Dear Work
Don't burn out--stand out. Do you find yourself striving for big goals but running on fumes? Are you ever stuck in the frustrating cycle of overworking and under-living? Do you love the work you do--or at least used to--but feel overwhelmed by it? When it comes to work and our relationship with it, something has to change. This doesn't mean you need to bound out of bed every day in love with your work, nor do you need to settle for dragging yourself out of bed surviving your way through it, but you can feel a greater sense of aliveness engaging in it. Dear Work transforms traditional advice by using the power of brain science to show you how to boost your Work Vitality Quotient so you stand out, bringing your best, most energized self--without burning out. Sara Ross, chief vitality officer and leadership expert, will show you how to: - Identify the four "success traps" that limit your potential by luring you into thinking you're doing what it takes when really what you're doing is taking from you.- Adopt a "yes, and" mindset to work better with stress and feel fueled and fulfilled in the process.- Expand your approach to self-care to strategically identify when slowing down is needed and when accelerating in a different direction is even better. In a world that refuses to let up, reigniting your take-on-the-day vitality will be your competitive advantage at work and your path to pursuing a fully lived life outside of it as well.
Love and Work
A Wall Street Journal bestsellerWorld-renowned researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we're at our best--both at work and in life. You've long been told to "Do what you love." Sounds simple, but the real challenge is how to do this in a world not set up to help you. Most of us actually don't know the real truth of what we love--what engages us and makes us thrive--and our workplaces, jobs, schools, even our parents, are focused instead on making us conform. Sadly, no person or system is dedicated to discovering the crucial intersection between what you love to do and how you contribute it to others.In this eye-opening, uplifting book, Buckingham shows you how to break free from this conformity--how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love.How can you use love to reveal your unique gifts?How can you pinpoint what makes you stand out from anyone else?How can you choose roles in which you'll excel?Love and Work unlocks answers to these questions and others, so you can: Choose the right role on the team.Describe yourself compellingly in job interviews.Mold your existing role so that it calls upon the very best of you.Position yourself as a leader in such a way that your followers quickly come to trust in you.Make lasting change for your team, your company, your family, or your students.Love, the most powerful of human emotions, the source of all creativity, collaboration, insight, and excellence, has been systematically drained from our lives--our work, teams, and classrooms.It's time we brought love back in.Love and Work shows you how.
Putting Improv to Work
Improv is an art form in which participants act and respond in the present, trusting that each thoughtful action will lead to a wonderful outcome--even if it isn't the intended result. In this book, the principles and practices of unscripted theater are applied to non-theatrical circumstances. This book is based on a highly successful business school course, and aids in the development of communication, teamwork, creativity, confidence, emotional intelligence and other abilities. Each chapter assesses a different component of improv--how it connects to stage success and how it can be used in professional, academic and social settings. This is the only text that lays out an entire course on applied improv, providing activities with detailed instructions and descriptions. With roots in higher education, the book is informal, entertaining, and designed to be beneficial for anybody. Behavioral science, philosophy, art and athletics are all used to inform this discussion of improv and its real-world applications.
Inkurated
Turn your day-to-day worries into a personal growth journal with INKURATED. Get back to your creative self by recording all the things you're grateful for and appreciative of in life. It's time to stop carrying around negative thoughts and let the positivity flow. INKURATED is an easy way for you to document your life, day by day, and create a better version of yourself. Life is uncertain. Let's make it a little bit more certain. INKURATED is a personal growth journal with a twist. It's easy to use, and it's designed for you to keep track of your daily actions and goals. Instead of focusing on what goes wrong, INKURATED lets you focus on what goes right. When you're feeling overwhelmed with life's little questions and big worries, take a moment to stop worrying about what's going on and start focusing on what you can do instead.
The R Guide for New Data Scientists
The R Guide for New Data Scientists is written for someone who has graduated from college and has either had some discipline related course or has a desire to learn some of the basic data science building blocks. Data science is interdisciplinary, and I have work with people who have backgrounds in business or economics and are competent data scientists with some additional coursework. Ordinarily, we look for potential data scientists who have degrees in statistics, computer science, econometrics, information technology, operations research, mathematics, or engineering. That encompasses a wide range of disciplines. People who become data scientists generally have coursework in statistics, data analysis, basic programming, and college mathematics. During or after college, they have been exposed to machine learning models and prediction, R or Python programming, and some data wrangling. This book is designed to help with the latter. We'll cover basic data science tools and R programming with RStudio. We'll cover getting and cleaning data, data preprocessing, exploratory data analysis (EDA), inferential statistics, regression models, generalized linear models, machine learning and prediction using random forests, and building Shiny apps. There is R coding in every chapter, with many examples. Leaning the content is driven by very involved examples, including some using COVID-19 data. You'll find data scientists at banks, insurance companies, railroads, hospitals, utilities, and pharmaceutical companies. They work at Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Wal-Mart, Caterpillar. They are employed by the Department of Transportation (DoT), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). and the Department of Defense (Dod). Having a good data science team is like bringing a combined arms force to bear on a stubborn, defending enemy to drive them from their stronghold and reveal their vulnerabilities. "Torture the data, and it will confess to anything." - Ronald Coase, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Work to Wealth
If you want to have more money, more choice and more freedom in your life, now and in the future, you need to rethink why you work, and how to make the most of it.This book will change the way you think about work, lifestyle and money. Work to Wealth provides practical guidance on how to evaluate your work situation, avoid the 'working trap' and invest your income to generate wealth.Understand how to: Look forward to a day's work and make money that works hard for you and your future Change your mindset about earnings, and how to maximise them Invest your income wisely by applying the principle of asset accumulation Build a passive income and become - and stay - wealthy Develop a long-term relationship with an independent financial adviser who can guide you to a happy retirement
Win When They Say You Won’t: Break Through Barriers and Keep Leveling Up Your Success
Become the project manager of your career and advance in your job no matter what obstacles you face Have you ever met the requirements for a promotion, but still didn't feel qualified enough to take on the new role? Has a male colleague ever repeated what you just said in a meeting, and received positive feedback as if he said it first? Has anyone every implied that you should be less confident and direct, and more "likeable"? Innovation thought leader and former Fortune 50 executive, Daphne E. Jones has experienced her share of dog whistle disempowerment throughout her career-but she didn't let it stop her. Instead, she developed an actionable system for overcoming imposter syndrome, negativity and building the career of her dreams-and now she shares her winning approach with you. In Win When They Say You Won't, Jones walks you through the process of: Envisioning what success looks like to you Prioritizing your objectives and mapping out how to achieve them Working your plan, soliciting constructive feedback from other stakeholders, and altering your strategy as needed Reflecting on your accomplishments and lessons learned, while defining your next win "You don't have to rely on what women, especially women of color, have needed to do for a hundred years-that is, to work twice as hard to get half as far," Jones writes. "We can work twice as smart, just like businesses do, and go further than you ever imagined. Don't wait for change to only come from above, you can use my strategies to advance right now, even in seemingly impossible situations."Win When They Say You Won't provides the inspiration, insights, and tools you need to deconstruct any momentum that has been set against you and take your career to the next level-starting now.
Applied Innovation and Knowledge Management in Organizations
The series Innovative Knowledge Management offers scientific contributions and case studies to scholars and management practitioners. The thematic focus is located in the intersection between innovation and knowledge management connecting related disciplines by a multidisciplinary and practice-oriented approach.
Think and Grow Rich
Think And Grow Rich is one of the most prestigious and treasured book in the field of motivational literature. This book can help you reach your highest potential and bring you great personal happiness. Napoleon Hill gives you a blue print for self-mastery helping you accomplish whatever goal you have set up for yourself.Napoleon Hill mentions that every page within the book contains a magical secret that, once discovered, will unlock the key to making money and becoming wealthy beyond your current wildest dreams. This makes every reader study the book at a deeper level, searching each page for this secret. There is a secret within the book, but, I recommend you study the book several times and do all the exercises Napoleon Hill recommends. These exercises are designed to help you develop the level of skill where success becomes natural. There are 13 main chapters within think and grow rich. The principles and philosophy of success that Napoleon Hill outlined in his masterwork.
Responsible Management of Shifts in Work Modes - Values for a Post Pandemic Future, Volume 1
Considering the organisations that have borne the impact of the changes and the challenges to the health sector, Responsible Management of Shifts in Work Modes - Values for a Post Pandemic Future, Volume 1 unpacks what responsible management means, explores future adaptions to heighten responsibility and proffers recommendations.
Wealth Beyond Money
We have been conditioned to believe that in order to gain massive wealth, we must temporarily neglect our health and relationships.Or that in order to have an amazing body, we must spend hours in the gym and neglect our work.Or to have thriving relationships, we must scale back from focusing on our finances and fitness.The truth is, you can have it all-and this book will show you how.Forget the old notion of work-life balance.Balance is boring. Abundance is amazing!Whether you're already an accomplished professional, an entrepreneur, or an ambitious high performer just starting out in your career, Wealth Beyond Money will help you attain and maintain holistic abundance, clarity, and joy in all areas of life.You'll learn methods to achieve financial independence, while also transforming your body into the best shape of your life.You'll even learn scientific methods others have used to reverse the effects of aging.Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, getting six-pack abs, exploring the world, growing a family, or all of the above, Wealth Beyond Money is the blueprint.This step-by-step guide to lifestyle design teaches: - How Ethan went from being the garbage guy at nightclubs to owning multiple million-dollar brands- How to sculpt the body of your dreams, without needing a gym membership or totally giving up the foods you really love- How to surround yourself with people who truly want to help you succeed- How to make the right decisions, at the right time, to get the right results- How to create additional streams of revenue that could potentially raise your income by two, three, or even ten times- How to manifest your dreams and desires into reality- And much, much more!Author Ethan King has studied the lives of the ultra-successful and distilled their thinking and experiences into actionable steps you can follow to transform your life today.The wisdom found in the pages of Wealth Beyond Money will help you unlock your maximum potential and evolve into the best possible version of YOU.
How to Ninja Nicely
How to Ninja Nicely is a way of achieving personal and professional success without subterfuge. This is victory for nice people. It's a lesson in how to win by being ethical and approachable.A short jargon-free book that brings effective people skills within reach of everyone, even if they have never worked in a business environment. The simple condensed presentation makes this a book ideal for commuters and those who are short of time.It puts you back in control when life feels as if it is going off track.Drawing on the real-life experiences of FTSE director and coach Julie Fawcett, one of the founding directors of the UK's first 24 hour online banking service egg.com, How to Ninja Nicely puts realising full potential within everyone's reach.Julie is an exceptional coach, experienced psychologist and member of the British Psychological Society's clinical psychology and coaching divisions, who has been in the people business for over 30 years.
One More Thing Before You Leave Home
What is a life skill not taught in high schools but if it were, many young adults would benefit from it? As a 7-year veteran Administrative Assistant & Assistant Property Manager, I have interacted with people of all ages and from all walks of life who were relatively clueless about the fundamentals of renting before signing their first lease. They had no idea of their credit score and lacked crucial information when it came to renewing or ending a lease.Therefore, I created this guide to outline the basics of the process and the expectations of all parties once they sign on the dotted line. And because the life of the renter is more than paying rent each month, I include suggestions from budgeting to choosing the right roommate.
The Case Writing Workbook
This case writing workbook offers something unique in the world of case writing manuals. The third edition of The Case Writing Workbook: A Guide for Faculty and Students provides 11 standalone chapters that focus specifically on challenges related to the case writing process. The book is meant for day-to-day use as a model of the case writing process, with exercises, worksheets, and training activities that will guide you through the entire course of writing both a traditional case and Instructor's Manual or a concise/short case and its associated Teaching Note. Brief explanatory notes will lead you step-by-step through all the developmental exercises, including readying the case for publication and teaching it in the classroom or online. Designed as an individualized workshop to assist case authors to structure their writing, this book combines the easy-to-understand, student-focused language with new material covering the latest developments and challenges in the world of case writing. These include: - A fresh focus on writing and teaching concise cases, which are particularly suited to the world of blended learning. - Emphasis on secondary research methodology, particularly using digital technologies and social media. - A new case study running throughout the book, with restructured worksheets and notes to support it. - Enhanced online case teaching information and discussion of the development of multi-media cases, particularly using video. Complete instructor's materials to support the text are available online, including PowerPoint presentations, guidance on embedding cases within the curriculum, a sample syllabus that incorporates cases within it, and selected student assignments and handouts. Finishing all the book's assignments will result in a complete case and Instructor's Manual that can be tested in the classroom and submitted to a conference or journal. The Case Writing Workbook is a must for the shelf of any academic or student conducting qualitative research and looking to enhance their skill set, and any instructor working with cases in their teaching.
Wealth Beyond Money
We have been conditioned to believe that in order to gain massive wealth, we must temporarily neglect our health and relationships.Or that in order to have an amazing body, we must spend hours in the gym and neglect our work.Or to have thriving relationships, we must scale back from focusing on our finances and fitness.The truth is, you can have it all-and this book will show you how.Forget the old notion of work-life balance.Balance is boring. Abundance is amazing!Whether you're already an accomplished professional, an entrepreneur, or an ambitious high performer just starting out in your career, Wealth Beyond Money will help you attain and maintain holistic abundance, clarity, and joy in all areas of life.You'll learn methods to achieve financial independence, while also transforming your body into the best shape of your life.You'll even learn scientific methods others have used to reverse the effects of aging.Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, getting six-pack abs, exploring the world, growing a family, or all of the above, Wealth Beyond Money is the blueprint.This step-by-step guide to lifestyle design teaches: - How Ethan went from being the garbage guy at nightclubs to owning multiple million-dollar brands- How to sculpt the body of your dreams, without needing a gym membership or totally giving up the foods you really love- How to surround yourself with people who truly want to help you succeed- How to make the right decisions, at the right time, to get the right results- How to create additional streams of revenue that could potentially raise your income by two, three, or even ten times- How to manifest your dreams and desires into reality- And much, much more!Author Ethan King has studied the lives of the ultra-successful and distilled their thinking and experiences into actionable steps you can follow to transform your life today.The wisdom found in the pages of Wealth Beyond Money will help you unlock your maximum potential and evolve into the best possible version of YOU.
InnovateHERs
"InnovateHERs inspires and guides by telling the stories of a diverse set of women who have developed the mindset, and have used it to succeed in brilliant ways." - Coco Brown, CEO, The Athena Alliance "One inspiring story after another, this is a great book about great women." - Jack Lynch, CEO and President, Houghton Mifflin HarcourtAs a woman, how can you foster an entrepreneurial mindset to succeed in business? How do you take an idea, dream or goal and transform that into a strategy for success in a purpose driven organization? How can you align your purpose and passion to help you do well and do good in your profession?Authors Barbara Kurshan and Kathleen Hurley, both experienced and highly regarded business and education leaders, wanted to know how today's top female leaders might answer these questions. So, they asked. The result is InnovateHERs: Why Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women Rise to the Top.Through personal interviews with 30 of today's top women leading purpose-driven organizations-ranging from those in startups and nonprofits to those in large companies across the globe-Kurshan and Hurley have created a unique, insider's view of what it takes to be a successful female leader in today's competitive world. Whether you're an entrepreneur, corporate leader, or new to business, learning how to leverage your personal entrepreneurial traits and skills is key to accelerating your purpose-driven professional journey.Learn how these accomplished, purpose-driven, entrepreneurial women blazed new trails and rose to the top of their professions. Discover how to think bigger, lead stronger, and embrace your unique passions, traits, and skills. They are InnovateHERs, and they'll show you how to be one, too.
Crisis, Chaos, and Organizations
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an illustration of how chaotic changes to large systems are caused by small, seemingly insignificant environmental events such as the initial case(s) of COVID-19 in China. From this small starting point for the pandemic, there have been (and continue to be) millions of lives lost and trillions of dollars spent trying to alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. World government and corporate leaders are striving to deal with this pandemic, but uncertainty is felt across the globe. Unprecedented strategies (e.g., the United States government's multi-trillion-dollar stimulus package (s)) have been used to halt the spread of COVID-19. These small events cascade throughout larger and larger systems leading to unforeseeable consequences. Organizations must experiment and make decisions on how to react. Decisions must be made and implemented to see what the effects of these decisions are. The chapters in this volume provide important insights for all organizations during this time of crisis. The chapters express bottom-up and top-down approaches to a crisis-initiating environmental change by organizations. The chapters provide insight into the way organizations perceive the effect of COVID-19 as 1) a permanent or transitory change in the organization's environment; and 2) as a crisis or opportunity. Taken together, the chapters provide both scientists and practitioners with a starting point for understanding the impact of COVID-19 on organizational theory and on management practice for readers.
Crisis, Chaos, and Organizations
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an illustration of how chaotic changes to large systems are caused by small, seemingly insignificant environmental events such as the initial case(s) of COVID-19 in China. From this small starting point for the pandemic, there have been (and continue to be) millions of lives lost and trillions of dollars spent trying to alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. World government and corporate leaders are striving to deal with this pandemic, but uncertainty is felt across the globe. Unprecedented strategies (e.g., the United States government's multi-trillion-dollar stimulus package (s)) have been used to halt the spread of COVID-19. These small events cascade throughout larger and larger systems leading to unforeseeable consequences. Organizations must experiment and make decisions on how to react. Decisions must be made and implemented to see what the effects of these decisions are. The chapters in this volume provide important insights for all organizations during this time of crisis. The chapters express bottom-up and top-down approaches to a crisis-initiating environmental change by organizations. The chapters provide insight into the way organizations perceive the effect of COVID-19 as 1) a permanent or transitory change in the organization's environment; and 2) as a crisis or opportunity. Taken together, the chapters provide both scientists and practitioners with a starting point for understanding the impact of COVID-19 on organizational theory and on management practice for readers.
Courage & Confidence
What do you wish you had the courage to do? To achieve anything in life you must have the confidence to begin, to imagine, to plan and to make it happen. So many people are held back by fear or wanting to play it safe, and yet, if you can find the courage to start, you never know what will be possible for you. Changing your life and achieving your dreams is possible. It starts with you taking that first step to recognise what you want your life to be like and then having the courage and the confidence to make it so. Courage and Confidence is the essential guide for women in business who are ready to take on their biggest dreams and make them a reality. Filled with practical advice and tools combined with powerful and motivational stories to inspire you into action!Proceeds from the sale of this book go towards providing scholarships for women to attend The Women's Business School programs. Featuring Authors: Amy Huebner, Annette Densham, Bianca Stawiarski, Candice Meisels, Cath Nolan, Chelsea Munro, Danielle Loader, Emma Cook, Fleur Chambers, Jenny Pither, Jody-Lee Euler, Justine Martin, Karen Mc Dermott, Karen Perks, Mafae Belasco, Marika Gare, Melissa Haque, Natashia Telfer, Peace Mitchell, Samantha Richards, Sandy Davies, Sarah Stoddart, Vanessa Atienza-Hipolito, Vanessa Marrama
Start Your Network Marketing Business
In this book detail orieted about Network marketing is a business model that depends on person-to-person sales by independent representatives, often working from home. A network marketing business may require you to build a network of business partners or salespeople to assist with lead generation and closing sales.
Leadership in Statistics and Data Science
This edited collection brings together voices of the strongest thought leaders on diversity, equity and inclusion in the field of statistics and data science, with the goal of encouraging and steering the profession into the regular practice of inclusive and humanistic leadership. It provides futuristic ideas for promoting opportunities for equitable leadership, as well as tested approaches that have already been found to make a difference. It speaks to the challenges and opportunities of leading successful research collaborations and making strong connections within research teams. Curated with a vision that leadership takes a myriad of forms, and that diversity has many dimensions, this volume examines the nuances of leadership within a workplace environment and promotes storytelling and other competencies as critical elements of effective leadership. It makes the case for inclusive and humanistic leadership in statistics and data science, where there often remains a dearth of womenand members of certain racial communities among the employees. Titled and non-titled leaders will benefit from the planning, evaluation, and structural tools offered within to contribute inclusive excellence in workplace climate, environment, and culture.
Supply Chain Sustainability in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
This book examines the sustainability of supply chains in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), focusing specifically on the developed and emerging economies of the UK and India.
Master Your Mindset
Discover the leader you already are.Leadership isn't just for CEOs. We need good leadership everywhere. In the workforce. In government. In our schools, communities, and homes. Today, the doors stand wide open for women to step into these roles, but modern female leadership doesn't look the same as the male roles of the past. The rules are different. The mindset is different. Join Molly Gimmel, entrepreneur and former chairwoman of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), as she explores the unwritten rules of successful female leadership.Through interviews with powerful women from all walks of life-large corporations, small businesses, nonprofits, Hollywood, politics, and more-Gimmel reveals the mental attitudes that define effective leaders.Filled with personal stories, humor, and profound insights from the trenches, Master Your Mindset shows you step by step how to connect with yourself and with those around you in authenticity, confidence, and integrity to become the best leader you can be.
Counting Statistics for Dependent Random Events
This book on counting statistics presents a novel copula-based approach to counting dependent random events. It combines clustering, combinatorics-based algorithms and dependence structure in order to tackle and simplify complex problems, without disregarding the hierarchy of or interconnections between the relevant variables. These problems typically arise in real-world applications and computations involving big data in finance, insurance and banking, where experts are confronted with counting variables in monitoring random events.In this new approach, combinatorial distributions of random events are the core element. In order to deal with the high-dimensional features of the problem, the combinatorial techniques are used together with a clustering approach, where groups of variables sharing common characteristics and similarities are identified and the dependence structure within groups is taken into account. The original problems can then be modeled using new classes of copulas, referred to here as clusterized copulas, which are essentially based on preliminary groupings of variables depending on suitable characteristics and hierarchical aspects.The book includes examples and real-world data applications, with a special focus on financial applications, where the new algorithms' performance is compared to alternative approaches and further analyzed. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to master students, PhD students and researchers whose work involves or can benefit from the innovative methodologies put forward here. It will also stimulate the empirical use of new approaches among professionals and practitioners in finance, insurance and banking.
Master Your Mindset
Discover the leader you already are.Leadership isn't just for CEOs. We need good leadership everywhere. In the workforce. In government. In our schools, communities, and homes. Today, the doors stand wide open for women to step into these roles, but modern female leadership doesn't look the same as the male roles of the past. The rules are different. The mindset is different. Join Molly Gimmel, entrepreneur and former chairwoman of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), as she explores the unwritten rules of successful female leadership.Through interviews with powerful women from all walks of life-large corporations, small businesses, nonprofits, Hollywood, politics, and more-Gimmel reveals the mental attitudes that define effective leaders.Filled with personal stories, humor, and profound insights from the trenches, Master Your Mindset shows you step by step how to connect with yourself and with those around you in authenticity, confidence, and integrity to become the best leader you can be.
The Art of Retreats
Business leaders need to find inner peace if they are to create an inspiring and sustainable future. But how can we develop the strength and foresight we need to lead with purpose when growth and profit are constantly driving our efforts? How can we link our actions with results amid increasing noise and complexity? How can we think strategically and expand our consciousness when technology keeps us hooked to our devices? By introducing periods of retreat, leaders develop greater self-awareness and achieve the clarity, balance, and purpose to do not just what is good for business but also what is right for the world. The Art of Retreats provides simple, practical advice for creating effective solo retreats, from the occasional hour carved into the day to profoundly insightful weekends and more. Drawing on a unique combination of business experience, science, philosophy, and ancient wisdom, it offers deep reflections, practices, and contemplations that will help leaders find peace, resolve, and wisdom in an otherwise hectic life.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Responsible Machine Learning
This book is a unique entanglement of theory, examples and processes relevant to Responsible Machine Learning. You will find intuitions and examples for Interpretable Machine Learning (IML) and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). Descriptions are supplemented by code snippets with examples for R with the use of randomForest, mlr3 and DALEX packages. Finally, the process is shown through a comic book describing the adventures of two characters, Beta and Bit. The interaction of these two shows the decisions that analysts often face, whether to try a different model, try another technique for exploration or look for other data -- questions like how to compare models or validate them. All examples are fully reproducible so that one can replay all adventures on a local desktop. Model development is a responsible and challenging task but also an exciting adventure. Sometimes textbooks focus only on the technical side, losing all the fun. Here we are going to have it all.
A Problem of Fit
A critical examination of the complex system of college pricing--how it works, how it fails, and how fixing it can help both students and universities. How much does it cost to attend college in the United States today? The answer is more complex than many realize. College websites advertise a sticker price, but uncovering the actual price--the one after incorporating financial aid--can be difficult for students and families. This inherent uncertainty leads some students to forgo applying to colleges that would be the best fit for them, or even not attend college at all. The result is that millions of promising young people may lose out on one of society's greatest opportunities for social mobility. Colleges suffer too, losing prospective students and seeing lower enrollments and less socioeconomic diversity. If markets require prices to function well, then the American higher-education system--rife as it is with ambiguity in its pricing--amounts to a market failure. In A Problem of Fit, economist Phillip B. Levine explains why institutions charge the prices they do and discusses the role of financial aid systems in facilitating--and discouraging--access to college. Affordability issues are real, but price transparency is also part of the problem. As Levine makes clear, our conversations around affordability and free tuition miss a larger truth: that the opacity of our current college-financing systems is a primary driver of inequities in education and society. In a clear-eyed assessment of educational access and aid in a post-COVID-19 economy, A Problem of Fit offers a trenchant new argument for educational reforms that are well within reach.
Applied Regularization Methods for the Social Sciences
Researchers in the social sciences are faced with complex data sets in which they have relatively small samples and many variables (high dimensional data). Unlike the various technical guides currently on the market, this book provides and overview of a variety of models alongside clear examples of hands-on application.
A Problem of Fit
A critical examination of the complex system of college pricing--how it works, how it fails, and how fixing it can help both students and universities. How much does it cost to attend college in the United States today? The answer is more complex than many realize. College websites advertise a sticker price, but uncovering the actual price--the one after incorporating financial aid--can be difficult for students and families. This inherent uncertainty leads some students to forgo applying to colleges that would be the best fit for them, or even not attend college at all. The result is that millions of promising young people may lose out on one of society's greatest opportunities for social mobility. Colleges suffer too, losing prospective students and seeing lower enrollments and less socioeconomic diversity. If markets require prices to function well, then the American higher-education system--rife as it is with ambiguity in its pricing--amounts to a market failure. In A Problem of Fit, economist Phillip B. Levine explains why institutions charge the prices they do and discusses the role of financial aid systems in facilitating--and discouraging--access to college. Affordability issues are real, but price transparency is also part of the problem. As Levine makes clear, our conversations around affordability and free tuition miss a larger truth: that the opacity of our current college-financing systems is a primary driver of inequities in education and society. In a clear-eyed assessment of educational access and aid in a post-COVID-19 economy, A Problem of Fit offers a trenchant new argument for educational reforms that are well within reach.
Deep Ecology, Business Ethics and Personal Responsibility
How can businesses and business leaders contribute to solutions of the big ethical, social, and ecological challenges of today? It uses diverse, often multidimensional frames of reference and illustrates them with real-life cases to show positive solutions.
Dream, Build, Grow
Entrepreneurship 101 for women: The business book every female entrepreneur needs.Dream, Build, Grow: A Female's Step-by-Step Guide for How to Start a Business is your go-to guide to launch, plan, and grow your business so you can create a future you feel giddy to wake up to.This book will sashay you along each step to begin your own dream business and help you fashion your new lifestyle of freedom like a breath of fresh air.In Dream, Build, Grow, entrepreneurial hype girl, serial entrepreneur, and MBA Francie Hinrichsen provides realistic, achievable, and step-by-step guidance to start your business. After realizing women could thrive with the right support and plan, Hinrichsen created an entrepreneurship community that gives women the confidence and coaching to start and succeed at business. Now she shares the lessons she's learned in her own journey and in coaching women through their start-up businesses.This guide overflows with thought-provoking questions, action steps, practical guidance, business bestie encouragement, checklists, real life examples, and "oops, don't make my mistake" insight so you can write the start-up story of your dream company.Dream, Build, Grow can help you: Discover six simple phases for how to build your dream business successfullyGain insider guidance for introducing your business to the worldArticulate the dream on your heart and connect it to how you're uniquely wiredUncover strategies successful businesses use to become and remain profitableResearch your business idea so you don't waste time or energyEnsure your business has longevity so you can create a life of impactCreate key building blocks for the foundation of your businessWith an abundant suite of resources, this essential business guide is designed for the fierce woman who needs just the right guidance and encouragement to say yes to a beautiful journey of entrepreneurship. It's a tool you can refer to again and again as your company grows and thrives.It's time to leave the fear of the unknown behind so you can create your dream business. Let's begin.
More Than Just a Hairdresser
I created this book, companion workbook and gratitude journal with you in mind. I wanted a way for you to uncover truths about your authentic self and make decisions about what you want for your life. The idea is that it will start you on your journey to get you to that next level in your life and beyond. I created the very thing I wish I'd had all those years ago, as I believe it would have improved my journey immensely. Being able to understand yourself without all the emotional clutter and noise is the only way to get clear on what you can be. Out in the world, we are a different version of ourselves. But when we are alone in the quiet of our mind is when we go deep and understand that life has an expiration date. None of us know how much time we have, yet so many of us know there is more out there for us to achieve. One desire I have for you is that you listen to that voice and nurture the small flame within your soul that desires more. There is no such thing as 'stuck' in life unless you refuse to take hold of the power you have to change. Now is your time to take hold of the knowledge being offered and make your life one that you will someday look back on, amazed at your progress and at the incredible person you have become.
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.
For the Love of Real Estate
For the Love of Real Estate will change everything you thought you knew about what a realtor does and what he/she should be doing to help you buy or sell your home. Whether you are a first-time buyer, downsizing, needing to move to accommodate a career change, or starting to save for your first-time home, this book is a must-read.If you are a realtor, or thinking of becoming one, Sharon does a deep dive into the necessary skills and practices a successful realtor must develop to create, as she did, decades of award-winning success!
Shackles Released
From prestige to a draconian prison sentence, this is an intriguing true-life saga of one woman's inspirational rise from the cotton fields in the back country region of Moro, Arkansas to executive boardrooms as a decorated CPA in Corporate America, and on to the heights of entrepreneurial success as the owner of an extremely large tax office. But as soon as she obtained the exceptional american dream, she is confronted with the brutal reality of the fragility of her freedom as a woman in America daring to reach too high. Her story takes a sudden and dark turn when agents fixed their gaze on her success with a relentless determination to orchestrate her demise. Her story takes a real candid look at the painfully disturbing reality our broken criminal justice system and its mass-incarceration machine that feeds on its own citizens, with a particularly insatiable appetite for those of African American descent.
Complicit
What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyond It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethical or criminal behavior. In each case there was a supporting cast of complicitors: business partners, employees, investors, news organizations, and others. And, whether we're aware of it or not, almost all of us have been complicit in the unethical behavior of others. In Complicit, Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman confronts our complicity head-on and offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or actively support wrongdoing in our businesses, organizations, communities, politics, and more. Complicit tells compelling stories of those who enabled the Theranos and WeWork scandals, the opioid crisis, the sexual abuse that led to the #MeToo movement, and the January 6th U.S. Capitol attack. The book describes seven different behavioral profiles that can lead to complicity in wrongdoing, ranging from true partners to those who unknowingly benefit from systemic privilege, including white privilege, and it tells the story of Bazerman's own brushes with complicity. Complicit also offers concrete and detailed solutions, describing how individuals, leaders, and organizations can more effectively prevent complicity. By challenging the notion that a few bad apples are responsible for society's ills, Complicit implicates us all--and offers a path to creating a more ethical world.
Selling Sustainability Short?
Can private standards bring about more sustainable production practices? This question is of interest to conscientious consumers, academics studying the effectiveness of private regulation, and corporate social responsibility practitioners alike. Grabs provides an answer by combining an impact evaluation of 1,900 farmers with rich qualitative evidence from the coffee sectors of Honduras, Colombia and Costa Rica. Identifying an institutional design dilemma that private sustainability standards encounter as they scale up, this book shows how this dilemma plays out in the coffee industry. It highlights how the erosion of price premiums and the adaptation to buyers' preferences have curtailed standards' effectiveness in promoting sustainable practices that create economic opportunity costs for farmers, such as agroforestry or agroecology. It also provides a voice for coffee producers and value chain members to explain why the current system is failing in its mission to provide environmental, social, and economic co-benefits, and what changes are necessary to do better.
Business Ethics for a Material World
Increasingly, conscientious consumers and green marketers are recognizing that material things, not firms, must be made responsible. Even so, many scholars in ethics, sustainability, and governance focus on people and organizations, ignoring the flows of things. In this book, Ryan Burg argues that material things are fundamental features of moral life, serving as both valuable instruments and guides for responsibility. Unless care is taken for these non-living entities, living things cannot be protected. Viewing the global economy as a network of material transfers, Burg argues that to facilitate object care, professionals must act as stewards. By tracing the origins and disposal of workplace objects through this material network, businesses and employees can discover the outcomes for which they are responsible, and managers can align ethics, sustainability and governance with a truly global formulation of responsibility.
Business and Human Rights
The first of its kind, this comprehensive interdisciplinary textbook in Business and Human Rights (BHR) connects and integrates themes, discussions, and issues in BHR from both legal and non-legal perspectives, and provides a solid foundation for cross-disciplinary conversations. It equips students, teachers, and scholars with the necessary knowledge to navigate and advance evolving BHR debates, and fosters a thorough understanding of the academic foundations, evolving policy spaces, and practical approaches in BHR. Short cases throughout translate conceptual insights into practical solutions. Study, reflection, and discussion questions help readers to consolidate and synthesize their understanding of the material and provide stimulating frameworks for debate in the classroom and beyond. The book features a collection of online resources to support students and instructors in their preparation for courses and assignments.
Bribery and Corruption in Weak Institutional Environments
Drawing on twenty years of research and observations, Li explains how bribery and corruption are carried out in countries with weak institutional environments, and how these activities become globalized. By distinguishing rule-based, relation-based and clan-based governance, this book offers a novel explanation to the age-old puzzle of why some countries thrive despite corruption. It also sheds lights on the symbiotic roles corruption and anticorruption campaigns play in maintaining dictatorships. Applying cost-benefit analysis to different governance environments, Li argues that as non-rule-based economies expand, the transition from relying on private relationships to relying on public rules is inevitable. However, by highlighting the globalization of corruption by non-rule-based countries, this book warns against the potential threats and consequences of bribery by powerful dictatorial governments. This book will appeal to scholars, analysts and graduate students studying corruption, as well as policymakers, business professionals and executives seeking insights into the characteristics of bribery and corruption within different institutional settings.
The Role of Business in the Responsibility to Protect
The Role of Business in the Responsibility to Protect closes the gap between research on the Responsibility to Protect and the private sector, as previous research has focused only on state responsibilities and state actors. This book examines in detail the developing research on the significant role that private sector actors can play in promoting peace and stability. Contributors to this volume explore the key arguments for where, why, and how private sector actors can contribute to the prevention and cessation of mass atrocity crimes; and how this can inform and extend the UN policy discussion around Responsibility to Protect. The contributors include lead voices in the Responsibility to Protect discourse as well as central voices in business and peace literature.
IMD 75 years
IMD 75 years, Challenging what is, inspiring what could be is for anyone looking to develop their personal leadership as well as the success of their organization. The book highlights the insights and ground-breaking accomplishments achieved during IMD's rise to prominence as one of the world's leading providers of executive education. Written to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Institute for Management Development, IMD 75 years is an engaging guide to the events that shaped the institute and, in turn, enabled it to develop and transform the success of thousands of leaders and organizations worldwide.The pioneering vision of the first-class international executives who founded the school in the aftermath of World War II was to provide insightful learning experiences that, crucially, would have real impact and lasting benefit. A practical focus, born from industry, combined with an international perspective and an innovative approach to learning, enables IMD faculty and staff to design and develop innovative and integrated programs addressing carefully identified needs and objectives. IMD's activity has recently expanded into a quasi-advisory direction, building on the strong belief that its role is to help leaders find their own solutions, embedded in their own organizations. This is all the more relevant in today's time of opportunity but also profound challenge and change.
Patient Capital
Sustainable businesses create economic and social value while simultaneously protecting the natural environment for future generations. This examination of environmental sustainability through the lens of the family business identifies factors that help family and non-family organizations address the dilemma of balancing short-term productivity, efficiency and profitability objectives, with innovating for long-term sustainable value creation. Exploring the case of the wine industry - an industry characterized by a variety of governance systems - Sanjay and Pramodita Sharma develop fresh insights into influences and drivers for proactive environmental strategies to address major global sustainability challenges. By doing so, the authors are able to demonstrate that family firms with a focus on trans-generational continuity of business, long temporal orientation, shared vision, faster decision-making processes, and the goal of preserving socio-emotional wealth are more likely to make patient long-term investments for innovations in products, services, processes and business models to address environmental sustainability challenges.
Fixing Fractures
A relationship, once so right...It used to be rock-solid, central to your life or business. Now it's frosty, stilted, colored by doubts and suspicion.A VITAL CONNECTION, NOW BROKENDo you do without it, work around it? Or does your gut say to do something to bring that business associate, relative, friend back into your life?MAKE THAT BREAK UNHAPPENDoug Bouey packs decades of experience into this terrific book, coaxing and steering you through proven steps to mend relationships gone sour. Reach for the resolution you want without going to war.Revive, renew, and recharge what's been lostFind courage, perspective, optimismStage, guide, and finish a life-changing talkRoad-test the outcome so this never occurs againLAUNCH A BETTER FUTURE TOGETHERGo beyond the fracture to reclaim that lost bond, built stronger on new foundations that will endure. There's nothing exactly like Fixing Fractures.Try it. You'll never regret it.Includes a foreword by Susan Scott, bestselling author of Fierce Conversations
