Business Ethics and Sustainability
This book equips readers with the knowledge, insights and key capabilities to understand and practice business activities from ethical and sustainable vantage points. It will be of interest to students of business ethics, environmental ethics, applied ethics and sustainable development, as well as business practitioners.
Convergence: Technology, Business, and the Human-Centric Future
What does it mean to be human-centric? The Convergence is here. Each day the human race becomes more connected and interdependent. There is no longer a choice in the matter. There is no turning back. All aspects of human life are rapidly converging at an intersection of people, business, and environment. With potential for either a historic integration or catastrophic collision, leaders have two clear choices: remain committed to profits above all else; or shift to a human-centric approach that embraces this convergence. Author Deborah Westphal, a leader in future-focused strategy, leverages her experiences working with some of the world's most innovative business leaders, to show how the interests of people (as human beings, not customers), overlap with those of companies in ways never before seen. Convergence charts the path forward for those leaders―particularly in business―who seek to shift to a human-centric mental model. This approach addresses realities from our converging world not necessarily related to a company's business operations, often integrating a tangible response with a change in the company's core values. Simply put, to be human-centric prioritizes the success of people and redefines success for a company. "Westphal's Convergence is a call to action to create the future of humanity rather than stand by. Her words of wisdom and lessons shared cannot be more timely than in this very moment when humanity is in crisis. In the midst of COVID-19, environmental disaster, and ever accelerating technological change, Convergence makes the case for authentic leadership and challenges us to rethink our primary purposes of doing business: to serve humanity." - Diana Rau, Chief Experience Officer & Cofounder, twine.nyc Forbes 30 Under 30
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OECD Skills Studies OECD Skills Strategy Kazakhstan Assessment and Recommendations
Skills 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. Megatrends such as globalisation, technological advances and demographic change are reshaping work and society, generating a growing demand for higher levels of skills and new sets of skills.
Diva Decisions
Are you smart and accomplished but find yourself asking if you have settled for the lesser choice? Do you find yourself questioning if this is good enough for me? Are you seeking answers to why you are hesitant to lead?DIVA DECISIONS: How to Get from SMART to INTELLIGENT by Claiming Your POWER of CHOICE is written for smart, modern career women and workforce-ready girls of all ages who want confidence and the skills to make more intelligent choices. Using life and leadership coaching methods, tools and resources, you are challenged to think, question and claim your broader intellect and understanding that goes beyond knowing-it-all to start the process towards achieving-it-all.After reading this book, you will have Resources to design the Lifespace you desire Tools to map and actualize your own success Greater awareness to create safe and empowering relationships A Power Mindset to effectively lead yourself and others Confidence to make more intelligent decisions DIVA DECISIONS is important to read now to help close the distance to achieving gender equity. You have in your hand the tools and resources to recognize and reframe powerful choices that affect your ability to live, lead, and succeed. DIVA DECISIONS aims to get you to intelligent.
Ethical Pitfalls for Professional Organizers
Ethics is something we know we should uphold, but trying to grasp it feels a lot like herding cats. In this book, professional organizers discover a strategic and, of course, organized approach to understanding ethics, mitigating risk, avoiding harm, and encouraging honor in themselves and each other.
We Should All Be Millionaires
Are you ready to fill your life with more peace, power, and joy?We Should All Be Millionaires details a realistic, achievable, step-by-step path to creating the support, confidence, and plan you need to own your success and become the millionaire the world needs you to be.Only 10 percent of the world's millionaires are women, making it difficult for women to wield the economic power that will create lasting equality. Whatever is stopping you from having seven figures in the bank--whether it's shaky confidence, knowledge gaps when it comes to wealth building tactics, imposter syndrome, a janky mindset about money (it's okay, we've all been there!), or simply not knowing where to begin--this book shows you how to clear every obstacle in your way, show up, and glow up.We Should All Be Millionaires will forever change the way you think about money and your ability to earn it.In this book, Rachel Rodgers-- a Black woman, mother of four, attorney, business owner, and self-made millionaire-- shares the lessons she's learned both in her own journey to wealth and in coaching hundreds of women through their own journeys to seven figures.Inside, you'll learn: Why earning more money is not "selfish" or "greedy" but in fact, a revolutionary act that brings the economy into balance and creates a better world for all.Why most of the financial advice you've heard in the past (like "skip your daily latte to save money") is absolute, patriarchal nonsense.An eye-opening history lesson on how women and people of color have been shut out of the ability to build wealth for centuries--and how we can fix this.How to stop making broke-ass decisions that leave you feeling emotionally and financially depleted and start making million-dollar decisions instead.Why aiming to earn $100K per year is not enough, and why you need to be setting your goals much higher.Strategies to bring more money in the door and fatten your bank account immediately. (Including Rodgers'$10K in 10 Days Challenge which hundreds of women have completed--with incredible results.)It's time to construct an entirely new attitude about money, claim your power, and build the financial security that you need and deserve -- so you can stop just surviving, and start thriving. Let's begin.
Python for MBAs
From the ads that track us to the maps that guide us, the twenty-first century runs on code. The business world is no different. Programming has become one of the fastest-growing topics at business schools around the world. An increasing number of MBAs are choosing to pursue careers in tech. For them and other professionals, having some basic coding knowledge is a must. This book is an introduction to programming with Python for MBA students and others in business positions who need a crash course. One of the most popular programming languages, Python is used for tasks such as building and running websites, data analysis, machine learning, and natural-language processing. Drawing on years of experience providing instruction in this material at Columbia Business School as well as extensive backgrounds in technology, entrepreneurship, and consulting, Mattan Griffel and Daniel Guetta teach the basics of programming from scratch. Beginning with fundamentals such as variables, strings, lists, and functions, they build up to data analytics and practical ways to derive value from large and complex datasets. They focus on business use cases throughout, using the real-world example of a major restaurant chain to offer a concrete look at what Python can do. Written for business students with no previous coding experience and those in business roles that include coding or working with coding teams, Python for MBAs is an indispensable introduction to a versatile and powerful programming language.
Python for MBAs
From the ads that track us to the maps that guide us, the twenty-first century runs on code. The business world is no different. Programming has become one of the fastest-growing topics at business schools around the world. An increasing number of MBAs are choosing to pursue careers in tech. For them and other professionals, having some basic coding knowledge is a must. This book is an introduction to programming with Python for MBA students and others in business positions who need a crash course. One of the most popular programming languages, Python is used for tasks such as building and running websites, data analysis, machine learning, and natural-language processing. Drawing on years of experience providing instruction in this material at Columbia Business School as well as extensive backgrounds in technology, entrepreneurship, and consulting, Mattan Griffel and Daniel Guetta teach the basics of programming from scratch. Beginning with fundamentals such as variables, strings, lists, and functions, they build up to data analytics and practical ways to derive value from large and complex datasets. They focus on business use cases throughout, using the real-world example of a major restaurant chain to offer a concrete look at what Python can do. Written for business students with no previous coding experience and those in business roles that include coding or working with coding teams, Python for MBAs is an indispensable introduction to a versatile and powerful programming language.
Betrayed by Work
In Betrayed by Work: Women tell the Truth About Being Fired, authors Julie Erickson and Suzanne Vosburg provide a realistic framework, based on real women's experiences, for processing the emotional trauma of losing your job.
Mind Your Own Business
12 CRUCIAL LESSONS ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP; OFFERING A FRESH PERSPECTIVE, SAVVY ADVICE AND PRACTICAL MEASURES TO PUT INTO PLACE.Are you working long hours just to keep your head above water?Are you stuck in the first gear and want to get moving - fast?The journey of an entrepreneur means being a risk-taker, a visionary, a leader, a pit bull and essentially a superhero all rolled into one.Nevi Letcher found herself doing this. She worked her way up in corporate, invested in her personal development and climbed the ladder fast, racing down the same track every day, plugging holes, negotiating deals, coaching and directing her team, developing and tweaking successful strategies to bring big brands to life.She only really learned about business when she started her own agency and she reveals aspects that business school didn't teach her.In Mind Your Own Business, Nevi shares what she learned and how she managed to implement strategies that saw her business grow and grow.Find something you want to do - and then just do it. That's how real entrepreneurs always start. This is your time. Make your mark on the world."Nevi has articulated valuable success principles in an engaging and inspiring way."Natasha Sideris - Founder & CEO, Tashas Group
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
A murder. A master detective. A gathering of suspects. Between the covers of a book or on the big screen, is there anything more compelling than a great crime story?In the expert hands of Agatha Christie-one of the world's bestselling novelists-every crime and every search for justice became a work of art. Story Grid Editor and writing coach Sophie B. Thomas set out to understand Christie's genius for storytelling by dissecting her most acclaimed work, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Thomas follows beloved sleuth Hercule Poirot scene-by-scene to map the structure of Christie's masterpiece, showing writers how the book fulfills all its readers' expectations before ambushing them with an unexpected ending.What are the must-have moments in every mystery, and how does Christie pull them off in such an innovative way? What made the book's narrative device so revolutionary? How does a great writer sustain narrative drive from page one to the ending payoff? Thomas brings expertise and passion for the writer's craft to her analysis as she answers all these questions and more.All the clues are there. Are you ready to begin the investigation?
From Barista to Boardroom
Part autobiography and part business memoir, former Starbucks vice president Christine McHugh shares how she went from serving single shots to creating programs adopted by stores worldwide. From a young age, Christine McHugh dreamed of finding a place in the bigger world outside her hometown of Fairbanks, Alaska. Inspired by members of her family and the confident businesswomen she saw when visiting Seattle, she packed her bags, enrolled in community college, and took a job slinging espresso at the local coffee chain-a modest thirty-seven-store operation called Starbucks. Presented with the opportunity to move into store management, she promptly quit school and dove headfirst into a career that would span twenty-seven years.In From Barista to Boardroom, McHugh describes her own nontraditional path up the corporate ladder, sharing lessons learned from taking a year off midcareer to backpack around the world, navigating motherhood as a corporate executive, and going back to school at the age of forty. McHugh's personal struggles and moments of triumph, told with frank vulnerability, are an inspiration to anyone looking for an extra shot of motivation to write their own story and craft a worthwhile career.
Business Ethics
Featuring a conversational and highly approachable tone, Business Ethics: The Search for an Elusive Idea helps students bridge the gap between the complicated subject matter of ethics and the practical, everyday business situations in which ethics can come into play.Opening chapters provide students with a broad overview of philosophy, ethics, business, and human motivation. Students develop their vocabulary and general understanding of concepts and constructs related to ethics. Additional chapters examine a number of societal areas that have been the subject of ethical scrutiny in the past through a collection of engaging case studies. The studies discuss the housing crisis, the cost of health care, deception and trickery in advertising, and issues related to the auto industry and big oil. Closing chapters provide students with guidelines for organizational direction and advice for developing measurable change over time.Written to provide students with an accessible introduction, Business Ethics is an excellent resource for foundational courses within the discipline.
Women Who Push the Limits Presents 7 Keys to Improving Your Customer Service
"Regardless of the business you're in, you're in the CUSTOMER SERVICE BUSINESS."★★★★★As a business owner, you know you have to provide excellent customer service. But sometimes, when we get busy or face challenges like a worldwide pandemic, it's nice to be able to grab a quick and easy reminder of some fundamental customer service principles.Full of illustrative stories and up-to-date statistics that provide empirical proof, author, business owner, and highly-experienced customer service expert and coach Lynn W. Murphy shares what she's learned over many decades as a successful entrepreneur.
Finding Your Company’s Spiritual Purpose
This book required two lifetimes before it could be written. The first lifetime was spent in the business world as a corporate PR executive for a household name company. The second lifetime featured three decades as an ordained non-denominational minister. Had not both careers dovetailed, I could not bring you this unique perspective that might make a difference for your organization-and the world. Both my careers had more in common than I could have ever expected. I hope you will find something here that will add even more to your company, corporation, LLC, or partnership's reputation and story.Every successful company has a reason to exist. It has identified a product or service that provides a needed benefit to current and potential customers. The best companies have found a way to keep delivering on that promise. Many corporate success stories have spanned multiple generations. Yet, the history of business failures is legion. Then there are the in-between companies who experienced profitability, even for many decades, before ending up forgotten and bankrupt. Unexpected change happens to companies as it does to individuals. Unless a corporation possesses strong underpinnings and a willingness to embrace new ways of doing business, it might be here today and gone tomorrow. I also believe there is another factor that can influence a company's longevity. Does the organization have a spiritual purpose for its existence? If it can identify and fulfill the inner needs of its employees, clients or customers, that might be the secret ingredient that determines long-term success or failure. Every corporation has a "culture." It is the sum of everybody ever associated with the company-its history and its people. Does the "culture" reflect integrity and spiritual purpose? Who were the founders? What drove them? Are they still around? Some part of them probably remains even if their physical presence is gone. Were the past officers and employees tuned into issues such as honesty and integrity? What about today? Some things rarely ever change. Does purpose, accountability and a service mentality run through the company today? Does it possess an identifiable spiritual purpose or "cause"? Does it still have an important place in the lives of its customers? The spiritual component of a company or organization may seem like an obscure and unrelated factor. However, I believe it might be the elusive x-factor that makes the difference between corporate success and failure.
From Barista to Boardroom
Part autobiography and part business memoir, former Starbucks vice president Christine McHugh shares how she went from serving single shots to creating programs adopted by stores worldwide. From a young age, Christine McHugh dreamed of finding a place in the bigger world outside her hometown of Fairbanks, Alaska. Inspired by members of her family and the confident businesswomen she saw when visiting Seattle, she packed her bags, enrolled in community college, and took a job slinging espresso at the local coffee chain-a modest thirty-seven-store operation called Starbucks. Presented with the opportunity to move into store management, she promptly quit school and dove headfirst into a career that would span twenty-seven years.In From Barista to Boardroom, McHugh describes her own nontraditional path up the corporate ladder, sharing lessons learned from taking a year off midcareer to backpack around the world, navigating motherhood as a corporate executive, and going back to school at the age of forty. McHugh's personal struggles and moments of triumph, told with frank vulnerability, are an inspiration to anyone looking for an extra shot of motivation to write their own story and craft a worthwhile career.
Protect Yourself from Business Lawsuits
THE ESSENTIAL BOOK EVERY EMPLOYEE NEEDS TO AVOID WORKPLACE LIABILITY Corporate litigation has spun out of control and can cost up to 10 percent of overall earnings. Changes in the law enabling lawyers to mount business tort claims have caused damages to soar sky-high. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Schweich, a pioneer in the field of preventive law, turns the tables and offers managers and all employees who act as agents a manual for avoiding the mistakes that could land them in court. In comprehensible layman's terms, Schweich shows employees from companies of all kinds and sizes how to avoid lawsuits by analyzing the Eight Big Mistakes that can lead to litigation, with examples culled from his experiences at Bryan Cave, LLP, leaders in preventive law. This book will benefit all employees -- from the CEO of a major corporation to the average deal-making employee. An invaluable tool for avoiding workplace liability, Protect Yourself from Business Lawsuits is a must-read for every businessperson.
You Want Me to Do What
Today's administrative assistants and other office professionals have more responsibility than ever-- and with it comes a whole new host of ethical dilemmas. In the first book of its kind to address office support staff rather than management, business ethics expert Nan DeMars documents 100 provocative examples of complex office situations -- and offers thoughtful, practical solutions to each scenario.
Erlebnisse Und Tourismus
Erlebnisse und Erlebnisprodukte sind im Zuge gesellschaftlicher Ver瓣nderungen und gestiegener Qualit瓣tsanspr羹che der G瓣ste auch im Tourismus zusehends in den Fokus der Betrachtung ger羹ckt. Viele Anbieter versuchen, ihren G瓣sten Erlebnisse von Erlebnisgastronomie 羹ber Naturerlebnisse bis hin zu k羹nstlichen Erlebniswelten zu bieten. Die Beitr瓣ge der "4. Deidesheimer Gespr瓣che zur Tourismuswissenschaft" in diesem Sammelband beleuchten das Thema "Erlebnisse und Tourismus" aus verschiedenen Perspektiven etwa von Touristen, Destinationen oder Reiseveranstaltern. Dabei werden zudem Modelle der Erlebnisgenese und -bewertung vorgestellt, empirische Befunde zum Destinationserlebnis pr瓣sentiert sowie Aspekte zum Erlebnismarketing behandelt.
Time Leadership Time - practical strategies for a life of purpose, growth & high productivity
"Time cannot be managed; instead, you manage activities," said Bob Proctor.Have you ever tried time management systems without significant success? Would you like to bring back control to your life and enjoy your life much more?If so, then Time Leadership Time is for you.Ben Wood, businessman, dad, husband, and church leader, presents to you a system that has worked for him and his family. Using the system, Ben successfully transformed his life and now enjoys living his purpose.His system builds on the foundation that you were not born by mistake but for a purpose. Only when you live from your purpose will you begin to enjoy your life, not for a day but daily.Here's some of what you'll learn in this book: -Three life-changing tests you can do to discover your purpose.-The areas that you should grow in your life. Unless you grow in these areas, life will be hard.-Two overlooked ways your goal setting fails.-The purpose for setting goals. (Note: You don't set goals to achieve things. There is only one reason you need to have goals, and it is this element that most people miss, causing them to stay miserable.)-How to use the Time Bucket Table for scheduling your activities. This system includes a time slot that is missing in many systems.-How to say no and still feel good about yourself. A failure to say no is behind most people's failure to complete the tasks that they schedule.-Five reasons you often don't celebrate and six benefits of celebrating your wins.And much, much more!Time Leadership Time allows you to lead your time instead of managing it. It is the most effective way to live a purposeful life.If you are tired of fighting fires and trying to control and enjoy your life more, then buy Time Leadership Time now!
Diversifying Diversity
Is your workplace truly diverse? In this gem amongst diversity, equity and inclusion books, Dr. Poornima Luthra challenges us to address the inequality in the 21st Century that exists by expanding the dimensions of diversity in the workplace we address; to define diversity in the workplace in a way that truly represents our whole diverse selves. When you think of diversity, what comes to mind? Gender? Ethnicity? Age? Sexual orientation? How about physical abilities or neurodiversity? What about educational background, experiences, personality, beliefs, socio-economic background, ways of working or parenthood choices? These are all dimensions of diversity that make up our diversity thumbprint. The questions we need to be asking ourselves are: are we embracing this level of diversity and inclusion in the workplace? how do we make this a reality? and what does this inclusion in action look like? This book contains everything you need to develop a solid understanding of the various dimensions of diversity and the biases that arise from them. Poornima provides us with the tools needed to address our biases, have inclusive conversations and be an active ally of inclusion. Whether you are an individual employee, team manager, or CEO, Diversifying Diversity is your guide to active allyship in the workplace.If you are wondering what this inclusion in action looks like, case studies from Maersk Tankers, Carlsberg Group, IKEA Retail, Telia Company, Be My Eyes, Project Access International, Stack Recruitment, and Kromann Reumert provide inspiration, and a blueprint for inclusion in the workplace is included.Dr. Poornima Luthra is the founder and CEO of TalentED Consultancy ApS, a TEDx Speaker and external Faculty at the Copenhagen Business School. She has spent over a decade in academia and, in recent years, further expanded her efforts towards the vision of making workplaces inclusive for all. Poornima works with individuals, teams and leaders in organisations and institutions on nurturing inclusive mindsets while expanding the dimensions of diversity we look at. She believes that with greater know-how and the right attitude, we can all be active allies of inclusion to make our workplaces - and society - truly inclusive for all.
Generation Brand
Right this minute, you are the proud owner of a library full of content. And congratulations, it's all about you! Cute, rambunctious, smart, or downright unflattering photos, videos, phrases, behaviors, what and who you like and love, where you've been, and what elicits your frown or thumbs down. You and your reactors have been building your life-brand since the birth of your life online. With trolls, cancel culture, reputational damage, and career destruction tainting our new connected reality, isn't it time you take control of it?Generation Brand is a modern playbook for cultivating your life-brand seamlessly through every life stage, leading to your early career and career advancement, as it gains power and strength with the rapid accumulation of live-out-loud content. Besides the different scenarios of life-brand, author Irina Soriano explains how it enables every human with social media access to impact positive change in their life and our society over the course of a lifetime. Also, start your exciting life-brand journey in real-time with an original Life-Brand Launch Kit designed by the author.It's your life(-brand)! Love it forever.
From Farms to Incubators
An exciting look at how women entrepreneurs are transforming agriculture through high technology.Don't take the food you eat for granted. Farmers today face huge challenges in keeping your food supply secure--climate change, precarious water and soil supplies, and a growing global population projected to reach 10 billion people in 2050. Women innovators are tackling these problems to create a secure and sustainable food supply for the future. Using drones, artificial intelligence, sophisticated soil sensors, data analytics, blockchain, and robotics, these women are transforming agriculture into the growing field of agtech, the integration of agriculture and technology.From Farms to Incubators presents inspiring stories and practical case studies of how women entrepreneurs from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds are leading the agtech revolution. Each agribusiness leader profiled in From Farms to Incubators tells her own story of how she used agtech innovation to solve specific business problems and succeed. The women profiled speak frankly on the advantages and drawbacks of technological solutions to agriculture and offer lessons in making technology productive in real work. These business cases demonstrate the influence of female innovation, the new technologies applied to agribusiness problems, and the career opportunities young women can find in agribusiness.A must-read book for everyone interested in tech innovation and food security, From Farms to Incubators offers exhilarating role models for young women, a thought-provoking glimpse into the future of food production, and a fascinating investigation of how women leaders are profitably disrupting the world's oldest industry.
Business Research Methodology
Part I: The Journey to the Land of Unknown.- Chapter 1: The Nature of Research.- Chapter 2: Scientific Method.- Chapter 3: The Research Process.- Part II: Preparation for Research.- Chapter 4: Formulating a Research Problem.- Chapter 5: Review of Literature.- Chapter 6: Research Design.- Chapter 7: Research Proposal.- Part III: Research Methods.- Chapter 8: Foundations of Probability.- Chapter 9: Distribution, Expectation, and Risk.- Chapter 10: Bayesian Probability.- Chapter 11: Major Distributions.- Chapter 12: Introduction to Statistics.- Chapter 13: Confidence Intervals.- Chapter 14: Statistical Hypotheses Testing.- Chapter 15: Sampling Experiments.- Chapter 16: Survey Method.- Chapter 17: Linear Regression.- Chapter 18: Comparative Analysis.- Part IV: Conducting Research.- Chapter 19: Theories, Experiments, Data Collection, and Analysis.- Chapter 20: Deriving Conclusions.- Chapter 21: Ethical and Legal Issues of Research.- Part V: Delivering the Results.- Chapter 22: Writing Research Report.- Chapter 23: Making Presentations.- Appendix A: The Standard Normal Distribution Tables.- Appendix B: Student's t-Distribution Tables.- Appendix C: Business Research Case Studies.
Shipping and Commercial Case Law
C籀mo se resolvieron los 200 casos m獺s conocidos de litigio en el comercio internacional y el transporte mar穩timo. Cada caso se presenta en ingl矇s con una descripci籀n de los hechos que dieron lugar al litigio y una s穩ntesis de la sentencia que los resolvi籀. Todos ellos fueron decididos en el seno de la Corte Europea de Justicia y de los Tribunales del Reino Unido, lo que los convierte en un referente obligado en la materia.Los casos se refieren a distintos contratos de transporte mar穩timo, como conocimientos de embarque, waybills o p籀lizas de fletamento, as穩 como a instrumentos de comercio exterior tales como contratos de compraventa, de agencia, cartas de cr矇dito o garant穩as bancarias. Tambi矇n hacen referencia al embargo preventivo de buques, a la limitaci籀n de responsabilidad del naviero, y a cuestiones de derecho, arbitraje o jurisdicci籀n internacionales.
Play Hard, Work Smart
As a school leaver, graduate or aspiring entrepreneur, it's natural to experience fear, uncertainty and doubt about the future.Play Hard, Work Smart will show you how to take control over your life and work towards success on your terms. Plot a path towards the life you want - your 'Dream Mountain' - by exploring how to: Play Hard Uncover your core beliefs to help drive the choices you make Commit to your dreams and a direction of travel that inspires you Understand how to present the 'real you' and develop the skills and experience that will allow you to flourish Work Smart Develop a work-ready mindset and a natural rhythm to get the best out of every day Learn to find work which reflects your own standards and core beliefs Be inspired to define success on your terms
Female Corporate Culture and the New South
Before World War I, Southern women's participation in the workforce consisted of black women's domestic labor and white working-class women's industrial or manufacturing work, but after the war, Southern women flooded business offices as stenographers, typists, clerks, and bookkeepers. This book examines their experiences in the clerical workforce, using both traditional labor sources and exploring the cultural institutions that evolved from these women's work-related milieu.Businessmen throughout the South molded this workforce to meet their needs using both labor-saving management techniques and exploiting social mores to enforce gender boundaries that limited women's workplace opportunities. This study traces the social and economic implications of Southern women's increased participation in clerical labor after World War I. While it increased the civic activities of white middle-class southern women, it also confined them to a routinized days work and limited venues of occupational achievement. Through a varied network of business women's clubs and organizations, women struggled with their new identities as workers and attempted to integrate their work lives with their community and family obligations.(Ph.D. dissertation, Emory University, 1995; revised with new Introduction and Preface)
Modern Data Science with R
From a review of the first edition: "Modern Data Science with R... is rich with examples and is guided by a strong narrative voice. What's more, it presents an organizing framework that makes a convincing argument that data science is a course distinct from applied statistics" (The American Statistician).Modern Data Science with R is a comprehensive data science textbook for undergraduates that incorporates statistical and computational thinking to solve real-world data problems. Rather than focus exclusively on case studies or programming syntax, this book illustrates how statistical programming in the state-of-the-art R/RStudio computing environment can be leveraged to extract meaningful information from a variety of data in the service of addressing compelling questions.The second edition is updated to reflect the growing influence of the tidyverse set of packages. All code in the book has been revised and styled to be more readable and easier to understand. New functionality from packages like sf, purrr, tidymodels, and tidytext is now integrated into the text. All chapters have been revised, and several have been split, re-organized, or re-imagined to meet the shifting landscape of best practice.
Arrive
This book is an excellent best-practice guide for senior managers and directors with innovation responsibilities. It describes how organisations of all sizes and sectors can apply design thinking principles, coupled with commercial awareness, to their innovation agenda. It explains how to keep the customer experience at the centre of innovation efforts and when to apply the range of available practices. It provides a clear, extensive rationale for all advice and techniques offered. Design thinking has become the number one innovation methodology for many businesses, but there has been a lack of clarity about how best to adopt it. It often requires significant mindset and behavioural changes and managers must have a coherent and integrated understanding in order to guide its adoption effectively. Many design thinking implementations are inadequate or sub-optimal through focusing too much on details of individual methods or being too abstract, with ill-defined objectives. This book uniquely provides integrated clarity and rationale across all levels of design thinking practice and introduces the ARRIVE framework for design thinking in business innovation, which the authors have developed over ten years of practice and research. ARRIVE = Audit - Research - Reframe - Ideate - Validate - Execute. The book contains a chapter for each of A-R-R-I-V-E, each of which has explanatory background and step-by-step methods instruction in a clear and standard format. Using the ARRIVE framework, the book provides high-level understanding, rationale and step-by-step guidance for CEOs, senior innovation leaders, innovation project managers and design practitioners in diverse public and private sectors. It applies equally well to innovation of products, services or systems.
Generation Brand
Right this minute, you are the proud owner of a library full of content. And congratulations, it's all about you! Cute, rambunctious, smart, or downright unflattering photos, videos, phrases, behaviors, what and who you like and love, where you've been, and what elicits your frown or thumbs down. You and your reactors have been building your life-brand since the birth of your life online. With trolls, cancel culture, reputational damage, and career destruction tainting our new connected reality, isn't it time you take control of it?Generation Brand is a modern playbook for cultivating your life-brand seamlessly through every life stage, leading to your early career and career advancement, as it gains power and strength with the rapid accumulation of live-out-loud content. Besides the different scenarios of life-brand, author Irina Soriano explains how it enables every human with social media access to impact positive change in their life and our society over the course of a lifetime. Also, start your exciting life-brand journey in real-time with an original Life-Brand Launch Kit designed by the author.It's your life(-brand)! Love it forever.
The Statistical System of Communist China
One of the most baffling problems in contemporary Chinese economic studies concerns the validity of official statistics. In the continuing discussion of claims and counter-claims, appeals to common sense are unconvincing. Because of the pressing need for substantial evidence on which to base a judgment, the present inquiry is an important contribution to the literature on Communist China. The book provides a quizzical but objective look at the statistical system of the country, and attempts to appraise the quality of official statistics by analyzing the development and inner working of the sytem. Its approach is broadly historical, beginning with the pre-Communist period (before 1949) and dividing the next dozen years into phases: the foundation of the state statistical system (1952 - 57), the period of decentralization (1958 - 59), and subsequent efforts at reorganization. Li's study of the development of a national statistical system in China is particularly instructive in delineating both the obstacles to such development that may be expected in a densely populated, largely agricultural country and the measure that have been adopted to overcome them. Therefore his hard-headed conclusions concerning the Chinese experience should be of lively intrest in those underdeveloped countries that are now planning or executing development programs. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
Speak Black Woman
Have you begun receiving requests to participate as a guest speaker or panelist at various conferences, events, and summits? Yet, none of these opportunities are paid? Are you wasting hours filling out speaker proposals and not getting selected? Are you stuck trying to figure out how you can still profit from public speaking as the host of your own virtual or in-person events? Or maybe you are trying to leverage your voice on social media, hosting a Masterclass or multi-day challenge, yet your communication on these platforms fails to convert? I want you to know you are not alone, and many women in business who are passionate about public speaking are having challenges monetizing their message. This is precisely why I wrote this book. I am here to ensure you never have to wonder how you can profit from public speaking again! No more being tired of wasting time speaking and walking away feeling undervalued or underappreciated by the audience or event organizer. Speak Black Woman teaches you how to strategically leverage public speaking in your business as a lead generation and marketing strategy. You will find some "Q-Tips" that will prove to be kick-starters to leveraging your voice for your business. I know you may have become a speaker by accident, or maybe you willingly raised your hand to speak and serve audiences with your message and your mess, either way, if you want to make money as a speaker, Speak Black Woman was created to help you do just that. In this book, I will teach you how to use your voice and message to reach your audience by the masses and reduce the one-on-one model so that you can take your life, sanity, and time back. Once you learn and apply the speaking strategies in this book, you'll appreciate getting back the luxury of being present for your family and having harmony between your home life and your business. The lessons and strategies in Speak Black Woman are not meant to compete or replace your revenue model for securing upfront fees to speak. It is intended to complement your marketing strategies and to maximize and monetize speaking opportunities to attract loyal clients and customers ready to do business with you for life. This book is focused on black women with service-based businesses. You may offer a coaching program, online course, host virtual events, or some other professional service and want to offer your services instantly after speaking. Speak Black Woman has your name written all over it. So, sit back, enjoy the journey to profit from public speaking. Speak, black woman!
Community Disaster Recovery
Disasters can serve as focusing events that increase agenda attention related to issues of disaster response, recovery, and preparedness. Increased agenda attention can lead to policy changes and organisational learning. The degree and type of learning that occurs within a government organization after a disaster may matter to policy outcomes related to individual, household, and community-level risks and resilience. Local governments are the first line of disaster response but also bear the burden of performing long-term disaster recovery and planning for future events. Crow and Albright present the first framework for understanding if, how, and to what effect communities and local governments learn after a disaster strikes. Drawing from analyses conducted over a five-year period following extreme flooding in Colorado, USA, Community Disaster Recovery: Moving from Vulnerability to Resilience presents a framework of community-level learning after disaster and the factors that catalyse policy change towards resilience.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Open Treasure Island, and you expect to find a thrilling adventure tale of pirates, shipwrecks, and lost booty. But if you join Story Grid writer and editor Leslie Watts in analyzing Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, you'll also discover timeless lessons about the craft of storytelling.First published in 1883, Treasure Island offers readers irresistible life-or-death stakes and a compelling coming-of-age arc for young hero Jim Hawkins. And, of course, Stevenson introduces the cunning Long John Silver, one of literature's most unforgettable shapeshifting antagonists, complete with wooden leg and parrot.Watts turns the novel itself into a treasure map, following "landmarks of change" to discover how the author fulfills readers' expectations on multiple levels as the characters adapt to an imperfect, often terrifying world. "The way Jim outwits Silver and the other pirates is a useful lesson for life and writing," says Watts.If you're a writer who is serious about your craft, there's no better way to learn to capture, entertain, and enlighten readers than by exploring a masterwork. In this Guide, Leslie Watts shares her map, so climb aboard and let's set sail.
Smooth Sailing
IS YOUR SMALL BUSINESS LEGALLY PROTECTED? In Smooth Sailing: A Practical Guide to Legally Protecting Your Business, attorney Cheri Andrews lays out the crucial foundational steps ALL small businesses require to ensure their business is legally compliant and protected. By implementing the practical advice included in this book, you can avoid some of the most common legal mistakes made by entrepreneurs-mistakes that could put your business and personal assets at risk. Smooth Sailing covers various legal topics, including: - Why choosing the correct business entity matters- Which professionals to hire to guide you in key areas- How contracts set expectations, provide legal protections, and minimize risk- How the right policies and operating procedures protect you from regulatory nightmares- What intellectual property is-and why you should care- What you can handle on your own and when you need to call an attorney Smooth Sailing offers a clear understanding of the key components every business owner must address to be legally protected and compliant. This knowledge allows you to make informed decisions that lead to better outcomes for your business and YOU.
Management and Business Research
An updated edition of a bestselling text that provides readers with a clear and comprehensive overview of methods for conducting management and business research.
Happy at Home, Happy at Work
Happyiness and character strengths are closely linked. We build those strengths as we practice them in our homes and in the workplace. The more we apply them in one venue, the more they impact the other, and vice versa. Marriages, families, and workplaces are happier, healthier places to be.
Expatriate Leaders of International Development Projects
Expatriate leadership of USAID projects is complex, this title seeks to unravel those complexities. Expatriate leaders frequently find project success elusive, due to a multiplicity of factors, from adapting to a developing country's socio-political-economic conditions to USAID's policies. This book aims to explain why success is elusive.
The Career Toolkit
Networking, negotiating, communicating, leading, career planning--all skills critical to your career success. But did anyone ever teach you these skills? The Career Toolkit will help you master these vital skills and yield outsized returns for your career and your income. Every chapter is packed with dozens of actionable principles, exercises, and practices that will accelerate your success. It's a multivitamin for your career! The Career Toolkit shows you how to design and execute your personal plan to achieve the career you deserve, including: Negotiating a job offer. (This alone will pay for the book.) Creating a dynamic career strategy. Building a high-value network. Developing the fundamental leadership skills that matter most. Managing teams effectively, even as an individual contributor.
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution
"An instant classic." --Arianna Huffington"Will inspire people from across the political spectrum." --Jonathan HaidtLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, an essential shortlist of leadership ideas for everyone who wants to do good in this world, from Jacqueline Novogratz, author of the New York Times bestseller The Blue Sweater and founder and CEO of Acumen. In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the world tackles poverty, few had heard of impact investing--Acumen's practice of "doing well by doing good." Nineteen years later, there's been a seismic shift in how corporate boards and other stakeholders evaluate businesses: impact investment is not only morally defensible but now also economically advantageous, even necessary. Still, it isn't easy to reach a success that includes profits as well as mutually favorable relationships with workers and the communities in which they live. So how can today's leaders, who often kick off their enterprises with high hopes and short timetables, navigate the challenges of poverty and war, of egos and impatience, which have stymied generations of investors who came before? Drawing on inspiring stories from change-makers around the world and on memories of her own most difficult experiences, Jacqueline divulges the most common leadership mistakes and the mind-sets needed to rise above them. The culmination of thirty years of work developing sustainable solutions for the problems of the poor, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution offers the perspectives necessary for all those--whether ascending the corporate ladder or bringing solar light to rural villages--who seek to leave this world better off than they found it.
Simple Success Strategies
Seven Simple Success Strategies can help you reach and retain greater financial success and experience enhanced personal satisfaction.What stands between you and the Life You Deserve? Why shouldn't you realize your fondest hopes and fulfill your innermost dreams? Simple Success Strategies can help you get the life you've imagined - the future you were meant to enjoy. Each of the seven easily understood and actionable strategy chapters help you formulate immediate and longer-term steps you can take, and decisions you can make that will take you where you want to go in life. This smart and simple strategy, proven by the author's own experience and borne out in the lives of others, can work for you and those you love.The Simple Success Strategies can: Improve your quality of life.Help you advance in your career or profession.Support your success in business.Enrich your relationships.Ensure that you enjoy every day to the fullest.Start Now - there's nothing to be gained by waiting. In just over 100 pages, you can gain insights from this book that will you develop a winning success strategy. The successful life you deserve is yours for the taking!
Working Twice as Hard
"Be your own boss.""Live like most people won't, so you can live like most people can't.""Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life."You've probably seen these quotes in books about starting a business. What they won't tell you is the truth about what it really takes to be your own boss-especially if you're a Black woman. Author Quinisha Jackson-Wright reveals the harsh truths about entrepreneurship, like shaky income, loneliness, and nightmare clients. Working Twice as Hard is a no-holds-barred guide for Black women who want to know the good, bad, and ugly of entrepreneurship.You'll read stories from other Black women business owners about: Healing from the wounds of a toxic work culture The task of building a solid support systemOngoing pressure to be a "Strong Black Woman"Setting your own pace in the fast-moving digital eraQuinisha Jackson-Wright is a U.S. Navy veteran, freelance journalist, and personal finance blogger with bylines in The New York Times, Wired, Business Insider, and The Muse.
Rebrand Yourself for Tomorrow's Workforce
We all know that the employment landscape has changed. It is time to rebrand yourself, playing on the strengths that you used in your previous jobs, to modernize for the new job market. Rebrand Yourself for Tomorrow's Workforce applies directly to you because it is designed to serve as your go-to place for information as well as a source of motivation. Rebrand Yourself for Tomorrow's Workforce is unique for several reasons. - It focuses on you and packaging yourself in the best possible light. - It is customizable because you select the information that applies to your specific needs. - It provides lists of free resources to help you update your skills and transfer them to a new market. - It provides a simple, practical approach that breaks the job hunt down into small, manageable steps that build on each other. Competition is fierce and the need to rebrand yourself must be your first priority. You will be marketing a product-YOU-and the packaging of the product is critical.Together, our goal is to prepare you to enter the new job market. The book is written from a perspective of tough love-my job is to push you, prod you, and encourage you to your goal. I have written this book as if we were sitting and having coffee. The tone is conversational and I am going to say "we" a lot because we are in this together. Your success means that I have done my job.CHAPTER 1, PLANNING FOR THE JOB, provides a baseline of information that you will need. Here we pull together free training resources, conduct our job-hunt research, and begin our job-hunt campaign.Planning is not the part that most people find exciting. Jumping in and doing it are much more fun. However, you can't "jump in" if you don't know where to jump or what you're jumping into. We want to design a marketing plan that is clear, positive, and error free. If your plan is well designed, the execution will be simple and will go just as you envisioned it.CHAPTER 2, GETTING THE JOB, is where we execute the plan. This chapter provides a detailed walk-through from getting into the right mindset for the interview, to the interview itself, and the follow-up plan. CHAPTER 3, IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY: THE PORTFOLIO, is the chapter where we discuss the importance of a portfolio during many stages of your work life-getting a job, keeping a job, and moving up.Be sure to take advantage of the CHECKLISTS, found at the end of each section. They are designed to keep you organized and accountable. Why did I write this book? All of us have at least one thing that we do well, and for me it's helping people get jobs and promotions by organizing their experiences in a way that is logical and easy for the reader to follow. An expression I frequently use is "It ain't brain surgery." Just follow the rules. Give the reader what they need. This is not an exercise in creative writing. Just report the facts in an interesting, easy-to-understand way.This can be a fresh start. If you're ready, I am, too. Let's get going!
Public School Debt Administration
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Humanistic Ethics in the Age of Globality
Cultures and moral expectations differ around the globe, and so the management of corporate responsibilities has become increasingly complex. Is there, however, a humanistic consensus that can bridge cultural and ethnic divides and reconcile the diverse and contrary interests of stakeholders world-wide? This book seeks to answer that question.
Csr in Contemporary Poland
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to corporate social responsibility (CSR), examining economic sciences and managements to show the complexity of the contemporary perception and development of CSR in Poland. It considers well-being of workers, the importance of the common good and social innovations in relation to profit. It addresses consumers and organizations, underlining the role and importance of small and medium sized enterprises. This book shows the possibility of improvement management systems by using CSR in business operations. It is valuable reading for academics working in corporate social responsibility, business ethics and in Polish management more generally.
For the Love of Hair
It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will make you look at your hairdresser like you never have before.There's more to cutting hair than scissors. For Tracy Bitternose, hairdressing was a way to deliver beauty, inspiration, kindness, creativity, self-worth, and strength not only to herself, but to every person who sat in her chair. She's been through it all: abusive relationships, divorce, self-loathing, health issues, and even cancer, and has come out of it all blessed, successful, and loved. Nothing can stop the indomitable spirit of a woman who desires to cut hair!In For the Love of Hair, author and stylist, Tracy Bitternose, takes you on an intimate journey of struggle, pain, hope, triumph, and laughter as she chronicles her life experience as a hairstylist and entrepreneur. This book is a smart and inspirational guide to picking yourself up and standing with your head held high (with fabulous hair, of course!) No matter how hard life knocks you down, you can get up and be the amazing person you are meant to be. And if you need help, your hairstylist will be there, to hold your hand and make sure you look good along the way. Why? Because YOU MATTER!
