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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Can Finance Save the World? Regaining Power over Money to Serve the Common Good
Just as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badré looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007–2008 and offers a bold prescription for making it a force for good. Badré says that finance is inherently neither good nor bad....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Best seller internacional. Altas Finanzas ha ayudado a miles de personas a voltear las mesas en Wall Street, no solo en Estados Unidos y Canadá, sino también en otros 17 países, como Francia, Alemania, Hungría, Corea del Sur y China. El tema principal del libro es que Wall Street supera a los inversores minoristas a través de una serie de pequeñas ventajas, como comisiones, tarifas, márgenes de oferta / demanda e intereses de margen, muy parecidos...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Economic hit men (EHMs) “are highly paid professionals who cheat countries out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder.” John Perkins wrote those words—he was one of them. In this extraordinary new version of his now-classic book, Perkins reveals how economic hit men, the assassin jackals who back them up, and the system they represent, have spread all over...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Proven, Profitable, and Sustainable
For the past fifty years, leaders in the business world have believed that their sole responsibility is to maximize profit for shareholders. But this obsessive focus was a major cause of the abuses that nearly sunk the global economy in 2008. In this analytically rigorous and eminently practical book, Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub offer a more complete form of capitalism, one that delivers superior financial performance...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Conventional wisdom about Chiefs and power is all wrong. It says Chiefs are special. Chiefs are chosen. Chiefs have titles. And only those at the top have the power to be Chief.
But today, reports indicate that 7 in 10 workers are not giving 100% on the job. Why? Mostly, they feel powerless. Researchers estimate the cost of this lost productivity at over $500B annually.
We need a new way to think about Chiefs and power, and we need new tools to...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
¿Te gustaría ahorrar dinero?
¿Quiéres generar ingresos?
¿Quieres una guía monetaria fácil de seguir?
Mejorar sus finanzas o ahorrar para los días díficiles es a menudo un propósito de año nuevo, si es uno de los suyos o si no lo ha cumplido antes, ahora es el momento perfecto para hacerlo posible con este manual monetario en solo 30 días.
Todos los días por 30 días y con solo una hora al día puede empezar aprender cosas como:
Ahorrar...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Throughout the world, capitalism and democracy are being challenged with great force. The world must change, but it cannot be changed by throwing money at old ideas that no longer work. There needs to be a new path to a new world where inequality is shrinking, where natural resources are regenerated, and people can benefit from shared prosperity.This is the world being created by the Impact Revolution.Pre-eminent international investor, entrepreneur,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
RE:Think Innovation makes coming up with great ideas everybody’s business. People think innovation isn’t sustainable, so they make it much harder than it has to be. Experts portray it as confusing and complicated so they can charge big fees. Executives make it intimidating and complex, so they appear smarter and important. Traditional innovators imply you need a special degree or training to know how to do it right. The truth is, consistently...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In The Impossible Turned Possible, Carolyn Chism Hardy provides a roadmap to plan one’s journey to the life they deserve with a simple 5 step process. The Impossible Turned Possible is a step-by-step guide acting as a virtual assistant to help every step of the way. The real-life experiences discussed within challenge and inspire readers to achieve their personal goals. The inspirational stories act as the ‘kick in the pants’ many need in order...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
¿Les gustaría hacer que su dinero fructificara y no saben cómo hacerlo?
¿Les gustaría volverse buenos inversores pero no tienen los conocimientos adecuados?
¡Ya no tienen excusas! Esta guía está diseñada justo para aquellos que quisieran dar los primeros pasos en este campo sin arriesgarse a perder su capital.
Invertir en el crédito al consumo en la Unión Europea con una ganancia del 20% es una oportunidad que nació hace poco años en...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It can at times feel like everything is falling apart. And there is a reason for this. It really is. We can either see this as an end or a beginning. In this uplifting and essential guide to a bewildering future, Neil Gibb claims that we are witnessing the birth of a new world, in which passive consumers are being replaced by active participants. We are at one of those rare points in human history, he argues, when a whole way of thinking is on the...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
“Bitcoin poses the right question, but gives the wrong answer,” write Luca Fantacci and Massimo Amato in this lucid and highly original treatment of the cryptocurrency phenomenon. A Fistful of Bitcoins uncovers the paradoxes of the first “digital cash” to achieve global attention: a disruptive payment infrastructure married to a dangerous and deflationary monetary system. From the cryptographic protocols to the quasi-religious ideologies and...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The book is unique because it has both a deep academic point of view and a practical angle. The book differentiates itself by departing from the academic analysis, but it translates the uncertainty challenge into practical problems. This book is about how to manage the risk associated with failure: the failure per se, and also the financial risk associated with it.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Exceptional Leaders Playbook will be an important resource for managers and leaders who want to improve their skills and results. The book is full of immediately actionable tactics and strategies designed to help progressive leaders develop themselves and their teams. These ideas and strategies have worked for hundreds of top-performing leaders.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The aim of this book is to compel leaders to replace their typical performance appraisal methods with one more closely aligned with systems thinking. In addition, the aim is to replace it with one that actually achieves the desired outcomes of increasing individual development, improving communication between employees, implementing organizational strategies, and improving organizational performance. The motivation to replace the typical performance...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1999, Betty Shotton stood on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and watched her company go public. After witnessing the negative consequences of the ensuing transition from purpose driven to profit driven, Shotton set out to change the way we define leadership success.Today, with over 35 years as a CEO and Entrepreneur, Shotton passionately advocates a business model that integrates profitability into a larger context of meaningful contribution...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The latest research evidence is fascinating: We can thrive at work, achieve extraordinary performance and make a meaningful contribution to the world. This pragmatic book helps to develop a more positive, productive culture, regardless of your position. Whether you use Interaction Interventions or Change Circles – you can personally influence people through interactions that get copied and become the norm: a positive culture where people and performance...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Running a small business is hard and confusing. Most entrepreneurs start a company to solve a problem and just want to focus on doing only that. Unfortunately, starting a business gets in the way and everything that comes along with it.Like:•Marketing •Sales•Customer Service•Employees, Freelancers and Vendors•Money and Finance This book solves that problem. It is a simple guide for anyone in a small business to be able to accomplish one...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Women’s Leadership is a VISION THOUGHT to be embraced, claimed and internalized by women.Just like slight seismic shifts cause Earthquakes, minor thought shifts are capable of causing life changing MIND QUAKES©As we re-orchestrate thoughts, cause minor and major mind quakes, we drive the ‘shifts’ and build women to become Leaders.Each diminutive anti-growth thought will dissipate and all potential drain on our growth will banish as we bounce...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire—and did, for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity that some feared.
In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch provides a much-needed insider's view of the oil industry,
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