Building a Better Ark: The Potential of Engaging Cultural Thought Leaders and Addressing Power Differential in Authentic, Community-Driven Resilience Planning

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Judith M. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Power Differential ◽  
Authentic Community ◽  
Thought Leaders

The New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs and Investors Should Do Before Launching a Lean Startup, by John Mullins

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-92
Author(s):  
José Luis Albites Sanabria
Keyword(s):  
Road Test ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Plan B ◽  
Entrepreneurial Team ◽  
New Business ◽  
First Time ◽  
Lean Startup ◽  
Thought Leaders

John Mullins is a researcher, teacher and one of the world’s foremost thought leaders in entrepreneurship. Over the years, John has been hailed as an inspiration for entrepreneurs who have employed the models outlined in books such as Getting to Plan B or The Customer-Funded Business, in order to transform their ideas into global startup companies. Now in its 5th edition, The New Business Road Test guides the reader through the complex yet gripping process of testing a business idea. How can you be completely sure that your list of start-up ideas is good or bad? How much time or money should you invest in each of these ideas? And, for first-time entrepreneurs, should you embark upon a start-up just because you love your idea? Should you leave a stable job and focus entirely on what feels to you like a good business idea? Mullins’ book offers thoughtful readers guidance on the thorny issues associated with entrepreneurship that you yourself may be facing even as you read this introduction. In order to fully understand the theories behind the tools and advice for testing your idea, we must start by understanding Mullins’ vision of the entrepreneurial world. The book begins by defining three elements crucial to the success of a business: the market, the industry, and the entrepreneurial team.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Corrales
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Power Asymmetry ◽  
Large Power ◽  
Power Differential ◽  
Constitution Making

The chapter presents a summary of main findings and discusses their implications. The book’s main finding is that extreme power asymmetry on behalf of the Incumbent creates the conditions for institutional change that empowers mostly the executive branch. A large power differential between the Incumbent and the Opposition encourages the Incumbent to seize the advantage to initiate bold, self-serving institutional change, sometimes even a constitutional overhaul. If the latter gets underway, and power asymmetry stays pro-Incumbent, chances are the new constitution will expand the powers of the Executive branch. This outcome, in turn, can spread discontent across Opposition forces and sometimes encourage the Incumbent to govern more unilaterally. This presents a potential threat to democracy. The chapter concludes by discussing the implications of this finding for different literatures: democratization, constitution-making, presidential powers, and government-Opposition relations.

Double-edged development, 1767–

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Toye
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Commercial Society ◽  
Albert Hirschman ◽  
Economic Production ◽  
Production Growth ◽  
Friedrich Engels ◽  
Authentic Community

Many writers on development are extremists, either venerating it as the source of economic cornucopia and human fulfilment or denouncing it as bringing loss of authentic community and culture, greater exploitation, and the curtailment of liberty. A minority, however, have taken a more nuanced and ambivalent position—that, like the curate’s egg, development is good in parts. For example, Adam Ferguson acknowledged the benefits of commercial society but warned against the infinite expansion of human wants, increasing inequality, and the loss of community cohesion. Similar emphasis on the mixed results of development arises in the work of J. S. Mill, Friedrich Engels, and Joseph Schumpeter (‘creative destruction’). In more recent times Albert Hirschman pointed out the negative externalities such as environmental pollution caused by economic production growth—but man-made global climate change is a newer version. All change creates both winners and losers and this fuels the extreme evaluation of it.

scholarly journals Low-Power Differential Input to Single-Ended Output GaN RF-DAC for RF-Signal Generation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Markus Weiss ◽  
Christian Friesicke ◽  
Rudiger Quay ◽  
Oliver Ambacher
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Signal Generation ◽  
Power Differential ◽  
Differential Input ◽  
Rf Signal

scholarly journals Supporting home hospice family caregivers: Insights from different perspectives

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Ellington ◽  
Kristin G. Cloyes ◽  
Jiayun Xu ◽  
Lanell Bellury ◽  
Patricia H. Berry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Hospice Care ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Hospice Nurses ◽  
Caregiver Support ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Expert Teaching ◽  
Family Centered ◽  
Thought Leaders

ABSTRACTObjective:Our intention was to describe and compare the perspectives of national hospice thought leaders, hospice nurses, and former family caregivers on factors that promote or threaten family caregiver perceptions of support.Method:Nationally recognized hospice thought leaders (n = 11), hospice nurses (n = 13), and former family caregivers (n = 14) participated. Interviews and focus groups were audiotaped and transcribed. Data were coded inductively, and codes were hierarchically grouped by topic. Emergent categories were summarized descriptively and compared across groups.Results:Four categories linked responses from the three participant groups (95%, 366/384 codes): (1) essentials of skilled communication (30.6%), (2) importance of building authentic relationships (28%), (3) value of expert teaching (22.4%), and (4) critical role of teamwork (18.3%). The thought leaders emphasized communication (44.6%), caregivers stressed expert teaching (51%), and nurses highlighted teamwork (35.8%). Nurses discussed teamwork significantly more than caregivers (z = 2.2786), thought leaders discussed communication more than caregivers (z = 2.8551), and caregivers discussed expert teaching more than thought leaders (z = 2.1693) and nurses (z = 2.4718; all values of p < 0.05).Significance of Results:Our findings suggest differences in priorities for caregiver support across family caregivers, hospice nurses, and thought leaders. Hospice teams may benefit from further education and training to help cross the schism of family-centered hospice care as a clinical ideal to one where hospice team members can fully support and empower family caregivers as a hospice team member.

Voice Power Differential Scale--German Version

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gmeiner ◽  
A. Gaglia ◽  
S. Habicher ◽  
T. Rumpold ◽  
S. Süßenbacher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
German Version ◽  
Power Differential

Intersection: Reimagining the Future of Mobility Across Traditional Boundaries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisyn Malek
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Interconnected System ◽  
Broad Base ◽  
The Future ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Thought Leaders

Mobility and transportation mean different things to people, even to those who work in various aspects of the ecosystem - from the movement of people or goods to the development of the infrastructure that enables mobility. For decades these different parts of the ecosystem have been approached as entirely independent industries, but the quickened pace of technological change has driven the need to reconsider how these distinct groups create the vibrant tapestry that is our mobility ecosystem. This book seeks to capture the varied perspectives as a collection of diverse views on the future of mobility, to provide a clearer view on the broad base of possibility and opportunity across this interconnected system. Contributors: Jonathon Baugh, Geoffrey Boquot, Reilly Brennan, Tiffany Chu, Jordan Davis, Courtney Erlichman, Elaina Farnsworth, Valerie Lefler, Wolfgang Lehmacher & Mikail Lind, Shoshana Lew, Suzanne Murtha, Mary Nichols, Trevor Pawl, John Perrachio, Aishwarya Raman, Karina Ricks, Alex Roy, Avinash Ruguboor, Anthony Townsend, Marla Westervelt, and Candace Xie. "Amazing roster of thought leaders come together to paint a picture of a whole new mobility paradigm in the interest of safety, sustainability, and equity." -- Sven Beiker, PhD. Managing Director at Silicon Valley Mobility and Lecturer at Stanford University

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