Global Career

Denúncia contundente do atual sistema financeiro global, este livro examina com rigor a maneira como o valor econômico foi atribuído ao longo da história e revela como a teoria econômica falhou em definir com clareza a diferença entre produção e apropriação de valor. Mariana Mazzucato argumenta que essa distinção cada vez menos nítida vem permitindo que certos atores econômicos se movimentem predatoriamente em torno de um valor existente ou, pior ainda, o destruam.

Há quase uma década, Brad Stone registrou a ascensão da Amazon, o empreendimento pioneiro que transformou de forma silenciosa nosso modo de fazer compras pela internet. Desde então, a empresa tem passado por um crescimento exponencial, inventando produtos — como a assistente pessoal baseada em inteligência artificial Alexa e o serviço de armazenamento em nuvem Amazon Web Services — e desestruturando diversos mercados.

For executives leading their organizations through change and growth Mindshifting provides a powerful tool kit. The book guides you through the seven attentional shifts a leader has to make, providing a logical framework for you to move from managing one's self to leading large organizations.

What do Disney, Bollywood, and "the Batkid" teach us about how to create celebrity experiences for our audiences? How can a vending machine inspire world peace? Can being "imperfect" make your business more marketable? Can a selfie improve one's confidence? When can addiction be a good thing?

Based on the author’s popular newsletter Andrew’s Ax with its tagline “the cutting edge for global thinkers”, Get a G.R.I.P.: Global Readiness® Improvement Plan walks the listener through exercises that cut through the BS out there and help everyone—from top-level CEOs to full- or part-time staff—develop their own strengths as a leader, as a manager, and as a “globally thinking communicator”. The result is a win-win for both the company as well as for the personal development of the individual employee.

Discover the real source of translation problems - and solve them. Industry leader Ian A. Henderson shares the story of the quest he and his wife Françoise undertook to help the world better communicate. They quickly discovered that they could not solve the translation quality problem by looking at translations alone, but had to take proactive role in the complete global content process.

Taking the Cape Off shares Fire Chief Pat Kenny's journey to overcome his perceived failure as a leader in his most cherished duty, that of being a protector. His "Cape" failed to protect his 20-year-old son Sean from dying by suicide after a lifelong battle with mental illness. His anguish was complicated by his role as the leader of a fire department.

Many executives overlook the single-most critical aspect of leadership. Have you? The most important driver of overall success is your own self-leadership. Without it, your career may stall. Why? Because how you lead yourself directly impacts your ability to lead others, and that, in turn, can prevent you from reaching your full career potential.

In this book, discover what becomes possible when you act from unified love and power in service to purpose and the more-than-human world. Let yourself be drawn into a story of stories—woven together into a rich tapestry with threads from the author’s personal journey—along with gems from many teachers and wisdom traditions gleaned along the way. This audio book provides you with a path to collectively manifest what is needed now, addressing the interconnectedness of everything on the levels of self, other, and all.

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.

In a globalized world, where multinational companies have extensive power over millions of people, building positive organizational performance requires global leaders with virtues. Organizations, especially multinational ones, may be crucial engines of social and economic progress; global leaders' virtues and character strengths may be strong drivers of such an endeavor. Drawing on the Positive Organizational Scholarship movement, this book aims to provide a holistic approach to the virtues of leaders.

How and why do some entrepreneurs succeed where others fail? The answer is actually very simple. Everything you have in your life is a result of the choices you and you alone have made on a daily basis...and just prior to making that choice, you had a thought. This book is all about your thinking processes. It will show you a tried and tested formula that you can apply to succeed as an entrepreneur - as well as the thinking (and actions) required to implement it!

A look at business model innovation's crucial role in today's global business environment. Showing organizations how business model innovation should be a key focus area in today's global economy, this book features cases from businesses around the globe that have developed customized business models and achieved spectacular levels of performance.

What is your organization's glass ceiling? Wondering why your organization isn't reaching its potential? You're not alone. Many leaders sense something is amiss but struggle to identify the missing link. In Build Smart, organizational leadership expert Simon A. Taylor tackles this challenge head-on.

¿Se ha convertido tu vida en una aburrida y monótona repetición, día tras día y semana tras semana? ¿Te despiertas cada mañana temiendo el hecho de tener que ir a trabajar? Sólo esperando el fin de semana, cuando sólo es martes...Con un poco de conciencia y un poco de reorganización en tu visión de la vida, puedes construir sin problemas la vida de tus sueños. Y cuando incorporas las herramientas y técnicas adecuadas, puedes pasar de sentirte completamente atascado a prosperar absolutamente en un abrir y cerrar de ojos.

Discover the transformative power of leadership with "How to Inspire Action and Lead with Impact," a compelling tribute to the late Dr. R.K. Pachauri, a visionary in climate science and advocacy. This inspiring book features the voices of 50 global climate leaders, including heads of states, diplomats, scientists, and passionate youth leaders, offering unique insights and practical advice on effective leadership.

This book is all about helping you tap into new markets to reach millions of new potential customers fast. Everything I share in this audiobook is based on my 20+ years of digital marketing experience, my consulting work for international clients, and, last but not least, my own experience running multiple highly successful ecommmerce businesses.

This book is a must-hear for anyone who has ever felt stuck in life. Gail McWilliams contends when you discover that you are strategically positioned, you will never live life the same. Inspirational stories, insights, humor, and challenge encompass Gail's unique style of communication. She will help you see life with a new view. Discover how to adjust your outlook and attitude as you live with vision that has no limits.

Brand Renegades shows listeners how to develop a nontraditional success formula to disrupt and innovate their industry. Club Tattoo founders and industry disruptors Sean and Thora Dowdell share their experience as a woman-run company in the male-dominated world of tattoos and piercings. The lessons taught in this book are about learning to admit failure and learning to fail forward.

There's so much more to the role of culture in business than etiquette and local customs. Recognizing its importance - and providing a clear-eyed look at how it works in real-life scenarios - is why Riding the Waves of Culture became essential learning when it was first published in 1997.