How to Win More Strategies for Increasing a Lottery Win

This book is designed to provide valuable insight into how to improve the return on your investment when playing the lottery. While it does not promise that you will win more often it does show you how to improve the odds of winning larger amounts when your numbers do come up. So when you do win that million-dollar jackpot you will be less likely to have to share it with anyone else. Among the intriguing topics covered are the most popular (and the most foolish) combinations of numbers why it is impossible to improve the odds of any legitimate lottery how popular (and thus unprofitable) an attractive-looking ticket might be why not to follow the suggested numbers from so-called expert advisors and why it is important to avoid winning combinations of past drawings. With this book and a little luck the dream of winning millions might just come true. | How to Win More Strategies for Increasing a Lottery Win

How To Win As A Stepfamily

Attempts to guide readers towards forming the remarried family considering such issues as former spouses new grandparents and legal issues involving custody visitation adoption and financial arrangements. | How To Win As A Stepfamily

Solution Protocols to Festering Island Disputes ‘Win-Win' Solutions for the Diaoyu / Senkaku Islands

Since the coming into force of the United Nations Law of the Sea states have been targeting outlying islands to expand their exclusive economic zones simultaneously stirring up strident nationalism when such plans clash with those of neighbouring states. No such actions have brought the world closer to the brink of war than the ongoing face-off between China and Japan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands an uninhabited archipelago in the East China Sea. In this timely and original book Godfrey Baldacchino provides a detailed exploration of seven tried and tested solution protocols that have led to innovative 'win-win' solutions to island disputes over the last four centuries. A closer look at the circumstances and processes that brought contending regional powers to an honourable even mutually advantageous settlement over islands provides a convincing and original argument as to why the conflict over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands need not conclude in a ‘zero-sum’ or 'winner takes all' solution as is the likely outcome of both open conflict and international arbitration. The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners concerned with the festering Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute as well as students scholars and policy specialists in geography geopolitics international relations conflict studies island studies Asian studies and history. | Solution Protocols to Festering Island Disputes ‘Win-Win' Solutions for the Diaoyu / Senkaku Islands

How to Win at CRM Strategy Implementation Management

This book provides clarity and guidance on effective strategy implementation and management of CRM. It explores both the conceptual and cultural context of CRM initiatives along with the particulars of CRM system implementation and management. In order to provide this clarity it surveyed the existing academic publications surrounding CRM sales force automation and related topics within information systems literature. The book supplements this research with insights from CRM experts to provide a robust picture of the CRM landscape and how to improve it no matter what role you play within your organization. This book is for everyone who wants to achieve CRM success. | How to Win at CRM Strategy Implementation Management

Harnessing Digital Disruption How Companies Win with Design Thinking Agile and Lean Startup

Our world has changed probably for good. Until now the shift from brick-and-mortar to the smartphone has been about service cost and convenience. Now it's also a matter of public health. How do we win this uncertain new game? How do we prosper in a digital world? In a cool readable style Harnessing Digital Disruption: How Companies Win with Design Thinking Agile and Lean Startup tells the story of a major multi-national organization facing digital disruption and looming irrelevance. In a compelling novel format the book demonstrates how to harness the power of digital technology methods and thinking on the path to revival and prosperity. It illustrates the situations characters and blockers you’ll likely face as you progress through your journey. The setting is Singapore and the heady world of international banking but the prescription methods and lessons apply equally to manufacturers utilities hospitals insurers and government agencies. You will learn how to: · Develop your Digital Transformation strategy and Innovation Portfolio· Reform customer journeys launch new digital offerings and validate new beta businesses· Develop senior leader digital literacy and understanding of growth leadership· De-risk your journey using a proven overall approach based on proven principles· Cultivate a network of pragmatic entrepreneurs practicing a structured scalable innovation process | Harnessing Digital Disruption How Companies Win with Design Thinking Agile and Lean Startup

Evolution Politics and Charisma Why do Populists Win?

Evolution Politics and Charisma: Why do Populists Win? shines compelling new light on the way in which the systematic targeting and manipulation of human physiology remain a cornerstone of all populist political campaigns. Readers wishing to make sense of the populist juggernauts of Trump and Brexit and of the cyclical and formulaic nature of the rise and fall of charismatic populism will find this book particularly appealing. Elesa Zehndorfer begins by presenting a highly applied explanation of the critical importance of political physiology physiology theory neuroscience and evolutionary biology in populist charismatic politics. She later eloquently explains how manipulation of physiological variables (such as heightened testosterone and dopamine) renders the political rally one of the most powerful weapons in a populist leaders’ campaign. Weber’s seminal conceptualisation of charisma ‘in statu nascendi’ and Hyman Minsky’s insightful theories of cyclical boom-and-bust scenarios are then juxtaposed alongside physiological theory to greatly amplify our understanding of the powerful biological antecedents of charismatic populism. These theoretical observations are then applied directly to recent high-profile populist campaigns – including the 2016 Trump Presidential campaign and early Presidency – and the Brexit referendum to elucidating and compelling effect. Ultimately Evolution Politics and Charisma paints a clear evolutionary picture of the way in which politics is an emotional – not a rational – process where our emotions are continually targeted to great and strategic effect and where the most recent intersection of technology and physiology has driven the greatest surge in populism ever seen across the Western hemisphere since the 1930’s. Acknowledging this reality opens up exciting vistas in our understanding of the true power of charismatic populism and provides answers as to how its seductive and often dangerous power can be effectively resisted. | Evolution Politics and Charisma Why do Populists Win?

Win Your First Year of Teaching Middle School Strategies and Tools for Success

Feel empowered during your first year of teaching middle school by applying the concise tips and tools in this book. Author Stephen Katzel shows you how to create an effective system to structure your classroom implement daily routines plan for the short and long term utilize technology communicate well with parents handle formal and informal observations and move up the salary scale. He also shares advice on relating to the unique needs of middle schoolers handling difficult supervisors or coworkers and adapting to change. Perfect for beginning middle school or junior high teachers the book offers strategies and templates you can use immediately to kick start a successful teaching career. | Win Your First Year of Teaching Middle School Strategies and Tools for Success

China's Use of Armed Coercion To Win Without Fighting

This book analyzes when how why and to what effect China has used its armed forces in recent decades to coerce other actors in the international system. Over the past 20 years China’s international status as a “great power” has become undeniable. China’s “peaceful rise” has included substantial investments in military modernization and an increasingly assertive regional posture. While China has not waged war since 1979 it has frequently resorted to what the U. S. State Department has referred to as “gangster tactics” – threats intimidation and armed confrontation – to advance its strategic aims. This volume illuminates the ways in which China has employed its military and paramilitary tools to coerce other states and examines the motivations and specific foreign policy objectives that China has pursued using force short of war. The study presents new analysis of an original dataset on coercive actions undertaken by China’s armed forces taking into account the political objectives pursued and the environmental contexts in which these operations occurred. It also presents a series of expert case studies addressing the most consequential examples of China using force to coerce in recent decades. The volume contributes to a more historically informed empirically based understanding of great power competition. This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese security and foreign policy strategic studies Asian politics and International Relations. | China's Use of Armed Coercion To Win Without Fighting

How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

You are a great designer but no-one knows. Now what? This indispensable book written by one of the most influential marketers in architecture will demystify Public Relations and marketing for all architects whether in large practices or practicing as sole practitioners. It bridges the distance between architects and marketing by giving practical tips best practice and anecdotes from an author with 20 years’ experience in architecture marketing. It explains all aspects of PR and Business Development for architects: for example how to write a good press release; how to make a fee proposal; how to prepare for a pitch. It gives examples of how others do it well and the pitfalls to avoid. In addition it discusses more general aspects which are linked to PR and BD such as being a good employer ethics for architects and the challenges when working abroad. Featuring vital insights from a wide variety of architects from multinational practices to small offices this book is an essential companion to any architectural office. | How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

GDPR: A Game of Snakes and Ladders How Small Businesses Can Win at the Compliance Game

For many small businesses organisations clubs artists faith groups voluntary organisations/charities and sole traders applying the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been like playing a game of Snakes and Ladders. As soon as you move along the board and climb a ladder a snake appears which takes you right back to where you started. Conflicting advice abounds and there is nowhere for these individuals to go for simple answers all in one place. With the threat of fines seeming around every corner now more than ever is the time for smaller organisations to get to grips with GDPR so that they can demonstrate their compliance. GDPR: A Game of Snakes and Ladders is an easy to read reference tool which uses simple language in bite size easily signposted chapters. Adopting a no-nonsense approach the Regulation is explained so that organisations can comply with the minimum of fuss and deliver this compliance in the shortest timeframe without the need to resort to expensive consultants or additional staff. The book is supported by a variety of easy to follow case studies example documents and fact sheets. The author signposts warnings and important requirements (snakes) and hints and suggestions (ladders) and also provides a section on staff training and a Game of Snakes and Ladders training slide pack. Additional resources are available on the companion website. This user-friendly book written by a Data Protection Officer and business management specialist will help you understand the Regulation where it applies in your organisation and how to achieve compliance (and win at the compliance game). | GDPR: A Game of Snakes and Ladders How Small Businesses Can Win at the Compliance Game

Comedy Cameos and Campaign Communication Leveraging Entertainment Media to Win Elections and Advance Policy

This book provides a thorough foundation for understanding the shift from political campaigning via legacy news media to campaigning through entertainment media. Public discourse that would once transpire on the newsprint of opinion pages or behind a news anchor’s desk and teleprompter is now happening through talk shows and sitcoms celebrity partnerships and influencer accounts memes and streams video games branded merchandise and social media. Here Turcotte explores how media consumption habits have reshaped contemporary campaign norms and shifted strategies for seeking public office and advancing policy goals. He shows how candidates are incorporating entertainment media in their strategic campaigns moving beyond satirical programs to demonstrate a multi-pronged approach to campaign communication in the entertainment environment. With a compelling introduction to these campaign shifts and an examination of tangible applications this text is suitable for scholars as well as students in both political science and mass communication courses particularly courses in political communication and strategic communication. | Comedy Cameos and Campaign Communication Leveraging Entertainment Media to Win Elections and Advance Policy

The Unstoppable Sales Team Elevate Your Team’s Performance Win More Business and Attract Top Performers

Why are companies like Salesforce Whirlpool and Cintas repeatedly recognized for their top sales performance? What are they doing that sets them apart from their competition allowing them to increase sales revenue year over year? It’s not a result of their ability to master online sales funnels or introduce software that automates their sales process. Instead these companies dominate in their markets because they continually elevate their sales team’s performance to the level of being unstoppable. This book is written for sales executives sales leaders and sales managers. If you lead a sales team and want to accelerate their performance without being forced to invest in new technology hire more employees or completely restructure your existing sales team then this book is for you. The Unstoppable Sales Team contains the lessons learned best practices and observations applied through the author’s work with sales teams globally. Building on his popular book The Unstoppable Sales Machine the author shares the best strategies for building a high-performing sales team that outsells and outperforms their competition. | The Unstoppable Sales Team Elevate Your Team’s Performance Win More Business and Attract Top Performers

Injury Illustrated How Medical Images Win Legal Cases

Theory of Constraints Creative Problem Solving

This book was written to assist professionals and students to become proactive in their own education improve thinking resolve personal and interpersonal conflicts improve pedagogy manage departmental affairs and guide administrative decisions. The text captures the practical experience of the authors with and formal training in TOC to address many of the issues facing today’s education stakeholders. The text is designed to teach methods for 1) win-win conflict resolution 2) decision-making 3) problem solving and 4) analysis of systems using TOC’s powerful logic-based graphical Thinking Process tools. A creative thinker can identify plan and achieve his or her goals just knowing the Thinking Process Tools. | Theory of Constraints Creative Problem Solving

The Business of Less The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril

The Business of Less rewrites the book on business and the environment. For the last thirty years corporate sustainability was synonymous with the pursuit of ‘eco-efficiency’ and ‘win-win’ opportunities. The notion of ‘eco-efficiency’ gives us the illusion that we can achieve environmental sustainability without having to question the pursuit of never-ending economic growth. The ‘win-win’ paradigm is meant to assure us that companies can be protectors of the environment whilst also being profit maximizers. It is abundantly clear that the state of the natural environment has further degraded instead of improved. This book introduces a new paradigm designed to finally reconcile business and the environment. It is called ‘net green’ which means that in these times of ecological overshoot businesses need to reduce total environmental impact and not just improve the eco-efficiency of their products. The book also introduces and explains the four pollution prevention principles ‘again’ ‘different’ ‘less’ and ‘labor not materials’. Together ‘net green’ and the four pollution prevention principles provide a road map for businesses and for every household to a world in which human prosperity and a healthy environment are no longer at odds. The Business of Less is full of anecdotes and examples. This brings its material to life and makes the book not only very accessible but also hugely applicable for everyone who is worried about the fate of our planet and is looking for answers. | The Business of Less The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril

Landscape Restoration Handbook

Five years after the first edition of Landscape Restoration Handbook was published its natural landscaping and ecological restoration techniques have become standard-and successful-practice throughout the nation. Now the Landscape Restoration Handbook: Second Edition substantially widens the scope of the original work. Approximately 250 pages larger than the first edition new and expanded chapters offer guidance on:Development of natural landscaping and ecological restoration programsEducation regional planning and increased biological diversityEcological communities species listingsScientific and common plant names associated with ecological communitiesNurseries that propagate and sell native plants throughout the United StatesNaturalization has proven to be a win-win situation all around. Monetary costs that landowners are saving on maintenance and chemicals also translates to environmental benefits for the greater community. Landscape and golf course architects urban planners horticulturists golf course superintendents and consultants have already put the Landscape Restoration Handbook to the test. Let the Second Edition bring you up-to-date on the numerous benefits of naturalization.

China's WTO Accession Reassessed

China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 was a highly significant event both for China and for the wider world. This book argues that although at the time some people doubted the likely benefits China's WTO accession has been highly successful. It discusses how China has abided by its commitment to WTO terms and how WTO membership has contributed to China's reform and opening up; explores how vastly increased co-operative exchange with many countries around the world has been mutually beneficial in a range of fields including trade science and culture; and shows how China's WTO membership has been a great stimulus both for China's economy and the world economy. The book considers the subject from a number of perspectives and draws out lessons for future reform and development for China and for China's relations with the rest of the world emphasising the need to maintain a win-win approach. | China's WTO Accession Reassessed

Revolutions in Learning and Education from India Pathways towards the Pluriverse

This book offers an important critique of the ways in which mainstream education contributes to perpetuate an inherently unjust and exploitative Development model. Instead the book proposes a new anarchistic postdevelopmental framework that goes beyond Development and schooling to ask what really makes a meaningful life. Challenging the notion of Development as a win-win relationship between civil society the state and the private sector the book argues that Development perpetuates a hierarchical world order and that the education system serves to reinforce and re-legitimise this unequal order. Drawing on real-life examples of ‘unschooling’ and ‘self-designed learning’ in India the book demonstrates that more autonomous approaches such as these can help to fundamentally challenge dominant ideas of education equality development and what it means to lead meaningful lives. The interdisciplinary approach pursued in this book makes it perfect for anyone with interests across the areas of education development studies radical political theory and philosophy. | Revolutions in Learning and Education from India Pathways towards the Pluriverse

Alleviating Poverty Through Profitable Partnerships Globalization Markets and Economic Well-Being

Poverty is an unnecessary form of human degradation and badly conceived economics. Our thesis is that poverty can be reduced if not eradicated both locally and globally. But this will occur only if we change our shared narratives about global free enterprise remind ourselves that poverty is a system and conceive of poverty alleviation as a bottom-up project. There is no one size fits all for poverty reduction. Rather poverty is a system and must be addressed locally. It is our aim as it is the aim of the United Nations the World Bank and many other organizations to erase it from our vocabulary and from this planet. With a series of case studies that accompany each chapter this book should assist readers in thinking about poverty alleviation from a number of perspectives from bottom-up entrepreneurial projects local-corporate ventures with public–private partnerships from focused philanthropy with education and health care initiatives and agriculture reforms in rural communities all with the aim of creating a win-win result for local and partnership individuals organizations and communities. The book should be useful in various undergraduate and graduate courses on ethics applied ethics developing economic systems and poverty. | Alleviating Poverty Through Profitable Partnerships Globalization Markets and Economic Well-Being

Public Policy Evaluation Making Super-Optimum Decisions

First published in 1998 this volume examines how super-optimum decisions involve finding alternatives to controversies whereby Conservatives Liberals or other major groups can all come out ahead of their best initial expectations simultaneously. This book is organised in terms of concepts methods causes process substance and the policy studies profession. Concepts clarify that policy evaluation traditionally involves: (1) Goals to be achieved; (2) Alternatives available for achieving them; (3) Relations between goals and alternatives; (4) Drawing a conclusion as to the best alternative in light of the goals alternatives and relations; and (5) Analysing how the conclusion would change if there were changes in the goals alternatives or relations. Super-optimizing also involves five related steps but with the following improvements: (1) Goals are designed as conservative liberal or neutral; (2) Alternatives get the same designations; (3) Relations are simplified to indicate which alternatives are relatively high or low on each goal; (4) The conclusion involves arriving at an alternative that does better on Goal A than Alternative A and simultaneously better on Goal B than Alternative B; and (5) The fifth step involves analysing the super-optimum or win-win alternative in terms of its feasibility as to the economic technological psychological political administrative and legal matters. | Public Policy Evaluation Making Super-Optimum Decisions

Organised Wellbeing Proven and Practical Lessons from Safety Excellence

Wellbeing is now at the top of almost everyone’s agenda and many technical books have been published on the topic. More than that an ever-increasing number of organisations are understanding that getting wellbeing right is a win-win that can boost profits or simply make sustainability viable. Organised Wellbeing: Proven and Practical Lessons from Safety Excellence seeks to present in a user-friendly way all of the key wellbeing themes. It views these through the lessons learnt from safety excellence because at present UK safety is world class but frankly wellbeing seldom is. In any organisation culture is even more important than strategy and tactics and training is just the base of a process in which facilitation and embedding of key behaviours and mindsets is the essential element. Practical and coordinated processes not initiatives are required. This book therefore seeks to show how aspects of wellbeing both organisational and personal are inexorably interconnected. From an organisational perspective approaches need to address the truth that ‘good work is good for you’. This book also an individual guide to thriving with passion compassion humour and style is essential reading for health and safety occupational health and HR professionals at all levels. It is also highly recommended for all managers and staff who seek to maximise their potential and that of their colleagues. | Organised Wellbeing Proven and Practical Lessons from Safety Excellence

African Constructions of China Insights from Ghana and Kenya

Marking a constructivist turn in Africa-China scholarship this book explores African constructions of China. Using Ghana and Kenya as case studies the book outlines the role of diverse state and non-state actors in defining what China represents to the region and how it compares to Western powers. Resisting Sino- and state-centric analysis of China-Africa relations this book emphasises the importance of African agency in shaping the discourse. The book demonstrates that the identity construction of a foreign state such as China takes place both at the international level and at a domestic intrastate level. Domestic constructions of China in Ghana and Kenya reflect internal tensions about future directions for African political and socioeconomic development and these constructions in turn help to justify government policies towards China. The book concludes by questioning the idea of a straightforward win-win relationship and suggests that exploitative hierarchical relations conventionally associated with North-South interactions may continue in South-South relations. This book’s important analysis of the role of domestic non-state actors in shaping African policymaking extends much needed nuance to a sometimes polarised debate. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of politics international relations global development and African and Chinese Studies. | African Constructions of China Insights from Ghana and Kenya

Pricing Strategy Implementation Translating Pricing Strategy into Results

Pricing can truly transform organizations. The impact of pricing on organizations is a result of two factors: pricing strategy development and the implementation of these strategies. Implementation is arguably the most difficult part in the pricing strategy process where even seasoned practitioners demand guidance. Pricing strategy development requires creativity analytical rigor and an ability to master the internal political competition for scarce resources but it takes place in a well-defined environment. Fast forward to strategy implementation: competitors that stubbornly fail to behave according to assumptions new entrants internal resistance new opportunities changing customer preferences leadership changes regulatory interventions or market growth rates that change unexpectedly are some of the intervening variables between the pricing strategy originally developed and the strategy actually implemented. This book provides the theories and best practices that enable the effective implementation of pricing strategies. It offers: a best practice overview on how to convert a pricing strategy into superior results insights from current academic research on driving profits via pricing strategy implementation examples on how to deal with digital transformation in the context of pricing tools and insights into how to overcome internal resistance align the organization and forge win-win relationships with customers Taking a new approach Pricing Strategy Implementation is a critical and practical tool for practicing executives and managers as well as academics and researchers in pricing marketing strategy and strategic management. | Pricing Strategy Implementation Translating Pricing Strategy into Results

The Choice

Eli Goldratt is known by millions of readers worldwide as a scientist educator and business guru. His Theory of Constraints (TOC) is taught at business schools and MBA programs around the globe. Government agencies and businesses large and small have adopted his methodologies. TOC has been successfully applied in almost every area of human endeavor from industry to healthcare to education. And while Eli Goldratt is indeed a scientist an educator and a business leader he is first and foremost a philosopher; some say a genius. He is a thinker who provokes others to do the same. In The Choice Goldratt once again presents his thought-provoking approach this time through a conversation with his daughter Efrat as they discuss his fundamental system of beliefs. Through examples and discussions Eli Goldratt helps us understand holistically how the interrelation of emotions intuition and logic influences our ability to think clearly and problem solve when making personal and professional decisions. Can every conflict be removed? Is every situation exceedingly simple? (no matter how complex it initially looks) Can every situation be substantially improved? Is there always a win-win solution? Dr. Goldratt exhorts his readers to examine and reassess their lives and business practices by cultivating a different perspective and a clear new vision. This revised edition includes Efrat’s Notes – these notes and logical maps are helpful tools that assist in visualizing and implementing the thoughts and ideas expressed throughout this book.

Civilian Oversight of Police Advancing Accountability in Law Enforcement

Exploring the complex and controversial topic of civilian oversight of police this book analyzes the issues and debates entailed by civilian oversight by using worldwide perspectives in-depth case studies and a wealth of survey data. Integrating and summarizing decades of research from many locations around the globe Civilian Oversight of Police: Advancing Accountability in Law Enforcement uses a very clear and consistent pattern of findings to address the overall management of police conduct. The book examines the history and performance of oversight agencies in multiple jurisdictions around the world. The evidence used includes:Citizen complainant and police views on oversightStakeholder experiences with different types of responses to complaintsData about police conductEmphasizing the concept of shared responsibility for effective police integrity management the book discusses what does and does not work in maximizing police management and performance. It presents a best practices model for managing police conduct and describes the impact of oversight agencies on police policy including innovative means by which agencies can work with police departments to improve police conduct. Civilian Oversight of Police provides a critical resource on police conduct for professionals as well as academics. It makes practical recommendations for achieving a win-win balance in addressing the needs and interests of all parties involved with the police complaints and accountability process. It also marks a starting point to stimulate further research as well as increased collaboration between researchers and practitioners to enhance the stock of knowledge for effective police integrity management and democratic accountability. | Civilian Oversight of Police Advancing Accountability in Law Enforcement