Thinking Strategically Within Your Company

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For true success, it is critical for non-profit organizations to think strategically. In simple terms, they must assess: where they are now, where they want to be in the future, how they plan to get there, and who will have to do what by when. In addition, it's critical that they monitor their progress to be sure that things are going as planned. That is the essence of planning. It is the first of twelve very important questions your organization should consider carefully. To help your team with planning, they should first answer the last eleven questions. These pertain to all the key elements underlying your organization's purpose and operations. They will get to the heart of why a plan is needed to meet customer requirements and your own objectives. This book will introduce and discuss those eleven questions and then rigorously walk you through the sequential and logical steps of a strategic planning process. It will guide your organization in how to think strategically in all aspects of the work you are doing for your consumers or clients. It will show you how to use that thinking in developing and implementing a meaningful and dynamic plan for achieving all your objectives.

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In Money, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. Close readings of works such as the medieval grail legends, The Merchant of Venice, Goethe's Faust, and Poe's "The Gold Bug" reveal how discourse has responded to the dissociation of symbol from thing characteristic of money, and how the development of increasingly symbolic currencies has involved changes in the meaning of meaning.

Pursuing his investigations into the modern era, Shell points out significant internalization of economic form in Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. He demonstrates how literature and philosophy have been driven to account self-critically for a "money of the mind" that pervades all discourse, and concludes the book with a discomforting thesis about the cultural and political limits of literature and philosophy in the modern world.

Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the Great Gap in European Economics (Islamic Studies)

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Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the Great Gap in European Economics (Islamic Studies)
S.M. Ghazanfar
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ASIN: 0415297788

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This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, roughly during the five centuries prior to the Latin Scholastics, like St. Thomas Aquinas.

Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 9001500 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)

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Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 9001500 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)
Olivia Remie Constable
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ASIN: 0521565030

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This volume surveys Iberian international trade from the tenth to the fifteenth century, with particular emphasis on commerce in the Muslim period and on changes brought by Christian conquest of much of Muslim Spain in the thirteenth century. From the tenth to the thirteenth century, markets in the Iberian peninsula were closely linked to markets elsewhere in the Islamic world, and a strong east-west Mediterranean trading network linked Cairo with Cordoba. Following routes along the North African coast, Muslim and Jewish merchants carried eastern goods to Muslim Spain, returning eastwards with Andalusi exports. Situated at the edge of the Islamic west, Andalusi markets were also emporia for the transfer of commodities between the Islamic world and Christian Europe. After the thirteenth century the Iberian peninsula became part of the European economic sphere, its commercial realignment aided by the opening of the Straits of Gibraltar to Christian trade, and by the contemporary demise of the Muslim trading network in the Mediterranean.

Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 11501400 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)

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Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 11501400 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)
H. S. Bennett
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ASIN: 0521091055

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Mr. Bennett gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. he explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of the lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues and rights, payments, labours and small privileges. He also gives lively detail of the pattern of medieval country life; the influence of the seasons and the state of contemporary knowledge on the work of the fields; the place of religion in everyday life; the workings of feudal justice; popular attitudes to the social structure; the business of getting a living. Since all the inhabitants of England outside the few large towns were essentially countrymen, Mr. Bennett's book is really an introduction to live in Medieval England as a whole.

Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage (Classics and Contemporary Thought, VII)

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Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage (Classics and Contemporary Thought, VII)
Phebe Lowell Bowditch
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ASIN: 0520226038

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This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures. Using anthropological studies on gift exchange, she uncovers an implicit economic dynamic in these poems and skillfully challenges standard views on literary patronage in this period. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage provides a striking new understanding of Horace's poems and the Roman system of patronage, and also demonstrates the relevance of New Historicist and Marxist critical paradigms for Roman studies.
In addition to incorporating anthropological and sociological perspectives, Bowditch's theoretical approach makes use of concepts drawn from linguistics, deconstruction, and the work of Michel Foucault. She weaves together these ideas in an original approach to Horace's use of golden age imagery, his language concerning public gifts or munera, his metaphors of sacrifice, and the rhetoric of class and status found in these poems.
Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage represents an original approach to central issues and questions in the study of Latin literature, and sheds new light on our understanding of Roman society in general.

Medieval Economic Thought (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)

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Medieval Economic Thought (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
Diana Wood
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ASIN: 0521458935

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This book offers an introduction to medieval economic thought, as it emerges from the works of the twelfth to the fifteenth century academic theologians, lawyers and other sources. Using Italian merchants' writings, vernacular poetry, parliamentary legislation, and manorial court rolls, it discusses property, charity, the role of money, weights, measures, coinage, trade, fair price and fair wage. It makes a relatively neglected subject accessible by exploring the relationship between theory and practice.

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This book is an introduction to medieval economic thought, mainly from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, as it emerges from the works of academic theologians and lawyers and other sources - from Italian merchants' writings to vernacular poetry, Parliamentary legislation, and manorial court rolls. It raises a number of questions based on the Aristotelian idea of the mean, the balance and harmony underlying justice, as applied by medieval thinkers to the changing economy. How could private ownership of property be reconciled with God's gift of the earth to all in common? How could charity balance resources between rich and poor? What was money? What were the just price and the just wage? How was a balance to be achieved between lender and borrower and how did the idea of usury change to reflect this? The answers emerge from a wide variety of ecclesiastical and secular sources.

Town, Country, And Regions In Reformation Germany (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought) (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)

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Town, Country, And Regions In Reformation Germany (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought) (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)
Tom Scott
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ASIN: 9004143211

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This collection of essays covers relations between town and country, regional economic systems, and historical regional studies in late medieval and early modern Germany, in particular how these bear upon social and religious change in the age of the Reformation. Starting from case-studies of South-West Germany, Switzerland and Alsace, the essays broaden out to consider the formation of economic landscapes, the development of urban territories, and the survival of forms of serfdom throughout Germany as a whole. While issues of economic and social structure take pride of place, they are accompanied by analysis of regional mentalities and cultural identities as well. With an Introduction by Tom Brady.

Readership: Scholars and Students of the Reformation, of regional historical studies, economic history, and geography of late-medieval and early-modern Europe.

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Great for studies in economic and social relations.......2006-04-05

This is a great book for anyone interested in the Reformation who wants to know more about relations between different German regions and areas. Scott provides very compelling arguments and case studies on economic landscapes and town country relations during the time of the reformation (and before) in Germany. His book is split into three parts: Part I is "Town and Country between Reform and Revolt" which goes over the German Peasants' War, town-country relations, and other social aspects during that time. Part II is "Economic Landscapes" which goes over the economic changes and landscapes in Germany from 1350-1600 and beyond. Part III is titled "Regions and Local Identities" which goes over serfdom in different areas of Germany, economic bridges between different regions and community and liberty in Switzerland (the German speaking part). The breadth of knowledge the author has in his subject is truly amazing and his insight in invaluable. The only bad thing about this is the price. YIKES!!! Good thing for me my university library has a copy because the price is way out of my range.

The Legacy of Scholasticism in Economic Thought: Antecedents of Choice and Power (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)

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Economic Ethics: Medieval Presence and Modern Absence

The Legacy of Scholasticism in Economic Thought: Antecedents of Choice and Power (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)
Odd Langholm
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This book is a study in the history of economic thought. It deals with the economics of exchange, that is, with prices, wages and interest rates. Those who pay a certain price or interest rate, or work at a certain wage, may agree to do so because they are in economic need. They are thus in a sense compelled and not free to choose. This problem was first discussed by teachers in the medieval universities. This book follows the discussion from the Middle Ages to the present.

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Economic Ethics: Medieval Presence and Modern Absence.......2002-09-25

Odd Langholm explores the place of moral responsibility in ancient and particularly medieval economic thinking. The author describes the pre-modern demands for ethical exchange made by cultural critics from Aristotle to Aquinas as a foil to understanding the lack of concern with ethical practice in contemporary economics. He offers a historically resonant critique of modern constructions of the free individual on which rational choice theory depends. His polemic, embedded in deep humanistic learning, deserves an audience. Cambridge University Press executives should read their own books. Perhaps then they would not produce over-priced, short print runs which put profit before the educational mission expected of a university press. The cost of this book, not its discourse, makes it inaccessible.

Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice

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Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice

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Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering, 12001500 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)

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Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering, 12001500 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)
Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
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ASIN: 0521320186

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This history of the English royal manor of Havering, Essex, illustrates life at one extreme of the spectrum of personal and collective freedom during the later Middle Ages, revealing the kinds of patterns which could emerge when medieval people were placed in a setting of unusual independence. As residents of a manor held by the crown, they profited from royal administrative neglect. As tenants of the ancient royal demesne, they had special legal rights and economic privileges. Havering’s dominant families controlled the legal and administrative life of their community through the powerful manor court. The tenants combined effectively to prevent outside interference in their affairs, despite the individualistic self-interest manifest in their economic dealings. In 1465 the tenants obtained a royal charter which established Havering as a formal Liberty, with its own justices of the peace. By the end of the fifteenth century Havering displayed many characteristics commonly associated with the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

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