideological factions blocking policies to promote higher levels of educatedness attainment 3. by asking a highly diverse set of eminent people to nominate the most “highly educated-acting” people that they know 4. then surveying those “highly educated acting” people for what constitutes, in their view, their own “educatedness” 5. then surveying them for what behaviors and capabilities they expect from highly educated persons like themselves 6. get both representational and relational definitions of educatedness from these “highly educated-acting” persons LITERATURE POINTS -- Philosophers of education have distinguished education from learning (Arendt, 1954. 1993), procedural from declarative knowledge (Russell and Norvig, 2003), literacy in one''s own civilization from literacy in handling diverse civilizations (Geertz, 1983), training for performing existing social roles from training for inventing new social roles from training for refounding existing social roles on new technical and social substrates (Brown and Duguid, 2000), educating in order to socialize kids to your favored values from educating to free kids from your favored values (Anderson, 1983). These distinctions, are lost in a clutter of ideological conflicts about what sorts of human beings “to make” via education system Goliaths. GET BEYOND 5 DYSFUNCTIONS -- Five dysfunctions in policy discussions by publics and policy makers on “educating” and what it is to produce, from ideological contexts of discussion, are identified in this paper. Nevertheless, there might be considerable social consensus on what “educated person behavior” is, in various situations, available, perhaps, if we approach people outside of their usual ideological contexts. This paper reports the tapping of that latent consensus using artificial intelligence techniques from expert system building “protocol analysis” and customer requirements assessment techniques from total quality programs. The model it produced potentially resolves the five dysfunctions in policy discussions of “educating” and its intended outcomes. 150 people, nominated as “highly educated-acting” by 315 eminent people, half American, half global, in 63 strata of society, were given surveys asking them in over 20 diverse ways what their own “educatedness” was and what “educatedness” was in others. This paper reports a thorough bottom up categorization of their collective answers. RESEARCH RESULTS -- two categorical models of the 48 capabilities shared by most “highly educated-acting” people, one from 150 highly educated people and another from philosophers of education, for comparison purposes. Content analysis of survey results was done, marking behaviors unique to educatedness, marking distinctions of educatedness from effectiveness and creativity, naming marked ideas, grouping similar such ideas, ordering them, resulting in a model having 48 distinct dimensions of “educated person behavior” (each dimension of the 48 in the model was mentioned by at least 20 nominees). The same procedures were applied to texts by well cited philosophers of education, getting their behaviors of educated-acting people to form a basis of comparison with the first model. Use of the first model to assess the degree of “educatedness”, produced by various institutions and instructors, and to specify exact solutions, for certain hard-flaws-to-correct in business persons, that any manager encounters, is described.
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