{"id":15686,"date":"2014-06-09T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=15686"},"modified":"2014-06-09T10:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T14:50:03","slug":"job-epub-book-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2014\/06\/09\/job-epub-book-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"[JOB] ePub Book Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"
Short-term project needs expert in ePub to take a 60,000 book manuscript in WORD format and convert to an ePub\u00a0using Sigil or similar. Primary expertise is formatting difficult material to leverage the medium and to enable distribution via online bookstores. Design skills are valuable and valued though initial emphasis will be leveraging ePub formatting and features. Additional phases possible, such as adding related content and external resources, enhancing the design, enabling community discussions, etc., a list to be enhanced by the collaboration. Please provide summary\u00a0of related experience and work sample to\u00a0paulpangaro@pangaro.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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THE ISLAND OF MACROMOL focuses on the questions,\u00a0Where does innovation come from?\u00a0And how can we know in advance what will make a good investment?<\/p>\n

This is the tale of a great company, its rebirth\u00a0and expansion,\u00a0its glory days and steady state, and, eventually, its\u00a0decline. The storyteller lived through\u00a0these times and reflects on them\u00a0through the lens of a scientist and humanist. He writes\u00a0of many\u00a0questions he needed to answer to complete his journey:<\/p>\n

– What is wealth and how is it created?<\/p>\n

– How is this surplus used to create even greater surplus?<\/p>\n

– Why does the process decline during its natural life-cycle?<\/p>\n

– In the organization responsible for success then failure, what is discussed\u00a0and what is discussable?<\/p>\n

– How does discussion manifest a local \u201ctruth\u201d and how does it relate to\u00a0power?<\/p>\n

The tale is told in everyday language from the perspective of Gullivan, a\u00a0mythical\u00a0character in the tradition of Swift\u2019s\u00a0Gulliver\u2019s Travels. Yet the\u00a0journey is grounded in the\u00a0rigor and insights of physics,\u00a0thermodynamics, information theory, cybernetics, biology\u00a0and social\u00a0science. It connects deeply to the grave problems we read of every\u00a0today,\u00a0from the scale of organizations to regions to countries and to the\u00a0planet:<\/p>\n

– What will bring us out of this bad economy?
\n– How can we return to growth and profitability?
\n– Will innovation solve problems of pollution, poverty, energy, climate change?\u00a0What role can technology play?<\/p>\n

These questions vex politicians, entrepreneurs, executives and\u00a0managers everywhere,\u00a0because 100 years of modern economic theory\u00a0and management practice have not\u00a0found answers. Yet the author has\u00a0found answers through Gullivan\u2019s journey, answers\u00a0that are not\u00a0available anywhere else \u2014 not in business schools, MBA programs, or\u00a0even\u00a0the boardrooms of global corporations and \u201ccenters of innovation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Anyone with courage enough to question the status-quo can make the\u00a0same journey\u00a0and understand what is required to innovate and to\u00a0regenerate their own organization.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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