Learn how to use collective intelligence in just 50 minutes with this practical and concise book. Collective intelligence is an innovative new approch to team management which involves adapting working methods and leveraging the skills of all team members to work more effectively and come up with original solutions to problems. Unlike many traditional approaches to management, collective intelligence embraces uncertainty...
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Understand the essentials of the Business Model Canvas (also known as BMC) in just 50 minutes with this practical and concise book. The Business Model Canvas is a tool which is used to conceptualize new business models and document existing ones, thereby allowing companies to create, deliver and capture value. The strategy therefore allows users to transform abstract ideas into business...
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On 26 April 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded, becoming the epicenter of a vast radioactive cloud which affected large swathes of Europe. The Chernobyl disaster remains the worst nuclear disaster in history: in the immediate aftermath of the explosion, hundreds of people suffered from acute radiation sickness, and in the decades that followed many...
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It is impossible to understand modern European history without first understanding the Cold War. Indeed, the tensions between the USA and the USSR, the two great powers to emerge from the Second World War, dominated the second half of the 20th century, resulted in a series of brutal proxy wars and brought the planet to the brink of nuclear war. The clash...
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Understand the essentials of the product lifecycle in just 50 minutes with this practical and concise book. The product lifecycle is a model used by the marketing and commerce sectors to optimize and develop products. It is a simple model which can be applied to a wide variety of situations in order to analyze the market and better understand the product-market relationship. In this way,...
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The European Union is both one of the most influential and one of the most polarizing supranational bodies in the world. With its own monetary union, the Eurozone, and key rights including free movement throughout the 28 member states for EU citizens, its supporters see it as the most effective means of fostering international cooperation on the continent, while its...
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The Crusades were a religious, political and miltary conflict between the three great powers of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries: Catholic Europe, the Muslim world and the Orthodox Byzantine Empire. The birth of Islam had a profound effect on the beginning of the Crusades, as the Muslim faith began to spread to the West and Muslim troops began to invade...
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In 79 AD, the Italian city of Pompeii was destroyed by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. This remains one of the largest volcanic eruptions in European history, and claimed between 10 000 and 20 000 victims. However, this tragedy has also provided archaeologists and researchers with an incredibly valuable historical source: the ash which covered Pompeii preserved organic matter that...
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The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 was a major turning point in European history: a fierce battle in this crucial trading city ended with the demise of the Byzantine Empire and the ascendency of the Ottoman Empire, which dominated the region in the following centuries. This transfer of power is essential for understanding the modern era in Western Europe, and is seen by...
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The fall of the Berlin Wall put an end to almost 30 years of physical and ideological separation between the two halves of the German capital. Constructed at the height of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall symbolized the hostility between the capitalist powers in the West and the Communist powers in the East. Its fall saw people flood across...
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Understand the essentials of the Great Recession in just 50 minutes with this practical and concise book. This major economic crisis spanned the period from 2007 to 2009 and had disastrous consequences around the world, with millions of Americans losing their homes and numerous financial institutions driven to bankruptcy. The presence of toxic assets in banks in Europe and the USA also...
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Understand the essentials of the Greiner Growth Model (also known as Greiner's model for organizational growth) in just 50 minutes with this practical and concise book. The Greiner Growth Model allows users to identify indicators from a company's past that are critical to its future success, making it a valuable tool in our current economic reality marked by globalization and increased competition. This book...
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