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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Driving Change
You are either driving change, or you are being driven by change. Which is it to be?A recent world-wide pandemic forced change upon 7 billion people, ending a long period of "perceived" relative stability.Although we know intellectually that change is inevitable, society conditions us to prefer stability and security.The fundamental truth of reality is that change is the ONLY constant.By conditioning ourselves into the habit of many micro-changes, we are better able to emotionally accept major changes. Instead of resisting change, we flow alongside it, and become part of it.This book offers the mindset for taking control of the rudder of change in your life, and in your business. It will provide you with practical ideas and tools for change, both personally and professionally."This coaching benefitted my personal and professional growth," said Javier Henriquez, CIO, Consorcio Nacional de Seguros. An expert in business productivity, author William Fintan Bohan has trained and coached thousands of managers, supervisors, and workers over the last 30 years, developing their skills to help generate millions of dollars of productivity improvements, while writing books to deepen the learning process. This is his third book. His next will be Doubling Productivity of a Start-up. (About the Author)Born in Dublin, Ireland, William Fintan Bohan was mainly educated in London, earning the higher degrees of "Design of Production Machines and Systems" at Cranfield Institute of Technology in England, and "R矇sistance des Mat矇riaux" at Universit矇 de Technologie de Compi癡gne in France. Having consulted for companies in the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, Mexico, South Africa, the United States, Chile, Argentina, Peru, and Panama, the author currently resides in Santiago, Chile, where he is a performance improvement facilitator.
Write Like a Thought Leader
Companies and individuals with solutions to important problems are producing volumes of written materials - but their ideas aren't being heard. That's an irony of the modern world: Those with unique ideas often go unheard because they are too focused on their niche, while other people hog the microphone simply because they are good communicators. If you are a subject-matter expert who wants to be recognized for your ideas and have a bigger impact with your work, you are not alone. "Write Like a Thought Leader" empowers experts of all types to make their ideas easily accessible to the global audience already at their fingertips. Gone are the days of stories that are too academic, have an old or uninteresting storyline, or simply present the facts. Experts, including consultants, scientists, lawyers and finance professionals, can now get their good ideas out of their heads and onto paper. This book shows smart people how to write smarter with The Story-Framing System created by Rhea Wessel. It will help you make the leap from subject-matter expert to thought leader by improving an essential skill in business - writing. Instead of finding that your best ideas have gotten lost or buried, you'll be able to move the conversation forward. To write like a thought leader, subject-matter experts must go through a three-step process and be willing to give away your knowledge for free - no strings attached. By following the steps outlined in this book, you'll establish a respected voice, gain trust, command a loyal following, and maximize the impact of your work.
Work as a Calling
This book provides a novel paradigm for reimagining the idea of 'work as a calling, ' which serves as a corrective that better supports the individuals' search for meaning and their contribution to the common good, arguing that the two go hand in hand, and so they cannot be separated.
Korea, the Iron Silk Road and the Belt and Road Initiative
Korea as a "middle power" in the last decades saw a growing importance, partly through greater economic clout, partly through greater cultural and soft power ("K-pop"), and partly through collective action in institutions like G 20. However, recent instability in Northeast Asia, plus growing trade conflicts and political conflicts in the region and worldwide, endanger this position. Moreover, the tremendous rise of China in economic, geo-political and cultural terms overshadowed the Korean development. However, also here the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative seems to dominate the headlines, as well as the policy fora and practical business decisions. Therefore, this book discusses an urgent, indeed pressing topic: how can middle powers like South Korea and Germany benefit from closer economic and political linkages across the Eurasian landmass, in particular the Belt and Road Initiative dominated by China.? Should they rather jump on the bandwagon or should they follow distinct own initiatives, either in their region or inter-regionally?
The Multiple Case Study Design
Most organizations today operate in volatile economic and social environments and qualitative research plays an essential role in investigating leadership and management problems. This unique volume offers novice and experienced researchers a brief, student-centric research methods text specifically devoted to the multiple case study design. The multiple case study design is a valuable qualitative research tool in studying the links between the personal, social, behavioral, psychological, organizational, cultural, and environmental factors that guide organizational and leadership development. Case study research is essential for the in-depth study of participants' perspectives on the phenomenon within its natural context. Rigorously designed management and leadership case studies in the extant literature have a central focus on individual managers' and leaders' stories and their perceptions of the broader forces operating within and outside their organizations. This is a comprehensive methodology book exploring the multiple case study design with step-by-step and easily accessible guidelines on the topic, making it especially valuable to researchers, academics, and students in the areas of business, management, and leadership.
Women at Work
If you're a working woman looking for guidance on how to collaborate successfully with other women, here is your unofficial guide. In Women at Work: Successful Tips for Working Together, author Rebecca Cassidy shares the lessons she's learned from her mentors, other notable women, and her own experiences working in female dominated workplaces.Her hypothesis is simple: The rules for success when working in a primarily female environment are different than those for women working in a primarily male environment. By sharing her own career missteps, interviews and research, Cassidy has found a strategy, rooted in sociology, that will help any woman better understand themselves and their colleagues in a more constructive way. Through analyzing various stereotypes, the reader will be able to self-identify, correct and find a clear pathway forward-complete with promise of personal growth and career advances.There is finally a business book on the shelf for women by women. Begin making informed decisions on how to work with women and navigate your own career successfully. You no longer have to figure it out on your own.
Vulture Funds
Currently, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF), global debt reaches the amount of USD 184 trillion in nominal terms, considering sovereign and private debtors. As is widely known, most indebted countries are developed nations. Nevertheless, a big percentage of the current world debt is on emerging market economies or even worst, in low income developing countries. Some of them have faced default situations in the past, accompanied by social, economic and political crisis. When a sovereign debt default occurs, a preponderant role is usually played by highly speculative investment funds, also commonly known as vulture funds. Several legal tools have been applied throughout history to mitigate damaging effects of debt negotiation with highly speculative creditors. Proposals always face a key point in between avoiding or reducing the moral hazard on the part of debtor States and not rewarding creditor bad faith behavior while harming general interest. In the last twenty years, collective action clauses (CACs) included by States into prospectus when issuing sovereign bonds, have been playing a key role in offering countries a tool to deal with creditors in debt restructuration process when default situations occur or are expected to occur, allowing countries to reach debt restructuration agreements with bond holders without requiring unanimous consent. However, is estimated that USD 300 billion in sovereign bonds are circulating in financial markets without including CACs in its prospectus. That fact offers the essential tool to vulture funds to block agreements when restructuration processes are expected to occur. A legislative path has been initiated by Belgium and France when it comes to propose actions against vulture funds. This book will analyze some weakness aspects regarding legislative initiatives and will propose creation of vulture funds registries.
Six-Figures & Beyond Success
-Forget the work-life balancing act! Your goal is fulfillment! People want to work with people who are fulfilled in what they do no matter how much money they make. But it's hard to be fulfilled when you don't have enough to make ends meet. When you have to work extra hard for little to no results, that kind of life isn't fulfilling.-Gain skills in building 6 assets that help to advance your skills to the six-figure level and beyond. In Six-Figures & Beyond Success(R), you'll gain not only the knowledge but the skills and application that professionals use to advance their mindset and their money, and to keep advancing toward fulfillment goals.-Wherever you are - at home, school, work, or play, the fulfilled person is not one person at work, another person at home, and another person somewhere else. You are the same person, using different attributes of who you are. You'll learn how to make your attributes work for you and start living again with these 6 assets! You'll laugh and love your life, career, and business again.***THIS BOOK IS A GREAT COMPANION FOR THE "READY SET GO-LIVE WORKBOOK" (SOLD SEPARATELY) FOR SIX-FIGURES AND BEYOND SUCCESS. ORDER BOTH OR USE EACH BOOK BY ITSELF - A GREAT LEARNING TOOL!
Ethics for People Who Work in Tech
This book is for people who work in the tech industry-computer and data scientists, software developers and engineers, designers, and people in business, marketing or management roles. It is also for people who are involved in the procurement and deployment of advanced applications, algorithms, and AI systems, and in policy making. Together, they create the digital products, services, and systems that shape our societies and daily lives. The book's aim is to empower people to take responsibility, to 'upgrade' their skills for ethical reflection, inquiry, and deliberation. It introduces ethics in an accessible manner with practical examples, outlines of different ethical traditions, and practice-oriented methods. Additional online resources are available at: ethicsforpeoplewhoworkintech.com.
Ethics for People Who Work in Tech
This book is for people who work in the tech industry-computer and data scientists, software developers and engineers, designers, and people in business, marketing or management roles. It is also for people who are involved in the procurement and deployment of advanced applications, algorithms, and AI systems, and in policy making. Together, they create the digital products, services, and systems that shape our societies and daily lives. The book's aim is to empower people to take responsibility, to 'upgrade' their skills for ethical reflection, inquiry, and deliberation. It introduces ethics in an accessible manner with practical examples, outlines of different ethical traditions, and practice-oriented methods. Additional online resources are available at: ethicsforpeoplewhoworkintech.com.
Welcome to the Age of Emotion - How to attract and connect with customers using video. A videography handbook for your business
80% of internet traffic is now video traffic - unfortunately this means that there are a lot of boring, unengaging videos being produced. Don't let your videos suffer that fate.Welcome to the Age of Emotion is a book for business owners, entrepreneurs and brand managers who want increased connectivity and engagement with their brand.It focuses on harnessing the emotive powers of video to target prospects and turn them into loyal customers and fans of your brand or company.Michael Langdon is a video strategist who has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, including Facebook, TikTok and Mashable. In this book, he will take you through everything you need to know, from lighting setups and camera angles to video strategies for different platforms to help you succeed with video.By reading Welcome to the Age of Emotion you will learn: The science behind emotion in businessThe three filming tips that make your phone videos look professionalThe one video that will work best for your businessHow to create a killer video email signaturethe videos that can generate up to 142,000% ROIHow to connect with and keep new clients with video messagesTactics and strategies to quadruple your conversion rates"We're going to be in a world a few years from now where the vast majority of the content that people consume online will be video"Mark ZuckerbergIf you feel like you are having trouble attracting and keeping clients engaged with your current videos, this book is for you.Welcome to the Age of Emotion will supercharge your video content strategy, even if you're already working with creative agencies or videographers.If you want to start producing videos that are in the top 5% most engaging videos on the internet, then scroll up and click the Add to Cart button.
Introduction to Machine Learning with Applications in Information Security
Introduction to Machine Learning with Applications in Information Security, Second Edition provides a classroom-tested introduction to a wide variety of machine learning and deep learning algorithms and techniques, reinforced via realistic applications. The book is accessible and doesn't prove theorems, or dwell on mathematical theory. The goal is to present topics at an intuitive level, with just enough detail to clarify the underlying concepts. The book covers core classic machine learning topics in depth, including Hidden Markov Models (HMM), Support Vector Machines (SVM), and clustering. Additional machine learning topics include k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN), boosting, Random Forests, and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). The fundamental deep learning topics of backpropagation, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Multilayer Perceptrons (MLP), and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are covered in depth. A broad range of advanced deep learning architectures are also presented, including Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), Extreme Learning Machines (ELM), Residual Networks (ResNet), Deep Belief Networks (DBN), Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), and Word2Vec. Finally, several cutting-edge deep learning topics are discussed, including dropout regularization, attention, explainability, and adversarial attacks. Most of the examples in the book are drawn from the field of information security, with many of the machine learning and deep learning applications focused on malware. The applications presented serve to demystify the topics by illustrating the use of various learning techniques in straightforward scenarios. Some of the exercises in this book require programming, and elementary computing concepts are assumed in a few of the application sections. However, anyone with a modest amount of computing experience should have no trouble with this aspect of the book. Instructor resources, including PowerPoint slides, lecture videos, and other relevant material are provided on an accompanying website: http: //www.cs.sjsu.edu/ stamp/ML/.
Chief Executive Offenders and Economic Crime
This book examines the role of Chief Executives in white collar crime from a convenience theory perspective. The work will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers in the areas of Criminology and criminal justice, law enforcement policy, business management and organizational behavior.
Csr and Codes of Business Ethics in the Usa, Austria (Eu) and China and Their Enforcement in International Supply Chain Arbitrations
This book analyzes the implementation of CSR reporting and codes of business conduct and ethics in the legal systems of the USA, Austria and China and their enforcement in international supply chain arbitrations. The book demonstrates that long-term profit maximization is increasingly intertwined with corporate ethics and CSR policies. In order to prevent window-dressing and greenwashing, certain control mechanisms and legal standards are required along the entire supply chain.This book introduces an ethics and CSR system recommending a reward-based whistleblowing mechanism, internal oversight by a CSR and Ethics Committee comprised of independent board members and at least one sustainability expert, and an external, independent and comprehensive assurance of CSR reports provided by auditing firms or newly formed governmental agencies consisting of certified CSR experts.The author emphasizes the significance for supply chain leaders to ensure contractual enforcement of their codes of business ethics and conduct along the supply chain. Against this background, the author created a comprehensive fictitious case scenario covering a supply chain dispute arising from the breach of the supply chain leader's code of business conduct and ethics by a lower-tier supply chain member. The author acknowledges the fact that in most of the cases the governing law of international supply chain contracts is English law or law based on English law. Thus, the author discusses potential contractual claims for damages arising from a loss of profits caused by a loss of reputation resulting from violations of core provisions of the chain leader's supplier code of conduct pursuant to English law. As international supply chain disputes usually involve more than two parties, and international arbitration is the ideal means for the resolution of these disputes, the book compares the arbitration rules for consolidations and joinders of some of the most significant international arbitration institutions: SIAC, ICC, AIAC, ICDR, VIAC, CIETAC and HKIAC.The book is directed at legal practitioners, legislators of various jurisdictions, board members of corporations, ethics and compliance officers, academics, researchers and students. It is the author's main goal that the book serves as an inspirational source for the establishment or the improvement of a corporate ethics and CSR system preventing window-dressing and greenwashing and covering the entire supply chain. Furthermore, it is intended that students develop a deeper understanding for the enforcement of corporate ethics and CSR policies.
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 black woman in America daring to reach too high. Her story takes a sudden and dark turn when one IRS federal agent fixed his 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.
Soft Skills for Dummies
Soft skills make the hard skills work! Soft skills are the personal qualities that make you a great communicator, problem solver, and leader on the job--and in your personal life. Soft Skills For Dummies helps you hone in on the traits you already have--or fine tune the ones that may need some extra attention--to market yourself as a workplace leader who's in touch with what today's employers are looking for: people who can lead and inspire through interpersonal communication, cultural awareness, time management, teamwork, critical thinking, and problem solving. - Sharpen the skills you need for a successful career - Improve your ability to work with others - Become a more confident job seeker and leader - Grasp the concept of soft skills through real-world applications, inspirational stories, and industry spotlights With content based on a time-tested curriculum designed to prepare you for work and life success, this book is packed with everything you need to build your soft skills to make the strongest impact possible.
Dumbing Down
1. Introduction: The Rise and Puzzling Fall of the Swedish Educational System.- 2. The Silver Age of Swedish Education.- 3. Educational Performance in Swedish Schools-What Are the Facts?.- 4. The Malaise in the School System.- 5. Two Views of Knowledge and Teaching.- 6. The Rise of "Post-Truth" Schooling.- 7. The Deinstitutionalization and Fragmentation of the Swedish School System.- 8. A Perfect Storm.- 9. The Way Forward for Sweden and Other Western Countries.
Dumbing Down
1. Introduction: The Rise and Puzzling Fall of the Swedish Educational System.- 2. The Silver Age of Swedish Education.- 3. Educational Performance in Swedish Schools-What Are the Facts?.- 4. The Malaise in the School System.- 5. Two Views of Knowledge and Teaching.- 6. The Rise of "Post-Truth" Schooling.- 7. The Deinstitutionalization and Fragmentation of the Swedish School System.- 8. A Perfect Storm.- 9. The Way Forward for Sweden and Other Western Countries.
Soulfluent(R) Leadership Business Guide
If you're a soulful, purpose-driven entrepreneur looking for tools to help you reach even greater heights, the Soulfluent(R) Leadership Business Guide is the resource you need to help you amplify your message, build your visibility and step into powerful leadership. Do you love what you do but you feel you've reached an upper limit in your business?Has your business plateaued?Are you afraid of losing your core self as a you scale your company?Do you lack clarity about how to evolve your leadership?Maybe you're excited to expand your vision to new heights, but something is holding you back. As leaders, we're influenced by powerful archetypes that drive human nature. This book helps you identify your Soulfluent(R) Leadership Archetype, align with it instead of resisting it, and engage powerful energy that can help you succeed beyond your wildest dreams by embracing your natural leadership style and superpowers. With these fresh insights, you will flourish as you make bold moves, maximize your profits, grow your community and build a legacy that fulfills your soul's work - all without sacrificing your time, relationships or health.
James Allen's the Path to Prosperity
There is a path to permanent prosperity and peace, free from worry and fear! And the best news is, you already have the tools at your disposal to access the true riches that await you. If you will commit to improving your inner life, you can create the outward life that you want. In The Path to Prosperity, James Allen, author of the bestselling personal development classic As a Man Thinketh, reveals the source of true and lasting prosperity--and the reasons why so many individuals who are chasing success are instead meeting with failure and misery. Most people are seeking self-serving ends--money, power, influence, importance--but by grasping for "more" they are left empty and dissatisfied. This book is for those who sense that real success is not a number or a title; it is a mental state. As you build your destiny, you will discover: How to remove the destructive forces in your life through the power of thoughtYour ability to attract positive people and circumstances into your lifeHow to overcome negative thinking and cultivate calmness and tranquilityWhy desire is actually holding you back from successHow to obtain prosperity through service and good stewardshipThis modernized version of The Path to Prosperity provides easily digestible lessons, followed by topics for further reflection and discussion questions that will help you individually or collectively work through life's biggest questions in a practical, energizing way. When you have gained the understanding that comes from learning and applying these lessons, you will be in a position to create your own life--your own circumstances. You will be able to change evil into good and write, with a master hand, the story of your destiny.
The Power of Inclusion in Family Business
The Power of Inclusion in Family Business is a guide for grooming the next generation of responsible women owners in family businesses, so they can thrive, achieve, and become leaders and wealth stewards in their multigenerational family firms and family offices.
The Money and Banking History of Kuwait
Kuwait lies at the head of the Arabian Gulf bordering Iraq and Saudi Arabia. It is located close to the frontier between Iraq and Iran. Kuwait forcefully entered the modern era in 1938 when oil was discovered although it was not fully exploited until the early 1950s. By the 1960s Kuwait had become the richest country in the world (wealth being measured in terms of national income per capita). In 1961 Kuwait gained its independence from Great Britain, a significant milestone in its political and economic development. This story of the money and banking history of Kuwait provides a fresh perspective on a nation that within a matter of decades has become a sophisticated banking centre. Author Brian Kettell was motivated to write this thorough account of the subject because of the lack of detailed texts available. He explains Kuwait's unique story lucidly and with authority. The book will be of interest to the layman and expert alike providing fresh insights and comprehensive detail. The text is largely based on data available from the UK archives thereby providing a unique insight into the rich history of money and banking in Kuwait. Brian is uniquely placed as an expert in money and banking of the Middle East having worked in the region in several senior banking and financial positions. He most recently worked as advisor to the CEO of a branch of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Prior to that he was Economic Advisor for the Central Bank of Bahrain and has had advisory positions at a range of financial institutions including Noor Islamic Bank (UAE), the African Development Bank and the UK Treasury. He has published 28 books on banking and financial markets and currently lives in the UAE.
Economics for the Ib Diploma: Quantitative Skills Workbook
Reinforce and improve your students' quantitative skills with this write-in workbook, which includes exam-style practice questions. - Prepare for the new assessment model with exam-style questions that are broken down to help students understand the question as a whole and the way they will need to tackle it. - Questions are presented in the chronological order of the syllabus, to aid knowledge and understanding of the new course (first exams 2022). - Provides lots of opportunities to practice quantitative skills, techniques and methods with exam-style questions. - Detailed mark schemes are provided to support students' assessment success, from a highly experienced author, IB workshop leader and teacher. - Answers available to download for free: www.hoddereducation.co.uk/ib-extras
The Business Owner's Dilemma
Too many business owners aren't enjoying the success they've earned. The pressure of continuing growth while also planning their existing success leaves most owners overwhelmed.After serving as a guide and partner to some of the world's most successful business owners for nearly twenty years, author Ali Nasser identified three critical dilemmas challenging their minds: 1.The Re-Investment Dilemma(TM): How do I re-invest my success? 2.The Legacy Dilemma(TM): What is it all for? 3.The Exit Dilemma(TM): What is my best exit strategy?Ali has successfully turned those challenges into opportunities via the Wealth Integration System for Entrepreneurs(TM) (WISE(TM)). This powerful and proprietary framework reveals how business owners can integrate business, wealth, and life decisions to create the outcomes they truly desire.The Business Owner's Dilemma will help you: - Gain clarity over your dilemmas.- Learn a simple and powerful design to approach all aspects of entrepreneurial wealth.- Take control and decide on a path to capture your life's work.Successful owners understand it is impossible to capture and monetize success without strategy and integration. WISE(TM) creates the path to bring it all together and take your results to the next level.
Writing a Second-Chance Love Story
Jane Austen's final novel, Persuasion, opens in an unusual way-with two hearts already broken. Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth have endured seven years of separation and longing after Anne was convinced by family and friends to refuse his proposal. When they meet again, the central question they face is one that resonates for readers in every time and place: Can we earn a second chance at love?In their Story Grid Masterwork Analysis Guide, editors Mai Nguyen and Celeste Sharpe show precisely how Austen layered her complex love story with all the necessary obstacles, secrets, and sacrifices to get Anne and Frederick to their well-deserved happy ending. Nguyen and Sharpe analyze Austen's innovative story scene-by-scene to reveal the genius of Anne's heroic journey to recapture her voice and agency.If you dream of crafting stories where characters must navigate their own do-overs in love, friendship, or other meaningful relationships, this writer's guide to Persuasion provides a map to help you find your way.
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.
Brilliance by Design
Many subject matter experts are just that, subject matter experts - not experts in the art of teaching, facilitating, or designing. Thousands of authors, trainers, and speakers have great content, but they lack the skills required to convey their content in a way that inspires learners to unleash their brilliance and move the learning to practice.. They often spend 70% of their time on WHAT they are going to teach, and 30% of their time on HOW, when they should be spending 30% on WHAT, and 70% on HOW. Their instructional techniques often are at odds with their message of inclusivity, eagerness for people to learn, and hopes that their content will change lives and organizations. ''Brilliance by Design'' outlines how to design learning interactions (such as meetings and workshops) that enable people to do their best thinking. Using the tested, signature ENGAGE model, it helps anyone who brings people together for the purpose of learning, problem - solving, or innovating to develop a clear, high - impact training design that unleashes brilliance. It presents a model that enables teachers to analyze learner and teacher needs, create objectives that meet those needs, and incorporate interactive tools that ''fire 'em up, '' ensuring all key outcomes are met. To help readers unleash the brilliance in others, this book provides the structure, tools, language, and models needed to create optimal learning experiences from their ideas, practices, models and books. In learning these techniques, readers will achieve powerful outcomes, building communities of learners who share best practices and communicate at a deep and profound level while doing real work.
Reclaiming economics for future generations
Today's economies fail to recognise that we are in a rapidly worsening crisis, reproducing and often worsening vast and harmful inequalities between people and countries. The current models are unsustainable, and at a time when global temperatures are rising and divides are deepening, humanity is left in a rapidly worsening situation of its own making, the destruction of the living world, which will make large parts of the earth uninhabitable. Without access to the knowledge, skills or tools to build a better future, local, national and global economies will continue to fail to address the interlinked challenges of systemic racism, inequalities faced by women, the Covid-19 pandemic and the nature and climate emergency. Across the world, economics students are coming together under the banner of the student movement, Rethinking Economics, to create a better economics - one which can help to create a world where all our children can flourish regardless of their gender, background or birthplace. Drawing on over sixty interviews with students and professionals from identities and backgrounds marginalised in economics and a wide range of global and historical research, this book illustrates the ways in which the discipline is currently not fit for purpose and sets out a vision for how it can be diversified, decolonised and democratised. The struggle to reclaim economics could not be more crucial - our futures depend on it. This book explains how it can be done.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8, Decent work and economic growth
