Why do so many global SAP rollouts fail in Brazil?Even the smartest global teams — with proven SAP templates that worked across the US, Europe, and Asia — hit a wall the moment they arrive in Brazil.From day one, the project feels messy. Nobody fully understands the scope, tax requirements are unclear, and progress stalls.Timelines slip. Costs spiral.The cause? Hidden layers of Brazilian tax logic, Nota Fiscal, master data traps, and re...

Every day, managers must adapt to rapidly changing markets and situations. This book deals with sensitive or difficult projects, ranging from redundancy programs to disposal of radioactive waste, from the launch of a new product to the introduction of a new computer system. The authors use a revolutionary way to manage sensitive projects--the lateral approach. Derived from twenty years' experience working with managers, the lateral approach is a flexible and non- confrontational method tha...

What happens when the father of criminal anthropology—a man who built his career on measuring skulls and reducing human behavior to biology—sits down in a sunlit Naples hotel room and watches a table rise without anyone touching it? Cesare Lombroso, the nineteenth century’s most uncompromising materialist, spent his final years investigating the very phenomena his colleagues dismissed as absurd: telepathy, premonitions, and the physical manifestations of mediums. The result was the most co...

This book takes a new, critical, and multidisciplinary look at experiences and meanings of social intervention in different social contexts, taking the approaches of social constructionism as a theoretical approach. The volume collects the results of theoretical-practical experiences that social science professionals with critical and constructionist visions linked to social work intervention have carried out in different spaces. It considers the way social work intervention models are bui...

The book summarizes the history of biological control in Latin America and the Caribbean. Few publications provide historical detail and the records are, therefore, fragmented until now. By bringing information together in this book, we offer a more complete picture of important developments in biological control on this continent. There are a wealth of text, tables and references about the history of such projects, and which were successful and which failed. This will help plan future bio...