International Business

Story is a potent medicine that can re-enchant our lives. By re-storying ourselves, consciously building it into everyday living, we can make space to hear ourselves better, listen more deeply to each other, and discern the tales the earth is quietly whispering in our ears. Hopefully, Story Intelligence will help you stoke a new kind of fire.

You may already know this, but in case you didn't, here are some facts about why freight brokerage business is growing and why it is so lucrative to get in to: since 2012, freight brokerage industry has been seeing a steady 6-12% growth every year; the ongoing economic recovery is bringing an increase in demand for trucking service; and more!

In a Japanese tea ceremony, when a treasured bowl breaks, it is not discarded. The shards are instead rejoined with lacquer and gold, celebrating the beauty in imperfection, and creating splendor from misfortune. This celebration of imperfection and authenticity is known to the Japanese as “wabi-sabi”. In this same spirit, Wabi-Sabi Wisdom: Inspiration for an Authentic Life shares the author’s own perfectly imperfect reflections on living a life that moves beyond success, striving, and competition to living in integrity with oneself, others, and the world.

Filled with intriguing insights about the trucking industry, and packed with practical strategies on how to start and succeed in the business, this guidebook will help you lay your path to success.

Corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and acting ethically are all accepted business aims, but their meaning and implementation in a global context is far less clear-cut. Global Business Ethics cuts through the confusion to provide a coherent basis for ethical decision-making within the complications of the international business landscape.

Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries the developed world has built up customs and institutions like enforceable contracts. This is not the case in the developing world. Using vivid examples from Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and elsewhere, scholar and entrepreneur Tarun Khanna shows how entrepreneurs can build on existing customs and practices instead of trying to push against them.

One of the most vexing human rights issues of our time has been how to protect the rights of individuals and communities worldwide in an age of globalization and multinational business. Indeed, from Indonesian sweatshops to oil-based violence in Nigeria, the challenges of regulating harmful corporate practices in some of the world’s most difficult regions long seemed insurmountable. Human rights groups and businesses were locked in a stalemate, unable to find common ground. In 2005, the United Nations appointed John Gerard Ruggie to the modest task of clarifying the main issues.

'5 Steps to a Roadie Job' details the exact steps you need to take to find work with international touring music artists as a sound engineer, backline tech, concert lighting engineer, tour manager, touring stylist, chef, driver, or any of the numerous other concert touring jobs. The audiobook breaks down some of the myths of working in the live music business with an honest and realistic approach to working with music artists on tour.

Brothers Ugur and Lokman Bulut are locked in a bitter inheritance battle and need a sample of their mother's DNA to contest her will. But when her body is exhumed, her corpse is found to be missing and a fresh body, with its heart removed, has been put in her grave. Assigned to the case, Inspector Mehmet Süleyman quickly realises that the heart has been illegally harvested, and his team has a murder inquiry on its hands.

German-born thinker Theodore Levitt's groundbreaking 1960 article Marketing Myopia established him as a world-famous business figure and led to him being dubbed "the father of modern marketing." At the time he published the piece, marketing did not even exist as a separate business discipline. Recognizing that companies went bust when the market for their products dried up, Levitt set to finding out why. He wrote Marketing Myopia as a manifesto.

In No Ordinary Disruption, the directors of the McKinsey Global Institute, the flagship think tank of the world's leading consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, dive deeply behind current headlines to analyze the key forces transforming the global economy over the next two decades - and most importantly, to explain what business and government leaders need to do to reset their intuitions and take advantage of the disruptions ahead.

This is a quick reference guide. Once you’ve identified why your deal is stuck you can jump right to that chapter for solutions. This book is for book for all those entrepreneurs, business leaders and sales professionals that want to close those bloated pipelines and prevent deals from getting stuck in the first place. This book will teach you how to unstick deals, shorten your sales cycle and prevent deals from sticking to begin with.

This groundbreaking book is the first to both identify the wide range of political risks that global firms face and show investors how to effectively manage them. Written by two of the world's leading figures in political risk management, it reveals that, while the world remains exceedingly risky for businesses, it is by no means incomprehensible. The authors provide a wealth of unique methods, tools, and concepts to help understand political risk, showing when and how political risk analysis works - and when it does not.

The story of stock market is one of booms and busts. There's only one way of making money in the markets: buying low and selling high. The order in which you do them places you firmly in a particular direction and this is where your risk compounds. The best way to manage risk is to simply be neutral in the market or, in other words, not be committed to either direction. How is this possible, you ask? Well, this is where options come in.

The 25th Secretary of Defense takes listeners behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon, its vital mission, and what it takes to lead it. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the single largest institution in America: the Department of Defense. The DOD employs millions of Americans. It owns and operates more real estate and spends more money than any other entity. It manages the world’s largest and most complex information network and performs more R&D than Apple, Google, and Microsoft combined.

High Noon has established itself within the United States hard seltzer market as a low calorie alcoholic beverage with no added sugar as well as being gluten-free. In this book, we are going to talk about business ideas that may bring High Noon soft drinks to Britain and build a market there! We will analyze the economic factors, marketing in UK, and SWOT model. Let's take a closer look and break down the details of our expansion!

Freedom is on the decline around the world. Autocrats in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are undermining our open societies, human rights, and the rule of law. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a wake-up call for the West, but the biggest threat remains China. For two generations, Americans and Europeans have believed that change will come through trade, but instead of dictatorships becoming more like Western democracies, unfettered free trade has strengthened our enemies and undermined our countries.

Vivation is the skill of happiness. Vivation is a physically pleasurable skill you can learn to quickly and permanently resolve any kind of negative emotion, stress, or trauma. It brings together the breath and focused awareness to help you resolve your most difficult emotions and pain. Vivation enables you to experience a superior life by removing the emotional blocks that prevent a more complete enjoyment of life. Specifically, Vivation causes integration–the ability to happily accept reality, while empowering you to change the situation if desired.

Are you a student or a young professional who always thinks about starting your own company one day but doesn't know where to get started? The Titan in Making is a life-changing practical guide made specifically for you that will help you make this transition from academia or professional jobs to entrepreneurship by developing your mindset.

In Who the Hell Wants to Work for You? Mastering Employee Engagement, Tim Eisenhauer explains and unifies the groundbreaking employee engagement practices of America's most admired companies. It shows the role of individuals, managers, and executives in building a new kind of workplace. And it uses the collective experience of hundreds of employers through research and case examples to help you - the manager - transform your mind, your team, and your business. Everyone's talking about it, but it's as bad as it's ever been.