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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.

Typically people react emotionally more severely to an exploited conflict of interest when a person gains a personal benefit such as through a bribe. If company, or even an office or department, stands to benefit inordinately, American society typically looks the other way on the institutional conflict of interest rather than taking it apart. This may just be human nature. However, the troubling institutional arrangements within an organization or between them may be tolerated because of the erroneous assumption that conflicts of interest are unethical only when they are exploited.

Corporate leader and manager for over 30 years, Richard Lowe, presents some of the lessons he's learned managing hundreds of people and leading successful, happy teams. Lowe answers the question: How can you improve your job, enhance your career, make more money, and yet still lead a happy life outside of work?

The Purpose Upgrade provides a unique methodology to repurpose enterprises and revitalise the activities they engage in. It shows how by leaning into society's most pressing priorities, businesses can create more compelling benefits for customers, build more meaningful livelihoods for colleagues, and unlock superior returns for investors, putting all the stakeholders that an enterprise needs back on the same team.

Our approach to Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) is broken. We have done the same thing over and over for years, expecting better representation and more equitable treatment, all to no avail. In fact, many people still don't know exactly what D&I is. We can’t fix the mess we’re in with a 2-hour training session. Creating a world which is truly more equitable for everyone is a process. It takes time and practice.

Inteligência artificial. Informática cognitiva. A Singularidade. Obesidade digital. Comida impressa. A Internet das Coisas. A morte da privacidade. O fim do trabalho-como-o-conhecemos e longevidade radical: o confronto iminente entre tecnologia e humanidade já se está a apressar na nossa direção. Que valores morais está preparado para defender – antes de o sentido de "ser humano" mudar para sempre?

Successful professionals have learned that investing in themselves is the most effective way to enable the extraordinary. Whether managing a team, mentoring others, or running businesses, they know that leadership is a key investment. But what is leadership? How does it help? Through narratives about his corporate experiences, Gary DePaul guides you to discover what leadership is and why it's important.

From the award-winning author and Financial Times columnist Elizabeth Uviebinené, a fundamental rethink of how we work and live. Because if we're going to really benefit from the radical shift of 2020, we have to rethink how we fit into an ecosystem. Elizabeth started with a simple desire to explore our relationship with work, and how it was impacting our lives.

A characteristic that creates a pleasant work environment is the belief that the company cares, the boss listens, and there is a chance to get ahead and, perhaps, get a raise or promotion. Being taken advantage of often causes the perfect job to become dreary and tedious. Like most of us, I'm sure, bosses have made promises to me in the past to get extra work and longer hours and then reneged when the time came to pay up.

Nothing of value happens without trust. In fact, this makes trust the most valuable currency in the world. In Build Trust we’ll help you understand how your intentions, motives, and purpose create the trust that will elevate your life personally and professionally. If you’ve been working hard and struggling to build the relationships that result in happiness, fulfillment, and financial success, Build Trust holds the answers you need to renew your mind and transform your life.

Would you describe your workplace as "happy"? From the moment you begin each work day, you contribute to its culture. With your behavior, communications, and attitude, you can impact your overall happiness and that of your co-workers in the workplace. Taking a few simple and creative actions can all build up to happy workplace culture. How? This book offers 100 ways to choose from.

People are often skeptical that there is anything they can do to raise society's ethical level. Mark Pastin begs to differ. We can make a difference, and we don't need ethics "experts" to tell us what to do. He argues that we all have an innate ethical sense - what he calls an "ethics eye". He offers tools for sharpening the ethics eye so we can see and do the right thing ourselves, particularly in the workplace, where our decisions can affect not just ourselves but coworkers, clients, customers, and even an entire organization.

In Part 1, I talk generally about compliance and ethics, often through personal and professional stories and metaphors that illustrate important lessons I’ve learned over my 40-year career, from my early days at the Federal Reserve (before compliance was a well-known function) through my years as a chief compliance officer for some of the biggest companies in the world. My goal is to enlighten board members, as well as current, and especially, future compliance and ethics officers.

Accountability Hazlosencillo es la virtuosa conjunción de dos filosofías y dos metodologías enfocadas en el empoderamiento de las personas sobre sus propias decisiones y acciones. El método, que ha sido probado y aprobado mediante cursos y conferencias en una docena de países y desde las empresas más prestigiosas hasta en organizaciones pequeñas y medianas, pretende conseguir una transformación de fondo en la cultura organizacional desde su mismo núcleo: las personas que trabajan en ellas.

Learn how to bullet proof your LinkedIn™ profile when you implement these 10 LinkedIn™ Security Principles. Learn these 10 LinkedIn™ Security Principles and much more. To create a strong password and use an email address that is only used for LinkedIn.com. No other online accounts should use this email address ✓ How to set up two step verification. Important point is to use a cell phone you do not have listed on your LinkedIn profile ✓ How much is your data worth? How to remove your birthdate from your profile. ✓ How to turn off your profile being public on search engines ✓ ...

The story of a friendship that started in law school and ended with the largest insider trading scandal in Canadian history, this eye-opening chronicle reveals for the first time how Gil Cornblum and Stan Grmovsek worked together to rip off Wall Street and Bay Street - the Canadian Wall Street equivalent - for over $10 million. Cornblum would scout around his law offices in the middle of the night, looking for confidential information on mergers or takeovers.

Does your brand have what it takes to be a Reputation King? Scott and DJ think so. As two of the leading online reputation management experts running one of the largest and most trusted online review platforms in the world, Scott Brandley and DJ Sprague have helped thousands of brands to significantly increase their trust, traffic, and sales. Now, for the first time ever, they pull back the curtain and show you: how the online rating and review world really works, why it's deliberately rigged for you to fail, and what you can do to ethically "hack the system" to win!

With a “been there and done that” approach, Cleveland makes this topic fun and informative for the new Manager and the Old Pro who needs to sharpen his or her skills.

Im März 2020 änderte sich alles. Homeoffice war plötzlich die neue Norm. Alle mussten sich digitalisieren und transformieren – ob sie wollten oder nicht. Die Arbeit drängte weiter ins restliche Leben, zur Erwerbsarbeit kam noch mehr Carearbeit. Die Schere zwischen systemrelevanten Berufen und Bürojobs ging weiter auf. Covid hat uns gezeigt, was in der Arbeitswelt nicht mehr funktioniert. Und da ist nicht nur die Pandemie. Überschwemmungen, Waldbrände, Inflation, Krieg – unsere Welt steht in Flammen, im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes.

Richard Branson, at his brilliant and motivating best, reveals how with his exciting new vision for the future. It is time to turn capitalism upside down - to shift our values, to switch from a profit focus to caring for people, communities and the planet. With inspiration for everyone, Screw Business As Usual shows how easy it is for both businesses and individuals to embark on a whole new way of doing things, solving major problems and turning our work into something we both love and are proud of.