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Magill Family Egyptian Adventure
Par John Magill, Judith Ann Magill Cathcard. 2016
The Magill Family Egyptian Adventure tells the story of Canadian, Arthur Napier Magill, who lost his sight as a young…
man, as he and his young family embark on a years’ long adventure to Egypt, where he was seconded by the UN from his role at CNIB in 1953 to head a team of experts to establish a CNIB like demonstration school for the blind to serve that country and to provide training for others to replicate the school in neighbouring Arab states. Using newspaper articles, family photographs, letters home, and written project reports, readers gain insight into expatriate life and the enormous difference this UN mission made to the many blind people in the Middle East who would otherwise have been unable to live productive and independent lives. Arthur Napier Magill later became the second Managing Director of CNIB, succeeding Colonel E. A. Baker.Fault Lines After COVID-19: Global Economic Challenges and Opportunities
Par Robert Z. Aliber, Gylfi Zoega, Már Gudmundsson. 2023
This book explores the central economic and political issues defining the modern world. With contributions from a number of world…
renowned economists, a range of topical debates are discussed in an accessible and practical manner. The topics discussed include the current economic and political backdrop, global economic shifts, challenges within central banking and financial integration, the international monetary and financial system, and geopolitical tensions. Particular attention is given to the transition to a low carbon economy, the perils of public debt, the post-COVID-19 recovery, and the conflict in Ukraine.This book aims to envisage the economic challenges and opportunities that will be faced in the years to come. It will be relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers interested in economic policy and the political economy.Chapter-No.17 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Schreiben und Redigieren – auf den Punkt gebracht: Das Schreibtraining für Kommunikationsprofis und Corporate Writer
Par Ivo Hajnal, Franco Item. 2023
Das Buch bietet professionellen Schreiberinnen und Schreibern praxisnahe Anregungen, eigene wie fremde Texte zu optimieren. Ein professioneller Sprachgebrauch hält sich…
an klare, objektive Vorgaben. Dementsprechend beruht dieses Buch auf empirischen Daten zur Verständlichkeit von Unternehmens- und Medientexten, die in eine leicht umzusetzende Checkliste münden.This book is a holistic impact study, replete with real-world examples, of digital transformation enhancing businesses and influencing managers' thinking.…
It links economic value with digital disruptions, arguing that these disruptions deliver economic benefits, boost shareholder value, and provide societal value. The central discourse is on the ability of digitization to make the world a better place to live in. The book analyses wealth creation due to digital disruption with a global span. It extensively incorporates anecdotal examples of disruptive digitization across countries, accentuating the impact of major digital disruptions. It is targeted at any professional interested in studying digitization's holistic impact. The book provides a discourse on digital topography to make business students industry-ready. Given the pervasive digital economy and a rapidly evolving business world, the book helps practicing managers better appreciate their digital environments. Management students who not only have to survive in this digital landscape but also thrive and chart out a lucrative career will benefit significantly from the book.Produktionsprogrammatische und produktionsprozedurale Überlegungen zur Digitalisierung
Par Tobias Volkmer. 2023
In der Betriebswirtschaftslehre geht es im Kern darum, zu untersuchen, wie Unternehmen möglichst optimale oder zumindest möglichst gute Entscheidung treffen…
können. Im Kontext von Produktionsentscheidungen stellen sich unabhängig vom konkreten Unternehmen auf oberster Ebene fünf zentrale Fragen: Was soll in welchen Umfang, wann, wo und wie produziert werden? Die Digitalisierung als Megatrend des 21. Jahrhunderts verändert entsprechende Entscheidungsgrundlagen in vielerlei Hinsicht und ist deswegen sinnvollerweise in Entscheidungsprozessen in der Produktionsplanung zu berücksichtigen. Das vorliegende Buch beschäftigt sich deswegen mit der Entwicklung von Modellen der mathematischen Optimierung zur Planung des Produktionsprogramms und des Produktionsablaufes, welche die Besonderheiten der fortschreitend digitaler werdenden Welt berücksichtigen. Konkret gehen diese Modelle also den Fragen nach, welche digitalen Produkte bzw. welche digitalen Produktionsmöglichkeiten in welchen Umfang, wann, wo und wie aus betriebswirtschaftlicher Perspektive zu produzieren bzw. einzusetzen sind.The Complete Handbook of Coaching
Par Elaine Cox, Tatiana Bachkirova, David Clutterbuck. 2024
This fourth edition provides the most comprehensive guide to the field of coaching, exploring a range of coaching theories and…
approaches, genres and settings and professional issues. It supports trainees and professionals to identify and develop a personal style of coaching. Each chapter includes discussion questions to facilitate reflection on the topic, further reading suggestions and case studies that help trainees make the crucial link between theory and practice. Its three parts cover: The theoretical traditions underpinning coaching such as cognitive-behavioural, gestalt and existential Contexts and genres such as life, executive, peer, team and career coaching Professional issues such as ethics, supervision, continuing professional development, standards and mental-health issues. This Fourth Edition comes with a new chapter on Diversity and Inclusion in Coaching, updated content throughout on cross-cultural coaching and updated Further Reading. A new online Teaching Guide provides chapter teaching and assessment suggestions, videos and further reading to help support trainees’ learning. Thousands of practitioners and trainees across a variety of professions have been helped by this distinctive handbook. From those working in health to education, from business and management to psychology, this unique handbook is an invaluable resource for any coaching career.The Complete Handbook of Coaching
Par Elaine Cox, Tatiana Bachkirova, David Clutterbuck. 2024
This fourth edition provides the most comprehensive guide to the field of coaching, exploring a range of coaching theories and…
approaches, genres and settings and professional issues. It supports trainees and professionals to identify and develop a personal style of coaching. Each chapter includes discussion questions to facilitate reflection on the topic, further reading suggestions and case studies that help trainees make the crucial link between theory and practice. Its three parts cover: The theoretical traditions underpinning coaching such as cognitive-behavioural, gestalt and existential Contexts and genres such as life, executive, peer, team and career coaching Professional issues such as ethics, supervision, continuing professional development, standards and mental-health issues. This Fourth Edition comes with a new chapter on Diversity and Inclusion in Coaching, updated content throughout on cross-cultural coaching and updated Further Reading. A new online Teaching Guide provides chapter teaching and assessment suggestions, videos and further reading to help support trainees’ learning. Thousands of practitioners and trainees across a variety of professions have been helped by this distinctive handbook. From those working in health to education, from business and management to psychology, this unique handbook is an invaluable resource for any coaching career.Agency in Transnational Memory Politics (Worlds of Memory #4)
Par Jenny Wüstenberg and Aline Sierp. 2024
The dynamics of transnational memory play a central role in modern politics, from postsocialist efforts at transitional justice to the…
global legacies of colonialism. Yet, the relatively young subfield of transnational memory studies remains underdeveloped and fractured across numerous disciplines, even as nascent, boundary-crossing theories on topics such as multi-vocal, traveling, or entangled remembrance suggest new ways of negotiating difficult political questions. This volume brings together theoretical and practical considerations to provide transnational memory scholars with an interdisciplinary investigation into agency—the “who” and the “how” of cross-border commemoration that motivates activists and fascinates observers.In the Shadow of the Great War: Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923
Par Jochen Böhler, Ota Konrád, and Rudolf Kučera. 2024
Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain…
ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building. Employing a bottom-up approach to understanding everyday life, these studies trace the contours of individual and mass violence in the interwar era while illuminating their effects upon politics, intellectual developments, and the arts.Psychologie des Urlaubsglücks: Verstehen und erleben: mit praktischen Umsetzungstipps (essentials)
Par Hans-Peter Herrmann. 2023
Menschen streben beständig nach Glück. Diese Thematik nimmt über die gesamte Lebensspanne eine zentrale Bedeutung ein. Neben Jobglück gibt es…
auch ein Urlaubsglück. Diesem Thema widmet sich dieses essential und geht u.a. folgenden Fragen nach: Was ist Urlaubsglück?Gibt es einen Zusammenhang von Reisemotiven und Glücksgefühlen?Wie lassen sich richtige Reiseentscheidungen treffen?Wodurch entsteht Urlaubsstress?Was ist unter einem Flow-Erleben zu verstehen?Sie erhalten dazu Anregungen und praktische Tipps, um Ihrem Urlaubsglück ein Stück näher zu kommen. Zielgruppen:Glück- und Erholungssuchende, Interessierende Reisende, Reisemittler/Reiseberater, Reiseveranstalter, Touristische Leistungsträger (Hotels, Verkehrsträger, etc.), FeriendestinationenWerte sind Leuchttürme der digitalen und der kulturellen Transformation. Das Buch zur digitalen Transformation durch Werte zeigt, dass die digitale Transformation und das erfolgreiche…
Recruiting von Talenten nur dann erfolgreich umgesetzt werden können, wenn Führungskräfte in Unternehmen und Verwaltungen Klarheit über ihre eigenen biografischen Werte und deren Wurzeln gewinnen. Nur so können sie ihren Teams die nötige psychologische Sicherheit bieten.Praxisbezogen zeigt es Ihnen Ursachen und Hindernisse, durch die Organisationen und Führungskräfte bei großen Herausforderungen wie der digitalen Transformation und dem Fachkräftemangel ausgebremst werden.Es erklärt die üblichen Fallstricke und hilft Ihnen zu erkennen, warum neue Konzepte und Veränderungen nicht in die Praxis umgesetzt werden oder Mitarbeiter der Generationen Y und Z nur kurz im Unternehmen bleiben. Durch die aufgezeigten Lösungswege zur notwendigen Veränderungsdurchführung erhalten Sie eine klare Orientierung, die Ihnen hilft, die genannten Hindernisse zu beseitigen. Dazu erfahren Sie, wie durch eine Passung persönlicher und unternehmerischer Werte ein erfolgreiches Change-Management, HR-Management und Führungskonzept aufgebaut werden kann.Zielgruppen: Alle diejeningen, die den digitalen Wandel zeitnah umsetzen und ihr Unternehmen bzw. ihre Organisation auf der Basis passender Werte verbessern wollen, d.h. Führungskräfte aller Ebenen, Unternehmensleitungen, HR-Abteilungen, Organisations- und Personalentwickler:innen, Unternehmensberater:innen, Coaches, Trainer:innen und Mediator:innen Zur Autorin: Anke Lüneburg ist professionell ausgebildete Leadership Coach, Master-Coach DGfC, Mediatorin BM® sowie Beraterin und war 25 Jahre Führungskraft in Wirtschaftsbetrieben und öffentlichen Organisationen. Als Sparringspartnerin begleitet sie Organisationen und Führungskräfte, die eine kulturelle oder digitale Transformation umsetzen wollen und ist Lehrbeauftragte im Bereich Wirtschaftspsychologie. Seit 2018 ist sie Autorin bei Springer mit den Themen Leadership, Führung, Generationen, Arbeit 4.0 und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung und schreibt mit ebenso großer Freude Blogtexte und Artikel.Social Media for Leaders : Your team can steer the boat but you need chart the course
Par Stefanie Babka. 2023
This book provides you with a concise and accurate overview of the key business challenges, opportunities and risks related to…
social media. Regardless of the type and size of company or department you manage, whether you offer industrial goods, consumer goods or services - social media is a factor you should monitor and manage. Stefanie Babka helps you ask yourself and your employees the right questions, find answers and thus face the internal challenges. Because social media is a management task. For example, the following questions are highlighted: Are you aware of the risks of uncoordinated and improper use of social media by your employees in their private or professional lives? Have you taken everything into account in terms of data protection law, or do you already have one foot in jail as a manager? Are you spending too much money on social media campaigns? Do you have the right social media strategy? Is it aligned with your company's goals? Are you in control or does social media anarchy reign in your company? What opportunities and risks do internal social media applications bring for collaboration in teams or organizational units? How can social media be used as a strategic management tool? Social media concerns every company. Whether you like it or not. For the 2nd edition, all contents have been revised and the chapter "As a manager on the social web" has been expanded to include, among other things, the topic of virtual management and leading virtual teams.Hellhound On His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt In American History
Par Hampton Sides. 2011
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel. The nation…
was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for King&’s assassin that would lead them across two continents—from the author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers.With a blistering, cross-cutting narrative that draws on a wealth of dramatic unpublished documents, Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, delivers a non-fiction thriller in the tradition of William Manchester's The Death of a President and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. With Hellhound On His Trail, Sides shines a light on the largest manhunt in American history and brings it to life for all to see.With a New AfterwordModern Principles: Microeconomics
Par Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok. 2024
OneTen: One Million Careers for Black Talent
Par Boris Groysberg, V. Kasturi Rangan, Kerry Herman, Annelena Lobb. 2022
The OneTen case study examines the nonprofit organization's origin story. Its founding team includes a roster of corporate superstars-Ken Chenault…
(former CEO of American Express), Ken Frazier (former CEO of Merck), Charles Phillips (chair of Infor), Ginni Rometty (former CEO of IBM), and Kevin Sharer (former CEO and chair of Amgen). In May 2020, soon after the murder of George Floyd, this group came together to form a nonprofit that would partner with companies, talent developers, and Black talent, with the goal of hiring one million Black people in the U.S. into jobs with family-sustaining wages over the next 10 years. Equally important is an emphasis on the promotion of talented Black employees within existing companies. The case is set in late 2020, just after the hire of OneTen's first CEO, Maurice Jones; it explores how the organization was established, structured, and staffed, and how it has so far built its partnerships.Giving Birth to Ovia Health
Par Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Julia Kelley. 2018
In late 2016, Paris Wallace, the CEO of Ovia Health, and the rest of the company's co-founders faced a difficult…
decision about the best way to grow Ovia Health's revenue. Founded in 2012, Ovia Health specialized in mobile and web applications in the women's health space. After building a strong user base with its original app, Ovia Fertility (which helped women conceive by tracking ovulation and other factors), the young company launched a second app, Ovia Pregnancy (which helped women have a healthy pregnancy by tracking various health metrics). Ovia Health's apps were free to use, and most of the company's revenue came from charging advertisers to host ads on its native advertising platform. Wallace believed that the family benefits market was a promising growth area, but he was not sure of the best way to enter the market. Recently, a top health benefits provider had offered Ovia Health a multi-million-dollar contract, but Wallace wondered whether Ovia Health could create a better family benefits solution by turning down the contract and selling directly to employers' HR departments. Participants will need to examine how Ovia Health evolved its strategy over time and decide which growth opportunity was the better choice.Classtivity: Payal's Pirouette
Par Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Olivia Hull. 2017
A few months after launching a new fitness technology product, the small staff of New York startup Classtivity gathers on…
a Saturday in April 2013 to take stock. With one successful pivot under their belt, Classtivity is finally generating revenue and enthusiasm among customers. But cofounder and CEO Payal Kadakia has some doubts. There are signs that customers love the offering, but studios are less enthusiastic. Efforts to get customers to return to the studios after their monthly packs expire have largely failed. Kadakia must decide, preserve the product or pivot to a new business model?Governing PG&E
Par Lynn Sharp Paine, Will Hurwitz. 2020
The five commissioners of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) listened intently at a public forum in April 2019 as…
PG&E Corporation's out-going chairman Richard Kelly described the company's proposed new board. PG&E, which provided electricity and natural gas to millions of Californians, had once been recognized for its vision in foreseeing energy's potential to reshape the state and power its economy. But PG&E was now in the crosshairs of investors, regulators, and the public for something else entirely: its role in a series of deadly and destructive wildfires that had ravaged the region and precipitated PG&E's bankruptcy months earlier. Called "the first climate-change bankruptcy," it was the largest utility bankruptcy in U.S. history. The commissioners at the CPUC, PG&E's primary regulator, were particularly concerned about PG&E's governance and had convened the forum to solicit opinions from experts and the public and to hear for themselves what steps the company was taking to improve it. The Commissioners are considering whether to make specific recommendations regarding the board's composition and functioning, including how the board assesses and compensates PG&E's CEO. A principal issue is the use of non-financial metrics to evaluate and reward CEO performance.York Capital and Enovix
Par Jo Tango, Alys Ferragamo, William Vrattos. 2022
In June 2020, Jeremy Blank prepared for a meeting with his fellow partners at York Capital to discuss an investment…
he had championed in Enovix, a company developing a state-of-the-art, silicon-based battery. Early-stage technology companies, like Enovix, were not typical investments for York, but Blank had convinced his partners to invest. However, the partnership wanted to be "one and done" without reinvesting in future rounds. By 2020, Enovix had made great progress but not as quickly as forecasted. The company had set out to raise more money and received a term sheet from a well-known publicly-traded company. Blank saw this as an exciting opportunity for Enovix, but he was disappointed to see that it would require York to invest more capital and forego a key protective feature. How should Blank approach this meeting with his partners, and what should he recommend?Maestros del juego: 18 reglas para ganar la partida de los negocios
Par Jorge González, Pablo Foncillas. 2023
El libro para aquellos que gestionan un negocio y nunca tuvieron tiempo de leer su manual de instrucciones. Todos los…
negocios son diferentes. Y todos iguales porque comparten un mismo objetivo: crear clientes. Este libro nos muestra las palancas que hay que mover para conseguirlo: los análisis fundamentales, la elección de la estrategia, las decisiones clave para que una empresa comercialice sus productos de forma exitosa.Es el apasionante Juego de los negocios, con su tablero, piezas y jugadas más importantes. Cada capítulo plantea una cuestión básica en el desarrollo del juego y concluye con una de las 18 reglas para ganar la partida de los negocios. Se trata de un manual de instrucciones práctico y accesible para tener una visión completa de la estrategia empresarial y de las políticas de marketing y ventas que la hacen efectiva.Para ver cómo se aplican estas reglas en la realidad, los autores se internan en los teatros de Broadway, los casinos de Las Vegas, Netflix, la NFL, la Formula 1, el mundo de los videojuegos, el cine o la música. Todos esos negocios disputan encarnizadas partidas en sus hipercompetitivas industrias y crean millones de clientes, demostrando, año tras año, que son auténticos maestros del juego. «Solo hay una definición válida de lo que es el propósito de un negocio: crear clientes. Por esta razón, un negocio tiene dos -y solo dos- funciones básicas: el marketing y la innovación». PETER DRUCKER, The Practice of Management