Arthur A. Thompson Livres

This is a resource-based review of the firm, incorporating 17 cases which reflect this emphasis. New case studies cover high profile companies, globally competitive industries, entrepreneurial businesses and public companies and global competition and strategy issues are integrated throughout.

Focusing on the significance of urban populations, this book emphasizes the urgent need for effective ministry in cities with over a million residents. It combines practical principles and philosophical insights to guide successful urban ministry. Through relatable experiences, John Thompson explores the challenges and rewards of city life, highlighting the profound influence cities exert on society as a whole. The work serves as both a rallying cry for mobilizing resources and a practical guide for those engaged in urban outreach.

This simple, flexible six-step programme is full of tried-and-tested ideas for parents and professionals supporting families of young children with ADHD. The programme includes games that will help improve the child's attention, exercises to develop patience and tips for supporting the child in successful self-organization.

Dialogue is often overlooked as a necessary and potent instrument in the novelist's repertoire. A novel can rise or fall on the strength of its dialogue. Superb dialogue can make a superb novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, Action is character. George V. Higgins said, Dialogue is character. They were both right, because dialogue is action. It comprises much, if not all, of the clarifying drama of any novel. How much physical action can there be in 300 pages, even in a crime novel or a thriller? And all conflict, even physical, begins as dialogue. Hough explains how dialogue can reveal a character's nature as well as his or her defining impulses and emotions. He says there must be tension in every colloquy in fiction, and shows the reader ways to achieve it. Hough illustrates his precepts with examples from his own work and from that of the best modern writers of dialogue, including Cormac McCarthy, Kent Haruf, Joan Didion, Annie Proulx, Lee Smith, Elmore Leonard, George V. Higgins, William Kennedy and Howard Frank Mosher. He cites early 20th century writers who refined and advanced dialogue as an art form: Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Dorothy Parker, and William Saroyan. Hough's novel Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg was praised by Lee Smith as containing the best dialogue of the period I have ever read. Hough on Dialogue will give writers and aspiring writers a fresh look at one of the essential ingredients of their craft

Thompson, Strickland and Gambles’, CRAFTING AND EXECUTING STRATEGY, 17e presents the latest research findings from the literature and cutting-edge strategic practices of companies have been incorporated to keep step with both theory and practice. The chapter content continues to be solidly mainstream and balanced, mirroring both the best academic thinking and the pragmatism of real-world strategic management. An attractive collection of 20 readings that amplify important topics in managing a company’s strategy-making, strategy-executing process is included in this Text and Readings version to provide students with a taste of the literature of strategic management before tackling cases or simulation projects.

Presenting the most recent developments in research and strategy, this text applies these theories and illustrates their implementation in business cases.

"A compelling and dramatic portrait of a couple whose long union has been shadowed by secrets, threatened by illness, and redeemed by loyalty and love. For readers of Anne Tyler, Rick Russo, and Elizabeth Strout"--

Thompson/Strickland READINGS is the softcover readings component of this market-leading strategic management package. The readings reflect current thought in strategic management.