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The successful management of a company requires certain characteristics, skills and competencies from the entrepreneur and the managers. The success-relevant characteristics of companies are the subject of numerous scientific studies. In addition to the required characteristics, these also deal with what successful entrepreneurs do better and allow building blocks of successful leadership to be derived from the knowledge gained. On this basis, leadership skills can be improved. Improving personal charisma also makes a significant contribution to the success of entrepreneurs....

The present studies should serve to make thoughtful people tempted to study Schopenhauer's work and his pessimism on the basis of the unillusioned and unembellished presented human condition as a thoroughly altruistic alternative to the naive and pernicious positivism of modern consumer society. Details Title: Thus Passed the Glory of the World Subtitle: 3 studies on Arthur Schopenhauer - philosopher with uncomfortable truths Author: Dr. Bruno Schmitz Edition: 1st edition Published: 1st edition 26.11.2015 Department: Philosophy Product Type: Book (Hardcover)...

The idea of ​​striving for growth and maximizing profits can no longer be seen as the key to a healthy and sustainable market economy. Many people and companies already recognize that the current way of doing business is at the expense of resources, both in terms of raw materials and human labor. Increasingly, unworthy working conditions and other aspects that fail to take human rights into account can be identified. In order to counteract this development and to preserve the...

The concepts of the state and state system have always determined the formation of theories in international relations. Under the rapid pressure to change from diverse globalization processes, both concepts are currently reaching the limits of their ability to explain, even becoming an obstacle to knowledge. This study is therefore dedicated to both a decidedly historical presentation of the development of the state and the state system and a reconstruction of the theory of the English school. In the context...

The subject of the work is the detailed statistical analysis of stratified and sheared flames. For this purpose, a generic, premixed, piloted burner is used, which enables stratification and shearing of the fuel-oxidizer mixtures that emerge through two independent annular gaps. To ensure that the processes that occur remain unaffected, laser-based methods are used to investigate them. The detailed characterization of the burner is carried out using thermographic phosphors to determine the wall temperatures. Combined Raman/Rayleigh spectroscopy is used for...

Since the 1970s, science has been pointing to the continuous decline in biological diversity. Companies in particular find it difficult to strategically anchor biodiversity aspects in their organization, even though they operate comprehensive sustainability management. The concept of the Biodiversity Balanced Scorecard starts here and offers companies a methodical instrument with which biodiversity aspects can be operationalized, i.e. made measurable and controllable. Details Title: Strategic biodiversity management using a Biodiversity Balanced Scorecard Author: Niels Christiansen Edition: 1st edition Published: 1st...

Doing top-class sport and studying at the same time involves a high personal risk and seems almost impossible under the current structures and conditions in Germany. An immense expenditure of time is necessary in order to be able to achieve top-class sporting successes and also achievements in a course of study. Since competitive sport is also practiced in a phase of life in which studying later professional success and social security are influenced by studying, many top athletes with an...

What personal opinions and views do students associate with the professional option of founding their own company? The present work is devoted to this question. Based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this question is empirically examined. A qualitative elicitation study serves to elicit the subjective behavioral, normative and control beliefs. Two further quantitative studies result in results on the actual levels of belief, differential beliefs of students with different levels of founding intentions and belief factors obtained through...

This work demonstrates the importance of pre-modern or irrational values ​​(curses, superstition, myths, witches and natural healers versus doctors, fetishism) in a comparative perspective in the threatening experience of the globalizing process of modernization in Theodor Fontane and black African poets of the modern age. They bring solutions where the achievements of modern civilization alone cannot work. Both literatures therefore claim the primacy of these irrational values ​​in a civilization-historical world in which metaphysical problems challenge the rational mind. In...

Interactive dynamics simulations are an important part of many virtual reality applications. The impulse-based dynamics simulation is a comparatively young method for calculating such simulations. In this thesis, this method is theoretically examined for the first time and its correctness is shown. In addition, essential practical aspects of the method and the interactive mechanical multi-body simulation are discussed in general. Details Title: Theory and application of momentum-based dynamics simulation Author: Dr. Daniel Bayer Edition: 1st edition University: Technical University of...

Patrick Zamariàn's master's thesis at the gta institute at ETH Zurich is dedicated to a "Pamphlet against the inferiority complex in German architecture" published in the journal Der Baumeister in 1987. The appeal, written by the prominent German architects Oswald Mathias Ungers and Meinhard von Gerkan, met with a great response - albeit briefly - and was discussed extremely controversially in the professional world. The present work is dedicated to this forgotten debate in order to provide a more differentiated...

Similar to how the number pi or Euler's constant e determine mathematics, fundamental natural constants mark the scales of the natural sciences. In contrast to mathematics, the origin of the fundamental natural constants is still a matter of controversy. This book presents a new perspective by means of a few axioms and, by comparing it with experimental data, establishes the resulting truth content. Through the axiomatic approach, the mysterious Sommerfeld fine structure constant and the Dirac cosmic number are defined...