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We're in the midst of a revolution. Quantum leaps in technology are enabling organizations to observe and measure people's behavior in real time, communicate internally at extraordinary speed, and innovate continuously. New technologies are transforming the way companies interact with their customers, employees, and other stakeholders.But this is no mere tech issue; it is quickly becoming the key operational challenge for businesses of all kinds. Yet most organizations and their leaders have been slow to respond, continuing to rely on outmoded engineering-based operational models. They structure their teams, manage their people, and evolve their organizational cultures the way they always have.But sense and respond organizations--organizations that have the capacity to sense and respond instantly to customer, employee, and other stakeholder behaviors--are emerging. In Sense and Respond, Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden, leading tech experts and founders of the global Lean UX movement, vividly show how these companies operate, highlighting the new mind-set and skills needed to lead and manage them--and to continuously innovate within them.Becoming a sense and respond organization requires shifting from managing outputs to what the authors call "outcome-focused management"; forming self-guided teams that can read and react to a fast-changing environment; creating a learning-all-the-time culture that can understand and respond to new customer behaviors and the data they generate; and finally, developing in everyone at the company the new universal skills of customer listening, assessment, and response. This important and practical book provides a holistic new operational and management model to help organizations and their leaders sense and respond--and to win--in a world transformed by new technologies.--

The Napoleonic Civil Code adopted in 1804 dramatically changed rules of inheritance in France. It was in favour of egalitarian sharing and then framed and limited possibilities of favoring one child from the others, unlike inegalitarian practices deeply rooted in southern France. For a long time researchers have been interested in consequences of the Civil Code in areas of traditional inegalitarian sharing, in the different stategies organized by populations to bypass new rules, in the new claims which it permitted. They have tried to take in count relationships between eldest and younger siblings because they have been changed by the Civil Code. Its effects on gender relationships, between brothers and sisters, have been less studied. Old inegalitarian system allowed parents to advantage one boy in many southern regions. But the Civil Code créâtes new rules including principle of equality between men and women and does not allow exclusion of endowed girls from inheritance anymore. The aim of this paper is to measure effects of implementation of the Civil Code on women's access to inheritance, and therefore to land property in the first half of 19th century in the Toulouse region. Did the sisters take advantage on their brothers of this legislative change ? For this study, notarial records and land registries cadastres will be used . These two types of sources are useful in the southern regions of France before and after the French Revolution, so comparaison over time is possible. ; L'objectif de cette communication est de mesurer les effets du Code civil sur l'accès des femmes à l'héritage, et par conséquent sur la propriété de la terre dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle dans la région de Toulouse. Les soeurs ont-elles retiré des avantages par rapport à leurs frères de ce changement législatif ? Pour cette étude seront mobilisés registres notariaux cadastraux. Ces deux types de sources sont utilisés dans les régions du midi de la France avant et après la Révolution française, ce qui permet la comparaison ...

The Napoleonic Civil Code adopted in 1804 dramatically changed rules of inheritance in France. It was in favour of egalitarian sharing and then framed and limited possibilities of favoring one child from the others, unlike inegalitarian practices deeply rooted in southern France. For a long time researchers have been interested in consequences of the Civil Code in areas of traditional inegalitarian sharing, in the different stategies organized by populations to bypass new rules, in the new claims which it permitted. They have tried to take in count relationships between eldest and younger siblings because they have been changed by the Civil Code. Its effects on gender relationships, between brothers and sisters, have been less studied. Old inegalitarian system allowed parents to advantage one boy in many southern regions. But the Civil Code créâtes new rules including principle of equality between men and women and does not allow exclusion of endowed girls from inheritance anymore. The aim of this paper is to measure effects of implementation of the Civil Code on women's access to inheritance, and therefore to land property in the first half of 19th century in the Toulouse region. Did the sisters take advantage on their brothers of this legislative change ? For this study, notarial records and land registries cadastres will be used . These two types of sources are useful in the southern regions of France before and after the French Revolution, so comparaison over time is possible. ; L'objectif de cette communication est de mesurer les effets du Code civil sur l'accès des femmes à l'héritage, et par conséquent sur la propriété de la terre dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle dans la région de Toulouse. Les soeurs ont-elles retiré des avantages par rapport à leurs frères de ce changement législatif ? Pour cette étude seront mobilisés registres notariaux cadastraux. Ces deux types de sources sont utilisés dans les régions du midi de la France avant et après la Révolution française, ce qui permet la comparaison dans le temps.

L'évaluation de l'indigence et de la pauvreté tient une place notable dans la période qui va de la Révolution à l'Empire. L'exploitation de ces sources se heurte à des difficultés qui tiennent au caractère fragmentaire des données rassemblées, mais plus encore peut-être aux incertitudes révélatrices dans la définition de la population visée, comme des finalités des enquêtes successives. De la grande enquête du Comité de Mendicité de la Constituante, qui reflète encore l'esprit des Lumières, et se poursuit jusqu'en 1793, aux enquêtes de l'an II associées aux tentatives de législation sociale de la période, au tournant de l'an III puis aux statistiques d'un nouveau style qui se multiplient à partir de l'an IX, on voit se révéler combien nombreux et différents ont été les angles d'approche de la pauvreté. Des moments distincts se détachent, en fonction de l'évolution propre de la pratique statistique, certes, mais plus encore de la conjoncture politique qui conduit à des politiques d'assistance distinctes et à des besoins en données chiffrées variables : une tranformation profonde se dévoile dans la façon dont on envisage l'indigence, au tournant du XVIIIe et du XIXe siècle.

Silent Grief is a book for and about "suicide survivors" – those who have been left behind by the suicide of a friend or loved one. Author Christopher Lukas is a suicide survivor himself – several members of his family have taken their own lives – and the book draws on his own experiences, as well as those of numerous other suicide survivors. These personal testimonies are combined with the professional expertise of Henry M. Seiden, a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. The authors present information on common experiences of bereavement, grief reacti

A minimal estimate suggests 300,000 Samoans reside outside the Samoan archipelago in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. Anthropological studies of Samoan migration provide a broader perspective that emphasizes the deep connections among individuals and families residing in and outside the Samoas, and the adaptive nature of these connections. A review of the published socioeconomic, demographic, public health, and medical literatures indicates that Samoans residing outside the Samoas may be at high risk for poor levels of population health because of poverty, low health literacy, and sociocultural influences on health care knowledge, attitude, and access. There is little systematic information on Samoans in the United States and Australia. Based on trends from smaller studies and the national data from New Zealand, we recommend more population‐based health research among Samoans. Studies of representative samples will provide more accurate assessments of the spectrum of social and economic characteristics, acculturative processes, the returns and costs of connectedness to the families and villages in the Samoas, and population health characteristics. Studies should emphasize not only the negative costs to health and well‐being of migration but the processes of adjustment, accommodation, and adaptation that produce the varieties of ways of life among Samoans outside the Samoas.

The limited available information on premarital, heterosexual behavior of young people in the United States reveals that the changes in sexual behavior which took place in the 1920's have changed only slightly in the 1960's, and that this slow change is continuing. The belief that a gradual transformation is taking place (except in overtness) rests on a comparison of the early studies on sexual behavior, the data from attitudinal studies, researched from 1940 to 1963, and observations of the current scene. Conclusion: the double standard is declining but has not yet fallen.