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Das große, wissenschaftlich fundierte Debattenbuch zur Generation Z und der Arbeitswelt. Faul, unverbindlich, arbeitsunfähig - der jungen Generation von heute wurde schon viel nachgesagt. In Bezug auf ihre Arbeitsmoral selten Positives. Im Vergleich zu Generationen vor ihr, hat die Generation Z – jene Altersgruppe, die zwischen 1995 und 2010 geboren wurde – eine andere Einstellung zur Arbeit entwickelt: Sie wünscht sich weniger Überstunden, mehr Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten und vor allem Freizeit.

Most of us would recognise a star leader by their charisma, emotional intelligence and public communication prowess. What is truly impressive but often overlooked is the silent work of leadership that garners real results. Exercising influence in a complex and global organisation - whilst also shaping and executing strategies across borders in a disruptive age - is the true mark of success as a leader.

Serial entrepreneur Lisa Messenger shared the business insights gathered in more than a decade of success across multiple industries, including how to identify your true purpose, pinpoint your passions and create the working life most only dream of. But let's be honest: you need the means to make it all happen. In her latest book, she tackles a topic with a stigma - money! What would you do if money was no object, how can anyone find profit in the impossible, and - her personal bugbear - when will 'gunnas' stop using lack of money as an excuse for not stepping out of their comfort zone and pursuing their purpose?

El Internet, hace posible, vender sin vender. Soy honesto, me encanta esta nueva forma de vender, y, esto es posible, por medio de la magia de los negocios digitales. En este nuevo audiolibro, comparto contigo, 7 principios no negociables, que garantizarán que tengas éxito, en cualquier modelo de negocio online, que elijas realizar. Los principios, son como faros que guían nuestro proceder, y, hoy conocerás 7 principios no negociables, después de los cuales, tu manera de ver los negocios online, será inteligente, sabia, y oportuna.

¿La carga de trabajo que tienes es un obstáculo en tu vida y en tu carrera? Esta guía muestra cómo realizar el trabajo importante, concentrando el tiempo y la energía allí donde pueden obtenerse mayores resultados. Ofrece un abanico de herramientas accesibles para emplearlas como modelo y experimentar con ellas, comprobando personalmente qué es lo que realmente funciona. 

Nathan Runkle would have been a fifth-generation farmer in his small Midwestern town. Instead, he founded our nation's leading nonprofit organization for protecting factory farmed animals. In Mercy for Animals, Nathan brings us into the trenches of his organization's work; from MFA's early days in grassroots activism, to dangerous and dramatic experiences doing undercover investigations, to the organization's current large-scale efforts at making sweeping legislative change to protect factory farmed animals and encourage compassionate food choices.

Social scientists have adopted the practices of more traditional scientists in the past few decades - using randomized trials to design policies aimed at improving educational levels, lowering crime rates, elevating employment rates, and improving living standards among the poor. Andrew Leigh and P.J. Ochlan bring the lives of these radical researchers to life as their experiments to overturn conventional wisdom lead to breakthroughs like finding the cure for scurvy and discovering what policies really improve literacy rates.

When you're 50 or 60 years old, the job market is a combat zone, no matter what your skills or experience. Battle-scarred veterans report that they're passed over time and again for jobs which they are eminently qualified for. Successful applicants, often with fewer skills and almost always with far less experience, do seem to have one significant thing in common: they are younger, sometimes painfully younger.

Since the 1990s China has been climbing up the ladder of quality, from doing knockoffs to designing its own high-end goods. Xiaomi - its name literally means "little rice" - is landing squarely in this shift in China's economy. But the remarkable rise of Xiaomi from startup to colossus is more than a business story because mobile phones are special. The common desiderata of the global population, mobile phones offer the kind of freedom and connectedness that autocratic countries are terrified of.

Los Gran Modelos Mentales: Conceptos Generales de Pensamiento es el primer audiolibro de la serie Los Gran Modelos Mentales diseñado para mejorar su pensamiento con las mejores, más útiles y potentes herramientas para que siempre tenga la correcta a mano. Este volumen detalla nueve de los modelos mentales más versátiles que puede usar de inmediato para mejorar su toma de decisiones, su productividad, y la claridad con que ve el mundo. Descubrirá qué fuerzas gobiernan el universo y cómo enfocar sus esfuerzos para poder aprovecharlas en su beneficio.

The Big Moo is a simple audiobook in the tradition of Fish and Don't Sweat the Small Stuff. Instead of lecturing you, it tells stories that stick to your ribs and light your fire. It will help you to create a culture that consistently delivers remarkable innovations.

Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty. Then the headaches started. Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around us: other people’s perfumes and all those scented cosmetics, cleaning products and air fresheners.

【発売たちまち大重版】神田昌典氏 大絶賛！「すべてのベンチャー企業の役員会議で配りたい、究極の一冊。

Almost every aspect of business - and indeed human life - involves negotiating skills, whether you are striking a deal, organising a team working on a project, seeking a pay rise or a pay-off, or simply settling such important matters as who is going to do the shopping or the household chores.

This witty and intelligent guide looks at the theory and practice of negotiating and provides a wealth of illuminating insights into the skills and psychology of negotiation that can make all the difference to how successful you are.

In Nature’s Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that nature is not only the foundation of human well-being, but also the smartest commercial investment any business or government can make. The forests, floodplains, and oyster reefs often seen simply as raw materials or as obstacles to be cleared in the name of progress are, in fact as important to our future prosperity as technology or law or business innovation.

When most people think of Mother Teresa, they think of a saint - a spiritual hero of extraordinary humanitarian accomplishments, a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But Mother Teresa was also the leader of one of the world's largest and most successful organizations: the Missionaries of Charity.

A remarkable teenager who went from public assistance to a million dollar net worth shares his story and offers nine key principles to success. Farrah Gray is no ordinary teenager. He wears a suit and tie; he has an office on Wall Street and another one in Los Angeles...and he sold his first business at the age of 14 for more than a million dollars.

Do you want to feel more productive, more present, and more inspired by your own life? Motivate Yourself offers practical strategies to improve your productivity and gives you the know-how to create the life you want. Learn how to move past your self-doubt and propel yourself into living your dream. With practical exercises featured within each chapter, this book will help break those emotional barriers that hold you back and set you on the path to becoming fully engaged and more productive.

From tech booms and tax evasion to banks and money laundering; scams and crashes to fixers and investors, Lala has seen it all. A comprehensive account of the stock market over the last 25 years, it tells you what to watch out for while investing. It also looks at policies that the government needs to revise if the country is to harness domestic capital more effectively.

Halliburtons Army is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business in Iraq and around the world. From its vital role as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq to its role in covering up gang-rape amongst its personnel in Baghdad, Halliburtons Army is a devastating bestiary of corporate malfeasance and political cronyism.