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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Veronika M Kaye
This book reimagines mergers and acquisitions as emotionally charged, narrative-driven processes rather than linear business events. Challenging traditional models that separate pre- and post-acquisition phases, it introduces a dynamic framework that emphasizes the sequence and emotional impact of acquisition-related communications. At its core is a focus on middle managers—key yet often overlooked actors—whose emotional responses to evolving narratives shape the success or failure of an acquisition. The book captures the systemic-constructivist emphasis on relational, process-oriented, and meaning-centered approaches to managing change—especially in the emotionally charged context of M&A—contrasting with more linear, control-driven frameworks. Drawing on national and global case studies, the book explores how fear, hope, anxiety, and relief emerge from how and when messages are delivered. It proposes a shift from sole authorship, typically attributed to acquiring CEOs, to a model of contributorship where both acquiring and target CEOs co-author the acquisition story. This shift enhances narrative legitimacy, coherence, and emotional alignment. The book introduces a circular storytelling model, showing how acquisition narratives are not isolated events but evolving sequences that influence and respond to stakeholder emotions over time.Through a systemic and constructivist lens, it offers practical insights for structuring emotionally intelligent communication strategies that support smoother transitions and long-term integration. Compelling for scholars and practitioners alike, this work bridges theory and practice with a systemic approach, redefining M&A success with a resource orientation and solution focus building on the power of story and emotion. In a field hungry for quick fixes, this is a radical—and deeply humane—stance.
Second Language Educational Experiences for Adult Learners
John M. Norris; John McE. Davis; Veronika Timpe-Laughlin
Routledge
2017
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Second Language Educational Experiences for Adult Learners provides an up-to-date review of the theory and practice of adult second language education. The primary objective is to introduce core ideas that should inform the design, development, and delivery of language learning experiences that take the typical forms of materials, courses, teaching, and assessment. Divided into three sections, the book first addresses what we know about adult second language acquisition and how individuals may acquire languages differently from each other. In the second section, key educational design elements—from pedagogical methods to curriculum to assessment—are then introduced from the perspective of research-based understandings about effective practices. Rounding out the volume is an overview of critical issues for language educational innovation, including supporting teachers, localizing materials and instruction, evaluating and improving education, and working with technology. Each chapter concludes with a set of recommended “design principles” that should guide readers toward high-quality, valuable, and empirically supported language educational experiences. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students investigating instructed language learning, designers creating useful language learning materials, and language teaching innovators seeking to improve outcomes in diverse instructional settings around the world.
Second Language Educational Experiences for Adult Learners
John M. Norris; John McE. Davis; Veronika Timpe-Laughlin
Routledge
2017
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Second Language Educational Experiences for Adult Learners provides an up-to-date review of the theory and practice of adult second language education. The primary objective is to introduce core ideas that should inform the design, development, and delivery of language learning experiences that take the typical forms of materials, courses, teaching, and assessment. Divided into three sections, the book first addresses what we know about adult second language acquisition and how individuals may acquire languages differently from each other. In the second section, key educational design elements—from pedagogical methods to curriculum to assessment—are then introduced from the perspective of research-based understandings about effective practices. Rounding out the volume is an overview of critical issues for language educational innovation, including supporting teachers, localizing materials and instruction, evaluating and improving education, and working with technology. Each chapter concludes with a set of recommended “design principles” that should guide readers toward high-quality, valuable, and empirically supported language educational experiences. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students investigating instructed language learning, designers creating useful language learning materials, and language teaching innovators seeking to improve outcomes in diverse instructional settings around the world.
Pathways adrift : a stories we tell anthology
Isen-Feiya Chen; M.A. Drake; Brad McNeil; Inger Skalse; Hugo West; Jakob Tollstorp; Michal Sienicki; Aimee Wark; Miguel Vian; Veronika Stemme; Leticia Pinheiro Lima; Melanie Lauber; Liya (Lea) Pfahler; V.A. Kostober; Julia M. Sandberg
Stories We Tell Anthologies
2024
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At any given moment, we are on a journey. We may be travelling the world or sitting in a commuter train—but even without physical movement we are adrift in our minds, thoughts, and feelings. Some journeys are more obvious than others, but all are potentially life changing. As we venture through life, our perception of the world changes, and we with it. In Pathways Adrift, fifteen international writers from Stockholm depart from a common theme to take you near and far, physically and emotionally. Join them as they journey through antiquity, through fjords and empty voids, arid desertscapes or modern cityscapes, through outer space and enchanted woods.
Where It Leads You : a Stories We Tell anthology
Demi Vasic; Gift Blessing; Miguel Vian; Aimee Wark; Veronika Stemme; Michal Sienicki; V.A. Kostober; Emily Hogue; Leticia Pinheiro Lima; Julia M. Sandberg; Melanie Lauber; Inger Skalse
Stories We Tell Anthologies
2025
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Thirteen writers. One theme. Infinite ambition. Stories We Tell returns with its third consecutive anthology in which thirteen Stockholm-based international authors take on the many faces of ambition—its quiet hunger, its sharp edges, its moments of brilliance and of ruin. Clever, darkly funny, and a little unsettling, the anthology explores how ambition shapes us. From overworked employees and fed up farmers to stressed single moms and stalwart students, from bored geniuses and driven children to intergalactic pious priests and petulant princes, from regretful writers to the text itself: the one constant is the character’s inner drive. Just as too much ambition can be a dangerous thing, too little can ruin your life. And sometimes, even with ambition, you need a little luck on your side. That’s just the way the cookie crumbles. Ambition moves us all, but until the story unfolds, you won’t know where it leads you.
This book examines NATO’s transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the recent crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions.Originally, NATO bound the western allies together for the purposes of mutual defence as defined by Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which declared that an attack on the territory of one ally was to be considered an attack on them all. However, Article 4 of the Treaty invites the allies to consult with each other on a less formal basis whenever their 'territorial integrity, political independence, or security' was threatened, without the automatic commitment to a shared response. During the Cold War, the allies consulted both formally and informally on issues beyond mutual defence in debates that were, more often than not, extremely contentious. After the Cold War, these out-of-area missions became the primary focus of NATO’s military missions. The allies had to debate the scope of co-operation for every mission they considered undertaking collectively. This book argues that NATO’s identity has changed from a Cold War mutual defence organization to a global alliance in the course of debates over how to respond to the changing circumstances of its security environment. This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, international organisations, contemporary history and IR in general.
Peire Vidal, one of the most celebrated of the Occitan troubadours, was a favorite performer at the courts of France, Spain, Italy, Malta, and Palestine during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. His witty and humorous love-songs and satires provide a fascinating insight into the courtly society of his times. This book includes the first English translation and commentary of the complete works of Peire Vidal. It is a useful and accessible text for students and specialists of medieval literature.
What do unsolved murders in a seaside hamlet have to do with a bloody cycle of leap years? How does the bloodless Lord of the Manor control the simple townspeople of Rockville, inspired by the author's visit to Tasmania's west coast, despoiled by slag heaps of abandoned mines? Vera Murray's chilling gothic horror story, transported to Australia brings an ancient curse to life.
Pancakes for Breakfast, Pancakes for Lunch
Veronica M Lloyd; Jessica Stelluto
Veronica Lloyd
2017
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Pancakes for breakfast, pancakes for lunch... Tyler loves pancakes. He loves them so much he even sings songs about them Can there ever be too many pancakes? A fun tale that encourages readers to chime in.
Pancakes for Breakfast, Pancakes for Lunch
Veronica M Lloyd; Jessica Stelluto
Veronica Lloyd
2017
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Pancakes for breakfast, pancakes for lunch... Tyler loves pancakes. He loves them so much he even sings songs about them Can there ever be too many pancakes? A fun tale that encourages readers to chime in.
Structured around a personal account of the illness and death of the author’s partner, Jane, this book explores how something hard to bear became a threshold to a world of insight and discovery. Drawing on German Idealism and Jane’s own research in the area, The Aesthetic Experience of Dying looks at the notion of life as a binary synthesis, or a return enhanced, as a way of coming to understand death. Binary synthesis describes the interplay between dynamically opposing pairs of concepts – such as life and death – resulting in an enhanced version of one of them to move forward in a new cycle of the process. Yet what relevance does this elegant word game have to the shocking diagnosis of serious illness? Struggling to balance reason with sense, thought with feeling, this book examines the experience of caring for someone from diagnosis to death and is illustrated with examples of the return enhanced. The concluding chapter outlines how the tension of Jane’s dying has been resolved as the rhythmic patterns of the lifeworld have been understood through the process of reflecting on the experience.This creative and insightful book will appeal to those interested in the medical humanities. It will also be an important reference for practising and student health professionals.