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Why are some work partnerships exceptional while most are not? How
can we establish and sustain an enhanced level of cohesion,
connection, and collaboration in the most important work
relationship, the one between a manager and team? What could remedy
the high levels of isolation and anxiety so many feel at work these
days? Silver and Franz explore the concept of 'meaningful
partnership' in the workplace. They present meaningful partnership
as a mindset where both leaders and their teams are fully committed
to ensuring the support and success of the other. Then, they
describe a model called ERTAP, which stands for Empathy, Respect,
Trust, Alignment, and Partnership, which is the foundation for
meaningful partnership. Finally, they detail a practical yet
transformative relationship-building process referred to as the
Workplace Covenant. This enables leaders and teams to create mutual
commitments with obligatory weight that help them to feel
accountable for the success of the relationship and each other. The
book includes real client stories that illustrate the dimensions of
partnership and the Workplace Covenant process. Silver and Franz
also outline other work relationships that can benefit from
meaningful partnership, pitfalls to avoid, relevant research, and
insights derived from years of consulting experience. This book is
a must-read for leaders interested in a better working relationship
with their team; for teams who have critical work partnerships with
other teams; for individuals who work closely with other
individuals and need an exceptional 1:1 partnership; and finally
for third-party experts in HR or continuous improvement who are
seeking a new powerful way to help clients feel supported and be
more successful.
The world is currently witnessing a change in the business paradigm
in which economic, social, and environmental variables are taken
into account. In this sense, sustainable companies focus on the
development of a profitability formula that, through the connection
with stakeholders and the natural environment, operates in harmony
with social and economic progress. In this sense, the concept of
corporate sustainability refers to the attempt by companies to
balance social, economic, and environmental objectives. It requires
a strong orientation towards the future as well as an awareness of
the need to preserve the existence and well-being of the human
species. In this way, companies seek to ensure long-term business
success while contributing to the economic, social, and
environmental development of the territories in which they operate.
Corporate Sustainability as a Tool for Improving Economic, Social,
and Environmental Performance provides a guide for study,
reflection, and critique to understand corporate sustainability
while offering the basis for comprehending this phenomenon in
different sectors of the economy. The book also sheds light on the
new currents and challenges of the discipline. Covering key topics
such as big data, ethical business, and strategic management, this
premier reference source is ideal for business owners, managers,
entrepreneurs, government officials, policymakers, researchers,
academicians, practitioners, scholars, instructors, and students.
I've been selling online for fifteen years now. During that time
I've learned a lot about bookkeeping, business permits, and taxes.
During that same time I have saved thousands of dollars in taxes by
saving my receipts and keeping good records. And, so here's the
deal...> Did you know eBay has an app that can automatically
import all of your sales, fees, and other information and crunch
the numbers to show whether you're making a profit or loss? >
Did you know that same app will also import all of your information
from Etsy and Amazon, if you sell on those platforms? > What
would you say if I told you that you could save $500 or more on
your taxes every year just by writing down the mileage when you
head to the post office, store, or bank? > And, you'd probably
think I'd lost my marbles if I told you that you could deduct parts
of your next vacation from your taxes. The advice in this little
book can easily save you thousands of dollars every year.
This book offers an intimate look at the trials and triumphs of an
immigrant from Uruguay who spoke no English when he arrived in
America. Part memoir, part inspirational life lessons, From Here to
Where offers personal insights, inspirational quotes, and sayings
that shaped the business ideology of this self-made entrepreneur.
Throughout this book, he explains how he applies or modifies these
sayings in real situations to guide him on his path in times of
uncertainty. Gabriel Silva Lamboglia writes in his introduction,
"The way you choose to apply the sayings and information in this
book will determine the results you achieve. However you choose to
read the book, I hope you will embrace these sayings and
incorporate them into your daily life to help you through uncertain
times and to achieve the happiness you desire." Presented with
delightful illustrations that bring the book to life, From Here to
Where inspires all of us to do our best and be our best selves.
Whether read in a single sitting, or picked up occasionally for
inspiration, this is a valuable book for those who are just
starting out and established business leaders alike.
The development of any contemporary economy is affected by numerous
factors. By creating stable infrastructures, countries can more
easily thrive in competitive international markets. Social, Health,
and Environmental Infrastructures for Economic Growth is a
comprehensive source of academic material that examines the impact
of infrastructure development on modern economies. Highlighting
relevant perspectives on topics such as employment, rural
development, and energy production, this is an ideal reference
source for researchers, students, professionals, practitioners, and
policy makers interested in the social, health, and environmental
infrastructures in contemporary economies.
As a company grows and new business opportunities are presented,
there is an expectation that employee performance will grow and
improve as the organization does. One method to improve performance
is through systematic, data-driven technology that analyzes all
affecting aspects of an organization. A better understanding of how
this quality-improving technology can be integrated within a
variety of different industries is needed in order to develop
strategies and interventions that address an organizational need.
Cases on Learning Design and Human Performance Technology provides
a collection of cases that demonstrate how principles of learning
design and human performance technology have been employed within
organizations in a variety of industries to address business
problems, quality improvement initiatives, and business
opportunities. While highlighting topics including intervention
design, workflow procedures, and employee development, this book is
ideally designed for managers, executives, human resources, IT
specialists, academicians, business professionals, industry
practitioners, researchers, and students.
Bob, a regular guy from the present, finds himself back in the
eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century, when humanity was
facing some of its most daunting challenges. They hinged on
life-and-death issues such as insufficient food for a rocketing
global population; the exhaustion of the coal reserves driving the
Industrial Revolution; the ever-growing filth and pollution from
horse-drawn transport; and, more recently, the increasing
likelihood of a new ice-age by the year 2000. Can Bob convince
people that this is not the end of the road? Or will he come across
as crazy? Nine parts fact and one part fiction, CONVERSATIONS WITH
BOB is a witty, clever take on society's enduring fascination with
doomsday scenarios. It puts a fresh, historical twist on the
challenges of our own time - from poverty and disease to global
warming - and leaves us feeling far more hopeful about the future
of the planet.
While many advances have been made in understanding the complexity
of manufacturing and production engineering, the social and
organizational context remains problematic due to the abstract
nature of leadership and diverse personnel. Interdisciplinary
perspectives to increase knowledge and understanding of engineering
management and related processes are necessary in the industry.
Enhancing Competitive Advantage With Dynamic Management and
Engineering is an essential reference source containing scholarly
research on the relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest
empirical research findings of strategic administration in
engineering. It also explores how to better merge,
interrelationship organizations, management, and employee needs in
order to increase efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as business
process orientation, diversity management, and enterprise
architecture, this book provides vital research for managers,
researchers, engineers, and other professionals within engineering
and production management.
The 'Good Chaps' theory holds that those who rise to power in the UK
can be trusted to follow the rules and do the right thing. They're good
chaps, after all. Yet Britain appears to have been taken over by bad
chaps, and politics is awash with financial scandals, donors who have
practically bought shares in political parties, and a shameless
contempt for the rules.
Simon Kuper, author of the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Chums,
exposes how corruption took control of public life, and asks: how can
we get politicians to behave like good chaps again?
In an age where information is a commodity and financial freedom a
much sought after desire, this book provides both to a subset of
society. Targeted at but not exclusively towards the Christian
Community it fuses biblical scriptures and principles with the
practical requirements needed to build a business. Giving the
reader the essential tools to build a God pleasing and sustainable
business in a tough economic climate. The desire for financial
freedom is just one of many reasons why people start a business,
but at the core of this desire is trust or lack of. We no longer
trust the system, our employers or the government to provide for
us, or our future, we want control back. In order to gain control
we need knowledge, information and guidance. This book provides
that much needed help, providing its reader with the correct
information to start their journey to personal autonomy. Covering
areas such as vision, planning, dominating the market, and using
their Faith for progression. It fuses practical advice and tips
with biblical revelations accompanied by God's scriptures.
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Tower of Thieves
(Hardcover)
Andrew Spencer; Foreword by John Falcetta
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This is a true story of personal greed and downfall, corporate
greed fuelled with economic and social treachery, shareholder waste
and discrimination at AIG, 70 Pine Street in the heart of the
financial district. This address is know as the AIG Tower, hence
the working title - "Tower of Thieves" - the central character is a
man with a wife, a family, who has cheated his way to the top by
doing good. He is responsible for leading a 60 billion dollar
organisation with over 40,000 employees world-wide at one of the
largest companies in the world. What he sees and what he does
validates what unchecked power on Wall Street will do to a man and
what it has done to an entire company and country. The events at
AIG lead right to the CEO and Senior Vice Chairman and how our guy
fights an entire corrupt organisation and how he became one of
those he despised. 'We found each other pretty easily - he
recognised me from a photo that had appeared in the local paper
about the book I was writing about Bear Stearns - and he asked if
we could go 'somewhere more private' to talk. Part of me thought
this was ridiculous. A big part of me, in fact. All this
cloak-and-dagger nonsense seemed out of place in early summer
Nantucket, Massachusetts, of all places. But there was some little
sliver inside that told me this could be good. So I went along with
it. We went to a park, sat down and, once we had gotten through the
formalities about how the Bear book was going, we got down to
business. 'I should tell you that I'm going to federal prison at
the end of the year', he began. "In my admittedly limited
experience with such introductions, I have to say that any time a
conversation starts with someone's announcing their impending
sentencing date, fasten your seatbelt, because the story that
follows is usually related to the sentencing date itself and is
also usually pretty interesting. I took notes as John rolled out
his story, the same story you're about to read here. After about
five minutes, though, I realised I was no longer writing. I was
just listening in disbelief to what he was telling me. Half an hour
later, I was back at my computer, writing the last couple of
chapters of "Bear Trap", already looking ahead to what we were
calling 'the AIG book'. This meeting took place long before AIG was
the poster child for corporate greed and chutzpah. For that matter,
this was before a lot of people had ever even heard of AIG, and
even fewer people knew what they did as a corporation. This is a
story of what our taxpayer dollars have purchased.
The integration of the Eurasian Economic Union has been under
constant development as officials try to successfully implement new
economic policies within its various regions. Introducing a new
policy such as this creates the formation of new markets, the
improvement of cooperation initiatives, as well as a new
legislative base and supplementations. These continual alterations
require updated analysis and research for political leaders to
follow regarding provincial incorporation methods. Regional
Integration and Future Cooperation Initiatives in the Eurasian
Economic Union is an essential reference source that discusses the
conceptual and empirical frameworks of the current phase of
Eurasian integration as well as its economic impact. Featuring
research on topics such as multilateral cooperation, free trade,
and international views, this book is ideally designed for
politicians, economists, strategists, public relations specialists,
research scholars, policymakers, students, and academicians seeking
coverage on regional integration issues in modern Eurasia.
The global economic crises of recent years have offered some
sobering lessons, compelling economists, political scientists, and
policymakers to reconsider traditional theories regarding the
cultivation of developing nations. The Handbook of Research on
Globalization, Investment, and Growth-Implications of Confidence
and Governance seeks to empirically explore the relationship
between a number of variables, including consumer confidence,
private-sector performance, and governmental regulation. Targeting
academics, social scientists, financial professionals, and
lawmakers, this book seeks to categorize and analyze developing
economies in a post-crisis global financial landscape in order to
help shape desperately-needed policies capable of safeguarding
against potential catastrophe.
This workbook is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International
Education to support the full syllabus (9708). Enable students to
practise and apply what they have studied and develop independent
learning skills by answering a range of questions and activities. -
Build confidence with advice on tricky skills such as drawing and
interpreting graphs, quantitative skills, and essay-writing. -
Develop and strengthen understanding with a mixture of skills
questions and exam-style questions covering commonly used command
words. - Check understanding with answers and commentary provided
online and in the book.
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