Living Well in a Down Economy for Dummies®

Living Well in a Down Economy for Dummies®

Author: Tracy L. Barr

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2009-08-12

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1442982373

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In a stumbling economy, one has to tread carefully, but can still move forward. This resource helps, one step at a time.


Ideas Are Free

Ideas Are Free

Author: Alan G. Robinson

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2009-01-26

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1442962348

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The authors lay out a plan to tap into the full power of employee ideas and how to deal with them effectively during times of flagging profits, increasing competition, budget cuts, and layoffs.


The Real Wealth of Nations

The Real Wealth of Nations

Author: Riane Eisler

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2008-11-10

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1576755142

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Bestselling author Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade, which has sold more than 500,000 copies sold) shows that at the root of all of society's big problems is the fact that we don't value what matters. She then presents a radical reformulation of economics priorities focused on the home.


Managers Not MBAs

Managers Not MBAs

Author: Henry Mintzberg

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2005-06-02

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 160994044X

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In this sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how, as a consequence, management is practiced, Henry Mintzberg offers thoughtful and controversial ideas for reforming both. “The MBA trains the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences,” Mintzberg writes. “Using the classroom to help develop people already practicing management is a fine idea, but pretending to create managers out of people who have never managed is a sham.” Leaders cannot be created in a classroom. They arise in context. But people who already practice management can significantly improve their effectiveness given the opportunity to learn thoughtfully from their own experience. Mintzberg calls for a more engaging approach to managing and a more reflective approach to management education. He also outlines how business schools can become true schools of management.


Barack Obama Book

Barack Obama Book

Author: University Press

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13:

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University Press returns with another short and captivating portrait of one of history's most compelling figures, Barack Obama. Barack Obama is considered one of the most significant figures of the 21st century. He was the first African-American President of the United States, his signature "Obamacare" Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act extended health insurance coverage to 20 million Americans, he is credited with pulling the American economy back from the brink of an economic depression, he expanded federal hate crime laws to include crimes motivated by a victim's gender or sexual orientation, he ended the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in the U.S. armed forces, his administration urged the Supreme Court to strike down same-sex marriage bans (which it did), he nominated two women (and America's first Hispanic) to the Supreme Court, he substantially escalated the use of drone strikes against terrorists associated with al-Qaeda and the Taliban, he committed the United States to the Paris Agreement on global climate change, he brokered the JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran, he normalized U.S. relations with Cuba, and he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. His mother was a white American from Kansas. His father was a black East African from Kenya. He grew up in Seattle, Honolulu, and Jakarta, attended college in Los Angeles, graduated from Columbia University in New York, graduated from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, met and married his wife, Michelle, in Chicago, and, for eight years, lived in the White House in Washington D.C. This short book tells the intensely human story of a man who changed the world in a way that no one else could.