Mastering the Power of You
The world of the 2020s is complex and demanding. We are faced with a myriad of difficult decisions about our present and future, driven by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic downturn, rising unemployment and inequalities, digital disruption, uncertain political environments, and climate change. In this book, leaders from around the world share their experiences in adapting to the changing world and the lessons they have learnt. They offer advice on mastering a diverse range of leadership concepts, skills, and behaviours to prepare for the challenges of the 21st century. The easy-to-follow format is grouped around the core concepts of Leadership, entrepreneurship, and volunteering; Purpose and values; Authenticity, trust and presence; Strategising, thinking, and decision-making; Mentoring and development; Mental resilience; Diversity and inclusion; Negotiating and collaborating; and Social and environmental impact. Each of the 32 chapters takes you on a voyage of discovery to a wide range of "powers" and inspires you to use them to open new opportunities in your life and workplace. If you are a recent graduate aspiring to gain meaningful employment in a rapidly transforming workplace, or a mid-career professional whose job may soon change or disappear with increasing automation, this book is for you. If you are a consultant, coach, mentor, or trainer, looking for new approaches, this book will provide valuable guidelines. If you are a seasoned professional navigating the new norms, this book will give you many inspiring insights.
Women on Boards in China and India
This book provides an in-depth comparative exploration of gender diversity in corporate leadership roles in China and India. Set in the context of changing corporate governance norms, it utilizes both quantitative and qualitative research methods to understand the key determinants of gender disparity.
The Happy Hermit
You NEVER have to change who you are to grow your business Introverts always get the message (implicitly or explicitly) they should try to be more extroverted. We're told to not be so shy, to speak up more, to make ourselves more visible. We're constantly told how we should change, especially when it comes to growing our businesses. But the truth is ... ... you NEVER have to change yourself to live your dreams and build a successful business. In fact, the more you are true to yourself and your introverted ways, the easier it is to create a business you adore. In this book, I show you how I turned myself from a crappy hermit, who never had enough alone time, to a happy hermit, who has all the freedom and space she wants. More importantly, you'll discover how you, too, can build a business that allows you the freedom you desire without changing who you are or doing things you hate! BIO Brigitte van Tuijl is a writer and master coach for women entrepreneurs. In the past two decades she's helped thousands of women get clear on their true dream and make it real. Her clients have launched businesses globally, published their first books, doubled their incomes, and realized their most important goals and desires. The Happy Hermit is Brigitte's seventh book. She lives in The Netherlands with her man Arjen. She hates hobbies and loves people-in moderation.: -) You can find Brigitte online at yourwayornoway.com
America's Higher Education Goes Global
"Dr. Christine Schiwietz' groundbreaking book on what I believe to be the most important development in American higher education in the twenty-first century could not have come at a more opportune time."-Patrick Theros, U.S. Ambassador American universities are the most prestigious and sought-after bastions of higher learning in the world. Now, even students outside the United States can reap the benefits of an education from big-name universities like Georgetown University-and the global branch campus is making it possible. In America's Higher Education Goes Global, Dr. Christine Schiwietz provides an inside look at the Georgetown University branch campus in Education City, Qatar. You'll learn about internationalization in academia, how Georgetown University started their global branch campus, advantages for international and American students, and first-hand insight on global experiential learning and the multiversity experience. With fascinating facts, student testimonials, and valuable resources, this is a unique look at the movement bringing the world together through higher education.
The X-Culture Handbook of Collaboration and Problem Solving in Global Virtual Teams
According to a 2018 survey, 89 percent of "white-collar" workers at least occasionally work as members of global virtual teams. The percentage has likely increased during the COVID-19 pandemic as bans on international travel and the shifts to telework prompted more online collaboration. Collaboration among people from different countries, cultures, organizations, and institutional environments presents numerous advantages; the diversity of perspectives and knowledge pools greatly enhances the team's creativity and decision-making. However, such workgroups often have to deal with time-zone differences, limited in-person contact substituted by communication online, and the differences stemming from cultural and institutional diversity, which presents challenges not experienced by traditional collocated teams.Based on a wealth of research and personal experiences, contributors to The X-Culture Handbook of Collaboration and Problem Solving in Global Virtual Teams review known challenges and recommend evidence-based best practices for working in global virtual teams. The book provides practical advice not only to members of global virtual teams, but also for team managers, coaches, counselors, and educators.This book is available in an open access digital format.
The Business of Liberty
What makes political freedom valuable to us? Two well-known arguments are that freedom contributes to our desire satisfaction and to our personal responsibility. Here, Boudewijn de Bruin argues that freedom is valuable when it is accompanied by knowledge. He offers an original and systematic account of the relationship between freedom and knowledge and defends two original normative ideals of known freedom and acknowledged freedom. By combining psychological perspectives on choice and philosophical views on the value of knowledge, he shows how known freedom is crucial to satisfy our desires and assume responsibility. Known freedom is compromised when salespeople deploy consumer-obfuscation, or when news outlets use contextual framing techniques to steer the way their audiences process information. Conversely, carefully developed consumer protection and information disclosure regulation can foster known freedom. Acknowledged freedom, from ethical and economic perspectives, offers protection and makes our freedoms more stable. It embodies an ideal of mutual recognition that underlies informed consent and the ethics of communication, and can also contribute to a flourishing corporate culture. This book integrates and extends cutting-edge research from philosophy, economics, psychology, and law to reorient debates on privacy, neuromarketing, sustainable finance, corporate culture, consumer protection, media violence, and freedom of speech.
America's Higher Education Goes Global
"Dr. Christine Schiwietz' groundbreaking book on what I believe to be the most important development in American higher education in the twenty-first century could not have come at a more opportune time."-Patrick Theros, U.S. Ambassador American universities are the most prestigious and sought-after bastions of higher learning in the world. Now, even students outside the United States can reap the benefits of an education from big-name universities like Georgetown University-and the global branch campus is making it possible. In America's Higher Education Goes Global, Dr. Christine Schiwietz provides an inside look at the Georgetown University branch campus in Education City, Qatar. You'll learn about internationalization in academia, how Georgetown University started their global branch campus, advantages for international and American students, and first-hand insight on global experiential learning and the multiversity experience. With fascinating facts, student testimonials, and valuable resources, this is a unique look at the movement bringing the world together through higher education.
Write Your OWN Story
It's time to eradicate the factory model of work that has spread to our schools and our homes, leaving us addicted to busyness, control, and achievement. More than 2 million women left the workforce in 2021, putting women's labor force at 57 percent, the lowest since 1988. The global pandemic came on the heels of the 2019 World Health Organization report on burnout as an occupational phenomenon characterized by exhaustion, cynicism, and no more "suck it up" left to give. Women will return on their own terms, leading thriving lives and careers dedicated to people and prosperity. Business is human. Badass women will change commerce forever as they steward the Age of Humanity.
The Routledge Companion to Mindfulness at Work
Given the ever-growing interest in the benefits of mindfulness to organizations and the individuals who work in them, this Companion is a comprehensive primary reference work for mindfulness (including creativity and flow) in the workplace, including business, healthcare, and educational settings. Research shows that mindfulness boosts creativity through greater insight, receptivity, and balance, and increases energy and a sense of wellbeing. This Companion traces the genesis and growth of this burgeoning field, tracks its application to the workplace, and suggests trends and future directions. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in business, leadership, psychology, healthcare, education, and other related fields, The Routledge Companion to Mindfulness at Work is an extensive reference work which will be a vital resource to the fields of management and organizational studies, human resource management, psychology, spirituality, cultural anthropology, and sociology. Each chapter will present a listing of key topics, a case or situation that illustrates the application of the themes, workplace lessons, and reflection questions.
Hybrid Governance, Organisations and Society
The era of hybrid governance is here. More and more organizations occupy a position between public and private ownership. And value is created not through business or public interests alone, but through distinct forms of hybrid governance. National governments are looking to transform their administrative systems to become more business driven. Likewise, private enterprises are seeing value gains in promoting public interest in their corporate social responsibility programs. But how can we conceptualize, evaluate and measure the value and performance of hybrid governance and organizations? This book offers a comprehensive overview of how hybrids produce value. It explores the drivers, obstacles and complications for value creation in different hybrid contexts: state-owned enterprises, urban policy-making, universities and non-profits from around the world. The authors address several types of value contents, for instance financial, social and public value. Furthermore, the book provides a novel way of understanding multiple forms of doing value in hybrid settings. The book explains mixing, compromising and legitimising as important mechanisms of value creation.Aimed at researchers and students of public management, public administration, business management, corporate social responsibility and governance, this book provides a theoretical, conceptual and empirical understanding of value creation in hybrid organizations. It is also an invaluable overview of performance evaluation and measurement systems and practices in hybrid organizations and governance.
Business and Sustainable Development in Africa
The book offers new critical insights into the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development in Africa.
The Future of Management Education
This book brings together scholars, practitioners, and stakeholders to identify trends and to critically analyse key challenges of management education from their respective perspectives.
Research in Crisis
This book explores the weak explanatory and predictive power of theories across disciplines, explains reasons for limited expertise after centuries of scientific effort, and sets forth strategies to accelerate knowledge accretion and to manage a future we can only dimly comprehend.
Awqaf-led Islamic Social Finance
The book analyses the historical context of Waqf as well as its revival in the digital era. It addresses the laws and policies affecting the management of Waqf and offers recommendations for the way forward.
Practical Wisdom, Leadership and Culture
The book offers significant insight into the implications of the non-Western traditions of wisdom, and how such an understanding of the non-Western traditions can help us better and more critically understand and appropriately address new multi-faceted complex emerging phenomena.
Business Adaptation to Climate Change
This book seeks to advance the understanding of how businesses may adapt to climate change trends. Specifically, it focuses on two general research questions: Firstly, how do businesses adapt to chronic slow-onset nature adversity conditions linked to climate change? Secondly, how do firms adapt to weather-related natural disasters exacerbated by climate change? In the first part of the book, the authors develop a conceptual framework in response to these questions. In the second part, they test this framework using multiple empirical studies involving large data analyses of: (a) the U.S. western ski industry adaptation to warmer temperatures, and (b) the effect of natural disasters on the foreign investment of multinational corporations around the world. This book will interest management and public policy students and scholars researching successful business climate change adaptation strategies, as well as business and non-profit organization leaders and policy makers involved in developing and promoting such effective strategies.
Understanding Regression Analysis
This book unifies diverse regression applications including the classical model, ANOVA models, generalized models including Poisson, Negative binomial, logistic, and survival, neural networks and decision trees under a common umbrella; namely, the conditional distribution model.
GPS for Success
Next to food and clothing, achieving personal and professional success is rated at the very top of the hierarchical order of human needs. Everybody wants to be somebody! In this ultimate success book that includes timeless information for generations to come, the author has meticulously chronicled proven skills, strategies and secrets that, if regularly followed, will empower the reader to live the life that they imagine. Just like your car's or phone's GPS, these life navigation skills can get you from where you are to where you want to go in your career. In addition, critically important knowledge and abilities, including job interviewing, must-know people skills, writing, and public speaking, are covered. In this book, the author has scoured the world's literature on these topics and interviewed highly successful people to provide one-stop shopping regarding the most proven and practical recommendations for future career success. He has also peppered the text with personal experiences and motivational/inspirational success stories, as well as testimonials/sage advice/quotes from the world's most successful people --past and present.The key objectives of this book are to: Highlight the foundational factors underlying future career success: love what you do; realize that your behaviors largely determine your luck in life; emphasize that highly successful people take 100% responsibility for their actions and destiny; and that the secret to success involves the selfless serving of others. The rewards return--through a boomerang effect. Provide specific examples and inspirational stories highlighting 10 critical behavioral skills for success. These include: look for the good in people and situations; how to activate the law of attraction; establish goals in writing ("if it's not on paper, it's vapor"); take action (#1 success characteristic); know that persistence pays; ask for things you want; enhance your speaking, writing, and interviewing skills; why it's important to work with and learn from people you want to emulate; the essence of superb people skills (e.g., integrity, making others feel important); and to regularly apply the law of sow and reap. Detail complementary approaches, tactics, and perspectives that can help you achieve your breakthrough (major) life goals. These include: time management skills and the 80/20 rule; looking for greener pastures; showcasing your talents (visibility → opportunities); committing to never-ending improvements in performance, service (or products); embracing discipline/focus/sacrifice; routinely exceeding people's expectations; striving for greater rewards; and seeing an ocean of opportunities before you. In aggregate, these yield BIG rewards in life. Provide a potpourri of related topics, including unlooked-for opportunities; leadership and bringing out the best in those around you; avoiding overcautiousness; volunteering (raising your hand); reframing future commitments; the power (and magic) of an unexpected thank you note; and the disproportionate dividends and good karma that result from giving back and mentoring others.
Business Adaptation to Climate Change
This book seeks to advance the understanding of how businesses may adapt to climate change trends. Specifically, it focuses on two general research questions: Firstly, how do businesses adapt to chronic slow-onset nature adversity conditions linked to climate change? Secondly, how do firms adapt to weather-related natural disasters exacerbated by climate change? In the first part of the book, the authors develop a conceptual framework in response to these questions. In the second part, they test this framework using multiple empirical studies involving large data analyses of: (a) the U.S. western ski industry adaptation to warmer temperatures, and (b) the effect of natural disasters on the foreign investment of multinational corporations around the world. This book will interest management and public policy students and scholars researching successful business climate change adaptation strategies, as well as business and non-profit organization leaders and policy makers involved in developing and promoting such effective strategies.
The Complete Online Course Design Workbook
The fear is gone! Turn your passion into a money-making machine the easy way!This online course creation workbook is perfect for beginners or experienced content creators.We don't just TELL you, we SHOW you from a blank page to the finished article. The only thing left is for you to film what you have created.It will be like looking over our shoulder at what we do. We give you examples along the way so you can see it in practice and can be sure there is no boring repetitive info. Just unique gold nuggets that will straight to the point - no fluff!Once you have had a peek inside your new Online Course Design Workbook, you'll be itching to get started straight away!The vast amount of knowledge contained within this workbook far outweighs the purchase price! Creating and selling courses on the internet will be EASY!What we will cover in this workbook: ✓ What to expect - Clear guidance as to why you should plan your course the way we show you. Our tips and hints are easy to read and put into practice, and will take your business to the next level!✓ Let's create! - How to come up with the content for your course without the headache! Create a course from clear and easy lesson plans that only contain the essential information to ensure your courses are transformational.✓ What do I do now? - How to organise your content into a logical order and ensure your student achieves their goal. We'll introduce you to easy tools that we use every day that you may not have heard of to make these tasks super-quick and effective!✓ Copywriting - Discover the secrets to selling your course and making money while you watch tv or visit friends and family! We give you the power words to pack a punch!✓ Resources - Have everything you need for success at your fingertips! No more banging your head against a wall searching for the information you think you need! Relax, we got you!If you want to create profitable courses (and have fun while you're doing it) click the buy button now!
The Two Sandals
Living is like looking at life through a kaleidoscope, with an unknown hand continuously turning the hand piece and changing what there is to see. This book asks questions and offers answers that allow the reader to come up with a road map to understand and respond more appropriately to this kaleidoscope. The author of this book and his writing cannot be separated from each other. His life is evidence for the book. He has actively researched the themes in this book since 1984. He has presented these ideas in 26 countries, in some instances through translators. This is one piece of evidence of the trustworthiness and relevance of the information in this book. - Armand Kruger, psychologist, specialist NLP and NeuroSemantics trainer and business consultant. We come into the world as scintillating points of awareness. Over time, we develop certain convictions about who we are, and each one of them describes a limitation. This book gives you tools to free yourself from that web of limitations, by applying the metaphorical two sandals of Intention and Attention in order to rediscover that ecstatic, magical being who you were before you became defined, before you were made a person among people. The author takes you on a journey through the maturation process of the human being seen through the lens of intent in the different epochs of our lives, from being an emptiness that seeks to be filled to eventually arriving at a place of unconditional giving - a fullness that seeks to be emptied. The book also contains practical exercises and techniques to help you clarify your intent and attention so that you may, once again, become that magical being that is beyond limitation and recapture the original ecstatic connectedness with all things that was experienced in infancy.
OMG! Your Best Mind Ever
Do you want more happiness, meaning, and success in your life? This book teaches you the ability to permanently change your way of thinking. If you are tired of struggling and wondering what is to become of you, this book will show you why now is the time to take action. You will learn how to turn your mind, your thoughts, and the quality of your life around. What if you can learn how to "think" for yourself, rather than "think about" yourself?You will never be at a loss as to how to respond in any situation. You will know that you are the creator of your own destiny. You will be able to take control of your life and make it better than you ever thought possible.This book will teach you, step by step, how to make up your mind, change the way that you think, and put into practice what you have read so far. The information and tips provided by this book are invaluable to anyone who wants to make positive changes in their life.You will start right now with a system designed specifically to help you achieve your goals. You will be able to use this system regardless of the success or lack of success that you had in the past. This will allow you to take control of your own life and make it better than you ever thought possible.You are about to learn how to change your mind so that your life can begin transforming before your very eyes."Change is the law of life, and those who look only at the past or present are certain to miss the future."All you have to do is take action today. You will learn how to think for yourself and not "think about" what you need or want.Completing this book is a small task in comparison to what you will be able to achieve with the knowledge that we provide within these pages. Practice makes perfect, so let's get started on your transformation.I know that changing your mind can be a daunting task at times, but it will provide you with an incredible sense of freedom and fulfillment. You will finally be able to live the life that you deserve to have.Scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button to get your copy! 
Hbr's 10 Must Reads on High Performance (with Bonus Article the Right Way to Form New Habits" an Interview with James Clear)
Set yourself on the path to greatness.If you read nothing else on performing at your highest level, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you learn what successful people do differently, find inspiration in your work, and achieve your full potential.This book will inspire you to: Identify the patterns that are holding you backTurn weaknesses into strengths and strengths into successForm the right habits to reach your goalsFocus on the work that matters mostAvoid the pitfalls of being a star performerSet the stage for others to excelThis collection of articles includes "The Making of an Expert," by K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely; "Managing Oneself," by Peter F. Drucker; "Are You a High Potential?," by Douglas A. Ready, Jay A. Conger, and Linda A. Hill, "Making Yourself Indispensable," by John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman, and Scott K. Edinger; "How to Play to Your Strengths," by Laura Morgan Roberts, Gretchen Spreitzer, Jane Dutton, Robert Quinn, Emily Heaphy, and Brianna Barker Caza; "The Power of Small Wins," by Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer; "Nine Things Successful People Do Differently," by Heidi Grant; "Make Time for the Work That Matters," by Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen; "Don't Be Blinded by Your Own Expertise," by Sydney Finkelstein; "Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity," by Ellen Langer and Alison Beard; "Primal Leadership," by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee; and "The Right Way to Form New Habits," by James Clear and Alison Beard.HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.
History in Management and Organization Studies
History in Management and Organization Studies: From Margins to Mainstream is unique in presenting a comprehensive and integrated view of how history has informed management research with a focus on organization theory and strategy.
The Super Hungry
When I think of someone who is super-hungry, I think of an individual who is so motivated internally that they can achieve anything on this planet that they set out to achieve. My purpose is to inspire and support the super hungry to take hold of infinite resources in order to create an abundant lifestyle.
Leading with Values
As societies become more polarized, there is increasing pressure for business leaders to have a sense of purpose and to make moral decisions. Being a good leader requires both a keen understanding of the realities of human decision making as well as an analysis of what is right and wrong. This book integrates lessons from three intellectual traditions - psychology, philosophy, and political economy - to guide readers on a journey to rigorously explore their values and decision making. The authors begin by examining people's intuitions about right and wrong. They then clarify principles that embody these intuitions and help readers engage with others whose intuitions or principles differ from their own. Ultimately, this book teaches readers how to be strategic as they lead with their values: as individuals, as designers of organizations, and as businesspeople interacting with societal institutions.
Work It!
Work It! A modern-day sales planner is the sales planner you always wish you had. At its core, it's simply a daily planner and notebook designed with the sales professional in mind. When used to its capacity, however, it is an absolute game changer. It is a quarterly sales process and workflow tool that is meant to energize, inspire, and guide you, the user, through your daily sales discipline required to crush your quota. And it works! When you take the time to be deliberate and disciplined you can crush your number every single time. And when you cut corners it's so much harder.This planner is essential for anyone in sales looking for the daily motivation, discipline, and energy needed to manage your sales quota-and your sales career-from one quarter to the next!
Work It!
Work It! A modern-day sales planner is the sales planner you always wish you had. At its core, it's simply a daily planner and notebook designed with the sales professional in mind. When used to its capacity, however, it is an absolute game changer. It is a quarterly sales process and workflow tool that is meant to energize, inspire, and guide you, the user, through your daily sales discipline required to crush your quota. And it works! When you take the time to be deliberate and disciplined you can crush your number every single time. And when you cut corners it's so much harder.This planner is essential for anyone in sales looking for the daily motivation, discipline, and energy needed to manage your sales quota-and your sales career-from one quarter to the next!
Managing Multilingual Workplaces
This book provides a source that unites insights from multilingual empirical research, methodological considerations and pedagogic practice in order to advance knowledge and debate.
Organizing for Sustainable Development
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the increasingly complex, interdependent nature of societal and environmental issues for governments and business. Tackling such "grand challenges" requires the concerted action of a multitude of organizations and multiple stakeholders at different levels in the public, private, and non-profit sector. Organizing for Sustainable Development provides an integrated and comparative overview of the successes and failures of organizational efforts to tackle global societal issues and achieve sustainable development. Summarizing years of study by an interdisciplinary board of authors and contributors, this book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of how existing businesses and new hybrid organizations can achieve sustainable development to bring about an improved society, marking a key contribution to the literature in this field. Combining theoretical views with empirical approaches, the chapters in this book are highly relevant to graduate and undergraduate (multidisciplinary) programs in sustainable development, organization studies, development economics, development studies, international management, and social entrepreneurship.
The Elea Way
Social entrepreneurship and impact investing contribute to a more inclusive capitalism and bring innovative solutions to global challenges, such as fighting poverty and protecting planet earth. This book offers practical advice on how to best integrate entrepreneurship and capital for impact and innovation by using elea's philanthropic investing approach to fight absolute poverty with entrepreneurial means as an example. Written by two leading experts, the book summarizes insights from elea's 15-year pioneering journey, from creating an investment organization, choosing purposeful themes, and sourcing opportunities, to partnering with entrepreneurs for impact creation. This includes suggestions on how to lead impact enterprises in such areas as developing strategies, plans, and models; building effective teams and organizations; managing resources; and handling crises. Using real-life examples, this is valuable reading for entrepreneurs, investors, executives, philanthropists, policymakers, and anyone curious about entrepreneurship and inclusive capitalism.
Global Capitalism, Culture, and Ethics
In addition to exploring the theory of global capitalism and ethics for students, this second edition of the key textbook takes into account many new developments across different industries, from retail to technology to big pharma. There are two entirely new chapters on bribery and corruption, and emerging and frontier markets.
Quantitative Enterprise Risk Management
This well-balanced introduction to enterprise risk management integrates quantitative and qualitative approaches and motivates key mathematical and statistical methods with abundant real-world cases - both successes and failures. Worked examples and end-of-chapter exercises support readers in consolidating what they learn. The mathematical level, which is suitable for graduate and senior undergraduate students in quantitative programs, is pitched to give readers a solid understanding of the concepts and principles involved, without diving too deeply into more complex theory. To reveal the connections between different topics, and their relevance to the real world, the presentation has a coherent narrative flow, from risk governance, through risk identification, risk modelling, and risk mitigation, capped off with holistic topics - regulation, behavioural biases, and crisis management - that influence the whole structure of ERM. The result is a text and reference that is ideal for graduate and senior undergraduate students, risk managers in industry, and anyone preparing for ERM actuarial exams.
C# for Beginners
Do you believe that learning C# is too difficult? Then you haven't read this manual. We will provide you with all of the tips and methods you need to make coding in the C# language easy. C# is one of the most diverse programming languages accessible today, allowing you to create any application you choose quickly. This manual is your ultimate resource for learning how to perform your programming, even if you've never done any coding before, and it can equip you with the skills and confidence you'll need along the road. Some of the fascinating subjects we'll look at in this handbook include: A look at the C# programming language and why it is one of the finest languages for beginners to learn.Some of the fundamentals that we must understand to develop our programs, even as beginners.How to create the environment required by the C# language to finish our programs.The C# variables and what we can do to comprehend the various forms of data, as well as certain operators to improve our applications.How to utilize conditional statements to allow our applications to make choices on their own!An examination of why objects and classes are so essential, as well as some of the things we may do to construct our own.Why is it vital to create a loop in C#?Taking care of strings, arrays, and listsUsing C# operatorsSimple actions that will quickly transform you into a competent programmer.And much more!.... What are you waiting for?... Start right now by clicking "BUY NOW" at the top of the page!
Podcast
Learn how to podcast like a proDo you want to start a podcast but you don't know what to say or where to begin? You're not alone. That feeling of uncertainty stops countless aspiring podcasters from recording their first episode. You've spent hours researching equipment, which software to use and how to post your podcast out to the world. That's the easy part. The hard part is figuring out what to say when you hit the "record" button."Podcast: Learn How To Stop Babbling & Start Podcasting Like A Pro" is a step-by-step guide to help you develop your ideas, write a script or outline for your show, and prepare your podcast. What are you waiting for? Let's get started!
Citizens
Citizens by Jon Alexander is a bold, uplifting wake-up call for anyone who feels that democracy, community, and everyday life have been reduced to clicking, buying, complaining - and waiting for "them" to fix it. If you're tired of politics-as-performance, brands-as-saviours, and institutions that treat people like customers or problems to manage, this book hands you a different lens: the Citizen inside every one of us.Alexander's core idea is brilliantly simple and deeply practical: to change the future, we must change the story. He reveals the hidden narratives shaping modern society - and why so many well-meaning reforms fail because they keep the same assumptions in place.The three stories: - The Consumer Story: we're users, consumers, taxpayers, and voters-as-buyers. We demand, choose, and rate while organisations compete to "serve" us.- The Subject Story: in fear and uncertainty, we trade agency for protection - hierarchy, obedience, surveillance, and strongman certainty.- The Citizen Story: we are interdependent, creative, empathic people who can participate, collaborate, and co-create solutions. Citizenship becomes a verb: engagement, responsibility, belonging, contribution.With a foreword by Brian Eno and praise from leading voices in democracy, business, and social change, Citizens makes a persuasive case that the Citizen Story is already rising - often beneath the media radar. From citizens self-organising in crisis to neighbourhood renewal, Alexander shows how citizen power and collective intelligence can outperform "top-down" command or "market fixes" when challenges are complex: climate change, inequality, polarisation, loneliness, and loss of trust.What you'll get from this book: - A fresh, memorable framework for democratic renewal, civic participation, and citizen-led change (ideal for readers of politics, social science, and systems thinking)- A clear diagnosis of why consumerism can't solve the problems it created - and why "change without consequences" is a dangerous fantasy- Real-world stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary work -f rom Birmingham and Berlin to Kibera, London, and Grimsby-proving that citizenship is not rare; it's human- Practical pathways to participatory democracy: citizens' assemblies, deliberative democracy, participatory budgeting, community organising, volunteering, crowdfunding, civic tech, and open innovation
30 Days to Courage
30 Days to Courage is a guide written by Mentor Experts offering their insight on courage from decades long formal and self-directed learning, documenting, testing, failing, reflecting, and understanding. All of this has been summarized into 19 inspirational and aspirational chapters.These 30-Day Challenges offer the reader steps toward building more courage in their lives and businesses. Each author shares her take on courage and the path she took to success. There are real action steps in each chapter that will help you find your path as well.In this book, you will learn how awakening your emotional and financial independence is heavily reliant on identifying how your Vision + Purpose + Plan + Rewards fits into your future as well as being able to determine what your starting point is, and to integrate and execute the plan within the eight pillars of wellness and success.The Eight Pillars of Wellness and Success are EMOTIONAL + ENVIRONMENTAL + FINANCIAL + INTELLECTUAL + OCCUPATIONAL + PHYSICAL + SOCIAL + SPIRITUALIntegrating these things into your plan will not only enable you to achieve a specific goal in one area of your life, but you'll be able to see how this one goal will fit into all areas of your life. A change in one will affect all, given that the composite of all is you-your life experience. We are excited about this book and the way it will increase our opportunity to expand the Mission and Vision of Powerful Women Today to Champion and Empower Women's Emotional and Financial Independence.Meet The AuthorsCarolina M. Billings, Elisa Magill, Ean Price Murphy, Gina Marie De Leon, Jackie Lapin, Jennifer Polansky, Laurie Smith, Leona Krasner, Lil Barcaski, Marianne Bjelke, Marlenne Doss, Marsha Gleit, Melanie Herschorn, Mindy Gillis, Sallie Wagner, Shira Raymond, Simone Sloan, Siobhan Cunningham, and Stacey Hall.
Historical Female Management Theorists
Emerging research interrogates the role of management history in the neglect of women and their accomplishments - Williams builds expertly on this research, bridging feminist theory and critical historiography. Historical Female Management Theorists is essential reading for both feminist scholars and management historians.
The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth
In this inspiring guide to successful leadership, New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell shares his tried and true principles for maximum personal growth. Are there actually tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over 50 years, and in the 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential. In his trademark style, Maxwell covers: The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to YourselfThe Law of Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow YourselfThe Law of Modeling: It's Hard to Improve When You Have No One But Yourself to FollowThe Law of the Rubber Band: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You are and Where You Could BeThe Law of Contribution: Developing Yourself Enables You to Develop Others This 10th anniversary edition comes with an updated foreword from John Maxwell. The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth will help you become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing so you can lead others with passion and get results.
Wavelets from a Statistical Perspective
This book offers a modern, 2nd generation look on wavelets, far beyond the rigid setting of the equispaced, dyadic wavelets in the early days. With the methods of this book, based on the lifting scheme, researchers can set up a wavelet or another multiresolution analysis adapted to their data, ranging from images to scattered data.
The Facility Management Handbook
The wide-ranging umbrella of facility management covers everything from technology systems to disaster recover planning to zoning compliance...and that's just getting started.Facilities management is a multidisciplinary function that requires a deep knowledge of the entire business and physical planning cycle. Undoubtedly, the sheer scope of duties requires a far-reaching reference for staying abreast of the latest innovations and best practices. The Facility Management Handbook is the answer.This guide shares insightful overviews, case studies, and practical guidelines that pave the way for successful planning, budgeting, real estate transactions, construction, emergency preparedness, security, operations, maintenance, and more.The thoroughly revised fourth edition examines cutting-edge technologies and includes new information on: Building Information Modeling (BIM)Contracting and project management methodsFASB and IASB requirementsDistributed workingSustainability reporting and moreThe Facility Management Handbook is the one-stop resource every facility manager must have to master a broad scope of duties while staying current on innovations and best practices.
Revisionary Thinking
How do you get the life you want when things aren't going your way? When things go sideways, most people make one of two mistakes: they either give up on their dreams or they NEVER give up on their dreams, even when those dreams aren't serving them. You can change your plans and still reach your goals. Scratch that. You HAVE to change your plans to reach your goals. That's the real work of resilience. Resilience isn't superhuman internal strength. It's not toxic positivity. It's not sucking it up to stick it out. True resilience is letting go of the "old way of doing things" and rewriting a script for success that gives you the fastest and best path from where you are to where you're going. Backed by data-driven research, ReVisionary Thinking offers concrete strategies for blazing a new path to achieve your goal when the goalposts move on you. You will learn to acquire resilience through adaptive thinking, a three-part process involving flexibility, creativity, and openness to possibility. Specific principles covered include: How to mourn your path without sacrificing your goalWhy your gut instinct fails you in unfamiliar situations--and how to counter itHow to create space for more and better choicesThe benefits of using storytelling to solve problemsAnd much more!Success is not determined by how good you plan is (or was), but rather by how willing you are to design a new one when you need to. You may not have chosen where you are, but you get a choice in what comes next. The success of your vision lies in the ReVision.
Sustainable Investing
An accessible introduction to sustainable investing for investors Can investors do well financially and do good for the world? Should they try? A common assumption about investors is that they don't care who wins as long as they're making money. For some investors, this mindset still rings true. Yet, many investors today want to make money and do good. Sustainable investing has gained considerable momentum in the last few decades. It delivers value by balancing traditional investing with environmental, social, and governance-related (ESG) insights to improve long-term outcomes. Sustainable Investing: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) demystifies sustainable investing for investors. Using a user-friendly question-and-answer format and insights from noted investment professionals, this book explores some of sustainable investing's most critical questions in a clear and concise manner. The book explains how this approach involves investing in sustainable companies or funds and can include any investment approach that considers ESG criteria when selecting and managing investments. It demystifies sustainable investing specifically for average investors and examines whether such investments have a place in their portfolios. By covering everything from the changing investment landscape and the roles of social and religious values in finance to how to build a portfolio with purpose, H. Kent Baker, Hunter M. Holzhauer, and John R. Nofsinger provide an essential introduction to sustainable investing.
Economic Actors and the Limits of Transitional Justice
The rights of victims to truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-repetition when businesses are involved in past and present abuses are seldom guaranteed. A legacy of impunity has prevailed globally in which economic actors have incurred few legal or financial (indemnity) costs for violating behaviour. Examining cases in Nazi Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Per繳, the Philippines and South Africa, this edited volume traces business accountability efforts. It identifies the tools applicable to different country contexts that have facilitated corporate accountability for human rights violations, while also flagging the barriers that persist. This volume presents the past and the present of accountability for corporations complicit in gross human rights violations, and also considers what the future may hold.
An Introduction to Latent Class Analysis
This book provides methods and applications of latent class analysis, and the following topics are taken up in the focus of discussion: basic latent structure models in a framework of generalized linear models, exploratory latent class analysis, latent class analysis with ordered latent classes, a latent class model approach for analyzing learning structures, the latent Markov analysis for longitudinal data, and path analysis with latent class models. The maximum likelihood estimation procedures for latent class models are constructed via the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, and along with it, latent profile and latent trait models are also treated. Entropy-based discussions for latent class models are given as advanced approaches, for example, comparison of latent classes in a latent class cluster model, assessing latent class models, path analysis, and so on. In observing human behaviors and responses to various stimuli and test items, it is valid to assume they are dominated by certain factors. This book plays a significant role in introducing latent structure analysis to not only young researchers and students studying behavioral sciences, but also to those investigating other fields of scientific research.
