Global Business

Frugal Value contests the notion that companies can rise to the great challenges of our time by adopting so-called "sustainable business" practices. Instead, the acute ecological crisis requires an all-round rethink of what business does and how it does it. This book explores what business responsibility looks like today and how it could be put into practice through far-reaching changes to companies, ranging from new approaches to product design and business models to reconfiguration of operations and innovative ownership structures.

From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more prosperous, aiming to begin a new type of conversation on the issue that will spur bolder action by cities, businesses, and citizens—and even, someday, by Washington.

Average to Abundant reveals the missing link between desiring wealth and actually achieving it! Have you ever wondered why some people seem to succeed while others struggle? Is the difference found in their genetic make-up, part of the world they live, family background, race, education, intelligence, or sheer luck? Unfortunately, none of these reasons apply. Years of blood, sweat and tears, passion and purpose poured into your endeavors. Instead of seeing those efforts bring benefit to your world, more often than not what results is scarcity, heartache and unhappiness.

A Personal Brand Story follows Steve Guest on his journey from a successful, unassuming, and procedure-led recruitment consultant to a global business influencer. In this audiobook, Steve talks about nervously posting his first social media video, becoming a best-selling author in over 40 countries, and seeing his acclaimed The Guest List Podcast with Steve Guest listed in the world's top 80 business podcasts.

El mayor cazatalentos de nuestro país pone a disposición del lector las claves para identificar aquellos perfiles ejecutivos que cobrarán relevancia en estos tiempos afectados por la crisis de la pandemia del COVID-19. Luis Conde es un referente en la búsqueda e identificación del potencial directivo en los países de habla hispana, y su compañía, Seeliger y Conde, compuesta por un equipo que ha llegado a alcanzar los trescientos profesionales distribuidos en once oficinas repartidas por el mundo, lleva treinta años al pie del cañón.

The NYU Stern School of Business is one of the top business schools in the world thanks to the leading academics, researchers, and provocative thinkers who call it home. In Regulating Wall Street: The New Architecture of Global Finance, an impressive group of the Stern school's top authorities on finance combine their expertise in capital markets, risk management, banking, and derivatives to assess the strengths and weaknesses of new regulations in response to the recent global financial crisis.

Many guidebooks show you how to distribute your music online, but nothing will happen if it just sits in cyberspace without an effective promotional strategy. Strike the Right Chord is different than other guides: It enables you to achieve global success from your home computer. It allows you to take a do-it-yourself approach to establish yourself in the music world and get you started on the right path to reach your goals.

This book is written for global leaders who speak English as a second language. Organizations with diverse workforces can use this book as a learning and development strategy reference to improve diversity, productivity, and profitability.

Gupta and Wang explain how many MNCs view China and India solely from the lens of off-shoring and cost-reduction, and focusing their marketing strategies on only the top 5-10% of the population. This is a missed opportunity. China and India are the only two countries that constitute four realities that are strategically crucial for the global enterprise.

Using powerful storytelling and unique access to the personal perspectives of top-flight marketers who have developed truly world-class business growth programs, Pete Canalichio shows us how successful marketers have extended and expanded their brands. He also describes the challenges they have had to overcome along the way.

Michael E. Goldberg, Assistant Professor of Design and Innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, takes listeners on an international adventure. From Cleveland, Ohio, to transitioning economies in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Goldberg tells the stories of students who took his hugely popular Beyond Silicon Valley massive open online course (MOOC). The students start businesses, mentor entrepreneurs, grow entrepreneurial advocacy organizations, and energize the start-up ecosystems in their communities.

A proven system to develop your Global Leadership and Cultural Intelligence (CQ), with success strategies and inspiring examples from around the world. The business leaders of today face extraordinary complexity, rapid change, and increasing diversity in their markets and workforces. And yet more than 90 per cent of global executives identify cross-cultural effectiveness as their biggest challenge. This audiobook gives you the tools and confidence to transform your business, personal, and financial performance.

In today's global business reality, the ability to work across cultures is key to teamwork and productivity. The Culture Solution is the book to provide businesspeople a step-by-step system to manage and recognize for themselves the cultural factors that affect international relationships and global partnerships. Using the new method of cultural analysis created by Deirdre Mendez, international managers can solve problems and create cultural synergies that produce the most productive international teams, projects, and alliances.

Discover the best-kept secrets that enable ordinary people to run highly successful virtual teams like a pro. Learn from an industry expert as he discloses The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Virtual Teams to the professional looking to build or reinforce their own successful virtual team. By definition, a virtual team is a group of individuals who work across time, space, and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology.

When Peter Drucker wrote Concept of the Corporation in 1946, he revealed what made the large American corporation tick. Similarly, The Art of Japanese Management by Richard Pascale in 1981 explained the unique practices developed by the Japanese to bring that country's economy out of the ashes. The emerging Chinese juggernauts - the Alibabas, Lenovos, and Haiers - need similar revelation since they are a different breed in their own right.

Gustavo Cisneros, uno de los principales empresarios globales, forma parte de una dinastía de empresarios iniciada por su padre, Diego Cisneros, en la segunda generación no sólo mantiene si no supera los logros de la primera. Gustavo Cisneros consigue convertir un importante y saneado negocio venezolano en un jugador dentro del mercado global, propio de la época que le ha tocado vivir.

Undisputedly, China has become the world's manufacturing powerhouse, accounting for around half of all personal computers, digital cameras and kitchen appliances. However, the country is fast transitioning from low-cost manufacturing to a higher-value, innovation-led economy, a critical transformation that is at the heart of this new title.

Few are prepared for managing across cultures, and the costs of cultural blind spots can spin out of control - from lawsuits to lost opportunities. Forged in the fire of clashing cultures and living on four continents, Dr. Zweifel developed a fool-proof methodology for managing successfully across borders.

As individuals, companies, and countries struggle to recover from the economic crisis, many are narrowly focused on forecasts for the next week, month, or quarter. Yet they should be asking what the global economy will look like in the years to come—where will the long-term risks and opportunities arise? These are the questions that Daniel Altman confronts in his provocative and indispensable book.

In an era when people and money are flowing fast across international boundaries, physically and virtually, culture crashes have become increasingly frequent, says international business consultant Michael Landers. A culture crash is what happens when someone unwittingly offends, frustrates or mystifies a person from a different culture. This can lead to lost business, hurt feelings, damaged relationships, even international incidents.