Engineering Business

Flipping TVs is a business model that is often overlooked, but those who are getting involved and know what to look out for can make impressive additional incomes–with very little effort.

Johnnie Johnson, a successful entrepreneur and former all-pro football player from the NFL, and Dr. Michael E. Webber, a distinguished professor, chief technology officer at a large venture firm, and former corporate executive in charge of research at a global company, use decades of experience in coaching, mentoring, and leadership to lay out eight ways you can support diversity, equity, and inclusion for all at your workplace, in your community, and for everyday living.

As climate change becomes an international crisis, more and more industries are looking for a sound model for creating successful environmentally friendly companies, and a new generation of young leaders are eager for inspiration and guidance on creating sustainable businesses. Mid-Course Correction Revisited advocates why we need to create prototypical green companies and a new economy - not based on non-renewable resources, but on renewable energy, aggressive recycling, innovative technology, and sustainable business practices.

In Overcomplicated, complexity scientist Samuel Arbesman offers a fresh, insightful field guide to living with complex technologies that defy human comprehension. As technology grows more complex, Arbesman argues, its behavior mimics the vagaries of the natural world more than it conforms to a mathematical model. If we are to survive and thrive in this new age, we must abandon our need for governing principles and rules and accept the chaos.

Der Hype um Tesla und seinen CEO Elon Musk scheint ungebrochen: Mit seinen innovativen Elektrofahrzeugen hat Musk die Autoindustrie in ihren Grundfesten erschüttert und den Markt für alternative Antriebe erobert. Doch der Automobilexperte Edward Niedermeyer weiß um die Diskrepanz zwischen der Popularität und den alltäglichen Realitäten des Unternehmens. Die Fahrzeuge weisen ernsthafte Mängel auf, die Zweifel an der hohen Marktbewertung des Unternehmens aufwerfen.

Are you looking for ways to harness virtual classroom challenges into opportunities for faster growth and more profound connections? In this book, you will find practical strategies to help you cultivate resilience and build a healthy and robust mind-set in a virtual learning environment. These strategies will also help prepare your students to succeed in online teaching and learning with an adaptive and resilient mind-set. After all, you want to harness this global challenge into a growth opportunity for both you and your students.

This book is here to give a step-by-step strategy to build a growth mind-set in online learning for both you and your students. This book offers tangible steps to explore how our brains work and why they change and develop every minute. It then brings you face-to-face with the growth mind-set and why we always have the potential to do better. These strategies will also help prepare your students to succeed in the virtual classroom with an adaptive and resilient mind-set. After all, you want to harness this global challenge into a growth opportunity for both you and your students.

If you want to start making more money as a painter and decorator, improving your sales and marketing is the key. If you don’t take your sales and marketing seriously, you are leaving thousands of dollars per year on the table. Creating advertisements, crafting proposals, and selling your services at the highest level is the fastest way to increase your profits. This book will guide you through everything you need to know about sales and marketing for your decorating business.

Las evidencias sobre el futuro se acumulan: para responder a la emergencia climática, debemos poner fin al uso de tecnologías y sistemas de producción obsoletos, dar paso a otras más eficientes y limpias, y rediseñar la economía. El problema es tecnológico. Las tecnologías que nos hicieron más sanos, ricos y longevos deben ser sustituidas necesariamente por otras, ya disponibles y centradas en la sostenibilidad.

¿Qué sucede cuando encierras a varios directivos, desarrolladores y responsables de negocio a jugar y experimentar con nuevas tecnologías? Es curioso observar sus reacciones, muy diversas y emocionales, aunque con un denominador común: todos dejan volar su imaginación hacia nuevos espacios y modelos de negocio en los que se podrían aplicar.

Software developers are in high demand and can earn a high income. Believe it or not, these jobs also don’t require a college degree. Many people are able to become self-taught software engineers and developers every day. With this short book, you can learn how to take the first steps. It will teach you strategies for how to choose a language to learn and how and where to learn a programming language.

The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in worldwide lockdowns as Governments imposed strict conditions. The shift towards home working forced lawyers and non-lawyers alike to embrace technology and to stumble through the "new normal" of video conferencing and virtual meetings. Andrew King, specialist litigation solicitor, was involved in one of the first "virtual trials" in England. Following his experience this audiobook brings together practical ideas and guidance to help those using video conferencing platforms in business to make the most of the virtual meeting environment.

What if saving the Earth were a game? Not just any game, but the greatest game we’ve ever played. This workbook helps social and environmental change professionals learn how to implement powerful techniques from the fields of game design, behavioral psychology, design, data science, and storytelling, that are not only proven to have impact, but also can make your project fun. In a 10-step framework of exercises, tutorials, and case studies, How to Save the World will teach you the art of changing the world — and it’s often not what you think.

This book explains how to create professional voice-over products using Linux and associated open source software. It's a down-to-earth but detailed description based on personal experience, from an author whose primary personal computer is Linux. He has also used Linux to produce several audiobooks that are on Audible.

People often debate whether Agile and Lean are the same or different. This audiobook is made to introduce you to the core values and principles of both Agile and Lean methodologies and will hopefully answer some of the common questions about them.

Der leichte Weg zur eigenen Webseite! Mit diesem Hörbuch lernen Sie HTML5 und CSS3 von Grund auf kennen, um eigene moderne Webseiten zu erstellen, ohne dass hierbei Vorkenntnisse nötig wären. Über die Grundlagen hinaus werden fortgeschrittene Techniken anschaulich erklärt, darunter beispielsweise das Erstellen von Formularen und Animationen, das Einbinden audiovisueller Elemente oder Responsive Design, für ein ansprechendes und nutzerfreundliches Seitenlayout auf PC, Tablet und Smartphone.

Over the last decade and a half, agile project management has surged in popularity across the globe. Organizations of all types and sizes have leveraged agile with enviable results. Agile project management is a flexible, responsive, and powerful tool for a project manager's toolkit. As a project manager, you know that agile will deliver tremendous organizational benefits, but do you know enough about agile to reap the rewards?

There is a reason why Amazon web services make over $20 billion a year for Amazon. The reason is simple. Cloud computing is an essential service that has made it possible for thousands of businesses around the world to launch secured web solutions rapidly, flexibly, and cost-effectively. Amazon’s AWS has proven to be ahead of the pack, thanks to its reliable infrastructure as a cloud computing solution. This, perhaps, explains why some of the biggest and fastest growing tech companies use AWS.

Do you need a hands-on crash course in Linux programming? Look no further! You have found your audiobook! Everything you need is within the covers of Linux for Beginners: The Ultimate Crash Course! Linux programming is an advanced skill, but building on your foundations, you will learn more from Linux for Beginners: The Ultimate Crash Course in one day than you can anywhere else. Whether you are a self-taught programmer or you are working your way through school for a degree in information technology, leaning Linux and learning it well is essential.

Grassroots Rising is a passionate call to action for the global body politic, providing practical solutions for how to survive - and thrive - in catastrophic times. Author Ronnie Cummins aims to educate and inspire citizens worldwide to organize and become active participants in preventing ecological collapse. This audiobook offers a blueprint for building and supercharging a grassroots regeneration movement based on consumer activism, farmer innovation, political change, and regenerative finance.