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Trillion Dollar Coach
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Bill's passion for innovation and teamwork was a gift to Apple and the world. Trillion Dollar Coach has captured his tireless spirit so future generations can learn from one of our industry's greatest leaders'-TIM COOK, CEO, Apple 'Bill shared his wisdom generously, expecting nothing back but the joy he got from teaching others. I was privileged to have him as my coach for several years. Many times since then, when asked for advice by others, I think of Bill and try to live up to the example he set.' -SHERYL SANDBERG, COO, Facebook Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt. In addition, this business genius mentored dozens of other important leaders on both coasts, from entrepreneurs to venture capitalists to educators to football players, leaving behind a legacy of growing companies, successful people, respect, friendship, and love after his death in 2016.Leaders at Google for over a decade, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle experienced firsthand how the man fondly known as Coach Bill built trusting relationships, fostered personal growth - even in those at the pinnacle of their careers - inspired courage, and identified and resolved simmering tensions that inevitably arise in fast-moving environments. To honor their mentor and inspire and teach future generations, they have codified his wisdom in this essential guide.Based on interviews with over eighty people who knew and loved Bill Campbell, Trillion Dollar Coach explains the Coach's principles and illustrates them with stories from the many great people and companies with which he worked. The result is a blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create higher performing and faster moving cultures, teams, and companies.'Whenever I have a tough decision to make, I think about Bill Campbell. What would Bill do? I owe him so much. He had a gift for helping people to realize their full potential and getting organizations to work well together. Trillion Dollar Coach does a great job of capturing what made Bill special to me and many others.'-SUSAN WOJCICKI, CEO, YouTube'Whenever I saw Bill, he gave me great perspective about what really matters. At the end of the day, it's the people in your life. Bill had such strong principles around community and how to bring people together. We used those principles - detailed in Trillion Dollar Coach - to form the foundation of Google's leadership training, so all of our leaders can continue to learn from Bill.'-SUNDAR PICHAI, CEO, Google
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Subject Liaison’s Survival Guide to Technical Services
Subject liaisons act as a bridge connecting academic departments to the library and its services, helping facilitate instruction sessions, research support, and collection development. To be at their best in these roles, subject liaisons need a working understanding of technical services functions. This book represents the first guide to speak directly to the needs and responsibilities of subject liaisons, clearing away unnecessary information and jargon to bring them up to speed on how technical services staff get things done. Clear and concise, this guidecovers policy, budgets and funding, submitting orders, acquisitions ordering, processing, cataloging, deselection and weeding, and other major technical services duties;includes appropriate background information on each topic to enhance readers’ understanding;provides “Questions You Should Be Asking” connected to each chapter which encourage subject liaisons to be proactive in their learning; andoffers a glossary of common technical services terms . Armed with this guide’s targeted information, subject liaisons will be able to better position themselves to serve both instructors and the library effectively.
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Characterizing Multiparticle Entanglement Using the Schmidt Decomposition of Operators
Characterizing entanglement is an important issue in quantum information, as it is considered to be a resource for many applications such as quantum key distribution or quantum metrology. One useful tool to detect and quantify entanglement are witness operators. A standard way to construct them is based on the fidelity of pure states and mathematically relies on the Schmidt decomposition of vectors. In this book a method to build entanglement witnesses using the Schmidt decomposition of operators is presented. One can show that these are strictly stronger than the fidelity witnesses. Moreover, the concept can be generalized easily to the multipartite case, and one may use it to quantify the dimensionality of entanglement. Finally, this scheme will be used to provide two algorithms that can be combined to improve given witnesses for multiparticle entanglement.
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Die Regeln des Spiels
Das Buch führt in die Grundlagen und Abläufe der Erstellung eines Theaterspielplans ein und beleuchtet dessen Bedeutung für die Programmierung und das Management von Theatern. Es füllt damit eine wichtige Lücke in der Theater- und Theatermanagement-Literatur. Schmidt untersucht die Spielplan-Gestaltung öffentlicher Theater auf der Grundlage von ausführlichen Spielplan-Analysen, zahlreichen Umfragen unter Dramaturgen und einer mehrjährigen Feldstudie. Aus den Ergebnissen entwickelt der Autor ein Modell der Spielplan-Gestaltung als zentrales künstlerisches und ökonomisches Managementinstrument des Theaters.Der Inhalt· Der Traum vom idealen Spielplan· Das deutsche öffentliche Theatersystem und das Stadttheater· Das Feld als kulturtheoretischer Rahmen des Theaters · Spielplan-Gestaltung in der Theaterpraxis – Eine empirische Untersuchung· Die Phasen der Spielplan-Gestaltung· Die Regeln des Spiels Die Zielgruppen · Studierende, Lehrende und Wissenschaftler in den Gebieten Kulturmanagement, Kultur- und Theaterwissenschaften, Dramaturgie, Regie, Schauspiel, Oper und Tanz· Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der Künstlerischen Leitungen und des Managements am Theater· Theaterinteressierte Menschen Der AutorThomas Schmidt ist Professor für Theatermanagement und Direktor des Studiengangs Theater und Orchestermanagement in Frankfurt am Main. Er war Gastprofessor an der Harvard-University, Gastdozent an verschiedenen anderen Universitäten und Geschäftsführender Direktor des Nationaltheaters Weimar.
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Running with the Champ
The "affectionate...charming" (Kirkus Reviews) story of Tim Shanahan's remarkable and little-known forty-year friendship with boxing legend Muhammad Ali, filled with stories never told as well as never-before-published personal photos.In 1975, Tim Shanahan was a medical instruments salesman living in Chicago and working with a charity that arranged for pro athletes to speak to underprivileged kids. Muhammad Ali had just reclaimed his title as heavyweight champion of the world by defeating George Foreman (the "Rumble in the Jungle") and then successfully defended it in a rematch against Joe Frazier (the "Thrilla in Manila"). When Shanahan learned Ali was planning a move to Chicago, he contacted the Champ to ask whether he would participate in the charity program. Not only did Ali agree, he invited Shanahan to his new home, where the two spent a night talking, laughing, and bonding over bowls of ice cream--the beginning of an incredible friendship. Ali soon enlisted Shanahan as his early morning running partner. Quickly, Shanahan became a trusted confidant and travel companion, and Ali often stunned strangers by introducing Shanahan as his cousin. The two grew even closer over family dinners with Shanahan's wife, Helga, and Ali's wife, Veronica. Shanahan was with Ali as the Champ trained for his legendary battles with Ken Norton, Earnie Shavers, Leon Spinks, and Larry Holmes, and moved to Los Angeles with Ali when the Champ prepared for a life after boxing. Shanahan was a recipient of and witness to Ali's tremendous generosity, and as Ali's health began to deteriorate, Shanahan had a chance to return the favor, encouraging and comforting his ailing friend. Running with the Champ is an insightful personal portrait of the Greatest of All Time. But, above all, it is a touching, candid narrative of an extraordinary friendship that continued until Ali's death.
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