Good project management sets standards and ensures that all project participants speak the same language. In this book you will also learn the reasons behind the specific steps taken in the project and how to contribute to making projects a success. It takes you on a journey through all areas of classical, traditional project management and provides insights into agile and hybrid PM. Graphics and comprehensible examples from everyday project work help develop a basic understanding. This bo...

In our rapidly changing world, the future of our economic system—capitalism—seems more unpredictable than ever. Digitalization is already having a significant impact on the labor market. Intensive globalization has led to the emergence of new forms of capitalism that are very different from the Western free market economies. And contemporary critiques of capitalism present another challenge to our economic system.This volume looks at capitalism’s future from different perspectives ...

For a long time, international institutions have formed the foundations of rule-based cooperation between states. However, they now find themselves under increasing scrutiny and have become the arena of geopolitical conflicts. At the same time, we are witnessing the development of new formations and the growing influence of non-state actors on the world stage.This book investigates the following questions: what are the new partnerships and cooperations arising from today's challeng...

Europe is in transition between independent nation states and a unified Europe. The EU's crises-financial, migrant, Brexit-are threatening the European idea. In addition to the idea of Europe as a peace project, we need more meaningful narratives to create a Europe-wide feeling of togetherness that is emotionally underpinned.The question is this: how can we create European unity out of national diversity? European unity seems to be more important than ever in tackling today's globa...

Freedom is a fundamental good. But it can only be experienced in a context of meaning, and exists in a state of tension with other values. Freedom is not a natural given but rather results from the interplay of socialization and constraints. Rules and laws are needed to maintain freedom, to guarantee it permanently, and to shape it.But what do challenges such as pandemics, climate change, digitalization, and the intensifying systemic competition with authoritarian states mean for ...

It is inherent in the nature of action that we must deal with both success and failure. Therefore, strategies are essential in today's competitive and uncertain world. They can make all the difference in turning a disadvantageous situation into a success. The importance of strategy and what it means, as well as the historic view of strategy, are addressed in this latest Convoco! Editions publication. Eleven essays deal with themes of freedom, intuition and law. With contributors including ...

This book examines the power of doing through not-doing. Should we act through inaction? Our society has reached its limits. A good strategy for addressing this problem is to allow inaction to become a productive way of acting—inaction as a point of reference for society. For only through conscious not-doing can we understand what is really essential.

What do equality and justice mean in the 21st century? How much importance do we give to freedom in a society sensitised to experiences of inequality? CONVOCO! discusses these and other questions under the headline Equality in an Unequal World with contributions by Paul Collier, Raji Jayaraman, Jonathan Wolff, Mathias Risse, Marietta Auer, Clemens Fuest, Francis Kéré and many more.

What are the core principles of strategic thinking historically? And how do these translate into modern times? These are the questions addressed by the contributors in this Convoco mini-edition. Saul David's article examines the ideas of the father of modern strategy, Carl von Clausewitz. His discussion connects the historic element of strategy with modern-day international politics, drawing insightful parallels while pointing out the misinterpretations of a great strategic mind. In her co...

In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would have one of the fastest-growing economies in the year 2000; in 2000, the USSR did not exist. In 1911, it was pronounced that there would be no more wars in Europe; we all know how that turned out. Face it, experts are about as accurate as dart-throwing monkeys. And yet every day we ask them to predict the future — everything f...

As the 100th anniversary of World War I approaches, historian Margaret MacMillan compares current global tensions-rising nationalism, globalization’s economic pressures, sectarian strife, and the United States’ fading role as the world’s pre-eminent superpower-to the period preceding the Great War. In illuminating the years before 1914, MacMillan shows the many parallels between then and now, telling an urgent story for our time. THE BROOKINGS ESSAY: In the spirit of its commitment to high...

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strat...