In a rapidly evolving business landscape, senior executives face the challenge of achieving more with fewer resources and tighter deadlines. This book explores strategies for navigating continuous change, emphasizing the need for adaptability and efficiency in leadership. It offers insights into the expectations placed on executives and provides practical approaches to thrive in this demanding environment.
Daniel Barenboim, Madeleine Albright, Dustin Hoffman, Yoko Ono oder Papst Benedikt XVI. – Oliver Mark (*1963 in Gelsenkirchen) hat in den vergangenen Jahren zahlreiche Künstler, Schauspieler, Politiker und andere Prominente fotografiert. Meist entstehen seine ungewöhnlichen Porträts mit der digitalen Spiegelreflexkamera. Doch bei jedem seiner Shootings und auf jeder Party hat er auch immer seine alte Polaroidkamera dabei. Denn seit einigen Jahren gibt es dafür wieder Filmmaterial, hergestellt von Enthusiasten, die das Sofortbild nicht sterben lassen wollten. Die Experimente von Oliver Mark mit dem neuen Schwarz-Weiß-Film der Firma Impossible Project sind in diesem großformatigen Magazin zusammengefasst. Sie eröffnen eine neue, intimere Sichtweise auf die Dargestellten. »Das Schöne ist, dass niemand diese Kamera als Bedrohung empfindet«, so Oliver Mark. »Ich komme den Menschen damit oft viel näher, als mit meiner professionellen Kamera.«
Exploring the fundamental motivations that drive human behavior, this book addresses profound questions about identity and leadership. It offers practical strategies for enhancing personal and professional effectiveness while defining essential human characteristics. By identifying four distinct leadership styles, it complements Jim Collins' findings from "Good to Great," providing a theoretical framework that reveals surprising insights into human nature and effective leadership, making it a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand and improve their leadership skills.
Social enactivism is a philosophical theory which, through the analysis of discursive practice, aims at explaining how high-level cognitive conditions and processes emerge. The fundamental tenets of this theory are based on enactivist and (neo)pragmatist principles. Therefore, the emphasis is not on the purely linguistic understanding of discourse but on its structural interaction with technology, that is created by man himself, in the context of which the discursive performance takes place. This perspective addresses not only a blind spot in the international debate about "situated cognition" but also a current problem in the philosophy of mind.
As part of its review of competition law that started in the late 1990s, the European Commission proposes to revise its interpretation and application of the Treaty’s prohibition of abuses of dominant positions. Also, it has instigated a debate about the promotion of private enforcement of EC competition law. On the former subject, the Commission published a Discussion Paper in 2005; on the latter, a Green Paper in 2005, followed by a White Paper in 2008. The chapters in this volume critically appraise the Commission’s proposals, including the most recent ones. The authors also highlight the repercussions of the proposed ‘more economic approach’ to abuses of dominant positions on private litigants’ opportunities to bring damages actions in national courts for such abuses.
Art icon Jeff Koons lying on a giant plastic ball, Richard Serra disappearing into one of his vast steel sculptures, "king of theater" Claus Peymann sporting a cardboard crown ever since shooting his portrait of painter A.R. Penck in 1994, Oliver Mark (born 1963) has photographed countless artists, actors, politicians and other celebrities. Sometimes concentrating only on the subject against the most minimal setting possible, sometimes placing them in front of an artful background, Mark presents the rich and famous in constantly new and consistently trenchant ways, bringing their less apparent characteristics to light and casting them in disorienting circumstances. Other of Mark's subjects included here are Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins, George Lucas, Sir Ridley Scott, Jenny Holzer, Mia Farrow, Norbert Tadeusz, Kenny Scharf, Georg Baselitz, David Chipperfield, Luc Tuymans, Cate Blanchett, Balthus and Sir Peter Ustinov. Besides Mark's most successful portraits, this volume also contains some of his most beautiful fashion photographs and other stills, many of which have appeared in several well-known magazines. Texts by Margit J. Mayer, Christoph Amend, Christian Boros and others round off this entertaining "best-of" collection.