Author: Lawrence Weber Publisher: Crown Currency ISBN: 0676806538 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 371
Book Description
What’s the difference between CEOs like Lou Gerstner of IBM and Larry Ellison of Oracle? Between basketball coaches Phil Jackson and Bobby Knight? Or media entrepreneurs Oprah Winfrey and Rupert Murdoch? Gerstner, Jackson, and Winfrey are provocateurs, leaders who are successful not just because they have built a company or an organization, but because they have created a community. Provocateurs are changing both the form and the content of leadership and are in sync with a world being turned upside down by technology, the global economy, and the social landscape. Success has traditionally been based on command and control, and the model for many leaders was the general who marshaled people and resources to get the product out the door and onto the shelf. Early in his career, Larry Weber had the opportunity to meet or work with people like Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus, and Steve Jobs, the cofounder of Apple. He saw that they were more like the leaders of rock bands (or the directors of theater groups or circus ringmasters), who encourage innovation and individuality. A rock band does have a leader—think of Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones—but one who promotes the group and encourages individuality. And when a rival band comes to town, it’s not cause for head-to-head competition but an opportunity to increase the size of the pie by creating more fans, or customers, for their genre of music. Provocateurs think and act differently because they put the customer at the center of everything. They are: * Educators like Patrick McGovern, who built IDG into a publishing and research powerhouse by empowering his employees to think globally and act locally; * Entertainers like Jeff Taylor, who managed to build a bond with Monster.com employees and customers through talent and charisma; * Sherpas like Rick Wagoner, who is guiding General Motors into new territories; * Concierges like Lou Gerstner of IBM, who believe the product is important but so are customer service, delivery, financing, and every other element. They keep everything running smoothly from check-in to check-out. So, if someone says, “Your company is like a circus,” Larry Weber wants you to take it as a compliment. After all, who wouldn’t want to be compared with Cirque du Soleil, an organization that combines creativity, artistry, and caring for its people with success and profit. The people running organizations like this circus are provocateurs at the cutting edge of business. For a free subscription to the Crown Business E-Newsletter, e-mail [email protected]. Visit the Crown Business website at www.CrownBusiness.com.
Author: Tyler Shields Publisher: Antique Collector's Club ISBN: 9781943876297 Category : Glamour photography Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
From peerless Los Angeles-based photographer Tyler Shields comes Provocateur, which brings together in a single lavish volume his most compelling works, including a series of retro-style glamour portraits, the acrobatic works that recall his youthful athleticism, his ethereally decadent Marie Antoinette-inspired visions, and a collection of rustic woodland scenes that serve as a backdrop for modern-day nymphs.
Author: Anthony Joseph Paul Cortese Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780742524989 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
This updated second edition offers a refined theoretical framework, new pedagogical features, and expansion of advertising images and their analysis. Controversially, the second edition highlights preliminary evidence, contrary to popular opinion, that media sex and violence do not always sell. The new edition reviews these and other recent research findings. Other updates for this edition include: an evaluation of advertisements following the 9-11 terrorist attacks more on media violence and its nexus to youth violence new discussion of the use of advertising in law enforcement introduces the concept hybridizing (combinations of two types of advertising) many new ads representing cultural changes since the first edition
Author: Balvinder Ruby Publisher: Balvinder Ruby ISBN: 0645417416 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
The Provocateur: Spilling beans by all means, is an illustrated and self-published poetry collection of inspirational, motivational and uplifting poems by Balvinder Ruby
Author: Alex Cox Publisher: Oldcastle Books ISBN: 1842439421 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
The President and the Provocateur explores the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy, born into wealth and celebrity, destined for glory and a violent death, and of Lee Harvey Oswald, born into poverty and obscurity, murdered in police custody and convicted - without a lawyer or a trial - of the killing of JFK. 50 years after both men were murdered, Alex Cox provides a chronological account of their lives' strange intersections, their shared interests, and the increasing body of evidence which suggests that Lee Harvey Oswald was working for some branch of the government - most likely the FBI or IRS - as an infiltrator of subversive groups, and agent provocateur.
Author: Agent Provocateur Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1429917385 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 142
Book Description
The erotic stories in Secrets explore enticing situations that many may have contemplated but only few have experienced. They reveal the fantasies of ordinary people and the heights to which we all can rise in our imaginations. Just as the Agent Provocateur shop windows have become famous for their frank portrayal of the most popular, and some rarer, sexual fantasies, Secrets explores a range of personal predilections from voyeurism, illicit liaisons, phone sex to fetish. Each carefully commissioned story, written by a bold new talent, is a celebration of the body and the mysteries that surround it. From the dark side of a London party girl, to the personal of diary of a bored shopgirl, the stories in Secrets embrace the passions and the fantasies of a 21st-century woman.
Author: Joseph Corré Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group ISBN: Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
An Agent Provocateur is a spy who tries to provoke people to act illegally -- a small spark that has a large effect. Based on the popular Agent Provocateur lingerie shop in London, this book studies female sexuality without embarrassment, but with empowerment. Exploring the catalysts -- history, fashion and social culture -- Agent Provocateur is a lavish tribute to the celebration of the absolute and fascinating uniqueness of the feminine spirit.
Author: Thomas McEvilley Publisher: McPherson ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
For seven years, from 1956 to 1962, a young French artist electrified the European art world with visual, conceptual and performance art works far ahead of their time. His rise was wildly celebrated by some as the appearance of a prophetic genius, and derisively dismissed by others as scandalous nonsense. His monochrome paintings, body art works, fire paintings, conceptual exhibitions and music, and monumental public space works threatened to upend the very categories of art, in both Europe and America. Indeed, after his tragically premature death in 1962, some of the most far-reaching transformations in contemporary art would follow directly in his wake. But by the 1970s his reputation seemed headed for oblivion, until in 1977 a young classics scholar at Rice University, Thomas McEvilley, proposed Klein for a retrospective show to Dominique deMenil, then director of the Rice gallery, and wrote several texts about Klein that would transform our understanding of Yves Klein's aesthetics. The project grew to involve major institutions, resulting in 1982 with exhibitions in Houston, New York, Paris and Chicago. Virtually overnight Yves Klein's art reentered the art canon. Coincidentally, the career of an important critic was launched. Yves the Provocateur collects those writings of Thomas McEvilley which rejuvenated Klein's stature and hitherto were only available in journals and exhibition catalogues. In effect, it provides the "skeleton key" to clearly examine the full dimensions of Klein's accomplishment. In two opening essays, McEvilley briefly surveys and places Klein's art into context. Then, in the centerpiece essay -- which amounts to a miniature critical biography bearing all the best features of a novella -- he traces the formative and crucial events in Klein's life. Finally, he describes Klein's intellectual development, demonstrating how Klein embedded and parodied in his work the philosophical system of a particular form of Rosicrucianism.
Author: Louise Martin-Chew Publisher: Arthouse ISBN: 9780868560038 Category : Languages : en Pages : 270
Book Description
Dr Fiona Foley is an Aboriginal artist, Badtjala woman, and provocateur, part of a highly influential generation of urban Indigenous artists. Over a career now spanning thirty years she has consistently asked questions about the frontier wars waged against Aboriginal peoples and brought the "hidden histories" of the massacres and dispossession into galleries, public spaces, and a broader, society-wide debate. In recent years, her exposure of the familial threads that join her Aboriginal heritage to the family of white missionaries who came to K'gari/Fraser Island in 1897 emerges as a tour de force. Missionary Ernest Gribble was the brother of Fiona Foley's great great grandmother, Ethel Gribble, who married Fred Wondunna.Foley has had exhibitions all over the world. Retrospective exhibitions include "Fiona Foley: Veiled Paradise" at QUT Art Museum in 2021, "Who are these strangers and where are they going?" in Ballarat and Sydney in 2019-20, and "Fiona Foley: Forbidden" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane in 2009. Her work is in every major institutional collection in Australia, many private collections, and in public spaces, including the State Library of Queensland. At the heart of this book is friendship. It details Foley's meeting with art writer Louise Martin-Chew, the progression of their collegiate relationship, and traces the momentum of crucial years in Foley's art life until her most recent segue into academia. This book was shaped as a biography given the relevance of her life to the work that she makes, and the emotional and historical investment in the disruption and disenfranchisement of her Badtjala (and all Aboriginal) people as subject matter for her art.
Author: Jacques Maritain Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
Far more telling than mere biography, this collection of the extant letters exchanged between philosopher Jacques Maritain and social activist Saul Alinsky reveals a deep and intimate friendship, however unexpected and unlikely. Indeed, to all who knew or knew of them the dignified, prominent philosopher and the earthy, truculent genius of social reform seemed antithetical to one another in almost every way. The Maritain-Alinsky correspondence began in 1945, shortly after they met, and continued until Alinsky's death in 1972. The tone and content of the letters vary widely, ranging from expressions of mutual admiration and friendship, to details of the triumphs and tragedies of their personal lives, to anguished considerations of death and immortality. In their letters Maritain and Alinsky offer each other personal expressions of strong mutual support - as well as judicious warnings and slightly apprehensive distancing - for the different works each had undertaken at various times in his respective careers. They also discuss the Catholic church, taking ironic jibes at clerical pomposity and exchanging praise of the socially aware. Though it is difficult to tell whether either man had a significant influence on the thought and work of the other, their correspondence attests that the philosopher and the provocateur, so different in personality, educational backgrounds, demeanor, and intellectual affinities, enjoyed a surprisingly intimate and extraordinary friendship. With context and interpretation of the letters provided by the editor, this intriguing collection of lively, moving letters not only reveals the depths of a most improbable friendship, it also goes far in exposing thehumanity behind the personas.
Author: Lawrence Weber
Author: Tyler Shields
Author: Anthony Joseph Paul Cortese
Author: Balvinder Ruby
Author: Alex Cox
Author: Agent Provocateur
Author: Joseph Corré
Author: Thomas McEvilley
Author: Louise Martin-Chew
Author: Jacques Maritain