Capital Management

It's the 21st century, yet most companies maintain a 20th-century corporate culture. Despite instant communication and collaboration through wireless computers and smartphones, employers needlessly rent or own office space. Bryan Miles has a reality check for you: the future of business is virtual, and it's going to take more than technology upgrades for you to upgrade your workplace environment.

In this hysterical, astute book, HR industry expert Jim Dunn explores how humor can improve our professional environments and personal development by exploring questions like: How is humor a superpower for fostering collaborative environments? Are funny employees more effective? How can laughter turn crisis into connection and opportunity? How can instituting a culture of levity shape team dynamics and improve job satisfaction?

Traditionally, human resources has focused on recruiting good people, preparing them for assignments, motivating them to perform, and retaining them. These functions remain essential. But to be successful in turbulent times like ours, human capital strategy needs to be broader and much more far reaching.

For thousands of years, humanity was ruled by Kings and Queens through bloodlines and rituals. Later governments and social insurgents brought forth unity for democracy and revolutions. Today, humanity distrusts the political forces which govern, and royalty is a dying breed. Yet still, 99.99% of humans are looking for someone, anyone whom they can follow, learn from, be inspired by, and trust in.

Work sucks. It’s not the job, it’s the people. There’s the guy who hates everything. The woman that derails every meeting. The jackass that built an evil empire around the accounting system. If they’d just go away, life at work would be a lot better. So fire them as nature intended. The law of the jungle has striking parallels in the office jungles of work. I’ll guide you through the wilderness of the organizational predator to show you how to hunt vile coworkers, even bosses, all the way to the pink slip.

At a time when Warren Buffet has again emerged as the defining sage and darling of Wall Street, this fascinating book explodes the myths that surround the man from Omaha and brings new insights into his remarkable successes ¿ as a manager, an allocator of capital, and a role model for financial managers, investors, and business executives around the world. Many best-selling books have tried to unlock Buffett's secrets by analysing his genius as a stock picker. But they missed the point.

After launching his first company while still in college, Jason Baptiste cofounded his current venture, Onswipe, in his early twenties, turning it into a multimillion-dollar company in less than a year. Now, drawing on his own experience as a bootstrapping but hungry entrepreneur, as well as on examples from today’s most famous companies, he guides would-be tech moguls through every stage of the process - from testing a concept to acquiring customers to determining the best pricing model - in a cheap, practical way.

In Activate Human Capital, author Richard N. Morrison outlines the eight "People-Focused Principles of Management", and he explains them in terms of the values that motivate people to want to do the work given to them. And even more, he shows how these values will actually get employees to initiate their work because they will see how it contributes to the overall purpose of the business. Each principle is linked to a component of human fulfillment, and then through research, personal experience, and shared stories.

Leadership by the Book is an exceptional audiobook, brimming with insights, tools, and tactics for becoming a successful leader. Written in the parable format of Ken Blanchard's best-selling The One Minute Manager and Raving Fans, it tells the story of a professor and minister who school a young professional in management skills and ethics.

What happens when the world around you is spinning with so many questions, hurdles, and problems? How do you get to live the life you have always dreamed of—and reach the goals that you and your family desire? The answer, says author Irvin Schorsch, is through finding the right kind of family-focused fiduciary firm that can be a trusted partner to help you in all aspects of life.

Today, our Mother Earth is giving us a timeout to go to our corners and think about what we have done, and she is compelling us to wake up and to remember that we are all connected from the global markets and economies to the air we inhale and exhale. One day, we will realize that there is nothing more important in the world than knowing that each of us has a gift and that we are all here to support each other to fulfill that gift.

Considerado como uno de los siete pecados capitales, la ira puede tener graves consecuencias, como violencia, agresión, decir cosas de las que luego nos arrepentimos o tomar decisiones que van en contra de lo que nos beneficia. El mundo está lleno de ira, rabia y frustración. Todos los días, existe el riesgo de explotar. Algunos lo controlan mejor que otros.

Sin duda hay una pugna continua entre ricos y pobres (o pobres y ricos segun se prefiera), que no tiene nada que ver con el patrimonio que tenga cada clase social. Hay algunos rasgos y hábitos que muchas personas ricas tienen que podemos aprender, imitar, censurar o descartar; tomados de manera individual, pueden parecer sin trascendecia alguna, sin significancia, pero cuando piensas en estas ideas como una mentalidad que hace cambios importantes y de cierta magnitud, su impacto en nuestras vidas y tal vez en nuestra properidad todo se vuelve mucho mas claro.

Considerada um dos sete pecados capitais, a ira pode levar a sérias conseqüências, como violência, agressão, dizer coisas das quais nos arrependemos mais tarde ou tomar decisões que são contrárias ao que nos beneficia. O mundo está cheio de raiva, raiva e frustração. Todos os dias, há o risco de explodir. Alguns controlam melhor do que outros.

After making millions of dollars flipping hundreds of houses, Dan Zitofsky's wife informed him that he was failing as a husband and father. In spite of providing his family "everything they could ever desire", he was not giving them what they really wanted, personal time with him. Working 100-hour weeks on real estate deals and rehab projects, Dan was never home. And, even when he was, he wasn't "present" for his family. Stressing over business problems with his phone always in his hand, Dan Zitofsky's highly successful real estate investing business had taken over his life.

Wouldn't it be great if we all could achieve the success of the ultra-wealthy? We all could, but we need to learn the basics of not budgeting but cash flow. The wealthy treat their lives like a business. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you. The wealthy use things like profit and loss statements and balance sheets. Therefore, this book is dedicated to cash flow and creating a simple yet easy formula for you to set up your budget.