Excelente libro. ¿Quiere saber qué viene después de Porter? Lea a su "ex-discípulo". Nadie duda ya la realidad de la nueva economía, pero la pregunta es qué pensamiento estratégico aplicarlo; Hamel lo explica brillantemente.

Rob Hamel is one of my teachers and I know he put a lot of work into it. "The Lost Art of Living" is an excellent work of fiction. If you like a book that makes you think, pick this up. Maybe he'll give me an A for this.

In this Neil Hamel mystery, the death of Neil's distant aunt leaves Neil with a diary and a plane ticket to observe an environmental miracle, the white Arctic falcon. But instead of seeing the glorious falcon, Neil and her birding party see a body flying off a cliff. Little does Neil realize that the trip she decides to take to Montana to see this bird will turn out to be a search for a murderer:

"'It wasn't a falconer, I'm tellin' you. There are plenty of other people around who hated Pederson's guts. The man had it comin' and goin'.' He climbed down from the fence. 'You give my best to March. Goodness is a rough trail, especially where he is. And don't forget to say hello to that girlfriend of his, Kate.' He grinned. 'Now there's a woman with spirit. She can park her boots under my bed anytime she wants to.'"

Van Giesen moves Neil and her mysterious love, the Kid, from Albuquerque: where if the hot sauce isn't burning your throat it has no taste; to the dangerous regions of Montana, where the greatest danger can be anything from a snowstorm that catches the birders unaware; to the horrible traps used on beautiful, unsuspecting, and diminishing animals for profit; to the people themselves, whose motives are hidden by the wide-open skies and mountains. Neil tries to adjust as she sleuths for March, the wrongfully accused ranger. Van Giesen's characters drive the suspense-driven plot; at the same time throwing in quirks of Neil's which make her all the more human. Neil is a lovable neurotic: from her smoking and drinking habits, to her "inappropriate" relationship to the Kid, to her turning her nose up at anything that remotely resembles food. The reader pictures an Ally McBeal galloping around the hillsides with heart and clothes flapping. But somewhere she finds the strength to get the job done, before she resumes her nonconformist lifestyle. Raptor is a delight, and Neil does it her own way.

A very popular mystery writer from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Judith Van Gieson is an author who has a plethora of information on the web, and enough name recognition so that her author bio simply includes the names of some of the catalog of mysteries she has written, including: North Of The Border, Confidence Woman, and Vanishing Point. Van Gieson is

Shelley Glodowski
Reviewer

Like all this series, this book is a real gem. Clearly written, interesting, informative, with a fine selection of pictures (most in colour), it's truly amazing how much it covers in a small book. Particularly useful are the contemporary illustrations of scribes and painters at work, showing such details as a scribe's sloping desk with holes to hold his quills and inkhorn (cover illustration). The whole construction of a medieval book is explained, from makig the parchment to the final cover. Examples of unfinished manuscripts, not shown in facimile books, provide fascinating insight into the whole production process. The inclusion of charming pictures such as the self-portrait of a scribe and his apprentice, cursing a mouse running off with the the cheese from their lunch table, brings the lives of these workers into immediate and human detail.

If you are only going to get one book about medieval scribes and illuminators, this is the one to buy.

The contemporary books we buy today fill many categories, and while they may be special for a variety of reasons, their mass production that condemns them to a comparatively brief life, also is the cause of how visually dismal they are.

There are some small private presses that still produce books as artisans, some even completely by hand, but the product is often well beyond the budgets of all but affluent collectors. Reading a work by Dickens is undeniably a thrill, but even Dickens believed his books were enhanced with imagery, so artists were part of his books, fellow craftsmen he chose to compliment his tales.

This book by Michael Olmert is for people who love books for not just what they contain, but the manner in which they were presented. Mr. Olmert also provides a very readable history of books from long before Guttenberg printed his Bible, from a time when a book was done by hand, every letter, every stitch.

This book presents some of the greatest rarities that have been preserved, so while you may covet a Book Of Hours, A Book Of Kells, or an illuminated page that rivals the art placed on canvas, your savings are safe. This is "The Smithsonian Book Of Books" so nobody can take any of these treasures home.

Mr. Olmert states, "The book is perhaps humankind's most powerful intellectual creation". A rather daring claim, but this book backs it well.

Beaumont-Hamel is one of the mosy interesting areas of the Somme today. Just south of the village, numerous trenches abound and not far away are some of the Commonwealth war graves which abound in the area. The area is associated with the Newfoundland regiment which fought here on 1st July, 1916 and suffered losses of more than 90%. Nigel Cave has produced a well-researched book with many good photos and maps. Thoroughly recommended.

Would you please give an authorize to use the OCP and H-P Way for measure the corporate culture of my organization? If you agree,please advise me in using that tools such as: 1. How to score? 2. How to interpret the result of scoring(percentage of application)? 3. How the result compares to other organizations?

Your response in this matter is highly appreciated. Thank you.

Best Regards, Ramdan Yacoeb & Andalusia Ramdan. Master Program in Business Administration & Policy, Postgraduate Program University of Indonesia, and SMS member Fax.:(62)-21-48701616

Gary Hamel is Founder and Chairman of Strategos and Visiting Professor to the London Business School. C.K. Prahalad is Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business at the University of Michigan. This article was published in the May-June 1989 issue of Harvard Business Review.

"Companies that have risen to global leadership over the past 20 years invariably began with ambitions that were out of all proportion to their resources and capabilities. According to the authors these companies posses "strategic intent", which is "an obsession with winning at all levels of the organization and then sustain that obsession over the 10- to 20-year quest for global leadership." This strategic intent captures the essence of winning, is stable over time, and sets a target that deserves personal effort and commitment. The authors compare the difference in mindset between strategic intent and traditional strategic planning, and introduce an action list which top management should use in order to engage the entire organization and create strategic intent. The authors discuss the four types of competitive innovation: building layers of advantage, searching for loose bricks, changing the terms of engagement, and competing through collaboration. The authors further discuss the limitations of the traditional strategy concepts (Kenneth Andrews, Igor Ansoff, Michael Porter) and traditional organizational structures (strategic business units, decentralization). The authors conclude the article with the real challenge for top management: "developing faith in the organization's ability to deliver on tough goals, motivating it to do so, focusing its attention long enough to internalize new capabilities."

Although some of the examples in this article are now somewhat outdated, the article is still one of the best I have ever read. The article challenges the traditional strategic planning process and the traditional goal-setting by managers. It aims to inspire managers to set greater goals than the traditional year-by-year improvement: "Strategic intent gives employees the only goal that is worthy of commitment: to unseat the best or remain the best, worldwide." This article forms part of the authors' 1994-bestseller 'Competing for the Future', which I also highly recommend. The authors use business US-English.

This delightfully accessible courtroom drama offers a rare glimpse into the life of a strong willed prostitute who gained, and stood to lose, a measure of domestic tranquility in ancient Greece. The author's considerable research effortlessly contextualizes the mores of an exotic time and place, allowing readers to sympathize fully with an unforgettable protagonist.

In this brilliant article Gary Hamel tells the story how did two men transformed the Big Blue from a has-been in 1994 with $15 billion losses over previous three years to the e-business powerhouse in 1998 which has completed 18000 consulting engagements, when about a quarter of its $82 billion in revenues was Net related.

This article not only tells the story but gives seven steps for organizing a corporate resurrection:
1. Establish a point of view
2. Write a manifesto
3. Create a coalition
4. Pick your targets
5. Co-opt and neutralize
6. Find a translator
7. Win small, win early, win often

The author has included this story into his book "Leading the Revolution", which also includes studies of Sony, Charles Schwab, Cisco, Shell and GE. In this book, Hamel explains the underlying principles of radical innovation and details the steps your company must take to build an enduring capacity for generating new ideas.

I would also recommend "How to Survive the E-Business Downturn" by Colin Barrow and "What Management Is" by Joan Magretta in addition to this book.