Collaborative Research in the United States
This book offers a critical and retrospective description of collaborative research activity in the United States in an effort to provide a prospective framework for policymakers to evaluate future policy initiatives to encourage such strategic behavior.
Peace Mediation in Germany’s Foreign Policy
This volume is dedicated to the field of peace mediation, which has rapidly developed and become profes-sionalised in recent decades, both internationally and in Germany. In bringing together the history and status quo of the field plus the prospects for its future development, the volume has three special features: It combines a critical theoretical and a practical assessment of recent and ongoing political developments. It offers a selection of the 'Fact Sheets on Peace Mediation', which have been elaborated by the Federal Foreign Office in cooperation with the Initiative Mediation Support Deutschland (IMSD). And it provides concrete ideas on how Germany's peace mediation profile and methodology can be further heightened and translated into effective and responsible political practice.
Giving Voice to Values
This book brings together ideas and insights from leading academics and practitioners on current uses and potential future directions for integrating Giving Voice to Values into classrooms, workplaces, and communities in innovative and impactful ways.
Die Grenze ALS Epistemologisches Privileg
Die meisten Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften kennzeichnen sich durch das Bem羹hen darum, die Welt mit klaren Kategorien zu erkennen. Diesem unterliegt die Vorstellung der linearen Grenze. Unter R羹ckgriff auf Befunde aus dem nordafrikanischen und europ瓣ischen Mittelmeerraum kontextualisiert der vorliegende Artikel mit ethnologischem Blick das Gedankenmodell der Linearit瓣t historisch, politisch und kulturell, indem er dieses mit Grenzen als Zonen des ?berganges kontrastiert und nach dem epistemologischen Gewinn fragt, der sich daraus f羹r die Disziplinen entfaltet.
Ecological Modernization in the United Arab Emirates?
In 2006, the United Arab Emirates initiated the Masdar City project, which was a pre-planned eco-city concentrating on the development and promotion of renewable energy, water and waste management, sustainable building, transportation, and material efficiency. It was the flagship project of what the government considered to be a widespread environmental reform process. This study examines the Masdar City project applying the analytical framework of "ecological modernization" with the help of five "factors", which help to investigate the ongoing reform process. The study finds that Masdar City is more accurately described as an outcome of the Abu Dhabi government's economic diversification strategy. The project is subject to the political and economic interests of the emirate's ruling family. Environmental groups operating within the emirate are connected to the government and pursue policy targets determined by the government.
Girls Can Move Mountains
This by-the-bootstraps American success story is one for the ages! Dr. Solanges Vivens explains the 25 most important rules of life and business to the world in hopes to inspire the next generation of female entrepreneurs. From her humble beginnings as black girl in Haiti to a triumphant nursing home director and mother, Solanges has accumulated plenty of wisdom to share. Readers will be inspired by the spiritual fortitude and can-do attitude of a woman who refused to allow herself to be limited by other people's expectations of her and achieved a boundary-breaking level of success solely through the force of her own will. This is an American success story at its heart, one that will appeal to anyone who wants to make a difference in the world around them by rewriting the rules of who rises to the top and whose rags become riches. Also available in French and Haitian Creole.
Undiversified
Diversification is a core principle of investing. Yet money managers have not applied it to their own ranks. Only around 10 percent of portfolio managers--the people most directly responsible for investing your money--are female, and the numbers are even worse at the ownership level. What are the causes of this underrepresentation, and what are its consequences--including for firms' and clients' bottom lines? In Undiversified, experienced practitioners Ellen Carr and Katrina Dudley examine the lack of women in investment management and propose solutions to improve the imbalance. They explore the barriers that subtly but effectively discourage women from entering and staying in the industry at each point in the pipeline. At the entry level, the lack of visible role models discourages students from considering the field, and those who do embark on an investment management career face many obstacles to retention and promotion. Carr and Dudley highlight the importance of informal knowledge about how to navigate career tracks, without which women are left at a disadvantage in an industry that lionizes confidence. They showcase a diverse constellation of successful female portfolio managers to demystify the profession. Drawing on wide-ranging research, interviews with prospective, current, and former industry practitioners, and the authors' own experiences, Undiversified makes a compelling case that increasing the number of women could help transform active investment management at a time when it is under threat from passive strategies and technological innovation.
Adapting Curriculum to Bridge Equity Gaps Towards an Inclusive Curriculum
For the first time, the OECD Future of Education and Skills 2030 project conducted comprehensive curriculum analyses through the co-creation of new knowledge with a wide range of stakeholders including policy makers, academic experts, school leaders, teachers, NGOs, other social partners and, most importantly, students. This report is one of six presenting the first-ever comparative analyses on curriculum, summarising existing literature, listing challenges and strategies countries reported, and suggesting lessons learned from unintended consequences countries experienced with their curriculum reforms. Major trends in curriculum innovations towards a 21st century curriculum have emerged as four types: digital curriculum, personalised curriculum, cross-curricular competencies and content-based curriculum, and flexible curriculum. While these innovations hold the promise to enhance student learning and well-being, and to make learning more relevant for their social and future life, countries and schools also face the complex realities of equity gaps among students. This report takes a pragmatic look at equality, equity and inclusion in curriculum. It examines how curriculum can be adapted to meet specific needs of diverse learners, particularly vulnerable students. It also features a range of strategies which countries use to design curriculum, so that no student will be left behind.
The Art of War Landmark Edition
This unparalleled edition features the complete classic translation by Lionel Giles and an introduction, historical notes, epilogue, and study guide by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz.
How to Avoid Being The Leader You Don’t Want to Be (a Field Guide)
This Field Guide is designed for you to examine your own leadership behavior and that of your leaders at any level in your ogranization.Through a series of intense questions based on the twenty-five chapters in the author's new book, The Leader You DON'T Want to Be, now her Field Guide will lead you through the process of learning to be a good leader in any organizational structure.As a practicing executive coach, Mary O'Sullivan has walked the leadership journey with many different people in leadership roles. The stories of these people appear in the main book, along with the many challenges they faced. The format of the Field Guide reflects some of the questions she's been asked by clients and the type of questions she's asked them in their coaching sessions.In either case, when you take up this Socratic method of acquiring workplace wisdom, the revelations may encourage you to change your course, or even confirm the course you're on right now.Coaches don't like to make promises, but one promise I am comfortable making is that by using this Field Guide, you'll gain clarity and insight into how your leadership journey progresses toward your ultimate goal.Are you the leader people talk about behind your back, or do you aspire to encourage and motivate your followers? You don't want to be the one who people say, "Don't be like that guy (or gal), what an @$$ they are."Remember, above all, you need to act like a human.What would Emily Post have to say about your workplace behavior? Are you proud of your actions and words? Or would you be ashamed to act like that at home or in front of your mother?If you can't follow the simple rules of good manners and common courtesy, do you really even want to be a leader?People may guess you don't.
Choose Confidence
Do you find yourself wishing you were more confident? Do you see other people getting promoted and know you're as capable as they are; however, every time you think about applying for a promotion you cringe? Do you hear your critical voice saying that "you're not enough?"If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, you could use more self-confidence.Did you know that confidence is something you give yourself?Increasing confidence is an inner job that you decide to take on. Author Laura Diaz became aware that when she felt empowered and confident about her life, she could take control of her circumstances rather than allowing the circumstances to control her.This book is for any woman who is looking for support in building her confidence and feeling empowered.In Choose Confidence, you will learn 21 different ways to: Believe in yourself and take courageous actionCreate a vision and goals that inspire youStand up for yourself and show appreciation for who you areChoose Confidence: 21 Ways Women Can Increase Self-Confidence is a collection of Laura's experiences and personal development principles that have helped her and other women build confidence. Based on her own trials and triumphs and those of her coaching clients, this valuable guide will benefit any woman who wants to move through life with confidence, ease and courage. You'll find ways you can increase your self-esteem, improve your confidence in business and adopt some practices that will improve all areas of your life.
Mediation
When negotiation fails, mediation avails other moves for an amicable resolution. Whether you are a current or future mediator or a party to a conflict, this is your essential companion to the theory, concepts, and best practices of mediation. In a world ridden by social divisions, responsible resolution of conflicts is more timely than ever. What happens when parties are unable to negotiate an agreement together? The next move is to invite a third party to reset the negotiations, facilitate the exchanges, rebuild a working relationship and empower the parties to explore the past, surface their present needs, invent, evaluate and choose the best solutions for the future. Mediation: Negotiation by Other Moves brings decades of critical analysis and experience that the authors tested worldwide in international organizations, governments, NGOs, universities and corporations. You will understand mediation better, and its significance in your personal and professional life. You will be able to develop a flexible mindset and a broad outlook to achieve sustainable outcomes. This book will cover: Models and principles from various domains of mediation: family, business & labor, public affairs, international relations A mediation framework to prepare for mediation and to run its process smoothly A step-by-step approach to a mediation session, from the opening until a possible settlement, via the various phases of problem solving Mediation traps and how to avoid them--for mediators and parties alike Ethics of mediation and questions of responsibility Mediation: Negotiation by Other Moves is essential reading for anyone who wishes to develop a pragmatic approach to mediation.
Islam and Economics
This primer is an introductory text to rediscover the principles of commerce and economics revealed in the Qur'an, espoused by the Sunnah (practices of the Prophet Muhammad), and understood by the jurists. Islam offers three moral principles of economic organization: ownership, wealth creation, and wealth circulation. Based on these principles, Islam and Economics derives a framework of operational institutional tenents for the economic organization of a society. It addresses all important business, policy, and equity issues that any economic system should resolve and broadens the discussion on the modern discipline of "Islamic economics."
Legal Aspects of Health Care Business Transactions
Based on decades of experience as a leading national health care attorney, the author has used this book in teaching a course on The Legal Aspects of Health Care Business Transactions in the Auburn University Physicians Executive MBA Program for over fifteen years. Hundreds of entrepreneurialphysicians and health industry executives have benefitted by the clear, concise, and understandable explanation of how the statutes and regulations governing the health industry impact health industry business organizations, transactions, and governance. Not only are the sections on the Stark Law and the federal Anti-Kickback Statute incredibly informative, the book also provides general knowledge of the intersection of law and business for fundamental principles such as contracts, business organization, equity and debt financing, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property protection, antitrust compliance, and corporate governance and fiduciary duty. Users say that the book is of immense value in navigating the changing healthcare environment and has daily practical use for any health industry enterprise. The book also facilitates communications between health care enterprises and their attorneys. You will find that your copy will quickly become dog-eared as you continually refer to the core lessons.
Living Your Life on Purpose LYLOP
LYLOP is a 450-page professional development book focused on two wheels of life, designed to help people live healthier, wealthier and happier lives.The back-wheel (graphically demonstrated as a bicycle) is the driving wheel and majors on matters of the mind. A chapter on each of the following: Subconscious mind, habits, beliefs, constant and never-ending improvement, goals, mindset, focus and the law of attraction.The front-wheel focuses on bringing balance to areas of life with a chapter dedicated to the following areas: Family and friends, fitness and health, finances, physical environment, business/career, fun and recreation, personal growth and attitude.The book is supported by a 13-week massive action plan journal/workbook (one for every 13 weeks) and www.lylop.com. The website is a subscription forum based platform where clients can register for one of four tiers.Level 1: Access to the forums and the support of our LYLOP Mentors, plus the option to be allocated an accountability partner. (瞿9.95 a month)Level 2: Access to Level one plus a weekly business networking meeting. (瞿19.95 a month)Level 3: Access to Level one plus participation in a Mastermind group session facilitated by a LYLOP mentor. (瞿39.95 a month)Level 4: Access all areas (瞿49.95 a month)Too many people read a personal development book, enjoy the content and promise to implement the teachings into their life. The problem is they read the next book and so on and on. They become fixated with reading books rather than implementation.The purpose of LYLOP is to create an environment that encourages interaction and development supported by other members of the tribe.The LYLOP community will also be supported by regular seminars by guest speakers (including the author).By implementing some of the tips and techniques within LYLOP you can transform your life. Your personal life, your career and business enabling you to live a healthier, wealthier and happier life.
The Superpowers Planner
A productivity planner for menstruating humans seeking harmony between their hormones & human hardware, in order to achieve their peak performance.
Success in the Technology Field
Success in the Technology Field is a practical "how-to" guide for a career in technology. There are countless books, textbooks, articles, and training courses that cover all manner of technical disciplines, especially in the areas of information technology and cybersecurity. Whether dealing with technical theory, practical application of a particular technology, or the process and management disciplines needed to implement and operate technology effectively, there is available material across all technical and process disciplines. Yet, when it comes to how a technologist or someone choosing to work in the technology field plans and advances a career, surprisingly little material exists.Every individual is unique, and how someone defines success in their career will differ markedly from others. Yet, within the technology field, there are critical knowledge, skills, and behaviors that, if pursued and adopted, provide a significantly improved chance of career advancement, irrespective of how one defines career success. Richard Spires learned lessons regarding these critical knowledge, skills, and behaviors in his journey, both based on his own experiences and by observing many others in the technology field. And these lessons apply to everyone in technology-related disciplines, whether someone is a software developer, a project manager, or a salesperson for a corporation offering technology-based solutions.Based on these lessons, Richard presents twelve practical, tangible recommendations in Success in the Technology Field. Some of the recommendations involve adopting crucial behaviors that apply throughout your career. Other recommendations are actions you should take, some more relevant early in your career, and others more relevant later in your career. The recommendations are grouped by career phases to help you visualize your career arc. Through this structure, these recommendations can serve as a career planning aid, supporting you in developing new skills and abilities and adopting the behaviors needed for success in the technology field. These recommendations don't define your success or journey, but they help you determine what success looks like for you in the technology field and what steps you should take on your journey.
Success in the Technology Field
Success in the Technology Field is a practical "how-to" guide for a career in technology. There are countless books, textbooks, articles, and training courses that cover all manner of technical disciplines, especially in the areas of information technology and cybersecurity. Whether dealing with technical theory, practical application of a particular technology, or the process and management disciplines needed to implement and operate technology effectively, there is available material across all technical and process disciplines. Yet, when it comes to how a technologist or someone choosing to work in the technology field plans and advances a career, surprisingly little material exists.Every individual is unique, and how someone defines success in their career will differ markedly from others. Yet, within the technology field, there are critical knowledge, skills, and behaviors that, if pursued and adopted, provide a significantly improved chance of career advancement, irrespective of how one defines career success. Richard Spires learned lessons regarding these critical knowledge, skills, and behaviors in his journey, both based on his own experiences and by observing many others in the technology field. And these lessons apply to everyone in technology-related disciplines, whether someone is a software developer, a project manager, or a salesperson for a corporation offering technology-based solutions.Based on these lessons, Richard presents twelve practical, tangible recommendations in Success in the Technology Field. Some of the recommendations involve adopting crucial behaviors that apply throughout your career. Other recommendations are actions you should take, some more relevant early in your career, and others more relevant later in your career. The recommendations are grouped by career phases to help you visualize your career arc. Through this structure, these recommendations can serve as a career planning aid, supporting you in developing new skills and abilities and adopting the behaviors needed for success in the technology field. These recommendations don't define your success or journey, but they help you determine what success looks like for you in the technology field and what steps you should take on your journey.
Intuitive Impact
The female entrepreneur's guide to conquering the past, embracing the present and manifesting the future. Through Michelle's own stories of business and personal growth coupled with her insights and knowledge, you will be lovingly guided to release what's keeping you stuck, step into your full potential and attract the income and impact you deserve. This is the perfect handbook and reminder for anyone who wants to reclaim their power, trust in their capabilities and show up more powerfully for themselves, others and their business.
Essentials of Data Science and Analytics
Data science and analytics have emerged as the most desired fields in driving business decisions. Using the techniques and methods of data science, decision makers can uncover hidden patterns in their data, develop algorithms and models that help improve processes and make key business decisions.Data science is a data driven decision making approach that uses several different areas and disciplines with a purpose of extracting insights and knowledge from structured and unstructured data. The algorithms and models of data science along with machine learning and predictive modeling are widely used in solving business problems and predicting future outcomes.This book combines the key concepts of data science and analytics to help you gain a practical understanding of these fields. The four different sections of the book are divided into chapters that explain the core of data science. Given the booming interest in data science, this book is timely and informative.
Putting Purpose Into Practice
This is the first book to provide a precise description of how companies can put purpose into practice. Based on groundbreaking research undertaken between Oxford University and Mars Catalyst, it offers an accessible account of why corporate purpose is so important and how it can be implemented to address the major challenges the world faces today.
Implementing Education Policies Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence Into the Future
Students in Scotland (United Kingdom) engage in learning through Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), which aims to provide them with a holistic, coherent, and future-oriented approach to learning between the ages of 3 and 18. CfE offers an inspiring and widely supported philosophy of education. Schools design their own curriculum based on a common framework which allows for effective curricular practices. In 2020, Scotland invited the OECD to assess the implementation of CfE in primary and secondary schools to understand how school curricula have been designed and implemented in recent years. This report analyses the progress made with CfE since 2015, building upon several months of observations in Scotland, the existing literature and experiences from other OECD countries. The OECD analysis and recommendations aim to support Scotland as it further enhances CfE to achieve its potential for the present and future of its learners. Just as Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence was among the pioneers of 21st century learning, its most recent developments hold valuable lessons for other education systems and their own curriculum policies.
The Power of Strategic Influence!
Do you want to make a difference in life? To have positive influence over other people? To create valuable personal, and strategic relationships through business networking?This powerful and easy-to-read book reveals the secret to building and using your personal influence to create success, to build a great reputation, to become a highly influential leader but also to give back, by helping others to succeed. Whether you're a new arrival in a strange city or you've been climbing the corporate ladder and haven't gotten where you want to go, The Power of Strategic Influence teaches you Game-Changing Success Factors that will transform your life.This book takes you step by step through the 6 Spheres of Strategic Influence Development, beginning with the most basic concept of accepting personal responsibility for yourself, all the way through the secrets of Influence Centered Business Networking and building profitable relationships. Tightly integrated within the strategic influence development spheres, you will learn the 10 Success Factors that can make you a highly influential leader. As a special bonus, the book includes valuable lessons on success and leadership from 12 nationally known CEOs/influencers. Imagine going from a follower to a leader! From living in the periphery to being a respected Center of Influence! With this book, it's powerful networking insights, and your hard work, it can happen for you. Packed with inspiring stories and down-to-earth advice, The Power of Strategic Influence is your indispensable guide to a better, happier, and more influential life.
Clever Girl Finance: The Side Hustle Guide
Get the straight goods on how to build a thriving side hustle from someone who's been there before In Clever Girl Finance: The Side Hustle Guide, celebrated finance expert, influencer, CEO, and author Bola Sokunbi delivers your own personal key to unlocking more money, more freedom, and more security in your life. You'll find out how to achieve financial prosperity by leveraging a side hustle business to increase your income and build wealth. You'll discover how to: Build your confidence, eliminate your fears, and strengthen your focus Establish a strong foundation for your new business, even without prior experience Create a solid plan to brand, market, and grow a business your customers won't be able to get enough of Write a realistic financial plan for your side hustle and to create long-term wealth Perfect for those with a side hustle dream and some energy to spare, Clever Girl Finance: The Side Hustle Guide will also earn a place in the libraries of anyone who's ever thought about building a successful and profitable side hustle from the ground up but didn't know where to start.
Storytelling f羹r Einsteiger - Der Erfolgsfaktor im Marketing
Sie haben sicherlich bereits erkannt, dass Storytelling heute allgegenw瓣rtig und auch aus dem Marketing kaum noch wegzudenken ist. In diesem Ratgeber erhalten Sie daher zun瓣chst einen ?berblick dar羹ber, was Storytelling eigentlich ist und wieso es ein wichtiger Bestandteil einer erfolgreichen Marketingstrategie ist. Au?erdem erfahren Sie im Theorieteil, wie eine klassische Geschichte aufgebaut ist, inwiefern sich dieser Aufbau in die unternehmerische Praxis integrieren l瓣sst und welche Alternativen es gibt. Das wiederum mithilfe des wohl bekanntesten Beispiels von unternehmerischem Storytelling - ahnen Sie schon, um welche Firma es sich handelt? Das erwartet Sie: -Storytelling als Erfolgsfaktor im Marketing -Wie Sie Ihre Geschichte(n) erz瓣hlen -Umsetzung - Ins Schreiben kommen -Vor der Ver繹ffentlichung -In 11 Schritten zum Storytelling im Marketing -und vieles mehr ...
Management Ethics
The recent financial crisis has awakened a renewed sensibility to ethics in business and management, and an increasing interest in a better understanding of how ethics and economics are intertwined. Managers and executives must understand not just the moral value of ethical behaviour, but also how this can strengthen and benefit the organization.
Tactics for Racial Justice
This is not a book of antiracist theory but antiracist tactics - tactics that anyone, of any race, can use to strike a blow against injustice. Antiracism is not about what we feel but what we do, and there are specific techniques we can use to create a just world. Antiracist strategies are skills that can be learned just as we learn skills for public speaking or hitting a baseball. In these pages, you - whether a person of color or white - will find a playbook for leading your workplace, organization, or community through transformative change in the wake of an act of explicit racism. You'll learn to play antiracist rhetorical chess, and to anticipate and effectively respond to the discursive moves of people who don't understand bigotry, aren't aware of it, are in denial of it, or even actively uphold it - so that you can advance justice goals. You'll get a blueprint of how to dismantle systemic racism community by community, workplace by workplace, and organization by organization - and examples of what not to do. This book is aimed at people who are conscious of the reality of racism and want to end it but may not know how. It clearly shows how anyone can make an effective, significant, and measurable impact on racism through strategic action.
The Underdog Paradox
Jamie Russo's breakthrough title exploded in 2020. The Underdog Paradox is a #1 Amazon Bestseller, available in 130+ countries, and 10,000+ bookstores. "A year ago, I was laid off," Jamie Russo explains. "In that dark moment, I started writing. Along the way, I met a publisher willing to take a risk on a first-time author. The greatest stories don't always make the biggest headlines. The Underdog Paradox chronicles the journeys of five entrepreneurs who defied the odds en route to building a brighter future. This book isn't about me-it's about the unlikely heroes I've met that inspire others to dream big."ResilienceMarcus Bullock was sixteen years old when he was sentenced to eight years in an adult maximum-security prison. Today, he's the founder and CEO of Flikshop, the mobile application keeping families connected to incarcerated loved ones. "The one thing that separates me from everyone else is that I didn't give up." Marcus BullockGritAfter the Bor Massacre killed 2,000 civilians in South Sudan, a mother and her daughters fled on foot as gunshots rang overhead. Over two hundred miles, the women traveled in search of refuge. The youngest girls did not survive the arduous journey. Upon her arrival at the border of Northern Uganda, the mother bore a son. She named him Lual. Lual spent the first twenty-two years of his life growing up in a refugee camp. Passionate about computers and technology, he walked for three hours every day to study programming. Lual developed his first video game while living in Northern Uganda. Today, he's the CEO of Junub Games, a studio that builds video games for peace and social impact. "If you have an opportunity to impact the world, you've gotta do it." Lual MayenHopeShavini Fernando suffered a heart attack while hiking through the mountains of Sri Lanka. After being rushed to the hospital, doctors diagnosed her with a congenital heart defect; she had less than two years to live. But Shavini is a fighter, and she has since dedicated her life to finding a solution."Once you go through something as I have, you learn to appreciate the small things." Shavini Fernando
Social Finance
Social Finance provides an interesting, accessible overview of this fascinating ecosystem, blending insights from finance and social entrepreneurship. It highlights the key challenges facing social finance, whilst also showcasing its vast opportunities.
Fearless
Take your rightful place in the driver's seat of your own life and career through focused and fearless business strategies.Luxury fashion mogul and social activist Rebecca Minkoff built a fashion empire through hard work and a relentless drive to live her dream. It wasn't easy and took tremendous resolve to remain hungry and persevere. By never giving up, she has created a space for herself on the shelves of luxury department stores across the world.In Fearless, Minkoff helps you learn how to: Face challenges head on, using Rebecca's fearless approach to push yourself.Overcome the fear and trials female entrepreneurs often face.Break the rules and find success in places they previously thought to be inaccessible.Reach their goals, no matter how unattainable they may seem.Through this book, Rebecca shares her own stories and teaches you how she was able to reach her goals to become the successful fashion designer she is today.She shows that if you remain hungry, work hard, and face the unspoken rules that have held women back for centuries, you can make success happen for yourself.
The Story Microscope
You're a writer with 1,001 questions about how to fix your manuscript and you want answers.It's hard to see your whole story in enough detail to find all the problems, much less craft the best solutions. After months of effort, you're deep inside the characters and plot so you need a tool that's objective-something to magnify and explain each scene and show you how they all connect.The best way to answer the questions that are plaguing you is one you've probably never considered-a spreadsheet. In this beginner's guide, Story Grid Certified Editor Kimberly Kessler shows you how to turn a spreadsheet into a precision editing tool. Using the Story Grid approach, the spreadsheet becomes a microscope through which you can see scenes, sequences, and your entire story in high resolution.The Story Grid spreadsheet will save you time by quickly identifying the sources and locations of key problems. What you meant to say won't cloud your ability to see what's really on the page. With Kessler's expert guidance, you'll add the Story Grid spreadsheet to your writer's toolkit, you'll save your current manuscript, and improve all the stories that follow."You have nothing to fear," says Kessler, "simply new connections to make."
Comment r矇ussir sa vie
Si vous souhaitez devenir optimiste, riche, heureux, 矇panoui et avoir la vie de vos r礙ves, ce livre est pour vous ! Il vous livrera les cl矇s de la perspective, de l'attitude et des comportements qui vous feront r矇ussir. V矇ritable ouvrage de d矇veloppement personnel, ce livre vous apprendra une m矇thode applicable ? tous pour r矇ussir vos 矇tudes, votre entreprise, votre carri癡re, votre vie amoureuse et sociale, votre vie de famille, vos vacances, vos journ矇es et vos projets en tous genres ! Sommaire abr矇g矇 Cl矇 1: adopter la bonne perspective pour r矇ussir Cl矇 2: adopter la bonne fa癟on de penser pour r矇ussir Cl矇 3: adopter la bonne fa癟on de parler pour r矇ussir Cl矇 4: adopter la bonne attitude pour r矇ussir Cl矇 5: adopter la bonne fa癟on de se d矇finir pour r矇ussir Cl矇 6: changer sa vie pour r矇ussir sa vie
Handbook of Regression Modeling in People Analytics
This book is a learning resource on inferential statistics and regression analysis. It teaches how to do a wide range of statistical analyses in both R and in Python, ranging from simple hypothesis testing to advanced multivariate modelling.
OECD Skills Studies OECD Skills Strategy Implementation Guidance for Korea Strengthening the Governance of Adult Learning
A well-coordinated adult learning system is essential to support the achievement of Korea's long-term goals. The transformational effects of demographic change, digitalisation, globalisation, and most recently COVID-19 on life at work and outside of it amplify the importance of getting adults' skills right. OECD research shows that individuals, employers and society benefit from adults having higher levels of skills. Korea is a global leader in student performance and tertiary attainment. Yet today, many adults in Korea have skill levels below the OECD average. A significant share of adults face barriers to participate in adult learning. Against the backdrop of a growing awareness about the importance of skills, Korea's government and stakeholders have a unique opportunity to improve how they share responsibility and work together in the adult learning system. This report outlines how Korea can increase participation in adult learning by strengthening horizontal co-ordination across ministries, vertical co-ordination across levels of government, engagement of stakeholders and financing arrangements. The report provides examples of national and international good practices as well as a series of concrete recommendations to help Korea improve the governance of adult learning and in turn enhance economic growth and social cohesion.
Business Doing Good
Outlines six principles and best practices for hiring and retaining women with challenging backgrounds Recently, business leaders have shifted their focus from a profit-only mindset to considering the impact of their businesses on all stakeholders. At the same time, the United Nations set aggressive Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) to improve our world by 2030. These SDGs address all major needs facing our world today, such as: eradication of poverty and hunger, access to clean water, gender equality, and decent work and economic growth. These are significant problems facing the world that have in the past largely been left to nonprofit organizations and governments to solve. Investors and customers have higher expectations for companies to make a positive social and environmental impact. They want to know business can do good. Following suit, today's business leaders are starting to recognize we will never fill the gap between where we are and where we want to be if businesses do not also do their part to contribute sustainable solutions to these enormous social problems. This book provides a guide for businesses to make a significant positive impact while also benefiting their businesses. Business Doing Good outlines six principles business leaders can implement to effectively hire women who have experienced incarceration, poverty, addiction, and/or engagement in the sex trade. While making a difference to both these women and communities, businesses benefit from the women's resourcefulness, resilience, ability to motivate, and other unique skills and perspectives only available to someone who has overcome difficulties. Investments in women, in general, are exponential as they are more likely to return that investment to future generations. The impact is endless. If we are going to end poverty and create economic development, women who have overcome challenging pasts cannot be excluded.
The Bulldog Guide to Business Divorce
The Bulldog Guide to Business Divorce is divided into three parts that follow the life cycle of business partnerships and business partners.The first section guides you in choosing your partners and forming your agreements to minimize chances of trouble later. Except for your spouse and family, your business partner will be the most important relationship in your life. This section explains the legal duties all partners owe each other; the agreements all partners should agree to at the very start: how to plan to reach your business goals; and the right way to pick your business partners.The second section describes the characteristics you should look for in choosing your partner, and the warning signs that your partnership might be in trouble. This section discusses problems to look for and how to handle them, including certain habits, traits and values of your partners that may change over time. This section ends with a discussion of Red Flags, signs of serious trouble on the horizon.The third section discusses the various pleasant and unpleasant ways that business partnerships end. This section discusses financing, preparing for sale or succession, and what to do if your partnership is headed for a business divorce.The Bulldog Guide to Business Partnerships is intended to be useful to business owners during the entire life cycle of the business. It will not teach a cobbler to make better shoes, but it can help her run a stronger business partnership.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on Ethics
This book tackles the ethical problems of the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" (4IR) and offers readers an overview of the ethical challenges connected to Artificial Intelligence (AI), encryption and the finance industry. It specifically focuses on the situation of females in these industries, from women lawyers, judges, attorneys-at-law, investors and bankers, to portfolio managers, solicitors and civil servants. As the 4IR is more than "just" a technology-driven transformation, this book is a call to policymakers and business leaders to harness new technologies in order to create a more inclusive, human-centered future. It offers many practical cases of proactive change agents, and offers solutions to the ethical challenges in connection with implementing revolutionary disruptive products that often eliminate the intermediary. In addition, the book addresses sustainable finance in startups. In this context, education, training, agility and life-long learning in financial literacy are some of the key solutions highlighted here. The respective contributors supply a diverse range of perspectives, so as to promote a multi-stakeholder approach.
Thinking Allowed
The past thirty years has seen major changes in both the optical retail and wholesale sector. Where privately owned businesses are working hard against the seemingly relentless tide of commercialism. What do we expect when professional buyers, marketers, trainers and advertising agencies come face to face with the clinician running their privately owned enterprise?The thing is the challenges are essentially the same for any business. To find people who want to buy what you have to offer and keep them coming back for more, which is all about information, communication and education. Commercial skills are not taught at the Universities and Colleges for Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians. But they can be learned, quickly.Here are the secrets you were never taught at University. You'll discover necessary mind set, the myriad choices and opportunities that are open to you today and tomorrow. You'll understand how everything is interlinked. 'Thinking Allowed' is the book you read before you spend a single penny on marketing, advertising, websites or social media. It's the book you read if you have ever thought: "my business is stuck" or if you think: "what do I do next?". Thinking Allowed offers a menu from which you can pick and choose what's right for you.
The Diversity Playbook
Hephzi Pemberton's first nonfiction, business book The Diversity Playbook provides an empowering and uplifting experience. It contains proven expertise, factual examples and practical tools to transform your business and leadership approach with inclusion and innovation as a central shared goal and priority. Hephzi founded Equality Group in 2018, as an inclusion and diversity specialist business focused on helping financial and technology companies, to diversify their teams and create more inclusive cultures, to manifest a brighter, kinder and bolder future for all. Her book demonstrates with clarity, relevant case studies and the latest research, as well as an applicable exercise in each chapter, to show how leaders and firms who embrace and embed inclusion and diversity into their business will benefit. They will be the businesses that innovate and adapt more rapidly. They will have a workplace culture that the latest talent seeks out and stays with. They will reach a wider set of customers and clients who feel valued and understood. They know that to achieve these benefits and many others besides, leaders and businesses now and in the future will have to take inclusion and diversity seriously. Her cutting-edge, poignant, ten chapters feature how the time has arrived for inclusion, right now and exactly how to: - apply inclusive leadership skills; - ensure that communication is key and data matters; - enhance business values with purposeful action and positive return; - celebrate success using incentive and accountability applications; - debias systems and ensure inclusive hiring; - achieve parity across reviews, retention and promotion; - build inclusive foundations and positive policies; and - humanise work making sure that social sustainability is achieved for all.She reveals, with a compelling and expert presence and urgency, how emerging events have demonstrated that new leaders are needed more than ever before in our brave new post- Covid world. Leaders with a growth mindset who will shape the way businesses evolve and remain competitive, or flatline and fade into extinction, using Lehman Brothers as a relevant opening example. She shows that - how you lead is as important as who is leading - citing representative, inclusive leadership as the only way forward. Balance and bias are addressed, as well as the competency traits of the culture makers who are our world's future. Hephzi discusses the value sets required to show the way, using communication and data as the keys to unlock the ability to voice your truth and truly connect with your audience. Using colourful and engaging illustrations and graphs, her book shows exactly how to: activate accountability; make inclusive policies visible; turbo charge your taskforce; incorporate valuable incentives and rewards; as well achieve balanced scorecards and celebrate successes. Her highly-relevant book illustrates the latest hiring and team building pathways to ensure inclusion and diversity parity and debiased systems for all. Each chapter ends with clearly presented Reflect and Act calls to actions, which can be applied to make a difference and conscious contribution in the world, as soon as each chapter has been completed. As a whole, the book provides an easy to read, interactive playbook, revealing how to optimise business for inclusion and diversity. How to equalise, amplify and innovate within a global context and ensure authentic productivity, performance and profit, leading to true social sustainability for all humanity.
Kickstarter - Guaranteed guide for a Successful kickstart Launch. Must-have formula for your first Crowdfunding campaign start up
DISCOVER THE GREATEST GUIDE FOR A SUCCESSFUL KICKSTART LAUNCH. THE MUST-HAVE FORMULA FOR YOUR FIRST CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN STARTUPIf you're looking for a step-by-step launch framework for your upcoming Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign, this is the handbook for you! I'll teach you how to use crowdfunding to raise money online and bring your project to life. Never before in history have Entrepeneurs, authors, musicians, artists, and film producers been able to connect with massive online audiences and get funding for their creative work.Are you wondering which crowdfunding site is the best? Do you want to start, and you don't even know what crowdfunding entails? Congratulations! This guide will teach all you need to know about crowdfunding.Why Choose this Guide?Sixty-three percent of Kickstarter campaigns fail, Learn the right way and you'll be among the 37 percent who succeed.Learn crowdfunding basicsUnderstanding the framework of rules and regulationsRaising fundsHow to promote your project on different platformsAnd much more!Get your copy today and discover the best crowdfunding tips, tricks & techniques for success !
Life on Your Terms
What a shame it would be to come to the end of your life and look back and say, "That was it?"Life on Your Terms is a practical blueprint for how to feel fulfilled while creating the life you imagine. No matter what situation you find yourself in today, there is a bright future waiting for you. Applying the skills and practices in this book will launch you to that place and beyond, faster than you ever imagined possible.In this practical guidebook, the author compresses decades of lessons learned from her wins and failures as a businesswoman and single mother into actionable steps to achieve the life you truly desire. Once bankrupt but now financially free, her courage, faith and strong desire for something more for herself and her children have driven her to seek out ways to create exactly that.Don't live the same day every day and call it a life. Apply these foundational principles and rewrite your future today.
Life on Your Terms
What a shame it would be to come to the end of your life and look back and say, "That was it?"Life on Your Terms is a practical blueprint for how to feel fulfilled while creating the life you imagine. No matter what situation you find yourself in today, there is a bright future waiting for you. Applying the skills and practices in this book will launch you to that place and beyond, faster than you ever imagined possible.In this practical guidebook, the author compresses decades of lessons learned from her wins and failures as a businesswoman and single mother into actionable steps to achieve the life you truly desire. Once bankrupt but now financially free, her courage, faith and strong desire for something more for herself and her children have driven her to seek out ways to create exactly that.Don't live the same day every day and call it a life. Apply these foundational principles and rewrite your future today.
The Art of War (Original Classic Edition)
Studied by generals from Napoleon to Rommel, this classic is still one of the most influential works on the subject and is required reading in most military academies around the world.
Beauty And The Best 2
Following on the international bestselling success of Beauty And The Best 1, the #1 Bestselling Beauty And The Best 2 introduces another 22 successful and established beauty industry leaders who share their personal journeys, their best experience, challenges, wisdom and business advice to help you follow your dream and be successful in the beauty industry.Edited by Susan Routledge & Andrew PriestleyContributors: Susan Routledge, Justyna Rostek, Rachel Cobley, Suzanne Jennings, Karen T Jones, Josephine Bennett, Catherine Carter, Barbara Booth, Rachaelle Demicoli, May Gordon, Clare Porter, Michelle Stead, Sarah Virgo-Harris, Katrina Atkinson, Annorah MacKnocher, Anna McCarthy-Birch, Laura Bateman, Felicity Hoddinott, Kate Killeen, Stephanie Podmore, Fiona Mccall and Elizabeth McCarron.Topics include: Training and QualificationsCustomer ExperienceCustomer ServiceStaff recruitmentStaff trainingMarketing and social mediaFacebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedInPublic RelationsIndustry awardsSuccesses, setbacks and new directions.Regulations and standardsThis is inspiring and in many instances front-line mentoring from standout industry leaders perfect for anyone in wanting to excel long term in the beauty industry.
OECD Skills Studies OECD Skills Strategy Tlaxcala (Mexico) Assessment and Recommendations
kills are the key to shaping a better future, and central to the capacity of countries and people to thrive in an increasingly interconnected and rapidly changing world. This report identifies opportunities and makes recommendations to strengthen the skills of youth, foster greater participation in adult learning, use people's skills more effectively to raise productivity, and strengthen the governance of the skills system in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico.
The Strangest Secret Collection 2.0
With complete certainty, I can tell you now - from my more than half-century of existence: Any and all successes, as well as all my disappointments are directly traced back to the principles in this book.For any set-back or failure, I either didn't know these principles, didn't understand their power, or simply ignored them.For every success, I have tracked back to taking these exact steps laid out in this book - to achieve, acquire, or attain whatever it was I wanted to be or have.And that experience is why I'm bringing out this short book you can have to carry with you and review regularly.Inside Earl Nightingale's original "Strangest Secret" recording, he mentions several books that support these ideas. If you put them together, the length is around 700 pages of text.What you are reading here is under a hundred.And this is designed to be slim and still contain the power of the best references that can educate and reinforce the key success principles Nightingale tested, then recorded in 1956.That one 78 RPM long-playing disc was the first Gold Record for a spoken-word album. And started an entire industry of recorded self-improvement books.Nightingale was a lifelong student of success. First retiring at the top of his field in his 30's, he went on to make several successful careers after that as an entrepreneur. And credits his breakthrough success to finding a copy of Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" in a Chicago book store. By that weekend, he had discovered in that book his now-renown strangest secret - "We Become What We Think About."A review of Hill's book by Nightingale is included here as an overview, along with Hill's key 6-step formula that 10-x'd Nightingale's own income in a matter of months - and then, as a simple test, 10-x'd it again a few months after that.You won't find anything unproved here. Nothing but classic, trusted, core essays that remind you of the other references that have positively affected your life. And what you won't find here is anything beyond the pared-down basic material.This book is short, to the point, and well-worth studying over and over and over - in the short spaces of time you have.The additional essays by Earl Shoeff and J. B. Jones are built from Jones' distilling Hill's material into an even simpler format - after he tested them by starting in his living room and building a 8-figure national corporation within 5 years.When you complete your reading, it's just in time for you to start over and internalize everything covered here by re-reading all over again. Over and over, until you know them by heart.This also means you should test everything you find here. Just because so many people have been rave about every essay or short book included here, doesn't mean you are going to get that same result.Test, study, and test again. Build your faith, burnish your goals until they shine bright as if burning with an inner flame.Your results are what you make them. Just as you become what you think about all the time.Fill your mind with these few principles, and you may very well be able to fill your life with unlimited success.Here's hoping you do.Scroll Up and Get Your Copy Now.
Conflict Resolution
Discover Expert Strategies and Conflict Resolution Techniques That Will Show You the Easiest Way To Manage Conflicts Effectively!Did you know that the most common cause of conflicts, wherever and whenever they happen, is because people communicate differently and sometimes they simply don't understand each other?When two people have very different communication styles and are only concerned with their benefits, reaching a resolution can be difficult at best.Still, when you learn to recognize different communication styles and work around them, use active listening, skills and convey solutions, you will be a natural at resolving conflict at work and home.With Conflict Resolution in your hands, you will learn a completely different approach to conflict resolution. You'll learn what character traits, skills, and experiences help people be more effective in finding solutions to conflict.You'll also learn about the five different styles of communication that most people use in their workplace interactions and how each impacts difficult situations.Finally, you will be given tools and techniques that you can use in practical, real-world situations.
