High-technology capital equipment has its unique set of challenges. If you're an executive trying to compete in this world, you know that it's not enough to just improve operational costs and efficiencies. You need to consistently define and create winning products that are then successfully marketed to capture their full value. "Equipped to Win" shows you how to thrive in this world in a straightforward how-to style. With "Equipped to Win" you get the capital equipment industry's best practices for strategy, product management, and marketing. Capital equipment executives, this is your guide...

Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase's lucid translation-complete with a useful chronology and analytical bibliography-at last makes this book available to the English-speaking world.
Hadot carefully examines Plotinus's views on the self, existence, love, virtue, gentleness, and solitude. He shows that Plotinus, like other philosophers of his day, believed that Plato and Aristotle had already articulated the essential truths; for him, the...