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Developing your business leaders
Build stronger leaders at every level of your organization, and turn leadership development into a true business advantage. Drawing on nearly three decades of experience across sales operations, technology consulting, and talent development, Tina Schust Robinson offers a reimagined approach to le...
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Return to judgement
Today’s organizations are increasingly complex with many structures, practices and rules to follow. While the organizational head – an administrative knowing better class - becomes larger, the space for people doing the core job of the organization to think outside the box and take personal resp...
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Sustainability, well-being and socio-environmental quality
This book offers an updated view of interconnected issues such as sustainable development, well-being and environmental dynamics in advanced economies, delineating a broad interpretation of complex (local) development paths reviewing theoretical approaches and providing paradigmatic examples.
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The state and your hard-earned money
How fiscal and economic policy choices reflect moral points of viewHow much of your hard-earned money is it fair for the state to tax? What public services should the state finance with that money? Surveys show that people care more about fairness than efficiency in fiscal and economic matters, a...
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A capital’s capital
A study of the changes in wealth and its distribution in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris that maps the interplay among wealth, inequality, and welfareSuccessful economies sustain capital accumulation across generations, and capital accumulation leads to large increases in private wealth. ...
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Resource nationalism and energy policy
David R. Mares develops a powerful new account of the relationship between state resource ownership and energy policy. He considers the history of Latin American oil and gas policies and provides an in-depth analysis of Venezuela from 1989 to 2016—before, during, and after the presidency of Hugo ...
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Contingent expectations
An empirical analysis and new theoretical framework for understanding economic expectations and decision-making in different historical settings.Expectations play a crucial role in shaping economic behavior. But how are expectations actually formed, and how has this changed over time? The financi...
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Behind the curve
This book demonstrates how structural forces have produced the decline in manufacturing jobs, and these forces are not likely to be reversed. Analyzing the effects of trade, technological change, production efficiencies, and consumer spending patterns on manufacturing employment, shows that effor...
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Ethics in action for sustainable development
This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts.
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Money capital
A novel perspective on monetary and fiscal policy that views money as the equity capital of a nationA conventional economic theory, monetarism, holds that inflation is a monetary phenomenon driven by changes in the supply of money. Yet recent experience—including the aftermath of the financial cr...
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Profitably healthy companies
Profitably Healthy Companies lays out ten essential principles of organizational development for sustained success. Bringing together practical and academic expertise, W. Warner Burke and Michael O’Malley detail proven methods for every organization at each level.
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Beyond banks
How new technology is rapidly changing the nature of money and the way we payA diverse and growing range of financial institutions and platforms—from PayPal and Venmo to WeChat, Alipay, and the brave new world of stablecoins—has harnessed new technology to disrupt the system of money and payments...
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Dollars and dominion
How the creation of a new banking infrastructure in the early twentieth century established the United States as a global financial powerThe dominance of US multinational businesses today can seem at first like an inevitable byproduct of the nation’s superpower status. In Dollars and Dominion, Ma...
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Gendered configurations of humans and machines
In numerous fields of science, work, and everyday life, humans and machines have been increasingly entangled, developing an ever-growing toolbox of interactions. These entanglements affect our daily lives and pose possibilities as well as restrictions, chances as well as challenges. The contribut...
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The market power of technology
Mordecai Kurz develops a comprehensive integrated theory of the dynamics of market power and income inequality. He shows that technological innovations are not simply sources of growth and progress: they sow the seeds of market power. Technological market power tends to rise, increasing inequalit...
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Sustainable human development across the life course
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life today but also provide a window into the future for all of us. This book presents impactful findin...
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How much inequality is fair?
How Much Inequality Is Fair? synthesizes concepts from economics, political philosophy, game theory, information theory, statistical mechanics, and systems engineering into a mathematical framework for a fair free-market society. Venkat Venkatasubramanian compares his theory’s predictions to actu...
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Inclusive tourism futures
This book combines studies of inclusivity in tourism with a future lens and provides timely insights into current research and discussions on social inclusion. It considers a future that can be welcoming of different ways of being, doing and knowing to empower all participants in the planning and...
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Gender and the dismal science
This book is a groundbreaking account of the role of women during the formative years of American economics. Blending rich historical detail with extensive empirical data, Ann Mari May examines the structural and institutional factors that excluded women, from graduate education to academic publi...
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The israeli economy
An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the presentIn 1922, there were ninety thousand Jews in Palestine, a small country in a poor and volatile region. Today, Israel has a population of nine million and is one of the richest countries in the world. The Israeli Economy te...
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Russian energy chains
Margarita M. Balmaceda follows Russia’s three largest fossil-fuel exports—natural gas, oil, and coal—from production in Siberia through transportation via Ukraine to final use in Germany in order to understand the tension between energy as threat and as opportunity.
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Intelligent data-driven marketing
Following Einstein’s advice, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough,” this book puts a spotlight on the marketing ecosystem from a physicist’s point of view. It provides guidelines for implementing a m...
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Renewable energy
This book is a primer for readers of all levels on the coming energy transition and its global consequences. Bruce Usher provides a concise yet comprehensive explanation for the growth in wind and solar energy; the trajectory of the transition from fossil fuels to renewables; and the implication...
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What really counts
What Really Counts is an essential, firsthand story of the promise and challenges of accounting for social, economic, and environmental benefits. Ronald Colman recounts two decades of working with three governments to adopt measures capable of quantifying factors that GDP overlooks.
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Designed leadership
The strategic-design scholar and urban-systems designer Moura Quayle shares her plan for integrating design and leadership, translating processes, principles, and practices from years of experience into tools of change for professional leaders. Designed Leadership uses field-tested examples to te...
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Discovering prices
Paul Milgrom describes how auctions can be used to discover prices and guide efficient resource allocations. Milgrom roots his new theories in real-world examples (including the ambitious U.S. incentive auction of radio frequencies, whose design he led) and provides economists with crucial new to...
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Rescuing retirement
In Rescuing Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James offer a comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement, increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and guarantee lifelong income for everyone. It offers a practical guide to the future of secure retirement.
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Sex in tourism
This book encompasses the diversity and complexity of sex in tourism, including the light, dark and shades of grey between. It studies the affects and effects of diverse sexual encounters in tourism; romance tourism, sex tourism and exploitation in tourism, including the sexual exploitation of ch...
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Why trust matters
Benjamin Ho reveals the surprising importance of trust to how we understand our day-to-day economic lives. Starting with the earliest societies and proceeding through the evolution of the modern economy, he explores its role across an astonishing range of institutions and practices.
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High-tech high-touch recruiting
High-tech recruiting tools can only help you find candidates. In order to retain the best talent, you need to blend "high-tech" candidate search tools with traditional "high-touch" relationship-based recruiting methods.
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Rapid growth, done right
Understand why innovation in organizations shouldn't be left to chance and develop those key skills that will allow you to build an innovative company, increase the quantity and quality of ideas, lead effectively and accelerate success.
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Stand out
Develop your leadership presence and project confidence, credibility and charisma to impact and influence others.
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Workday warrior
Productivity expert Ann Gomez has a simple, time-saving method to regain control of your workday. If you crave more time in your day, this compelling and practical book is your solution.
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The greenhouse approach
Challenging the status quo, Chitra Anand's The Greenhouse Approach distils the author's research and experience in the technology sector, gained over more than twenty years, into a simple guide to how to shift corporate culture, identify the true agents of change within a company, and assemble to...
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Dancing with robots
Five human superpowers give us a unique advantage in a world being taken over by robots and other advanced technology. Learn to harness your superpowers to survive, compete, and thrive in today's advanced world.
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When the bubble bursts
Hilliard MacBeth argues that investors should stop thinking about real estate as a safe investment, warning that it is only a matter of time before Canada faces a housing crisis of major proportions. He guides investors towards safer and more lucrative investments in order to protect their assets...
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Food security
Today, mainstream agriculture pushes excess food while depleting soil, water, air, and energy instead of growing just enough for adequate, healthy consumption.
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Government digital
Industry, academic, and government experts present a roadmap for radical change in how we govern. Learnings and recommendations point the way forward for governments in an age where standing still and doing nothing equates failure.
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Bullshift
Does your financial advisor tell you that markets recover in the long run? Do they tell you not to worry? You need to heed that uneasy feeling of yours. As De Goey makes clear, advisors, like all of us, suffer from unconscious bias, but their sunny outlook is also the product of industry-wide gro...
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Throw your stuff off the plane
We all want to be accountable, to be responsible, to reveal genuine commitment. We all want to keep on track with our word and stay away from blame. But organizational systems meant to institutionalize accountability often don’t help us accomplish those necessary goals. Throw Your Stuff Off the P...
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The start-up push
This book guides founders in starting businesses with local and international resources. It covers incubators, accelerators, and science parks, emphasizing the importance of support services, interactions, and innovation. It provides strategies for incubator types, assisting founders, and managin...
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The brave new world of ehrm 2.0
This book examines the impact of technology on human resource management, exploring eHRM practices such as e-recruitment, e-selection, gamification, e-learning, and e-performance management. It addresses challenges like cyberdeviance and managing contingent workers while providing insights for HR...
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Crystallizing public opinion (original classic edition)
Edward Bernays' 1923 classic Crystallizing Public Opinion set down the principles that corporations and governments have used to influence public attitudes over the past century.
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Womentality
Thirteen stories by everyday women from around the globe who left the nine-to-five to start their own creative businesses and found far more fulfillment—plus more equitable pay—than in traditional corporate careers. Womentality shows how it is possible for anyone—no matter where they are from or ...
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An economy of well-being
An Economy of Well-being examines the stories and examples of what individuals, families, businesses, non-profit enterprises, communities, and financial institutions can and are doing to implement an economic lifestyle that is based on achieving a flourishing life of well-being and enduring happi...
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Systemic organization development
This book introduces systemic organization development for management and consultancy, emphasizing organizational change processes and tools. It covers trust-building, handling emotions, and managing concerns and resistance. Practical guidelines and case studies illustrate the concept's applicati...
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Entrepreneurship
Learn the skills of entrepreneurship, designed to help anyone who wants to start or grow a business. Brian Tracy is a bestselling author who has consulted for more than 1000 companies and addressed more than 5 million people throughout the world.
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Mentoring programs that work
Amazing Benefits, Unique Risks A stellar mentor can change the trajectory of a career. And an enduring mentoring program can become an organization’s most powerful talent development tool. But fixing a “broken” mentoring program or developing a new program from scratch requires a unique process, ...
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Quality management in learning and development
Develop a Quality Management System to Support Learner and Organizational GoalsQuality management is collectively all the activities and processes that ensure your learning products meet the standard your organization is committed to. All errors have consequences that compromise that standard. Or...
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L&d order taker no more!
Transform Your L&D Team Into Your Organization’s Strategic Business Partner Most L&D pros dream of the day when stakeholders will stop viewing them as mere order takers and consider them critical, strategic partners in shaping the future of their organization. But how do you get there? In...
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