Peter Horn

Sebastian the tortoise knows which daddy is the best of all (his own ) in this heartwarming picture book about all the amazing things a dad can do. Little tortoise Sebastian is having the perfect day with his dad when he wonders, what are some things a dad can do? His dad playfully asks him to guess which daddy chirps to his chicks (Daddy Bird), which daddy teaches his kits how to hop and run (Daddy Rabbit), and which daddy shows his pups how to sleep upside down (Daddy Bat) But Sebastian knows which daddy is the best . . . his own The perfect picture book to cuddle up with, this loving ode to fathers has a soothing call and response that encourages children to guess along with Sebastian which daddy animal is being described.

A colourful autobiography. Peter Horn describes being raised in a small Yorkshire village, unrecognisable today, where horses and carts, and pigs in the public bar were normal. However, Peter was growing up in a country at the tail end of its Empire, and in a part of the country where opportunity was limited to the soon to be declining industries of the woollen mills and farming. Peter seized the opportunity of casting his net wider, to see and experience other cultures. travelling the world with the British Army, to places as far flung and varied as Brunei, Libya and Northern Ireland. Later years are sadly characterised by the toll of age, both in the author and loved ones with his true account of coping and managing the cruel progression of dementia and the impact this had on him and his family and so his story needed to end with a first-person polemic on the treatment of older adults in the UK within the care system, and more specifically his beloved wife, Moira. True to his word and his vows, through sickness and in health and faced with many challenges with the social care systems, he promised Moira he would never leave her side and care for her right to the very end, and that he honoured with humour, dignity and respect.

The essays collected here are responses to books of poetry and prose published during the transition period from the apartheid regime of the mid-1980s to the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994. The volume comprises a variety of texts written during the crucial mid-1980s – the time of the «Emergency» and the height of oppression – up to and including the installation of the first freely elected South African government in 1994. In the years of anti-apartheid struggle, the immediate political conflict was pre-eminent in the minds of many poets but extended to broader concerns about race, writing and colonialism, such as the debate about the imbongi (African praise singer) as the true antecedent of the contemporary African poet. After the end of apartheid new challenges came to the South African book publishing industry and, thus, to South African writers, as they tried to make sense of the past and draw tentative lines into the future. The works of J. M. Coetzee, Njabulo Ndebele, Kelwyn Sole, Sandile Dikeni, Vincent Swart, Heather Robertson, Patrick Cullinan, Seitlhamo Motsapi, W. P. B. Botha and more are read against this changing social and political landscape.

"In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are." We live in a world where our abilities are so increasingly similar that our personality is what makes us stand out from the crowd. In the future, our fortunes may be influenced more by our personality than by our professional skills, particularly if we have decided on a career in leadership. Personal Branding is written by international management consultant and managing director Peter Horn - author of 15 books on career and leadership. Read more: www.peterhorn.dk/index_eng.htm .

Er din virksomhed kørt fast, eller har i blot brug for inspiration til nye landvindinger? Peter Horns nye bog Vision minus status = strategi, er baseret på virksomhedsfilosoffen, dr.theol. og mag.art Mogens Stiller Kjärgaards lov om revitalisering af mennesker og virksomheder. LOVEN LYDER: VISION ÷ STATUS = STRATEGI Denne teori formulerer Peter Horn også i loven om Mogens Stiller Kjärgaards timeglas. Den handler om erkendelse og om at tage ansvar for egen fremtid og egne handlinger. Loven omfatter bevægelsen fra, at livet er sevet ud, til et nyt liv opstår: "Mogens Stiller Kjärgaards timeglas omfatter den mentale situation, at et menneskes muligheder er løbet ud fra det øvre mulighedernes rum til det nedre begrænsende rum. For at revitalisere sig skal mennesket vende timeglasset og dermed opnå uprøvede muligheder. Ellers vil mennesket være fanget i et fastlåst univers eller gå til grunde." Peter Horn giver læseren indblik i Mogens Stiller Kjärgaards erfaring fra et langt liv som virksomhedsrådgiver. Sammen med en lang række cases fra ind- og udland rummer Vision minus status = strategi masser af inspiration til den virksomhed, der har brug for et skub, når det handler om strategi.

I karrierespillet findes der ingen faste regler - og ingen facitliste. Men selv om spillet tilsyneladende udkæmpes uden regler, er der dog nogle retningslinjer og tendenser i den måde, det praktiseres på. Bogen giver inspiration og indsigt for de mange, der vil til tops i erhvervslivet, og forstå de indviklede spil, der på én gang udkæmpes til lands, til vands og i luften. Det handler om at turde gøre en forskel, at ville udrette noget - både for andre og for sig selv.

Personlig branding er blevet stadig vigtigere - og ofte en forudsætning for, at man kan overskride grænsen mellem at være god og suveræn. Personer, der er gode til at brande sig selv både i organisationen og udenfor, har større gennemslagskraft og flere muligheder for at indfri deres karrieremæssige og personlige ambitioner. I Personlig branding beskriver ledelsesrådgiveren Peter Horn værdien af strategisk, personlig branding og giver læseren helt konkrete metoder og redskaber til at planlægge og gennemføre sin egen personlige branding. Desuden indeholder bogen en oversigt over de vigtigste medier i ind- og udland med en gennemgang af, hvordan de fungerer. Fremgangsmåde for personlig branding: Vurder potentialet i dig selv, dit job og din branche. Find metoder til at optimere dine personlige egenskaber i omverdenen. Læg en klar markedsføringsplan. Lav en tidsplan for gennemførelse. Sæt kriterier for evaluering. Gentag aktiviteten igen og igen.

Das Buch bietet einen Überblick zur Entstehung und Geschichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft.