Right Career

Wie begeistere ich Kritiker:innen für meine Ideen? Wie hole ich Menschen ins Boot, die stur auf ihren Überzeugungen beharren? Und warum eskalieren viele Diskussionen offline und online so schnell? Marie-Theres Braun zeigt anhand von realen Geschichten aus Beruf und Alltag, wie viel Macht hinter kooperativen Strategien steckt.

Para um problema complicado, nada como uma solução simples: uma lista de verificação–ou checklist. Essa ferramenta oferece uma solução até para atividades complexas, como pilotar aviões, acompanhar o mercado de ações e construir arranha-céus. Por meio de pesquisas e fascinantes histórias, Atul Gawande demonstra como um checklist bem feito evita desperdícios, erros graves e até catástrofes.

In stark and compelling prose, Thomas W. Jones tells his story as a campus revolutionary who led an armed revolt at Cornell University in 1969 and then altered his course over the next 50 years to become a powerful leader in the financial industry including high-level positions at John Hancock, TIAA-CREF, and Citigroup as Wall Street plunged into its darkest hour.

Small Business, Big Vision provides inspiration and practical advice on everything from creating a one-page business plan to setting up an advisory board and also delivers a call to social entrepreneurship and sustainable business practices.

Want to earn more money without having to report to a boss, commute long distances, or work on someone else's schedule? You are not alone. The good news is that you don't need any of the things that you may be concerned about right now. In fact, starting with a clean slate may turn out to be your superpower as a business owner, as hard as that may be to imagine right now.

Gender inequality in the fields of education, law, employment and wages lead to incalculable social and political disparities. These disparities in turn give rise to endemic poverty and violence, to individual frustration, social instability, and cultural disaffection. When women are deprived of their rights, economies are eroded, democracies weakened, and the fabric of societies radically undermined. This pioneering book shows, once and for all, the direct correlation between the freedoms given to women and the prosperity enjoyed by all.

It’s a popular belief that the world of leadership is some mysterious arena where only the strong, fearless, and gifted can survive. But this isn’t necessarily true, and it’s certainly not been the experience of Organisational Psychologists Karen Meager and John McLachlan.

More than ever, people are looking for experiences, not products. And not just any experiences—but real ones that turn transactions into engagement and materialism into experimentalism. The pandemic has changed our view of the world, shifted us away from consumerism, and made us appreciate the basic human needs of finding balance and focus. In this new era, customer experience is not just a digital experience, but a perfect combination of real life and digital interaction.

One in three American workers is now a freelancer. This “gig economy” - one that provides neither the guarantee of steady hours nor benefits - emerged out of the digital era and has revolutionized the way we do business. High-profile tech start-ups such as Uber and Airbnb are constantly making headlines for the disruption they cause to the industries they overturn. But what are the effects of this disruption, from Wall Street down to Main Street? What challenges do employees and job seekers face at every level of professional experience?

Focuses on competitive selling: the range of skills that sales professionals need to reach their full potential. It offers practical, step-by-step advice that salespeople can take to prevent the competition from selling their products or services, revealing the components involved in gaining full control of a sales situation. Discusses a key step in this process - the politics of selling - showing how to establish the right relationships with people who are powerful enough to give the salesperson an edge.

The COVID-19 pandemic provided extraordinary challenges and opportunities, but the reality of being in business is that you are consistently confronting obstacles. This compilation of interviews from peer experts was created to bring you the advice you need exactly when you need it. This book is your firsthand introduction to 48 trusted experts who understand you and your business’s needs because they are business owners, entrepreneurs, and CEOs themselves. They want to see you succeed and grow—and graciously share their knowledge so you can take it and make it work for you.

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.

Building a culture of purpose is one of the greatest challenges facing modern leaders, as today's best minds are looking for meaning, not just jobs. More than any other single factor, cultures of purpose power winning organizations, attracting the smartest, most creative, most passionate talent. For leaders building cultures of purpose, the commercial pursuit of sustainability provides the most reliable blueprint. While sustainability has been commonly misconstrued as a description of a set of problems, Christoph Lueneburger shows that it is really a solution to problems.

In the New York Times best seller Becoming China’s Bitch, Peter Kiernan presents an unflinching manifesto in which he explores five factors that have sustained our national paralysis, then uncovers the 10 challenges that pose the greatest threat to the future of America. Presented from a fresh yet informative Centrist perspective, these ten impending catastrophes include our semi-conscious dependency on China, our lack of a centrally coordinated intelligence effort, and more.

This practical step-by-step guide shows you everything you need to know about selling or buying foreign rights. Written by an international foreign rights expert, this useful book provides the information you need so your book can be translated or sold into additional English language markets. Aimed at authors, publishers, foreign rights managers, literary agents, and even those aspiring to enter the foreign rights field, Foreign Rights and Wrongs goes beyond just describing the do’s and don’ts of selling or buying rights.

Discover the transformative power of Seven Strategies to Navigate Your High-Stress Healthcare Career, a captivating guide designed to empower healthcare professionals in their pursuit of success and well-being.

Do you find it increasingly difficult to lead in the midst of change that is relentless, disruptive, and unprecedented? What if I told you that you do not have to be at the mercy of change? That you can actually harness change for your competitive advantage? In past markets that had low rates of change, business leaders were accustomed to making "right" decisions. Unfortunately this is ineffective in today's world of uncertainty. Blindly proceeding with the "right" plan increasingly turns out wrong.

Isn’t it time your talents paid off? In today's digital age, there’s a vast ocean of opportunities just waiting for those ready to dive in. But many don’t take the plunge. Why? They’re unsure how to transform their skills into tangible earnings. If that sounds like you, then Andrew Richards, a trusted business strategist, is here to be your lifeline.

From the author of Days of Drums and Gatekeeper comes this masterfully crafted thriller spinning around an unforgettable heroine. Philip Shelby again demonstrates that he ranks among the great American thriller authors today.

In life there are few, if any, moral absolutes for us to rely on, and facing an increasing array of choices, we often lack the confidence of knowing we have made the right choice. In Right & Wrong, respected social commentator Hugh Mackay suggests some personal strategies that will make it easier to work out what is right and wrong for each of us in a particular situation.