Political Career

Bolstered with archival and original data, including the first complete count of American business corporations before the Civil War, Corporation Nation makes a compelling argument for improved internal governance and more effective external government regulation.

Transforming Leadership focuses on the ways that leaders emerge from being ordinary "transactional" deal-makers to become dynamic agents of major social change who empower their followers.

In Thinking about Leadership, Nannerl Keohane draws on her experience as the first woman president of Duke University and former president of Wellesley College, as well as her expertise as a leading political theorist, to deepen our understanding of what leaders do, how and why they do it, and the pitfalls and challenges they face.

$uperhubs is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how the world's most powerful titans, the superhubs, pull the levers of our global financial system. Combining insider's knowledge with principles of network science, Sandra Navidi offers a startling new perspective on how superhubs build their powerful networks and how their decisions impact all our lives. $uperhubs reveals what happens at the exclusive, invitation-only platforms - the World Economic Forum in Davos, the meetings of the International Monetary Fund, think tanks....

Generation Blend ventures deep into the technology age gap and provides real-world solutions to combine the best that younger and older workers have to offer. It explores how generational attitudes toward technology affect issues as diverse as recruitment and retention, employee training, management decision-making, collaboration, knowledge sharing, work/life balance, and ordinary workday activities.

Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt's best-selling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything. But one-lesson economics tells only half the story. It can explain why markets often work so well, but it can't explain why they often fail so badly - or what we should do when they stumble. In Economics in Two Lessons, John Quiggin teaches both lessons, offering a masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes - and failures - of free markets.

The rise of the media presidency through radio and television broadcasts has heightened the visibility and importance of presidential speeches in determining the effectiveness and popularity of the president of the United States. This development has also witnessed the rise of professional speechwriters to craft the words the chief executive would address to the nation. Yet, the reliance of individual presidents on their speechwriters has varied with the rhetorical skill of the officeholder himself, his managerial style, and his personal attitude toward public speaking.

Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World argues that today's emergent technology is about more than new and cool toys. Jeffrey Tucker, CLO of Liberty.me and Distinguished Fellow of the Foundation for Economic Education, argues that peer-to-peer technology is forging a new and brighter social, economic, and political order.

Provocative political commentator Arianna Huffington yanks back the curtain on the unholy alliance of CEOs, politicians, lobbyists, and Wall Street bankers who have shown a brutal disregard for those in office cubicles and on factory floors.

For almost 30 years, William F. Gavin wrote speeches at the highest levels of government. Speechwright is his insider's view of politics, a shrewd critique of presidential and congressional rhetoric, and a personal look at the political leaders for whom he wrote speeches. While serving President Richard Nixon and candidate Ronald Reagan, Gavin advocated for "working rhetoric".

Wer eine Wahl gewinnen will, braucht eine durchdachte Strategie, eine klare und kluge Kampagne und ein starkes Team. Wahlkampf heißt Ausnahmezustand. Insbesondere in den Wochen vor der Wahl sind die strategischen, medialen und kommunikativen Anforderungen an Kandidaten enorm hoch. Wer hier mit einer strategischen Ausrichtung, mit klaren Strukturen im Team, und mit einer ansprechenden Kampagne in den Wahlkampf zieht, hat den entscheidenden Wettbewerbsvorteil.

Frank, a Political Monster: 12 Rules to Succeed in Organizations portrays the story of a remarkable man from a poor neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela. Frank was born and raised in a household full of love, dysfunctionality, intellectuality, hunger, violence, alcohol, European customs, laughter, tears, death, and more death. By a gracious miracle, Frank ended up breaking the cycle of poverty and becoming a civil engineer, a highly successful manager in the private sector, a husband, a father, an ambitious and tenacious entrepreneur, a shrewd politician.

When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, and its business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own companies, and its CEO is the richest person in the world while its workers make minimum wage with impossible quotas...wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas, compiled this zine about his commitment to fighting Amazon. Includes: the open letter he wrote to Jeff Bezos, examples of successful social media activism, links to other resources, and some sobering words about boycotting.

Do you want to take your business to the next level? Do you and employees struggle to communicate? Then this audiobook is for you. Communication skills are vital to the heart of any business. Without the ability to communicate clearly, jobs get done poorly and your business suffers as a result. But you don’t need to struggle through this important skill - Effective Communication in Business breaks down the fundamentals of business communication, giving you a detailed, step-by-step analysis of everything you need to know.

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東日本大震災後、自衛隊の存在感が急浮上している。しかし緊縮財政のなか、防衛予算も右肩下がりが続き、防衛産業にも影響を与えている。防衛産業は、自衛隊におカネが落ちなければ、売り上げも立たない。民生品に転用できない特殊な設備や職人技に頼る部分も多い。今後も発注が減少すれば、そうした人・モノを手放さざるをえなくなる 。

本書では、日本企業がつくる防衛装備の紹介や他国の防衛産業の事例、基地のある町のルポ、武器輸出三原則の問題点、防衛問題に詳しい自民党・石破茂氏へのインタビューなどを通じて、防衛産業のありのままの姿と課題を探った。

To rock your investment game, it is imperative that you keep an eye on the thriving industries during or after the pandemic. Sanitary product manufacturers and online businesses are expected to expand and increase revenues. You can also invest in a coveted commodity like gold, as it is a valuable asset that rarely depreciates. Most importantly, you need to be a smart investor and incorporate some innovative investment practices to survive the financial downfall. You can invest in highly valued dividend stocks.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC - AD 65), is the author of On the Shortness of Life (c. 49 AD). In it, Seneca draws insight from different streams of ancient wisdom: Stoic, Epicurean, Platonic, Skeptic and Cynic, as he addresses some of the important questions humans face. Seneca encourages people to be mindful of time and to use it purposefully. He suggests awareness and acceptance as a remedy for many worries and wasteful dissipations.

For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator reimagines The Art of War. Sun Tzu’s ancient book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was first written 2,500 years ago. In a world forever at odds, his rules for anticipating the motivations and strategies of our competitors never cease to inspire leaders of all kinds.

今後１０～２０年で人工知能（ＡＩ）やロボットに代替される可能性が高い職業に就いている人は、米国で４７％に上る。日本でも、ほぼ同程度との調査が発表された。テクノロジーの進化はどこまで人間の仕事を奪うのか。もはやＳＦではない技術革新の驚異的なスピード。その現実を紹介しつつ、あわせて誰もが大きな変化に直面する近未来へ向けたポイントを探る。

本誌は『週刊東洋経済』2016年2月20日号掲載の15ページ分を電子化したものです。

Contemporary views of business ethics often show businessmen and women in a bad light. Egoism, profits, and competition are branded as immoral, while social consciousness is praised. Atlas Society Senior Scholar Stephen Hicks, PhD, disagrees with this point of view. Most contemporary business ethics does business a disservice. Worse than that, its proposed cures are plagued with unintended consequences that are often much worse than the problems it is attempting to solve. Hicks defends the egoism that drives successful business people and the morality of free-market capitalism.