How to Manage Your Manager
Milo Denison has spent over 30 years navigating the corporate world, working in call centers, engineering teams, project management, and even a stint as a barista for a well-known coffee chain. Most of the time, he fought against the system, though occasionally he played along. Along the way, he mastered the art of subtly influencing those above him, guiding others to work just as much for him as he did for them.
Building on COVID-19's Innovation Momentum for Digital, Inclusive Education
Education systems can build on school-led micro-innovations during the pandemic to develop more equitable learning. Empowering teachers to be autonomous, actively engaged in designing learning environments, and knowledgeable and dynamic in using multi-modal technology can encourage more peer-to-peer collaboration in schools and enrich pedagogy.
Strengthening Early Childhood Education and Care in Luxembourg
In supporting children's development, countries invest in the future successes of economies and societies. Awareness of the critical role early childhood education and care (ECEC) plays in setting a strong foundation for children's learning, development and well-being has grown among policy makers worldwide.
Quick Guide Legal Best Practices for Founders in Germany
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues that founders of startups regularly face. The business models of startups typically exhibit significant growth and scaling potential and often target digital markets. The trade-off between low initial capital and early expansion of business activities requires venture capital or other sources of funding. In addition to presenting the various legal questions that arise--from choosing an appropriate legal structure at the outset of a startup to issues affecting a wide range of business operations--the book also contains extensive information on financing options for startups. Additionally, it includes concrete suggestions for business regulations and other important documents. As a comprehensive guide, the book offers valuable insights into legal matters that (not only) founders of startups should consider.
She's the Boss
In the years after World War II, as women were being pushed from wartime jobs for returning soldiers, government and business leaders--and women themselves--saw small business ownership as a viable economic solution. In just five years, US women owned nearly a million of the nation's businesses. In the decades since, women have moved increasingly into business ownership, often outpacing male start-ups so that today, they own more than fourteen million businesses, 40 percent of all US companies. She's the Boss chronicles the forces that made entrepreneurship attractive to women. In rich detail, Debra Michals shares the stories of the countless women of all races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities who contributed to this important history. The book also explores the intersection of women's personal choices within changing social, political, and economic factors, such as the rising divorce rates of the 1960s and 1970s, ongoing workplace and credit discrimination, civil and women's rights activism and activist entrepreneurs, the 1970s recession and 1980s "Reagan Revolution," and more recently, the internet, crowd-funding, and social entrepreneurship.
Corporate Risks and Leadership
This book is a wake-up call that allows business leaders to understand the benefits of implementing an effective ethics and compliance program that will help members of organizations make the right decisions and act within the law.
International Business Law and the Legal Environment
The fifth edition of International Business Law and the Legal Environment: A Transactional Approach gives business and law students a clear understanding of the legal principles that govern international business. This book goes beyond compliance by emphasizing how to use the law to create value and competitive advantage.DiMatteo's transactional approach walks students through key business transactions--from import and export, contracts, and finance to countertrade, dispute resolution, licensing, and more--giving them both context and providing real-world applications. This new edition also features: Added coverage of new technologies, such as smart contracts, digital platforms, and blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, market for non-fungible tokens, and the metaverse Discussion of businesses and sustainability, climate change, and creating a circular economy International perspective and use of a variety of national and international law materials Greater coverage of EU substantive law including the new Artificial Intelligence Act Upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of business law and international business will appreciate DiMatteo's lucid writing style, and professionals will find this book to be a comprehensive resource. Online resources include an instructor's manual, PowerPoint slides, and test bank.
The Happy Leader
Are you a leader seeking happiness? You must read this modern fable from business (and happiness!) coach Shawn Johal. "Through his brilliant storytelling, we can see ourselves, the decisions we make and the choices that impact our happiness." - Robert Glazer, author of ElevateLEADERS! ARE YOU TRULY HAPPY?The Happy Leader, written by highly regarded entrepreneur, happiness and business coach Shawn Johal, is a life-changing story about human transformation-from the triumph over grief, despair, and frustration to the powerful healing brought on by forgiveness.Warning! The Happy Leader can revolutionize your life by opening your heart and mind to new possibilities, a fresh perspective, and the inspiration to take action. You might even find yourself signing up for a marathon!Here's what you're getting yourself into: - Relate to the struggles each of the characters face every day, especially when those struggles feel familiar.- Meet the mystic-like character Ravi and see how a single person can make a difference to many lives.- Discover how meditation and other techniques can impact your life almost immediately once you commit yourself to it.- See empathy and forgiveness at work in this story and how they are essential to happiness and healing.- Witness the power of daily routine and productive habits in action to give you an extraordinary amount of freedom and energy to do things you love.- Discover how to use hard physical challenges-such as running every day-to strengthen not only the body but also the mind.- See how resolve and discipline can light the path toward transformation and happiness.- Dive into the included Happiness Guide, which lists and discusses the psychological and philosophical concepts used in the story.The Happy Leader, at its heart, is a story that tells us happiness and success are within our reach and all we need is for someone to nudge us in the right direction.Don't miss out on the Happy Leader revolution - grab a copy for yourself and your friends!
Integrated Management
Today's solutions are social and technical. We have the technical feasibility; it's already in place and evolving. The social will to create new norms involves systems thinking and analytics to tackle one of the biggest opportunities of our time, "sustainable development." Integrated management comes when we realise a decision's impacts go well beyond a single bottom line and single functional perspective. Integrated management can be measured across functions, firms, and value chains in multidimensional ways. This book starts by suggesting a new vision of a performance frontier beyond using sustainability terminology. Integrated management allows us to rethink functions, enterprises, and systems dynamics to reduce waste and create value. Critical drivers and enablers provide decision-makers and policymakers with ways to take on complex problems. As larger systems-level problems are addressed and disassembled into smaller systems within systems, every enterprise can contribute to and have a vision for its own sustainable future. With the application of a strategic sustainable development framework, strategic planning, and backcasting from your vision, readers will find integrated management opportunities and manage change toward success. Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for any Business is for decision-makers and lifelong students globally who want to integrate sustainability into business strategy and management practices. Endorsed by practitioners, thought leaders, academics, and change agents, this second edition builds on the success of the first edition. It includes more evidence of integration already underway at multinational companies' operational, tactical, and strategic level practices. Within each chapter, readers can take new highlight actions to enable change and build on best practices. The company examples, frameworks, methods, and action learning approach serve as a roadmap as you navigate across enterprises and interconnected systems to create your vision and action plan for the future.
Ethics in Management
Management and leadership roles in business and professions entail a wide range of ethical issues and challenges. These are apparent to anyone occupying such roles, aspiring to them, or subject to decisions by managers and leaders. Their effects on our daily lives are unavoidable and wide-ranging, never more so than in times of flux and crisis. In response, the authors of the papers in this volume consider angles such as the nature of licence to operate, whether management attracts any kind of moral exceptionalism, and the ethics of 'passion' at work. In addition to this, other topics explored that speak to Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations' broader purpose, including what considerations we should have when doing research for social impact and when we have a duty to intervene to protect others. Ethics in Management: Business and the Professions is essential reading for students across the disciplines of management, business, organizational behaviour, and ethics, policymakers, leaders and managers to gain knowledge of the moral considerations in the workplace, and responsibilities in research and intervention for societal welfare.
Unhinged Habits
Break bad habits and build your rich life by mastering the art of strategic subtraction.Unhinged Habits will revolutionize your relationship to work, money, and even adult friendship.Read Unhinged Habits if: Your calendar's packed, yet you feel like you're missing what matters.You've bought things meant to bring happiness, but the satisfaction didn't last.You suspect you're living someone else's definition of success rather than your own. We're all habitual by nature. We fall into patterns and get stuck. We form habits and never question them.Some habits propel us forward. Others can work against us over time.The key? Get the order right. Balance short-term desires with long-term planning. Set yourself up for a bright future without missing the magic in the present.Unhinged Habits pushes back against slow and incremental progress in the pursuit of some faceless, better future. Lots of people are consistent, yet few get ahead. What's missing are intermittent bouts of unhinged intensity.This is a book about wanting a better life and going after it. Or be okay not having it. Both are fine. Just get out of the middle.For over 13 years, Jonathan Goodman has challenged societal norms and built multi-million-dollar businesses, all while exploring over 30 countries with his family. In Unhinged Habits, Goodman shares the essential insights that freed him from conventional expectations. You will learn: The 8:4 Rule. The counterintuitive seasonal approach that embraces unbalance to level up your relationships with people, money, and health.The Explorer's Compass. A framework to break routine and rediscover wonder in your everyday life.The Three Proxies of True Friendship. How to categorize your friends so you spend more time with the true ones and feel less guilt for letting others go. Buckle up, because this book is going to break you out of the routines you've accepted as normal, but no longer serve you, so that you can finally live your definition of success.
Convenience Orientation in Corporate Crime
This book addresses corporate wrongdoing as a criminal phenomenon driven by convenience. Corrective recovery triggers include crime detection, corporate scandal, whistleblowing, and bottom-up change management. While compliance refers to meeting legal and other formal obligations, conformance refers to meeting and potentially exceeding societal and other informal norms and obligations. Lack of conformance tends to have immediate and serious consequences when revealed. People react when corporations pollute rivers, do business with authoritarian regimes, provide favors to government officials, look another way at money laundering, and commit other forms of wrongdoing that might never end up in the criminal justice system. People express their reactions in social media, in the press, and in the street by demonstrations.Corporate compliance and conformance programs require monitoring, auditing, corrective actions, and system modifications or redesign to prevent future problem behavior. Window-dressing by symbol change rather than substance change does not work anymore. Often, deviant executives need to be replaced after honest accounts of wrongdoing, where an account refers to a statement made by the entity to explain negative behavior that has become subject to inquiry by stakeholders and others. Denial, justification, excuse, apology, scapegoating, victimization, crusading, or other explanatory attempts should be avoided. The contribution of this book to the literature is to present a range of corrective recovery responses that help reduce crime convenience.
Bayesian A/B Decision Models
Bayesian A/B Decision Models encapsulates J Christopher Westland's deep expertise in algorithmic decision-making, honed through years of experience in specialized fields like auditing and serving as an expert witness in computing damages for corporate and industrial legal cases. While traditional statistical methods provide valuable insights, they often fall short of capturing the complexities of real-world scenarios that require sophisticated decision-making. Enter the Bayesian A/B decision model -- a powerful alternative that offers the flexibility and adaptability essential for navigating the intricate demands of consultancy and legal expert roles.Westland has found the versatility of Bayesian A/B models to be particularly transformative, enabling him to respond effectively to diverse and dynamic requests for detailed analytical reports. This approach allows for the delivery of precise financial analyses and outcomes that are highly tailored and often beyond the reach of traditional methods. In the high-stakes arenas of legal and corporate deliberations, where the accuracy and adaptability of statistical analysis can be the tipping point, this advantage has proven invaluable.In Bayesian A/B Decision Models, Westland extends the application of Bayesian A/B testing across a wide array of fields, including healthcare, marketing, and finance, as well as in more specialized sectors where traditional A/B testing and Frequentist approaches may be insufficient due to their limitations. The book features a comprehensive technical appendix with complete computer code for all examples discussed, offering readers practical tools that can be customized and implemented in their work.Whether you're an experienced statistician, an emerging analyst, or a professional exploring the potential of Bayesian A/B testing, this book provides a thorough overview and detailed applications that highlight the unique benefits of this innovative statistical approach.
Mergers and Acquisitions in Islamic and Conventional Banks
This book aims to provide details of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the banking sector, particularly with regards to Islamic and conventional banks. It analyses the different cases from theoretical and empirical perspectives, describing details of M&A strategy that work for corporate restructuring and elucidating how M&A strategy benefits different stakeholders. The book will also examine the relationship between M&A and bank performance and stability by studying the mediating role of market structures. It is a must read for practitioners, academics, businesspeople and policymakers who are interested in the intricacies of the banking sector, and those seeking a deeper understanding of how M&As operate.
The Ikigai Way
Discover the secret to living a life of purpose and fulfillment with The Ikigai Way In The Ikigai Way, David Marlow, a seasoned business leader and personal transformation expert, tackles the challenges of today's disrupted career landscapes. Utilizing the ancient Japanese concept of Ikigai, Marlow offers a fresh perspective on finding harmony and fulfillment in both personal and professional life amidst the twin modern crises of burnout and career uncertainty. The book meticulously explores how to align your career with your true self by integrating Ikigai into your daily routines and strategic thinking. Marlow provides hands-on strategies and practical examples to help readers harness their passion and skills in ways that benefit not only their professional growth but also their personal satisfaction. Each chapter is dedicated to unraveling a facet of Ikigai, making its ancient wisdom accessible and actionable for modern-day professionals across all career stages. Learn to identify and harness your unique strengths and passions to thrive in every area of your life Gain practical strategies to apply Ikigai principles in everyday scenarios, from work and leadership to personal relationships Discover how to achieve a fulfilling life by expressing your essence and purpose in harmony with whatever you do The Ikigai Way is a movement towards integrating deeper meaning into your work and creating a life that feels genuinely fulfilling. Ideal for any stage of life, this book is your guide to rediscovering joy, enthusiasm, and balance. Don't wait to transform your professional life. Start your journey to fulfillment today.
Running the Tapes
This book aims to inspire courage, nurture leadership growth at all levels, and offer leaders in positions of power a clear case for why opting for environments of ethical accountability is synonymous, rather than at odds with, an organization's self-interest.
Seeds of Greatness Treasury
From the author of the global bestseller, The Psychology of Winning: Step into a world where wisdom is sown, nurtured, and harvested through the timeless words of Denis Waitley. Seeds of Greatness Treasury is a beautifully curated collection of poetry, prose, and proverbs that inspires readers to cultivate a life of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment. Drawing from his own life experiences, including the cherished memories of planting a "Victory" garden with his grandmother during World War II, Waitley weaves together stories that are as rich in insight as they are in heart. In this treasury, each piece serves as a seed--planted in the minds and hearts of readers--encouraging them to reflect, grow, and ultimately, harvest the greatness within themselves. Whether it's through the simple yet profound lessons learned from family, or the universal truths found in nature and human interaction, Waitley's words offer a guiding light for those seeking to live with integrity, purpose, and joy. From the poignant reflections on the importance of today, to the motivating words that challenge us to act and make a difference, this book is a wealth of inspiration. It's not just about achieving success in the conventional sense, but about living a life rich in character, kindness, and contribution. Seeds of Greatness Treasury is a legacy of wisdom passed down through generations, offering readers a priceless gift of insight, motivation, and encouragement to become the best version of themselves.
Her Shannelle Black Book of Business
Her Shannelle Black Book of Business is a refreshing bridging of the gap regarding native, immigrant and citizen persons who set goals to effectively start a business and maintain said business for generations to come, whether abroad or as a local community member. With understanding that every country is different within its own right, Her Shannelle Black Book of Business simplifies, explains and extends all branches regarding business no matter what country you may come from, and helps any business you may wish to start. Her Shannelle Black Book of Business is your go-to carry guide for all your abundant business needs. Written in both English and French, you are given the introduction to not only one but possibly two new languages that are commonly used in the northern countries. The possibilities are endless! Congratulations on your new business, and much success to you and yours!
The Resilience Mindset
An actionable framework to overcome adversity and create a more fulfilling life. "Finally, a book that provides practical guidance for business professionals and everyday people to find greater success and purpose despite daily challenges." -- Grant Riggs, CEO, Riggs Distributing Adversity can deliver a blow to our emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health, eroding our self-confidence and self-esteem. Having experienced a harrowing ordeal with a life-threatening cancer that left him with a permanent facial difference at the age of twenty-one, Healey found a way to harness daily inspirations into key turning points that enabled him to create an actionable framework of four key principles to not only manage adversity whenever confronted with it but to learn how to create a better, more fulfilling life -- because of it. Healey's four principles are invaluable to individuals and to those leading teams of people. Coping with adversity is one thing, but thriving is another. To thrive, we must find happiness, success, and purpose by developing ways to build resilience, embrace change, and strengthen our resolve so that we become unstoppable. Each of us has the capacity to incorporate Healey's resilience framework into our daily routines and become more empowered and self-confident. The Resilience Mindset offers evidence-backed research and stories from others who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds, including paralysis, traumatic brain injury (TBI), severe dyslexia, burn injuries, and other adversities. Offering more than just inspiration, The Resilience Mindset provides readers with the tools to build their own survival kits to take on the smallest and biggest obstacles, leading to a more fulfilling life.
Business Ethics Essentials You Always Wanted To Know
Master Ethical Frameworks, Corporate Governance, Ethical Leadership, CSR, and Business Sustainability. Your Valuable Companion in Solving Ethical Business DilemmasUnderstand complex ethical frameworks and apply them practicallyNavigate leadership challenges to drive sustainable organizationsLearn seven ethical tests to guide your decision-making across scenariosGain knowledge of global sustainability standards and regulationsSolve ethical dilemmas effectively and build socially responsible companiesPrepare for future business ethics challenges with insights into emerging trendsIn today's dynamic business landscape, ethical behavior isn't just a virtue-it's a necessity. Business Ethics Essentials You Always Wanted To Know provides an insightful understanding of the principles, challenges, and applications of ethics in business. Written in an engaging and accessible tone, it simplifies complex ethical concepts with real-world examples.This book offers well-rounded strategies and governance-related best practices for entrepreneurs, leaders, and professionals to align everyday decisions with long-term success and stakeholder well-being. It also enables individuals and businesses to reflect on the latest developments and research in business ethics.Business Ethics Essentials is your roadmap to making integrity a core business asset. It will help you succeed in today's ever-evolving environment while staying true to your values. It equips you with global perspectives on the role of ethics in finance, marketing, and human resource management in a volatile business world.The quiz questions at the end of every chapter help readers test their knowledge. The book also includes practical tools, ready-to-use downloadable templates, and online resources for professionals in the field. It is part of the Self-Learning Management Series designed to help you learn essential management lessons.
