Growing Your Nest Egg
COVERING THE BASICS OF INVESTING, Growing Your Nest Egg offers tips and pointers to familiarize readers with the benefits of saving for retirement, especially through owning stocks and bonds. It provides the wisdom of expert Wall Street investors and shares the benefit of the author's own experiences-and his infectious enthusiasm for seeking and finding sound investments.
Mastering Commtech
This edited collection by over 30 industry experts and scholars explores how communication departments can digitize processes to continue contributing to their companies' success. It deals with key questions such as the necessity of digitalizing corporate communication, optimal data for success, KPI reporting solutions, and the role of data storytelling and artificial intelligence. Additionally, it covers future-relevant roles and skills, essential tools and trends, and crucial aspects of upcoming technologies that promise to change the world of corporate communications. A must-read for practitioners at all levels, this book serves as a reference for keen MBA graduates and journalists who are keen to explore corporate communications as a future career option.
Gender Equity and Economic Development
Achieving gender equity in Latin America and the Caribbean brings significant societal and economic benefits, including reduced social disparities, better access to education, higher incomes, and greater participation in the workforce. Collaboration between academia, business, and government is essential in driving these outcomes, creating more inclusive and productive economies. Gender Equity and Economic Development highlights how aligning policy, practice, and strategy can foster equitable growth across the region. This comprehensive volume is structured around three key lines of inquiry. The first section investigates the progress of public policies in promoting gender equity, offering perspectives on gender equity practices, female entrepreneurship in Colombia, and the broader implications of intersectionality. The second section delves into gender equity across different socioeconomic sectors, focusing on issues like the gender gap in social and financial security, the balance between reproductive and remunerated work, and a decade of labor market analysis for women in Colombia. The final section examines gender equity as a strategic component within productive organizations, exploring how businesses integrate gender equity into their strategies and the specific experiences of industries like tourism in the region. Highlighting the impact of gender-focused public policies, strategies, and organizational practices, this work invites readers to reflect on the transformative potential of gender equity for a more inclusive and prosperous society. Bringing together insights from experienced researchers and multidisciplinary perspectives, this collected edition is essential for academics, policymakers, business leaders, and anyone committed to understanding the vital role of gender equity in economic development.
The Complete American Money System and Its Importance
Money is more than a transaction, it's preparation, protection, and purpose.The Complete American Money System and Its Importance takes a straightforward, thoughtful look at how money moves through daily life in the United States. From small coins to hundred-dollar bills, from debit cards to money orders, this book lays out the essential roles that every form of currency plays in both ordinary and urgent situations.Author Fernando Penagos offers real-life insight into why carrying the right forms-and amounts-of money matters. He breaks down each method of payment in clear, simple language, helping readers of all ages understand not just what money is, but why it must be handled wisely. Whether buying groceries, covering medical expenses, or preparing for the future, this book encourages financial mindfulness and everyday readiness.A bonus section features two heartfelt poems that celebrate the value and responsibility of money, reminding readers that financial awareness starts with respect for each dollar, coin, and card.
The Billionaire's Guide
Transform Ambition into Purposeful Wealth Are you driven, ambitious, and ready to build lasting wealth but unsure where to start? The Billionaire's Guide offers a clear, strategic framework for aligning mindset with action. Based on the personal experience of Godfred Akakpo who navigated modest beginnings to financial independence, this guide combines practical tactics with mindset shifts to help you rise. Inside you'll discover: Mindset tools to reframe challenges as opportunityFinancial habits and systems to accelerate growthAction-based frameworks for launching and scaling venturesGuidance on turning readers into supporters and advocates No vague advice but just real tools you can apply today toward meaningful transformation. Unlock the approach that empowered others to rethink wealth and design a life of intention. Start your journey now as your boldest chapter awaits. If you're tired of surviving paycheck to paycheck and ready to design a life of freedom, this book is your starting point. Don't wait for change, create it. Grab your copy of The Billionaire's Guide now and start building the life you deserve.
Economic Slowdown, Unemployment, and Inflation
This new volume delves deeply into vital economic challenges that countries face as impacted by epidemics, inflation, recessions, wars, social uprising, and myriad other economic and social issues and events. This volume looks at issues such as economic deceleration, unemployment, and inflation and offers insight, analyses, and solutions that align with the complexity of our contemporary economic world. The authors contribute their unique perspectives and expertise, providing an understanding of thecurrent global economic scenario, the recent unemployment status, and inflationary pressure throughout the competitive world.By exploring the root causes of economic deceleration, unemployment, and inflation, this volume offers pathways to potential solutions and is a call to action, encouraging dialogue, collaboration, and innovative thinking as to address the issues threatening the economic stability and well-being of our global community.
Leading After the Storm
Leading After the Storm: How to Communicate, Calm, and Coordinate in the Wake of DisasterWhen disaster strikes, the world looks for leaders-not always the ones with titles, but the ones who stay.Leading After the Storm is a global leadership guide for those called to steady others when systems break down. Whether you are a school principal in South India, an NGO field coordinator in Kenya, a community elder in Haiti, or a shelter manager in California, this book is written for those who rise without invitation, hold space when others fall apart, and guide with presence-not perfection.In today's world of escalating disasters, humanitarian crises, and institutional collapse, emotionally intelligent leadership has become essential. Those on the ground-educators, aid workers, community leaders, faith leaders, and local officials-often carry the responsibility long after the media leaves and the immediate crisis fades. This book is for them.Blending real-world case studies, trauma-informed insights, leadership anchors, and culturally adaptable tools, Leading After the Storm offers a practical and compassionate framework for navigating the human side of disaster response. Rather than rigid protocols or abstract theories, readers will find actionable guidance to help them: Communicate with steadiness in moments of chaosLead across cultural, generational, and institutional differencesSustain personal energy, emotional resilience, and leadership staminaRebuild trust, belonging, and morale in the aftermath of crisisCarry the work forward without carrying the full weight aloneBecause leadership after disaster is not about control. It is about care. And the future depends on how we lead-together-when everything else has fallen apart. And the future depends on how we lead-together-when everything else has fallen apart.
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How to Survive in a Scale-Up Business
Working at a scale-up is exciting, but it can be exhausting. This book is your emotional survival kit to succeeding in a new and unfamiliar environment, a fast-paced and unpredictable environment. Scale-ups attract ambitious, driven, and hardworking individuals seeking excitement, ownership, freedom, and greater rewards. However, this opportunity often comes with challenges. Understanding the emotional and behavioural patterns commonly seen in scale-ups and learning from others' experiences can help one move from struggling to thriving.In this volume, author Vidya Murali brings together: A personal scale-up suitability checklist to help assess and understand if scale-ups are the right environment based on skills and preferences; Guidance on what to look for when interviewed and how to set up for success in the first 90 days; Insights, frameworks and coaching questions to tackle toxic patterns commonly seen in scale-ups; Real-life case studies from scale-up leaders with lessons and strategies; Practical strategies for Introverts, Highly Sensitive People, Ethnic minorities and people with ADHD and/or Dyslexia to thrive in scale-ups; Tools for building your emotional skills to progress and thrive in scale-ups, and if you lose your job and/or face a mental health breakdown. A must-read for anyone transitioning to scale-ups or working in one already, this book will be of immense interest to graduates looking to land their first proper job, professionals transitioning from corporates, leaders including founders, HR professionals and coaches.
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Organizational Culture in Action
Offering students and practitioners an applied approach to the subject, Organizational Culture in Action (OCA) walks them through a six-step model for analyzing an organization's culture. The application of the model provides insight into positive communication practices to improve organizational ethics and effectiveness. The authors review relevant theory while integrating a constitutive approach to studying organizational culture and communication. Practical guides for multiple data collection methods are provided, and the workbook format is full of interactive tools that engage students and reinforce learning.Based on feedback from professionals, students, and colleagues, the 4th edition includes the following substantive developments: Development and integration of the Model for Positive Communication by engaging Dr. Julien Mirivel, co-founder of the Positive Communication Network, as a co-author. A clear commitment and focus on the role and goal of the OCA in fostering the co-creation of positive organizations by developing implications through the analysis of enacted elements that both shape and are shaped by communication An improved applied focus by stating "Mental Shifts in Chapter 1," that are carried throughout the book All chapters updated with recent literature and case studies. The latest applied research is integrated in units on diversity, change, leadership, and effectiveness in relation to positive organizational communication. Cases, examples, and applications relevant to crisis, Generative AI, employee engagement, virtual organizations, conflict management, and public relations are provided. Pedagogical guides to aid in qualitative analysis and ways to utilize research literature in the final report. Clarification of cultural analysis used throughout the book by: a) reformatting Chapter one with an inclusion of a visual of the model, b) revising wording of the six steps in the model. Colleagues and alumni serving guiding the development of cases and review of positive practices in chapters on diversity and change. Online resources including guides for auto-ethnography and coding. Professionals come away equipped to apply cultural insights into fostering inclusiveness in relation to diversity, supporting organizational change, making leadership more dynamic, understanding the link between ethics and culture, and achieving personal and professional growth.
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