Getting Along
Named one of "22 new books...that you should consider reading before the year is out" by Fortune"This practical and empathetic guide to taking the high road is worth a look for workers lost in conflict." -- Publisher's WeeklyA research-based, practical guide for how to handle difficult people at work.Work relationships can be hard. The stress of dealing with difficult people dampens our creativity and productivity, degrades our ability to think clearly and make sound decisions, and causes us to disengage. We might lie awake at night worrying, withdraw from work, or react in ways we later regret--rolling our eyes in a meeting, snapping at colleagues, or staying silent when we should speak up.Too often we grin and bear it as if we have no choice. Or throw up our hands because one-size-fits-all solutions haven't worked. But you can only endure so much thoughtless, irrational, or malicious behavior--there's your sanity to consider, and your career.In Getting Along, workplace expert and Harvard Business Review podcast host Amy Gallo identifies eight familiar types of difficult coworkers--the insecure boss, the passive-aggressive peer, the know-it-all, the biased coworker, and others--and provides strategies tailored to dealing constructively with each one. She also shares principles that will help you turn things around, no matter who you're at odds with. Taking the high road isn't easy, but Gallo offers a crucial perspective on how work relationships really matter, as well as the compassion, encouragement, and tools you need to prevail--on your terms. She answers questions such as: Why can't I stop thinking about that nasty email?! What's behind my problem colleague's behavior? How can I fix things if they won't cooperate? I've tried everything--what now?Full of relatable, sometimes cringe-worthy examples, the latest behavioral science research, and practical advice you can use right now, Getting Along is an indispensable guide to navigating your toughest relationships at work--and building interpersonal resilience in the process.
Educating in Ethics Across the Professions
Educating in Ethics for the Professions: A Compendium of Research, Theory, Practice, and an Agenda for the Future offers a state-of-the-art discussion on the part of applied ("professional") ethics educators who describe the teaching of ethics for their professions and who collectively represent a wide-ranging array of professions. The volume begins with an overview of the topics, contested ideas, and challenges confronting applied ethics educators, across the generations, providing a foundation from which the concept of ethics education as an integral formation frames each contributor's historical overview identifying how research, theory, and practice have evolved in each profession to this day. These discussions then turn to the topics, contested ideas, and challenges emerging in contemporary discourse. Each discussion culminates with suggestions regarding what ethics educators must consider for the future. The volume closes with a synthesis of the commonalities among and differences between the discussions representing diverse professional perspectives, yet framing this history as well as identifying an agenda for teaching applied ethics in the future.
Educating in Ethics Across the Professions
Educating in Ethics for the Professions: A Compendium of Research, Theory, Practice, and an Agenda for the Future offers a state-of-the-art discussion on the part of applied ("professional") ethics educators who describe the teaching of ethics for their professions and who collectively represent a wide-ranging array of professions. The volume begins with an overview of the topics, contested ideas, and challenges confronting applied ethics educators, across the generations, providing a foundation from which the concept of ethics education as an integral formation frames each contributor's historical overview identifying how research, theory, and practice have evolved in each profession to this day. These discussions then turn to the topics, contested ideas, and challenges emerging in contemporary discourse. Each discussion culminates with suggestions regarding what ethics educators must consider for the future. The volume closes with a synthesis of the commonalities among and differences between the discussions representing diverse professional perspectives, yet framing this history as well as identifying an agenda for teaching applied ethics in the future.
Self-Organised Schools
Self-Organised Schools: Educational Leadership and Innovative Learning Environments describes the results of the research we carried out at fourteen Italian schools that highlight how the more self-organized schools are, the more innovative learning environments are.
A Coach's Dream Business Journal
This guided journal was designed to help you gain the clarity and confidence you need to figure out what you're here to do, and who you are meant to help. It will help you recognize what your dream coaching business will look like and motivate you to start taking the tangible steps and inspired action needed to transform your dream into reality. So, if you're ready to... - Get clear on what your dream coaching business truly looks like. - Feel wildly confident in your unique swirl of skills & talents. - Live your days on our precious planet the way you want. Then, grab a pen and dive in.
Women Behaving Courageously - The Workbook
This workbook is the result of running live workshops for women of all ages and from all walks of life. The women who attended my workshops looked as though they had perfect lives but quickly confessed that underneath the fa癟ade, they were actually struggling to breathe.If you are a woman who is: Tired of being endlessly tiredSick of being at everyone's beck and callStuck in a job that's beneath youWorking for a boss who treats you like a slaveIn a relationship of any kind, that drains your time, energy and self-respectThen this workbook is for you.You will find ways to say: No, I can no longer do thatNo, this no longer works for meNo, doing that no longer serves mePLUS, you will find exercises that will: Show you how and when to say NoPrepare you for the reactions to your daring to say No, and there will be reactionsGive you the courage to offer workable compromisesHelp you set firm boundaries with the people in your life who think you have noneShow you how to live to fight another dayTest your willingness to be more, do more and respect yourself more so that no one will treat you like a doormat ever againFree up your life so you can start saying YES to things that bring you joyThis workbook is a companion to the author's book Women Behaving Courageously which tells the inspiring stories of 25 female warriors and dozens of female heroes.
Thriving Warrior 3.7
Thriving Warrior 3.7 Our goal is to help veterans and other people motivated to cultivate a life of meaning and purpose. Learn important skills from amongst the best of the best Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari, Chuck E. Cheese and a host of other great companies), Nancy Koehn (Harvard Business School Professor), Mark Divine Lt Cmndr (ret) US NAVY SEAL, Max Oliva, S.J., Mark Rowland (International business coach), Seth Godin (the man) and many more.
Navigating Community Conflict
A GUIDEBOOK OF PRINCIPLES, STRATEGIES AND RESOURCESWhen conflict erupts and disrupts your leadership, you can flounder. Or you can use the principles, strategies and resources in this book to help you faithfully navigate the choppy waters to the glory of God and the health of your community.Alan Kelshaw offers a holistic approach to shaping and empowering confident and strategic leadership responses to conflict events. Whether you lead a church, school, mission or para-church ministry, the book aims to help you stay buoyant while maintaining leadership focus, community cohesion and organisational purpose. The book covers: a framework of eight biblical principles under the acronym HELMpractical strategy alternatives under the eight HELM leadership principlesover 25 resources to support these strategiesconflict dynamics in Christian communitiesan in-depth look at conflict involving a whole communityan examination of four other prevalent types of conflictapproaches for dealing with the media, lawyers and consultants.This book is timely and an important contribution. An invaluable guide to an increasingly important issue. I highly recommend it.Tim Dyer, Trainer and Consultant in Conflict Management. The Johnmark Extension...an easily read, hope-filled, engaging, 'how to' book on navigating the rough and rocky road of conflict in Christian communities.Wendy Konemann, Counsellor, Trauma Therapist, Mediator, TrainerKelshaw has provided the perfect blend of a biblical foundation for how leaders can rightly think about conflict, matched with a whole ocean of tools... Bruce Burgess, Founding Director, PeaceWise, Australia...Alan's book and accompanying resources, are priceless... Rod Thompson, Minister, Springwood Presbyterian Churches, NSW Former Principal, Laidlaw College, Auckland, New ZealandSEE THE BOOK'S WEBSITE FOR BONUS CHAPTERS AND RESOURCESwww.navigatingcommunityconflict.com
Leading Under Pressure
The best leaders lead by example, not by mandate. However, so much leadership has become conscripted by neoliberal values. Educators and politicians, who are increasingly making policy for educators, have come to believe that standardized test scores are the same as knowledge acquired, as if test scores actually measure knowledge as opposed to information. Simply put, educational policy is no longer being developed for educational purposes but education is increasingly being manipulated as an experiment in social engineering. Educational leaders are caught on the horns of a dilemma - to follow and inscribe policies they do not agree with or to "go rogue" and do what they know is needed. Leading under Pressure is aptly titled, as there is significant pressure being placed on school leaders at any stage in their careers. However, in an otherwise increasingly hostile political, commercial and natural environment, there are some rays of hope. For example, teachers still know what it is that their students need and strive to provide that, despite mandates that try to create consumers of us all. This volume is divided into three sections, the first of which seeks to explore social contexts of educational leadership. The second section explores the experiences of a variety of educational leaders in various contexts, while the third section of this volume looks at some of the consequences, unintended and otherwise, of the neoliberal commodification of education.
Breaking Into the Boys' Club
Breaking into the Boys' Club is the ultimate guide to success for women in business. No matter what stage in your career or what job position you hold, this book offers you practical, relatable ways to evaluate your work style and workplace culture in order to better understand behavior that may be holding you back from advancing in your field.
Getting Data Science Done
Getting Data Science Done outlines the essential stages in running successful data science projects.Data science is a field that synthesizes statistics, computer science and business analytics to deliver results that can impact almost any type of process or organization. Data science is also an evolving technical discipline, whose practice is full of pitfalls and potential problems for managers, stakeholders and practitioners. Many organizations struggle to consistently deliver results with data science due to a wide range of issues, including knowledge barriers, problem framing, organizational change and integration with IT and engineering.Getting Data Science Done outlines the essential stages in running successful data science projects. The book provides comprehensive guidelines to help you identify potential issues and then a range of strategies for mitigating them. The book is organized as a sequential process allowing the reader to work their way through a project from an initial idea all the way to a deployed and integrated product.
Remarkable Leadership
This book doesn't care about your job title(It doesn't really care if you call yourself a leader)It does care that we move on from talking about grit, resilience, gravitas, confidence and commerciality as if that's the way we create the world we're longing for.It cares that we stop walking ourselves into burnout or choosing to die in a ditch over things that don't matter much at all. It cares that we stop treating work as a daily battle.It deeply cares that we learn how to apply more heart and wisdom to what we do.Remarkable Leadership lays out the 'what' and 'how' that makes it easy to choose a new path. It reveals what becomes possible when we show up in a way that makes us feel proud of who we are BEING as well as what we do.The best news? This way points to unimaginable results. Not just in your chosen profession, but in every aspect of your life.If you're longing for a different way to live, create and lead and you're open and curious to learn and experiment, then this book is for you.Unconventional, game-changing, transformational. And always, straight from the heart.Danielle Macleod led 10,000 people to extraordinary results in one of the UK's biggest companies. Her work in Remarkable Women creates heart-centred impactful leaders all over the world. To find out more visit www.remarkablewomen.co.uk
Blockchain, Fintech, and Islamic Finance
Following the success of the first edition that brought attention to the digital revolution in Islamic financial services, comes this revised and updated second edition of Blockchain, Fintech and Islamic Finance. The authors reiterate the potential of digital disruption to shrink the role and relevance of today's banks, while simultaneously creating better, faster, cheaper services that will be an essential part of everyday life. Digital transformation will also offer the ability to create new ways to better comply to Islamic values in order to rebuild trust and confidence in the current financial system. In this new edition, they explore current concepts of decentralized finance (DeFi), distributed intelligence, stablecoins, and the integration of AI, blockchain, data analytics and IoT devices for a holistic solution to ensure technology adoption in a prudent and sustainable manner. The book discusses crucial innovation, structural and institutional developments for financial technologies including two fast-growing trends that merge and complement each other: tokenization, where all illiquid assets in the world, from private equity to real estate and luxury goods, become liquid and can be traded more efficiently, and second, the rise of a new tokenized economy where inevitably new rules and ways to enforce them will develop to fully unleash their capabilities. These complementary and oft-correlated trends will complete the decentralization of finance and will influence the way future financial services will be implemented. This book provides insights into the shift in processes, as well as the challenges that need to be overcome for practical applications for AI and blockchain and how to approach such innovations. It also covers new technological risks that are the consequence of utilizing frontier technologies such as AI, blockchain and IoT. Industry leaders, Islamic finance professionals, along with students and academics in the fields of Islamic finance and economics will benefit immensely from this book.
Collaborative Crisis Management
A no-nonsense guide for corporations facing crisis, from two experienced crisis managers All organizations face crises from time to time, and at a time when news, information (or misinformation), and rumors can spread quickly, a timely and thoughtful response to a crisis, is critical. In this book, two industry insiders offer a primer on how organizational leadership should prepare for and handle crises. The steps, plans, and cautions they offer show how organizations can deal openly and honestly with challenges while continuing to survive and prosper. Thomas A. Cole and Paul Verbinnen show how successful crisis management requires a multi-disciplined approach enacted collaboratively under strong leadership. Drawing on many real-world examples, they speak to not only what to do during a crisis, but also the need for preparedness and post-crisis follow-up. The book is organized around a broad range of discrete issues that need to be addressed in managing any crisis and provides the steps required to successfully address each of those issues. The authors urge crisis managers to focus attention equally on four phases of management: prepare, execute, recover, and then repeat (after reflecting on the results of the last crisis) with the next one. The emphasis is on preparation and planning, setting up the procedures, and organizing the teams that will respond to each crisis. Unlike other crisis books that focus solely on communication, Collaborative Crisis Management goes further and in addition to communication, it discusses both the legal obligations and organizational challenges that accompany a crisis. The result is an indispensable guide for leaders, board members, and business students.
Online Learning Systems
This book discusses the newest approach to online learning systems in higher education. As e-learning platforms change their mechanisms for data processing and storage towards being more efficient and smarter, this book covers online learning systems and their application to large scaled data along with the technological aspects.
Evolving Business Ethics
Business ethics as a discipline has been evolving rapidly, and indeed needs to evolve constantly. This evolution is mandated more urgently than ever before as we plunge headlong, and with increasing velocity, into the era of automation, artificial intelligence and digitization. In a scenario where legal and policy guidelines are scarce or ambiguous, the role of business ethics in guiding academic and industrial research and innovation cannot be understated. Ethical codes and guidelines are needed for educators, scientists, industries, law and policy makers, as well as for the general public engaged with emerging technologies not only to ensure a smooth transition into the autonomous and digital age, but also to ensure that in the process, we do not unknowingly disengage from basic human rights, values and responsibilities. Traditional, time tested and universally accepted principles of (business) ethics, including principles of integrity, responsibility and sustainability must, therefore, not be abandoned, but rather permitted to evolve to address the unique issues that emerging technologies present to humankind. This evolution necessarily entails an evolution also in research methods (including methods that permit multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder engagement), entrepreneurship ethics and a multi-cultural understanding of human rights and responsibilities, as relevant to emerging technologies such as autonomous driving. The envisaged volume "Evolving Business Ethics: Integrity, Sustainability and Responsible Innovation in the Digital Age" accordingly brings together contributions in the field of business ethics from a diversity of perspectives and disciplines.
Machiavelli for Women
From the NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money comes an "accessible, funny, clear-eyed, and practical" (Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author) guide for how women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccol簷 Machiavelli to their work lives and finally shatter the glass ceiling--perfect for fans of Feminist Fight Club, Lean In, and Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office.Women have been making strides towards equality for decades, or so we're often told. They've been increasingly entering male-dominated areas of the workforce and consistently surpassing their male peers in grades, university attendance, and degrees. They've recently stormed the political arena with a vengeance. But despite all of this, the payoff is--quite literally--not there: the gender pay gap has held steady at about 20% since 2000. And the number of female CEOs for Fortune 500 companies has actually been declining. So why, in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp, is the glass ceiling still holding strong? And how can we shatter it for once and for all? Stacy Vanek Smith's advice: ask Machiavelli "with this delicious look at what we have to gain by examining our relationship to power" (Sally Helgesen, New York Times bestselling author). Using The Prince as a guide and with charm and wit, Smith applies Renaissance politics to the 21st century, and demonstrates how women can take and maintain power in careers where they have long been cast as second-best. "Machiavelli For Women is the ultimate battle guide for our times. Brimming with hard-boiled strategies, laced with wit, it's a must-read for every woman ready to wield power unapologetically" (Claire Shipman, coauthor of The Confidence Code).
We Should All Be Millionaires
Are you ready to fill your life with more peace, power, and joy?We Should All Be Millionaires details a realistic, achievable, step-by-step path to creating the support, confidence, and plan you need to own your success and become the millionaire the world needs you to be.Only 10 percent of the world's millionaires are women, making it difficult for women to wield the economic power that will create lasting equality. Whatever is stopping you from having seven figures in the bank--whether it's shaky confidence, knowledge gaps when it comes to wealth building tactics, imposter syndrome, a janky mindset about money (it's okay, we've all been there!), or simply not knowing where to begin--this book shows you how to clear every obstacle in your way, show up, and glow up.We Should All Be Millionaires will forever change the way you think about money and your ability to earn it.In this book, Rachel Rodgers-- a Black woman, mother of four, attorney, business owner, and self-made millionaire-- shares the lessons she's learned both in her own journey to wealth and in coaching hundreds of women through their own journeys to seven figures.Inside, you'll learn: Why earning more money is not "selfish" or "greedy" but in fact, a revolutionary act that brings the economy into balance and creates a better world for all.Why most of the financial advice you've heard in the past (like "skip your daily latte to save money") is absolute, patriarchal nonsense.An eye-opening history lesson on how women and people of color have been shut out of the ability to build wealth for centuries--and how we can fix this.How to stop making broke-ass decisions that leave you feeling emotionally and financially depleted and start making million-dollar decisions instead.Why aiming to earn $100K per year is not enough, and why you need to be setting your goals much higher.Strategies to bring more money in the door and fatten your bank account immediately. (Including Rodgers'$10K in 10 Days Challenge which hundreds of women have completed--with incredible results.)It's time to construct an entirely new attitude about money, claim your power, and build the financial security that you need and deserve -- so you can stop just surviving, and start thriving. Let's begin.
The Moment And Other Essays
Some of the essays are now published for the first time; others have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, the New Statesman and Nation, Time and Tide, the New York Saturday Review, New Writing. I have included two essays with the same title, Royalty; the first was commissioned, but, for obvious reasons, not published by Picture Post; the second was published in Time and Tide. A selection of twenty-nine essays. "Woolf's essays...are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure.... Everything she writes about novelists, like everything she writes about women, is fascinating.... Her well-stocked, academic, masculine mind is the ideal flint for the steel of her uncanny intuitions to strike on" (Cyril Connolly, New Yorker). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.
Orlando
Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels; Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies.
The Years
The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present day" of the mid-1930s. Although spanning fifty years, the novel is not epic in scope, focusing instead on the small private details of the characters' lives. At the beginning of each section, and sometimes as a transition within sections, Woolf describes the changing weather all over Britain, taking in both London and countryside as if in a bird's-eye view before focusing in on her characters. Although these descriptions move across the whole of England in single paragraphs, Woolf only rarely and briefly broadens her view to the world outside Britain.
The Waves
The Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf and is considered to be her most experimental work. The book consists of soliloquies spoken by six characters Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak in his own voice. Much of The Waves can be seen as a meditation on the structure and limits of the self. One of the most obvious aspects of this novel is the way that humans are both disconnected and isolated from one another and at the same time define one another.
To The Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. The novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships. Among the book's many tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, the nature of art and the problem of perception. In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. Ramsay bring their eight children to their summer home in the Hebrides (a group of islands west of Scotland). Across the bay from their house stands a large lighthouse. Six-year-old James Ramsay wants desperately to go to the lighthouse, and Mrs. Ramsay tells him that they will go the next day if the weather permits.
Think and Grow Rich
Harnessing the Power of Thought for Over 85 Years!Hey, you! Yes, you--the person who's reading this. Changing your thoughts really is the first step to achieving what seems impossible. You're about to learn how this works in Think and Grow Rich, which is recognized far and wide as the book that laid the groundwork for the positive-thinking concept. This refreshed edition of the 1937 classic by Napoleon Hill features a foreword by Dave Ramsey--bestselling author, radio host and America's trusted voice on money--who applied the principles he learned in Think and Grow Rich to achieve success in his life and work. In Think and Grow Rich, Hill finds a common thread in several successful people of his time, including Dale Carnegie, Henry Ford, William Wrigley Jr., George Eastman, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilbur Wright, Charles M. Schwab and Thomas Edison. Each of their thoughts plays a powerful role in their ability to win with life and money. Hill outlines 13 principles to guide you on your journey toward personal success: - Desire- Faith- Auto-Suggestion- Specialized Knowledge- Imagination- Organized Planning- Decision- Persistence- Power of the Master Mind- Enthusiasm- The Subconscious Mind- The Brain- The Sixth SenseTake a deeper dive into each of these and find out why the first step to being successful is the practice of believing you can. You've got this!
Losing Big Winning Bigger
Are you scared of failures? Are you often bullied and mocked? Do you feel choked by the gut-wrenching competition of life? Are you afraid of an uncertain future?In the present times, social media and the virtual world have taken a toll on our mindset. Millennials are falling prey to depression while trying to fit in. They are troubled and confused. Losing Big Winning Bigger focuses on the magic mantra of dealing with the uncertainties of life. Compromised dreams, failed relationships, toxic professional life, and unfair failures are part of life. And so is a glorious success. Life constantly oscillates between success and failure, where nothing is permanent.No matter how powerful you are, you can never control life and its peculiarities. This book will help you: Understand the brutal realities of life and how to deal with them.Nurture your persuasion skills.Learn the significance of knowledge and time management.Fight the bullies.See the real struggles involved in an entrepreneur's life.Sujay Santra showcases the fickle nature of life and highlights the significance of failure in crafting a success story. This book is a true companion for millennials who consider failure as an end of life. Grab your copy and learn how to cope with life.
Economic Insights from Input-Output Tables for Asia and the Pacific
This publication features a broad suite of statistical indicators characterizing the supply-and-use interactions of economic sectors within and across 25 economies of Asia and the Pacific. The indicators include sector- and economy-specific multipliers and linkages, trade orientation and openness, participation in global value chains, patterns of product specialization, and domestic agglomeration, among many others. Supplementing these analyses are special chapters on the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the contribution of the digital economy, and the significance of activities related to real estate. All analyses and indicators draw on the Multiregional Input-Output database maintained by the Asian Development Bank.
Higher Education Continuing Education and Training and the Eu Framework on State Aid Implications for the Public Higher Education Sector in Brandenburg
Ageing populations and rising skill demands have heightened expectations that higher education systems will widen their offer of continuing education and training (CET) for adults aiming to renew or augment their skills at an advanced level. CET is becoming increasingly important for maintaining a highly skilled workforce also in Germany, and particularly in the state of Brandenburg.
Process Measurement in Business Process Management
Process measurement deals with the quantification of business process models using process model metrics. This book presents a theoretical framework for the prediction of external process model attributes (as, for example, error-proneness and understandabiltiy) based on internal (structural) attributes. The properties of proposed metrics are analyzed. A visualization technique for metric values is introduced and metrics for process model understandability and granularity are evaluated.
Speaking Up in a Culture of Silence
We know we should speak up and question what is being taken as normal in our work cultures -　to notice and call out bad behaviour and resist being silenced. This book is a guide to what it takes to do this in a way that doesn't expose you to the countermeasures of people who do not like being questioned. What is explored through case studies and personal experience are ideas about how to resist being silenced at work where there are competing demands on your time and energy and where people have learnt to tolerate bad and uncivil behaviours just to get the work done. There are no magic solutions or calls for decisive action. Just some modest ideas about what can help you hold onto your voice and your thinking so that when the time is right, you can say something that just may help keep us all a bit safer.
Understanding Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations
This book sheds new light on the role businesses can play in contributing to sustainability objectives, and how governance actors can better encourage their contributions. Jean-Pierre Imbrogiano introduces and empirically investigates the concept of sustainability performance in businesses, which reveals how achieving social and environmental objectives is experienced within business organizations. He focuses on supply chain management as a key part in this process and looks at how this has evolved to become a vital sector in the global business landscape. He further considers the current practices of governance actors which aim to enable sustainability performance in businesses. Labelled as a 'sustainability service industry', these actors include international, national, and industry sustainability initiatives, sustainability standard setters, business consultancies and rating agencies, as well as sustainable supply chain managers in corporations. Overall, this book calls for a conceptual reorientation in business sustainability scholarship, and points towards a challenging agenda for change in the sustainability service industry. Understanding Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable business, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, sustainable supply chain management, and sustainability governance.
Jacob's Room
Jacob's Room is a linear novel concerning the life of Jacob Flanders, a fictional character whose life spans from approximately 1988 to 1914. It is written in the past tense. The novel begins during Jacob's early childhood. Jacob's mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Flanders, takes her three sons to Cornwall, England in the wake of her husband's death. The novel moves ahead to Jacob's time in university. Jacob attends the University of Cambridge, thus residing outside Scarborough for the first time in his life. The novel ends with a scene of Betty Flanders and Richard Bionomy distraughtly clearing out Jacob's London apartment in the wake of Jacob's death.
Lady Susan
Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This early complete work, which the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the title character. It is about the horrible flirt Lady Susan Vernon, a widow in her thirties who has an affair with a married man. After her husband's death she stays with her brother and his family and soon enchants the handsome, friendly but na簿ve and idealistic Reginald de Courcy, who is her brother-in-law. The characters in Lady Susan experience and act on various kinds of love, both romantic and familial. Characters' relationships with one another are what drive the story, which centres around Lady Susan's potential engagement to Reginald De Courcy and her schemes involving her daughter, Frederica.
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
"A Haunted House" was first published in 1921 as a part of Virginia Woolf's short story collection Monday or Tuesday. The collection, which contained eight short stories, in this book a brief glimpse into daily life in a house occupied by two couples: one living and one dead. Told from the perspective of the living couple, the story presents the ghostly couple's search for something they left in the house The action takes place in a coastal region of South-eastern England at a house in an unidentified locale where there is a farm. The time is the late nineteenth century or the early twentieth century. Living Couple: Current occupants of a house. Ghost Couple: Past occupants of the house. When you read Virginia Wolf's Haunted Story, you will get to see something interesting.
Night And Day
Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success. The novel has four major characters: Katharine Hilbery, Mary Datchet, Ralph Denham, and William Rodney. Night and Day deals with questions concerning women's suffrage, and asks whether love and marriage can coexist and whether marriage is necessary for happiness. Motifs throughout the book include the stars and sky, the River Thames, and walks. Woolf makes many references to the works of William Shakespeare, especially As You Like It.
Educational Research and Innovation Who Cares about Using Education Research in Policy and Practice? Strengthening Research Engagement
Across the OECD, enormous effort and investment has been made to reinforce the quality, production and use of education research in policy and practice. Despite this, using research in education remains a challenge for many countries and systems.
Islamic Financial Markets and Institutions
This timely and unique book focuses on the foundations of Islamic financial markets and institutions, in the context of various products, their market application, Islamic asset management and regulation.
Knowledge Guided Machine Learning
Knowledge Guided Machine Learning provides an introduction to this rapidly growing field by discussing some of the common themes of research in SGML, using illustrative examples and case studies from diverse application domains and research communities as contributed book chapters.
Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen's lifetime. The novel did not receive any public reviews until 1821. However, Mansfield Park is perhaps Austen's most controversial novel due to its brief mention of the British slave trade, and the fact that Fanny's uncle and benefactor, Sir Thomas, owns a plantation in the West Indies. Mansfield Park is an enormously complicated novel, even by the standards of Jane Austen, who creates characters and situations of unusual complexity in all her novels. Like other Austen novels, this one is concerned with a young woman trying to find her place in the social order.
Semantic Business Process Modeling
This book presents a process-oriented business modeling framework based on semantic technologies. The framework consists of modeling languages, methods, and tools that allow for semantic modeling of business motivation, business policies and rules, and business processes. Quality of the proposed modeling framework is evaluated based on the modeling content of SAP Solution Composer and several real-world business scenarios.
Ai-Powered Business Intelligence
Use business intelligence to power corporate growth, increase efficiency, and improve corporate decision making. With this practical book featuring hands-on examples in Power BI with basic Python and R code, you'll explore the most relevant AI use cases for BI, including improved forecasting, automated classification, and AI-powered recommendations. And you'll learn how to draw insights from unstructured data sources like text, document, and image files. Author Tobias Zwingmann helps BI professionals, business analysts, and data analytics understand high-impact areas of artificial intelligence. You'll learn how to leverage popular AI-as-a-service and AutoML platforms to ship enterprise-grade proofs of concept without the help of software engineers or data scientists. Learn how AI can generate business impact in BI environments Use AutoML for automated classification and improved forecasting Implement recommendation services to support decision-making Draw insights from text data at scale with NLP services Extract information from documents and images with computer vision services Build interactive user frontends for AI-powered dashboard prototypes Implement an end-to-end case study for building an AI-powered customer analytics dashboard
That's My Property
How many opportunities have you missed out on because you failed to act or apply the knowledge you've read?When will you finally say enough is enough and commit to taking control of your financial investments?Are you busy but what to invest your hard-earned money in an asset class with stable, profitable, recession-resistant returns?Then welcome to That's My Property!In this book, Dre Evans will answer these questions and provide a motivating, in-depth look at how to invest and build wealth through apartment real estate and live a life that adds value to others.In the coming pages, you'll discover: How to be successful as a real estate investor and how it can be used as tool to achieve financial independenceCreative ways on how to invest in multifamily syndicationsThe truth about active vs passive investingHow to receive all the tax and cash flow benefits of real estate while investing passivelyThe best way to overcome your fears and invest in your first multifamily propertyHow to identify your goals, achieve them, and the power of positive affirmations in life and in businessHow to leverage real estate to give you more "time back"The ins and outs of everything you need to know about investing in multifamily syndicationsAnd so much more!In addition, you'll receive the following BONUS materials: A real estate investment & individual goal plannerA Multifamily Syndication Certificate of CompletionLife is short. Take control and act now. Scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button!
The Work Before the Work
Discover the 6 hidden habits of elite sales performers​​Have you ever wondered why some sales professionals consistently win year after year, while others have peaks and valleys-or simply fail to ever reach their true potential?Sure, hard work, dedicated effort, product knowledge, and an attractive personality (and even knowing Exactly What to Say) can all help with success in sales. And almost anyone who's reached elite sales performance status has all of these-but it's not enough to explain how they do it. In The Work Before the Work, leading sales professionals Paul M. Caffrey and Phil M. Jones reveal the six hidden habits that set sales superstars apart, and how to unlock them in yourself. But be advised: You will find approximately zero "hacks," and not a single "trick" in these pages. And at no point will you discover a "hidden secret". Instead, you'll discover the meticulous thinking, questioning and preparation that the best of the best practice unconsciously, and learn how to ritualize your sales preparation so you, too, can join their ranks. Think of it as a roadmap that gives you a fair advantage in almost every selling situation-akin to the ability to start a soccer match with a three-goal advantage, a tennis match already a set up, or a marathon at the eight-mile marker. Whether you're prospecting, selling, or looking for your next promotion, you'll achieve it, and more, when you learn to do The Work Before the Work.
Trust Your Increments
Trust Your Increments offers a 15-step plan for young professionals to sprint up the corporate ladder and challenge the "Old Boy's Club."
